Aug. 20, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the treatment of President Joe Biden at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Ill.:

“Americans for Limited Government believes that Joe Biden committed impeachable offenses and should be legally removed from office, but what the Democrats did to Joe Biden over the past month has been breathtakingly efficient and equally disgusting. The final ignominy was their decision to force the President of the United States to cool his heels behind AOC and a list of lightweights until he was allowed to take the stage at 11:28 p.m. EST on the little watched first night of a convention that was supposed to be his coronation.

“In just a month, the Democrats turned Joe Biden from their symbol of moving forward in America to an afterthought and embarrassing crazy uncle who they had to let out of the basement to rant in a time slot reserved for Jimmy Kimmel.

“I don’t know Joe Biden personally, and believe that his weaponization of government and on-going characterization of Donald Trump and his supporters as being lower than gum to be scraped off of America’s shoe has fueled the rapidly increasing violence on the left, but as President of the United States, Biden deserved more than the ceremonial funeral he was given on Monday night. Left to deliver his own eulogy, Biden was his usual self, but those who orchestrated the coup which ended his bid for a second term should have had the class to give him an honorable send off.

“It was once said, ‘if you want a friend in politics, get a dog.’ On Monday August 19, 2024, that lesson was made abundantly clear to America. Once the Democrat elites determined that Joe Biden no longer served their purpose, they not only kicked him to the curb, but they are trying to erase him. For those who reject truth as absolute and believe the ends justify the means, what else could be expected? They have an election to win, power to retain and they won’t let even the current occupant of the Oval Office who they celebrated in June get in their way in August.”

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Aug. 15, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other House GOP leaders for opposing prescription drug price controls by the Biden-Harris administration:

“House GOP leadership gets it exactly right in pointing out that the falsely named Inflation Reduction Act’s inclusion of a mandate from bureaucrats to set prescription drug prices has done untold damage to the American health care system.  Rather than lower costs, the provisions have made it so patients see fewer choices, higher prices and a decline in investment in future cures.  This is just one more example of Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote in the Senate wreaking havoc on our nation’s economic and health care system.

“Americans for Limited Government has been pointing to the damage being done through the Biden-Harris prescription drug price fixing scheme for months, and this statement by the House GOP Leadership emphasizes how disastrous Biden-Harris’ expansion of the power of unelected bureaucrats over the pricing of medicine has been to patient’s health and the ability of doctors to prescribe the medicines needed free from meddling from Washington, D.C.”

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July 22, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ awareness of President Joe Biden’s declining mental state:

“The very first question Kamala Harris should have to answer is whether she believes Joe Biden is still fit to serve as president. President Biden was pushed out of this race because for months before, during and after his June 27 debate with former President Donald Trump, Biden has experienced several mental lapses in public that led to immediate calls for him to leave the race. So, if he is unfit run, how is he fit to serve? What did Harris know, and when did she know it? As Vice President, Harris is one of the people closest to Biden, she owes it to the American people to either tell the truth or just lie to our faces. The upheaval around the world and challenges to America make this one of the most dangerous times since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the knowledge by foreign leaders both friends and adversaries that President Biden is not fully capable makes the world even less safe.”

Attachments:

“Why is Joe Biden still the President?” By Robert Romano, July 22, 2024 at https://dailytorch.com/2024/07/why-is-joe-biden-still-the-president/

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July 22, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s testimony today before the House Oversight Committee: 

“Today’s hearing on the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump shows that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is completely unsuitable to remain in her position. Cheatle’s stonewalling and failure to answer basic questions about the shooting is shocking. For a full nine days after President Trump was shot, Cheatle claimed to still be looking into basic facts about the shooting.  

“If I were Vice President Harris, President Biden, former president Trump, Robert Kennedy, Jr. or any other protectee, I’d be frightened by the Director’s apparent lack of awareness and inability to tighten up the failures in the protection provided in Butler, Pa.  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Cheatle’s claim that it will take 60 days to get an initial internal evaluation as ‘unacceptable’ at the House Oversight Committee hearing on the assassination attempt.

“For the security of our national leaders, Cheatle must be replaced immediately, and articles of impeachment should be drafted for immediate consideration by the House and Senate.”

