The Mexican American War - Starts Wednesday - NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, or simply NAFTA has brought about the total destruction of the middle class jobs in the United States. The President Bill Clinton NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, or simply NAFTA is being renegotiated by President the Donald Trump administration starting this week, so don't expect The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC to give you the full details.

NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, or simply NAFTA has brought about the total destruction of the middle class jobs in the United States.  The President Bill Clinton NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, or simply NAFTA is being renegotiated by President the Donald Trump administration starting this week, so don't expect The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC to give you the full details.

A New Slave Agreement

Millions of jobs have been lost to Mexico.

The reason we still have tens of millions of Americans out of work, or stuck in part-time, no benefit, dead end jobs inside the labor force is because of NAFTA, the gift of Bill and Hillary Clinton that continues to take jobs and close factories in America today.

It's simple, even for the simple minded; The average daily wage for a Mexican worker, inside a Mexican factory, creating products to export to America is four dollars a day ($4.00 day rate).

The trade imbalance is alarming, about $65 Billion dollars per year.

NAFTA started in 1994 and the jobs flowed to Mexico and tens of thousands of American factories were closed, and remain behind chain locked gates today.

If you want a better life, kill off NAFTA.

If you want to start a business in America, kill off NAFTA.

If you want a better future for your children, kill off NAFTA.

Remember, the daily minimum wage in Mexico is $4.00 per day.

We don't need to get something, we need to get everything.

Kill off NAFTA.

Build a Wall.

Create American middle class jobs. 

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The bitter bastard Senator John McCain is a primary suspect in White House Trump Main Stream Media Leaks McCain once received my vote, but now,

John McCain is the person leaking to the main stream media.  Senator John McCain is high on the suspect list due to his public comments about everything Trump.  Senator John McCain has been pushed aside by the American people and President Trump and he is clearly looking for revenge.  The once Republican point man is now disgraced and is being left behind on all things important.  Intelligence operatives have visited every public comment Senator John McCain has made since the election of Donald Trump, and it is clear, that John McCain receives a constant flow of illegal information concerning the White House and President Trump.  

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Man, that was close. Elon Musk or Elon the Welfare genius quit the White House advisory council because President Trump pulled out of the U.S. Paris Climate Change Agreement. Elon the taxpayer sucking machine is pissed off because the money to his adventure, the taxpayer's cash, will also stop as Elon Musk, the dreamer with your money will fail. Climate-change billionaire Elon Musk has quit a White House advisory council after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement

Man, that was close.  Elon Musk or Elon the Welfare genius quit the White House advisory council because President Trump pulled out of the U.S. Paris Climate Change Agreement.  Elon the taxpayer sucking machine is pissed off because the money to his adventure, the taxpayer's cash, will also stop as Elon Musk, the dreamer with your money will fail.  

Climate-change billionaire Elon Musk has quit a White House advisory council after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement

1. Goodbye to ‘American Last.’ The Paris agreement was basically an attempt to halt climate change on the honor system. It’s only legal requirements were for signatories to announce goals and report progress, with no international enforcement mechanism. As a result, it was likely that the United States and wealthy European nations would have adopted and implemented severe climate change rules while many of the world’s governments would avoid doing anything that would slow their own economies. The agreement basically made the U.S. economy and Europe’s strongest economies sacrificial lambs to the cause of climate change.
2. Industrial Carnage. The regulations necessary to implement the Paris agreement would have cost the U.S. industrial sector 1.1 million jobs, according to a study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. These job losses would center in cement, iron and steel, and petroleum refining. Industrial output would decline sharply.
3. Hollowing Out Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The industrial carnage would have been concentrated on four states, according to the Chamber of Commerce study. Michigan’s GDP would shrink by 0.8 percent and employment would contract by 74,000 jobs. Missouri’s GDP would shrink by 1 percent. Ohio’s GDP would contract 1.2 percent. Pennsylvania’s GDP would decline by 1.8 percent and the state would lose 140,000 jobs.
4. Smashing Small Businesses, Helping Big Business. Big businesses in America strongly backed the Paris climate deal. In fact, the backers of the climate deal reads like a “who’s who” of big American businesses: Apple, General Electric, Intel, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, General Mills, Walmart, DuPont, Unilever, and Johnson & Johnson. These business giants can more easily cope with costly regulations than their smaller competitors and many would, in fact, find business opportunities from the changes required. But smaller businesses and traditional start-ups would likely be hurt by the increased costs of compliance and rising energy costs.
5. Making America Poorer Again.  A Heritage Foundation study found that the Paris agreement would have increased the electricity costs of an American family of four by between 13 percent and 20 percent annually. It forecast a loss of income of $20,000 by 2035. In other words, American families would be paying more while making less. 
6. Much Poorer. The overall effect of the agreement would have been to reduce U.S. GDP by over $2.5 trillion and eliminate 400,000 jobs by 2035, according to Heritage’s study. This would exacerbate problems with government funding and deficits, make Social Security solvency more challenging, and increase reliance on government’s spending to support households.

