Arab regimes, Western liberal politicians, the mainstream media – they all like to blame Israel for the lack of peace and stability in the Middle East.
But Donald Trump seems to see things a little more clearly, or at least he’s willing to tell the truth without regard for “political correctness.”
In an interview with The New York Times published over the weekend, Trump insisted that it was the Palestinian leadership, NOT Israel, that is to blame for the failure to reach a two-state solution.
“Basically, I support a two-state solution on Israel. But the Palestinian Authority has to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. …[and they] have to stop the terror, stop the attacks, stop the teaching of hatred,” he said. (Read more from “Trump Made It PRETTY CLEAR Who’s to Blame for Lack of Mideast Peace” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-30 00:43:142016-04-11 10:50:57Trump Made It PRETTY CLEAR Who’s to Blame for Lack of Mideast Peace
A Donald Trump supporter who claimed to be Miss Wisconsin 2005 thanked the GOP front-runner in an emotional moment at a Tuesday rally for his help as she struggles with an incurable disease.
She thanked Trump for sending her a handwritten note and said it lifted her spirits after she decided to sign a “Do Not Resuscitate” order as her condition worsened.
She also thanked Trump for the fame that came with her pageant experience, which she said helped her son secure a scholarship.
Read Miss Wisconsin 2005 Melissa Young's letter to Donald Trump thanking him (she just did it in person) https://t.co/8bGlATJd4S
“I’m here right now to thank you in person because that is my biggest dream,” she said.
“Being able to stand on the stage with you in 2005, the outpouring of love that came from that ultimately provided my son when he graduates high school with a full ride to college.” (Read more from “Ex-Miss Wisconsin Tears up Thanking Trump at Rally” HERE)
Let me say up front that I am a lifelong Republican and conservative. I have never voted for a Democrat in my life and have voted in every presidential and midterm election since 1988. I have never in my life considered myself anything but a conservative. I am pained to admit that the conservative media and many conservatives’ reaction to Donald Trump has caused me to no longer consider myself part of the movement.
I would suggest to you that if you have lost people like me, and I am not alone, you might want to reconsider your reaction to Donald Trump. Let me explain why.
First, I spent the last 20 years watching the conservative media in Washington endorse and urge me to vote for one candidate after another who made a mockery of conservative principles and values. Everyone talks about how thankful we are for the Citizens United decision but seems to have forgotten how we were urged to vote for the co-author of the law that the decision overturned . . .
Second, it doesn’t appear to me that conservatives calling on people to reject Trump have any idea what it actually means to be a “conservative.” The word seems to have become a brand that some people attach to a set of partisan policy preferences, rather than the set of underlying principles about government and society it once was. (Read more from “Why I Support Trump — and Resent the Elites Trying to Destroy Him” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-29 01:37:002016-04-11 10:50:58Why I Support Trump — and Resent the Elites Trying to Destroy Him
As part of an extensive interview with The New York Times posted Saturday, the GOP presidential front-runner [Donald Trump] was asked about China’s aggressive island-building in the South China Sea, and what the U.S. response should be . . .
“I would use trade to negotiate,” he added. “Would I go to war? Look, let me just tell you. There’s a question I wouldn’t want to answer. Because I don’t want to say I won’t or I will… That’s the problem with our country.”
“A politician would say, ‘Oh I would never go to war,’ or they’d say, ‘Oh I would go to war.’ I don’t want to say what I’d do because, again, we need unpredictability. You know, if I win, I don’t want to be in a position where I’ve said I would or I wouldn’t. I don’t want them to know what I’m thinking.” (Read more from “Trump Won’t Say If He’d Rule out War With China” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-28 02:12:082016-04-11 10:51:02Trump Won’t Say If He’d Rule out War With China
By Christian Datoc. During a Friday interview with MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki, Donald Trump spokesman Katrina Pierson finally spilled the beans on Heidi Cruz . . .
