The United States government and the World Bank are sending a combined $1.7 billion in assistance to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine">Ukrainian</a> government in an effort to support <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-care">health care workers</a> in the war-torn nation.
On Tuesday, The Associated Press <a href="https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-news/2022/07/ukraine-gets-1-7b-in-fresh-aid-to-pay-health-care-workers/">reported</a> that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that the funds were being provided to help stop <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vladimir-putin">Russian President Vladimir Putin</a>&#8216;s &#8220;brutal war of aggression.&#8221;
USAID has now sent approximately $4 billion in financial support to Ukraine, while the U.S. government has sent more than $7 billion total since the war began in February, according to the AP.
USAID administrator Samantha Power told the AP that while Putin&#8217;s “assault on Ukraine’s public services continues, the United States is rushing in with financial support to help the government keep the lights on, provide essential services to innocent citizens and pay the health care workers who are providing lifesaving support on the frontlines.”
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also said in a statement that this new round of aid &#8220;will help Ukraine’s democratic government provide essential services for the people of Ukraine.&#8221;
For his part, President Joe Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-refuses-to-limit-aid-to-ukraine-make-sure-they-are-not-defeated-by-russia">maintained</a> that the U.S. will continue to support Ukraine through various measures indefinitely in order to defeat Russia.
“We are going to support Ukraine as long as it takes,” Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSI0qRc0I8I">told</a> reporters when asked about the future of the United States’ commitment to Ukraine in late June.
“They’ve had to renege on their national debt for the first time since the beginning, in almost well over a hundred years. They’ve lost 15 years of the gains they’ve made in terms of their economy,” Biden said of Russia. “They’re going to have trouble maintaining oil production because they don’t have the technology to do it. They need American technology. They’re also in a similar satiation in terms of their weapons systems and some of their military systems. So they’re paying a very, very heavy price for this.”
“I don’t know how it’s going to end but it will not end, but it will not end with a Russian defeat of Ukraine in Ukraine,” Biden added.
The president has also said Americans should expect to pay high gas prices until Russia is defeated.
In June, a reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-on-how-long-its-fair-to-expect-americans-to-pay-historic-gas-prices-as-long-as-it-takes-to-beat-putin">commented</a> on the high prices of gas in the U.S. and asked Biden, “How long is it fair to expect American drivers and drivers around the world to pay that premium for this war?”
Biden responded again by saying that Americans should expect to pay higher prices at the pump until Putin is stopped.
“As long as it takes,” Biden responded, “so Russia cannot in fact defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine. This is a critical, critical position for the world. Here we are. Why do we have NATO? I told Putin that in fact, if he were to move, we would move to strengthen NATO. We would move to strengthen NATO across the board.&#8221;

