PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump

How Donald Trump has changed the world
Gideon Rachman

The Republican party’s presumptive nominee is now the standard-bearer of the far right in the west

T
he news that Donald Trump has in effect secured the Republican party’s nomination for the US presidency took me back to Europe in 2002. Back then it was a huge shock when Jean-Marie Le Pen, a far-right candidate, made it through to the last two in the French presidential election. I remember going to the EU press room in Brussels the morning after Mr Le Pen’s initial success, and witnessing the horror and shame of my French colleagues.


The good news is that Mr Le Pen was soundly beaten in the final round. The bad news is that, in retrospect, his breakthrough marked a turning point in European politics. 


Ever since 2002, the themes that Mr Le Pen championed — nationalism, a hatred of immigration, denunciation of “unpatriotic” elites, fear of Islam, rejection of the EU, protectionism — have grown in strength in Europe. 

The far right has not yet formed a government in western Europe. But it has changed the debate and forced mainstream politicians to embrace some of their themes.


I fear that the same thing will happen with Mr Trump. The odds are that the “Republican” (if that is what he is) will lose to Hillary Clinton in November. But the Trump campaign has already changed US and world politics — and it will make an even deeper imprint in the next six months of campaigning. 


Themes and ideas that were on the fringes have now entered the political mainstream, and they will not disappear if and when Mr Trump loses.


What are those ideas? I would highlight five. First, a rejection of globalisation and free trade. This, of course, is a theme that Mr Trump shares with Bernie Sanders on the left of the Democratic party. Its influence can already be seen in the way in which Mrs Clinton has backed away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that she once championed. 


The second theme is nationalism, epitomised by Mr Trump’s slogan of “America First”. In Europe, nationalism implies a rejection of the EU. But the global implications of American nationalism are much more serious since the US underpins the whole international security system and issues the world’s reserve currency, the dollar.

A third idea is the embrace of the notion of a “clash of civilisations” between the west and Islam. Even as President George W Bush launched a “war on terror” in 2001, he rejected the idea that the US is at war with Islam itself. Mr Trump, with his talk of temporarily banning all Muslims from entering the US, has essentially embraced the idea of inevitable conflict between the west and the Islamic world.


A fourth theme is a relentless assault on the “elite”, including Washington, Wall Street and the universities. A populist distrust of elites has been a perennial theme in US politics for decades, if not centuries. But growing inequality, immigration and the financial crisis have driven anti-elite rhetoric to new levels. As a New York billionaire, Mr Trump is an unlikely tribune of the common man. But he has played the card effectively during the campaign.

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A fifth and related trend is the denunciation of the mainstream media as untrustworthy and an embrace of alternative, conspiratorial narratives that are flourishing on the internet. Mr Trump, for example, has promoted the baseless idea that President Barack Obama was not born in the US. This embrace of conspiracy theories is pernicious for democracy, which requires some agreement on basic facts as the foundation for debate.


Variants of these five trends are also flourishing on the far right in Europe. The governments of Poland and Hungary are in the hands of parties that preach a Trumpian mix of nationalism, fear of Islam, distrust of the “liberal” media and anti-globalism. In France, Mr Le Pen’s daughter, Marine, is likely to make it to the final round of the presidential election in 2017.


Some in the US may still flinch at the idea that a leading American politician belongs in the same ideological camp as France’s National Front, a party with roots in fascism. But Mr Le Pen obviously sees the parallel and has tweeted his support for Mr Trump, adding “may God protect him”. In fact, in some respects Mr Trump’s platform is more extreme than that of the French far right. Neither of the Le Pens has ever proposed banning all Muslims from entering France. 
Mr Trump is also likely to be more electorally successful than the National Front. Mr Le Pen won less than 18 per cent of the vote in 2002. His daughter may double that total next year. 


But Mr Trump, as the Republican party candidate, will almost certainly exceed 40 per cent of the national vote. It is possible, as with the Le Pens (and the Clintons and the Bushes), that we may also see the establishment of a Trump political dynasty. Who would rule out a bid for the presidency by Mr Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, in eight years’ time?


Many liberal Americans are still inclined to treat the Trump phenomenon as a nightmare from which they hope to wake up in November. But that seems highly unlikely. Mr Trump has now amply demonstrated the political potency of the ideas that he is promoting. A rising generation of nationalists, in the US and Europe, will profit from his breakthrough.

[size=32]Sen. Sessions: Election offers a simple choice[/size]

Jeff Sessions9:45 p.m. EDT May 12, 2016

In Donald Trump, we have a forceful advocate for America.

