{"id":224823,"date":"2024-04-22T07:48:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=224823"},"modified":"2024-04-22T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:51:30","slug":"patriot-alert-trump-sold-out-his-base-to-shovel-95-billion-to-ukraine-and-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=224823","title":{"rendered":"

PATRIOT ALERT!!!<\/span><\/b> Trump Sold-Out His Base to Shovel $95 Billion to Ukraine and Israel<\/span><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIKE WHITNEY
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America last. America last. That\u2019s all this is. America last, every single day.<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/span><\/p>\n

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The man who is most responsible for the $95 billion giveaway to Ukraine and Israel, is the same guy who pretends to oppose America\u2019s \u201cwasteful\u201d foreign wars. Donald Trump. It was Trump who consulted with Speaker Mike Johnson about the contents of the Ukraine aid package, just as it was Trump who concocted the idea of issuing loans instead of dispersing the standard welfare handout. It was also Trump who said:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI stand with the Speaker, (Mike Johnson)\u201d after which he added that Johnson is doing \u201ca very good job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A \u201cgood job\u201d??<\/span><\/p>\n

So, secretly collaborating with the Democrat leadership to push through\u00a0a bill that \u201creauthorizes FISA to spy on the American people without a warrant, (bans Tik Tok)<\/b>\u00a0fully funds Joe Biden\u2019s DOJ<\/b>\u00a0that has indicted President Trump 91 times, and giving Biden\u2019s political gestapo\u00a0a brand new FBI building bigger than the Pentagon,\u201d while not providing a dime to protect the southern border<\/b>\u00a0from the swarms of people entering the country illegally, is doing a \u201cgood job\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

The question we should all be asking ourselves is why has Trump decided to participate in this scam? He keeps saying that if he was president, he\u2019d end the war in Ukraine in a day. If he\u2019s sincere about that, then why did he collaborate on a bill that will drag the war out for another year or two? This is from a Twitter post by political analyst Michael Tracey:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mission Accomplished.\u00a0It is done: Donald Trump and the House GOP just completed one of the most epic swindles in political history, with Trump personally effectuating the largest-ever dispersement of Ukraine funding through his emissary, \u201cMAGA Mike Johnson\u201d<\/b>\u00a0(as Trump lovingly calls him) The $61 billion passed this afternoon is likely enough to underwrite the brutal, pointless trench warfare for at least another year or two. This after the same old endless media screeching that Trump and MAGA Republicans were being brainwashed by Putin and would never fund Ukraine. That fundamental hoax continues \u2014 only this time Trump was in on it\u2026. Michael Tracey, Twitter<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And the response from Luca Cabrilo:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael you\u2019re 100% spot on.\u00a0Trump could have at any point killed this monstrous bill if he wanted to, but he didn\u2019t. He even let MAGA Mike go on TV and say that he and Trump are \u201c100% agreed\u201d on the Ukraine funding Trump screwed his base on this one,<\/b>\u00a0no other way about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Tracey again: He didn\u2019t just \u201cnot kill it,\u201d\u00a0he personally facilitated its passage<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s more background from Tracey:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The bill,<\/b>\u00a0designed after consultations between Mike Johnson and Trump, mysteriously\u00a0gives the President the ability to forgive the purported \u201cloan\u201d to Ukraine \u2014 immediately after the November election\u2026<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

