thelibertydaily--2020-11-20--Carol Swain Urges Citizens to Write to the President and Sign Petition to Help President Trump Recla

Carol Swain Urges Citizens to Write to the President and Sign Petition to Help President Trump Reclaim Our Nation

Live from Music Row Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville ’ s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed all-star panelist , Dr. Carol Swain , to the studio .
During the third hour , Swain urged American ’ s to write via snail mail to President Donald Trump demanding an audit of the vote count within all 50 states .
She later went on to disclose the online petition that can be submitted as well to stop the alleged voter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Here in the studio with me our good friend longtime friend all-star panelist .
Former Vanderbilt professor .
Former Nashville Mayoral candidate .
And also now about to start your own television program , Carol Swain .
Carol , good morning .
Leahy : I want to start this off .
I ’ m going to read for our listeners .
And then Carol ’ s going to follow up with is an important action step that people can take related to this because this election is not over .
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ haven ’ t been appointed .
That ’ s not going to happen until December 14 .
Article two Section one of the United States Constitution .
“ Each state shall appoint in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress.
” Carol , it looks like there ’ s a constitutional remedy for crooked elections .
Swain : Well , the Supreme Court could come through for the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could impact other states .
I was notified over the weekend that President Trump has requested that every registered voter send him a snail mail .
That means not an email .
Leahy : Put it in the post box .
Swain : A handwritten letter .
And it doesn ’ t matter if you have poor handwriting you can print it to demand a full audit of the 50 states .
And you send this to President Donald J. Trump .
White House .
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest , Washington , DC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s easy to get the address to the White House .
But write the president .
It doesn ’ t have to be but a short paragraph and demand a full audit of the 50 states .
He ’ s going to take our letters to the Supreme Court along with a petition about this election because there ’ s been enough documented fraud and corruption that we need to nip it in the bud .
It ’ s been going on for too long .
This will help the president .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ doing and get it in the mail today .
Because I don ’ t know , you know when the president would be delivering these letters .
But make sure you do it .
Leahy : Get your envelope out .
tell us what the address is again .
Leahy : So you ’ ve put that on the envelope and now get out a piece of paper .
Dear Mr. President , I am calling and demanding a full audit in all 50 states of the 2020 election results period .
Your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s all you have to do .
Leahy : And put your name in now write that out .
Now put it in that envelope .
Get your stamp and put the stamp on it and put it in the mail today , Swain : And since you know , since you you ’ re probably not a Democrat they would not deliver your letter without a stamp .
Leahy : ( Laughs ) That ’ s funny Carol .
That is funny .
Another thing you could do .
Yesterday , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you can sign the petition .
If you go to the Tennessee Star .
Commentary .
Petition to Remedy Voter Disenfranchisement Caused by Electoral Corruption in 2020 .
I ’ m going to read just a little bit of it and then describe the action steps on it .
You can go to sign it .
You would go to conservativeHq.com or you can go to our story and this link through .
I ’ ll just read the beginning of it .
There are about 15 .
Whereas ’ s .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ couple of the whereas ’ s this and then I ’ m going to go right to the action step .
Here ’ s what the petition reads .
We the undersigned petition certain state legislatures to invoke their unique constitutional authority to remedy electoral corruption in the 2020 presidential election and state as follows : Whereas Article two Section one of the Constitution governs the process of electing the president of United States and States each state shall appoint in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct a number of electors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress .
And just to stop here Carol , and as we ’ ve discussed that appointment comes in the form of various laws that have been passed by the legislature .
by the way notice .
It says legislature .
The governor doesn ’ t have to sign those right ?
Swain : Well , you know something so many people have lost sight of the Constitution that they ’ re not really exercising their authority .
And here ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to stand up for our U.S. Constitution .
And hopefully , the Supreme Court would do the same .
This is a constitutional crisis we are facing at this moment in our nation .
Leahy : If a crooked Secretary of State as in Michigan ’ s Joyce Benson , and in my view Brad Raffensberger down in Georgia , if they certify a crooked election and present it to the state .
The state legislature can intervene and say no No , we ’ re not doing that .
We ’ ll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the president is elected not by popular vote of the citizens , but using electors appointed in a manner directed by the respective state legislatures .
that ’ s important .
That ’ s right in the Constitution , Carol .
Swain : Yeah , but I just hope and that the Republicans and Democrats with integrity would actually follow the Constitution .
That they would have the courage to do so .
Because right now it takes courage to do the right thing .
Leahy : It ’ s about courage .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ have it in Michigan and Georgia , Arizona , Wisconsin , Pennsylvania .
Now , this is what ’ s interesting .
There are about another 15 , whereas ’ s in this petition .
I will spare you the whereas ’ s and I ’ ll go right to the action step at the very end of this petition .
and like to get your reaction .
We , therefore , petition the legislators where such voting irregularities material your regularities and outright fraud occurred to remedy these wrongs by conducting full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were counted and to ensure illegal ballots are not used in the process to elect a president .
That ’ s what this letter you ’ ve asked everybody in our listening audience to write to the President would do .
Swain : I have asked that and also for them to inform other people that they know that the President has made this request .
And either we nip this election fraud in the bud .
Leahy : Nip it in the bud .
Leahy : As Barney Fife would say .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ know have to deal with it forevermore .
Because if the Democrats can get away with this 2020 election scam then they will do it in every election .
2018 was when they first started pushing it .
And I wrote an article really encouraging Congress and someone to do something about it then and of course , nothing happened .
Leahy : The other thing that this petition asks for is refusing that asks the state legislatures to refuse to certify the votes for president until it is certain the counting of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since state election officials and even some courts have failed to follow up properly enforce Article Two section one under which state legislatures exclusively have authority under the will of the people to establish the process for voting using the extraordinary remedy of appointing electors for Donald J. Trump .
If there is credible and consequential evidence that the election was stolen .
Your thoughts .
Swain : I say here here .
I really like the idea of this petition and I think people are should sign it and see what happens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one thing .
We need to write the letters for the President .
We need to hold the state legislators accountable .
We need to boycott mainstream media and Fox News , you know , put them on the death list .
There are lots of things that we can do .
We must be the people who reclaim our nation .
Listen to the third hour here : Tune in weekdays from 5:00 – 8:00 a.m. to the Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy on Talk Radio 98.3 FM WLAC 1510 @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Arizona State Rep. Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek) and 19 other legislators issued a statement following a video that went viral of three black students kicking two white students out of Arizona State University’s multicultural center. They demanded accountability and threatened to withhold funding from the university.
They announced, “It has come to light following the racially-motivated harassment of two students and their subsequent removal from one of the campus’ study facilities that ASU has allowed a culture of institutionalized racism and neo-segregation to take hold on its campus. The racially-charged removal of these students from the multicultural center begs the question of why Arizonans are being forced to spend tens, potentially hundreds, of millions of their hard-earned tax dollars on a building at a public university that some of our citizens are not allowed to use?”
Hoffman is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, and concluded that he would “get to the bottom of this and take the appropriate action in the upcoming budget. Not one penny of taxpayer money should be appropriated to a public institution that in any way enables racism or neo-segregation. Period.”
ASU said it is investigating the incident. The angry students may have been “triggered” by a sticker on the laptop belonging to one of the white males, which said “Police Lives Matter,” and the slogan on the other white male’s shirt, which said “Did not vote for Biden.” They told the two young men, “You’re making this space uncomfortable” and “white is not a culture.” They said the Police Lives Matter sticker was racist.
One of the three told the students to leave, and another remarked, “This white man thinks he can take up our space, and this is why we need a multicultural space, because they think they can get away with this sh*t.” One of the two males packs up and leaves, and the other one stands up and looks like he might have been about to leave too.
A fundraiser was started for the harassed students on GoFundMe — one of the students mentioned in the video that he works 60 hours a week to support himself and his tuition, explaining that he’s not entitled — but GoFundMe removed it, refunding the money back to the donors. The company said it violated their “prohibited conduct policy,” which bans content that GoFundMe finds to be “in support of hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism, or intolerance of any kind.”
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Rachel Alexander is a reporter at The Arizona Sun Times and The Star News Network. Follow Rachel on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected]


thelibertydaily--2020-11-21--The Historical Record Shows America Was Founded Against Racism, Not To Promote It

