By Mike Huckabee
March 30, 2022
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Good morning! Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!
Today's newsletter includes:
- President Trump should have known this would happen
- Poll: Trump beats them both
- Big developments continue in Hunter laptop story
- And much more
Sincerely,
Mike Huckabee
1. DAILY BIBLE VERSE
‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’
Jeremiah 33:3
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2. Today’s Russia-Ukraine News
Here’s the Fox News link to today’s continually-updated Russia-Ukraine news:
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ukraine-russia-live-updates-03-30-2022
Russia claims there has been no major progress on peace negotiations. But Russian troops have reportedly pulled back from Kyiv. There are reports that they’re retreating back to Belarus and Russia to regroup and resupply, since the Ukrainians have been so effective at cutting off their supply lines and killing their leaders. An anonymous US official told Fox News that our government believes Putin isn’t aware of how badly his military is performing or how much the sanctions are hurting Russia’s economy because his senior advisers are too afraid of him to tell him the truth.
On that subject, Redstate.com has a very interesting analysis, complete with maps and video, of how little Putin has accomplished, despite all the destruction he’s caused, and whether it’s likely any army would really retreat so it could try to retake territory it already held – or is that just a cover story to keep from admitting how badly they’re getting their rumps kicked by the Ukrainians? And if Russia really is backing away, why does our President keep saying dumb things that make that harder for Putin to do?
3. President Trump should have known this would happen
Former President Trump was back in the news in several ways Tuesday, so here’s a Trump dump round-up:
It’s hard to believe that someone who has as many people who mindlessly and passionately hate him as Donald Trump can sometimes be his own worst enemy, but he just did it again. I agree with him that it’s likely Putin knows why the wife of the mayor of Moscow gave money to the Bidens, and I’d like to know, too. But Trump should’ve known that when he says, "I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it” in an interview, it will get the same response from the media as tossing a bucket of hamburger into a shark tank.
They’re still quivering with rage over him joking that Russia should release Hillary’s emails, even though everyone assumed they had them, just as everyone with a brain assumes that Putin knows everything on Hunter Biden’s laptop. But Trump should know by now that if he says it, that will become the story, not Biden. I’m linking to more at PJ Media because it’s the only write-up I could find that wasn’t wildly slanted to the “Trump colludes with Putin!!!” narrative, which I think proves my point.
4. Poll: Trump beats them both
A new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that if Donald Trump were the GOP candidate in 2024, he would beat Joe Biden by 47-41% and Kamala Harris by 49-38% (the rest undecided.) Pretty amazing, considering the way the media have protected Biden/Harris while ripping Trump 24/7 for the past six years. Why, it’s almost as if voters are more inclined to believe their own eyes and bank balances than CNN and MSNBC!
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/600146-poll-trump-leads-biden-harris-in-2024-matchups?rl=1
Rep. Matt Gaetz suggested that if Republicans retake the House, they should vote Trump in as Speaker to replace Nancy Pelosi, then impeach Biden and Harris and let him become President again to clean up Biden’s gigantic mess. It’s far-fetched but feasible, since Speakers aren’t required to be elected House members. But Trump put the kibosh on it, saying, “No, it's not something I want to do.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-shoots-down-house-speaker-idea
And in our absolute bottom Trump story, the latest hair-on-fire attempt to keep their drooping January 6th balloon inflated involves Democrats on the House Committee claiming there’s a gap of over seven hours in Trump’s White House phone records on that day, suggesting the records were purged or that he was using “burner phones” to hide that he was managing an insurrection. Trump issued a statement that he doesn’t even know what a “burner phone” is. Trump’s spokeswoman said they have no control over White House phone records and assume all calls were recorded. And several sources said Trump routinely used different phones that didn’t go through the White House switchboard.
5. Big developments continue in Hunter laptop story
Yes, there's much more breaking news concerning the laptop.
A retired veteran of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service who signed that letter saying the laptop had “earmarks” of Russian disinformation is now enmeshed in controversy. He now says he was being “sarcastic” during a heated tweet exchange with Ric Grenell. In response to someone else’s comment, John Sipher said, “I lost the election for Trump? Then I feel pretty good about my influence.”
Grenell made the reasonable inference about Sipher’s motives for signing the letter and tweeted, “Sipher proud he helped swing an election by citing ‘Russian disinformation.’ I hope the new Republican Congress subpoenas him.”
Sipher tweeted, “I take special pride in personally swinging the election away from Trump.”
He responded to criticism by claiming he was just being sarcastic. The word “personally” might have been, as Sipher had a lot of help, but his tweets ooze with self-satisfaction at playing a role in Trump’s defeat.
As John Dunleavy at the Washington Examiner notes, even former Attorney General Bill Barr has said that letter “probably affected the outcome” of the 2020 election.
