Aug. 26, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to Facebook Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s admission the Joe Rogan show that Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 in response to an FBI warning about it being Russian disinformation:

“Facebook Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s admission on the Joe Rogan show that his platform censored information about Hunter Biden’s laptop in advance of the 2020 presidential election is proof that the FBI directly and intentionally flipped the election to Joe Biden.  Polls of Biden voters taken after the election revealed that if they were aware of facts contained in the laptop, they would not have voted for now President Biden.

“With everything we now know about the FBI, their leadership and their willingness to use their power to manipulate and game the U.S. election system, the only question that remains is if they should have to register with the FEC as the enforcement arm of the Democratic National Committee.  It is impossible to reconcile today’s FBI with the once guaranteed rights Americans used to take for granted.  Congress must recognize that Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. doesn’t work there anymore and take action now to begin the dismantling this Agency that has turned into a civil liberties nightmare.”

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Aug. 17, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement highlighting the results of Americans for Limited Government’s 2024 presidential straw poll for “who do you refuse to vote for?” with the  U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) topping the list, followed very closely by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah):

“Americans for Limited Government conducted an internal poll of supporters and subscribers on August 16 and 17 testing which candidates were most likely to garner support and which were rejected by respondents.  Liz Cheney won the question, “In 2024, who do you refuse to vote for?” with 93 percent declaring their electoral enmity toward the anointed GOP leader of the NeverTrump cult.  Cheney was closely followed by Senator Mitt Romney who polled at 88.9 percent with former Vice President Mike Pence garnering more than two-thirds of those who would refuse to vote for him.  Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a relative unknown, received an impressive amount of rejection at 36.7 percent.  It can be assumed that the more people know Larry, the higher he will rise on the ALG Reject List.

“Not surprisingly former President Donald Trump topped the charts as the person that respondents would definitely vote for with 92.6% followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 76.2 percent.  Interestingly, while 15.3 percent of the respondents definitely would vote for former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, 31.5 percent rejected her completely.  A meager 5.6 percent indicated that they would definitely vote for former Vice President Pence.

“This unscientific poll was provided to both email and Facebook followers of Americans for Limited Government, but at least Liz Cheney can say that she won one poll on August 16, and we don’t even have to wait for the mail-in ballots to be counted.  Congratulations Liz.”

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Americans for Limited Government 2024 presidential straw poll, Aug. 16-17, 2022.

In 2024, who do you refuse to vote for? (Check all that apply)

Liz Cheney              903               93%

Mitt Romney           863               88.9%

Mike Pence             649               66.8%

Larry Hogan            353               36.4%

Mike Pompeo          205               21.1%

Ted Cruz                97                10%

Ben Carson             83                8.5%

Donald Trump         23                2.4%

Ron DeSantis          17                1.8%

 

In 2024, who would you definitely vote for? (Check all that apply)

Donald Trump         898               92.6%

Ron DeSantis          737               76%

Ted Cruz                320               33%

Ben Carson             261               26.9%

Mike Pompeo          212               21.8%

Nikki Haley              148               15.2%

Mike Pence             54                5.6%

Larry Hogan            8                  0.8%

Mitt Romney           3                  0.3%

Liz Cheney              3                  0.3%

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Aug. 16, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney’s defeat to Harriet Hageman in Republican Party primary for the Wyoming at large Congressional District:

“January 6 Trump insurrection conspiracy theorist Rep. Liz Cheney was annihilated in today’s Wyoming primary by a humiliating margin, an unprecedented defeat for a sitting incumbent Representative.  Cheney, who has spent her last term in Congress providing political cover for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, made clear that she did not care what those who elected her thought about former President Trump, making a mockery of her role as a ‘representative’ of the people of the Cowboy State.

“Today, the people of Wyoming had their say, and on January 3, 2023 former Representative Liz Cheney will likely find herself in a never-Trump Think Tank writing articles for the dozens of fans she has across the country.”