The Puritans ' love of faith , freedom , and self-government that gave birth to America was the same spirit that gradually helped overcome racial injustice .
The following essay is part of The Federalist ’ s 1620 Project , a symposium exploring the connections and contributions of the early Pilgrim and Puritan settlers in New England to the uniquely American synthesis of faith , family , freedom , and self-government .
In recent years , some prominent voices on the left have contended that America is and has been from its inception a nation established on racism and racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York Times ’ s 1619 Project .
According to its introductory blurb , the project “ aims to reframe the country ’ s history by placing the consequences of slavery … at the very center of our national narrative.
” The American Civil Liberties Union is more direct : “ America was founded on white supremacy.
” What are we to make of such a disturbing claim ?
Before examining its intrinsic merits , we might begin by noting — and rejecting — the improper use that is sometimes made of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The assertion that America is a fundamentally racist nation has been deployed to discredit our traditional political institutions , including and especially the Constitution .
More than one article has been written holding that the Electoral College was devised to protect the political interests of the slave states .
The same claim has been made more generally about America ’ s system of federalism .
Federalism means “ states ’ rights , ” and everybody knows that the southern defenders of slavery held that their right to self-government at the state level @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Later on , after slavery had been abolished , southerners used “ states ’ rights ” to defend their systems of racial segregation and denial of voting rights for black Americans .
Such arguments are both exaggerated and , of course , fallacious .
Aside from a few provisions ( such as the Fugitive Slave Clause ) that were admittedly included to protect slavery , most of the Constitution ’ s structures and principles were not designed exclusively by or for slaveholders .
They were intended instead to both empower the federal government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs and prevent the abuse of that power .
They should be judged today by how well they accomplish those ( utterly non-controversial ) purposes .
From the fact that federalism once sheltered slavery , it does not follow that state-level self-government today is unworthy of the Constitution ’ s protection .
To take an even more obvious example , the First Amendment ’ s protections for freedom of speech are not bad or tainted just because some southerners once used that freedom to defend slavery or segregation .
It is also worth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in claiming that America is founded on racism , aligns itself with some historical characters it might wish to avoid .
Racial politics makes for strange bedfellows .
This point was made many times by the late Harry Jaffa in response to an earlier generation of critics of America , and it is no less relevant now .
It was , after all , Stephen Douglas — a proponent of the right of territorial governments to establish slavery or not as they saw fit — who argued that “ this government was made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ men , for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever.
” It was Abraham Lincoln — the Great Emancipator — who contended in response that America was founded on the Declaration of Independence ’ s claim that “ all men are created equal.
” It was Chief Justice Roger Taney — writing in Dred Scott , holding that black Americans could never be citizens — who contended that at the time of the Founding : Lincoln and Frederick Douglass likewise rejected Taney ’ s account as both a misinterpretation of and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Founding .
Similarly , in the twentieth century Martin Luther King , Jr. , presented the struggle for civil rights as a call to live up to the nation ’ s original principles , not as a call to reject and replace them .
The point here is not to taunt the left with this embarrassing pedigree of ideas .
It is rather to ask which interpretation of America ’ s fundamental character has proven more constructive .
It seems obvious , from even a cursory glance at our nation ’ s history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ making America better has been carried out by people like Lincoln , Douglass , and King , who believed it was fundamentally good to begin with .
As important as these considerations are , they can not excuse us from the duty of confronting more directly the claim that America was founded on white supremacy , that it was fundamentally characterized by racism from its earliest origins .
But is this claim defensible ?
Certainly , slavery existed in America from the time of its earliest colonial settlements .
That fact alone , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
After all , a country with racism in its midst is very different from a country dedicated to racism .
The question is often difficult to address because we are apt to be misled , either by indignation or by protective love .
Outraged by the injustices that were committed against generations of African Americans , we might be inclined to condemn the country that committed or permitted those injustices as fundamentally bad .
This is a common enough temptation in our judgments about individuals .
Thus a man who has committed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ a thief , ” when he is more than only that .
On the other hand , a spirit of patriotic affection for our country might lead us to overlook some real defects or minimize their scope .
Just as an affectionate son would not want to admit that his father is a thief , no warm-hearted patriot would want to admit that his nation was founded on racism .
How can our minds escape the distorting influence of these natural human passions ?
We might try to avoid this problem by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sympathetic , and honest outsider .
Since it is so hard to judge our own country impartially , we might learn from the judgments of a candid and foreign friend , one who is willing to acknowledge and explain what is good and bad about America .
We find such a guide in Alexis de Tocqueville , whose great work , “ Democracy in America , ” frankly , and honestly , confronts our nation ’ s experience with slavery , but without holding that it should be understood to define the nation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notes the decisive importance of a nation ’ s “ point of departure ” for its subsequent development .
If you want to really know a man , you have to know his childhood .
“ Only then will you understand the origin of the prejudices , habits , and passions which are to dominate his life.
” So it is , Tocqueville adds , with nations .
“ Peoples always bear some marks of their origins .
Circumstances of birth and growth affect all the rest of their careers.
” If we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and infancy , there we will find the origins of its “ prejudices , habits , dominating passions , and all that comes to be called the national character.
” Here Tocqueville might seem to offer decisive support for the contemporary left ’ s criticism of America .
But unlike many contemporary voices , Tocqueville does not view slavery and racism as fundamentally shaping the nation ’ s dominant character .
In the first place , he points out that slavery primarily influenced only a particular , localized part of America .
Virginia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was introduced , ” and this institution ended up exerting “ an immense influence on the character , laws , and future of the whole South.
” For Tocqueville , slavery shaped the South but not the whole country ’ s way of life .
In the second place , Tocqueville presents the origins of slavery in America less as a deliberate choice of the New World settlements and more as a tragic accident the consequences of which gradually grew to immense proportions .
Here is how Tocqueville suggests American slavery should be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ southern settlers as less moral and less enlightened than their northern counterparts .
The northerners came to America primarily to found self-governing communities based upon their ( lofty and demanding ) religious vision of a righteous society .
The original Virginians came primarily in the pursuit of gain .
Nevertheless , as Tocqueville reminds us , it would be unjust to the original southern settlers to say that they came to America with a premeditated purpose to establish slavery .
For Tocqueville , the North ’ s combination of religion and self-government — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with slavery — set the tone for all of America .
In Tocqueville ’ s view , America ’ s original national character was not characterized by the local introduction of slavery by certain settlers , but instead by the long-established culture and deliberate aims of the Anglo-American colonists as a whole .
They were , to begin with , liberty-loving Englishmen .
They came from a country that had long been agitated by party conflict , and therefore in which “ each faction , in turn , had been forced to put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Thus , they had learned the value of the rule of law , and had acquired “ more acquaintance with notions of rights and principles of true liberty than most of the European nations at that time.
” In addition , by the time of the first settlements , “ local government , that fertile germ of free institutions , had already taken deep root in English ways.
” Thus the English settlers came to America already committed to “ the dogma of the sovereignty of the people.
” Moreover , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of New England — came to America not only with the general habits of freedom characteristic of all the English but with a peculiarly intense inclination toward self-government .
They came , Tocqueville says , driven by a “ purely intellectual craving , ” seeking the “ triumph of an idea.
” They wanted to establish communities based upon their Puritan religious and moral convictions .
“ Puritanism , ” however , “ was not just a religious doctrine ; in many respects , it shared the most absolute democratic and republican theories.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pope ’ s authority ” and “ acknowledged no other religious supremacy.
” Accordingly , they “ brought into the New World ” a “ democratic and republican ” form of Christianity , ” and “ this fact singularly favored the establishment of a temporal republic and democracy.
” For Tocqueville , the North ’ s combination of religion and self-government — and not the South ’ s experience with slavery — set the tone for all of America .
“ New England principles spread first to neighboring states and then in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finally penetrating everywhere throughout the confederation.
” As a result , America was able to embark on its experiment with self-government at a time when most European nations were still ruled by absolute monarchies .
Tocqueville thus offers us a balanced account of America ’ s origins , one that is both critical and respectful , one that acknowledges the fundamentally good character of our country without ignoring the evils that have marked its history .
The despotism of slavery arose within America and did much to mar its development .
But the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fundamentally a despotic people .
On the contrary , they were a freedom-loving people who sought to establish and perpetuate republican self-government .
This Tocquevillian interpretation of America ’ s point of departure is certainly more plausible than the claim made by some today that America was “ founded on white supremacy.
” It is reasonable to suppose that what is fundamentally bad will tend to deteriorate and what is fundamentally good will tend to improve .
Nazism was fundamentally established on an ideology of racism .
Its evil accordingly grew more malignant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the application of overwhelming external force .
Self-generated improvement , however , has obviously been the course of American development .
If slavery and racism were the deepest marks on America ’ s national soul , then why would it have moved so consistently away from them and toward the establishment of freedom and equality ?
Christianity provided Americans with the moral and spiritual resources to overcome differences of race , to cast aside old prejudices , to seek and to bestow forgiveness for past injustices .
A fundamentally racist nation would not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in 1787 , placed in the Constitution a power to abolish the foreign slave trade and who publicly condemned slavery and openly hoped for its eventual abolition .
A nation founded on white supremacy would not have exerted itself first to limit the scope of slavery , later to abolish slavery , and finally to eliminate racial discrimination .
Ultimately , in a certain sense , America turned out to be a better country than even Tocqueville appreciated .
He was deeply pessimistic about the potential for racial peace in America , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Because slavery had been based on race , he thought , nobody on either side would be able to forget it or move beyond it .
White Americans would never overcome their prejudices against black Americans , and black Americans would forever burn with resentment about the wrongs that had been done to them .
Tocqueville was certainly correct that the dire legacy of slavery would not be eliminated immediately upon its abolition .
America ’ s path toward racial justice was long and difficult , continuing for many decades after the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over time the process turned out better than Tocqueville expected .
The country was not engulfed in a race war , and whites and black Americans gradually learned to live with each other as fellow citizens .
Here Tocqueville may have overlooked something about the Americans that he actually appreciated and examined closely in other contexts .
Tocqueville is famous for his positive account of Christianity ’ s influence on American democracy .
Besides noting the aforementioned role of Puritanism in planting the seeds of self-government , he emphasized Christian morality ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the majority in America , as well as its ability to elevate the souls of Americans above the narrow individualism and petty materialism that threatened to dominate their lives .
This is the truth but not the whole truth about Christianity .
It also teaches its adherents to love their fellow human beings as created in the image and likeness of God , and demands that they forgive those who have wronged them just as they hope God will forgive their own wrongdoing .
Indeed , Christianity provided Americans the moral and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to cast aside old prejudices , to seek and to bestow forgiveness for past injustices .
Racism existed in America from the beginning , but America was not founded on white supremacy .
It was instead founded , as Tocqueville teaches us , on the spirit of religion , freedom , and self-government — a benevolent spirit that gradually overcame racial injustice .
This is the true and constructive account of our country that we ought to teach our children .