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July 22, 2024, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential election:

“President Biden being pushed out of the presidential race by Democrat elites and billionaires ends the argument that they are saving democracy. They don’t care about democracy, they only care about raw power and I don’t believe anyone is fooled.”

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July 17, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former White House advisor Peter Navarro being released from federal prison:

“The political prosecution and imprisonment of Peter Navarro for having the audacity to claim executive privilege in response to a Congressional subpoena has come to an end. It is astonishing that the Biden administration would choose to prosecute a political opponent with all of the inherent risks to our nation that it entails in order to put someone in jail for four months. This same Justice Department, which prosecuted both Navarro and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon, for failing to testify to Congress, over their executive privilege claims, at the same time, is led by an Attorney General claiming executive privilege in defiance of a Congressional subpoena and found in contempt of Congress. Naturally, Biden’s DOJ is refusing to prosecute itself for violating the very same law, exemplifying the current two-tiered justice system. Thankfully, Peter Navarro survived his prison sentence and will be making a triumphant return as a political martyr to the public stage at the Republican National Convention tonight.”

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July 15, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising former President Donald Trump’s choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate:

“President Donald Trump’s choice of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his Vice Presidential running mate demonstrates the President’s commitment to growing the Make America Great Again movement for decades to come. J.D. Vance is a warrior for the forgotten middle-class. Vance is in alignment with President Trump’s willingness to change our international trade policies to meet the needs of American workers, and has demonstrated a healthy skepticism over how U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent in Ukraine.  Americans for Limited Government strongly supports the ticket of President Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance.”

Attachments:

Americans for Limited Government Praises Senator JD Vance’s Demand that Ukraine and Israel Funding be Considered Separately, Oct. 26, 2023, https://getliberty.org/2023/10/americans-for-limited-government-praises-senator-jd-vances-demand-that-ukraine-and-israel-funding-be-considered-separately/

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July 15, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Secret Service protection for presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr.:

“Robert Kennedy, Jr. has been asking the Secret Service for a protection for months and has been denied. In light of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, and the tragic history of the assassinations of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, it is imperative that the Secret Service bolster efforts to secure the 2024 election by safeguarding the candidates’ lives including Robert Kennedy, Jr. As Congress investigates what happened in Butler, Pa. on July 13, a parallel inquiry must be carried out into what appears to be a pattern of political interference in protection, including requests for additional security by Kennedy and Trump that appear to have been denied, and see to it that legislation is produced which guarantees protection for presidential candidates, whether they’re polling 50%, 15% or just 5%. This must never happen again.”

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July 15, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to District Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to dismiss former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case:

“The classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has always been both shaky and shady. Today, federal Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case for the most basic reason – Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed violating the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution. If upheld, this well-reasoned decision has potentially wide-ranging ramifications.

“The Appointments Clause reads, ‘He [The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.’

“Judge Cannon ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment did not meet the standards under law and is invalid. She left open the question of whether the monies spent on his prosecution meet the standards under the Constitution’s appropriations clause.

“This decision will be challenged and likely become another landmark ruling by the Supreme Court one way or another, but Smith’s on-going cases against President Trump should be suspended until the question is decided.  Smith’s prosecutions also suffer from the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity where the Court found that official acts of a president are protected from prosecution.

“But Judge Cannon’s ruling cannot require that Smith’s prosecutions in other jurisdictions be stopped due to his illegitimacy. The ruling does end the classified documents cases in her court, and if sustained in the 11th circuit Court of Appeals which includes Florida, Alabama and Georgia. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has oversight over the 11th Circuit.

“Given that Jack Smith prosecuted the Jan. 6 cases in Washington, D.C., which is a different Court of Appeals, it is unlikely that the finding will be honored in the District of Columbia, effectively ending those cases and potentially wiping the records clean for those convicted in the aftermath of the breach of the Capitol Building by angry protesters. It would also negate the prosecutions of President Biden’s son, Hunter, as the cases against him have been investigated and prosecuted by a special counsel appointed using the same authority which Judge Cannon’s decision struck down.”

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July 13, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump:

“We urge every American to join us in praying for President Trump’s full recovery and for our country.”

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