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Download Economic Battle Plan what wartime leAdership looks like 3.87 CLEARED FOR RELEASE 05/14/2020 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 87) Background Briefing – Western Civilization Under Threat – Lessons from history as we face a new invisible enemy, COVID-19. The world has faced multiple threats, but one in particular stands out in the Economic War Room®. It was World War II, as Nazi Germany moved to defeat Western Civilization with their expansion across Europe and the world. While some thought the enemy was impossible to defeat, Churchill took on the UK’s political establishment and was able to rally a shared vision amongst the citizenry with a victory over appeasement. Today, America is facing a new invisible enemy with COVID-19. It will take strong leadership to protect western civilization, our civil liberties, and those that are most at risk. It is an economic war like we have never seen before. Nick Adams joins Kevin Freeman in the Economic War Room® to discuss what American exceptionalism really means, and why President Trump is the right man to help lead America to victory. This brief will also review highlights from Nick’s new book comparing Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Donald Trump. Your Mission: To continue the fight to protect Western Civilization and encourage the current administration to stand strong in defending our values. “What I felt was, at this juncture in our history, no politician, no matter how articulate, no matter how presentable, no matter how well reasoned, was going to cut it. We needed a sledgehammer. We needed somebody that could really pierce the psyche of Americans. Everything that I knew about Donald Trump up until that moment made me feel that he was the best man for the job. No one can market as well as he can. No one can tap into the sensibilities of the average American like he could. And that’s why I thought he was the best man for the job.” –Nick Adams page 1 what wartime leAdership looks like 3.87 CLEARED FOR RELEASE 05/14/2020 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 87) Ep. 3-86 (OSINT) Open Sourced Intelligence Briefing. This includes quotes and summaries from Kevin Freeman and Nick Adams. Nick has done a great job of documenting the Churchill leadership style and comparing it to Donald Trump in his new book, Trump and Churchill; Defenders of Western Civilization. Nick Adams is a three-time best-selling author, commentator and currently serves as a surrogate for the White House. Born and raised in Australia, Adams is a legal immigrant to America, receiving a rare Extraordinary Ability Green Card. His book, Green Card Warrior, detailing his journey to America, received special distinction in March 2017, with President Donald Trump declaring it “a must read.” It was the first time in the history of the United States that a sitting President has ever endorsed a book. On August 25, 2017, President Trump took to Twitter to praise Adams’ previous book Retaking America, resulting in several news outlets declaring him “the President’s favorite author”. His previous two books were endorsed by Chuck Norris, Mike Huckabee, Sean Hannity, Ben Carson, Allen West, Glenn Beck, Dana Perino, Oliver North, Hugh Hewitt, National Review, The Heritage Foundation and the NRA. He has received several major honors, including Honorary Texan (Gov. Perry), Honorary Oklahoman (Gov. Fallin) and Kentucky Colonel (Gov. Bevin). Adams has appeared on virtually every major television and radio program, and his work has been published in newspapers around the world. In the United States, he has spoken at conventions, corporate meetings, military bases, universities, high schools and churches, in 30 states. Abroad, he has given major addresses in England, Germany and South Korea. Adams is the Founder and Executive Director of The Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG) (www.flagusa.org), an organization that visits elementary, middle and high schools to provide training to increase patriotic pride and bridge the major civics deficiency that currently exists. The FLAG board includes luminaries such as Col. Allen West, Dennis Prager, Pete Hegseth, and many others. page 2 what wartime leAdership looks like 3.87 CLEARED FOR RELEASE 05/14/2020 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 87) “Donald Trump and Winston Churchill, two incredibly fine leaders, have got a lot in common. Now, you wouldn’t know it at first, If you just look at the two men, you’ll see a lot of differences. You’ll see that one’s really tall and one was really short. You’ll see that one loved to nap in the afternoon and one barely sleeps. You’ll see that one is a teetotaler and the other didn’t mind a drink or three. So there are lots of differences between them on the surface. But as soon as you start to drill down a little bit more, you find that Winston Churchill and Donald Trump are both very similar.” –Nick Adams 1. The commonalties between Churchill and Trump. » Both leaders love their country and neither cared what other people think. → Both willing to take on constant criticism and not worry about being politically correct. → Both have moral courage. » Neither connect with the political class. » Both men could cut someone down in just a few words, and yet they were relatable. » Some see both as wartime presidents (with COVID-19’s threat to Western Civilization). » Trump calls COVID-19 the “invisible enemy,” which is very Churchillian (naming the enemy). → “And I think that is something that we missed in the eight years of Barack Obama. I mean, his administration refused to name radical Islam or Islamists for what they were doing. This president came out and said, this is the Chinese virus. This virus has begun in China.” » Neither man receives the credit they deserve. page 3 what wartime leAdership looks like 3.87 CLEARED FOR RELEASE 05/14/2020 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 87) “Sir Winston Churchill, a lovable wordsmith, a man that could just cut somebody down with a few words. Great wit. Incredible orator. He’s somebody that I’ve always had an affinity for. A lot of the traits that he had, including the bad ones, I feel that I have an inclination toward as well. You know, Winston Churchill was somebody that was extreme in everything that he did. He probably ate too much, probably drank too much, and I think that’s what makes him so relatable.” –Nick Adams 2. Both Trump and Churchill were good at predicting what would happen and calling for action According to Nick, the leadership styles are clear. » In Churchill’s case it was Nazism and Hitler. Also Chamberlin’s appeasement. » Trump has been saying for almost 30 years we need to bring manufacturing back. In the last three or four years he made it clear we can no longer rely on China. He ended up being right on every single possible level. “If he had not been president for the last three years, we would be in a worse shape. When President Trump instituted tariffs and when he started jawboning against dependence on China, American corporations began to look for alternatives. And so they’ve at least had the conversation. What do we do if we can’t access China’s manufacturing goods and so forth? They at least had the conversation. So we are further along than we would have been for certain.” –Kevin Freeman America’s economic future is at risk, but with leadership and the support of the American people we can win. We need to be weary of the domestic threats working against the economy. But we can win this fight! page 4 what wartime leAdership looks like 3.87 CLEARED FOR RELEASE 05/14/2020 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 87) “I think it really has put us in an incredible place right now to recover. And I know recovery, as we speak right now, is kind of difficult to imagine because we’re all still shut behind closed doors. And many of us are not working. Many of us are not even employed right now because of this. But it’s important to remember that, like everything, this too will pass. When it does, I think because of the president’s initial waking us up about China combined with our anger, frustration, and disappointment with how the Chinese government behaved, I think that’s going to allow us to really rebound very quickly. More quickly than we might have. And it could possibly lead to us even becoming bigger, stronger, and better than what we were before.” –Nick Adams NOTE: We do need to remember the lessons of Churchill. He was voted out of office after the war ended. That was a mistake for the British Empire as they lost traction until Margaret Thatcher came into power. 3. Trump and Churchill were good at listening to the experts around them and knowing when to go on their own. “One of the things with leadership is being a good leader. There are lots of different skills that you need. One is knowing when to follow the experts around you. And one is knowing when to go it alone. And in modern history, I have never seen two men like Churchill and Trump have that instinct so down pat. Both of them know when to rely on the advice of those around them.” –Nick Adams 4. Both Churchill and Trump see America as exceptional: » Churchill was not American, but he saw its exceptionalism! “There are lots of immigrants that have come to the United States of America that understand American exceptionalism.
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