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George W. Bush Emerges to Bash Trump, ‘Nativism’: ‘We Cannot Wish Globalism Away’

Let me see if I got this straight. Bush sat through 8  l-o-n-g  years of a scandal-ridden, crime infested, Obama presidency and said not a word. The F&F scandal, the IRS scandal, Benghazi, didn't say boo. He sat through the horrific Iranian deal which was beyond stupid and said nothing. He watched the Clinton's involvement in selling uranium to the Russians, the Hillary email scandal unfold, and Bill meeting lardass on the tarmac... again crickets.

And now with Trump in office less than a year...he's going to criticize Trump?

One thing for sure. I'll NEVER vote for another Bush for as long as I live.

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Former President George W. Bush delivered a public repudiation of President Donald Trump’s political identity, suggesting many aspects of the current administration are fueling division in the United States and around the world.

The former president defended the ideas of globalism, free trade, and free markets as well as foreign interventionism around the world in a speech at the George W. Bush Institute.

“We cannot wish globalism away,” Bush said, noting that the United States must sustain “wise and sustained global engagement” for the future of the country.

Bush indirectly accused Trump of fueling dangerous ideologies that threatened the unity of the United States and global stability, spending a large portion of his speech complaining about social ills in the country.

“We’ve seen a return of isolationist sentiments forgetting that American security is directly threatened by the chaos and despair of distant places,” he warned.

Bush urged Americans to “recover our own identity,” citing a commitment to global engagement, free and international trade, and immigration.

“We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism, and forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America,” he lamented.

“Bigotry seems emboldened, our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication,” he said. “There are some signs that support for democracy itself has waned especially for the young.”

But Bush’s criticism wasn’t merely on Trump’s “America First” political ideology. He also criticized the tone of the American political system led by Trump.

“We’ve seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty,” he lamented, noting that “argument turns too easily into animosity” and “disagreement escalates into dehumanization.”

He criticized the rise of “bullying and prejudice” in national politics, suggesting that the country lacked positive role models.

The former president looped in a condemnation of white supremacy as part of his speech, suggesting that it was a growing threat in Trump’s America.

“Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed,” he said.

He called for a restoration of American norms in society.

“Our identity as a nation, unlike many other nations, is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood,” he said. “Being American involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility.”

Bush’s decision to publicly criticize Trump’s presidency is unusual after he made a point of rarely challenging President Barack Obama while he was in office.

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Truism

Trump dares 'crooked' Hillary to run again after she blames loss on Comey 'shiv'

President Trump and Hillary Clinton are still going at it, and if Trump has his way, they'll square off again in 2020.

President Trump tweeted Monday that he hopes “Crooked” Hillary Clinton runs for president again, even as the former secretary of state was telling an Australian media outlet that former FBI Director James Comey gave her the "shiv."

“I was recently asked if Crooked Hillary Clinton is going to run in 2020? My answer was, “I hope so!” Trump tweeted.

A Clinton spokesman did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment in response to the president’s tweet.

If Clinton did, in fact, decide to run again in 2020, it would be her third attempt at the White House.

Clinton has given little indication that she plans to run again, but instead has done a series of media interviews, promoting, “What Happened,” her new memoir which tells the full, 469-page “story” of the 2016 election, detailing what she “saw, felt and thought during two of the most intense years” she’s ever experienced.

In her latest interview, Clinton borrowed a prison phrase to accuse Comey of costing her the election by re-opening the investigation into her private email server.

CLINTON BOOK ADDS VOTER ID LAWS TO LIST OF REASONS WHY SHE LOST

“He did shiv me, yeah… we also know that opponents of mine, like former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, knew something was coming,” Clinton told Australia’s NewsCo.com. “So there was clearly an effort to derail my campaign at the end.”

Clinton has repeatedly blamed Comey and the investigation into “Those Damn Emails” (the title of one chapter in her book) but has also said voter ID laws, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, women and other factors contributed to the loss in her second presidential run.

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Well, looks like we can add Rudy Giuliani, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, voter ID laws, and other factors, to her..."I accept full responsibility" list.

Trump dares 'crooked' Hillary to run again after she blames loss on Comey 'shiv'

Longtime foes on foreign policy, McCain and Biden form alliance against Trumpism

What a contradiction!

Trump won AZ yet the idiot voters have kept Republican Democrat McCain in office since Goldwater retired in 1987!!!

Have you ever seen a Democrat aggressively come out an attack Barry the way McCain does with Trump? McCain is of the same mindset, and absolutely no different, then Pelosi, Schumer, and Warren. Someone in the Republican party should file a motion to have him ousted from Senate.

That strategy works in AZ.

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John McCain and Joe Biden have been on opposite sides of many crucial national security debates over the past 30 years. 

From Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria, the Arizona Republican and the Delaware Democrat clashed over the scope of the American military mission and the efficacy of reaching for diplomatic resolutions for these war-torn nations. They maintained a genuine friendship through 22 years of service together in the Senate and then Biden’s eight years as vice president. Yet theirs was a fierce, principled rivalry. 

On Monday night, in the cradle of liberty, those disputes disappeared as Biden presented the Liberty Medal to McCain at the National Constitution Center, a nonprofit organization that touts bipartisanship and sits across the street from Independence Hall.

Another reality has also brought them together: President Trump, whose global outlook has helped crystallize just how closely aligned these two elder statesmen really are.

“We believed in our country, and in our country’s indispensability to international peace and stability and to the progress of humanity,” McCain said, growing unusually emotional at times during the address. 