Unsurprisingly, Musk is a strong advocate for growing “carbon taxes” on natural fuels. In a January 2017 interview with Gizmodo, Musk declared:

CO2 [carbon diooxide] isn’t exactly pollution, but it does cause warming and slight acidification of water if very large quantities are dug from deep underground and added to the surface cycle. The problem is the age-old tragedy of the commons. The common good being consumed is atmospheric and oceanic carbon capacity, which currently has a price of zero. This results in an error in market signals and far more CO2 is generated than should be. We won’t ever go to zero CO2, but the rate over time should be dropped far below what it is today.

Start low and increase it until the desired outcome is achieved. This can be offset by a reduction in other taxes, like sales tax, which is quite regressive. This is analogous to taxing cigarettes and alcohol more than fruits and vegetables, which everybody agrees makes sense. We should have higher taxes on the things that science says are probably bad for us than those that are probably good for us.

The Ass Wipe Clapper vs. President Donald Trump on CNN -

Clapper and CNN were made for each other, as Clapper Claps on and on remember the ass wipe lied to every American.  You have been under the eye of the elite's for years, and he lied about it.  The ass wipe Clapper now tells us the established elite government is under assault by President Trump, well, damn right, that was the idea in making him president.  We must fight the established bastards and take our country back, GOD bless Donald Trump. CNN alerts are a joke, just sign up for CNN Alerts and read them for a week. CNN is anti-American, anti-American citizen and continues to fight against the legal citizens of the United States.  

The Torch of Freedom - Obama Schumer Clinton Pelosi has killed off 1.37 million “missing men and women workers” in the American labor force between the ages of 45 and 74-years-old as the Socialist Communist Experiment by the DNC spread across America. It is clear to all that Washington D.C. would be best served by the British returning with their torches and have a reset. Chuck Schumer, the DNC Democratic Nightmare, clearly is all political and could care less about America as a whole or you as an individual. President Donald Trump can fix Washington and save our nation without fire hot torches, give him a hand and support his efforts or let Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Nancy Pelosi and others toss the first torch.

Obama Schumer Clinton Pelosi has killed off 1.37 million “missing men and women workers” in the American labor force between the ages of 45 and 74-years-old as the Socialist Communist Experiment by the DNC spread across America. It is clear to all that Washington D.C. would be best served by the British returning with their torches and have a reset.  Chuck Schumer, the DNC Democratic Nightmare, clearly is all political and could care less about America as a whole or you as an individual.  President Donald Trump can fix Washington and save our nation without fire hot torches, give him a hand and support his efforts or let Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Nancy Pelosi and others toss the first torch.

FBI Donald Trump Threats - Agenda 25, Murder in the White House. - Even hard left socialist Democratic progressives like Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) Rep. Jackie Spier (D-CA) with Rep. Blumenauer using baseless allegations about Trump’s mental health as the springboard to invoke the 25th Amendment in a floor speech. They want President Donald Trump Dead, a political death, the worst kind.

