Randy's Wrap-Up

2/20/2022

War and Iran’s Nuclear Program

President Biden is once again showcasing weakness on the world stage as Iran is possibly “weeks” away from having enough material for nuclear weapons capabilities. Instead of imposing harsh sanctions on Iran, the Biden administration announced it is waiving sanctions on non-military international cooperation with Iran’s nuclear program.

MAKE NO MISTAKE: The Biden administration’s weakness has given Iran the necessary resources to finish building up their nuclear program.

BIDEN’S WEAKNESS TOWARD IRAN:

Biden has spent the last year tripping over himself to get back into the disastrous nuclear deal, providing Iran with concession after concession.
- Biden even asked South Korea to pay Iran’s UN dues so they could vote in the UN General Assembly.
Biden has failed to enforce sanctions against Iran. Over 2020 to 2021, Iran has increased its oil export total by 123 million barrels – an increase of more than 40%.
- For the first time, China officially reported it is importing Iranian oil. The U.S. took no action to enforce current sanctions that prohibit such sales.
Inflation and rising gas prices, resulting from and exacerbated by Biden’s failed policies, are NOT an excuse to allow Iran to complete their development of a nuclear weapon, which will jeopardize the security of the U.S. or our allies.
Iran and its radical ayatollahs are quickly marching towards boosting nuclear weapon capabilities. Iran has stopped cooperating with nuclear weapons inspectors. They have proven a lack of compliance to previously established red lines by undertaking nuclear work that goes beyond civilian use. Most recently, the White House admitted that any new deal wouldn’t stop production of a nuclear bomb.
Israel has now warned that by returning to this deal, Iran would be just a few months away from nuclear weapons capabilities.
All the while, Iran has been arming terrorists across the Middle East, continues to hold Americans hostage, and has plotted the kidnapping of American citizens on U.S. soil.

BOTTOM LINE: Biden’s willingness to re-enter the disastrous JCPOA and his weakness in negotiations is just one more example of President Biden’s failed leadership, which has emboldened our enemies and abandoned our allies.

This weekend, 13 police officers were shot and wounded across the country in just 24 hours. These violent attacks against our police officers can be directly attributed to Congressional Democrats’ constant demonization and continued push to have our police departments defunded.

A spokeswoman for the National Police Association told Fox News:
"This is what we call the war on cops."

"[w]e are constantly attacked, and we are either attacked doing very simple things — traffic stop, responding to a 911 call, a domestic. All of that."
This violent weekend against our nation's law enforcement comes as 2021 saw a nearly 59% increase in police officer deaths in the line of duty, the most since 1995.

DEMOCRATS’ CRIME CRISIS:

Under President Biden, more police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2021 than in any year since 1995.
- In 2021, 73 police officers were killed - a 59% increase from 2020.
According to the National Fraternal Order of Police, at least 30 police officers were shot in January, which is a 67% increase from last year.
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll shows 2 in 3 voters, 69% of Americans, think more police funding would decrease crime.
- A new Ipsos poll also found that 64% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of crime.
In 2021, over a dozen U.S. cities set new homicide records in 2021.
In 2021, there were 346 officers shot, 63 of whom were killed by gunfire.
In 2021, there were 103 ambush-style attacks on law enforcement officers, a 115% increase from 2020.
Progressive prosecutors are in cities that represent over 20% of the nation’s population.

DEMOCRATS WHO SUPPORT DEFUNDING THE POLICE:

President Biden famously expressed support for the Defund the Police movement during an interview in 2020 but was forced to walk back his position after public backlash to his position.
Vice President Kamala Harris applauded Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for defunding the police.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “defunding police means defunding police.” Arguing the cuts to the NYPD weren’t enough.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley said she supports efforts to defund police departments.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib called for ‘no more police.’
- Tlaib’s campaign has paid over $150,000 to an anti-Semitic and defund the police activist, Rasha Mubarak.
Rep. Ilhan Omar said “not only do we need to defund, we need to dismantle” Police Departments.
Rep. Cori Bush said that she would “make sure” she has private security for her protection while simultaneously promising to defund the police for the rest of America.
- Rep. Cori Bush then doubled down in her support for defunding our police departments on Twitter.
- In February, Bush said she would not stop calling for our police departments to be defunded.
President Biden’s Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke supported efforts to “defund the police.”
President Biden’s Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said officials must heed calls to “decrease police budgets and the scope, role, and responsibility of police in our lives.”
President Biden’s Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh, proposed a budget to divert funding from law enforcement.

REMINDER: House Democrats are STILL pushing their Defund the Police rhetoric as this crime crisis surges. Defunding and demonizing the police like this has dangerous consequences.

Clinton Lied, Clinton Spied

Special Counsel John Durham filed a motion late last week which revealed that Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign paid a technology company to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish a false link between Donald Trump and Russia.

After Trump won the election and was sworn into office, the DNC sought to exploit federal contracts the internet company had with the executive branch in order to spy on the White House. Per Durham: “Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP [Executive Office of the President] as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP. Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.”

This is Watergate times 1,000: Bugging a presidential campaign both before and after the election, and then carrying on the surveillance into the White House itself, all to establish a false “narrative” and “inference” that Trump was actually a Manchurian Candidate who Moscow controlled. It is almost beyond belief.

Every media outlet, especially those that pushed the Russia collusion hoax, have a duty to cover the realities of John Durham’s investigation. There must be accountability for those who broke the law to falsely smear President Trump.

Recent Legislation

H.R. 6433 - IOC Act
H.R. 6733 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from requiring taxpayers to provide biometric information.
H.R. 6748 - To impose sanctions with respect to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and for other purposes.
H.Res. 928 - Requesting the President, and directing the Secretary of Homeland Security, to transmit to the House of Representatives copies of all documents in their possession referring or relating to certain aspects of border policies of the United States.