op-ed Archives - National File https://nationalfile.com/category/op-ed/ NationalFile.com Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:52:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://nationalfile.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-National-Logo-32x32.jpg op-ed Archives - National File https://nationalfile.com/category/op-ed/ 32 32 The Power Play: Addressing China’s Aggressive Moves in Sino-U.S. Relations https://nationalfile.com/the-power-play-addressing-chinas-aggressive-moves-in-sino-u-s-relations/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:52:33 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=61858 Last Updated on July 31, 2023

In recent years, Communist China’s assertive actions and growing influence on the global stage have raised serious concerns about its hostility towards the United States. As China’s geopolitical influence begins to expand, so do our circumstances.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said, “The greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property, and our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and economic espionage threat from China.”

He’s right, yet the FBI, the DOJ, the Department of Defense, and even the President of the United States have sat back and allowed China to run the show– behavior that would have never been tolerated under President Trump.

In recent months and years, very alarming and aggressive actions have occurred on China’s behalf. China has sent a spy balloon over our airspace– conveniently over one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the U.S. and was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites.

Thankfully, the U.S. military could shoot down the balloon after it was done spying.

Despite the United States not having an extradition  agreement with China, they also have established police stations on American soil to “monitor Chinese citizens living in the United States.”

Just last month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent a Chinese warship to harass a U.S. Destroyer in the Taiwan Strait, and they have even threatened the use of nuclear weapons against the United States if we do not stay away from Taiwan.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said that over the last two years, at various points in the Russo-Ukrainian War, when we have witnessed nuclear threats we have known how to address them because we have decades of atomic risk reduction, strategic arms control, and essential signaling experience with the Russians.

We do not have this with China, which is unsettling and destabilizing.

Additionally, China has bought up 384,000 acres of farmland– including land in North Dakota that is just a stone’s throw away from some of our high-capability military bases. They have begun negotiations with Cuba to establish a new joint military training facility on the island – which is roughly just 90 miles from Florida and have rapidly grown their presence in South America. They’ve been colonizing, and continue to occupy, parts of Africa while establishing military bases there.

National File EXCLUSIVE: Paraguayan Arrest of Brazilian Soccer Star Ronaldinho Linked to CCP Operatives

China has also escalated the U.S. Tech War by banning Micron over “security and privacy concerns”. They have raided U.S. businesses in China and arrested workers, expanded their spy network in Mexico and, over the years, they have tenaciously increased their presence in Central America and the Caribbean through what is part of their Belt and Road Initiative (B.R.I.).

The B.R.I. is a global infrastructure development strategy that seeks to connect China with the rest of the world– but in reality, it’s just a calculated expansion of their influence and an attempt by China to isolate Taiwan.

Cuba is the most recent country to join China’s B.R.I. Jamaica and six other island nations in the Caribbean joined in 2019, and Costa Rica in 2018.

The list goes on and continues to grow exponentially. The CCP has a blatant disregard and disrespect for the United States and continues to mock us by violating American rules and privacy through their belligerent and aggressive behavior.

China’s aggression is the direct consequence of electing a President whose son has done shady business dealings with them. The Hunter Biden laptop story is already criminal enough, but whatever blackmail the Chinese government has on the Biden crime family indicates that it blows the laptop story out of the water.

In efforts to do damage control to prevent something that is most likely illegal and horrifying from surfacing, the Biden Administration has allowed China to do whatever it is they want.

While some members of the Biden Administration have called for talks with China to establish peace and de-escalation, China is past the talking stage. With the amount of power and influence China has obtained in such a short time, we are at their mercy, not the other way around.

Related: ‘Missing’ Biden Corruption Witness Says FBI, DOJ Covered Up Chinese Bribery, Had Witness Arrested

About the Author: Isabella DeLuca is a Media Associate at the Gold Institute for International Strategy.