It's where Andy Ledger always started a criminal murder investigation, at the very beginning. Random questions running through his mind; Did Hillary Clinton really have a hit list? Did Kim Jong-un of North Korea his brother?  Does CNN really have a political agenda?  Is the DNC being taken over by communist radicals?  Is the United States going to put troops on the ground in Syria?  What's the deal with the Russian ship off the U.S. East Coast. 

Andy knew this was more fake stuff, spread around like on the farm, he could smell the pony.  A lot of the news was just political hack jobs with enough bits of truth them keep people reading.

Nothing in these files except a long night and cold coffee, but he kept reading the junk, the plot to get rid of the President of the United States and other current events. Protests everywhere, hate spreading, blacks killing blacks, coal mines starting up, Iran getting their nuclear missiles.  

Andy knew that someone had to benefit if the President shows up as a dead man down by the river or even inside the White House. Maybe it was a rumor, maybe they were after some GOP Senator, maybe the whole thing was a fake move?  They had to have a fall guy.  Who would take the blame?  Maybe a Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or some big shot at the NAACP?

Andy knew something was up, but this stuff was garbage until he started taking his notes and drawing on his legal pad. Keeping up with the news is about impossible but keeping up with all these classified findings from DHS, CIA, NSA, FBI, DIA and others was impossible. 

Andy knew after almost thirty years of F.B.I. investigations that once a plot or murder plan is established people start to get nervous and start talking.  Somebody knew the truth if it was out there.  Somebody would take some cash in the form of a federal reward for information.  Some Islamic Radical would sell them out for a flame thrower, you never really knew. 

He also knew if he made once false move their evil plot and plan could become a reality. He didn't have a lot of time per the F.B.I. Director, in less the 72 hours they plan to kill the President of the United States, or not.

It was Andy's job and thousands of others to make sure Donald Trump was safe every minute of his life. 

Maybe it had already stated, the Russian U.N. ambassador was already dead and the North Korean leaders brother Kim Jong-Nam is dead in Malaysia and his little brother's North Korean Foreign Minister Lee Su-yong says that North Korea will not hesitate to use a nuclear weapon against South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and even the United States.

China cut off all North Korean Coal imports and refused to buy North Korean Coal which forced Pyongyang North Korea into a state of rage and worry.

North Korean President Kim Jong-un continued to threaten the United States and also continues to fire off his newly developed solid fuel missiles threatening all their neighbors as China reaches out in the China Sea and continues to build man-made islands to expand their military reach.

It's been over twenty five years since the Soviet Union collapsed and Vladimir Putin refuses to let the curtain close, he wants the Russian Empire back and he's sending military troops into Syria, Cuba, Africa and other places.

Andy Ledger knew and so did the F.B.I. Director that the past will repeat itself and it was unfolding in the headlines around the world.

New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago continue their protesting today, "Not My President's Day Rally" is the far lefts attempt to remove the President of the United States.

Even hard left socialist Democratic progressives like Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) Rep. Jackie Spier (D-CA) with Rep. Blumenauer using baseless allegations about Trump’s mental health as the springboard to invoke the 25th Amendment in a floor speech. They want President Donald Trump Dead, a political death, the worst kind.

Worldwide the people are starting to stand up with BREXIT and now the election of a populist American President and with the cruelest Soviet Union gone it seems American Progressives want to build another collective paradise on earth.

These are not revolutionary leaders, these are brutal leaders that plan to destroy the voice of the American voters some say in the special F.B.I. brief that Andy Ledger just tossed on his patio table as he lit one more cigarette.

Andy Ledger didn't take the talk about invoking the 25th Amendment very seriously by these DNC nut jobs, but he knew a lot about the socialist communist system of controlling the news, talking big, beating their tribal drums, creating class enemies, even feeding every American home FAKE News.

Someone had calculated all these current events and he was determined to find the truth and do it quickly.

The secret Soviet Russian archives had been computer hacked years ago and all the old KGB plots and plans revealed that maybe 68 million innocents had been murdered by various means during their 75 year socialist communist experiment.