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Newly discovered emails show that former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power disparaged then President-elect Donald Trump after his surprising defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Power&#8217;s anti-Trump bias is significant because it was her authority that was used to unmask hundreds of Americans&#8217; names during the election. The requested names were related to Trump and his transition team, <a href="https://aclj.org/government-corruption/former-senior-obama-official-samantha-power-blames-others-for-her-unmasking-scandal">according to</a> the American Center for Law and Justice, whose lawsuit led to the most recent email discovery.
Powers previously claimed she did not make the requests, even though they were made under her name (it is still unclear how an ambassador to the U.N. would have the authority to make such requests).
In the newly discovered emails, which The Hill&#8217;s John Solomon discussed in his <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/450490-unmasker-in-chief-samantha-power-spewed-anti-trump-bias-in-government">recent column</a>, Powers is shown to have displayed an animus toward Trump (and then Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders of Vermont) ahead of the New Hampshire primary. In an email connecting the Public Theater in New York&#8217;s artistic director, Oskar Eustis, to the American Enterprise Institute&#8217;s resident liberal Norman Ornstein, Powers suggested our political system would cease to make sense if Trump and Sanders won New Hampshire&#8217;s primary.
&#8220;Oskar, Norm will explain our political system, in a way that will fleetingly make it seem rational, though maybe not after Trump and Sanders win NH,&#8221; Powers wrote. Both candidates would go on to win their respective primaries in the Granite State.
Trump eventually won the presidency, we all know. After doing so, Powers&#8217; emails became more toxic.
&#8220;I am discouraged and frightened. Electing a right-wing president is something, but such a morally repugnant bully!&#8221; Powers <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/414619987/Power-s-Friend-Email-Dissing-Trump">wrote</a> on November 14, 2016. In that same email, whose subject line read &#8220;Devastated,&#8221; Powers called incoming White House adviser Steve Bannon &#8220;an avowed racist.&#8221; She then asked the recipient, whose name has been redacted, when they are coming to DC and signed the email &#8220;Kisses.&#8221;
In December 2016, Power responded to an email regarding a news story about Trump&#8217;s attempts to change the direction of the U.N., Powers wrote: &#8220;This reflects the lack of understanding of history.&#8221;
She responded to Trump&#8217;s announcement about withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement by saying: &#8220;Lord help us all.&#8221; She responded to a diplomatic issue between the U.S. and Japan by saying: &#8220;It is unreal how the Trump dynamic has changed things.&#8221; Solomon described the issue in question as &#8220;routine.&#8221;
Also revealed in the emails is Powers&#8217; attempts to get herself on TV in the waning days of the Obama administration.
&#8220;Power and her staff spent time brainstorming a possible CBS &#8216;60 Minutes&#8217; interview as Trump&#8217;s transition period began. The idea was to parlay Power&#8217;s remarks at an upcoming citizenship event and the TV news magazine interview into forums to shame the president-elect on immigration,&#8221; Solomon wrote.
Powers also spoke to Univision and CBS about interview ideas where she could be allowed to trash the incoming administration.
Back in 2018, Powers claimed it was not her who asked for the unmasking of individuals connected to the incoming Trump administration. Without a shred of evidence to suggest otherwise and her documented disdain for Trump, her testimony appears questionable.

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Samantha Power, Who Unmasked Hundreds Of Americans In 2016, Showed Anti-Trump Bias In Newly Discovered Emails

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On Tuesday, after President Trump announced he was pulling out of the disastrous Iran nuclear deal that Barack Obama had signed, Samantha Power, who served as U.N. Ambassador under Obama and was an ardent supporter of the deal, slammed Trump with two tweets on Twitter, prompting Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro to stomp on her argument with two tweets of his own.
Power, who personally voted for the deal when she was the diplomat occupying the U.S. seat on the Security Council, and even <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/15/obama-turns-to-u-n-to-outmaneuver-congress-iran-nuclear-deal/">circulated a legally binding draft</a> to the Security Council that would prevent Obama&#8217;s successor from backing out of the deal, tweeted:
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I will never forget the dark cloud that hung over the White House in the years Iran was advancing nuclear program &amp; Obama was briefed on all the risks of using military force. (1/2) <a href="https://t.co/bngRZKhmeZ">https://t.co/bngRZKhmeZ</a>
&#8212; Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/993883348236931074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trump has demolished America&#8217;s credibility &amp; paved the way for Iran to re-start its nuclear program. Trump has done the unthinkable: isolated the US &amp; rallied the world around Iran. The costs of using military force have only increased. (2/2)
&#8212; Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/993883349520351232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro fired back:
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Now tell us about the dark cloud hanging over Syria and Lebanon and Israel and Saudi Arabia because you strengthened the biggest terror sponsor on the planet <a href="https://t.co/OnGEECfMyy">https://t.co/OnGEECfMyy</a>
&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/993915721041104896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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YOU are actively rallying the world around Iran. <a href="https://t.co/jwKIr8xW3q">https://t.co/jwKIr8xW3q</a>
&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/993915814205014016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Samantha Power Attacks Trump For Iran Deal. Shapiro Stomps On Her.