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Aug. 16, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the Justice Department’s ongoing failure to release the affidavit adjoining its warrant to raid former President Donald Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Fla. on Aug. 8:

“The Department of Justice owes the American people full disclosure of their rationale behind their unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago. Nothing but full and immediate disclosure is acceptable of both the warrant’s affidavit and the seized documents Trump declassified on Jan. 19, 2021 before he left office. The same set of bad actors within the Justice Department used the pretense of an ongoing investigation to block access to information related to the politically driven Crossfire Hurricane-Russia collusion hoax for years and many of the declassified documents related to that investigation were among those seized from the former president.

“The FBI has exhausted all credibility and can be presumed to be little more than a political hit squad doing the bidding of Democratic Party power brokers. America finds itself in a precarious position where its lead federal law enforcement agency is engaging in unconstitutional and dangerous actions against the Biden administration’s political opponents. Congress must defund and end this investigation before it spins out of control.”

Attachments:

Trump declassified a trove of Russiagate investigation documents on Jan. 19, 2021, the day before he left office—and the Justice Department is still hiding them, By Robert Romano, Americans for Limited Government Vice President of Public Policy, Aug. 12, 2022 at https://dailytorch.com/2022/08/trump-declassified-a-trove-of-russiagate-investigation-documents-on-jan-19-2021-the-day-before-he-left-office-and-the-justice-department-is-still-hiding-them

“Memorandum on Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” President Donald Trump, Jan. 19, 2021 at https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/

Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Feb. 15, 2022 at https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/biden-admin-continues-to-conceal-declassified-crossfire-hurricane-records

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Aug. 15, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the one year anniversary of the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan to the Taliban following the U.S. military withdrawal:

“Today, August 15, 2022 marks the one year anniversary of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.  Afghanistan fell to the Taliban directly due to the Biden administration’s withdrawal of American air support against advancing Taliban troops in spring 2021.  This was coupled with public assurances to the Afghan leaders that we would back them in the fight, even as we were working directly with the Taliban in their takeover of the country.

“The two plus weeks following the fall of Kabul mark one of the darkest moments in U.S. history with images of desperate Afghans falling from airplanes trying to get out and murdered Afghan allies being hung from helicopters and showcased to the city and the world.

“And finally, there are at least 84 American citizens who remain trapped in Afghanistan a year later as of last month, according to a House Republican report and finds that the Biden administration left behind hundreds more Americans and thousands more green-card holders in its speedy retreat than previously revealed, who have effectively become hostages of the Taliban or else they’d be home already.

“During the second half of August, Americans for Limited Government will have a couple of exclusive interviews with people who worked to protect our nation’s honor and keep our commitments to those Afghan citizens who committed to freedom and were targeted to die as a result.  We will also remember the 13 American service members who died on August 26^th in a bombing attack by a terrorist released from the prison at Al Bagram Air Base when the Biden administration surrendered it with no apparent plan on how to deal with the fallout.”

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Aug. 12, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to former President Donald Trump’s Aug. 12 statement on Truth Social that “it was all declassified” referring to document seized from his Palm Beach, Fla. residence, Mar-a-Lago on Aug. by the FBI:

“The vesting clause of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution grants all executive power to the President, including declassification of any executive branch documents by former President Donald Trump while he was still in office. Any attempt by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice to ignore this settled principle of constitutional law is just another example of the left’s ongoing harassment of Trump and should be treated with scorn and derision.”

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“The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.’ U.S. Const., Art. II, 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.” Department of Navy v. Egan, U.S. Supreme Court decision, 1988 at https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/484/518.html

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Aug. 11, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Richard Manning today released the following statement responding to Missouri AG Eric Schmidt’s July 13 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray pledging to fight FBI attempts to illegally obtain private information of concealed carry permit holders in the state:

“Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s defense of the privacy and individual right to keep and bear arms of the people of the Show Me state is a model for how the top law enforcement officer of a state should respond to unlawful actions by federal law enforcement.

“Upon learning that the FBI intended to come to counties in Missouri to harvest individual concealed carry permit information in direct violation of state law, which explicitly prohibits the sharing of this information with ‘federal, state or private entities’. Schmitt sent a blistering letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray promising to fight him ‘tooth and nail with all the resources the people have given me as their Attorney General.’

