The George W. Bush Presidential Center was recently hacked and a company that supplies data management for the center paid a ransom, with an agreement that the stolen data would be destroyed.
Included in the stolen data was information on donors to the Bush Center, including names, contact information, and contributions they&#8217;ve made in the past.
&#8220;On July 16, 2020, we were notified by Blackbaud, a large provider of cloud-based data management services &#8230; that it had discovered and stopped a ransomware attack that occurred in May 2020,&#8221; the Bush Center said in a <a href="https://www.bushcenter.org/about-the-center/data-update.html">statement</a>. “Blackbaud informed us that it paid a ransom to the attackers in order to obtain confirmation that the ‎compromised unencrypted information has been destroyed.&#8221;
The Center said there is no evidence the info was misused.
“To date, there ‎is no indication that any of the compromised unencrypted information is subject to further disclosure or misuse‎, and given the intent of the criminals to obtain the payment of the ransom, the Bush Center does not ‎believe there is a high risk that the unencrypted information would be used for other purposes,” the statement said. “Based on the nature of the incident, our research, and third party (including law enforcement) investigation, we have no reason to believe that any data went beyond the cybercriminal, was or will be misused; or will be disseminated or otherwise made available publicly.&#8221;
The Center also said it prevented further damage by acting quickly. &#8220;Blackbaud, working with independent forensics experts and law enforcement, successfully prevented the cybercriminals from blocking system access and fully encrypting the Center’s files; and ultimately expelled the criminals from Blackbaud’s system. However, prior to locking the cybercriminals out, the cybercriminals removed a copy of some of the Bush Center’s data regarding donors and other contacts,&#8221; the statement said.
The Center said social security numbers of donors were stolen, but that data was encrypted and the decryption keys needed to decipher it are stored separately and were not stolen.
&#8220;Even though we do not believe that any personal information has been subjected to misuse or further unauthorized access due to this incident, out of an abundance of caution and in light of our respect for our donors and other contacts’ privacy, we are notifying our website visitors of this incident.&#8221;
The cyber attack comes as federal authorities say a well-timed ransomware attack could gravely affect the November presidential election.
 The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/b39a09fc9a1334e9ef78bd46a40db253">reported</a>, &#8220;On the spectrum of threats from the fantastical to the more probable, experts and officials say ransomware is a particularly realistic possibility because the attacks are already so pervasive and lucrative. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued advisories to local governments, including recommendations for preventing attacks.&#8221;
“From the standpoint of confidence in the system, I think it is much easier to disrupt a network and prevent it from operating than it is to change votes,” Adam Hickey, a Justice Department deputy assistant attorney general, told the AP.
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Former President George W. Bush plans to headline a fundraiser later this month on behalf of Senators Martha McSally (R-AZ), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Susan Collins (R-ME), four incumbents who have found themselves in highly competitive Senate races.
The event, which will be hosted on June 30 by the Republican Senatorial Committee, will grant attendees who contribute $2,800 the option to attend a virtual event, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-w-bush-to-host-virtual-fundraiser-for-republican-senators/2020/06/17/197694e2-b0c5-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html">The Washington Post</a>. Any donors who contribute at least $25,000 can also attend a roundtable discussion.
Back in late March, <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-polls-and-new-candidates-are-giving-democrats-some-hope-of-flipping-the-senate/">FiveThirtyEight</a> ranked each of the Senators’ races as some of the most competitive, noting that each was a “toss-up,” with the exception of the Maine Senate race, which the polling analysis website observed was a “toss-up/likely” Republican seat.
Bush’s decision to headline a fundraiser comes as he’s been seemingly taking a more active role in public life, compared to his relative silence after leaving office. In the last few months, the former president has addressed the nation about coronavirus ⁠— in a video message encouraging compassion and unity ⁠— and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bush-condemns-brutal-suffocation-of-george-floyd-says-lasting-justice-will-only-come-by-peaceful-means">spoken out</a> against “systemic racism” after the death of George Floyd.
“It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country. It is a strength when protesters, protected by responsible law enforcement, march for a better future,” said the former president.
Bush also added: “This tragedy — in a long series of similar tragedies — raises a long overdue question: How do we end systemic racism in our society? The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place.”
The New York Times recently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/trump-biden-republicans-voters.html">reported</a> that Bush would not vote for Trump in the upcoming presidential election, nor would his younger brother Jeb, citing “people familiar with their thinking.” However, this was disputed by Freddy Ford, George W. Bush’s spokesperson, who <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/06/george-w-bush-donald-trump/">called</a> the Times’ assertion “completely made up.”
While the former Republican president hasn’t waded into the presidential race, former President Barack Obama is moving full speed ahead on former Vice President Joe Biden’s prospects. According to <a href="https://www.axios.com/obama-fundraiser-debut-biden-grassroots-e83ba5d9-6a56-485c-970f-33d485b5a007.html">Axios</a>, Trump’s predecessor plans to hold a fundraiser on behalf of Biden on June 23, and “tens of thousands of small-dollar donors” have reportedly been invited, or will be invited to the virtual event.
As <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-said-fundraisers-would-tear-this-democracy-apart-on-monday-she-raised-6-million-for-joe-biden/2020/06/16/665fa19c-afe7-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html">The Washington Post</a> notes, Obama’s fundraiser is expected to outperform the single-night haul touted by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who raised $6 million on Monday night to stop President Trump and send presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden to the White House.
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On Saturday, in an article detailing prominent Republican politicians who will not support President Trump’s reelection, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/trump-biden-republicans-voters.html?smid=tw-share">The New York Times</a> reported that former President George W. Bush would not support President Trump’s reelection.
But on Saturday night, Freddy Ford, a spokesman for Bush, told <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/06/george-w-bush-donald-trump/">The Texas Tribune </a> that the Times’ proclamation about his boss was false. He stated in an email, &#8220;This is completely made up. He is retired from presidential politics and has not indicated how he will vote.&#8221;
The Times story, titled “Vote for Trump? These Republican Leaders Aren’t on the Bandwagon,” stated in the sub-headline,“Former President George W. Bush and Senator Mitt Romney won’t support Mr. Trump’s re-election.”
In the Times article, it took a shot at Trump&#8217;s &#8220;incendiary response to the protests of police brutality, atop his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic,&#8221; writing:
<blockquote>But, far sooner than they expected, growing numbers of prominent Republicans are debating how far to go in revealing that they won’t back his re-election — or might even vote for Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive Democratic nominee. They’re feeling a fresh urgency because of Mr. Trump’s incendiary response to the protests of police brutality, atop his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private discussions. Former President George W. Bush won’t support the re-election of Mr. Trump, and Jeb Bush isn’t sure how he’ll vote, say people familiar with their thinking.</blockquote>
The Texas Tribune noted:
<blockquote>Both of the Bush brothers — and their parents, former President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush — said in 2016 they didn’t vote for Trump. But Trump endorsed Jeb’s son, George P. Bush, when he ran for reelection as Texas Land Commissioner in 2018. In 2014, before Jeb Bush ran for president (a race he lost to Trump), George P. told the Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith <a href="https://elb.texastribune.org/2014/09/21/tribfest-bush-wont-endorse-dad-for-president/">he wouldn’t endorse his father</a>.</blockquote>
PJ Media <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/06/08/new-york-times-article-claiming-george-w-bush-wont-vote-for-trump-is-completely-made-up-say-spokesman-n508402">noted</a>, “There are a lot of tensions between the Bush family and Trump. In 2016, Bush’s younger brother Jeb also sought the Republican nomination for the presidency, and was repeatedly mocked by Trump. George W. Bush has also been criticized by the current president, particularly with regard to the Iraq War. In a July 2018 rally, Trump also attacked George H.W. Bush, saying, ‘Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one.’”
Trump continued at the rally, “What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? And it was put out by a Republican, wasn’t it? I know one thing, Make America Great Again we understand. Putting America first we understand.”
George H.W. Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign, in which he defeated Massachusetts Democrat Governor Michael Dukakis, utilized the motto “a thousand points of light.” George H.W. Bush later founded a nonprofit group to encourage volunteerism that used the slogan.
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In 2009, George W. Bush, just before he lifted off on Marine One from the White House, said that he wouldn&#8217;t play politics any more.
Well, forget that.
&#8220;Former President George W. Bush won’t support the reelection of Trump, and Jeb Bush isn’t sure how he’ll vote, say people familiar with their thinking,&#8221; The <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/vote-for-trump-these-republican-leaders-arent-on-the-bandwagon/ar-BB158wRf">New York Times</a> reported on Saturday. &#8220;Senator Mitt Romney of Utah won’t back Trump and is deliberating whether to again write in his wife, Ann, or cast another ballot this November. And Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain, is almost certain to support Biden but is unsure how public to be about it because one of her sons is eyeing a run for office.&#8221;
<blockquote>“This fall, it’s time for new leadership in this country — Republican, Democrat, or independent,” said William H. McRaven, the retired Navy admiral who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. “President Trump has shown he doesn’t have the qualities necessary to be a good commander in chief.”
McRaven, making his first public comments opposing Trump’s election in an interview on the 76th anniversary of D-Day, noted that those wartime leaders inspired Americans with “their words, their actions, and their humanity.”
In contrast, he said, Trump has failed his leadership test. “As we have struggled with the COVID pandemic and horrible acts of racism and injustice, this president has shown none of those qualities,” McRaven said. “The country needs to move forward without him at the helm.”</blockquote>
Bush has quietly – and often – attacked Trump since he took office. In October 2017, Bush delivered a scathing assessment of  Trump and his policies, saying the president has promoted bigotry and uttered falsehoods that are hurting the country.
“We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty,” Bush said, never naming Trump. “We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism. Forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America.”
“Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children,” Bush said. “The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.”
Trump has slapped back at Bush.
&#8220;Oh, by the way, I appreciate the message from former President Bush, but where was he during impeachment calling for putting partisanship aside.&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter in May. &#8220;He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!”
&#8220;Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together.&#8221;
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Former President George W. Bush is speaking out against the “brutal suffocation of George Floyd,” who was killed after a police officer pushed against his neck for nearly nine minutes. In the <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1267922542469222405/photo/1">statement</a>, Bush called on the country to “examine our tragic failures” as well as look for our “redeeming strengths.”
“It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country. It is a strength when protesters, protected by responsible law enforcement, march for a better future,” said Bush. “This tragedy — in a long series of similar tragedies — raises a long overdue question: How do we end systemic racism in our society? The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place”
“America’s greatest challenge has long been to unite people of very different backgrounds into a single nation of justice and opportunity. The doctrine and habits of racial superiority, which once nearly split our country, still threaten our Union,” said Bush, who asserted that the solutions could be found by living up “to the fundamental truth that all human beings are created equal.”
“We have often underestimated how radical that quest really is, and how our cherished principles challenge systems of intended or assumed injustice. The heroes of America — from Frederick Douglass, to Harriet Tubman, to Abraham Lincoln, to Martin Luther King, Jr. — are heroes of unity. Their calling has never been for the fainthearted. They often revealed the nation’s disturbing bigotry and exploitation — stains on our character sometimes difficult for the American majority to examine. We can only see the reality of America’s need by seeing it through the eyes of the threatened, oppressed, and disenfranchised,” continued the former president. 
“That is exactly where we now stand. Many doubt the justice of our country, and with good reason. Black people see the repeated violation of their rights without an urgent and adequate response from American institutions. We know that lasting justice will only come by peaceful means,” said Bush. 
“Looting is not liberation, and destruction is not progress. But we also know that lasting peace in our communities requires truly equal justice. The rule of law ultimately depends on the fairness and legitimacy of the legal system. And achieving justice for all is the duty of all,” he said. 
During a speech on the senate floor on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) also made <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1267548976607301642">remarks</a> on the death of George Floyd, as well as on the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. 
“To me, to a great many of my fellow Kentuckians, and to millions of outraged Americans, these disturbing events do not look like three isolated incidents,” said McConnell. “They look more like the latest chapter in our national struggle to make equal justice and equal protection of the law in the facts of life in all Americans, rather than contingencies that sometimes depend on the color of one&#8217;s skin.”
McConnell also said that the nation cannot “deafen itself to the anger, the pain, or the frustration of black Americans,” and condemned the looting, rioting, arson and violent crimes that have erupted throughout the nation. 
“On a nightly basis, initially peaceful demonstrators have been hijacked. American have watched protests dedicated to ending unjust violence mutate into riots that inflict unjust violence themselves,” he said. “We’ve seen small businesses destroyed and public property defaced. We’ve seen the men and women of law enforcement ⁠— the vast majority of whom are not bad actors ⁠— threatened and assaulted on our streets.”
“You do not advance peace by committing assault. You do not advance justice by inflicting injustice upon your neighbors. You do not promote the rule of law through anarchy,” said McConnell. “There’s no constitutional right to commit violent crime or to terrorize communities. Period.”
“If state and local leaders cannot, or will not secure the peace and protect citizens and their property, I hope the federal government is ready to stand in the breach,” he said. 
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Shortly before George W. Bush left the White House for the last time in January 2009 to return to his ranch in Texas, he vowed that he would stay out of politics, deeming it inconsiderate and inappropriate to pop off while his successor is struggling.
But former President Barack Obama made no such pledge, and he&#8217;s routinely jumped in with partisan attacks on his own successor.
Now, he&#8217;s done so again.
&#8220;This election that&#8217;s coming up on every level is so important because — what we’re going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party,&#8221; Obama said in a private talk with his former members of his administration, a tape of which was obtained by <a href="https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/05/08/exclusive-obama-says-in-private-call-that-rule-of-law-is-at-risk-in-michael-flynn-case/24244199/">Yahoo News</a>.
&#8220;What we’re fighting against is these long-term trends of being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy — that has become a stronger impulse in American life. And by the way, we’re seeing that internationally as well. It’s part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty. It would have been bad even with the best of governments.
&#8220;It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset — of ‘what’s in it for me’ and ‘to heck with everybody else’—when that mindset is operationalized in our government,&#8221; Obama said. “That’s why, I, by the way, am going to be spending as much time as necessary and campaigning as hard as I can for Joe Biden.&#8221;
Obama&#8217;s comments were a stark contrast from what Bush recently did when he re-emerged. The 43rd president posted a video on his presidential library&#8217;s website in which he called for Americans to ignore partisanship to better protect the most vulnerable to the coronavirus and to assist those who have lost their jobs.
“Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat,” Bush said. “In the final analysis we are not partisan combatants, we are human beings equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together, and we are determined to rise.”
Obama also blasted Trump after Attorney General William P. Barr dropped the criminal case against Trump&#8217;s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
“The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn,” Obama said in a web talk with members of the Obama Alumni Association.
“And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for somebody who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places.”
Obama must&#8217;ve forgotten former President Bill Clinton, who was impeached by the House for committing perjury and then got off scot-free when the Senate, controlled by Democrats, decided not to remove him from office.
But Yahoo News pointed out a problem. &#8220;Obama misstated the charge to which Flynn had previously pleaded guilty. He was charged with false statements to the FBI, not perjury.&#8221;
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Former President George W. Bush on Saturday called on Americans to put aside partisan politics and come together amid the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the U.S.
President Trump immediately attacked the 43rd president.
Citing Fox News&#8217; Pete Hegseth, Trump wrote on Twitter: &#8220;@PeteHegseth &#8216;Oh bye the way, I appreciate the message from former President Bush, but where was he during Impeachment calling for putting partisanship aside.&#8217; @foxandfriends  He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteHegseth</a> “Oh bye the way, I appreciate the message from former President Bush, but where was he during Impeachment calling for putting partisanship aside.” <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxandfriends</a> He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!
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Bush on Saturday posted a video message on Saturday calling for unity amid the COVID-19 outbreak, which received nearly 5 million views on Twitter as of Sunday morning.
&#8220;In this time of testing, we need to remember a few things: First, let us remember we have faced times of testing before,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;Following 9/11, I saw a great nation rise as one to honor the brave, grieve with the grieving, and to embrace unavoidable new duties.&#8221;
&#8220;Secondly, let us remember that empathy and simple kindness are essential, powerful tools of national recovery. Even at an appropriate social distance, we can find the way to be present in the lives of others,&#8221; Bush said in the three-minute video.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s remember that the suffering we experience as a nation does not fall evenly. In the days to come, it will be especially important to care in practical ways for the elderly, the ill, and the unemployed,&#8221; Bush said, referring to the heightened danger the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions. &#8220;We serve our neighbor by separating from them.  We cannot allow physical separation to become emotional isolation. This requires us to not only be compassionate but creative in our outreach.
&#8220;Finally, let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat. In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants, we are human beings equally vulnerable and wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together,&#8221; Bush said.
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The former president released the video as confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, rose to more than 1.1 million, with 66,385 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
But Trump complained that Bush had not supported him when the House impeached Trump last December for allegedly trying to pressure Ukraine into investigating the business dealings of former vice president Joe Biden&#8217;s son in the country.
Bush made no comment during the impeachment or Senate trail, but he and other members of the Bush family have been critical of Trump in the past.
“We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty,” Bush said in 2017, while not naming Trump. “We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism, forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America.”
“Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children,” he said at another point. “The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them,&#8221; he said.
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Former President George W. Bush on Saturday called on Americans to put aside partisan politics and come together amid the coronavirus pandemic sweeping

