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To: rxbond who wrote (1190460)	1/4/2020 3:25:20 PM
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No, her family isn't safe. Trump could care less about them. Just as he doesn't care about the Kurds he betrayed a few months ago. Turkey’s Proxy Fighters Now Executing Kurdish Civilians

To: rxbond who wrote (1190460)	1/4/2020 3:26:19 PM
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?@MiekeEoyang Trump: We committed an act of war to stop a war. Pompeo: Americans are safer now, but evacuate Iraq immediately, you're not safe. Pompeo: We're de-escalating. Esper: We're sending more troops.

To: rxbond who wrote (1190460)	1/4/2020 3:28:55 PM
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Guess who was being protected by Syria's Kurdish fighters? Syrian war: Christians in Rojava fear the end after Turkey’s invasion Express· 1 week ago“The big concern right now with the Christian community is do we go back and rebuild?” Turkey began... Syria’s Armenians are under assault yet again The National Blogs· 1 week agoI pray for them, their families, and for all Christians in Syria. To add to her grief, paranoia is high in such uncertain times. Foreign powers and local actors all converged towards northern Syria in recent weeks in a deadly chaos. Kurdish officials claim there was a spike in ISIS attacks since the start of the Turkish offensive and the US ... Syrian Christians to US: ‘Don’t Abandon Us Now’...... \| News ... www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/october/... Not long after the defeat of the Islamic State in the area, Syrian Christians warn that US military withdrawal from the Kurdish-controlled region, announced yesterday by President Donald Trump ... Trump doesn't give a damn.

To: rxbond who wrote (1190460)	1/4/2020 3:33:45 PM
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Trump said: "America has the best intelligence in the world" except on Russia where American intelligence is totally wrong.

To: rxbond who wrote (1190460)	1/4/2020 3:36:32 PM
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President Looselips can't keep from boasting about intelligence matters. If Iranian intelligence had bought a Mar-A-Lago membership for one of their spies, they would've been warned. That's a selling point for Mar-A-Lago. Every spy agency in the world should have spies there. And it's not just for spies .... why do you think people belong to the fools club? It's well worth the cost ........ just think what a fortune you could make on oil futures five days ago. In the five days prior to launching a strike that killed Iran’s most important military leader, Donald Trump roamed the halls of Mar-a-Lago, his private resort in Florida, and started dropping hints to close associates and club-goers that something huge was coming. According to three people who’ve been at the president’s Palm Beach club over the past several days, Trump began telling friends and allies hanging at his perennial vacation getaway that he was working on a “big” response to the Iranian regime that they would be hearing or reading about very “soon.” His comments went beyond the New Year’s Eve tweet he sent out warning of the “big price” Iran would pay for damage to U.S. facilities. Two of these sources tell The Daily Beast that the president specifically mentioned he’d been in close contact with his top national security and military advisers on gaming out options for an aggressive action that could quickly materialize. ............. thedailybeast.com

To: rxbond who wrote (1190460)	1/4/2020 3:38:00 PM
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Trump’s Biggest Fox News Boosters Suddenly Stop Railing Against ‘Deep State’ Intelligence Justin Baragona January 3, 2020, 5:41 PM CST Saul Loeb/AFP/GettySuddenly, it appears the U.S. intelligence community is back in good standing over at Fox News. Since Trump’s election, an inescapably common refrain of the president and his biggest boosters in conservative media has been to rail against the “deep state.” The Russian election interference probe, they’ve repeatedly said, was nothing more than a coup or disinformation campaign perpetrated by the anti-Trump intelligence community. Over the past 24 hours, however, incessant Fox griping over “deep state” suddenly went quiet, replaced by sober pleas that—when it comes to the info allegedly justifying Trump’s ordered airstrike killing Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani—the U.S. intelligence community’s findings should be heeded and taken seriously as unimpeachably correct information. Immediately after the Pentagon confirmed U.S. responsibility for the strike, claiming it “was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans,” Fox News host Sean Hannity—perhaps the most well-known “deep state” critic in media—heaped praise upon the intelligence community. “The ability of the military, our intelligence community, the State Department, and the president making the call, very quickly, you know, understood that the Iranian forces on the ground bore a direct threat to the American people,” said Hannity, calling into his own show on Thursday night. “Once the intelligence was confirmed, once the understanding that they were there to sow the discord and discontent, the president acted as quickly as possible, taking out this top general.” “But I will say the big headline is, this is a huge victory for American intelligence, a huge victory for our military, a huge victory for the State Department, and a huge victory and total leadership by the president,” the primetime host, who has spent more than two years and countless on-air segments railing against shadowy “deep state” intelligence, concluded. By Friday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went even further than the Pentagon, saying that it was necessary to take out Soleimani as it disrupted an “imminent attack,” adding that “the risk doing nothing was enormous” and the “intelligence community made that assessment and President Trump acted decisively last night.” Following Pompeo’s assertions, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade—who last month chastised a Daily Beast writer for not asking Lisa Page about a deep-state conspiracy theory— openly defended and applauded the intelligence community. yahoo.com

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1/4/2020 3:46:13 PM

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Donald Trump’s Plan D
Bill Palmer | 9:09 am EST January 4, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis

Donald Trump is about five minutes into his latest half-baked scheme, and the fatalists out there are already out in force, insisting that Trump is going to magically win reelection because of it. What the fatalists don’t get is that Trump’s schemes to get reelected have all failed – and at this point he’s resorting to trying the bad ideas he previously rejected.

For instance, Donald Trump’s Plan A for reelection was to conspire with Ukraine to smear Joe Biden. It’s not clear that this would have gained Trump a single vote even if he had pulled it off, but the whole thing blew up in his face, to the point that he got impeached over it. Trump then resorted to Plan B, which was to somehow magically use impeachment to make his poll numbers go up, which didn’t work at all.

At that point Trump had to fall back to Plan C, which was to force the DOJ Inspector General to falsely announce that the FBI tried to frame his 2016 campaign. This was definitely not something that Trump was going to be able to pull off, and even if he had, it wouldn’t have gained him a single vote.

Now that Donald Trump has struck out with all of these progressively dumber schemes, he’s resorting to Plan D: blow up some things in Iran, and use the threat of war to paralyze the Resistance into inaction. Trump understands full well that while a popular president can use war to extend his popularity, war will only serve to make an unpopular president even more unpopular. He’s counting on you not understanding that.

In any case, the notion that war with Iran is somehow going to improve Donald Trump’s odds of reelection is absolutely laughable. It is, simply put, not how anything works. There is the danger that Trump’s big bluff with Iran could accidentally lead to war – and that would be devastating for the United States. But it would also mark the absolute end of Trump’s 2020 chances, and he knows it. He’s trying out this high-risk, low-reward scheme because he’s all out of better options.