The Morning Report — 7/16/24

Good Morning Kids. Barely 48 hours after surviving an assassination attempt by not even an inch, and while still in the midst of nearly a decade of character assassination and political persecution by a corrupted government and criminal justice system, that despite a major setback in the tossing of the Jack Smith documents case (and perhaps the spurious J-6 case on the ropes), there can be no doubt as to the character of Donald Trump.

For sure the phrase, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is in full effect here. Make no mistake the forces of evil will not rest because Trump is a mortal threat to their power and influence, and desire to fundamentally destroy America as founded.

And yet, he's still there, more energized and engaged than ever, as he entered the arena at the RNC in Milwaukee last night.

Trump strolled onto the convention floor as Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blared in the background.

The former president pumped his fist, gave several thumbs up and clapped as he joined his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), and members of his family seated near the stage.

“Fight, fight, fight” the crowd chanted as Trump took his seat, a reference to the words mouthed by the former president on Saturday, moments after he was shot during a rally in Butler, Pa.

Trump listened intently as “Every Day Americans” Mark Laws and Benjamin Josephs delivered RNC speeches. 

He also watched Amber Rose — a former stripper who has fiercely criticized Donald Trump in the past — give her remarks.

“He’s one tough SOB,” International Brotherhood of Teamsters union President Sean O’Brien said of Trump, during his remarks, as the GOP nominee listed on. Trump did not deliver remarks Monday night. 

Earlier in the day, he was officially named the Republican nominee for president  after being nominated by more than 1,215 GOP delegates during a roll call vote of state delegations. 

Shortly before the vote, Trump announced on Truth Social that he had tapped Vance as his VP pick. 

The estimable Miranda Devine notes:

Eight years ago, when Vance wrote the hit 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy documenting his hardscrabble life growing up in Rustbelt USA, he was seen as the key to understanding Trump’s appeal to a new working class base. A rabid Never-Trumper at the time, his remarkable road to Damascus conversion to MAGA hero, is the theme Trump is embracing this week.
The first night’s speakers embodied the invitation Trump is extending to prodigal sons and daughters across the country to join him in the new America First Republican Party he has forged. Democrats, independents, Never-Trumpers, all are welcome into his big hopeful tent.
With the former president watching on, Amber Rose, a former Trump-deranged Only Fan model took the stage and declared her new love for him.
“I believed the left wing propaganda that Donald Trump was racist. But after she “looked into all things Donald Trump” she said she realized “These are my people, this is where I belong… and I put the red hat on too.”
If it hadn’t been past Joe Biden’s bedtime, the night would have had the self-described “most pro-union president” gnashing his teeth.
In a stunning rebuke to President Biden, Sean O’Brien, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, gave the keynote address on behalf of his 1.3 million members. 
“Something is wrong with this country and we need to say it out loud,” he said imploring his “ friends on the Democratic side to embrace collaboration… Working people know our system is broken… There is a political caste system… Inflation is hurting working Americans. 
“This has got to change.”
He didn’t quite endorse Trump but his mere presence was an ominous message to the Democrats.

Who knows whether Trump’s open door approach will lure enough Democrats and undecideds in November to give him the landslide election he craves, but he’s giving it a red hot go.
The crowd responded by chanting “We Love Trump.”