“Spilling the beans is quite simple when it comes to Heidi Cruz,” she told Kornacki. “She is a Bush operative. She worked for the architect of NAFTA, which has killed millions of jobs in this country. She was a member on the Council on Foreign Relations, who in Sen. Cruz’s own words, called a nest of snakes that seeks to undermine national sovereignty. And she’s been working for Goldman Sachs, the same global bank that Ted Cruz left off of his financial disclosure.”
(Read more from “Trump Aide Finally Spills the Beans on Heidi Cruz” HERE)
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Donald Trump, Ted Cruz Battle Over Delegates, Debates — and Families
By David M Jackson. In the wake of personal accusations against each other, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz opened new lines of attack against each other Sunday on delegates and debates.
Trump accused Cruz of trying to steal Republican convention delegates from him, while the Texas senator said the New York businessman is afraid to debate because he knows so little about the issues.
Responding to reports that Cruz may wind up with more delegates in Louisiana even though Trump took more votes in the state, Trump told ABC’s This Week that “it tells you what a crooked system we have and what a rotten political system we have.”
Attacking both Cruz and the GOP in general, Trump said that “I have a guy going around trying to steal people’s delegates,” and “what’s going on in the Republican Party is a disgrace.” (Read more from “Donald Trump, Ted Cruz Battle Over Delegates, Debates — and Families” HERE)
Talk of a contested convention and that Ted Cruz won the most delegates in Louisiana’s primary while losing the race in votes is proof of “what a crooked system we have and what a rotten political system we have,” front-runner Donald Trump said Sunday.
“I have millions of votes more than ‘Lyin’ Ted,'” Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on the “This Week” program. “Millions. Millions of votes more. I have many, many delegates more. I’ve won areas and he’s trying steal things because that’s the way Ted works, okay?”
Further, said Trump, the Republican tabulation system is broken and unfair.
“I have so many millions of votes more,” he said. “I’ve brought people into the party by the millions. You understand that. They voted by the millions more. It’s one of the biggest stories in all of politics. And what do I have? I have a guy trying to steal people’s delegates. This is supposed to be America. A free America. This is supposed to be a system of votes. Where you go out, you have elections. Free elections. Not elections where I won. I won Louisiana. And now I hear he’s trying to steal delegates.” (Read more from “Trump: Contested Convention, Cruz’s Louisiana Win Proves ‘Crooked System'” HERE)
Donald Trump has made it clear that he thinks he can win New York in a general election match-up against Hillary Clinton, the former senator from the Empire State.
Trump, the billionaire businessman who resides in New York City and has a number of properties dotting the streets of the Big Apple, has repeatedly said he thinks the traditional blue state is very much in play . . .
For better or worse, the Republican front-runner is associated with Gotham. Even Republican rival Ted Cruz (R-TX) has tried to define Trump as a Yankee with “New York values,” while this week labeling him a “New York bully.”
Democrats insist there’s no way the state will go red in 2016.
They say Trump’s outsized presence in New York — which includes his business deals, relationships and branding on buildings like the famed Trump Tower — will not be enough to deliver the liberal state to Republicans. (Read more from “Could Trump Turn New York Red?” HERE)
“Jared and I feel incredibly blessed to announce the arrival of Theodore James Kushner,” she wrote, sharing a photo hours later on her Facebook page. “Baby Theodore. My heart is full. xx, Ivanka #grateful” (Read more from “Trump’s Daughter, Ivanka, Gives Birth to Third Child” HERE)
00kathleenhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngkathleen2016-03-28 01:59:142016-04-11 10:51:03Trump’s Daughter, Ivanka, Gives Birth to Third Child
One pastor in Iowa recently suggested that despite, or rather, because of the bitter rancor among Evangelical Christians over Donald Trump that one particular running mate could persuade naysayers to actually support Trump.
Who is this Hawkeye pastor and why should anyone care about his opinion?
In 2012, conservative commentator, Iowan Steve Deace, a #NeverTrump and Cruz supporter, identified the most effective “super-operatives” in Iowan politics. One, he wrote was an “unassuming pastor” of Walnut Creek Church, who “could very well be the most powerful man you’ve never heard of.”