This snarky exchange reminds me of why I don’t like Twitter. Still, some of the conversation about the laptop is instructive. For example, it was pointed out that in October 2020, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said there was no intelligence to support that the laptop was Russian disinformation. Sipher responded this way: “He [Ratcliffe] didn’t say it was not a part of a Disinfo campaign. He said we don’t have intelligence to support it. Playing games with words.”
It wasn’t Ratcliffe playing games with words. Ratcliffe was not hedging; he was telling the truth. (So was Grenell.) Even before Election Day 2020, we had verification that at least some of the laptop emails were genuine, but the media ignored that.
In an update on a story we broke yesterday, California Rep. Darrell Issa has sent record and documentation preservation requests to several tech executives, White House aides and former intel officials in connection with the New York Post story about Hunter’s laptop. Issa says that if (when!) Republicans re-take the House in November, he’ll lead an investigation into the suppression by major media, in the weeks before the 2020 election, of the Hunter Biden laptop story..
“Big Tech will resist accountability like it always does,” Rep. Issa said, “but we are more determined than ever to make certain that we get the truth of the collusion that we know occurred.”
The story at The Hill attempts to qualify the story, saying there was concern at the time that the material was hacked. But there was never any evidence that it was hacked. Instead, we had Hunter’s business partner Tony Bobulinski confirming that some of the emails on the laptop, certainly the ones that had his name on them, were genuine --- long, LONG before The New York Times admitted they were. (The Hill story fails to mention Bobulinski.) That includes the email that mentions “10 percent for the Big Guy.”
Document preservation requests have been sent to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and current CEO Parag Agrawal; Meta (Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Communications Director Andy Stone; former CIA Directors Michael Hayden, John Brennan and Leon Panetta; former CIA deputy Chief of Staff Nick Shapiro; and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. These intel people are among the 51 former intelligence officials who signed that letter expressing confidence, without evidence, that Russia was involved in the laptop story.
Others receiving such requests include White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Communications Director Kate Bedingfield and Chief of Staff Ron Klain, all of whom were working on Biden’s campaign when the laptop story broke.
Incidentally, in a bit of unintentional humor, The Hill story refers to Republicans’ concern about “perceived censorship of conservatives.” “Perceived”??
Here’s Miranda Devine, who broke the laptop story for the New York Post, on FOX News’ “Outnumbered” Tuesday, saying “the dam is about to burst” as the federal tax probe into Hunter’s business ventures continues.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/miranda-devine-hunter-biden-scandal-laptop
She’s right, as this story from The Federalist attests. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin have released receipts showing Hunter received payments from foreign oligarchs that reveal the extent to which “Big Guy” President Biden is almost certainly compromised by Communist China.
Johnson says their reports have been “chock full” of this information, and yet the media “buried those details.” To add insult, the media also smeared Grassley and Johnson, saying they were spreading (sigh, this is getting old) “Russian disinformation.”
Here’s more detail from the Washington Examiner.
Oh, and better sit down for this one: According to emails on the laptop, guess who was reportedly filing JOE Biden’s income taxes? Hunter’s business partners at Rosemont Seneca.
Here’s more of the incest:
https://nypost.com/2021/05/29/biden-hired-rosemont-seneca-employee-to-private-vp-office/
Here’s what Jonathan Turley had to say about the Bidens’ “family business” on Tuesday:
https://washingtonnewspost.com/news/usa/the-bidens-are-known-for-influence-pedaling-turley/
Those who suppressed this information until Biden was President were committing fraud, deliberately conning the American people as just one strategy for affecting the outcome of the 2020 election. Matt Vespa agrees, writing in Townhall about a recent Rasmussen poll that shows two-thirds of Americans now take this seriously…
In a move intended to drive Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler crazy –- as if his grip on reality weren’t already tenuous –- Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida actually had the contents of Hunter’s laptop officially entered into the Congressional Record. (We’re not sure how this is possible, since so much of it is XXX-rated.) Some see this step as largely symbolic, but according to J. D. Rucker, it’s a “major move” that opens the door for congressional investigation into both Hunter and Joe Biden. This is a must-read, and be sure to check out the video tweeted by Rep. Gaetz of his questioning of assistant FBI Cyber Chief Bryan A. Vorndran, who has no clue whatsoever where Hunter Biden’s laptop is...
The Daily Mail also has a great account...
Note that Rucker’s story also has links to --- count ‘em --- five other laptop stories, which I recommend you peruse at your leisure. After years of delay, there suddenly is a firehose of news regarding the laptop.
Finally, according to the U.K. news site Neon Nettle, retired CIA Operations Officer Sam Faddis is leading an investigation into what’s on the laptop’s hard drive, and he’s apparently found something curious. At this writing, we’ve seen the story at just that one outlet, but Faddis reportedly is saying Hunter's laptop contains highly sensitive Defense Department encryption keys (“root encryption certificates”), perhaps dozens of them, and these should not be present on a personal laptop. He says these keys might allow Hunter to create “throwaway email accounts on DOD servers and thereby route personal and business communications through those servers to escape detection.”