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Former President George W. Bush published a rare public message on Saturday in the form of a three-minute video speech, during which he urges the public to come together, united as Americans, in the face of the coronavirus.
“This is a challenging and solemn time in the life of our nation and world,” said the former president. “A remorseless, invisible enemy threatens the elderly and vulnerable among us — a disease that can quickly take breath and life.”
While the phrase “invisible enemy” precedes the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump notably branded the coronavirus as “the invisible enemy,” remarking during a March <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007040978/coronavirus-presser.html">press conference</a> that together, as a country, we will “defeat the invisible enemy.”
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In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!
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Later in Bush’s public message, the former president observes that we will need to come together to confront an epidemic of fear and loneliness, in addition to the harm the virus brings to “our sense of safety, security, and community.”
“The larger challenge we share is to confront an outbreak of fear and loneliness, and it is frustrating that many of the normal tools of compassion – a hug, a touch – can bring the opposite of the good we intend,” said Bush. “We cannot allow physical separation to become emotional isolation.”
Toward the end of the message, Bush speaks to several reminders that he believes will serve us well during our new time of national testing, including remarks about the resolve of the American spirit, and a call for each of us to find “practical ways” to care for those most in need.
“First, let us remember we have faced times of testing before. Following 9/11, I saw a great nation rise as one to honor the brave, to grieve with the grieving, and to embrace unavoidable new duties. And I have no doubt, none at all, that the spirit of service and sacrifice is alive and well in America,” said Bush.
“Let us remember that empathy and simple kindness are essential, powerful tools of national recovery,” he said. “Even at an appropriate social distance, we can find ways to be present in the lives of others, to ease their anxiety, and share their burdens.”
“Finally, let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat. In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants, we are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise and fall together, and we are determined to rise,” said Bush.
The former president’s message comes as the coronavirus <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html">death toll</a> reaches 65,000 Americans, and as <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/millions-of-lost-jobs-may-push-unemployment-rate-to-highest-since-great-depression-2020-05-02">unprecedented</a> stay-at-home orders have pushed the number of recently unemployed Americans past 30 million.
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‘Let Us Remember’: George W. Bush Speaks Of National Spirit In Rare Public Message