Zack Beauchamp is thus not just a doctrinaire leftist; he’s an exceptionally dim bulb. If he thinks you’re smart, you can probably beat the average second grader in a tough game of tic-tac–toe, or parrot the leftist dogmas Beauchamp loves so deeply, albeit ineptly. So Trump’s pick looks disquieting, except that Beauchamp goes on to say that Vance’s “worldview is fundamentally incompatible with the basic principles of American democracy.” When leftists start prattling on about “democracy,” or more commonly, “our democracy,” they mean their own hegemony and dominance of the American public square. If Vance threatens that, Trump has made a good choice after all.
Beauchamp then treats us to a scare paragraph about just what a black-hearted villain Vance really is:
Vance has said that, had he been vice president in 2020, he would have carried out Trump’s scheme for the vice president to overturn the election results. He has fundraised for January 6 rioters. He once called on the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into a Washington Post columnist who penned a critical piece about Trump. After last week’s assassination attempt on Trump, he attempted to whitewash his radicalism by blaming the shooting on Democrats’ rhetoric about democracy without an iota of evidence.. . . Beauchamp also hates Vance for blaming a leftist’s attempt to murder Trump on the left’s overheated and hysterical rhetoric about the Republican candidate. Vance, you see, is just trying to “whitewash his radicalism.” Never mind all the leftists who have for years now been calling openly for Trump to be killed. In Zack Beauchamp’s tiny Marxist world, they don’t exist.
And so Zack Beauchamp has, in sum, penned a long-form campaign ad for J.D. Vance, and Vox is happily featuring it atop all of its hard-left agitprop. It’s the best testimonial the vice presidential candidate could have wished for.

So, dear friends, given the fact that our systems and society have been damaged and corrupted to such an extent that we are perhaps closer than we've been in nearly 200 years to coming apart at the seams, what does a VP pick really mean in the grand scheme of things, let alone elections?

And yet, there is dissatisfaction from all quarters at the status quo, and if there can be leaders who can make the scales fall from eyes, then that's where we begin and what we have to build on to move forward.
There was one interesting anecdote from yesterday that perhaps gives us a little cause for hope, and I'll take anything at this point.

Tim Robbins once personified the Hollywood Left. The “Bull Durham” star was everywhere during President George W. Bush’s presidency, decrying the Iraq War and attacks on free speech. He hasn’t been as active, or vocal, in recent years. He changed that at the tail end of the pandemic, speaking out against vaccine mandates and the hyper-political climate that turned American against American. That wisdom, regardless of political party, reared up at the best time over the weekend. To anyone drawing a parallel between my film Bob Roberts and the attempted assassination of Trump, let’s be clear. What happened yesterday was a real attempt on a presidential candidate’s life. Those that are denying the assassination attempt was real are truly in a deranged mindset. A human being was shot yesterday. Another killed. They may not be human beings that you agree with politically but for shame folks. Get over your blind hatred of these people. They are fellow Americans. This collective hatred is killing our souls and consuming whatever is left of our humanity.

Considering that far too many of his fellow travelers are still baying for Trump's and our blood, I will take this as a positive sign. Now, let's build on it if we can, however we can?

Have a good day.

TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
• The U.S. attorney general and FBI director, as well as all their D.C. staff, must recuse themselves from every investigation into Trump’s assassination attempt.
  Any Assassination Investigation That Includes Merrick Garland Or Chris Wray Is A Coverup
  
• With approximately 14 years of experience as a sniper — including as protection for major world leaders, such as the Canadian prime minister — Alexander said, “I’m very familiar with the layout of these types of things and what the job should be.”
  Veteran Sniper: ‘No Doubt’ Thomas Matthew Crooks Had Help — ‘Most F**king Obvious Thing’ Left Unguarded
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "The crisis is not the problem, it’s the way forward."
  Trump’s Raised Fist
  
• If anything, the events of the past few days have reconfirmed my belief that God has a plan for our nation, and that he has chosen Donald Trump as his instrument.
  Unanswered Questions About the Trump Assassination Attempt
  
• It took an attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life to do this even though assassins murdered RFK Jr.’s uncle and father.
  Biden junta Finally Giving RFK Jr. Secret Service Protection
  
• Another former senior Secret Service agent agreed and said that even if local law enforcement "dropped the ball," adding that it remains the agency's duty "to ensure compliance either beforehand or in real-time."
  Secret Service KNEW About Rooftop Vulnerability Days BEFORE Trump Shooting: Report
  
• One inch. That’s about the distance between the top of your ear and your brain. And that’s how close America came to transforming, instantly, into a different country.
  Why The Trump Assassination Attempt Was Inevitable
  
• Robert Zimmerman: All in all, the assaassination attempt has — at least for the short run — made such talk unacceptable. It has been revealed for what it is, slanders and libels intended only to incite hate and violence.
  Part 1: The cultural silver lining around the Trump assassination attempt appears large and sustaining
  
• “A true de-escalation would mean dialing back claims that Trump is an existential threat.”
  Was the Trump Shooting ‘Stochastic Terror’?
  