The following essay is part of The Federalist’s 1620 Project, a symposium exploring the connections and contributions of the early Pilgrim and Puritan settlers in New England to the uniquely American synthesis of faith, family, freedom, and self-government.
In recent years, some prominent voices on the left have contended that America is and has been from its inception a nation established on racism and racial subjugation. This judgment implicitly informs The New York Times’s 1619 Project. According to its introductory blurb, the project “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery … at the very center of our national narrative.”
The American Civil Liberties Union is more direct: “America was founded on white supremacy.” What are we to make of such a disturbing claim?
Before examining its intrinsic merits, we might begin by noting — and rejecting — the improper use that is sometimes made of this interpretation of our country’s character. The assertion that America is a fundamentally racist nation has been deployed to discredit our traditional political institutions, including and especially the Constitution.
More than one article has been written holding that the Electoral College was devised to protect the political interests of the slave states. The same claim has been made more generally about America’s system of federalism. Federalism means “states’ rights,” and everybody knows that the southern defenders of slavery held that their right to self-government at the state level permitted them to enslave African Americans. Later on, after slavery had been abolished, southerners used “states’ rights” to defend their systems of racial segregation and denial of voting rights for black Americans.
Such arguments are both exaggerated and, of course, fallacious. Aside from a few provisions (such as the Fugitive Slave Clause) that were admittedly included to protect slavery, most of the Constitution’s structures and principles were not designed exclusively by or for slaveholders. They were intended instead to both empower the federal government to tend to the nation’s needs and prevent the abuse of that power. They should be judged today by how well they accomplish those (utterly non-controversial) purposes.
From the fact that federalism once sheltered slavery, it does not follow that state-level self-government today is unworthy of the Constitution’s protection. To take an even more obvious example, the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of speech are not bad or tainted just because some southerners once used that freedom to defend slavery or segregation.
It is also worth noting that today’s left, in claiming that America is founded on racism, aligns itself with some historical characters it might wish to avoid. Racial politics makes for strange bedfellows. This point was made many times by the late Harry Jaffa in response to an earlier generation of critics of America, and it is no less relevant now.
It was, after all, Stephen Douglas — a proponent of the right of territorial governments to establish slavery or not as they saw fit — who argued that “this government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever.”
It was Abraham Lincoln — the Great Emancipator — who contended in response that America was founded on the Declaration of Independence’s claim that “all men are created equal.”
It was Chief Justice Roger Taney — writing in Dred Scott, holding that black Americans could never be citizens — who contended that at the time of the Founding:
[Black Americans had] for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his own benefit.
Dissenting from Taney’s view, Justice John McLean noted:
I prefer the lights of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay as a means of construing the Constitution in all its bearings, rather than to look behind that period, into a traffic which is now declared to be piracy, and punished with death by Christian nations.
Lincoln and Frederick Douglass likewise rejected Taney’s account as both a misinterpretation of and a slander on the nation’s Founding. Similarly, in the twentieth century Martin Luther King, Jr., presented the struggle for civil rights as a call to live up to the nation’s original principles, not as a call to reject and replace them.
The point here is not to taunt the left with this embarrassing pedigree of ideas. It is rather to ask which interpretation of America’s fundamental character has proven more constructive. It seems obvious, from even a cursory glance at our nation’s history, that most of the work of making America better has been carried out by people like Lincoln, Douglass, and King, who believed it was fundamentally good to begin with.
As important as these considerations are, they cannot excuse us from the duty of confronting more directly the claim that America was founded on white supremacy, that it was fundamentally characterized by racism from its earliest origins. But is this claim defensible?
Certainly, slavery existed in America from the time of its earliest colonial settlements. That fact alone, however, cannot settle the question. After all, a country with racism in its midst is very different from a country dedicated to racism.
The question is often difficult to address because we are apt to be misled, either by indignation or by protective love. Outraged by the injustices that were committed against generations of African Americans, we might be inclined to condemn the country that committed or permitted those injustices as fundamentally bad.
This is a common enough temptation in our judgments about individuals. Thus a man who has committed theft can be dismissed as nothing but “a thief,” when he is more than only that. On the other hand, a spirit of patriotic affection for our country might lead us to overlook some real defects or minimize their scope.
Just as an affectionate son would not want to admit that his father is a thief, no warm-hearted patriot would want to admit that his nation was founded on racism. How can our minds escape the distorting influence of these natural human passions?
We might try to avoid this problem by taking as our guide an intelligent, sympathetic, and honest outsider. Since it is so hard to judge our own country impartially, we might learn from the judgments of a candid and foreign friend, one who is willing to acknowledge and explain what is good and bad about America. We find such a guide in Alexis de Tocqueville, whose great work, “Democracy in America,” frankly, and honestly, confronts our nation’s experience with slavery, but without holding that it should be understood to define the nation’s core character.
Tocqueville famously notes the decisive importance of a nation’s “point of departure” for its subsequent development. If you want to really know a man, you have to know his childhood. “Only then will you understand the origin of the prejudices, habits, and passions which are to dominate his life.” So it is, Tocqueville adds, with nations. “Peoples always bear some marks of their origins. Circumstances of birth and growth affect all the rest of their careers.”
If we can examine a nation’s birth and infancy, there we will find the origins of its “prejudices, habits, dominating passions, and all that comes to be called the national character.” Here Tocqueville might seem to offer decisive support for the contemporary left’s criticism of America. But unlike many contemporary voices, Tocqueville does not view slavery and racism as fundamentally shaping the nation’s dominant character.
In the first place, he points out that slavery primarily influenced only a particular, localized part of America. Virginia “had hardly been established when slavery was introduced,” and this institution ended up exerting “an immense influence on the character, laws, and future of the whole South.” For Tocqueville, slavery shaped the South but not the whole country’s way of life.
In the second place, Tocqueville presents the origins of slavery in America less as a deliberate choice of the New World settlements and more as a tragic accident the consequences of which gradually grew to immense proportions. Here is how Tocqueville suggests American slavery should be understood:
[An] evil which has percolated furtively into the world. … It began with an individual whose name history does not record; it was cast like an accursed seed somewhere on the ground; it then nurtured itself, grew without effort, and spread with the society that accepted it.
Tocqueville clearly regards the original southern settlers as less moral and less enlightened than their northern counterparts. The northerners came to America primarily to found self-governing communities based upon their (lofty and demanding) religious vision of a righteous society. The original Virginians came primarily in the pursuit of gain. Nevertheless, as Tocqueville reminds us, it would be unjust to the original southern settlers to say that they came to America with a premeditated purpose to establish slavery.
For Tocqueville, the North’s combination of religion and self-government — and not the South’s experience with slavery — set the tone for all of America.
In Tocqueville’s view, America’s original national character was not characterized by the local introduction of slavery by certain settlers, but instead by the long-established culture and deliberate aims of the Anglo-American colonists as a whole. They were, to begin with, liberty-loving Englishmen. They came from a country that had long been agitated by party conflict, and therefore in which “each faction, in turn, had been forced to put itself under the protection of the laws.” Thus, they had learned the value of the rule of law, and had acquired “more acquaintance with notions of rights and principles of true liberty than most of the European nations at that time.”
In addition, by the time of the first settlements, “local government, that fertile germ of free institutions, had already taken deep root in English ways.” Thus the English settlers came to America already committed to “the dogma of the sovereignty of the people.”
Moreover, the northern settlers — and particularly the Puritans of New England — came to America not only with the general habits of freedom characteristic of all the English but with a peculiarly intense inclination toward self-government. They came, Tocqueville says, driven by a “purely intellectual craving,” seeking the “triumph of an idea.”
They wanted to establish communities based upon their Puritan religious and moral convictions. “Puritanism,” however, “was not just a religious doctrine; in many respects, it shared the most absolute democratic and republican theories.” These settlers had “shaken off the pope’s authority” and “acknowledged no other religious supremacy.” Accordingly, they “brought into the New World” a “democratic and republican” form of Christianity,” and “this fact singularly favored the establishment of a temporal republic and democracy.”
For Tocqueville, the North’s combination of religion and self-government — and not the South’s experience with slavery — set the tone for all of America. “New England principles spread first to neighboring states and then in due course to those more distant, finally penetrating everywhere throughout the confederation.” As a result, America was able to embark on its experiment with self-government at a time when most European nations were still ruled by absolute monarchies.
Tocqueville thus offers us a balanced account of America’s origins, one that is both critical and respectful, one that acknowledges the fundamentally good character of our country without ignoring the evils that have marked its history.
The despotism of slavery arose within America and did much to mar its development. But the Americans who built the country were not fundamentally a despotic people. On the contrary, they were a freedom-loving people who sought to establish and perpetuate republican self-government.
This Tocquevillian interpretation of America’s point of departure is certainly more plausible than the claim made by some today that America was “founded on white supremacy.” It is reasonable to suppose that what is fundamentally bad will tend to deteriorate and what is fundamentally good will tend to improve. Nazism was fundamentally established on an ideology of racism. Its evil accordingly grew more malignant over time and was only stopped by the application of overwhelming external force.
Self-generated improvement, however, has obviously been the course of American development. If slavery and racism were the deepest marks on America’s national soul, then why would it have moved so consistently away from them and toward the establishment of freedom and equality?
Christianity provided Americans with the moral and spiritual resources to overcome differences of race, to cast aside old prejudices, to seek and to bestow forgiveness for past injustices.
A fundamentally racist nation would not have produced the generation of leaders who, in 1787, placed in the Constitution a power to abolish the foreign slave trade and who publicly condemned slavery and openly hoped for its eventual abolition. A nation founded on white supremacy would not have exerted itself first to limit the scope of slavery, later to abolish slavery, and finally to eliminate racial discrimination.
Ultimately, in a certain sense, America turned out to be a better country than even Tocqueville appreciated. He was deeply pessimistic about the potential for racial peace in America, even if slavery should be eliminated. Because slavery had been based on race, he thought, nobody on either side would be able to forget it or move beyond it. White Americans would never overcome their prejudices against black Americans, and black Americans would forever burn with resentment about the wrongs that had been done to them.
Tocqueville was certainly correct that the dire legacy of slavery would not be eliminated immediately upon its abolition. America’s path toward racial justice was long and difficult, continuing for many decades after the end of the Civil War. Nevertheless, over time the process turned out better than Tocqueville expected. The country was not engulfed in a race war, and whites and black Americans gradually learned to live with each other as fellow citizens.
Here Tocqueville may have overlooked something about the Americans that he actually appreciated and examined closely in other contexts. Tocqueville is famous for his positive account of Christianity’s influence on American democracy. Besides noting the aforementioned role of Puritanism in planting the seeds of self-government, he emphasized Christian morality’s role in placing limits on the power of the majority in America, as well as its ability to elevate the souls of Americans above the narrow individualism and petty materialism that threatened to dominate their lives.
This is the truth but not the whole truth about Christianity. It also teaches its adherents to love their fellow human beings as created in the image and likeness of God, and demands that they forgive those who have wronged them just as they hope God will forgive their own wrongdoing. Indeed, Christianity provided Americans the moral and spiritual resources to overcome differences of race, to cast aside old prejudices, to seek and to bestow forgiveness for past injustices.
Racism existed in America from the beginning, but America was not founded on white supremacy. It was instead founded, as Tocqueville teaches us, on the spirit of religion, freedom, and self-government — a benevolent spirit that gradually overcame racial injustice. This is the true and constructive account of our country that we ought to teach our children.
Carson Holloway, a political scientist, is a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life.