(Photo: John Bazemore, AP)

For the first time in a long time, this November will give Americans a clear choice on perhaps the most important issue facing our country and our civilization: whether we remain a nation-state that serves its own people, or whether we slide irrevocably toward a soulless globalism that treats humans as interchangeable widgets in the world market.
In Donald Trump, we have a forceful advocate for America. Trump has said that our trade, immigration and foreign policies must be changed to protect the interests of American workers and our nation.
In Hillary Clinton, we have a committed globalist. Clinton was an ardent supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — which surrenders American sovereignty to an international union of 12 countries — and has clearly left the door wide open to enacting the pact if elected.
There is only one sure way to defeat the TPP, and that is to defeat Hillary Clinton.
Meanwhile, Clinton’s immigration platform is the most radical in our history. Freezing deportations. Ending detentions. Halting enforcement. She’d expand President Obama’s illegal amnesty decree, effectively creating open borders.
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Clinton’s extremist proposal economically targets our poor African-American and Hispanic communities whose wages and job prospects are being steadily eroded by the huge influx of new foreign workers.
Yet some Republicans persist in saying that they don’t know whether Mr. Trump is a “real conservative.” This charge misleads in two ways. First: Mr. Trump’s cautious approach to mass migration, transnational trade commissions and nation-building are, by definition, conservative.
Second, the divide between Trump and Clinton on the role of government could not be more stark. Consider just a few of the things President Trump would do after taking the oath: repeal Obamacare; nominate constitutionalist justices; replace Obama’s radical Cabinet appointments; reduce taxes and regulations; produce more American energy; rein in the out-of-control EPA; and cancel Obama’s illegal amnesties.
The choice is a simple one: Do we want a country that serves our people, or not?
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., was the first senator to endorse Donald Trump.[/size]

Donald Trump Is About To Start Getting Intelligence Briefing
May 15, 20165:18 AM ET

[size=16]The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the lobby of the Original Headquarters Building at the CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.


Harry Truman had been vice president for only 82 days when Franklin Roosevelt died, so there was quite a lot he needed to learn when he became president in 1945.[/size]

"He didn't even know the atomic bomb existed," historian David Priess said. "He didn't know about the Manhattan Project."

Priess, a former CIA officer and author of The President's Book of Secrets, a history of the president's daily brief, said that experience made Truman resolve that no future president should come into office unprepared.
So in 1952, as the world grew accustomed to nuclear peril and other threats in the unfolding Cold War, Truman offered classified briefings about the global security situation to each of the major-party nominees running to replace him. That tradition has held up ever since.

Traditionally, the White House waits until Republicans and Democrats have formally nominated their candidates at their party conventions, Priess said, but not always. Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter had no experience with foreign intelligence, so he asked President Gerald Ford for his briefings before he was nominated — and got them.

"Ultimately, it's the president's call," Priess said, about who is briefed and when.

Although presidents typically try to accommodate candidates, even ones in the opposite party, they do not share everything. So, as the White House prepares to arrange briefings by the intelligence community, officials will likely hold back sensitive details about covert operations, secret nuclear and other defense programs, and other such details.

In fact, intelligence briefers this year may need to be more careful than ever, said former CIA analyst Aki Peritz. The de facto Republican nominee, Donald Trump, is "a man famously with no filter," Peritz said of Trump, who has built his campaign upon what he calls straight talk.

"He's never held public office before," Peritz said. "He's a business developer and a reality TV star. So if the United States starts giving Donald Trump classified briefings" with certain kinds of sensitive information, "it could be a disaster."

And Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has had her own problems with allegations she's been careless with classified information. Clinton ran her own private email server as secretary of state and has been accused of imperiling the security of her office and the correspondence she kept with top leaders around Washington. Clinton denies she did anything wrong under the rules in effect at the time.

As for resuming her access to classified material in the candidate briefings she and Trump will receive, the details aren't yet clear.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told reporters at a recent breakfast that the top-secret briefings would take place at a secure facility, whenever the candidates request. He was pressed about how his office would be sure the information in its presentations would stay secure.

The process is set up "to ensure that everybody gets the same information," Clapper said, "and that we do comply with the need to protect sources and methods and comply with security rules."


http://www.npr.org/2016/05/15/477967990/donald-trump-is-about-to-start-getting-intelligence-briefings

Mary Anne Trump with son Donald and his then wife Ivana in the 1980s

The mysterious Mary Trump: The full untold story of how a young Scotswoman escaped to New York and raised a US presidential candidate
 MAY 21ST, 2016 - 12:30 AM  MARTIN HANNAN
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SHE was the mother of a potential future president of the United States, yet Mary Trump’s early life and particularly how she came to America is shrouded in mystery. 