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KING: Say ‘NO’ to Asa Hutchinson, Political Illusionist https://nationalfile.com/king-say-no-to-asa-hutchinson-political-illusionist/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:43:23 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=61522 Last Updated on July 12, 2023

“I’m often asked about our former governor by people who aren’t familiar with him, and I tell them to find out about his true record and not the political illusion he campaigns on.”

My family has been helping Republicans get elected in Arkansas since the 1960s, and I’ve been personally involved in Arkansas Republican politics for 30 years.

In the 1990’s I financially supported and worked for Asa and Tim Hutchinson when they ran for Congress. I was a county Republican chairman 22 years ago. In 2006, when Arkansas was still controlled by a supermajority of Democrats, I won a race for state representative as a Republican and became the Republican leader of the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2009.

Fast forward to today, when Republicans control Arkansas politics and former Governor Asa Hutchinson announces his bid for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. I’m often asked about our former governor by people who aren’t familiar with him, and I tell them to find out about his true record and not the political illusion he campaigns on.

Webster’s Dictionary describes an illusionist as a person who produces illusionary effects, such as a sleight-of-hand performer or a magician.

I have a list of reasons why Asa Hutchinson can accurately be described as a political illusionist.

Let’s start with his talking tough on crime. Governor Hutchinson took office in 2015, when crime was getting worse after Democratic Governor Mike Beebe’s implementation of a public protection act in 2011. The act actually made crime worse and was mainly a political response to years of overspending and bad budgeting. It was a cost-saving measure that basically reduced sentences for felons. One of Beebe’s strongest allies for the public protection act was State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson, the nephew of Asa Hutchinson.

Don’t take my word for it, though. Arkansas is leading the country with its violent crime rate according to the latest data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The data is considered the most accurate available to the FBI. It is gathered through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) from local law enforcement agencies, and seven states were not included in the state ranking because of their lack of participation in reporting to NIBRS. The system received data from 292 out of 311 Arkansas law enforcement agencies for 2021.

They show Arkansas as the leading state for violent crime rate, and fifth for property crime. Violent crime includes murders, of course, and also crimes when someone uses force or threatens force against the victim. What the data do not show is the rate of violent crimes committed by first-time offenders, as compared with repeat offenders.

While the rate of violent crime in Arkansas was going up, Asa Hutchinson relied on his nephew, State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson, to address the crisis.

This was the beginning of a political illusion designed to distract voters, to keep their focus on what he was saying instead of what he was really doing.

The first step in forming the illusion is to form a task force. The task force meets, garners media coverage with dog and pony shows, then produces a report that is supposed to solve the problem.

The task force headed by State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson spent thousands of tax dollars, wasted the valuable time of law enforcement officials, and finally produced “reforms” that did not address the crime problem. Crime continued to get worse.

“Reform” is usually a political illusion, a rabbit pulled out of a hat to deceive the public. Reforms are popular these days among politicians seeking higher office.

Governor Hutchinson bragged about the reforms that his nephew pulled out of his hat. They bragged about how great the reforms were going to improve things.

But crime got worse.

In 2017, Governor Hutchinson and his nephew the state senator continued to introduce reform bills to mislead the public and maintain the status quo that hobbled law enforcement, eased parole eligibility, and failed to address the state’s growing shortage of prison space.

Before Governor Hutchinson took office, the Correction Department was allocated eight percent of the state budget. By the final year of Governor Hutchinson’s eight-year tenure, the budget for Corrections had never increased. It stayed at eight percent of the state’s general revenue budget.

In reality, those eight years of stagnant budgets were cut in public safety when you factor in increased costs for prisons and law enforcement. Crime worsened in part because criminals knew they would be released after serving a fraction of their sentence. Felons released early from prison knew that violating the terms of their parole would merely result in a technical violation. In other words, a mild slap on the hand and not more years behind bars.

In 2017, I filed a public safety bill that would require a four-time convicted felon to serve 80 percent of his sentence. Crimes committed by repeat offenders were spiraling out of control and had to be addressed. Contrary to the political illusion created by the Hutchinsons’ task force, crime had gotten worse.