thelibertydaily--2020-11-21--MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell and Actor Ricky Schroder’s Donations Critical in Securing Kyle Rittenhouse

MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell and Actor Ricky Schroder’s Donations Critical in Securing Kyle Rittenhouse’s Release

We reported earlier today that the teenager who was arrested for killing two people in an apparent act of self-defense in Kenosha , Wisconsin Kyle Rittenhouse was released from jail after posting a $ 2 million bond .
Attorney Lin Wood had tweeted out “ Special thanks to Actor Ricky Schroder & Mike Lindell for putting us over the top.
” Lindell is the CEO of MyPillow and recently spoke at the Million MAGA March in Washington DC .
Wood later tweeted out a picture and said , “ FREE AT LAST !
!
!
From L to R : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Actor Ricky Schroder , Thank you , All Donors .
Thank you , All Patriots .
Thank God Almighty.
” Not long after that , Wood shared an additional tweet where he stated , “ Just off phone with Kyle .
With tears in my eyes , I listened as he expressed thanks to The People for your prayers , donations & support.
” “ He prayed every day & night & said God lifted him up every time he fell .
Kyle is a hero .
So are his supporters .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wood added .
Many liberals descended on the post announcing Rittenhouse ’ s release but one respondent defended him by saying , “ He would be dead if he had not defended himself .
The 2A was made for moments like this .
All civilians and Kyle came away with his life.
” Conservative activist Mark Dice also reported that “ The My Pillow guy Mike Lindell , a true American Patriot , donated a significant amount of money to finally bail out Kyle Rittenhouse ” He then added , “ and actor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zoomer ” and “ campus conservative ” retweeted Dice ’ s praise of Lindell and said , “ Very epic of him !
”

We reported earlier today that the teenager who was arrested for killing two people in an apparent act of self-defense in Kenosha, Wisconsin Kyle Rittenhouse was released from jail after posting a $2 million bond.
Attorney Lin Wood had tweeted out “Special thanks to Actor Ricky Schroder & Mike Lindell for putting us over the top.” Lindell is the CEO of MyPillow and recently spoke at the Million MAGA March in Washington DC.
KYLE RITTENHOUSE IS OUT OF JAIL.
God bless ALL who donated to help #FightBack raise required $2M cash bail.
Special thanks to Actor Ricky Schroder @rickyshroder1 & Mike Lindell @realMikeLindell for putting us over the top.
Kyle is SAFE.
Thanks to ALL who helped this boy. — Lin Wood (@LLinWood) November 20, 2020
Wood later tweeted out a picture and said, “FREE AT LAST!!! From L to R: Attorney John Pierce, THE KYLE RITTENHOUSE, Actor Ricky Schroder, Thank you, All Donors. Thank you, All Patriots. Thank God Almighty.”
FREE AT LAST!!!
From L to R:
Attorney John Pierce @CaliKidJMP
THE KYLE RITTENHOUSE
Actor Ricky Schroder @rickyschroder13
Thank you, All Donors.
Thank you, All Patriots.
Thank God Almighty.#FightBack pic.twitter.com/37Ly66itT8 — Lin Wood (@LLinWood) November 21, 2020
Not long after that, Wood shared an additional tweet where he stated, “Just off phone with Kyle. With tears in my eyes, I listened as he expressed thanks to The People for your prayers, donations & support.”
“He prayed every day & night & said God lifted him up every time he fell. Kyle is a hero. So are his supporters. Keep him in your prayers,” Wood added.
Just off phone with Kyle. With tears in my eyes, I listened as he expressed thanks to The People for your prayers, donations & support.
He prayed every day & night & said God lifted him up every time he fell.
Kyle is a hero.
So are his supporters.
Keep him in your prayers. 🙏 — Lin Wood (@LLinWood) November 21, 2020
Many liberals descended on the post announcing Rittenhouse’s release but one respondent defended him by saying, “He would be dead if he had not defended himself. The 2A was made for moments like this. All civilians and Kyle came away with his life.”
He would be dead if he had not defended himself. The 2A was made for moments like this. All civilians and Kyle came away with his life. — CUTT_STL (@CuttStl) November 20, 2020
Conservative activist Mark Dice also reported that “The My Pillow guy Mike Lindell, a true American Patriot, donated a significant amount of money to finally bail out Kyle Rittenhouse.” He then added, “and actor Ricky Schroder.”
And actor Ricky Schroder. — Mark Dice (@MarkDice) November 21, 2020
Grant, a “zoomer” and “campus conservative” retweeted Dice’s praise of Lindell and said, “Very epic of him!”


