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I Was Right About Russia-Gate; and I’M Right About Israel- Gate I Was Right About Russia-Gate; And I’m Right About Israel- Gate chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/3857/I-Was-Right-About-Russia-Gate-And-Im-Right-About-Israel- Gate.aspx Published: Thursday, March 28, 2019 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column On January 11 of last year, I wrote a column entitled Collusion With Russia Was Never The Crime. In this column, I quoted an RT.com report that set the story straight about Trump’s collusion: Amid the media hype over Steve Bannon’s comments fueling allegations of collusion with Russia, pundits have overlooked an excerpt from the same book that points to collusion between the Trump administration and Israel. In the book, titled ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ , author Michael Wolff describes a conversation between former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and Roger Ailes, the former CEO of Fox News who died in May 2017. According to the excerpt published Thursday, Bannon informed Ailes that President Donald Trump, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, and their billionaire benefactor [Zionist] Sheldon Adelson are in agreement with moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. Adelson is an American casino mogul who donated $25 million to the Trump campaign and funds Israel’s most popular daily newspaper, Israel Today, which is widely understood to be pro-Netanyahu. The exchange between Bannon and Ailes adds further confirmation to the Trump administration's collusion with Israel, which was revealed in special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s indictment of General Michael Flynn. He lied to FBI agents about his conversations with Sergey Kislyak, then-Russian Ambassador to the United States, in December 2016, when Trump was president-elect. Acting on orders from Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, Flynn contacted Kislyak to ask if Russia would delay or veto a UN Security Council vote criticizing Israeli settlements. Flynn also reached out to Kislyak on December 29, 2016, the day after former President Barack Obama signed an executive order imposing sanctions against Russia as punishment for alleged Russian “meddling” in the 2016 US presidential elections. According to the 1/6 indictment, Flynn asked Russia to “refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against Russia.” ‘Fire and Fury’ is set to hit shelves on January 9. Though the White House has dismissed the book as fiction, Trump’s attorney Charles J. Harder demanded the publisher, Henry Holt and Co., “immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination of the book.” Following the publication of excerpts quoting Bannon Wednesday, Trump disparaged his former chief strategist. “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency,” Trump said. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.” I then went on to write: The real story, of course, is the cover-up of Trump’s collusion with—NOT Russia—but Israel. The chain of command was clear: Donald Trump to Jared Kushner to General Michael Flynn. All of the brouhaha about collusion with Russia that led to the firing of Flynn was merely a smokescreen to cover up the Trump administration’s collusion with Israel. And Flynn was the fall guy. Israel’s highest-ranking foreign agent (Kushner) continues to guide Trump’s Zionist foreign policy without the slightest impediment. Israel is America’s sacred cow; it is the third rail of politics. No one dares to criticize it, much less expose its manifold crimes. Israel is also America’s Trojan Horse. Virtually the entire country (with America’s evangelical Christian pastors and churches leading the way) is scared silly to say anything critical of Israel. Fortunately, the hackneyed moniker “anti- Semitic” is fast losing its sting, as more and more people are awakening to the rank evil and criminality committed by the Zionist state—not the least of which is a plethora of Jewish people, including rabbis. Remember, this was written on January 11, 2018. The Adelson investment (bribe) in Donald Trump on behalf of Israel was also reported later last year in this report: A bet on Donald Trump for president may have seemed risky two years ago. But for billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the payout has been spectacular. The 85-year-old and his wife Miriam gave $82 million+ to Republicans and candidate Trump in 2016, and within two years watched their man execute two major Adelson asks: moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. This was accomplished in consultation with Adelson comprador John Bolton, who in December 2016 promised members of the American Friends of Beit El that Trump would not only move the embassy—declaring Jerusalem the true capital of Israel—but that he would not oppose any Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank territories. Adelson is also credited with opening the door for Bolton’s appointment to national security adviser in March. 2/6 With the Mueller probe now ended, it is clear that I was right about the never-existent Russia-Gate; and I’m also right about the very-existent Israel-Gate. Since I wrote the above, Donald Trump, as predicted, has delivered on his political debt to Adelson by moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, not opposing Israel’s expansionist policies in the West Bank and withdrawing the U.S. from the Iran accord. In the same way that Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison referred to Bill Clinton as “our first black President,” I refer to Donald Trump as our first Zionist President. Donald Trump is the Zionist water boy in the Oval Office. Trump’s collusion was never with the Russian government; it was always with the Bolshevik/Ashkenazi/Zionist mafia (the new Deep State) that has now ousted the old Clinton-Bush mafia (the old Deep State) from power. And that coup was stunningly successful and swift. Accordingly, Donald Trump has faithfully filled his administration with quintessential Zionist insiders—including Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Elliot Abrams, Gary Cohn, Steve Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross, David Friedman, Jared Kushner, et al. Now Trump is fighting to save his Zionist counterpart, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces both political defeat in upcoming elections and possible prison time for corruption charges. Speaking of corruption, every insider—and I mean every one of them—knows that Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice, which Mueller’s report acknowledges. But the fix was in, and Mueller had absolutely no choice but to play along. The old guard has been defeated, and there is a new game in town. Mueller was part of the old guard. And much in the same way that Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington, Mueller cowardly surrendered his sword to Trump’s underling (and the personification of corruption), Attorney General William Barr. But I digress. Trump sent both Pence and Pompeo to Israel to bolster support for Bibi . And now Trump has made the decision to recognize Israeli “sovereignty” over the Golan Heights—land that was seized from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War—and land which the entire international community rightly regards as “occupied territory.” This is, no doubt, intended to be another boost for Bibi’s reelection bid. US President Donald Trump signed a declaration on Monday recognizing Israeli “sovereignty” over the disputed, strategically important and (surprise!) resource-rich region. In a joint press conference with Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the declaration “historic justice.” Back in reality, the Golan Heights is recognized as Syrian territory in international law, having been seized by Israel in a land grab during the Six-Day War in 1967 and later officially annexed in a 1981 Israeli law. The New York Times editorial board called Trump’s move a “pointless provocation” and said it had “more to do with Israeli politics than American interests.” It also just so happens that there are some great big oil reserves in the area and, well, you can do the math. The NYT is 3/6 100 percent correct, but the newspaper hardly deserves high praise for taking such a stance, having been a cheerleader for illegal US military interventions all over the world during the last two decades. (Source) Blackstone Intelligence files this video report on Trump’s Golan Heights duplicity. Remember my comments from 2018 quoted above: Israel is America’s sacred cow; it is the third rail of politics. No one dares to criticize it, much less expose its manifold crimes. Israel is also America’s Trojan Horse. Virtually the entire country (with America’s evangelical Christian pastors and churches leading the way) is scared silly to say anything critical of Israel. With that in mind, read this report: US officials including Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with more than a dozen US lawmakers appeared on stage on the second day of AIPAC's annual conference to vow support for Israel as it responded to an alleged rocket attack by Hamas with air strikes on Gaza. Pence listed the policy moves President Donald Trump had taken to support Israel, drawing applause from about 18,000 attendees at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee gathering. "Under President Donald Trump, if the world knows nothing else the world knows this: America stands with Israel," Pence said. Trump meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, signed a declaration recognising Israeli control of the Golan Heights . AIPAC members are poised to visit members of Congress in their offices in the US Capitol on Tuesday.
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