I was able to win passage of my repeat offender bill in the Senate, only to be opposed and defeated by Governor Hutchinson. He used a variation of the old Bernie Sanders illusion, alleging that my bill would increase costs and harm the state budget, preventing teachers from educating kids and throwing grandma over the cliff.

What he said wasn’t true.

I offered two options to pay for the additional costs of keeping repeat offenders in prison. One option was to increase the Correction Department’s share of the state budget to ten percent. The other option was to dedicate revenue from the internet sales tax to build prisons and increase pay for law enforcement officers.

So when Asa Hutchinson says that he is going to be tough on crime, remember that he’s merely creating a political illusion. Nationwide, the status quo will be unchanged or even worse than before, which is what happened in Arkansas during his time as governor.

Don’t fall for the slick talk when the lawyer-turned-politician speaks. His catchphrases and buzzwords are sleight of hand, creating a political illusion. Don’t let it fool you.

Related: Asa Hutchinson And His Son Are Doing Business With Chinese Communists

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ROGER STONE: The Real ‘Stop The Steal’ Story https://nationalfile.com/roger-stone-the-real-stop-the-steal-story/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:04:10 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=53772 Last Updated on July 26, 2022

Once the corporately-owned and alternative left media cancels, deplatforms, and censors Republicans and conservatives, they set out to rewrite political history to fit their current narrative.

In recent weeks, I have seen wildly inaccurate stories in the Daily Kos, Random Lengths News and now in The Nation, alleging that my 40 years of American political activity has been one long development of the “Stop the Steal” movement which they deem to be illegitimate and seditious.

Being liberals, they never let facts get in the way of a good story. If you believe their twisted narrative, I am the “self-described dirty trickster” who has orchestrated their defeat since the 1980’s. While I have never described myself that way, I have merely acknowledged that bitter Democrats who face defeat based on their own strategic errors have settled me with the moniker.

Let’s start in 1981. After Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, I was retained by former New Jersey Assembly Speaker Thomas H. Kean as his strategic consultant in his second bid for the Governorship of New Jersey.

Kean was a moderate Republican who had actually marched with Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. as a college student, and, along with Congressman Jack Kemp – whose presidential campaign I supported in 1988 – was a proponent of a broader and more inclusive Republican Party with a specific outreach to African-Americans.

Congressman James J. Florio of Cherry Hill was the heavy favorite. Florio had run for Governor four years previously, challenging New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne in the primary.

With my help, Kean moved right on economic issues, championing the Reagan tax cut and putting forth his own state tax cut proposal that was publicly embraced by both Congressman Jack Kemp and early Supply-Side apostle Jeffrey Bell (who had defeated New Jersey U.S. Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 primary). Representative James A. Courter, a Congressman from Western New Jersey and a staunch conservative, shared Kean’s campaign.

New Jersey was first experimenting with campaign public finance and matching funds. Although a patrician, Kean had a very likable manner, as well as deep relationships in the inner-city of Newark. Kean, to his credit, stayed on message and ran a letter perfect campaign where Florio made a number of strategic mistakes.

On election day 1981, Tom Kean was elected Governor by 1,797 votes out of two-and-a-half million cast; triggering an automatic recount.

The backdrop of this recount, however, was a Republican National Committee-funded project called The National Ballot Security Task Force that entailed armed individuals at some polling places and armbands for poll watchers. The Democrats and the media immediately accused Kean and the Republicans of voter intimidation.

Tom Kean was furious because it would mar a stunning coming-from-behind victory. I was also furious because, as subsequent litigation proved, I knew nothing about the program. Neither did Republican State Party Chairman Phillip D. Kaltenbacher, who had served in the New Jersey State Assembly with Kean.

A piece published by Rutgers University recently falsely claimed that I knew about or was involved in what was not only a stupid but a completely unnecessary election day operation.

I learned, in retrospect, who both came up with the idea for and funded the political operation that so embarrassed Governor Kean but which fortunately did not derail Kean’s governorship. There is not a shred of evidence of my involvement but that doesn’t stop a leftist college publication from defaming me.