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In an <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/15/the-full-transcript-ben-rhodes-and-samantha-power-216322">interview</a> with Politico&#8217;s Susan Glasser in which she joined former Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, former Obama U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power confessed that on the night of the 2016 presidential election, she held a female empowerment party to celebrate Hillary Clinton&#8217;s expected victory.
The details are delicious.
Power recalled:
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Well, I&#8217;ve had a lot of bad ideas in my life, but none as immortalized as this one. I decided on election night to invite the 37 women ambassadors to the U.N., many of whom face struggles in their own foreign service, or at the U.N. of a kind that, as an American, I never did. And I thought what an amazing night for them. I mean, that&#8217;s what America represents to the world, when a glass ceiling is shattered in our country, it creates a whole new sense of possibility for people everywhere.
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It turns out, ironically, that Power was hoping that Clinton&#8217;s victory would not be a blowout because she was worried the party would end early and the assorted women would miss a chance to speak with Gloria Steinem:
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And so, I invited them. Most of them came, and we gathered with Madeleine Albright, our first woman secretary of state; Gloria Steinem, who is not only an icon here, of course, but all around the world, and we went through the same process, if you want to call it that, that so many people did at their election parties. As the host, I was kind of hoping it wouldn&#8217;t be quite the blowout that it was anticipated to be, because I wanted to make sure that people had a chance to interact with Gloria Steinem, and one of&#8212;
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Glasser interrupts, &#8220;So, your concern was that actually that the evening was going to be over early.&#8221;
Power replied:
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Too soon. I wanted to milk the soft power dividend of this moment, and instead, and HBO was there, I guess unfortunately or fortunately, to capture it all, but instead, you really see what so many people went through, which was all of that sense of promise and excitement, and frankly, a dose of complacency. And then, it slowly dawning on us that not only was this going to be much closer than anybody anticipated, but that it was not going to end well.
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Then, as Democrats are wont to do, Power uses children to evoke the emotions of her listener, and in a purple prose sort of way:
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And for me, every time I see that, I am haunted most, actually, by the images of my children, who were running around the apartment for much of the night, but when the election is called, my daughter, who at that time is four, is just lying in my lap, kind of like this pale, Irish statue, and there&#8217;s something about the way she&#8217;s lying, I don&#8217;t know, that just makes her look like she&#8217;s the one who&#8217;s going to inherit&#8212;
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Glasser, obsequiously, &#8220;The image is extraordinary.&#8221;
Power, from her lofty perch:
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She&#8217;s going to inherit this&#8212;what he does is on her, right? It&#8217;s like we&#8217;ve somehow collectively landed in this place, but the people who are going to feel this, and be affected by this are these innocents. And as it happens, I was looking at a young child, but there&#8217;s so many other innocents who are being subjected to the cruelty, as we speak here today.
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Speaking of innocent children, Power neglected to mention her own role as the Obama Administration fecklessly let Bashar al Assad indiscriminately murder children. As Lee Smith <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/197727/the-ambassador-from-hell">wrote</a> in Tablet Magazine in February 2016:
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Power is a handmaiden to war crimes. And no number of righteous tweets or broadsides <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/us-official-slams-russian-airstrikes-in-syria/3018925.html">against Russian diplomats</a> can hide how the White House has used her monumental 2002 classic, A Problem From Hell, as a how-to manual in how to enable genocide and still maintain your soulful cred. &#8230; The entire White House, from the president on down, is complicit in the crimes that Power tweets about. As the person who quite literally wrote the book on how the American superpower must stop genocides when it has the power to do so, why hasn&#8217;t she resigned?
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Former Obama U.N. Ambassador Held A Female Empowerment Victory Party For Hillary. It Didn’t Go As Planned.

