'Trump Does The Unthinkable' by Liz Crokin

Liz Crokin is an award-winning author, a seasoned journalist and an advocate for sex crime victims.  Liz began her journey at the University of Iowa where she received a bachelor's in journalism and political science.

'Trump Does The Unthinkable'  by Liz Crokin

Donald Trump is a racist, bigot, sexist, xenophobe, anti-Semitic and Islamophobe -- did I miss anything?.....Oh Right he is also deplorable.  The left and the media launch these hideous kinds of attacks at Trump every day; yet, nothing could be further from the truth about the real estate mogul.

As an entertainment journalist, I've had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I've never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president. Keep in mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities like Trump for a living so a scandalous story on the famous billionaire could've potentially sold a lot of magazines and would've been a Huge feather in my cap.

Instead, I found that he doesn't drink alcohol or do drugs, he's a hardworking businessman. On top of that, he's one of the most generous celebrities in the world with a heart filled with more gold than his $100 million New York penthouse.

Since the media has failed so miserably at reporting the truth about Trump, I decided to put together some of the acts of kindness he's committed over three decades which has gone virtually unnoticed or fallen on deaf ears.

• In 1986, Trump prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill's family farm after her husband committed suicide.  Trump personally phoned down to the auction to stop the sale of her home and offered the widow money.  Trump decided to take action after he saw Hill's pleas for help in news reports.

• In 1988, a commercial airline refused to fly Andrew Ten, a sick Orthodox Jewish child with a rare illness, across the country to get medical care because he had to travel with an elaborate life-support system.  His grief stricken parents contacted Trump for help and he didn't hesitate to send his own plane to take the child from Los Angeles to New York so he could get his treatment.

• In 1991, 200 Marines who served in Operation Desert Storm spent time at Camp Lejune in North Carolina before they were scheduled to return home to their families.  However, the Marines were told that a mistake had been made and an aircraft would not be able to take them home on their scheduled departure date. When Trump got wind of this, he sent his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami to safely return the Gulf War Marines to their loved ones.

• In 1995, a motorist stopped to help Trump after the limo he was traveling in got a flat tire.  Trump asked the Good Samaritan how he could repay him for his help.  All the man asked for was a bouquet of flowers for his wife.  A few weeks later Trump sent the flowers with a note that read:  We've paid off your mortgage.

• In 1996, Trump filed a lawsuit against the city of Palm Beach, Florida, accusing the town of discriminating against his Mar-a-Lago resort club because it allowed Jews and blacks.  Abraham Foxman, who was the Anti-Defamation League Director at the time, said Trump put the light on Palm Beach not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination.  Foxman also noted that Trump's charge had a trickle-down effect because other clubs followed his lead and began admitting Jews and blacks.

• In 2000, Maury Povich featured a little girl named Megan who struggled with Brittle Bone Disease on his show and Trump happened to be watching.  Trump said the little girl's story and positive attitude touched his heart.  So he contacted Maury and gifted the little girl and her family with a very generous check.

• In 2008, after Jennifer Hudson's family members were tragically murdered in Chicago, Trump put the Oscar-winning actress and her family up at his Windy City hotel for free. In addition to that, Trump's security took extra measures to ensure Hudson and her family members were safe during such a difficult time.

• In 2013, New York bus driver Darnell Barton spotted a woman close to the edge of a bridge staring at traffic below as he drove by.  He stopped the bus, got out and put his arm around the woman and saved her life by convincing her to not jump.  When Trump heard about this story, he sent the hero bus driver a check simply because he believed his good deed deserved to be rewarded.

• In 2014, Trump gave $25,000 to Sgt. Andrew Tamoressi after he spent seven months in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing the US-Mexico border.  President Barack Obama couldn't even be bothered to make one phone call to assist with the United States Marine's release;  however, Trump opened his pocketbook to help this serviceman get back on his feet.

• In 2016, Melissa Consin Young attended a Trump rally and tearfully thanked Trump for changing her life.  She said she proudly stood on stage with Trump as Miss Wisconsin USA in 2005.  However, years later she found herself struggling with an incurable illness and during her darkest days she explained that she received a handwritten letter from Trump telling her she's the bravest woman, I know.  She said the opportunities that she got from Trump and his organizations ultimately provided her Mexican-American son with a full-ride to college.

• Lynne Patton, a black female executive for the Trump Organization, released a statement in 2016 defending her boss against accusations that he's a racist and a bigot.  She tearfully revealed how she's struggled with substance abuse and addiction for years.  Instead of kicking her to the curb, she said the Trump Organization and his entire family loyally stood by her through immensely difficult times.

Donald Trump's kindness knows no bounds and his generosity has and continues to touch the lives of people from every sex, race and religion.  When Trump sees someone in need, he wants to help.  Two decades ago, Oprah asked Trump in a TV interview if he'd run for president.  He said: If it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally, because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country.