“He could easily mean the difference between victory and defeat for a candidate in a caucus or straw poll … [making him] a formidable player in the Iowa Caucus. But what makes him dangerous to opposing campaigns is the fact that you don’t see him (or his army) coming until it’s too late. Just ask Sam Brownback and Tom Vlassis.”
What Deace doesn’t mention is that both former Sen. Rick Santorum and Gov. Mike Huckabee could not have won Iowa in 2008 and 2012, respectively, without this pastor’s influence.
I met the most powerful man no one has ever heard of when I also first met former presidential candidate and Gov. Mike Huckabee. I joined roughly 100 pastors to retrace the steps of Pope John Paul II and several other leaders to record how faith (in whom or what) influences every single political decision ever made. My conversations with these pastors marked the beginning of incredibly valuable friendships and confidential insight into the world of politics and pastors.
Pastor and author Terry Amann, who endorsed Mike Huckabee for president, suggests that Huckabee is the best vice presidential choice for Trump. He argues:
“Four years ago there were many people saying they would not vote for Romney because he was a Mormon. Instead of reaching out to evangelicals he tried to keep them at arms length. It was reported that two weeks before the election Romney met with evangelical leader Ralph Reed to utilize his database of 17 million evangelicals. But it was too late. Trump has a Romney problem, though not necessarily for the same reasons.
“There are many voices that say they will never vote for Trump. This is why Trump needs to have a VP selection that will put evangelicals at ease. The logical choice is Mike Huckabee. He has a good relationship with Trump. Huckabee has executive experience without the taint of Washington. He is sober-minded and an exceptional communicator. He has had high numbers in favorability polls and he is a known and vetted commodity.
“And, Huckabee has been tested by the Clinton machine for over three decades, and won.”
I reached out to many pastors nationwide to find out if they agreed. Would they vote for Trump, assuming there is no third-party candidate, as opposed to Hillary Clinton? Or would they not vote at all?
The majority of pastors, roughly two-thirds, affirmed that a Huckabee vice-presidential running mate would make it much easier to vote for Trump. Nearly all said they would vote for Trump, and for anyone other than Hillary Clinton.
Rev. Brad Atkins, Senior Pastor of Powdersville First Baptist Church in S.C., best articulated what the majority of pastors said about voting: “To not vote is not an option. As U.S. citizens it is our duty to be a part of what makes our nation so great, freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to campaign, and even freedom to hope against all hope that there is still time for a miracle.”
Atkins, who supports Cruz, emphasized that he’d “love to hear how Huckabee [would be] able to reconcile such a ticket in his heart and mind.”
Another Cruz supporter, Rev. Thomas Peetz of Word of Life Christian Fellowship, in Concord, N.H., told me, “If Mr. Trump is the nominee and Mike Huckabee his running mate, I would vote for them in a heartbeat. What’s the alternative? A third term of the Obama administration? No thank you.”
And from Las Vegas, Nev., Kevin Boyd, Sr. Pastor of TCM International explained, “Let me be clear, up to this point I have not voted for Trump or promoted him whatsoever. He is obviously not what any of us had in mind, but I would support him, and so would a very large percentage of my church.
“I would definitely vote for Mr. Trump if he’s the GOP nominee before I would vote for Hillary Clinton or waste my vote by writing in another name. The Republican Party is still the party of Life & Traditional Marriage (although, there seems to be a continued rejection within the party of true conservatism). Actually, it is this continued moving within the GOP towards the center/Left that has made a President Trump a very real possibility.
“Having Gov. Huckabee as his VP would make it much more palatable… and quite frankly… be an answer to prayer! This would also solidify my current belief that Mr. Trump is willing to surround himself and be counseled by truly conservative and godly men and women.”
Yet, Executive Director of the Baptist Convention of Iowa, Tim Lubinus, disagrees. And his perspective mirrors that of many #NeverTrump evangelicals. He told me:
“A Trump/Huckabee ticket will change my opinion of Huckabee. Even though we all knew for least a month before the Iowa Caucuses that Huckabee would not prevail this cycle, he has failed to use his considerable God-given talent, skills, and reputation to support the only conservative candidate with a path to the nomination. So far Huckabee seems to be using his resources to undermine rather than support Ted Cruz. If Huckabee joins with a candidate who undermines many of the values that Huckabee claims that he holds, he will make a Hillary Clinton presidency more likely and only confirm my fear that he has made a deal to compromise himself, our Constitution, and our country for a hellish stew of power, fame, and greed.