It has long been maintained that Trump’s Scottish mother Mary Anne Macleod met the Republican candidate-elect’s father Fred on a holiday or trip to New York in 1930. She was apparently introduced to him at a party by her sister, Catherine.

It is a tale that has been told so often, apparently never corrected by the Trump family, that it is accepted as the truth by most of the media – the BBC recently sent a reporter to her native village on the Isle of Lewis to investigate Mrs Trump’s roots and he faithfully repeated that “holiday” version. 

Another development of the story – repeated by at least one Trump biographer – is that she returned home and continued the romance by letter before marrying Fred Trump in 1936.

Today The National provides proof that far from being on holiday, Mary Anne Macleod Trump was a poor immigrant who arrived in New York with just $50 in her purse and worked as a domestic servant in the city for at least four years. 

It may well be that the Trump family have been misled. Or perhaps they went along with the story because of shame that the lady who became a multi-millionaire philanthropist started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land. But to our knowledge, none of them, including Donald Trump, has ever contradicted the story.



Mary Anne Trump in her socialite heyday

Her arrival in New York was also the direct result of a scandal that struck her family at home – the sister who hosted her in New York, Mrs Catherine Reid, gave birth out of wedlock in Scotland in 1920. 

Mary Anne had two other sisters resident in the USA at the time, Mrs Christina Matheson and Mrs Mary Joan Pauley, but it was to Catherine’s home in Long Island that she made her way, not for a holiday but as a base to find work. 

The “holiday” account has always been met with considerable scepticism in Mary Anne Trump’s home area of Tong near Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, where her departure at the age of 17 has long been held to be simple emigration.

Lewis in 1930 had a shortage of jobs and eligible men – per head of population, the Western Isles had more men killed in the First World War than anywhere else in Britain.The National today publishes the truth that MaryAnne (that is how she signed herself on at least one official form) Macleod immigrated legally and permanently to the USA on May 11, 1930, and that she had no intention of returning to Scotland anytime soon after that – she was most definitely not “on holiday”.

She also declared as soon as she set foot in the USA on that date, just one day after her 18th birthday, that she wanted to become an American citizen, and would be staying permanently in the USA.

Furthermore the National has discovered proof that, for whatever reason, Fred and Mary Anne Trump played fast and loose with the American authorities on their census return in 1940, stating that Mary Anne Trump was a naturalised citizen when records openly available to researchers show that she was not naturalised until 1942. The key documentary evidence is the passenger list for the SS Transylvania of the Anchor Line which transported Mary Anne Macleod to her new life in the USA. 

The three-funneled twin-propeller liner set sail from Glasgow on May 2, 1930, and arrived in New York on May 11, the day after Mary Anne celebrated her 18th birthday on board – the document actually shows her age being altered from 17 to 18. 

The National can reveal that Mary Anne had been issued with immigration visa no. 26698 at Glasgow on February 17, 1930. 

On the passenger list for all aliens – anyone not a US citizen – Mary Anne Macleod makes three declarations.

They were that she was moving to the USA permanently, that it was her intention to seek American citizenship, and in the section asking “whether alien intends to return to country whence he (sic) came” the answer she gives is no.

On the same form, Mary Anne states she will be living with her sister Mrs Catherine Reid, 3520 6th Avenue, Astoria, Long Island.

Mary Anne’s beloved elder sister, known as Kate or Katie, emigrated to the USA after she gave birth to an illegitimate child called Annie in Lanarkshire on December 5, 1920. 

It is difficult in this modern age to convey just how absolutely scandalous and shameful such a birth occurring to an adherent of the very strict Free Presbyterian Church in a tight-knit community would have been.

No name is given on the birth certificate for Annie’s father, and Kate went home to Tong before emigrating to New York in 1921, leaving her daughter to be brought up as part of the Macleod household. In New York Kate married a butler from Scotland, George A Reid, in Manhattan on March 26, 1926 – George would later give Mary Anne away at her wedding to Fred Trump. Four years later she was joined by her immigrant sister Mary Anne. 

The future Mrs Trump was following a well-trodden family path, for two other elder sisters had emigrated to the USA in the 1920s – Christina Matheson and Mary Joan Pauley, who had been in domestic service when she married an English footman, Victor Pauley, who was with her when Mary Joan acted as Matron of Honour to her sister at her marriage to Fred Trump. 

In the 1930 documents – passenger lists are accepted as proof of entry to the USA – the future Mrs Trump is described as five feet eight inches tall with fair hair, fair complexion and blue eyes.