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President Trump, unlike his timorous and tremulous predecessor, has made no bones about his support for Iranians who have revolted against the brutal, repressive, theocratic regime of the mullahs. His Twitter feed, oft-criticized, has been a haven for those intrepid souls protesting and even dying as they challenge the Iranian regime, as Trump has been clear about his desire to see the despotic Iranian regime overthrown.
As predictably as the sun rising in the east, the minions of Barack Obama, who abandoned Iranian protesters to their fate in 2009, have surfaced from the depths of their defeated status to slam the president for doing exactly the right and moral thing. Here are some examples of the nefariousness of those officials, and their willingness to once again let Iranians suffer under a brutal regime:
Example 1. Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice (yes, the same woman who was bone-chillingly truthful about the Benghazi massacre) as she tweeted a link to a repellent New York Times piece telling Trump to shut up:
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How Can Trump Help Iran&#8217;s Protesters? Be Quiet. <a href="https://t.co/w0MNlWMkxG">https://t.co/w0MNlWMkxG</a>
&#8212; Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice/status/947454339400028161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Example 2: Rob Malley &#8212; who is vehemently anti-Israel, having <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2310">accused </a>Israel of failure to make peace at Camp David in 2000, an assertion trumpeted by Arab apologists and which was debunked by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, U.S. President President Bill Clinton, and U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross &#8212; <a href="http://xhttp://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=1508&amp;lan=en&amp;sid=0&amp;sp=0">urged </a>the U.S. to meet with the terrorist group Hamas; then was appointed by Obama as a senior director at the National Security Council before he helped advise Secretary of State John Kerry on the Iran nuclear deal, also tweeted a link to the Times piece:
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Strong piece by Phil Gordon <a href="https://t.co/6hduqAUVMi">https://t.co/6hduqAUVMi</a>
&#8212; Rob Malley (@Rob_Malley) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Malley/status/947295130796642304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Example 3: Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who helped engineer the Iran deal:
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With humility about how little we know about what&#8217;s happening inside Iran, this much is clear: it&#8217;s an Iranian moment and not anyone else&#8217;s. But the rights of people to protest peacefully and voice their aspirations are universal and governments everywhere should respect that.
&#8212; John Kerry (@JohnKerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKerry/status/947523033878749185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Example 4: Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for Obama, who admitted lying to the media in order to sell the Iran nuclear deal, saying the U.S. should keep out of Iran&#8217;s business, despite the fact the Iranian regime sponsors terrorism around the world:
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The Iranian people are rightfully demanding dignity, less corruption, more opportunity, and greater control over their lives. In looking at US twitter, it seems lost on too many that this is about what Iranians want for Iran, and not about us.
&#8212; Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) <a href="https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/947524791505911810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Example 5: Tommy Vietor, former spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council under Obama, carping that Trump can&#8217;t stand protesters, forgetting that Trump has not been shooting people in the streets the way that the Iranian regime has:
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Trump loves protestors as long as they&#8217;re not American.
&#8212; Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/947599014333005824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Example 6: Samantha Power, who followed Rice as U.N. Ambassador, sniping about Trump&#8217;s desire to vet immigrants:
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We stand with the Iranian people so much that we won&#8217;t let them come here. <a href="https://t.co/fzbv8idiiJ">https://t.co/fzbv8idiiJ</a>
&#8212; Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/947659714682265600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Example 7: Last but not least, Hillary Clinton, who gave her usual mush-mouthed answer, saying she &#8220;hoped&#8221; the Iranian regime would respond peacefully to the protests.
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The Iranian people, especially the young, are protesting for the freedom and future they deserve. I hope their government responds peacefully and supports their hopes.
&#8212; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/947313751992274944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The latest reports out of Iran aver that at least <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42532784">ten protesters</a> have been killed by government forces.