Radicals like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, George Soros and thousands of others wanted a new civilization conjured up in their minds over drinks in Washington D.C.

Their brave new world didn't bother with typical state borders, and wanted open trade to transfer wealth around the globe.

Their evil forced creation of legal drugs, open borders, open trade, sanctuary cities and more are now doomed as President Donald Trump is the new Captain America and he is the bull in the China shop and there's no end in sight.

Andy Ledger worked on the special assignment; DNC Murders when four DNC associates were murdered soon after WikiLeaks dumped thousands of emails revealing the double dealing and plotting of the Democratic Party at the highest levels.

Many of these people are willing to sacrifice the entire population of American for their vision, humanity and morality removed from government equals Tyranny, Andy knew all about utopian dreams, he worked for a living.

Andy took out his legal pad and drew a picture of what he thought was a treacherous web of motives and suspicions. Using his decades of experience and his intuition in play he knew he could solve this murder mystery, at least that was his plan at the moment.

On his patio table the dozens of files stood nearby just like the agents that delivered them, but they were not talking, they were guarding the files, not Andy.

Becoming totally immersed in the files and looking at every scrap, every lead, every current event he determined that this was a worldwide game, maybe a fantasy threat, maybe just politics but some of these characters might be for real.

Like a show on Broadway or maybe wrestling on T.V. these prominent third rate politicians were simply trying to kill the reputation of Donald Trump, they wanted him to live forever just not inside the White House.

Just like in High School the little Democratic gangs are trying their best to be heard, change the course of the election and get President Trump out of the gold mine. They all want to be seen on T.V. and you can be sure ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and maybe even FOX News would join the wrestling match.

Yes, its all fiction,

Not True

Junk Writing

The Truth be told here;

It’s the middle of February and the soft coup against the Trump administration continues.

A “soft coup” is a coordinated effort to delegitimize or undermine a lawfully elected official.

Taken from the French phrase “coup d’état,” which translates to a strike at the State — a coup may be violent or not. In the latter case, it is a “soft coup.” Traditionally, soft coups are the stuff of Latin American political conspiracy theories and paperback novels.

Soft coups include actions of senior government officials refusing to carry out their roles in critical tasks, or otherwise acting in opposition to the letter or spirit of the law to diminish or remove de facto power from those who would otherwise legally wield it.

That’s interesting – isn’t it?  Any recent circumstances like that?  Can you foresee any on the horizon?

In 2017, propaganda is a powerful tool for shaping public opinion.  Politicized news media can be complicit in the scheme of the soft coup by engaging in false and misleading reporting, or acting as the propaganda arm of the political opposition.

Suppose the news media advanced a false narrative to sensationalize and controversialize a government official.  What about unsourced whispering campaigns?

Sound familiar?  It should.  It’s time to ask yourself some questions:

Have you seen a marked increase in supposed “news” stories attributed to anonymous sources?  How about references to multiple, purportedly confirming anonymous sources?

Anonymous sources can be important and used legitimately – but not exclusively.  After all, one might think you’re just making things up to advance your own agenda.

Have you seen news reports corrected or follow-on reporting disclaiming earlier reports?

What about claims of files, dossiers and secret meetings?  Have they eventually been discredited or exposed as false?

Have you detected a new and sudden fervor in aggressive interviewing styles from talking heads who otherwise were cheerfully complacent, or busy acting as stenographers?

Do you see certain words and expressions repeated in reporting?  How many times have you seen the words “chaos” or “chaotic” used by different reporters in any number of news stories.

Assuming use of that particular term is factually correct – and that’s quite an assumption – one would think news editors might use a thesaurus.  That assumes anyone still knows what a thesaurus is, correct?

I teach as an adjunct in the journalism program at George Mason University.  One of the points I stress to my students is that they – as journalists – do NOT want to become THE story.  They are reporting the story.  If the publics’ attention turns to them and their conduct – something is very wrong.  Guess what?  Something is very wrong.