thelibertydaily--2020-11-21--Oregon Business Owners: State Officials Know Lockdowns Do Not Slow the Spread of The Chi-Com Virus,

Oregon Business Owners: State Officials Know Lockdowns Do Not Slow the Spread of The Chi-Com Virus, But They’re Doing Them Anyway

According to a trade group email , Oregon ’ s governor and health officials know that lockdowns of “ non-essential ” businesses won ’ t slow the spread of the CCP coronavirus or stop the Chinese pandemic .
They impose these diktats anyway , however , because Governor Kate Brown ( D-Portland ) is “ essentially putting Oregonians in time-out by taking away things that we like not because they are dangerous , but because we weren ’ t staying home enough.
” In this Orwellian dystopia , state officials believe the government has the right and the power to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic .
As CCP Coronavirus Lockdowns Expand , Small Businesses Shutter and the Left ’ s Billionaires Get Richer One small business owner , who runs a bar and restaurant , told PJ Media , “ My business is being shut down to ‘ make it hurt ’ , not because it ’ s a risk .
Now myself and all my employees are out of work before Christmas.
” This is a clear reference to President Barack Obama during the government shutdown of 2013 , who famously intended to “ make it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , monuments , and facilities closed to make the Republicans look like the bad guys .
In an email to its members , a health club in the Portland metro area reacted to Governor Brown ’ s order from last Friday in which she announced that gyms , health clubs , salons ( but not barber shops ) and other businesses would have to close for several weeks .
Friday ’ s announcement by Governor Brown was a tough pill to swallow .
This announcement was made worse as the following information was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ direct knowledge of the Governor ’ s conversations : “ First , it ’ s important for you to know , the Governor does not think fitness facilities are the source of spread , and both she and her staff continue to reiterate that point in various communications .
It ’ s frustrating , we know .
It is hard to wrap your head around the rational [ sic ] for shutting down businesses if they aren ’ t the cause of spreading the virus if your goal is to stop the spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the only way to get people to stop socializing is to make them understand this is a serious situation .
And they believe the only way to get them to understand this is a serious situation is to shut down large segments of the economy they enjoy .
Which is why they are focusing on their view of entertainment focused businesses that Oregonians want to have opened and want to be able to go to , so that they understand this is serious and they need to just stay home .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fun places where people socialize .
They are necessary and important to ensure that Oregonians can be healthy and preserve their physical and mental well-being , especially during this time of year .
Unfortunately , the Governor appears to believe they are an amenity Oregonians want to have opened and will respond better if they are closed.
” – excerpt of an email to the Oregon Health and Fitness Alliance Board of Directors So while the GREAT news is that the Governor agrees that health clubs are in no way spreading the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Governor essentially putting Oregonians in time-out by taking away things that we like not because they are dangerous , but because we weren ’ t staying home enough .
Wow .
While we firmly believe that this order is unjust , and fully fails to address the true source of the virus in our state , we intend to comply with her order while we seek to educate Oregonians on the basis for her orders .
[ emphasis added ] Meanwhile , some county officials have questioned the need for lockdowns at restaurants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conclusion .
As the Salem Reporter reported , Marion County reports less than 1 % of its Covid cases can be traced to restaurants or bars , casting doubt on why they must stop serving diners .
State officials , however , say they are certain that the establishments are part of the rapid spread of the virus in Oregon , and point to a growing number of cases that can ’ t be traced at all .
Authorities in Marion and Polk counties say they have seen no evidence that Covid is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bars .
Their tracking of infected people hasn ’ t revealed any pattern linking the illness to those establishments .
But the state ’ s top health official said that while the Oregon Health Authority can ’ t prove the restaurant link , the mechanics of Covid spread make such businesses a likely place for infections to spread .
Gov .
Kate Brown ’ s order effective on Wednesday to limit restaurants and bars to takeout service only has puzzled and even angered the business community , legislators and county officials .
Brown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weeks but warned they could stay in place in counties where Covid remains out of control .
The impact has been immediate .
Restaurants and bars said they were laying off employees just as the holiday season starts up .
Some are closing altogether .
So there you have it .
The lockdowns have no basis in science , according to county officials in Oregon .
But state officials want you citizens to become less social , more cowering , and locked down until they give the all-clear .
No heed given to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
No response to studies showing the enormous ( un ? )
intended consequences of society-wide lockdowns .
No interest in minimizing the damage to mental health and rising addiction rates .
Lockdowns have been questionable from the start , but that hasn ’ t stopped some states and counties from imposing them anyway .
Knox County , TN officials admitted in September that they imposed lockdowns on restaurants despite having no actual cases of COVID-19 traced to exposure in a restaurant .
Still think the government loves you and has your best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the author of the book , “ Behind the Curtain : Inside the Network of Progressive Billionaires and Their Campaign to Undermine Democracy , ” available at www.WhoOwnsTheDems.com .
Jeff hosts a podcast at anchor.fm/BehindTheCurtain .
You can follow him on Twitter @ ChargerJeff , and on Parler at @ RealJeffReynolds .

According to a trade group email, Oregon’s governor and health officials know that lockdowns of “non-essential” businesses won’t slow the spread of the CCP coronavirus or stop the Chinese pandemic. They impose these diktats anyway, however, because Governor Kate Brown (D-Portland) is “essentially putting Oregonians in time-out by taking away things that we like not because they are dangerous, but because we weren’t staying home enough.” In this Orwellian dystopia, state officials believe the government has the right and the power to force compliance among healthy people during a pandemic.
One small business owner, who runs a bar and restaurant, told PJ Media, “My business is being shut down to ‘make it hurt’, not because it’s a risk. Now myself and all my employees are out of work before Christmas.” This is a clear reference to President Barack Obama during the government shutdown of 2013, who famously intended to “make it hurt” when he ordered national parks, monuments, and facilities closed to make the Republicans look like the bad guys.
In an email to its members, a health club in the Portland metro area reacted to Governor Brown’s order from last Friday in which she announced that gyms, health clubs, salons (but not barber shops) and other businesses would have to close for several weeks.
Friday’s announcement by Governor Brown was a tough pill to swallow. This announcement was made worse as the following information was obtained from our advocates in Salem with direct knowledge of the Governor’s conversations: “First, it’s important for you to know, the Governor does not think fitness facilities are the source of spread, and both she and her staff continue to reiterate that point in various communications. It’s frustrating, we know. It is hard to wrap your head around the rational [sic] for shutting down businesses if they aren’t the cause of spreading the virus if your goal is to stop the spread. They have some very warped view that the only way to get people to stop socializing is to make them understand this is a serious situation. And they believe the only way to get them to understand this is a serious situation is to shut down large segments of the economy they enjoy. Which is why they are focusing on their view of entertainment focused businesses that Oregonians want to have opened and want to be able to go to, so that they understand this is serious and they need to just stay home. We know….health and fitness facilities are not just fun places where people socialize. They are necessary and important to ensure that Oregonians can be healthy and preserve their physical and mental well-being, especially during this time of year. Unfortunately, the Governor appears to believe they are an amenity Oregonians want to have opened and will respond better if they are closed.” – excerpt of an email to the Oregon Health and Fitness Alliance Board of Directors So while the GREAT news is that the Governor agrees that health clubs are in no way spreading the virus, it is disheartening to see the Governor essentially putting Oregonians in time-out by taking away things that we like not because they are dangerous, but because we weren’t staying home enough. Wow. While we firmly believe that this order is unjust, and fully fails to address the true source of the virus in our state, we intend to comply with her order while we seek to educate Oregonians on the basis for her orders. [emphasis added]
Meanwhile, some county officials have questioned the need for lockdowns at restaurants at all. State officials dispute this conclusion. As the Salem Reporter reported,
Marion County reports less than 1% of its Covid cases can be traced to restaurants or bars, casting doubt on why they must stop serving diners. State officials, however, say they are certain that the establishments are part of the rapid spread of the virus in Oregon, and point to a growing number of cases that can’t be traced at all. Authorities in Marion and Polk counties say they have seen no evidence that Covid is spreading because people are in restaurants and bars. Their tracking of infected people hasn’t revealed any pattern linking the illness to those establishments. But the state’s top health official said that while the Oregon Health Authority can’t prove the restaurant link, the mechanics of Covid spread make such businesses a likely place for infections to spread. Gov. Kate Brown’s order effective on Wednesday to limit restaurants and bars to takeout service only has puzzled and even angered the business community, legislators and county officials. Brown invoked the limit for at least two weeks but warned they could stay in place in counties where Covid remains out of control. The impact has been immediate. Restaurants and bars said they were laying off employees just as the holiday season starts up. Some are closing altogether.
So there you have it. The lockdowns have no basis in science, according to county officials in Oregon. But state officials want you citizens to become less social, more cowering, and locked down until they give the all-clear. No heed given to the CDC advice to keep schools open. No response to studies showing the enormous (un?)intended consequences of society-wide lockdowns. No interest in minimizing the damage to mental health and rising addiction rates.
Lockdowns have been questionable from the start, but that hasn’t stopped some states and counties from imposing them anyway. Knox County, TN officials admitted in September that they imposed lockdowns on restaurants despite having no actual cases of COVID-19 traced to exposure in a restaurant.
Still think the government loves you and has your best interests in mind?
Jeff Reynolds is the author of the book, “Behind the Curtain: Inside the Network of Progressive Billionaires and Their Campaign to Undermine Democracy,” available at www.WhoOwnsTheDems.com. Jeff hosts a podcast at anchor.fm/BehindTheCurtain. You can follow him on Twitter @ChargerJeff, and on Parler at @RealJeffReynolds.