• Christopher F. Rufo: The agency has sacrificed its basic mission on the altar of DEI.
  A Compromised Secret Service

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
• Can you guess who the 'Partner for Peace' is financially rewarding and glorifying?
  "Palestinian" Authority Again Shows How ‘Moderate’ It Is
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• 'Israel also has no right to exist as a racist, white supremacist, settler-colonialist, apartheid, Zionist state,' says rally speaker who defended Oct. 7 terror attack
  In Milwaukee, Anti-Israel Protesters Preview DNC Unrest: 'Matter of Life and Death'
  
• Zuckerman had pledged $200 million to Columbia's Mind Brain Behavior Institute
  Billionaire Mort Zuckerman Cuts Off Millions in Donations to Columbia, Citing Failure To Respond to Anti-Semitism on Campus
  
• "Just remember, for remembering, we honor the dead and save them from dying again in oblivion.”
  Back to Berlin

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• RAYMOND IBRAHIM: As for those who do not learn from the past — such as “open-doors” Vienna, which should have been especially appreciative of its history with Islam — they are on their way to becoming mere appendages of the umma, as today's Muslim refugees achieve what yesterday's Muslim empires could not. 
  Islam in Vienna: The Fate of Those Who Reject History

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• The poll surveyed 300 likely Democratic voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.7 points, according to the New York Post, which described CCA Action Fund as an anti-Bush super PAC. In June, however, a survey conducted by the Mellman Group found Bell narrowly leading Bush 43 percent to 42 percent.
  Anti-Israel 'Squad' Member Cori Bush Down 23 Points in Primary Poll

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• While places like New York City, Denver, and Chicago buckle under the weight of supporting droves of border crossers who've swarmed into their cities over the past two years, the city of Eagle, Idaho just passed a resolution declaring it will not be supporting illegal aliens within its borders, and that public funds will not be used to fund undocumented migrants. The vote came after public comments from residents who said they wanted anti-sanctuary city policies in place to protect taxpayer funds from supporting people who shouldn’t be in the country.
  UN-SANCTUARY: Idaho City Says It Won't Use Any Public Funds to Support Illegal Aliens

  BIDEN DEMENTIA, EPILEPSY, PALACE COUP WATCH

• At one point in the interview, Holt challenged the president when he launched into an extended criticism of Trump — despite using a rare Oval Office address Sunday night to call on Americans to “lower the temperature” following the Trump assassination attempt.
  Biden snaps repeatedly at Lester Holt in combative NBC interview days after Trump assassination attempt: ‘What’s with you guys?’

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• After the Supreme Court issued a ruling June 28 limiting the scope of an obstruction statute used to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the DOJ would “continue to use all available tools to hold accountable those criminally responsible for the January 6 attack on our democracy.” Since then, the DOJ has taken first steps to salvage its charges, including asking judges for additional time to evaluate the impact of the ruling while stressing that the Supreme Court did not entirely reject its use of the statute.
  Biden DOJ Tries To Salvage Jan 6. Charges After Facing Major Blow At Supreme Court
  
• The ruling comes on the first day of the RNC.
  Judge Dismisses Trump Classified Documents Case
  
• A judge’s Monday decision finding special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment “unconstitutional” will almost inevitably end up before the Supreme Court, potentially dooming Trump’s Jan. 6 case along with his classified documents case.
  Jack Smith’s Other Big Trump Case Could Go Down In Flames After Judge Finds His Appointment ‘Unconstitutional’