COVID-19

Former President George W. Bush published a rare public message on Saturday in the form of a three-minute video speech, during which he urges the public

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The writings were on the wall for a potentially catastrophic pandemic going all the way back to the early aughts. In fact, the possibility was so real that former President George W. Bush told his aides to formulate a detailed plan on how the country should respond to such a crisis.
According to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-bush-2005-wait-pandemic-late-prepare/story?id=69979013&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn">ABC News</a>, President Bush became &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with the possibility of a pandemic after reading historian John M. Barry&#8217;s book &#8220;The Great Influenza,&#8221; which chronicled the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic that killed 17 to 50 million people globally.
From the report:
<blockquote>Thus was born the nation&#8217;s most comprehensive pandemic plan – a playbook that included diagrams for a global early warning system, funding to develop new, rapid vaccine technology, and a robust national stockpile of critical supplies, such as face masks and ventilators, Townsend said.
The effort was intense over the ensuing three years, including exercises where cabinet officials gamed out their responses, but it was not sustained. Large swaths of the ambitious plan were either not fully realized or entirely shelved as other priorities and crises took hold.</blockquote>
Fran Townsend, former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said that many of the plans laid out by the Bush administration were implemented by the Trump administration once the pandemic hit.
&#8220;Despite politics, despite changes, when a crisis hits, you pull what you&#8217;ve got off the shelf and work from there,&#8221; Townsend said.
Speaking to the National Institutes of Health in 2005, President Bush depicted in stunning detail how a pandemic would unfold in the United States, from the depletion of medical supplies to its fast rate of infection.
&#8220;A pandemic is a lot like a forest fire,&#8221; Bush said in his speech. &#8220;If caught early, it might be extinguished with limited damage. If allowed to smolder, undetected, it can grow to an inferno that can spread quickly beyond our ability to control it.&#8221;
&#8220;To respond to a pandemic, we need medical personnel and adequate supplies of equipment,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;In a pandemic, everything from syringes to hospital beds, respirators masks and protective equipment, would be in short supply.&#8221;
Bush went on to note that scientists would need to quickly develop a vaccine in order to get the country back on its feet.
&#8220;If a pandemic strikes, our country must have a surge capacity in place that will allow us to bring a new vaccine on line quickly and manufacture enough to immunize every American against the pandemic strain,&#8221; he said.
Getting prophetic, Bush warned, &#8220;If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare. And one day, many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today.&#8221;
Though Bush put in place a $7 billion plan and launched the still-operational website, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.pandemicflu.gov</a>, it ultimately failed to continue justifying itself budget-wise.
&#8220;You need to have annual budget commitment. You need to have institutions that can survive any one administration. And you need to have leadership experience,&#8221; said Tom Bossert, who worked in the Bush White House. &#8220;All three of those can be effected by our wonderful and unique form of government in which you transfer power every four years.&#8221;
Bush declined to comment on the current crisis or the pandemic plan he had in place.

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President Trump easily won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, as incumbents tend to do, but while his victory was predictable, the degree to which he drove voter turnout was another matter.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-campaign-releases-numbers-showing-massive-support-declares-victory-in-new-hampshire">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted, Trump&#8217;s campaign posted a series of updates over the course of the evening showing the president far outpacing previous incumbents in terms of voter turnout. After the dust settled Wednesday morning, Trump posted a graphic from Fox News presenting some eye-opening numbers.
With 87% reporting, Trump garnered 120,476 votes in New Hampshire. Two of the three previous incumbent presidents who went on to win re-election managed less than half that turnout, and one less than two-thirds the total: President Barack Obama drew 49,080 votes in New Hampshire in 2012; President George W. Bush 53,962 in 2004; and President Bill Clinton 76,797 in 1996.
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Trump&#8217;s post follows a series of updates from Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale Tuesday evening.
&#8220;Enthusiasm for [President Trump] is through the roof!&#8221; Parscale tweeted (posts below). &#8220;With approximately, 70% of precincts reporting, President Trump has surpassed the New Hampshire Primary vote total of every incumbent President running for re-election over the last four decades.&#8221;
&#8220;In NH primary tonight, [President Trump] is very likely to beat the vote percentages of the last 3 incumbent presidents who WON re-election. 1996 Bill Clinton 84% 2004 George W. Bush 80% 2012 Barack Obama 82% Trump right now is pushing 86%. This is historic strength!&#8221;
After promoting Parscale&#8217;s posts, Trump offered the left-leaning media the &#8220;big story&#8221; for which they are looking in vain on the Democratic side. &#8220;The Fake News Media is looking hard for the Big Democrat Story, but there is nothing too fabulous,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Wouldn’t a big story be that I got more New Hampshire Primary Votes than any incumbent president, in either party, in the history of that Great State? Not an insignificant fact!&#8221;
He followed that up with an early morning post Wednesday, declaring, &#8220;Fake News [CNN] and MSDNC have not surprisingly refused to talk about my record setting number of voters in New Hampshire (and in Iowa).&#8221;
While the primary results were streaming in Tuesday, Trump had some fun at his political opponents&#8217; expense, firing off shots at embattled presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tom Steyer, taking a swipe at &#8220;Crazy Bernie&#8221; Sanders (I-VT), and offering a phonetic spelling of South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s name for those still trying to figure out how to pronounce it.
&#8220;Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is having a really bad night,&#8221; Trump wrote in one trolling tweet Tuesday evening. &#8220;I think she is sending signals that she wants out. Calling for unity is her way of getting there, going home, and having a &#8216;nice cold beer&#8217; with her husband!&#8221;
&#8220;Impeachment King Steyer (how did that work out?) spent 200 Million Dollars and got less than 1% of the vote in Iowa, and only 3% of the Vote in New Hampshire,&#8221; he wrote in another. &#8220;Could it be that something is just plain missing? Not easy to do what I did, is it?&#8221;
&#8220;Bootedgeedge (Buttigieg) is doing pretty well tonight,&#8221; the president noted later. &#8220;Giving Crazy Bernie a run for his money. Very interesting!&#8221;
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Enthusiasm for <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is through the roof!
With approximately, 70% of precincts reporting, President Trump has surpassed the New Hampshire Primary vote total of every incumbent President running for re-election over the last four decades.
&mdash; Brad Parscale &#8211; Text TRUMP to 88022 (@parscale) <a href="https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1227431887838289922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In NH primary tonight, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is very likely to beat the vote percentages of the last 3 incumbent presidents who WON re-election.
1996 Bill Clinton 84% 2004 George W. Bush 80% 2012 Barack Obama 82%
Trump right now is pushing 86%.
This is historic strength! 💪
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The Fake News Media is looking hard for the Big Democrat Story, but there is nothing too fabulous. Wouldn’t a big story be that I got more New Hampshire Primary Votes than any incumbent president, in either party, in the history of that Great State? Not an insignificant fact!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227453711540269057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fake News <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> and MSDNC have not surprisingly refused to talk about my record setting number of voters in New Hampshire (and in Iowa). That’s why they are poorly rated Fake News! I will win both states in November.
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227556935299457024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is having a really bad night. I think she is sending signals that she wants out. Calling for unity is her way of getting there, going home, and having a “nice cold beer” with her husband!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227417402167742466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Impeachment King Steyer (how did that work out?) spent 200 Million Dollars and got less than 1% of the vote in Iowa, and only 3% of the Vote in New Hampshire. Could it be that something is just plain missing? Not easy to do what I did, is it?
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227420618951479297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bootedgeedge (Buttigieg) is doing pretty well tonight. Giving Crazy Bernie a run for his money. Very interesting!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227432921788801024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump Posts Eye-Opening NH Graphic, Trolls Democrats For Dismal Night, Helps With Pronouncing Buttigieg