thelibertydaily--2020-11-21--10 of the Wild Conspiracy Theories the Left (and Media) Have Tarred Trump With

The “ deranged ” Russian spy in the White House told the Ukraine president to drink Clorox and refuses to leave his “ illegal ” office until every blue mailbox filled with secret messages to “ very fine ” white supremacists in Prague is removed by incontinent hookers… … and other whoppers the media trolled Donald Trump with for the past four-plus years .
Speaking of trolls , so-called “ fact ” checkers are advised that this is satire .
That is “ protected speech.
” Look it up .
The Left and their media wingmen have decided that after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interfered with the 2016 election , that it ’ s absolutely a “ deranged conspiracy theory ” for the president to question the odd results of the 2020 election and the way they were produced .
If the shoe had been on the other foot , the media ’ s candidate , Joe Biden , would be lauded for his patriotism and fortitude between his ever-diminishing bouts of clarity .
When the media turned on the big-talking and sometimes bellicose New Yorker ( see Andrew Cuomo ) and began reporting that he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flipped it right back , dismissing them as Fake News .
They rewarded the big-talking candidate with – what do they like to say now ?
– oh , yes , giving agency to some of the biggest whoppers ever conceived of by reporters and their buddies over at the Lincoln Project , Hillary Clinton ’ s rumor-factory , and the DNC .
Let ’ s take a rambling trip down the memory lane of the Steele Dossier fever dreams , “ highly placed sources , ” and Rick Wilson ’ s fantasies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 10 Biggest Conspiracy Theories leveled against Trump .
These are not in any particular order .
Vladimir Putin cultivated , “ supported and directed ” Donald Trump years before he thought about running for the presidency .
CNN kept this fiction going long after the IG ’ s report proved it ’ s a whopper .
This was the Russian hoax put forward , as we later found out , by Hillary Clinton using Russians to trump up oppo research and call it a “ dossier.
” The “ Steele Dossier ” was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guy who later admitted it was drunken bar talk and sold to the media as evidence of kompromat to the gullible and unthinking Adam Schiff .
2 .
Trump ‘ Colluded ’ With the Russians To Win Trump the White House Congressman Adam Schiff promised he had “ evidence ” of Trump ’ s “ collusion ” with the Russians to “ intervene ” in a “ very close election ” to propel President Trump to the White House .
These claims were amplified by media , willing to believe that Trump threw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entertain the allegations of foreign interference in the 2020 election .
3.Trump Was Not Legally Elected and He Never Plans to Leave Before the president took office , anti- and Never Trumpers declared themselves to be “ The Resistance.
” House Judiciary Committee member , New York Congressman Jerry Nadler , said that Trump was not a legal president and helped draw up impeachment articles before he was sworn in .
Dozens of Democrats in the House boycotted his inauguration .
And in 2019 Hillary Clinton proclaimed Trump an “ illegitimate president.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of power thing .
The New Yorker fanned the flames of the Resistance by announcing that the president was initiating a coup and wouldn ’ t leave office for at least three terms .
4 .
Trump Told Putin to ‘ Hack ’ Hillary ’ s Email to Win the Election Candidate Trump in July of 2016 joked in a news conference , “ Russia , if you ’ re listening , I hope you ’ re able to find the 30,000 [ Hillary Clinton ] emails that are missing.
” It was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State ’ s 33,000 emails , sought by the House Select Committee on Benghazi , on her personal server had been destroyed by her and her staff .
Although Hillary ’ s email destruction gambit is often conflated with the DNC hack they are not the same thing .
The hack of the Democratic National Committee ’ s emails , which were splayed on the web supposedly by Wikileaks , was allegedly done by Russian “ GRU officers ” via phishing emails .
In fact , a declassified leak of a handwritten memo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was Hillary Clinton ’ s campaign that began the Trump-is-a-Russian-spy story to draw attention away from her email scandal .
See number one .
5 .
Donald Trump Paid Hookers to Urinate on a Bed Because … Obama This was another Steele whopper .
His “ source ” must have been really drunk by this time .
The story was leaked to the press that Trump hired hookers to come to an FSB-controlled hotel to deliver golden showers on a hotel bed in Moscow solely because the Obamas had slept in it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have “ microphones and concealed cameras.
” Strangely , those wired rooms never produced any compromising photos or recordings .
Yet , this was the part of the Hillary Clinton opposition research that then-FBI Director James Comey briefed Trump about .
The briefing , believed leaked to CNN , gave them a reason to report on the ridiculous dossier .
6 .
Trump Sent His Attorney to Prague to Meet With Kremlin Officials This meeting did not occur .
Michael Cohen , Trump ’ s attorney , had never been to Prague .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the few things the media could have confirmed about the Steele “ dossier , ” but never did .
Never underestimate the media ’ s penchant for believing anything negative about President Trump .
President Trump never called the Charlottesville neo-Nazis marching in the streets “ very fine people.
” He was referring to both sides arguing over the issue of getting rid of Confederate-era statues .
Here ’ s the quote from a USA Today “ fact ” check .
Joe Biden claimed that this statement , which never occurred , prompted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump has routinely denounced white supremacy and racists because the media continually ask him to , believing this conspiracy theory ( see Chris Wallace ) .
8 .
Trump Told People to Drink Bleach to Get Rid of Coronavirus No , he didn ’ t .
When Trump was holding a near-daily coronavirus news conference last July , there was discussion of out-of-the-box use of “ ultraviolet or just powerful light ” in therapies .
Then he said and “ then I see disinfectant , where it knocks it out in one minute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something like that , by injection inside or almost a cleaning , because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs , so it ’ d be interesting to check that , so that you ’ re going to have to use medical doctors with , but it sounds interesting to me .
So , we ’ ll see , but the whole concept of the light , the way it kills it in one minute .
That ’ s pretty powerful.
” That was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to drink bleach .
He didn ’ t .
9 .
Trump Initiatives Had Nothing To Do With COVID Vaccines After the mega-pharmaceutical company Pfizer was the first one out of the blocks with a COVID-19 vaccine , several reporters tried to say that its efforts had nothing to do with the Trump Administration ’ s Operation Warp Speed efforts .
In fact , as I reported for PJMedia , Pfizer received $ 2.5 billion to speed its vaccine , whenever it happened , to the market place .
The media eventually had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump Was Not Spied On And He ’ s Crazy for Thinking So When Trump tweeted that his phones at Trump Tower had been “ tapped , ” the media and the Resistance laughed .
Factcheck.org still claims that there was “ no evidence ” that Trump ’ s phones had been tapped or that President Obama knew about it .
Fact-checkers and people like Max Boot hung up on the word “ tapped , ” but Trump meant “ spying.
” He was right .
After a meeting with then-NSA chief Admiral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operation to his Bedford , New Jersey golf club .
In fact , the January 5 , 2017 , Oval Office meeting with Obama , Joe Biden , National Security Adviser Susan Rice , and Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is one verified meeting where they talked about the surveillance program on the Trump campaign .
This is the meeting in which Biden brought up using the Logan Act to go after General Flynn .
Against this backdrop , Democrats and the Resistance were leaking reports of Trump ’ s own cabinet becoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 25th Amendment .
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested getting cabinet members to wear a wire to catch Trump being irrational so the 25th Amendment could be invoked after the president fired treacherous FBI Director James Comey .
Rosenstein later said it was all a joke .
He wasn ’ t laughing when the president fired him later .
Trump ’ s campaign manager was under surveillance .
His National Security Adviser , General Mike Flynn was spied on , the Steele Dossier ( see # 1,2,4,5 ) was used to get a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Trump campaign .
Attorney General Barr called that “ spying.
” But sure , Factcheck.org , that ’ s not “ spying.
” And for a bonus .
Trump did not start the birther movement , you can thank Hillary Clinton ’ s campaign for picking it up from a local Illinois politico and fanning those flames .
Trump got involved years later after the Daily Kos posted a short-form birth certificate and Trump wanted to see the long-form one .
It ’ s shocking , isn ’ t it ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s enough to make a guy wonder what else the Resistance would do to an election .
Florida Man Friday : The Delirious Week the Whole Country Went Full Florida Oregon Lawmaker Announces She ’ s Hosting a Big Thanksgiving and It Becomes a Revolutionary Act Whoa : Nearly a Third of Democrats Believe the Election Was Stolen From Trump