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Heather Mac Donald: Our divides are as much epistemological as political.
  Edge of the Abyss
  
• “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!”
  ‘March on the RNC’ Protest Didn’t Get the Memo to Tone Down Rhetoric
  
• Lunatic fringe / In the twilight’s last gleaming / This is open season / But you won’t get too far
  5,000 Leftist Demonstrators Descend On GOP Convention 48 Hours After Trump Assassination Attempt
  
• Lt. Gov. Leslie Rutledge (R-AR), emphasized exclusives to Breitbart News that “as the Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, and as an American citizen, I am appalled that it’s taken this long for Joe Biden to call for unity when he and his Democratic allies, whether it was Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, all the Democrats have been demonizing Donald Trump for a decade.”
  Exclusive: Republicans at Convention Laugh at Biden’s ‘Unity’ Push After Years of Democrat Demagoguery
  
• Nothing more perfectly represents this long leftist trend than the message that Reid Hoffman’s advisor, Dmitri Mehlhorn, sent out after the attempt on Trump’s life.
  The Left Has Sold Out to Evil
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: Coverup by copyright.
  Mass Murderer Audrey Hale’s Writings Can’t be Released

  
  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Keep in mind, this is barely two days after Trump had a bullet graze his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania. You would think the Democrats and their media lackeys would take a moment to realize they could have very well inspired that shooting with their incessant yammering about how Trump is Literally Hitler and a fascist who would bring an end to American democracy, but these people have no shame or self-awareness.
  Media Reacts to Vance as VP Exactly the Way You'd Expect
  
• He takes blaming the victim to a new level.
  David Frum Is Scum
  
• You can’t incessantly use rhetoric designed to incite violence and then call for calm when violence inevitably erupts.
  There Can Be No Unity With The Violent Democrat-Media Industrial Complex

• MSNBC yanked their flagship show, “Morning Joe,” off the air on Monday over concerns the hosts would say something “inappropriate” about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, CNN reported. But as The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway explained, MSNBC admitted just “how damaging” the show is to America.
  MSNSDAP Admits ‘Morning Joe’ Is Deeply Damaging To The Country
  
• Biden junta has criticized terror group's failure to promote 'inclusive' govt
  As America Teeters on Brink of Chaos, WaPo Highlights Taliban Climate Change Initiatives
  
• On the other hand, it was very satisfying to see Don Jr. whip this guy's head back at him like a jai-alai ball and swat him like a fly that had somehow managed to evade a No-Pest strip. The kid brought some weak sauce, and Don Jr. made him eat it.  The MSM is no longer a serious force. At this point, it is merely tolerated.
  MSNSDAP Wonk Tries to Ambush Don Jr. Hilarity Ensues

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Another way to think about it: the federal government is currently sending 34% more money to the bondholders of federal debt than it is to the nation’s poor. The only thing that beats net interest costs is Social Security, which has doled out $1.1 trillion to date.
  Another Biden ‘Achievement’: Interest Payments Now Second Largest Federal Spending Category

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• On the flip side: How many people have been saved because of heating and cooling technologies using oil, coal, and natural gas?
  Media sounds the alarm on a handful of ‘possibly heat-related’ deaths

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s massive $2 billion aid package to address pandemic learning is a sign of failed education policies, according to parents and school board members. Parents and school board members expressed their frustration over the aid and the lack of help and accountability from schools during the pandemic, according to Fox News. The state will spend the remaining amount of relief funds on tutoring and other ways to help speed up the learning loss recovery.
  ‘Damage Is Done’: Parents, Officials Scoff At Newsom’s Attempt To Atone For Shutting Down Schools