“AG Schmitt excoriated the FBI for abuses of power which have cost them the trust of the people citing their targeting of parents of school children who showed up to express concerns to their local school boards, the on-going six-year-long witch-hunt against President Trump and the ‘sitting on evidence of criminal activity on Hunter Biden’s laptop’ as proof of the untrustworthiness of the once respected Agency.’

“Schmitt reminded Wray of the recent U.S. Supreme Court 6-3 decision in the New York Rifle and Pistol Association case which strongly affirmed the individual right to BEAR arms stating that it shall not be infringed.  In telling the FBI that the state of Missouri would not stand for the ‘targeting’ of Missouri gun owners, Schmitt drew a line in the sand that every other state Attorney General should follow.

“I often criticize politicians of both political parties for failing to have the courage to stand up in the fight to maintain and restore individual liberty in America.  Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is a shining example of what liberty lovers who hold positions of power should do to stand up against federal abuses of power.”

Read the letter from Missouri AG Schmidt to FBI Director Christopher Wray here.

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Aug. 10, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest consumer inflation numbers:

“The price of oil has gone down worldwide due to the recognition that we are in a global recession and demand is beginning to collapse. If President Biden wants to take credit for lower gas prices (the heart of the inflation decrease), then he has to acknowledge the recession that is actually responsible for them. The irony of today’s reduction of year over year inflation from 9.1 percent to 8.5 percent is that this reduction is twice as large as the 0.3 percent reduction to inflation that was projected by Moody’s Analytics in the $700 billion so-called Inflation Reduction Act. For those who have paid attention to what’s in the bill, unlike the President, it raises taxes on oil producers and creates a financial disincentive for domestic production of oil, meaning long term, after this recession, the legislation will net an ultimate increase of the price at the pump, and make our nation even more dependent on Biden’s fist-bumping friend in Saudi Arabia.”

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Aug. 9, 2022, Fairfax, Va- Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, responded to the Biden FBI raid on former President Donald J. Trump’s residence

“This raid is an unconscionable breech of the basic liberties guaranteed all Americans and the FBI itself may not survive its implications.  GOP members of Congress have no choice but to shut this politically weaponized investigation down completely. Not another dime should be authorized for continuing either the House January 6th Committee or the Department of Justice’s on-going political persecution of President Trump and anyone who worked with him. THe ugly truth is that if tonight does not send a chill down every honest American’s spine than nothing will. This is a dark, dark day in American history from which I pray we can recover.”

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Aug. 5, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest jobs numbers:

“The summary of the household employment data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics misses the point on the July unemployment report. They write, ‘the unemployment rate edged down to 3.5%, and the number of unemployed persons edged down to 5.7 million. These measures have returned to their levels in February 2020, prior to the coronavirus pandemic.’ The problem is that the civilian population is more than 2.2 million higher today than in February 2020 and the civilian workforce is 1.8 million people smaller than prior to the pandemic.  Additionally, there are 576,000 fewer employed today than prior to the pandemic, meaning that the employment economy is actually nowhere near pre-pandemic levels.

“It is good news that the number of unemployed shrank by 242,000 below Feb. 2020, this good news is at least partially attributable to the 239,000 people left the workforce entirely in July and that the overall percentage of Americans in the workforce went down, but anytime fewer people are unemployed that is a good thing.

“The establishment survey shows that more than half million jobs were filled, which confirms the June Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey’s findings that existing job openings are declining rapidly.  The most interesting finding in this study is that home construction employment is up and seemingly doing very well.  This contradicts other reports that new home starts are lagging.

“It can be anticipated that the Biden administration will crow over this jobs report, while ignoring the fact that more and more Americans are being laid off each week with the effects being absorbed by labor starved employers. The four-month continued rise in unemployment claims signals that the July jobs report is more likely the last bloom before a barren fall and winter, than any renaissance offsetting the recession the economy finds itself in.”

Attachments:

“Why Biden’s betting unemployment will stay low for now,” By Robert Romano, Vice President of Public Policy, Americans for Limited Government, Aug. 5, 2022 at https://dailytorch.com/2022/08/why-bidens-betting-unemployment-will-stay-low-for-now/

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