And if that\u2019s not brazen enough for you, here\u2019s the catch: The funds eligible for \u201cloan forgiveness\u201d are the direct budgetary infusions to Ukraine \u2014 meaning the money that pays for the salaries of Ukrainian government workers and so forth \u2014 NOT the military \u201caid,\u201d which comprises the vast majority of the package. So,\u00a0only $8 billion of the $61 billion allocated to Ukraine is even *eligible* for \u201cloan forgiveness\u201d under the terms of this gargantuan bill. And even that was a fake \u201cloan\u201d to begin with \u2014 it never had to be paid back at all! So there\u2019s your final Trump\/Johnson bamboozle<\/b>, as the House GOP prepares to usher through the *largest ever* infusion of US tax dollars to Ukraine, by far, since the beginning of the war. All with Trump\u2019s blessing, as Johnson has made abundantly clear. To underscore his close collaboration with Trump, Johnson has spent the past several days making the rounds on various conservative media, touting the inclusion of Trump\u2019s \u201cloan concept\u201d in the bill. Michael Tracey<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s all a big shell game and Trump is playing along with it to improve his political prospects. How else would you explain his performance in this dismal charade?<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump obviously knows that his return to the White House will require significant compromise with the national security hawks and Zionists who run the government. So, we shouldn\u2019t be too surprised that he\u2019s trying to curry favor with them now. But for the people who thought Trump was a straightshooter; this has got to be a real eye-opener. They thought he could be trusted, but now it\u2019s obvious that he\u2019s just another Beltway phony trying to ingratiate himself with the Washington power-elite in order to shoehorn his sorry a** back into the Oval Office. Here\u2019s more from Tracey:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sorry to be a \u201cBroken Record,\u201d but the \u201cElephant in the Room\u201d here is genuinely Donald J. Trump. \u2026.Trump even warned Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene directly not to oust Johnson, during their joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago last Friday, April 12 \u2014 just before Johnson unveiled his war funding strategy, for which he proudly declares having secured Trump\u2019s endorsement.\u00a0<\/b>The bill even contains Trump\u2019s repeated demand to structure the Ukraine funding as a so-called \u201cloan\u201d! J\u00a0ohnson proclaims that he and Trump are \u201cOne hundred percent united\u201d on all of this\u00a0<\/b>(direct quote) \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has used his vast political capital<\/b>\u00a0as three-time Republican Presidential Nominee to play his part assuring that the American political system mobilizes in perfect harmony\u00a0to unleash $100 billion in endless-war funding<\/b>. Michael Tracey<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If Trump is willing to play such a duplicitous role in securing the funding for the MIC\u2019s perpetual wars, then why in-heavens-name would any red-blooded conservative vote for him?<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the few people who has acted honorably in this fiasco, is Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is clearly\u00a0one of the few members of Congress that genuinely gives-a-damn about the American people.<\/b>\u00a0Greene delivered an epic rant on the floor of the House yesterday following the vote on the Ukrainian aid package. Naturally, her heartfelt presentation appeared nowhere in the sellout media, so I transcribed most of what she said below. It\u2019s worth the time:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026. The United States taxpayer has already sent $113 billion to Ukraine, and much of that money is unaccounted for. This is an example of a sick business model the US government wants to continue\u2026..\u00a0The Congress votes for money for foreign wars that the American people do not support\u2026.. The American people do not support a business model based on blood and murder and war in foreign countries while the government does nothing to secure our border.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The American people are over $34 trillion in debt and the debt is rising by $40 billion every night while we all sleep. But nothing is done to secure our border or reduce our debt. Inflation continues to rise every day and\u00a0Americans can hardly afford to pay their grocery bills, they can hardly afford to put gas in their cars, and they can hardly afford the rent.\u00a0<\/b>And, now, average mortgage payments are over $3000 when they were just $1700 three years ago.\u00a0Young Americans don\u2019t think they will ever be able to buy a home and yet today, this congress thinks the most important thing they should do is to send another $61 billion to the war in Ukraine that the American people \u2013by 70%\u2013 do not support!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026 But, today, the most important thing this body thinks we should do, is not reduce spending, or drive down inflation, or secure our own border that is invaded every single day by people from over 160 different countries\u2026\u00a0We have over 1.8 million \u2018got-aways\u2019 and we don\u2019t know who these people are\u2026 and yet we have people in this very congress \u2018talking tough\u2019 saying, \u201cWe have to defeat Russia. Oh, we have to protect Ukraine\u201d<\/b>\u00a0and yet , all of you are unwilling to protect the American citizens that pay your salary, pay to keep the lights on, and pay to keep the federal government running. And for what?<\/span><\/p>\n

For nothing! Ukraine isn\u2019t even a member of NATO But all you hear in Washington DC is\u00a0\u201cOh, we have to keep spending America\u2019s hard-earned tax dollars to continue to murder Ukrainians to wipe out a whole generation of young men so there are (thousands of ) widows, and fatherless orphans, and not enough men to work in their industries. Oh, but you really support Ukraine. (sarcasm) What kind of support is that? It\u2019s repulsive!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Shame on the American government!<\/b>\u00a0Shame on the American government! If we want to support our military, then support our military. We should be building up our weapons and ammunition, not sending it over to foreign countries to kill foreign people.<\/span><\/p>\n

And\u00a0if this body was what it pretends to be, every single one of us would be demanding peace in Ukraine; peace for these people, so that no more of them have to die. But you never hear anybody demanding peace. No, no, no. Peace is the last thing Washington wants<\/b>\u00a0because it doesn\u2019t fit the business model.<\/b>\u00a0This is a business model they say builds the American economy and protects American jobs.\u00a0What a disgusting business model. We should have a business model that builds-up our American companies and American jobs to serve American interests, and our military and our government should care about protecting the national security of the United States of America\u00a0<\/b>and the Americans who pay their hard-earned tax dollars to fund all this.<\/span><\/p>\n

America last. America last. That\u2019s all this is. America last, every single day.<\/b>
\nRepresentative Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bravo, Marjorie Taylor Greene. You speak for a lot of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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