Perhaps crucially, she gives her occupation as a “domestic”, meaning either a servant or maid in domestic service, as her sister Mary Joan was.

On Lewis, it has been recalled that Mary Anne was one of a group of young people who had emigrated at that time.

There is documentary evidence that permanent emigration was their purpose. The Stornoway Gazette in May, 1930 reported: “There is quite an exodus of young people, male and female, from this parish for Canada and the United States. Our straths and glens will soon be peopled only with middle-aged and elderly people. Most of these young people take kindly to the life of those distant lands but they never forget the ‘old folk at home.’ They leave home with a determination to succeed and because of their courage, endurance and reliability they are generally successful.

"Several have left from here this week (our italics) and we wish them bon voyage.” 

The evidence that Mary Anne then spent four years in domestic service comes from Mrs Trump herself. 

At some point in mid-1934 she returned home to Scotland. There is a Mary Macleod from Tong, aged 22, named on the incoming passenger list of the SS Cameronia that arrived in Glasgow on June 11, 1934. She is listed as a nurse, however, and confusingly, passenger lists of that time show several Mary Macleods from Lewis crossing the Atlantic.

Without a doubt, however, the Mary Anne Macleod who travelled to New York on the SS Cameronia, arriving in the USA on September 12, 1934, is the woman who became Mrs Trump. 

Clinching proof that she was already an American citizen in all but name was that she was travelling on a “re-entry permit” obtained from Washington on March 3, 1934 – such permits were only granted to immigrants intending to stay and become US citizens. As with her first voyage westward, the document states Mary Anny paid her own travel costs. Again she is listed as a “domestic” and states she will be going to live with her sister Catherine Reid at Glen Head, Long Island. 





Mary Anne Trump's naturalisation paperwork

That arrangement did not last long. The 1940 census record states that in April 1935, Mary Anne was living at 175/24 Devonshire Road in New York, the Trump family residence. That 1940 census also erroneously records that Mary Ann was a naturalised American citizen, but records show her naturalisation did not take place until March 10, 1942.


The census return from the Trump household in 1940

The census took place on April 1, 1940, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President. It is a moot point as to whether the head of the household, Fred Trump, committed an offence by saying his wife was naturalised, but in a city of 7.5 million people at the time, mistakes were common. 

Researchers may have missed this error because, quite bizarrely, in the digitisation process the family name was turned into Zrump.

Mary Anne and Fred were married in January, 1936, and Mary Anne Trump gave birth to her first child, now Judge Maryanne Barry, on April 5, 1937. 

Four more children would follow, the penultimate child being Donald Trump, born on June 14, 1946, meaning he will be 70 next month when he apparently intends to travel to Scotland for the official opening of the Trump Turnberry resort.









Donald Trump's birth certificate

His own birth certificate, which he published when involved in one of his regular “birther” arguments with president Barack Obama and which was repeated recently with Senator Ted Cruz, clearly shows that Mary Anne Trump thought of herself as an American from the day she arrived in New York.

In the entry detailing the mother’s “length of residency or stay in New York immediately prior to birth of child” the period recorded is 15 years – taking her back to the time she emigrated. 

On pages four and five The National tells more of Mary Anne Macleod’s story, and details Donald Trump’s fraught relationship with Scotland, but it is already clear that apart from the issue of her immigration to the USA being clouded in mystery – perhaps intentionally – hers was an almost classical tale of the American Dream.

Mary Anne left abject poverty in Scotland and within 20 years she was a dynamic partner to a wealthy builder and mother to five children, one of whom might just become president of the United States.

What a story – so why does Donald Trump not make more of it?

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McCarran Walter Act of 1952
 
Subject: McCarran Walter Act of 1952
Isn't it funny how this is such an unknown fact?????
 
A Bit of Legislative History --- McCarran Walter Act of 1952
Note:  McCarran and Walter were Democrats.  This act was created in 1952 and used by Carter in 1979.


Trump was recently severely criticized for suggesting that the U.S. should limit or temporarily suspend the immigration of certain ethnic groups, nationalities, and even people of certain religions (Muslims).
The criticisms condemned such a suggestion as, among other things, being “Un-American,” dumb, stupid, reckless, dangerous and racist.


Congressmen and Senators swore that they would never allow such legislation, and Obama called such a prohibition on immigration unconstitutional.  As if, all of a sudden, he gives a damn about the Constitution.
 
As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, Surprise!”  It seems that the selective immigration ban is already law and has been applied on several occasions. Known as the McCarran-Walter Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 allows for the "Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by president (something which we haven't had for the past seven and a half years).
 