New Hampshire

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President Trump easily won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, as incumbents tend to do, but while his victory was predictable, the degree to which

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As the 2020 election cycle hits full swing, and as the Democratic Party&#8217;s quest to topple President Donald Trump got off to a fairly catastrophic start earlier this week in Iowa, polling now indicates that Americans are more optimistic about the economy than they have been in decades.
&#8220;For the first time in its history, the Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/284264/record-high-optimism-personal-finances.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="6">&#8216;Mood of the Nation&#8217;</a> economic survey found that 59% of people believe that they are &#8216;better off,&#8217; a trend that has soared under Trump,&#8221; Paul Bedard <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/record-economic-optimism-under-trump-better-than-reagan-clinton-obama">reported</a> this morning for the Washington Examiner. &#8220;It is higher than when President Ronald Reagan made his economy a campaign rallying cry and better than the so-called dot-com bubble under President Bill Clinton.&#8221;
&#8220;The survey follows several others that have showed public satisfaction with the economy,&#8221; Bedard added. &#8220;Just yesterday, Gallup reported a 63% satisfaction with the president’s handling of the economy, and calling it, &#8216;The highest economic approval rating not only for Trump, but for any president since George W. Bush enjoyed stratospheric job approval ratings in the first few months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.'&#8221;
Specifically, Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/284264/record-high-optimism-personal-finances.aspx">notes</a> today that &#8220;[t]he current 59% of Americans who say they are better off financially than they were a year ago is essentially tied for the all-time high of 58% in January 1999.&#8221;
&#8220;Americans&#8217; levels of optimism about both their current financial situation and where it will be a year from now are at or near record highs,&#8221; Gallup concluded. &#8220;These views align with President Donald Trump&#8217;s contention that Americans are doing better under his presidency, and with his use of the economy and job growth as key selling points for his re-election. Republicans&#8217; positive views on their finances are something of a given for a GOP president, at least during good economic times. The majority levels of optimism among political independents are more significant for Trump&#8217;s re-election prospects — and something Trump will want to maintain in 2020 to stay competitive.&#8221;
The news from Gallup today comes just one day after the same famed polling outfit reported an all-time high approval rating for Trump, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/will-trump-win-latest-trumps-national-and-state-josh-hammer">noted</a>. Furthermore, the current RealClearPolitics <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval_economy-6182.html">polling average</a> for Americans&#8217; views of Trump&#8217;s handling of the economy shows that a whopping 56% currently approve, whereas a trifling 38.9% disapprove. That ought to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_economy,_stupid">augur quite well</a> for the president&#8217;s electoral hopes this November.
The news of Americans&#8217; record optimism about their economy, and Trump&#8217;s handling of it, comes at a time when the Democratic Party is increasingly committed to implementing an unvarnished socialistic agenda. The bold contrast between these two visions of governance offers a stark choice for voters this fall.
&#8220;Pulling no punches in Tuesday’s [State of the Union] speech, President Trump pointedly attacked socialism, a policy that has increasingly become the heart and soul of the modern left, much to the chagrin of the Democratic establishment,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Erielle Davidson <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/05/president-trump-offers-a-sharp-rebuke-of-socialism-at-precisely-the-right-time/">wrote</a> this morning. &#8220;In what may have been one of the most striking lines of his speech, Trump declared, &#8216;Socialism destroys nations. But always remember: Freedom unifies the soul.'&#8221;

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Americans Are More Optimistic About The Economy Than They Have Been In Decades

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As the 2020 election cycle hits full swing, and as the Democratic Party&#039;s quest to topple President Donald Trump got off to a fairly catastrophic start

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In March 2003, then-President George W. Bush let a multinational land invasion of Iraq. At the time, ethnically diverse Iraq — one of the sundry Middle East states haphazardly crafted by clueless Europeans in the World War I-era Sykes-Picot Agreement — was run by thuggish Ba&#8217;athist strongman Saddam Hussein. Within weeks, Baghdad was held by U.S.-aligned forces. Less than a year later, Hussein was captured.
But that was deemed woefully insufficient by Bush-era foreign policy hands. Operating under the intellectually hubristic and universal values-ridden guise of a White House &#8220;<a href="https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/freedomagenda/">Freedom Agenda</a>,&#8221; Bush-era foreign policy was not content to engage in Israel Defense Forces-style one-off <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/a-holistic-approach-to-the-middle-east-and-our-national-security/">&#8220;strike and maneuver&#8221;</a> tactical hits against threatening jihadist outfits. Rather, the Bush administration, in tandem with its concurrent nation-building project in the third-world sharia backwater hellhole of Afghanistan, sought a more enduring physical presence in order to help birth a Madisonian republic in the war-torn, ethnically fractious Iraqi desert.
The rest — with the exception of an Obama-era full troop withdrawal between the end of 2011 and our troops&#8217; return in 2014 to fight the ascendant Islamic State Sunni death cult — is, as they say, history. In the year 2020, the U.S. retains a substantial physical military presence in Iraq.
Following the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-the-just-and-proper-strike-of-mastermind-iranian-jihadist-qassem-soleimani">just and proper strike</a> last week of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force terrorist mastermind Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, it is now time for our U.S. troops in Iraq to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/offing-soleimani-gives-trump-an-excellent-chance-to-exit-iraq/">come home</a>.
There is simply no longer any compelling strategic reason for the U.S. to retain a troop presence in Iraq, which is increasingly dominated by pro-Iran Shi&#8217;ite militias whose fealty is to no one other than the Quds Force and its mullah overlords. The day has long passed where true American influence in Iraq has been anything other than symbolic; the nation is, at this point, hardly distinguishable from its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bryen-irans-imperial-overreach">&#8220;Shi&#8217;ite Crescent&#8221;</a> fellow nations of Syria and Lebanon in its status as an Iranian satrapy. It was only a matter of days ago when Iraqi security officials seemed, at best, ambivalent about Soleimani loyalist Shi&#8217;ite radicals storming the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
The true threat in the region to the United States, as it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bryen-the-dispatch-of-soleimani-and-the-escalation-of-the-war">has been ever since</a> the Islamic Revolution of 1979, is the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-iranian-revolution-forty-years-old-stand-josh-hammer">inherently jihadist</a> regime in Tehran. Non-state Sunni jihadist actors, no matter the alphabet soup under which they organize, utterly pale in comparison. The threat of Sunni Islamist infiltration can largely be stanched by severely limiting entry visas from problematic Islamic nations, massively ramping up immigration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">interior enforcement</a>, and engaging in occasional ad hoc drone strikes based from the U.S.&#8217;s already-manifold bases across the region. The strike that killed Soleimani, after all, was launched from Al Udeid Air Base in (deeply problematic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-terror-funding-qatar-once-again-proves-it-is-not-americas-friend">&#8220;ally&#8221;</a>) Qatar.
The issue with leaving large-scale numbers of U.S. military assets, from a hardened realist perspective, is that it is <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/death-iranian-gen-soleimani-long-overdue-justice/">actually counterproductive</a> to our over-arching goal of deterring the Iranian menace. As Daniel Horowitz quite <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/death-iranian-gen-soleimani-long-overdue-justice/">presciently warned</a> even before last night&#8217;s missile launches from Iran into Iraq, &#8220;[c]ontinuing to leave so many assets in Iraq itself will just make us vulnerable to Iran’s attacks and counterattacks in the future.&#8221; And a higher-level goal such as deterring Iran necessarily takes hierarchical primacy over a tactic such as deploying troops to Iraq. As famed Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/19042/should-israel-invade-gaza">once said</a>: First decide on one’s policy, then one’s strategy, and only then one’s tactics.
In taking out Soleimani, the Ayatollah Khameini&#8217;s most trusted servant, the Trump administration clearly communicated to the Tehran mullocracy that America will always zealously guard and defend our national interests, as we carefully demarcate and define them. We no longer need to be involved in the dreadful and feckless task of nation-building. As Lee Smith compellingly <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/offing-soleimani-gives-trump-an-excellent-chance-to-exit-iraq/">writes</a> today at the New York Post, &#8220;Trump carved out his own exit strategy&#8221; via the Soleimani strike.
Let&#8217;s bring our troops in Iraq home. It will only help, not hinder, our continued efforts to defiantly stand athwart Iran&#8217;s aspirational regional hegemony.