Then, of course, there is the famous “Brooks Brothers riot.” Contrary to multiple media reports, a crowd of Republican volunteers did not, as a mob, shut down the counting of paper ballots in Miami-Dade County. They did, however, prevent two Democrat officials from taking a substantial amount of ballots—which had already been recounted twice—out of the central counting room and into an anteroom where there were no windows and no Republican poll watchers. This is, of course, a direct violation of Florida Sunshine Law.

This is not the dramatized event involving Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Geller which is fictionalized in the HBO movie ‘Recount.’ Yes, I gave the order to demand that ballots not be taken into private in violation of state law. At that point, the Democrats had already demanded a third recounting of the same ballots when they realized there were no new votes to be found and threw in the towel; making George W. Bush President. The Wikipedia page regarding the “Brooks Brothers riot” is a hilarious fairy-tale and total bullshit.

All of the colorful details of my operating from a trailer and using a walkie talkie don’t change the historical facts. I was asked to oversee the recount by James A. Baker III, who recalled my previous experience in New Jersey in 1981.

“Stop the Steal” actually originated at the 1952 Republican National Convention when Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio arrived in the convention city of Chicago with a sufficient number of first ballot votes to be nominated. Because the Republican National Convention is governed by its own rules, the forces supporting General Dwight D. Eisenhower mounted a challenge in the Credential’s Committee; unseating Taft delegates in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana based on the spurious claim that state party officials in those states had kept the location of the state caucuses that selected delegates from the Eisenhower forces. The gambit worked when the convention approved a Credentials Committee report seating the Eisenhower delegates who were claiming that their votes had been stolen.

In 2016, Senator Ted Cruz, Ohio Governor John Kasich and former Florida Jeb Bush announced that they would launch a convention fight to stop Donald Trump, who had rolled up enough delegates to be nominated on the first ballot, from the nomination. I believed that the Republican establishment, setting out to stop Trump, would challenge the results of the delegate selection process in multiple states including Colorado and Texas.

I also recognized that although Trump had swept many state primaries and caucuses, the actual delegates appointed, at large by state party officials, were anti-Trump. Both in 1952 for Dwight Eisenhower and in 1940 for Wendell Willkie, grassroots supporters would visit the hotels of their “duly elected delegates” to urge them to vote based on the state primary results rather than on their own anti-Trump preferences. When I called for letting Trump supporters know the hotel location of various delegations where Trump’s grassroots legions could lobby their state delegates was, of course, depicted falsely by the media as a “call to violence.”

In the run-up to the 2016 election, I began to worry about the technology that connected computerized voting machines with a central server. I even wrote an op-ed piece about it for The Hill after interviewing several computer scientists who proved how easily one could manipulate the voting machines with a simple $35 device from Best Buy. I was immediately attacked by the Clinton campaign and by Media Matters for America because they said I was “planning to deny the results of the election;” exactly what they did after Donald Trump won.

I devised a program of exit polling in which voters could be voluntarily interviewed after they cast their ballots, with the intention of comparing the results of the exit poll with the ultimate results reported from the voting machines. Once again, the Democrats claimed that Donald Trump and I were engaging in “voter intimidation.” Both Trump and I were sued by the Democratic National Committee and five individual state Democrat Parties who asked for a federal injunction to stop our perfectly legal exit polling exercise. The Democrats lost in five different states when the courts refused to issue the restraining order based on our simple argument that if you were only talking to a voter after they had voted, you could not possibly be intimidating them regarding their already submitted vote. The U.S. Supreme Court quickly refused to hear an appeal from the Democrats.

You won’t find these facts reported in any of the false narratives promulgated by the legacy media or their Democrat allies.