Joe Mathewson is a former Supreme Court reporter for the Wall Street Journal.  He now teaches at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.  I use his textbook, “Law and Ethics for Today’s Journalist” in my classes.  Paperback, it’s only about $30.

The Society of Professional Journalists has a Code of Ethics.  Before our highly-politicized news media slides into complete irrelevancy, I strongly advise reporters and editors to pause; evaluate their reporting; understand what’s going on in their news room; set aside their personal biases; reinvigorate their journalistic standards; and, then get back to reporting facts.

I’m Chris Farrell . . . On Watch    

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Vladimir Putin and Hillary Rodham Clinton glow in the dark. PolitiFact has repeatedly attempted to rewrite the facts surrounding the Uranium One-Rosatom-Clinton State Department sale of uranium to the Communist nation of Russia, Vladimir Putin is smiling and glowing in the dark. Russian ass Vladimir is not worth all the trouble, Communist Chinese and Russian are not worth the gun powder.. move on.

Vladimir Putin and Hillary Rodham Clinton glow in the dark. A dirty nuclear bomb can kill thousands and destroy the United States for 100 years... who's watching the borders,  who's watching Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.. Syria, Jordan, Israel, war drums. 

PolitiFact has repeatedly attempted to rewrite the facts surrounding the Uranium One-Rosatom-Clinton State Department  sale of uranium to the Communist nation of Russia, Vladimir Putin is smiling and glowing in the dark. Russian ass Vladimir is not worth all the trouble, Communist Chinese and Russian are not worth the gun powder.. move on.  

Iran Nuclear Deal John Brennan Jim Clapper Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Vladimir Putin Brennan, Clapper, Obama, Clinton - Heavy Weight Fight with President Donald Trump - These radical progressive socialists inside the present day government of President Donald Trump have a serious problem, they don't have a lot of friends and Trump will did them out, root them out and make soup of them.

Several intelligence insiders have come forward over the past few days to describe a “shadow government” of Barack Obama DEEP STATE radical holdovers leaking information to derail the Trump presidency, with National Security Adviser Mike Flynn’s resignation their first great success.  These radical progressive socialists inside the present day government of President Donald Trump have a serious problem, they don't have a lot of friends and Trump will did them out, root them out and make soup of them. 

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There are even allegations that former President Barack Obama himself is actively involved, citing his establishment of a command center in Washington and continuing involvement with activist organizations.  A shadow government is like those bad kids in high school hiding behind the gym and smoking their cigarettes.  They really don't have anything to do before they drop out so they start trouble until the Principle catches them.  The losers inside the Shadow Government of Barack Obama have lost the majority of their power and influence just like their radical leader Barack Obama, the dope smoker that struck it big in the progressive negro minority open border stop all the wars period in America. 

Retired Lt. Colonel Tony Schaffer, formerly a CIA-trained defense intelligence officer, said in a Fox Business appearance on Wednesday: “I put this right at the feet of John Brennan, and Jim Clapper, and I would even go so far as to say the White House was directly involved before they left.” He also mentioned Ben Rhodes: We know that Brennan, Clapper and Rhodes only held power if they followed all the Obama rules of world order.  Brennan, Clapper and maybe Rhodes could find themselves in federal prison as President Donald Trump rounds up the sneaky dirty rats that have been selling out America.

Schaffer said it was clear that sensitive information that could compromise U.S. intelligence-gathering methods was divulged to the media as part of the campaign to bring down Flynn, by people who had access to beyond Top Secret material. That should narrow the list of suspects considerably.  Don't get too worried about Flynn but do consider taking direct actions against the leakers.  Spies are often put against the wall and shot by the state and shoved into an electric chair.

The Washington Free Beacon quoted “multiple sources in and out of the White House” on Tuesday to describe a “secret, months-long campaign by former Obama administration confidantes to handicap President Donald Trump’s national security apparatus and preserve the nuclear deal with Iran.”

Since all news coverage is now driven by leaks of dubious accuracy from anonymous sources seemingly above evaluation, it seems only fair to entertain some insiders who wish to leak on the leakers.