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HAMMER: The Time Is Right For Our Troops In Iraq To Come Home

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Americans have ranked former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump equally in an annual “most admired man in the world” poll, according to a survey conducted by <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/273125/obama-trump-tie-admired-man-2019.aspx">Gallup</a> earlier this month. 
The survey, which asked Americans “What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most,” showed that respondents named both Obama and Trump as the most admired man 18% of the time. Respondents also had a similar answer for the most admired woman, with 10% naming former First Lady Michelle Obama and 5% naming First Lady Melania Trump. 
“Trump&#8217;s popularity grew enough this year to allow him to tie Barack Obama as the most admired man, but not to end Obama&#8217;s streak of 12 first-place finishes,” reads the report. “The results reflect the significant party divide in the U.S., with Republicans overwhelmingly naming Trump and Democrats Obama, and few other men garnering significant mention.”
“Meanwhile, Obama&#8217;s wife Michelle has been named as the most admired woman the past two years after 25 years that saw Hillary Clinton finish first 22 times,” the report continues. “In fact, Obama has had stronger finishes in the past two years than during her eight years as first lady, when no more than 8% of Americans named her.”
The report also features a new, but perhaps unsurprising arrival on the list: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Although the activist is not even old enough to be surveyed, she tied with media mogul Oprah Winfrey and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for the most influential woman in the world, with each person receiving 3% support from respondents. Thunberg also out-ranked other popular choices, including Queen Elizabeth II, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who each received 2% support. 
Thunberg, who made headlines after traveling to the U.S. via boat to speak at the U.N. about climate, has become an odd fixation for left-wing pundits and voters alike. In fact, according to The Hill, people on the online dating website OKCupid have started mentioning Thunberg as a way to find and weed out potential partners. 
“One of the issues we’re hearing people care about is climate change,” Melissa Hobley, the chief marketing officer for OKCupid, told <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/476213-okcupid-2019-was-the-year-greta-thunberg-helped-people-get">The Hill</a>. “They’re talking about Greta on their profiles. &#8230; I think people feel that supporting her or not shows how you feel about the issue and its impact.”
Time Magazine also awarded Thunberg its &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; award, writing in an article that “her moral clarity” serves to inspire “other young people around the world.” President Trump, who was also a contender for the title, issued the following response to the announcement, drawing attention to Thunberg’s propensity to scold others for not doing enough. 
“So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”
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So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! <a href="https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE">https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-gretathunberg/trump-mocks-teen-climate-activist-thunberg-chill-greta-chill-idUSKBN1YG1H1">Reuters</a>, Thunberg respondend by updating her Twitter bio to read the following: “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old-fashioned movie with a friend.”

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At a conference on &#8220;Political Risk in the 21st Century&#8221; in Abu Dhabi Monday, Condoleezza Rice, who served as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, offered her thoughts for the first time publicly on the controversy surrounding President Trump&#8217;s alleged attempt to pressure Ukraine to &#8220;look into&#8221; former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
Trump&#8217;s famous July 25 call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Rice, was &#8220;really murky.&#8221;
&#8220;The call is murky, it is really murky,&#8221; said Rice, as reported by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-condoleezza/former-u-s-top-diplomat-rice-concerned-by-shadow-diplomacy-on-ukraine-idUSKBN1XL2A7">Reuters</a>. &#8220;I don’t like for the president of the United States to mention an American citizen for investigation to a foreign leader. I think that is out of bounds.&#8221;
In the highly scrutinized call, which prompted the whistleblower complaint sparking the Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry, Trump brought up Ukraine&#8217;s alleged role in meddling with the 2016 election, asking Zelensky to look into it as a &#8220;favor.&#8221; Trump also added his interest in seeing Ukraine look more thoroughly into the allegations swirling around the Bidens. Though the whistleblower complaint described a clear quid pro quo during the call, the transcript released by the Trump administration revealed no such explicit agreement.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that,&#8221; Trump told Zelensky. &#8220;So whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me.&#8221;
While Rice found the call uncomfortably &#8220;murky,&#8221; she expressed more concern about the alleged role of Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in pushing Trump&#8217;s agenda in Ukraine. Though she did not reference him by name, Rice highlighted the potential &#8220;conflict&#8221; of having &#8220;someone who says he&#8217;s acting on behalf of the president&#8221; sending mixed messages to another country about U.S. foreign policy. She qualified the statement by noting that she does not know if that actually occurred.
&#8220;What I see right now troubles me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I see a state of conflict between the foreign policy professionals and someone who says he’s acting on behalf of the president, but frankly I don’t know if that is the case.&#8221;
&#8220;It is deeply troubling,&#8221; she said, explaining: &#8220;The world shouldn’t get confusing messages from the United States of America.&#8221;
While the phone call contained no clear quid pro quo tying an investigation into the Bidens and the $391 million in military aide to Ukraine, in some of the transcripts selectively leaked by the committee headed up by California Democrat Adam Schiff — whose office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-to-argue-whistleblowers-protections-voided-by-consulting-with-schiff-prior-to-filing-complaint-report-says">consulted with the whistleblower</a> before the complaint was filed — some witnesses, including U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland, say they &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-pro-trump-diplomat-makes-substantial-update-to-his-impeachment-testimony-on-quid-pro-quo">presumed</a>&#8221; the aide was tied to the investigation.
Trump has maintained all along that there was no quid pro quo and that his call for the investigation into the Bidens&#8217; activities involving Ukraine and Ukraine-based energy company Burisma was fully warranted, as past reports and investigations indicate.
During the &#8220;Political Risk&#8221; event Monday, Rice also warned about the current state of the world, both economically and in terms of growing &#8220;power rivalries.&#8221;
&#8220;The international economy was created as one that was intended to be a positive sum game, as in ‘my growth would not come at your expense,’&#8221; she said in comments reported by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/11/world-order-is-in-chaos-condoleezza-rice-warns.html">CNBC</a>. &#8220;They created a different kind of system, one that was based on free and open trade and one in which there were great institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank &#8230; that system also relied on U.S. leadership and U.S. military protection. I would suggest to you that now, now that system is under strain and under threat.&#8221;
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&#8220;A second big challenge to the system, the global order that was created after 1945, is the problem of great power rivalry which has emerged strongly in the last several years,&#8221; she said in reference to increasing tensions between the U.S. and China, echoing warnings from Trump. &#8220;If Russia is a power that is somewhat diminished from where it was, China is a rising power. And how to deal with a relationship with China that is actually very complex, not at all simple, is one of the real challenges for the United States today.&#8221;
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Condoleezza Rice Weighs In On Trump Ukraine Call: ‘Murky’