The irony, of course, is that after chiding Donald Trump about his unwillingness to declare before the election that he would accept the results, it was actually Hillary Clinton and her campaign who demanded recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. It was also Hillary Clinton and John Podesta who argued for a delay in the certification of the electoral college vote in the U.S. Senate -even demanding that a Clinton-appointed attorney be allowed to make a presentation to the electors alleging “Russian collusion” in the outcome of an election. The Washington Post falsely claims that Trump’s election was only challenged by a small handful of Democrat Congressmen. A simple Google News search, of course, proves that that is a lie. Interestingly, no one accused Hillary Clinton of sedition or treason.

Now, congenital liar and conman Adam Shchiff and his understudy Jamie Raskin, is falsely accusing me of being involved in both the illegal activities at the Capitol on January 6th, as well as the legal effort to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to send the electoral votes back to several state legislators so that the voting results in those states could be reviewed. I was involved in neither one.

I went to Washington D.C. to speak in a legally permitted rally on Freedom Plaza during the night of January 5th, where I exercised my First Amendment right to question the anomalies and irregularities in the 2020 election results, and to describe what I believe is the apocalyptic struggle facing the country. Nowhere in my remarks do I advocate lawlessness, violence or insurrection.

Unfortunately, YouTube removed my fine speech but I see that the unselect committee utilized it in order to defame me. By law and the Constitution, I am entitled to express my opinion on political matters of the day.

Equally false is the hearsay spit up by former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who Representative Liz Cheney coached to say that it was, her “understanding” that President Trump had directed his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to call both me and General Michael Flynn on January 5th to, as Cheney improvised, to find out what was going to happen on January 6th. Notice the careful wording of this smear.

No such call ever took place, and, in fact, I have never spoken to Mark Meadows on the telephone in my entire life. I did meet him once in 2019 when he was still a Congressman. General Flynn has told me he has also never spoken to Meadows on the phone, particularly on January 5th or 6th.

Hutchinson, coached by Cheney, goes on to say that it was her “understanding” that some of President’s Trump allies had set up a “war room” at the Willard Hotel but that she had dissuaded Meadows from attending a briefing there and that Meadows later participated in a briefing with Roger Stone and General Flynn.

If there was a “war room” at the Willard, I was unaware of it. Even The Washington Post reported that three separate sources involved in the legal machinations by Rudy Giuliani and Prof. John Eastman, told the Post that I was not involved. I do agree with CNN’s Van Jones that the state legislators are the final arbiters as to the selection of electors and that Pence probably did have the legal authority to send them back to the states temporarily while disputes over the election results were examined and decided. I also thought there was virtually no chance that Pence would decide to do so but this is based solely on opinion and without any inside information.

The broad use of “guilt by association” insists that just because I know President Donald Trump, know individual members of the Proud Boys and came in contact with members of the Oath Keepers, means that I must have known of their alleged plans to storm the Capital. There is no e-mail, no phone call, no text message, no encrypted message and no documentary film footage that would prove otherwise.

When it comes to complete fabrication, it’s really hard to beat The Guardian. Their report that a documentary film crew captured Ali Alexander and I conspiring on January 5th or 6th is but another lie.

Adam Schiff – who insisted for two years that he had seen more than circumstantial evidence of “Russian collision” with the Trump campaign and produced none – is now reutilizing the same tactic regarding January 6th, claiming falsely that his bogus investigation has established “ties” between Stone, Flynn and “extremist groups.” Once again, he has nothing. The ominous claim by both Schiff and his understudy in this particularly odious sleight of hand, Jamie Raskin, that their investigation continues, is meaningless.

This is witch-hunt 3.0. Why would anyone believe Adam Schiff who lied about having seen “more than circumstantial evidence of Russian collusion,” falsely accused Donald Trump Jr. of receiving assistance from Russian assets (who we now know to be Fusion GPS plants who provided nothing), lied about a Ukrainian whistleblower who turned out to be a member of his staff, altered text messages between White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Congressman Jim Jordan before leaking them, and insisted that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation direct from the Kremlin?” You can always tell when Adam Schiff is lying; his lips are moving.

These are the words and opinions of Roger Stone, only edited by National File for formatting.

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