“Right now, my plan is for neither to get my vote. Anyone who really doesn’t want Hillary to be president should do everything they can to support Ted Cruz.”
While the responses I received are too numerous to cite, perhaps the very best perspective is one offered by J. Matt Barber, Assoc. Dean and Professor of Law at Liberty University. Barber asks if God’s chosen for America, “a King Cyrus? A man, or woman, who has yet to display through word or deed a heart broken and a will surrendered – a life marked by humility and repentance? [If so,] please surround him with men like Daniel.”
Could America’s next leader, Barber asks, be another Saul of Tarsus? If so, he pleads, “Break his/her heart and give us a President Paul. If done before the eyes of the world, oh what a testament to the transformative power of Christ!” He also asks God to spare America from its “just deserts – an unrighteous leader, an Ahab or a Jezebel.”
According to Amann, “When people say to me ‘Never Trump’ I ask them if that opinion would change if Huckabee were on the ticket. The answer is almost always positive.
“What’s more, is that Huckabee understands what the Republican Establishment does not–that there is a revolution underway and Trump is leading it. Trump would do well to add a general like Huckabee to the ticket sooner than later, and then, together, we can say, ‘#Never Clinton’.”
(Listen to a recent interview with the author:)
If these pastors’ responses bear any indication, Huckabee might be a sure bet to help elect a Cyrus or a Paul, rather than a worse successor of America’s current nemesis, Ahab: an evil queen Jezebel. (For more from the author of “Could This Pastor’s vp Pick for Trump Help Defeat America’s Jezebel?” please click HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-26 02:22:442016-04-11 10:51:04Could This Pastor’s VP Pick for Trump Help Defeat America’s Jezebel?
By Katherine Faulders and Ryan Struyk. As Donald Trump rolls through the political calendar, his campaign has already begun focusing on a new battle that may have a broader set of consequences — finding delegates who will be loyal to his cause at the Republican National Convention . . .
“You try to learn as much as you can about everybody and figure out what makes them tick, what it is they think is important,” Barry Bennett, a Trump Senior Adviser, told ABC’s Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl and ABC’s Political Director Rick Klein on ABC’s Powerhouse Politics podcast.
“We make sure of their ‘woo-ability.’ If they can be wooed they are going to get wooed and they are going to get to know Donald Trump,” he said . . .
Emails obtained by ABC News show the Trump campaign calling on supporters in Michigan to watch for precinct-level delegates who may defect to a rival candidate during a contested convention.
“Are they a true Donald Trump supporter?” an email to supporters asks. “Many impostors that are actually aligned with the establishment will emerge from the woodwork and try to throw off the process.” (Read more from “The Inside Story of Donald Trump’s Strategy to Protect His Delegates” HERE)
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Republicans Sour on Way Election Process Is Working
By Frank Newport. Thirty percent of Americans say the presidential election process is working as it should, down from 37% in January. The decline is driven mainly by Republicans’ increasingly cynical views as the campaign season has progressed. The percentage of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who say the election process is working has fallen from 46% to 30% since January. Democrats’ and Democratic leaners’ views haven’t changed.
The latest update, based on interviewing conducted March 16-17, shows that Republicans and Democrats now have similarly low levels of belief that the election process is working properly, based on their views of the way the presidential campaign is being conducted. This situation differs from what Gallup found in January, when Republicans were much more positive. Since then, the GOP field has narrowed substantially from a large number of candidates to the three still in the race — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich. And the lion’s share of attention is going to the controversial Trump, the clear front-runner at this point. By contrast, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have remained the two main Democratic candidates all year. (Read more from “Republicans Sour on Way Election Process Is Working” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-26 02:15:482016-04-11 10:51:04The Inside Story of Donald Trump’s Strategy to Protect His Delegates