GUTLESS AND DESPICABLE: Obama’s Minions Attack Trump For Standing Tall On Iran

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President Donald Trump and the Russian state are jointly fragmenting American society with &#8220;Marxist strategies,&#8221; argues Cass Sustein in a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-19/russia-is-using-marxist-strategies-and-so-is-trump">Thursday-published column</a> at Bloomberg.
&#8220;Russia Is Using Marxist Strategies, and So Is Trump,&#8221; reads Sustein&#8217;s headline, with the subheadline: &#8220;Moscow&#8217;s meddling in the U.S. election was aimed at stoking social tensions. Sound familiar?&#8221;
Portraying the narrative of Russian propaganda as &#8220;[helping] elect Donald Trump,&#8221; Sustein ignores the close similarities between the conventional anti-Americanism of Russian state propaganda and neo-Marxist narratives ubiquitous across the left-wing and Democrat-aligned news media landscape:
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Karl Marx and his followers argued that revolutionaries should disrupt capitalist societies by &#8220;heightening the contradictions.&#8221; Russia used a version of that Marxist idea in its efforts to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign. It should come as no surprise that the most powerful nation from the former Soviet Union, whose leaders were schooled in the Marxist tradition, is borrowing directly from that tradition in its efforts today.
What is more surprising, and far more important for American politics, is that President Donald Trump is drawn to a similar strategy.
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Framing Russian propaganda as a powerful shaper of American political attitudes, Sustein offers no commentary on the political impact of neo-Marxist messaging pushed by CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times (NYT), The Washington Post, or similar news media outlets. Sustein points to a NYT article as evidence of Russia&#8217;s supposedly significant impact on shaping American political attitudes via its propaganda:
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During the 2016 campaign, Russians did something very much like that, not to produce a revolution, but to deepen and intensify social divisions (and to help elect Donald Trump). Mimicking American voices, they used Facebook to energize and inflame a diverse assortment of political groups: gay rights supporters, African-American activists, Texas secessionists and opponents of immigration. (&#8220;America is at risk and we need to protect our country now more than ever, liberal hogwash aside.&#8221;)
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Neo-Marxism is the ideological foundation of the Democrat Party and broader left; portraying American society as a battleground upon which oppressed groups struggle against their privileged oppressors. Sustein, however, accuses Trump of advancing and benefiting from such political narratives.
Trump&#8217;s engagement in cultural battles fought across the left-right divide is framed as &#8220;[intensifying] social divisions&#8221; by Sustein, implicitly casting acquiescence from a Republican president to left-wing political agitation as a preferable path toward increasing national unity.
At no point in his op-ed does Sustein articulate the values or ideals around which Americans should coalesce in pursuit of e pluribus unum.
Sustein&#8217;s wife, Samantha Power, shared her husband&#8217;s article via Twitter.
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Really important &amp; enlightening <a href="https://twitter.com/CassSunstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CassSunstein</a> piece on Trump&#8217;s Marxist ways of sowing division among us <a href="https://t.co/l3YEglvc3p">https://t.co/l3YEglvc3p</a>
&#8212; Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/920983156270010368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Power is fully invested in the &#8220;Russian election hacking&#8221; narrative, framing the defeat of Hillary Clinton as a function of Americans being fooled by foreign propaganda.
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My <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> essay on a threat to American democracy that is more serious than ever before <a href="https://t.co/H7oVLjYvYh">https://t.co/H7oVLjYvYh</a>
&#8212; Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/910213164230434821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Samantha Power, who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama Administration, penned a revealing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/opinion/samantha-power-propaganda-fake-news.html">opinion article</a> for the New York Times earlier this week. The article, titled &#8220;Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now,&#8221; attempts to pin responsibility for the rise in fake news and foreign disseminated propaganda on the American public, who she claims have been too easily duped by imposters and hyper-partisan news outlets.
Her predictable solution is for Americans to once again rely entirely on &#8220;[r]eporters and editors serving in the role of professional gatekeepers&#8221; who previously &#8220;had almost full control over what appeared in the media.&#8221; She asserts that in the past, &#8220;a foreign adversary seeking to reach American audiences did not have great options for bypassing these umpires, and Russian dezinformatsia rarely penetrated.&#8221;
The central tenet of her thesis seems to be that the American public is simply too ignorant to be trusted with deciphering what&#8217;s real, and what isn&#8217;t. And I have a problem with this notion.
In 2016, Ben Rhodes, Obama&#8217;s Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, said in an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html">The New York Times Magazine</a>, that modern day journalists will print whatever political establishment hacks tell them to print. His direct quote:
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All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don&#8217;t. They call us to explain to them what&#8217;s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That&#8217;s a sea change. They literally know nothing.
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And these are the people we&#8217;re supposed to trust? The 27-year-old know-nothings that Democrat and other progressive politicians use to peddle propaganda? You must be joking.
Power also laments the public&#8217;s inclination towards questioning whether &#8220;objective facts exist at all.&#8221; She says, &#8220;The sense of an epistemological free-for-all provides an opening to all comers.&#8221;
The truth is, this concept of espousing subjective facts started with the mainstream media. For every objective fact (i.e. hurricane Harvey hit Houston), we&#8217;re bombarded with subjective facts (i.e. the hurricane was caused or worsened by global warming) that fit and further the left wing&#8217;s narrative. Power isn&#8217;t upset that subjective facts have become the norm, she&#8217;s concerned that leftists no longer have a monopoly on them.
It&#8217;s true that the advent of social media has brought with it a constant barrage of news, some real, and some not. The idea though, that the solution to fake news is more strictly controlled news, often fed to impressionable and biased young reporters by political officials and then regurgitated onto the front page of every newspaper, is authoritarian and scary.
Americans may not always be able to unscramble what&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s fake, but I&#8217;ll take my chances. Much better to be wrong occasionally than to be told what&#8217;s &#8220;real&#8221; by the politicians, academics, and elites who sit comfortably in their ivory towers, looking down on the rest of us.