The “deranged” Russian spy in the White House told the Ukraine president to drink Clorox and refuses to leave his “illegal” office until every blue mailbox filled with secret messages to “very fine” white supremacists in Prague is removed by incontinent hookers…
… and other whoppers the media trolled Donald Trump with for the past four-plus years. Speaking of trolls, so-called “fact” checkers are advised that this is satire. That is “protected speech.” Look it up.
The Left and their media wingmen have decided that after four years of believing Russian Facebook ads interfered with the 2016 election, that it’s absolutely a “deranged conspiracy theory” for the president to question the odd results of the 2020 election and the way they were produced. If the shoe had been on the other foot, the media’s candidate, Joe Biden, would be lauded for his patriotism and fortitude between his ever-diminishing bouts of clarity.
When the media turned on the big-talking and sometimes bellicose New Yorker (see: Andrew Cuomo) and began reporting that he was a suspected Russian secret agent, Trump flipped it right back, dismissing them as Fake News. They rewarded the big-talking candidate with – what do they like to say now? – oh, yes, giving agency to some of the biggest whoppers ever conceived of by reporters and their buddies over at the Lincoln Project, Hillary Clinton’s rumor-factory, and the DNC.
Let’s take a rambling trip down the memory lane of the Steele dossier fever dreams, “highly placed sources,” and Rick Wilson’s fantasies, shall we? These are the 10 Biggest Conspiracy Theories leveled against Trump. These are not in any particular order.
1. Trump Is a Russian Spy
Vladimir Putin cultivated, “supported and directed” Donald Trump years before he thought about running for the presidency. CNN kept this fiction going long after the IG’s report proved it was a whopper.
This was the Russian hoax put forward, as we later found out, by Hillary Clinton using Russians to trump up oppo research and call it a “dossier.” The “Steele dossier” was a series of memos told by a guy who later admitted it was drunken bar talk and sold to the media as evidence of kompromat to the gullible and unthinking Adam Schiff.
2. Trump ‘Colluded’ With the Russians to Win Trump the White House
Congressman Adam Schiff promised he had “evidence” of Trump’s “collusion” with the Russians to “intervene” in a “very close election” to propel President Trump to the White House. These claims were amplified by media, willing to believe that Trump threw the 2016 election, but unwilling to entertain the allegations of foreign interference in the 2020 election.
3.Trump Was Not Legally Elected and He Never Plans to Leave
Before the president took office, anti- and Never-Trumpers declared themselves to be “The Resistance.” House Judiciary Committee member, New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, said that Trump was not a legal president and helped draw up impeachment articles before he was sworn in. Dozens of Democrats in the House boycotted his inauguration. And in 2019, Hillary Clinton proclaimed Trump an “illegitimate president.” So much for that whole peaceful transfer of power thing. The New Yorker fanned the flames of the Resistance by announcing that the president was initiating a coup and wouldn’t leave office for at least three terms.
4. Trump Told Putin to ‘Hack’ Hillary’s Email to Win the Election
Candidate Trump in July of 2016 joked in a news conference, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 [Hillary Clinton] emails that are missing.” It was a rueful joke because the secretary of state’s 33,000 emails, sought by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, on her personal server had been destroyed by her and her staff. Although Hillary’s email destruction gambit is often conflated with the DNC hack, they are not the same thing. The hack of the Democratic National Committee’s emails, which were splayed on the web supposedly by WikiLeaks, was allegedly done by Russian “GRU officers” via phishing emails. In fact, a declassified leak of a handwritten memo by then-CIA chief John Brennan revealed that it was Hillary Clinton’s campaign that began the Trump-is-a-Russian-spy story to draw attention away from her email scandal. See number one.
5. Donald Trump Paid Hookers to Urinate on a Bed Because … Obama
This was another Steele whopper. His “source” must have been really drunk by this time. The story was leaked to the press that Trump hired hookers to come to an FSB-controlled hotel to deliver golden showers on a hotel bed in Moscow solely because the Obamas had slept in it. The hotel had been known to have “microphones and concealed cameras.” Strangely, those wired rooms never produced any compromising photos or recordings. Yet, this was the part of the Hillary Clinton opposition research that then-FBI Director James Comey briefed Trump about. The briefing, believed leaked to CNN, gave them a reason to report on the ridiculous dossier.
6. Trump Sent His Attorney to Prague to Meet With Kremlin Officials
This meeting did not occur. Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney, had never been to Prague. This matters because it was one of the few things the media could have confirmed about the Steele “dossier,” but never did.
7. Trump Called White Supremacists ‘Very Fine People’
Never underestimate the media’s penchant for believing anything negative about President Trump. President Trump never called the Charlottesville neo-Nazis marching in the streets “very fine people.” He was referring to both sides arguing over the issue of getting rid of Confederate-era statues. Here’s the quote from a USA Today “fact” check.
“Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves — and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. […] You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.” (emphasis added)
Joe Biden claimed that this statement, which never occurred, prompted him to run for president. President Trump has routinely denounced white supremacy and racists because the media continually ask him to, believing this conspiracy theory (see Chris Wallace).
8. Trump Told People to Drink Bleach to Get Rid of Coronavirus
No, he didn’t. When Trump was holding a near-daily coronavirus news conference last July, there was discussion of out-of-the-box use of “ultraviolet or just powerful light” in therapies. He said, and “then I see disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.”
That was taken and turned into Trump tells people to drink bleach. He didn’t.
9. Trump Initiatives Had Nothing To Do With COVID Vaccines
After the mega-pharmaceutical company Pfizer was the first one out of the blocks with a COVID-19 vaccine, several reporters tried to say that its efforts had nothing to do with the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed efforts. In fact, as I reported for PJ Media, Pfizer received $2.5 billion to speed its vaccine, whenever it happened, to the market place. The media eventually had to eat their words.
10. Trump Was Not Spied on And He’s Crazy for Thinking So
When Trump tweeted that his phones at Trump Tower had been “tapped,” the media and the Resistance laughed. Factcheck.org still claims that there was “no evidence” that Trump’s phones had been tapped or that President Obama knew about it. Fact-checkers and people like Max Boot hung up on the word “tapped,” but Trump meant “spying.” He was right. After a meeting with then-NSA chief Admiral Mike Rogers, Trump moved his entire operation to his Bedford, N.J., golf club.
In fact, the January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting with Obama, Joe Biden, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is one verified meeting where they talked about the surveillance program on the Trump campaign. This is the meeting in which Biden brought up using the Logan Act to go after General Flynn.
Against this backdrop, Democrats and the Resistance were leaking reports of Trump’s own cabinet becoming alarmed enough to want to invoke the 25th Amendment. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested getting cabinet members to wear a wire to catch Trump being irrational so the 25th Amendment could be invoked after the president fired treacherous FBI Director James Comey. Rosenstein later said it was all a joke. He wasn’t laughing when the president fired him later.
Trump’s campaign manager was under surveillance. His national security advisor, General Mike Flynn, was spied on, the Steele dossier (see #1,2,4,5) was used to get a FISA warrant to spy on other levels of the Trump campaign. Attorney General Barr called that “spying.” But sure, Factcheck.org, that’s not “spying.”
And for a bonus. Trump did not start the birther movement. You can thank Hillary Clinton’s campaign for picking it up from a local Illinois politico and fanning those flames. Trump got involved years later after the Daily Kos posted a short-form birth certificate and Trump wanted to see the long-form one.
It’s shocking, isn’t it? All of these smears and more. It’s enough to make a guy wonder what else the Resistance would do to an election.


thelibertydaily--2020-11-21--Communist Barbara Lee Says ‘It Would Be An Honor’ To Be The Next California Senator