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Musical icon Elton John has come to the defense of his friend Ellen DeGeneres after the talk show host was swarmed with left-wing criticism for sitting next to former President George W. Bush at an NFL game.
Instead of caving to the mob, DeGeneres defended her friendship with the former president and underscored the obvious: we should be kind to others, even if they happen to have differing political views. 
&#8220;I admire Ellen for standing up and saying what she said,” John told <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769078177/in-me-elton-john-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-a-storied-life">NPR</a>. 
The “Rocket Man” singer piggybacked off DeGeneres’ message of tolerance and even offered praise for Mr. Bush and President Donald Trump for humanitarian efforts addressing HIV/AIDS globally. 
“Unfortunately, what our democracy has become now is that it’s not OK to have different opinions than yours and that is not healthy,” John said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/elton-john-ellen-degeneres-george-w-bush-twitter">Fox News</a>. 
“George Bush has made a lot of mistakes. I made a lot of mistakes. Ellen DeGeneres has made a lot of mistakes,” he said.
“Yes, there were [bad] decisions that he’s made, but that was made by Democratic presidents and Republican presidents. And I admire Ellen for standing up and saying what she did,” he added. 
John also heaped praise on Mr. Bush for launching the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or <a href="https://www.state.gov/pepfar/">PEPFAR</a>, an $85 billion global investment to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in over 50 countries.
“PEPFAR came from the Republicans. People have to remember that,”  the musician said, noting that the initiative is “the most incredible thing a Republican president has done on a philanthropic level.”
According to Fox News, John said that he appreciated Trump’s continuation of PEPFAR, though he might not agree with most of the president’s policies. 
“People need to come together,” he emphasized. “They need to respect people’s views on life. Except when it’s heresy, and I don’t think George Bush is that kind of guy.”
After the “controversy” of merely sitting next to a former president and smiling, DeGeneres defended herself and her friendship with Bush to her live audience and millions of viewers. 
“Here’s the thing — I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have,” the host said, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ellen-degeneres-responds-to-backlash-over-her-friendliness-with-george-w-bush">The Daily Wire</a>. “We’re all different, and I think we’ve forgotten that that’s okay, that we’re all different.”
“For instance, I wish people wouldn’t wear fur. I don’t like it, but I’m friends with people who wear fur,” DeGeneres continued. “But just because I don’t agree with someone on everything, doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone.”
As noted by Fox News, Bush spokesman Freddy Ford told the network that Mr. Bush “appreciated” DeGeneres’ comments. 
“President and Mrs. Bush really enjoyed being with Ellen and [her wife] Portia [de Rossi] and appreciated Ellen’s comments about respecting one another,” Ford said. “They respect her.”

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On Sunday, openly gay comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres was photographed with former President George W. Bush at a Dallas Cowboys game. Shortly after the photo hit social media, many progressives skewered the comedian for sitting next to the Republican.
On Tuesday, DeGeneres used a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ellen-degeneres-responds-to-backlash-over-her-friendliness-with-george-w-bush">segment</a> of her daily show to speak about her friendship with Bush, as well as the fact that she is &#8220;friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs&#8221; as she does.
DeGeneres added:
<blockquote>We’re all different, and I think we’ve forgotten that that’s okay, that we’re all different &#8230; just because I don’t agree with someone on everything, doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone.</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire’s Paul Bois <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vanity-fair-scolds-ellen-degeneres-for-friendliness-with-george-w-bush">reported</a>, the comedian’s monologue didn’t sit well with some progressives.
In a piece, titled: &#8220;Ellen DeGeneres, George W. Bush, and the Limits of Unconditional Kindness,&#8221; Vanity Fair’s Laura Bradley tore into DeGeneres.
After referring to President Bush as a &#8220;man whose résumé includes the invasion of Iraq and the botched federal response to Hurricane Katrina,&#8221; Bradley claimed that DeGeneres’ &#8220;brand&#8221; of &#8220;celebrity whisperer who can befriend just about anyone&#8221; is simply &#8220;incompatible with reality.&#8221;
The mainstream media backlash didn’t stop there.
On Wednesday, VICE published a piece by Harron Walker, titled: &#8220;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7m5g/ellen-degeneres-george-w-bush-friends-science-rich-people">Ellen and Science Confirm: Rich People Only Care About Themselves</a>.&#8221;
In the piece, Walker states that Americans shouldn’t be surprised by DeGeneres and Bush &#8220;yukking it up&#8221; because &#8220;rich people love hanging out with other rich people,&#8221; and &#8220;often struggle with holding empathy&#8221; for others.
<blockquote>Still, it is confusing to think about how DeGeneres, one of the nation’s foremost openly gay celebrities would, could look past Bush’s years of using the bully pulpit to advocate against LGBTQ rights—not to mention, uhhhh, the unnecessary wars he started in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have killed millions of people and traumatized countless others.</blockquote>
Walker goes on to suggest that DeGeneres’ explanation of her &#8220;cognitive dissonance&#8221; wasn’t enough, writing that &#8220;disagreeing about the Bush administration’s ongoing legacy of global violence against Muslim people seems like more than just a difference of opinion.&#8221;
She further suggests that DeGeneres might not care, citing studies conducted by Paul Diff and Dacher Keltner of UC Berkeley, which allegedly claim that when an individual accumulates more wealth, &#8220;the less likely that person is to have compassion and empathy for other people, and to use their wealth to help others in need.&#8221;
The backlash against DeGenerous has even crept outside the boundaries of the media, with celebrities taking sides.
Actress Reese Witherspoon initially defended DeGeneres, <a href="https://people.com/movies/reese-witherspoon-defends-ellen-degeneres-amid-george-w-bush-backlash/">tweeting</a>, &#8220;Thank you for this important reminder, Ellen.&#8221; However, Witherspoon eventually deleted the tweet.
Unsurprisingly, other actors are hammering the talk show host.
Actor Mark Ruffalo sent out the following tweet:
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Sorry, until George W. Bush is brought to justice for the crimes of the Iraq War, (including American-lead torture, Iraqi deaths &amp; displacement, and the deep scars—emotional &amp; otherwise—inflicted on our military that served his folly), we can’t even begin to talk about kindness. <a href="https://t.co/dpMwfck6su">https://t.co/dpMwfck6su</a>
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1182005931317583872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote>Sorry, until George W. Bush is brought to justice for the crimes of the Iraq War, (including American-lead torture, Iraqi deaths &amp; displacement, and the deep scars—emotional &amp; otherwise—inflicted on our military that served his folly), we can’t even begin to talk about kindness.</blockquote>
Actor John Cusack has gone further, tweeting repeatedly about the story, and even <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/johncusack/status/1182079029559603200?s=21">promoting a video</a> from activist Rafael Shimunov in which images from the Iraq War are superimposed on screen behind DeGeneres as she delivers her monologue in defense of her friendship with Bush.

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The woke scolds are now seriously targetting comedy talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres because she dared to say that people should be kind and respectful toward those with whom they disagree.
In a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/ellen-degeneres-george-w-bush-football-game?utm_social-type=owned&amp;mbid=social_twitter&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_brand=vf&amp;utm_medium=social">scathing op-ed for Vanity Fair</a>, Laura Bradley argues that Ellen DeGeneres somewhat betrayed her LGBT allies by publicly displaying friendliness with George W. Bush at a football game and then using the moment to deliver a message about unity.
“Here’s the thing: I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different, and I think that we’ve forgotten that that’s okay,&#8221; DeGeneres said on Tuesday. &#8220;Just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean that I’m not gonna be friends with them. When I say, ‘Be kind to one another,’ I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. It doesn’t matter.”
Referring to George W. Bush as &#8220;the man whose résumé includes the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yv54dj/george-bush-and-tony-blair-are-war-criminals-obv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-event-click="{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yv54dj/george-bush-and-tony-blair-are-war-criminals-obv&quot;}">invasion of Iraq</a> and the <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/hurricane-katrina-george-w-bush-new-orleans">botched federal response</a> to Hurricane Katrina,&#8221; Bradley says that Ellen contributed to the ongoing revisionist history campaign to somehow rehabilitate the former president. This, according to Bradley, stemmed from Ellen&#8217;s brand of &#8220;unconditional kindness,&#8221; which Bradley claims does not jive with reality.
&#8220;There’s something especially on-brand about DeGeneres’s plea for unconditional kindness; she’s made her name as a bubbly talk show host slash celebrity whisperer who can befriend just about anyone,&#8221; writes Bradley. &#8220;But the continued backlash against DeGeneres—even after her address—is also a sign that such a brand is incompatible with reality.&#8221;
&#8220;Ellen has been a towering presence on the talk show scene for a reason; for millions of viewers across America, DeGeneres and her show’s sparkling set represent a sunny alternate reality—one in which everyone is fun and nice and happy to dance and play games,&#8221; Bradley continues. It’s a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/05/ellen-degeneres-donald-trump">simulated apolitical utopia</a>, one that seems to reflect DeGeneres’s belief that kindness is the most important virtue of all—one that should trump all else.&#8221;
But that brand only goes so far, claims Bradley, because, at some point, people should be able to determine if the target of their unconditional kindness is worthy of it. Bush does not qualify because he launched the Iraq war, supported traditional marriage, and appointed conservative Supreme Court justices, culminating it the Citizens United decision of 2010.
&#8220;In that clip, DeGeneres seems to hope we will see unity—a representation of what we could achieve if we put aside our differences and recognize our shared humanity. But how deep does this unity run? What are the parameters of the kindness we should all practice?&#8221; Bradley asks.
&#8220;Throughout her address, DeGeneres reduced this history to a difference in &#8216;beliefs,'&#8221; Bradley continues. &#8220;But when one person has historically believed other people should not have the same basic rights as another, it’s hard to treat these differences as benign—especially when that person once exercised their power to help make their beliefs a reality.&#8221;

