America First Policy Institute: Trump Think Tank or Trojan Horse?

 

Peter Navarro is the former Assistant to the President for Trade and Manufacturing Policy and author of Taking Back Trump’s America: Why We Lost the White House and How We’ll Win It Back.  He is sounding an alarm over Donald Trump’s scheduled speech to address the America First Policy Institute in DC [today 7/26].  Mr. Navarro’s article at AmericanGreatness is titled “Trump’s Think Tank Prepares to Betray Him,” and he names names, including Larry Kudlow and Kellyanne Conway.  Mr Navarro begins:

Don’t go, Boss! That’s my strong advice to President Trump as he prepares to deliver a speech in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday at his alleged “think tank,” the America First Policy Institute (AFPI). 

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Arguably, the most dangerous AFPI fifth-columnist is former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. After the Boss left office, Jindal would insist “Trump was undone by his own predatory nature” and attacked the Boss for his “conspiracy theories and extra-constitutional notions.” Today, Jindal is aggressively pushing a “Trumpism without Trump” agenda.

That may well be AFPI’s broader agenda: Hijack the political attractiveness of Trumpism but replace Trump with an AFPI-anointed RINO. Here, it is worth remembering the Michael Dukakis bon mot: “a fish rots from the head up.” 

He concludes:

Memo to the Boss: Instead of legitimizing these grifters, why not demand they stop using the Trump good name to raise money to engineer their “Trumpism without Trump” coup. Alternatively, if this really is your think tank, bring in a John McEntee or Liz Harrington to run the place with the full power to fire and hire. Now that would be a real Trump MAGA policy institute.

Full article is here. 

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Analyzing American Election Integrity: teleconference

 

Today, (Tuesday Mar-23) Regent University hosted a Zoom teleconference “Analyzing American Election Integrity.” The schedule of speakers is here.

Our household watched the presentation by Mark Steyn, and he was, as always, outstanding.  He is an advocate for a one-issue party, The Paper Ballot Party, and his reasons make a lot of sense.  He also advocates for taking action at the local level. 

He introduces the event on his website, SteynOnline (and the link to the livestream is included at the bottom):

Today, Tuesday, I'll be joining Peter Navarro, Kris Kobach and others for Michele Bachmann's Zoom conference on election integrity. You can watch the livestream starting at midday Eastern/9am Pacific here. . . .

Michele and Ben Carson will be kicking things off, followed by a panel on the Democrats' "HR1" bill:

"An Effort to Correct the Irregularities, or Institutionalize them?"

Well, you know which way I incline: If Nancy & Chuck succeed in hammering HR1 down America's gullet, the GOP will, at the federal level, never win again.

Peter Navarro should also be well worth watching. He came up with the clearest and most comprehensible distillation of what happened in the 2020 election - certainly better than many of the high-paid lawyers produced.

I'll be popping up just after 4.30pm Eastern, but the whole thing is well worth your time.

Yesterday Michele Bachmann talked about the conference on Steve Bannon's show:

'We were all told to shut up, we weren't allowed to talk about it,' Bachmann told War Room, Monday. 'Now we're going to talk about it.'

Indeed. The conference is open to all, and at no charge. You can see the livestream here.

Good information.

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