McCain pivoted into a full-frontal attack on those who “refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last, best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism.” He did not mention Trump by name, but the implication was clear, and it brought a standing ovation from a crowd that included Democratic and Republican members of Congress from the region. 

The event helped illustrate the rapidly changing ideological fault lines, under Trump, on national security.

No longer was the divide between those who wanted to engage the world through brute force and those pushing for more diplomacy. Now, McCain and Biden are on the same side, battling the isolationism that Trump has avowed and that has been most clearly articulated by his onetime chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon. 

In his first nine months in office, Trump has withdrawn the United States from a Pacific Rim trade deal, the Paris climate accords and a cultural organization at the United Nations, while also signaling opposition to the Iran nuclear deal and new sanctions against Moscow. 

Some of these moves have found support from Republicans, including McCain, but overall they reveal Trump’s broad intention to live up to his “America First” presidential campaign of 2016 — a repudiation of all that McCain and Biden have pressed for 40 years. 

McCain spent the first half of the year crisscrossing the globe trying to reassure the country’s longtime allies, a theme he repeated Monday in Philadelphia. 

“We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn’t deserve to,” he said. 

The speech prompted the president to issue an immediate threat: “People have to be careful because at some point, I fight back,” Trump said in an interview Tuesday with WMAL, a D.C. radio station.

But it’s a different fight now. McCain has onetime foes staunchly on his side, as Biden used the most personal terms possible to describe his respect for the ailing senator. 

“I want to say, John, how much your example of service and duty, courage and loyalty, inspired my Beau,” Biden told the crowd, speaking of his late son’s decision to serve in 2008 with his Army National Guard unit in Iraq. “John, when he received his cancer diagnosis, he also found strength in the courage you’ve demonstrated throughout your whole life.”

Beau Biden died in 2015 after losing his battle with glioblastoma, the same form of brain cancer that McCain was diagnosed with in July. It’s a cruel twist in their long friendship, one that they share with their mutual close friend, the late Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who died in 2009 from the same disease.

McCain wiped away tears as Biden spoke of his son’s adoration for the Arizona senator, a symbolic forging of their alliance. They will, for now, set aside their old disputes on how to engage the world and instead take up a mutual fight against those who want to withdraw from global leadership. 

The bygone battle lines came from their upbringings and early decisions as senators. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, McCain, 81, was destined for a life in the military. When he arrived in the Senate in 1987, he aimed his sights on eventually becoming the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, overseeing the Pentagon. 

The son of a used-car salesman, Biden, 74, always believed that he could talk anyone into a deal. In the Senate, his highest honor came as Foreign Relations Committee chairman, overseeing the State Department.

As the Iraq War unraveled in 2006, McCain pushed for a military answer, for a “surge” in troops to beat back the insurgency and hold onto reconquered territory. Biden pushed a diplomatic solution of partitioning the nation, trying to separate the warring clans into different regions.

At the end of 2009, McCain backed the generals who were pushing for a massive surge of more than 40,000 troops in Afghanistan, while Biden counseled then-President Obama to go with a lighter footprint and search for a political settlement in the divided country. Obama split the difference. 

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In December, during a day of tribute to Biden in the Senate, McCain made light of their many disagreements. “In the persistent triumph of hope over experience, we both still cling to the expectation that we can persuade the other that he is mistaken. I think, deep down, we probably know better,” McCain joked. 

The two men set aside those disputes Monday, and perhaps for years to come, as they forged a new partnership to fight Trump’s inclination to pull back the U.S. presence on the global stage. Biden read from an old McCain speech to sum up the new approach, saying that the United States should always be an “international beacon of liberty and a defender of the dignity of all human beings, and the right to freedom and justice.”

“That’s what it’s always been for four decades,” Biden said. 

Longtime foes on foreign policy, McCain and Biden form alliance against Trumpism

Larry Flynt offers $10M for info leading to Trump’s impeachment

This coming from the guy who makes Weinstein look like Bishop Fulton J. Sheen! Flynt has a litany of sexual crimes including molesting his OWN daughter when she was a child.

 In 1978 Flynt was shot. My only regret is the bullet went through his spine instead of his forehead.

I offer up no apologies for this statement.

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© Provided by New York Daily News The "Hustler" publisher put out a full-page ad in the Washington Post Sunday. 

Got dirt?

“Hustler” publisher Larry Flynt has offered a $10 million bounty for anyone with information on President Trump that would lead to his “impeachment and removal from office.”

A full page advertisement in the Washington Post warned that the 2016 election was “illegitimate in many ways.”

"Trump has proven he's dangerously unfit to exercise the extreme power accrued by our ‘unitary executive,’” the ad read.

“Impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair, but the alternative — three more years of destabilizing dysfunction — is worse.”

Flynt cited the firing of former FBI director James Comey, the potential nuclear war with North Korea, the Paris Accord and Trump’s “racial dog-whistling” after the Charlottesville Nazi rally as reasons for his impeachment.

The porn magnate has previously offered money for information on Mitt Romney’s tax returns and Republican Congressman Bob Livingston’s extramarital affair, which led to his resignation in 1998.

In October, after the release of Trump’s “Access Hollywood” footage, Flynt put up $1 million for "verifiable video footage or audio recordings for use prior to the November 8 election clearly showing Donald Trump engaging in illegal activity or acting in a sexually demeaning or derogatory manner."

Larry Flynt offers $10M for info leading to Trump’s impeachment