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Vanity Fair Scolds Ellen DeGeneres For Friendliness With George W. Bush

The woke scolds are now seriously targetting comedy talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres because she dared to say that people should be kind and respectful

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Comedy talk show host Ellen Degeneres displayed some incredible class this week after the internet went abuzz over photos of herself palling around former President George W. Bush at a Dallas Cowboys game.
&#8220;After photos surfaced of her laughing with Bush in Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones’ box, many on social media wondered why the talk show host, a gay woman, would be friendly with a former president who called for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, among other policy positions that seem at odds with her beliefs,&#8221; reports <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2019/10/08/ellen-degeneres-defends-friendship-with-george-w-bush-be-kind-to-everyone/">Entertainment Weekly</a>.
In response to the internet backlash, the former &#8220;Finding Nemo&#8221; actress said on a clip from Tuesday&#8217;s show of &#8220;The Ellen Degeneres&#8221; show that people should &#8220;be kind to everyone,&#8221; including those with whom they disagree.
&#8220;So this weekend, I went to Dallas for the Cowboys game. And it may not seem like a big deal for a celebrity to attend a football game, but I never leave my house. So it is a big deal,&#8221; Ellen began. &#8220;So there were a hundred thousand people in this stadium. Portia and I were invited by Charlotte Jones &#8212; she’s the daughter of Jerry Jones, who owns the Dallas Cowboys.&#8221;
&#8220;So I gotta say, when we were invited, I was aware that I was going to be surrounded by people with different views and beliefs,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But during the game, they showed a shot of George and me laughing together, so people were upset. They thought why is a gay Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative Republican president. A lot of people were mad, and they did what people do when they’re mad: they tweet.&#8221;
Despite the nasty tweets directed her way, Ellen shared a particular tweet that she loved: “Ellen and George Bush together makes me have faith in America again.”
Ellen then stated that she is not only friends with George Bush but also friends with people who share different viewpoints than her.
&#8220;Here’s the thing — I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have,&#8221; Ellen said. &#8220;We’re all different, and I think we’ve forgotten that that’s okay, that we’re all different.&#8221;
“For instance, I wish people wouldn’t wear fur. I don’t like it, but I’m friends with people who wear fur,” DeGeneres continued. “But just because I don’t agree with someone on everything, doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone.”
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Indeed, Degeneres has proven time and time again to be a comedian and talk show host of genuine class who avoids mean-spirited ad hominems against those on the opposite side of the political aisle in favor of cheerful comedy, discussion, and even forgiveness. Nothing better put this on display than when <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/arts/television/ellen-degeneres-kevin-hart-oscars-host.html">she publicly defended</a> comedian Kevin Hart after a mob of online trolls sabotaged his dream gig of hosting the Oscars over past jokes he made that offended members of the LGBT community.
In her hiring practices, Ellen has also shown herself to be an equal opportunity employer by counting the <a href="https://politicon.com/speaker/adam-yenser/">openly conservative comedian Adam Yenser</a> among her writing staff.

WATCH: Ellen Degeneres Responds To Backlash Over Her Friendliness With George W. Bush