Trump sees that America is in need and he wants to help.  How unthinkable!
On the other hand, have you ever heard of Hillary or Obama ever doing such things with their own resources?
Now that's really unthinkable!   Might be worth passing on!!!  Oh, by the way, Trump’s annual salary as President is donated to charity…

Sarah Sanders has a hilarious reply to CNN skipping the White House Christmas party

by Aaron Colen

CNN announced that its employees will not be attending the annual White House Christmas party, and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is pleased.

Sanders retweeted an article with the announcement with the caption, “Christmas comes early! Finally, good news from @CNN.”

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Trump has consistently attacked CNN as a “fake news” network, so they won’t be celebrating the holidays with the president.

“CNN will not be attending this year’s White House Christmas party,” a CNN statement read. “In light of the President’s continued attacks on freedom of the press and CNN, we do not feel it is appropriate to celebrate with him as his invited guests. We will send a White House reporting team to the event and report on it if news warrants.”

Usually members of the media attend the Christmas party to socialize with those they cover after a year of public, high-stress interactions. Apparently, Trump has gone too far for CNN to put business aside for even one evening.

Over the weekend, Trump took another direct shot at CNN on Twitter, while complimenting Fox News.

“@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outsidee of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!”

see more at:  http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/11/28/sarah-sanders-has-a-hilarious-reply-to-cnn-skipping-the-white-house-christmas-party

U.S. Open champ is asked if she’s hungry to win more titles — then demonstrates why capitalism works

by Dave Urbanski - September 13, 2017

After Sloane Stephens won the women’s U.S. Open tennis title over the weekend, a reporter’s silly question opened the door for the newly crowned champ to give a ringing endorsement for capitalism.

A reporter actually asked the 24-year-old Stephens — whose victory Saturday earned her $3.7 million — if winning her first Grand Slam title gave her a “hunger” to do it again.

Well, duh.  That was pretty much Stephens’ reaction to the painfully leading news-conference question — but her answer told the bold truth.

“Of course, girl! Did you see that check that that lady handed me?” she replied in near disbelief at the query as the room burst out in laughter. “Like, yes! Man, if that doesn’t make you want to play tennis, I don’t know what will. Man. So, yes, definitely.”

And then Stephens got an even sillier question: A reporter asked Stephens if she felt “bad” for her opponent Madison Keys, whom Stephens bested in lopsided fashion (6-0, 6-3).

But the champ replied to the question — seemingly couched in socialistic, everybody-gets-a-trophy values — with a refreshing dose of good ol’ American touchstones of fair play, hard work and competition.

“Feel bad for her?” she answered with incredulity. “She was in the finals, too. What do you mean? Did you see the check she’s about to get?”

More laughter from the press corps. “I’m sure she’ll be just fine,” Stephens concluded.

A further take

The disparity between the reporters’ questions and Stephens’ reactions couldn’t be more strikingly evident.

The first reporter’s question assumed that winning somehow doesn’t inspire a desire to keep doing well, as if people are do-nothing lumps with no determination or will to succeed (i.e., socialism). Stephens knocked back that assumption — and added that monetary rewards are a tremendous incentive for success.

The second reporter’s question was worse, reflecting the growing socialistic sentiment out there that successful people who’ve been financially rewarded for their efforts should feel “bad” about that. Hogwash, Stephens said. Her opponent “was in the finals, too” and had the same opportunity to win.

Check out the Q&A clip. (And notice that ESPN also seems unable — or unwilling — to entertain the notion that a professional athlete isn’t motivated by earnings, titling the video “Sloane Stephens jokes that $3.7 million check inspires her to keep playing.” Jokes? Really?)     

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/09/13/u-s-open-champ-is-asked-if-shes-hungry-to-win-more-titles-then-demonstrates-why-capitalism-works/

Jimmy Carter lets loose: Knocks Obama and Hillary, says Russia didn’t alter election, praises Trump

by Chris Enloe

At 93, Jimmy Carter’s presidential days are long behind him, but the 39th president is still very in tune with national politics. He made his views about some of the latest pressing national issues very clear in a recent interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

On Russia meddling in the election:

Dowd asked Carter: “Did the Russians purloin the election from Hillary [Clinton]?”

Carter said: “Rosie and I have a difference of opinion on that.” Rosie is Carter’s wife.

“I don’t think there’s any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes, or any votes,” Carter followed up.

On President Donald Trump:

Carter said: “I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about. I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”

Who was their 2016 preference?

Given that Carter is a Democrat and served in the White House as a Democrat, it would be easy to assume Carter wanted Clinton to be president in 2016. But he explained he and his wife voted for a different candidate.