Samantha Power’s NYT Op-Ed Epitomizes The Disconnect Between Democrats And The American People

Fake News

Media Bias

Samantha Power, Obama&#8217;s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, &#8220;unmasked&#8221; Americans at such a rapid rate in the administration&#8217;s final days in office that she averaged more than one request per day in 2016.
Multiple sources, who could not comment publicly on the matter, told <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/20/samantha-power-sought-to-unmask-americans-on-almost-daily-basis-sources-say.html">Fox News</a> that over 260 requests were made by Power in 2016 to identify Americans whose names surfaced in foreign intelligence surveillance:
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The details emerged ahead of an expected appearance by Power next month on Capitol Hill. She is one of several Obama administration officials facing congressional scrutiny for their role in seeking the identities of Trump associates in intelligence reports &#8212; but the interest in her actions is particularly high.
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The report indicated the reason that Congress is especially interested in Power&#8217;s role in unmasking Trump officials is due to a July 27 letter sent from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
In the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2017/07/27/letter-from-nunes-to-coats-on-unmasking.html">letter</a>, Nunes said the committee learned &#8220;that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence-related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama Administration.&#8221;
Fox News added that Power is believed to be the official that the letter was referring to and that although &#8220;previous U.N. ambassadors have made unmasking requests,&#8221; the number is usually in the &#8220;low double digits.&#8221;
Power is just the latest Obama official caught up in the unmasking scandal, as former national security advisor Susan Rice was recently <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/21158/busted-susan-rice-caught-lying-about-unmasking-ryan-saavedra">caught lying</a> about the unmasking of Trump officials.
While it is not necessarily a crime to unmask U.S. citizens in foreign intelligence surveillance, it is illegal to release their names &#8212; something that happened when a person with access to the information leaked former national security advisor Michael Flynn&#8217;s name to The Washington Post.

Another Obama Official Allegedly Unmasked HUNDREDS Of Americans During Final Days In Office

Michael Flynn

Obama Administration

A few days after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/19035/memos-nsa-violated-civil-liberties-90-times-under-elliott-hamilton">uncovered</a> over 90 instances of the NSA and the FBI violating the civil liberties of American citizens from 2009 to 2016, House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/344226-intelligence-chairman-accuses-obama-aides-of-hundreds-of-unmasking">levied</a> further allegations at the Obama administration. Nunes specifically charged Obama administration aides with filing requests to unmask names of American citizens during the 2016 presidential election.
Nunes directed his outrage to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, writing the following:
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We have found evidence that current and former government officials had easy access to U.S. person information and that it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information.
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The letter specifically charged that former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, who had no business in the intelligence community, &#8220;made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama administration.&#8221; The letter stated that only one of them was justified in a manner that was not boilerplate.
Last March, Nunes <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14698/8-things-we-learned-house-intelligence-committee-elliott-hamilton">informed</a> the press that Obama had ordered the surveillance of members of Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign and transition teams immediately following his electoral victory against Hillary Clinton. This decision angered his Democratic counterpart, Adam Schiff (D-CA).
The Obama administration received considerable criticism from liberal and conservative groups for Obama&#8217;s 2011 decision to loosen the rules for intelligence officials to unmask the names of people whose emails and phone calls the intelligence community intercepted. The argument stemmed from the Fourth Amendment protection from unwarranted searches and seizures.
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UNMASKING FIESTA! Obama Unmasked Hundreds For No Apparent Reason