According to the Free Beacon’s sources, the Obama loyalists are highly organized, under the direction of former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, famed for his ability to sell false narratives about Iran to credulous reporters. His critique of media types as young “know nothings” whose only experience “consists of being around political campaigns” would seem validated by a press corps that eagerly runs with just about anything an anonymous source hostile to Trump feeds them.

Rhodes shoveled a lot of manure to cultivate the Iran nuclear deal, and he is not going to let it go without a fight. According to the Free Beacon’s sources – one of whom is identified as a “veteran foreign policy insider who is close to Flynn and the White House” – Flynn was targeted because he was preparing to “publicize many of the details about the nuclear deal that had been intentionally hidden by the Obama administration as part of its effort to garner support for the deal.”

Another official who purportedly sits on the National Security Council said “the drumbeat of leaks of sensitive material related to General Flynn has been building since he was named to his position,” and his resignation was “not the result of a series of random events.”

“Last night’s resignation was their first major win, but unless the Trump people get serious about cleaning house, it won’t be the last,” warned a third source, suggesting these Obama loyalists are just getting warmed up.

The American people don’t get to vote on shadow governments or Deep State hierarchies, we don’t get to evaluate their credibility, and we don’t get to ask them follow-up questions. A good follow-up question for the Free Beacon’s unnamed sources would be how knocking out Flynn could guarantee the continuing secrecy of the damaging Iran deal information he was intent on divulging. Won’t the next National Security Adviser, or maybe President Trump himself, spill those beans if rolling back the Iran deal is still a presidential priority? Or is Flynn’s demise supposed to intimidate others from messing with the Iran deal?

Appearing on Breitbart News Daily Wednesday morning, retired Lt. General William “Jerry” Boykin said he didn’t think a “coup” from the Deep State was in progress, but he was quite comfortable with the idea of an organized group of Obama holdovers working to undermine the new administration. He suggested the actions that led to President Trump firing Acting Attorney General Sally Yates were part of the “setup.”

Boykin said it was not surprising that officials left over from a prior administration would be “up to no good,” and would work “preserve the legacy of the last president” by making trouble. Like the Washington Free Beacon’s sources, he thought Flynn’s resignation was just the beginning of their efforts unless President Trump weeds them out.

The difference between Boykin’s view of nearly inevitable mischief from holdovers, and the WFB’s more conspiratorial account of an aggressive cell of saboteurs, boils down to organization and scope. It’s the difference between a few relics of the past presidency who will be gone soon, and a persistent shadow government with designs on anything from advancing a few policy preferences to destroying the legitimacy of the new administration.

It’s easy to imagine players in a shadow government sticking together, imagining themselves as brave resistance fighters against the Trump tyranny, which only exists because Russia stole the election from Hillary Clinton. That’s a fantasy that has become absolutely pervasive in left-wing culture today.

Furthermore, these are holdovers from an administration that believed it was on a messianic mission to “fundamentally transform America,” as the former president famously put it. They can easily make common cause with longtime bureaucrats who disdain “populist” crusades against unaccountable Big Government. Very little sinister collusion is necessary when everyone is already on the same page.

Other common theories say the leaks came from career intelligence officials who believe Trump is dangerous and must be undermined to protect national security, or the entrenched bureuacrats of a “Deep State” protecting their turf from Trump’s “Drain the Swamp” agenda. Those theories could be true as well. Rogue intel officers and Deep State warriors would be natural allies for the Obama holdovers.

Paul Sperry at the New York Post takes the shadow government idea even further and suggests Barack Obama himself is still actively running the show, which includes not just whisper campaigns in Washington, but street theater across the nation:

When former President Barack Obama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.

In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda.

He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an organization set up to support a politician and his agenda to close up shop after that candidate leaves office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country.

Sperry points out that Obama is still very actively involved in OFA, which has piled up $40 million in contributions since it formally ceased to be “Obama for America” in 2013 – and it’s just one of a network of Obama organizations.