The most left-wing member of the House of Representatives has publicly signaled interest in serving as the next U.S. senator from California , saying that “ it would be an honor ” if she was selected to finish the term of freshman Senator Kamala Harris ( D-CA ) .
Congresswoman Barabara Lee ( D-CA ) , who has represented Oakland since 1998 , showed her interest in a Twitter statement Thursday .
According to GovTrack , Lee was the “ most politically left ” member of the House of Representatives in 2019 .
“ It would be an honor to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role in the Senate .
I know Gov .
Gavin Newsom will pick the person he believes best represents California , ” said Lee , tweeting an opinion piece that argued in favor of her serving in the Senate seat .
This is no time to reverse the progress that has been made .
Black women were crucial to delivering the White House and key down-ballot races , and Lee has been a fierce champion for marginalized communities as the chair of the Democratic Whip Task Force on Poverty and Opportunity ; an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ co-authoring every major piece of HIV/AIDS legislation ; and a member of the Budget Committee and Appropriations Committee .
She would be one of the most experienced elected leaders to enter the Senate .
She helped bridge the divide between the more left-leaning and moderate parts of the Democratic Party in 2016 , for example , after Hillary Clinton won the nomination , solidifying the importance of her role to all parts of the California Democratic Party , building upon her popularity among her constituents and peers , and earning respect among those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ until then .
As The Daily Wire previously reported , leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement have been calling on Newsom to appoint a black woman to the seat , and have specifically named Congresswoman Karen Bass ( D-CA ) , the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus , and Lee as potential picks .
The looming California vacancy has also drawn attention from other big names in state politics , including Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Attorney General Xavier Becerra , who is reportedly also under consideration to be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ average senator of the most recent Congress has been in their position for 10 years , any person who was selected to fill the U.S. Senate seat would likely have the opportunity to hold onto it as long as they wish , a factor of the Democratic Party ’ s enduring dominance of California politics .
For example , former Senator Barbara Boxer ( D ) served four terms in the Senate before retiring , and Dianne Feinstein ( D ) , the oldest member of the Senate , has won six races @ @ @ @ @ @ @ special election that kicked off her D.C. career .
Newsom may also consider elevating a lower-profile candidate to the position , such as San Francisco Mayor London Breed , Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf , or former California Senate Leader Kevin de León .
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The most left-wing member of the House of Representatives has publicly signaled interest in serving as the next U.S. senator from California, saying that “it would be an honor” if she was selected to finish the term of freshman Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA).
Congresswoman Barabara Lee (D-CA), who has represented Oakland since 1998, showed her interest in a Twitter statement Thursday. According to GovTrack, Lee was the “most politically left” member of the House of Representatives in 2019.
“It would be an honor to fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s role in the Senate. I know Gov. Gavin Newsom will pick the person he believes best represents California,” said Lee, tweeting an opinion piece that argued in favor of her serving in the Senate seat.
It would be an honor to fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s role in the Senate. I know Gov. Gavin Newsom will pick the person he believes best represents California. https://t.co/g8IaRbtdy3 — Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) November 20, 2020
From the Newsweek Opinion article:
This is no time to reverse the progress that has been made. Black women were crucial to delivering the White House and key down-ballot races, and Lee has been a fierce champion for marginalized communities as the chair of the Democratic Whip Task Force on Poverty and Opportunity; an advocate for ending HIV, authoring or co-authoring every major piece of HIV/AIDS legislation; and a member of the Budget Committee and Appropriations Committee. She would be one of the most experienced elected leaders to enter the Senate. …. She helped bridge the divide between the more left-leaning and moderate parts of the Democratic Party in 2016, for example, after Hillary Clinton won the nomination, solidifying the importance of her role to all parts of the California Democratic Party, building upon her popularity among her constituents and peers, and earning respect among those who hadn’t heard of her until then.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement have been calling on Newsom to appoint a black woman to the seat, and have specifically named Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Lee as potential picks.
The looming California vacancy has also drawn attention from other big names in state politics, including Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is reportedly also under consideration to be the next U.S. attorney general.
While the average senator of the most recent Congress has been in their position for 10 years, any person who was selected to fill the U.S. Senate seat would likely have the opportunity to hold onto it as long as they wish, a factor of the Democratic Party’s enduring dominance of California politics.
For example, former Senator Barbara Boxer (D) served four terms in the Senate before retiring, and Dianne Feinstein (D), the oldest member of the Senate, has won six races for her seat, including the 1992 special election that kicked off her D.C. career.
Newsom may also consider elevating a lower-profile candidate to the position, such as San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, or former California Senate Leader Kevin de León.
Related: Six Dems Newsom May Be Eyeing As The Next California Senator


thelibertydaily--2020-11-21--Mark Meadows Dismisses 2022 Senate Speculation, Says Hat ‘Won’t Be In The Ring’

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows dismissed speculation that he would run for the U.S. Senate in 2022 when Senator Richard Burr ( R-NC ) retires at the end of his third term , as the incumbent senator has previously said he plans to do .
“ I love the people of North Carolina .
But I not only have no plans , I have no intentions to run for the Senate in 2022 , ” Meadows told the North Carolina-based News & Observer in a phone interview Friday .
But Meadows , who stepped down from his congressional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also gave a nod to the speculation that Lara Trump , the president ’ s daughter-in-law and North Carolina native , has shown interest in running for the Senate seat herself .
“ I ’ ve had a number of people talk about running for that seat , if indeed Sen. Burr retires , ” remarked Meadows .
“ My conversations have included some of the sitting House members as well as Lara Trump , and , to my knowledge , no one ’ s made a definitive decision on whether to toss @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” “ But in terms of my hat , it won ’ t be in the ring , ” he added .
It ’ s unclear what Meadows ’ next step would be after the Trump administration .
Madison Cawthorne , 25 , a former part-time Meadows staffer , recently won the general election to take over the congressman ’ s previous House seat .
As for the North Carolina Senate seat , The New York Times and Politico have reported that Lara Trump , 38 , has been considering a bid for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ television producer and professional pastry chef , Lara Trump currently lives in New York state with her husband Eric Trump , but has deep roots in North Carolina , where she was both raised and attended college .
“ She would be formidable , ” Kellyanne Conway , the president ’ s 2016 campaign manager and former counselor , told the Times of Lara Trump .
“ She has the trifecta : She can raise money , raise awareness of key issues and raise attention to her race .
Unlike many typical politicians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a compelling messenger.
” “ She ’ s very charismatic , she understands retail politics well , and has a natural instinct for politics , ” said Mercedes Schlapp , an adviser to the president ’ s campaign .
“ In North Carolina , in particular , she ’ s a household name and people know her .
She worked really hard on the campaign and was very involved in a lot of decisions throughout.
” During the 2020 presidential campaign , Lara Trump made campaign stops on behalf of the president in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carried in 2020 by a slightly more than 1 % margin .
Senator Thom Tillis ( R-NC ) , the state ’ s current junior senator , carried the state by a slightly larger margin , but received fewer votes than Trump .
According to Politico , Congressman Mark Walker ( R-NC ) , who declined to seek re-election in the House this year , is also a “ likely contender ” for the Senate seat .
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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows dismissed speculation that he would run for the U.S. Senate in 2022 when Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) retires at the end of his third term, as the incumbent senator has previously said he plans to do.
“I love the people of North Carolina. But I not only have no plans, I have no intentions to run for the Senate in 2022,” Meadows told the North Carolina-based News & Observer in a phone interview Friday.
But Meadows, who stepped down from his congressional seat to join the Trump administration, also gave a nod to the speculation that Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and North Carolina native, has shown interest in running for the Senate seat herself.
“I’ve had a number of people talk about running for that seat, if indeed Sen. Burr retires,” remarked Meadows. “My conversations have included some of the sitting House members as well as Lara Trump, and, to my knowledge, no one’s made a definitive decision on whether to toss their hat in the ring or not.”
“But in terms of my hat, it won’t be in the ring,” he added.
It’s unclear what Meadows’ next step would be after the Trump administration. Madison Cawthorne, 25, a former part-time Meadows staffer, recently won the general election to take over the congressman’s previous House seat.
As for the North Carolina Senate seat, The New York Times and Politico have reported that Lara Trump, 38, has been considering a bid for the soon-to-be-open seat.
A former television producer and professional pastry chef, Lara Trump currently lives in New York state with her husband Eric Trump but has deep roots in North Carolina where she was both raised and attended college.
“She would be formidable,” Kellyanne Conway, the president’s 2016 campaign manager and former counselor, told the Times of Lara Trump. “She has the trifecta: She can raise money, raise awareness of key issues and raise attention to her race. Unlike many typical politicians, she connects with people and is a compelling messenger.”
“She’s very charismatic, she understands retail politics well, and has a natural instinct for politics,” said Mercedes Schlapp, an adviser to the president’s campaign. “In North Carolina, in particular, she’s a household name and people know her. She worked really hard on the campaign and was very involved in a lot of decisions throughout.”
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Lara Trump made campaign stops on behalf of the president in North Carolina, which President Donald Trump carried in 2020 by a slightly more than 1% margin. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the state’s current junior senator, carried the state by a slightly larger margin but received fewer votes than Trump.
According to Politico, Congressman Mark Walker (R-NC), who declined to seek re-election in the House this year, is also a “likely contender” for the Senate seat.
Related: Report: Lara Trump Considering 2022 Senate Run