Whenever the president finds that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the president may, by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
 
The act was utilized by Jimmy Carter, no less, in 1979 to keep Iranians out of the United States, but he actually did more.  He made all Iranian students already here check in, and then he deported a bunch.  Seven thousand were found in violation of their visas, 15,000 Iranians were forced to leave the United States in 1979.  You won't hear a word about this from the liberal media, propaganda machine.
 
It is of note that the act requires that an applicant for immigration must be of good moral character and "attached to the principles of the Constitution.”
 
Since the Quran forbids Muslims to swear allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, technically, all Muslims should be refused immigration.
 
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http://library.uwb.edu/static/USimmigration/1952_immigration_and_nationality_act.html

Donald Trump just delivered a speech for the ages in San Diego. He made several subtle and overt accusations. His two most stunning accusations consisted of what the real unemployment rate is and second, a politician has final challenged the California drought. Although he was cryptic on the drought, it is clear to those of us that have investigated the fraud and manipulation behind the drought, what he is talking about, and it is stunning.
Donald Trump is claiming that the REAL US unemployment is really running at 2o%. This matches what Shadow Stats John Williams claims as well as Joseph Meyer, from Straight Line Money Analysis, have clearly stated on The Common Sense Show.  In fact both men have stated that this does not account for the “under-employment rate” which is due largely to Obamacare which restricts workers to 29 hours per week before employers are required to cover their exorbitant Obamacare costs.
The announcement of Trumps estimation of the unemployment rate is an amazing four times higher than the supposedly low rate of 5 percent claimed by President Barack Obama, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a rally in San Diego.


“You look at the NATO countries, many of them aren’t living up to their obligations. They’re our friends, they’re our allies, but they’ve been abusing us… Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, we defend these countries and they don’t pay us.” Trump was referring to our NATO allies that we pay to protect, while they ignore their obligations to NATO.  


At that same speech in San Diego, he referenced the California water shortage. He was noncommittal except to say that California has plenty of water. I am also convinced that from what he said, he knows what I about the California drought


The United States Drought Monitor map is showing that 78% of the state is currently experiencing an “exceptional drought” stage. This represents a 22% increase from just a year ago.
Droughts can prove devastating to a community as widespread crop and pasture losses and shortages of water in reservoirs, streams and wells accompany drought conditions.
Exceptional drought, the most extreme category, indicates the most extreme conditions of drought and is considered to be a precursor to

Lynne Wilson, who serves on the climate change delegation in the United Nations, “Civilizations in the past have had to migrate out of areas of drought. We may have to migrate people out of California.”

It seems certain that at this rate of increasing drought, millions of Americans, presently living in California, better begin packing their collective bags because it could soon be moving day.
At this point, people are undoubtedly wondering if there isn’t something that can be done to save California from this massive drought?

The Air Force Has the Solution to California’s Drought

Since its first publication, “Owning the Weather 2025“, and “The Weather As a Force Multiplier“, both published in 1996, the Air Force has made it clear that it has the capability to control the weather to the degree that their documents admit that they can weaponize both weather and earthquakes (see Exhibit 2 in the Appendix). Before you wrinkle your nose up and fall back on the phrase that so many have been conditioned by, “You must be a conspiracy theorist”, I have published the Air Force’s annotated bibliography on this subject  of weather modification which is listed below in the Appendix (see Exhibit 1). I dare any reasonable person to read the data contained in the Appendix and not be able to conclude that the California drought , now in Arizona, now in New Mexico, now in Nevada and et al, in the Southwest, is not being artificially manipulated.


The Air Force actually maintains a separate entity  in its branch known as the “Air Force Weather Agency”. Its mission is weather modification.


I am going to stop short of saying this Air Force agency created the drought conditions. Although, a circumstantial case can be made that major political capital and money is at stake in the California drought. Further, the Air Force clearly has the ability to mitigate the situation. (see Exhibits 1,2,3 located in the Appendix). Additionally, don’t the citizens of California pay taxes to the federal government who in turn, oversees the Air Force? Then why aren’t the full resources of the Air Force Weather Agency being brought to bear in this crisis?  Further, why isn’t a massive cloud seeding program being implemented in California’s mountains? I grew up in Colorado and when the ski season was delayed by late snowfalls, the state simply “seeded” the clouds to expedite the process. If this worked in Colorado in the 20th century, then why would it not work in California in the 21st century?The simple answer is because that is not the plan.


Read more at link: http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2016/05/trumps-san-diego-speech-was-a-speech-for-the-ages-what-did-he-say-2475562.html