“We voted for Sanders,” he said.

On Obama:

In the interview, Carter also knocked former President Barack Obama.

“He made some very wonderful statements, in my opinion, when he first got in office, and then he reneged on that,” Carter said of Obama’s Middle East policies.

Carter also lamented “the fact that Obama joined in the bombing of Yemen,” according to Dowd. However, Carter confirmed all 22 members of his family voted for Obama. He also said he doesn’t have Obama’s email address, meaning he likely doesn’t directly talk to the 44th president.

On the Clinton Foundation:

When Dowd tried to draw comparisons between the Carter Center and the Clinton Foundation, Carter struck it down.

“Rosie and I put money in the Carter Center. We never take any out,” he said, implying the Clinton Foundation does.

On NFL kneeling protests:

Carter said: “I think they ought to find a different way to object, to demonstrate. I would rather see all the players stand during the American anthem.”

Columbus Day

10/9/2017

Watch the entire video here.

 

Forget what you hear in the news and the classroom.

Forget the presumptive appeals by people who think they know better.

With the rush to rename Columbus Day, Indigenous People’s Day, it’s time for a reminder.

We are a nation that has always rewarded the bold the brave, the daring, the innovators, and the explorers.

What’s next? Do we rename the Lombardi Trophy after Hank Stram? Look him up.

America’s spirit is to celebrate the men and women who took on great risks, discovered great things, did what no one else thought possible. Columbus sailed for the end of the Earth, and he discovered the Americas.

With that discovery, he sowed the seeds of the world’s greatest country, a beacon of hope for the suffering and downtrodden across our entire planet.

When we celebrate Columbus, we celebrate not just the man but the spirit that made that possible.

The spirit that brought us one step closer to the United States.

see more at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=2qQ8ryhqykU&utm_medium=email

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Ben Shapiro blasts California senators’ bias on hate speech

by Carlos Garcia

In scathing testimony offered Tuesday, conservative activist Ben Shapiro blasted a California committee on hate speech for their bias against conservatives and on the dangers of the state defining “hate speech.”

What did he say?

“Your job job obviously here at the legislature is to ensure that our freedom of expression is maintained that our first amendment rights are maintained,” Shapiro began, “and what that means first and foremost in my experience on college campuses, is that the heckler’s veto must be stopped.”

The “heckler’s veto” is a phrase describing the unfair shutting out of speech by opponents through threats of violence or shouting down.

“I was at Cal State Los Angeles in February, 2016,” he explained, “and there was almost a riot there and the police were not allowed to do their jobs and students were physically assaulted in the crowd. It is the job of this legislature to ensure the police can do their jobs and when they do do their jobs and they’re allowed to do that at places like UC Berkeley, everything goes fine.

“And I’d like to make a point here about UC Berkeley,” Shapiro said. “The reason it cost $600,000 to bring me to UC Berkeley was not because of me. Everybody keeps suggesting that because I was coming, I’m so controversial and so terrible. I came exactly one year before and it cost this many dollars, it cost zero dollars for security at UC Berkeley.”

“The reason it cost $600,000 at UC Berkeley is because Antifa and violent groups had decided that Berkeley was their domain and they were going to run roughshod over law enforcement there,” he continued.

On the state defining “hate speech”

“And this does bring up one final point in the long period of time to discuss,” he added, “and that is, the problem with a legislative body such as yours trying to draw lines specifically about what hate speech constitutes because the fact is that one of the reasons groups like Antifa show up is not because they know who I am, it’s because they’ve been told by people that I am promulgating hate speech which is utterly false, and utterly untrue.”

“There are people who say vile things and with whom I disagree,” he explained. “Among them, people like Milo Yiannopoulos who sent me a picture of a black baby on the day of my child’s birth because I wasn’t sufficiently standing up for the white population supposedly.”

“But that does not mean that the legislature gets to decide what hate speech is,” he argued. “I’ve been labeled a promulgator of hate speech when I was the number one target of hate speech according to the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), according to the journalistic community in 2016.”

“So let me suggest that as a legislature,” he concluded, “your chief job is to ensure that my taxpayer dollars in this state go towards making sure that people like me and people with whom I disagree get to speak in place like college campuses and not toward regulating what speech you find good and what speech you find bad, because it’s a really dangerous business. And there’s speech I don’t like, there’s speech you don’t like, but if we can’t agree that there’s a difference between speech and violence, we’re not going to be able to have a free state, let alone a free country. Thanks.”

What happened at Shapiro’s speech at UC Berkeley?

As he notes in his speech to the commission, his appearance at Berkeley was met with left-wing histrionics from Antifa and other extremist left-wing groups. This is just the latest example of free speech being eroded on American campuses.

see video at http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10/03/watch-ben-shapiro-blasts-california-senators-bias-on-hate-speech/