**The Trump Dilemma
By: Bill O'Reilly / February 25, 2024
It is exceedingly difficult to get an accurate, fair assessment
of Donald Trump. The liberal media despises him to a cartoonish
degree, and some on the right have elevated him to cult leader
status.
So, Americans and folks living abroad are being misled about a
man who could be leading the United States again by this time next
year. If that happens, Mr. Trump would join the hefty Grover Cleve-
land in the non-consecutive presidential terms category.
I know former President Trump as well as any journalist, with
more than 30 years of interaction, dozens of interviews, sporting
events, dinners, and telephone chats.
So here is the truth about the man.
He's disciplined in strategy when engaged. Most everything
comes down to "the art of the deal." Although some foreign leaders
despise him, there was far more order in the world on his watch
than there is today under the apathetic, ideological Joe Biden.
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Trump was able to largely stop the migrant invasion by "con-
vincing" Mexican President Obrador to place troops on the Guatemalan
border as well as the USA barrier. Once Biden took office, those
Mexican troops stood down because that country makes money from
unchecked border intrusions with which Biden has no problem.
The Trump administration had a first-rate national security
team headed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security
Advisor Robert O'Brien. The ISIS terror group, allowed to gain
ferocity under President Obama, was virtually destroyed in the
Middle East by U.S. Special Forces. Trump was feared in the ter-
rorist precincts, including Iran and Afghanistan. Biden is not.
Putin was largely contained by the Trump administration. Bad
Vlad's annexation of Crimea happened under Obama; the invasion of
Ukraine is on Biden's resume.
Economically, Larry Kudlow and Steve Mnuchin basically imposed
an anti-inflation, steady growth policy that allowed "real wages"
for American workers to rise around 7 percent.
Covid stopped the economy cold, of course, but the pre-pandemic
numbers are impressive.
Under President Biden, Americans are suffering from higher
prices. Real wages are actually down.
So, on policy, the Trump administration was largely successful.
That is if you are a fair assessor.
A mystery of the universe is why Donald Trump does not make
his record the centerpiece of his current campaign. Once again,
emotion clouds the situation.
The former President wanted to believe, and still does to this
day, that the election of 2020 was a fraud. Trump then made that
unproven opinion the centerpiece of his legacy.
To assist him in his election challenge, he rallied his sup-
porters, some of whom attempted vigilante actions on January 6,2021.
Donald Trump's condemnation of that anti-American display never
surfaced. A mistake of historical proportions.
That has overwhelmed his political profile and allowed his
enemies to use the justice system, which is increasingly corrupt,
to badly damage him.
Encouraged by the Biden White House, a variety of unprece-
dented legal cases and outcomes have badly injured Trump. There's
a multi-million-dollar judgment to a woman in New York who cannot
even remember the year Donald Trump allegedly attacked her. There's
a half-billion-dollar judgment ordered by a leftist New York City
judge in a contrived real estate beef that has no victims. There's
a federal case against Trump for secreting top-secret documents
while President Biden walks on the same charge, on and on and on.
All of this has infuriated Mr. Trump, who cannot stop lashing
out against the machine arrayed against him. That lash includes
many crude personal attacks, some of which damage the former
President.
But he and his supporters don't see it that way. Trump, the
"avenger," is the avatar.
The result is political chaos in America. The sitting Presi-
dent is hurting the nation with unfathomable policies like the open
border and massive, irresponsible spending designed to buy votes.
Joe Biden will go down in history alongside Jimmy Carter.
Therefore, Donald Trump, successful in running the country
for four years, should easily defeat the hapless Joe Biden, who
can barely function at this point.
But that is not the case. Polls show a close race.
It shouldn't be. But emotions are dictating on both sides.
Dangerous times.**
I seldom disagree with O'Reilly but he came up short on a few
facts.
Trump is a generous, pragmatic, realist, who has about 75M
people who would also like the record to be corrected as to the
facts behind the 2020 Election and the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
These are the facts that most patriotic, true, Americans who
just want the corrupt Left, media, and the DOJ, pay for the last
four years of our lives that Biden has squandered.
As a Christian, I still believe God will judge one and all
in His due time.
Conservatively,
John
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