  POLITICS

• ….As Vice President, J.D. will continue to fight for our Constitution, stand with our Troops, and will do everything he can to help me MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Congratulations to Senator J.D. Vance, his wife, Usha, who also graduated from Yale Law School, and their three beautiful children. MAGA2024!First Millennial, Marine on Major Party Presidential Ticket Grassroots Favorite Major Setback for Globalists, Interventionists.
  Donald Trump Announces J.D. Vance as Running Mate
  
• Bandaged Trump defiantly appears at RNC 2024 just days after dodging assassin’s bullet
  WOUNDED WARRIOR
  
• Robert Spencer: And that’s the best argument in his favor.
  The Left Hates J.D. Vance
  
• In the words of the poet, something’s happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.  At least not clear to the ossified bureaucracies that control public policy in the Western Hemisphere.
  J.D. Vance is the Ultimate Non-Compromise Candidate.
  
• Conservatives are enthusiastic about Trump’s pick.
  The Right Reacts to ‘Vice President J.D. Vance’
  
• Donald Trump selects J. D. Vance as his vice presidential nominee, consolidating the Republican Party’s realignment.
  A Ticket with a Distinctive Policy Brand
  
• Miranda Devine: If it hadn’t been past Joe Biden’s bedtime, the night would have had the self-described “most pro-union president” gnashing his teeth. In a stunning rebuke to Biden, Sean O’Brien, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, gave the keynote address on behalf of his 1.3 million members. 
  Trump invites whole nation to new America First Republican Party at RNC 2024
  
• Even before Saturday the major polls had him ahead. Now the nation knows how badly we need him.
  There Is Probably No Stopping Trump Now
  
• LOL!
  RNC Audience Boos Mitch McConnell When Announcing Kentucky’s Votes for Trump
  
• Hollywood and the media have been dominated by the Left for so long that we conservatives tend to HARRUMPH and pay it no mind. But the power of storytelling is still real, and our ability to tell those stories — even if in condensed, social media form — has circumvented Hollywood. Sensible young Gen Z men (and some women, too) are proving that.
  WHOA: Young Voters Abandoning the Dems in Droves
  
• Voting early saves money, creates a positive narrative, and frees up resources to secure additional votes. Help Donald Trump out. Save the man money and vote early.
  The Economics of Early Voting
  
• Genuflecting to DEI identity politics.
  Democrats’ Kamala Harris ‘Veep-Fake’ Problem
  
• The Wall Street Journal reported Musk that is committing to giving $45 million a month to America PAC. Other major backers of the PAC include Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, the Winklevoss twins, former U.S. ambassador Kelly Craft and her husband, Joe Craft, who is the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, the report said.
  Elon Musk Pledges Staggering Sum Of Money To Elect Trump

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Other world leaders have expressed concern that Republicans will gut funding for Ukraine, and NATO recently announced it would be stationing a senior civilian official in Kyiv to "Trump-proof" the nation.
  Zelensky says he's 'not afraid' of potential Trump win, believes they would work together

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Among those barred from participation are 130 individuals flagged under “Fiche S,” the government’s terrorism watch list, as well as others associated with radical Islamist, ultra-Left, and ultra-Right groups.
  Over 3,500 Olympic Job Applicants Fail Checks for Terror and Security Risks.
  
• The crowd totaled around 100 people and consisted of mostly males in their teens and 20s, per the outlet. Around 200 Gardai including 30 in riot gear were deployed to break up the protesters. After their arrival, the protesters reportedly began throwing rocks and other objects and the police responded with pepper spray. Some of the projectiles thrown by protesters included bricks and fireworks, per Barron's.
  Irish protesters clash with police at protest against mass migration as shelter site set ablaze
  
• However, globalist and left-wing blocs intend to impose a cordon sanitaire on both groups, aimed at limiting their influence over legislation for the next five years.
  The European Right Remains Divided. Here Are the Newest Factions.

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: An avowed liberal's plea for decency should be the standard moving forward
  The Best (and Very Worst) Celeb Reactions to Trump Shooting

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