Kind of like what Hillary did with her own personal server, but much more sophisticated –-- not, “you know, like with a cloth.”
Tomorrow: It gets worse –- Hunter’s business ties to Ukraine “pathogen research” labs.
6. Disney Zoom
Anyone doubting how far off the deep end of radical gender politics Disney has plunged should read this Daily Mail report of a company-wide Zoom meeting.
Among the revelations: we learn that Disney no longer uses “gendered” terms like “boys and girls” at its theme parks and assumes that little girls no longer want to be called “princesses” (do they assume that the boys do?)…
A Disney executive in charge of content claimed she’s the mother of “two queer children” (one transsexual and one pansexual) and declared that her goal is to make half of all Disney characters racial minorities or LGBTQIA (for the record: the gay population of the US is about 3% and trans people are fewer than 1%)…
A Disney animation executive producer gushed that “Our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my not-so-secret gay agenda. Wherever I could, I was adding queerness. No one would stop me, and no one was trying to stop me.” (They’ve gone from “How dare you homophobes suggest that there’s a gay agenda?” to “How dare you homophobes criticize our blatant gay agenda?”)…
Also invited in on the call was Nadine Smith, co-founder of Equality Florida, who bizarrely claimed that the ultimate goal of Republicans and the new Parental Rights Protection Law is to take kids away from their parents: 'When they can erase you, when they can criminalize your existence, when they can demonize who you are, the next step is to criminalize you and take your kids.” (FYI: The goal of the bill is to stop schools from taking away the parents’ right to determine whether their young children will be exposed to sexual content and gender politics. If anyone is trying to take away parents’ right to raise their kids, it’s the schools. And Disney, apparently.)
I notice that in the comments on this article, there are a lot of people saying they just canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions or their plans to vacation at Disney parks. That’s understandable. But I also know that Disney is ubiquitous in the world of children’s entertainment, and parents want safe, family-friendly entertainment for their kids. If Disney has left that business to go into the propaganda racket, where else can parents turn? For that, I turned to our resident pop culture guru, Pat Reeder, for some suggestions…
Pat: If you’re looking for Christian-oriented programming for the whole family, first stop would be TBN, where we do the “Huckabee” show. With that shameless plug out of the way, there are also lots of other great shows on TBN. They even have a 24-hour free streaming service of programs for kids ages 2-12. It’s called Smile of a Child TV, and you can sign up here:
Some other popular Christian streaming services that offer movies, family-friendly TV series and kids programming are Pureflix (https://www.pureflix.com), Minno (https://www.gominno.com), Faith Life TV (https://faithlifetv.com), Up Faith & Family (https://uptv.com) and the Dove Channel (https://www.dovechannel.com.) If you’re just looking to stream movies, there’s Christian Cinema (https://www.christiancinema.com) and Vid Angel, which offers regular movies with the objectionable material edited out, the way broadcast TV does -- or used to (https://www.vidangel.com.)
If you have an Amazon Prime membership for free shipping, it includes all sorts of other benefits, including free streaming of music and thousands of movies and TV shows. And if you have any cable service with Turner Classic Movies, you can get the TCM app for your Firebox, Roku, etc., and stream a constantly-changing assortment of classic films from the days when Hollywood made movies instead of political speeches.
YouTube is owned by Google, which I hate to support, but if you’re willing to sit through brief commercials, you can watch it for free. There are now hundreds of full-length movies on YouTube, as well as episodes of older TV shows and classic cartoons, where Bugs Bunny in a dress is the closest you'll get to gender politics messages.
And there are many YouTube channels created by regular people that are frankly more interesting and sometimes better produced than what you’ll find on the networks. Since I prefer history and other non-fiction, I find that most of what I watch these days is on YouTube. Some of my favorite channels that I highly recommend are:
In the Food and Crafts category, try the charming Emmymade, the hilarious Recipe Archeology, the Southern cooking videos left us by the late Phyllis Stokes, and countless others, including such favorites as Jacques Pepin, Graham Kerr and Justin Wilson. Tasting History combines recipes from the past with the fascinating stories behind them. Music fans should check out the Professor of Rock, Sea of Tranquility, Wings of Pegasus, the Real Music Observer, Vinyl Rewind and Todd In The Shadows’ “One Hit Wonderland.”
Fans of classic movies and TV will love LandumC Goes There. If you like visiting cool places without leaving your La-Z-Boy, travel the USA on Daze With Jordan The Lion. If you like movies, try The Critical Drinker and for classic horror film history, Dark Corners Reviews. Those interested in Broadway musicals will love Wait In The Wings and Staged Right. And some of our favorite unique YouTube series include the Velveteen Lounge Kitch-en, Record Ology, Hellthy Junk Food, Food Theory, Freedom Toons and the Ultimate Fashion History.
Or you could just watch old sitcoms on Hulu. But you should know it’s owned by Disney.
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