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On Monday, Valerie Plame, a former undercover CIA operative who became famous from a CIA leak scandal in 2003, released a campaign ad accusing President Trump of pardoning the man who &#8220;took revenge against my husband and leaked my identity.&#8221; In a fact-check for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/10/valerie-plames-claim-that-scooter-libby-leaked-her-identity/?noredirect=on">The Washington Post</a> Tuesday, Glenn Kessler, who testified at the leak trial, debunked Plame&#8217;s attempt to blame Scooter Libby for leaking her information and called her out for exaggerating her role in the CIA and trying to make Trump the bad guy.
Plame, who is running as a Democrat for New Mexico&#8217;s 3rd District, has made clear that she is not a fan of Trump. In fact, in August 2017, Plame launched a GoFundMe page to <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/buytwitter">&#8220;#BuyTwitter&#8221; in order to &#8220;#BanTrump.&#8221;</a> In her new campaign ad, Plame makes the following dramatic claims, as highlighted by Kessler:
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I was an undercover CIA operative. My assignment was preventing rogue states and terrorists from getting nuclear weapons. You name a hot spot, I lived it. [images of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and North Korea] Then Dick Cheney’s chief of staff took revenge against my husband and leaked my identity. His name: Scooter Libby. Guess who pardoned him last year? [image of President Trump]
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For the assertions, Kessler ultimately gives her Three Pinocchios, only sparing her the Post&#8217;s worst rating, Four Pinocchios, for allowing her a &#8220;fuzzy&#8221; potential argument.
Kessler begins by first noting that Plame&#8217;s video potentially misleads viewers about her role in the CIA. &#8220;The ad strongly suggests that Plame was an undercover operative in places such as Iran and North Korea, when that was not the case,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;She was under diplomatic cover in Greece,&#8221; he notes.
While she wasn&#8217;t undercover in Iran and North Korea, she was &#8220;operations chief at the Joint Task Force on Iraq of the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA’s clandestine operations directorate when her name was publicly disclosed in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102000874.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a column written by Robert Novak</a> and published in The Washington Post on July 14, 2003,&#8221; Kessler explains.
The real question, he continues, is whether Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s chief of staff Scooter Libby was actually the source of the leak, as Plame claims in the ad. The answer is no.
&#8220;Libby was convicted of perjury and lying to the FBI during its investigation, but he was not charged with leaking Plame’s name,&#8221; Kessler explains. The fact-checker goes on to give a detailed account of the famous leak case, including this key passage:
<blockquote>Libby was charged and convicted of misleading investigators about his conversations with reporters, in particular a claim that he received information about Plame from NBC’s Tim Russert. But the only article that directly can be traced to Libby is the item in Time magazine — in which one could argue he only tangentially confirmed information already obtained by the reporter — and the jury acquitted Libby on the charge of lying about what he told [Time&#8217;s Matthew] Cooper. No evidence emerged at trial that Libby had seen the State Department memo or that he knew Plame had a covert status.</blockquote>
&#8220;Plame’s name and CIA role was first disclosed in Robert Novak&#8217;s column. Novak’s original source was Armitage, and his confirming sources were Rove and a CIA spokesman. Novak&#8217;s column led to the firestorm that launched a federal investigation,&#8221; Kessler concludes. &#8220;But no evidence shows that Libby disclosed Plame&#8217;s role to Novak.&#8221;
Kessler notes that Bush administration officials were &#8220;certainly eager to try to discredit Wilson, who had emerged as a damaging critic about the failed search to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,&#8221; so one could possibly &#8220;draw a fuzzy line from Libby’s inquiries about Wilson’s role, the State Department memo and Libby’s conversations with administration officials to the eventual leak of Plame’s name.&#8221; For that reason, Kessler spares Plame the full four Pinocchios.
Kessler also suggests that trying to make Trump retroactively complicit is a stretch:
<blockquote>The indictment says that on June 23, Libby told New York Times reporter Judith Miller that he believed Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA. That narrative was later thrown in doubt when Miller later recanted her testimony at the trial, which was damaging to Libby’s case, as she was the only reporter who had claimed Libby volunteered information about Plame. (Miller’s retraction led to Libby getting his law license back well before he was pardoned by Trump.)</blockquote>
Plame&#8217;s campaign has defended its ad, a spokesman telling the Post, &#8220;From his trial, it was clear that Libby gave Valerie’s name to New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Please recall that Scooter Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice because he attempted to hide information from the prosecutors. He obstructed justice, perjured himself and was held accountable until Donald Trump pardoned him. No one suggested he leaked it.&#8221;
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Eighteen years ago today, in what would be the deadliest assault by a geopolitical foe on U.S. soil since the War of 1812, the global jihad struck the most lethal blow in the history of its wretched movement. The 9/11 airline hijackers were largely trained and funded by Wahhabist/Salafist Sunni zealots based in <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/19/911-report-details-saudi-arabia-funding-of-muslim-/">Saudi Arabia</a>, were substantially aided by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43339/hammer-iranian-revolution-forty-years-old-stand-josh-hammer">terrorist</a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/iran-told-to-pay-10-5-billion-to-sept-11-kin-insurers">Iranian</a> regime, and were protected and mollycoddled by Taliban Islamists.
It was not amorphous &#8220;terrorism&#8221; — an easily <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51440/hammer-san-francisco-has-beclowned-itself-labeling-josh-hammer">malleable</a> linguistic concept — in the abstract that killed those <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/11/remember-2/">three thousand people</a> on 9/11. It was a much more clearly identifiable and unmistakable foe: genocidal Islamic jihadism.
It is astonishing to ponder that those born now will be eligible to serve in the U.S. military despite being born after 9/11. For those fresh new military recruits, 9/11 will be ingrained in their consciences as but one of many distant historical events — akin to the Vietnam War, the Pearl Harbor attacks, or perhaps even the Battle of Gettysburg. That is a downright harrowing thought for those of us for whom 9/11 was a seminal — perhaps life-changing or career trajectory-altering — event.
Crucially, these impressionable 18-year-old military recruits have grown up thinking of 9/11 and the corresponding bipartisan military adventurism overseas as inextricably linked. It is, of course, true that the Taliban in Afghanistan harbored the al-Qaeda militants who took down the Twin Towers. But it is also true that Afghanistan has already become this generation&#8217;s Vietnam: A seemingly interminable struggle in a faraway land for which there seems no way out.
While there is a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43151/hammer-ted-cruzs-non-interventionist-hawk-foreign-josh-hammer">prudent and responsible &#8220;third way,&#8221;</a> far too often our foreign policy and national security discourse in the post-9/11 era has been oversimplified to a most regrettable dichotomy: That between George W. Bush-era moralistic interventionist neoconservatism and a fanatical isolationism that has never seen a foreign threat worth seriously engaging. For the young generation that has intellectually matured in the proverbial shadow of this oversimplified discourse, 9/11 and our subsequent campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq are solidified in the mind as part and parcel of Bush-era military interventionism.
As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/us/politics/us-soldier-killed-afghanistan.html">Americans continue to die</a>, eighteen years later, fighting in third-world sharia hellholes to try to quixotically impose Madisonian democracies upon Islamists who effectively live in the seventh century, the public will to fiscally fund and morally support our campaigns naturally wanes. While that support wanes, the isolationist <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/fox-news-tucker-carlson-reportedly-at-center-of-trump-s-decision-not-to-bomb-iran-1.7403783">Tucker Carlson wing</a> of the foreign policy Right <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51610/hammer-bad-trump-presidents-dismissal-john-bolton-josh-hammer">markedly ascends</a>. But Tucker Carlson-esque thinking on foreign policy is exceedingly dangerous. If 9/11 taught us anything, it taught us that real evil exists in this earthly realm — and that evil must be soberly assessed and unambiguously thwarted, lest we succumb to its tyranny. Evil loves a geopolitical vacuum, and there is no greater vacuum than when the post-World War II United States entirely withdraws itself from the world.
The problem is that, no matter its flaws, Carlson&#8217;s isolationism will continue to gain momentum so long as it is juxtaposed with the overly sanguine Pollyannaism of those who would moralistically intervene and seek to build Enlightenment-style Western nation-states in <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/libya/2019-02-18/obamas-libya-debacle">sharia-governed desert backwaters</a>. The onus, therefore, falls on those of us <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43151/hammer-ted-cruzs-non-interventionist-hawk-foreign-josh-hammer">true, non-neoconservative counter-jihadi hawks</a> to articulate and advocate for a compelling foreign policy vision that both soberly reflects upon the excesses of bipartisan moralistic interventionism gone awry and rejects the unyielding demands of the &#8220;bring America home&#8221; isolationists.
There is much to be said about what this vision looks like, and my hope is that future columns will help further contribute to the development of this &#8220;third way.&#8221; But instead of deploying U.S. military assets for dictator-toppling and nation-building purposes, a &#8220;third way&#8221; hawkish foreign policy would focus upon utilizing the tools of soft power, &#8220;draw and strike&#8221;-style lesser hard power maneuvering, hard deterrence (e.g., strategic naval asset deployment), statecraft, and sanctions/finances to achieve its goals: To thwart jihadism and deter the hegemonic ambitions of other non-jihadist geopolitical foes, such as Russia and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47057/hammer-china-americas-greatest-21st-century-threat-josh-hammer">China</a>.
The U.S. should label the leading Mexican cartels as State Department-recognized <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/time-designate-mexican-cartels-terrorist-organizations/">foreign terrorist organizations</a>. The U.S. must label the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46714/hammer-designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-josh-hammer">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, which is the intellectual progenitor of all contemporary Sunni jihad, as a terrorist group. The U.S. must <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/01/cutting-us-aid-to-the-lebanese-army-would-increase-pressure-on-the-iran-hezbollah-axis/">defund the Lebanese Armed Forces</a>, given that the entire Lebanese military apparatus has been overrun by Hezbollah. The U.S. must amp up pressure on Qatar and Turkey, which have both long surpassed Saudi Arabia as the leading global bankrollers of the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Sunni madrasas alike.
In terms of immigration, the U.S. must focus not just on a border wall but also on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42539/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">interior enforcement</a>: After all, two of the 9/11 hijackers — who should, of course, have never received visas in the first instance — were present in the country on that fateful day due to overstaying their visas. Two of the 9/11 hijackers, in other words, were illegal aliens still presently in the country due to a lack of robust interior enforcement.
Why on Earth, for that matter, has the U.S. continued to implement a lax immigration policy that continues to voluntarily <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/aimless-fighting-in-afghanistan-while-we-bring-afghanistan-to-our-shores/">bring the very problem we claim to be fighting overseas</a> to our own shores? Has the development of Rep. Ilhan Omar&#8217;s (D-MN) large Somali immigrant community into the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/how-rep-ilhan-omars-minnesota-district-became-the-terrorist-recruitment-capital-of-the-us-officials-highly-concerned">nation&#8217;s largest terrorist recruitment hub</a> taught us nothing? Why are we not implementing an immigration policy for the Islamic world that, while allowing for dispensations, starts from a default baseline level of effectively zero? None of the 9/11 hijackers should have been in the United States and, distressingly, our inadequate immigration &#8220;vetting&#8221; procedures are oftentimes hopeless in attempting to prevent the next importations of jihadist evil.
But a true &#8220;third way&#8221; foreign policy approach — a common-sense approach that can repel the nostrums of Tucker Carlson&#8217;s isolationism and moralistic interventionism alike — must begin with a sober assessment of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. There is no reason whatsoever for the U.S. to <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/now-pull-the-plug-on-afghanistan/">still deploy large swaths of troops</a> to Afghanistan. Our fanciful efforts to democratize a seventh century-dwelling bastion of Islamism has manifestly failed, and will never succeed. But even more germanely, there is no present security threat from Afghanistan itself. Unlike Iran, the world&#8217;s most dangerous Islamist nation and number one global funder of jihad, Afghanistan has no nuclear weapon program or expressed desire to develop intercontinental ballistic missile technology, does not fund jihadist outfits or targeted assassinations overseas, and poses no genuine threat to American interests other than the radicalization of Afghans themselves.
It turns out that there is a much simpler and more cost-effective method of dealing with the Afghanistan problem than a seemingly endless military presence — with the concomitant constant risk of <a href="https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/03/21/green-on-blue_attacks_in_afghanistan_the_data_111015.html">&#8220;green-on-blue&#8221; violence</a>. Instead, U.S. policymakers ought to simply amp up border security, interior enforcement, and set Afghan visas to zero. A meaningful withdrawal from Afghanistan, furthermore, would allow genuine counter-jihadi hawks to demonstrate to isolationists that they have no interest in occupying or democratizing every sharia hellhole the world over. And it would save much-needed intellectual, moral, financial, and military capital that must be conserved for a potential showdown with genuine jihadi state actor threats, such as Iran.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">My argument has always been that hawks themselves should support getting out of Afghanistan. We waste intellectual, moral, fiscal, physical, and human capital that we’d be better off saving for fighting adversaries that are actually strategically necessary. <a href="https://t.co/Q6fcyK9HmW">https://t.co/Q6fcyK9HmW</a>
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1160333751118913536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">You want to know how to solve the Afghanistan issue?
Set Afghan visas to zero. Maybe leave a few drones for easy aerial operations.
Done.
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1160352043191717888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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By recalibrating our post-9/11 counterterrorism strategy to focus less on nation-building and more on genuine deterrence, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48120/hammer-d-day-was-good-versus-pure-evil-our-josh-hammer">clearly defining military missions for our men and women in uniform</a>, amping up border security at home, cutting immigration from the Islamic world, and conserving financial and military capital for future showdowns with the Iran-Muslim Brotherhood-Qatar-Turkey axis of Islamism, hawks will go a long way toward showing that they have learned the lessons of moralistic interventionism gone awry. In so doing, they will also begin the process of repelling the noxious rise within the conservative movement of those pernicious isolationists whose discredited ideas risk such profound harm.

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