Devin Nunes

Fourth Amendment

National Security Agency (NSA)

Former President Obama&#8217;s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is shameless. Samantha Power, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Hell-America-Age-Genocide/dp/1501265016">who literally wrote the book on the heavy moral costs of American inaction in the face of genocide</a>, is now blaming the Trump administration for the Assad regime&#8217;s latest sarin gas attack on Syrian civilians.
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Backed by Russia&amp;Iran, declared permanent by Trump, Assad regime in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Syria?src=hash">#Syria</a> feels safe to do what it wants. Gassing people is what it wants.
&#8212; Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/849418478922674177">April 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
This the same woman who stood by and watched as her boss, Saint Obama, refused to act on a self-imposed &#8220;red-line&#8221; following Assad&#8217;s first deployment of chemical weapons against the people of Syria.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower">@SamanthaJPower</a> Congrats. 
I thought you could not become more morally bankrupt, but darned if you didn&#8217;t pull it off.
&#8212; Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) <a href="https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/849487873493651456">April 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower">@SamanthaJPower</a> .Shameless. Your boss, Obama, did nothing to stop the suffering. This has been going on for years. Disgusting moral hypocrisy.
&#8212; Joshua Yasmeh (@JoshYaz) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshYaz/status/849694188895686656">April 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
Since 2011, Assad has been butchering his own people, and the Obama administration did nothing to take his bloody hands away from the levers of power. This failure to act wasn&#8217;t just moral cowardice but strategic idiocy.
Not only did ISIS begin as an offshoot of al-Qaida in Syria, but it flourished in the wake of Assad&#8217;s extermination of a fragmented and under-armed Syrian opposition.
History will be a cruel judge of Ambassador Power and her feckless boss Barack Obama.
In the last few months of the Obama presidency, Power began to atone for her unforgivable sins, parting ways with the administration by directly implicating Russia in the mass slaughter of civilians in Syria.
Indeed, she was one of a handful of Obama administration officials who pushed for military action in Syria. But ultimately, the Chamberlinian wing of the White House won out.
But rather than resign in protest (<a href="http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2012/09/2259/us-syria-envoy-fred-hof-to-resign/">as Frederic Hof, the US Special Advisor on Transition in Syria, did</a>), Power continued to go to bat for the morally-bankrupt Obama administration, soothing her own guilty conscience for complicity in genocide with nothing more than words, empty White House statements and loud remarks at the U.N.
As Tablet Magazine&#8217;s Lee Smith <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/197727/the-ambassador-from-hell">writes</a>, &#8220;&#8230;Power is a handmaiden to war crimes. And no number of righteous tweets or broadsides <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/us-official-slams-russian-airstrikes-in-syria/3018925.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">against Russian diplomats</a> can hide how the White House has used her monumental 2002 classic, A Problem From Hell, as a how-to manual in how to enable genocide and still maintain your soulful cred.&#8221;
This &#8220;ambassador from hell,&#8221; as Smith puts it, should have resigned; her background and expertise make ignorance an impossible refuge.
&#8220;It is hard to imagine any future edition of A Problem From Hell being complete without a chapter on Syria,&#8221; adds Smith. &#8220;In the past, she notes, one of the key ways to shirk responsibility was to claim that no one really knew what was going on. But that doesn&#8217;t work in the age of the 24-hour news cycle and social media.&#8221;
The fact that President Obama reportedly hired Power after reading her book on genocide now seems like a sick and twisted joke.
Make no mistake. Power is morally impotent. She has no absolutely no moral standing to discuss, let alone condemn, the new administration, particularly when it comes to Syria.
There are only two words that should be coming out of her mouth: I&#8217;m sorry.

Samantha Power Blames Trump For Assad Gassing. She Was ‘Red-Line’ Obama’s Anti-Genocide Expert During The Height Of The Genocide In Syria.

Bashar Assad

Syria

Trump Administration

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