It doesn’t take a lot of manpower to keep the Beltway leak machine running. News coverage leading up to Flynn’s resignation referred to anonymous sources dozens of times, but it is likely the same people were leaking to multiple news organizations. We’re probably looking at a fairly small group of highly motivated loyalists with extensive media connections.

Their work is made far easier by active collusion from Big Media, of course. One of the most curious details about the final round of anti-Flynn stories is that much of what they revealed was old news, and the material tucked away deep inside the stories helped Flynn’s cause, no matter what the alarming headlines said.

A few people tried to point this out on social media, but their voices were drowned out by the deafening stampede to destroy Flynn and smear the rest of the Trump administration:

President Donald Trump’s first solo press conference at the White House on Thursday. They are complaining, almost in unison, that it was “unhinged” — and, worse, that Trump’s combative style, and practice of calling on non-traditional news outlets, threatens the First Amendment.

Perhaps the mainstream media Brahmins have short memories — or selective memories. Because when President Barack Obama took direct aim at the media and press freedom, few complained. And when they did, the media soon went back to giving him fawning coverage.

Here are 11 moments Obama abused the press:

1. Campaign plane “hijacking” journalists. In 2008, the Obama campaign flew 25 members of the media to Chicago — without telling them then-Sen. Obama was not, in fact, on board. CNN reported: “[T]he press was essentially held hostage with no candidate and no choice but to fly to Chicago on a chartered plane.”

2. Closing White House events to all but the official photographer. Obama barred the media from events — including, ironically, an award ceremony where he was recognized for “transparency” — and often restricted photographers’ access, only releasing images taken by the official White House photographer.

3. Trying to shut out Fox News. The Obama administration targeted Fox News for isolation and marginalization, arguing that it was not a legitimate news organization but “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” That served as a warning to other potentially critical outlets.

4. Stonewalling FOIA requests. The Obama administration “set a record” for failing to provide information requested by the press and the public under the Freedom of Information Act. The low point was Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, where tens of thousands of emails were hidden on a private server and deleted.

5. Prosecuting journalists and their sources. The Obama administration pursued Fox News reporter James Rosen’s private emails — then misled Congress about it. CNN’s Jake Tapper — to his credit — pointed out that Obama had used the Espionage Act against leakers more than all of his predecessors combined.

6. Wiretapping the Associated Press. After the Obama administration’s snooping on the AP was exposed in 2013, a senior NBC correspondent excused President Obama on the grounds that he would not have been nasty enough to alienate “one of the president’s most important constituencies, the press.”

7. Refusing to hold press conferences. For long stretches of his presidency, Obama refused to hold press conferences at all, going 10 months without a formal press conference in a critical stretch from 2009 to 2010. He heeled the lowest average annual number of press conferences of any president since Ronald Reagan.

8. Filibustering at press conferences. When Obama did, finally, hold press conference, he often limited the number of questions by delivering long, rambling, often condescending answers. He “wastes reporters’ time by refraining from answering questions with any candor,” Jack Shafer complained in Politico in 2016.

9. Attacking tough questions. When a Major Garrett of CBS actually asked a tough question — about why the administration seemed not to be trying hard to free Americans held by Iran, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian — Obama scolded him: “Major, that’s nonsense, and you should know better.”

10. Appearing on fringe outlets. While media elites gripe about conservative journalists being given a chance, Obama often restricted his appearances to fringe media: Inside Edition; Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns (which was then nominated for an Emmy); YouTube stars; and a radio show called “Pimp with a Limp.”

11. Iran deal “echo chamber.” The Obama administration created “fake news” to support the Iran deal, setting up what it later boasted was an “echo chamber” of “experts” who would comment in the media to support the White House narrative on the negotiations. Meanwhile, key details were hidden from the public.

Through it all, President Obama regarded himself as a champion of press freedom, having run the “most transparent administration ever.”

Many mainstream media journalists ignored the Obama administration’s abuses. A few spoke out against them. But most of them continued to paint him in glowing terms, regardless.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the “most influential” people in news media in 2016. His new book, How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.