Sept. 9, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick manning today issued the following statement in response to Bob Woodward’s March 19 out of context quote about not “creat[ing] a panic” six days after President Trump had already declared a national emergency on March 13:

“President Trump has taken unprecedented action since the beginning of the year to slow down the Chinese coronavirus pandemic and save hundreds of thousands of lives, including barring travel from China in late January, from Europe in March, and declaring a national emergency and announcing a national testing solution on March 13 to quell public fears. No President should want to create a national panic, and his stated desire to avoid that to Bob Woodward in a candid interview, while publicly taking strong measures to meet the crisis is what leadership looks like. The more we know about the virus itself, the more it’s clear engaging in quarantines for vulnerable populations makes sense, but for those who are not vulnerable, the President is right to assuage their fears so that America as much as possible can get back to normal.”

Attachments:

“President Trump chose life at every turn in the war against the virus—and that’s a good thing,” By Robert Romano, April 10, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/04/president-trump-chose-life-at-every-turn-in-the-war-against-the-virus-and-thats-a-good-thing/

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Sept. 9, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration and U.S. Customs & Border Protection moving to block the importation of some Chinese products produced with child and/or slave labor:

“By seeking to block importation of Chinese agriculture and other products produced using child or slave labor , President Trump is taking a great leap forward in defense of human rights. The decades-long abuse by the Chinese government of its people has been well-chronicled by the U.S. Department of Labor report on Childhood and Slave Labor. The President is taking the ground-breaking first step of holding these Chinese slavers accountable.

“Now the president needs to move aggressively to end U.S. investment in Chinese assets through our retirement funds and stock markets. This is why Americans for Limited Government is pushing the DivestChinaNow.org project.

“President Trump’s courage in taking on the Chinese slave trade and their Wall Street enablers is a game changer and the world should applaud him.”

Attachments:

“Why are American pensions and mutual funds investing $251 billion in Chinese equities and bonds built on child and slave labor?” By Robert Romano, Aug. 3, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/why-are-american-pensions-and-mutual-funds-investing-251-billion-in-chinese-equities-and-bonds-built-on-child-and-slave-labor/

“How Americans are unwittingly funding Chinese concentration camps,” By Catherine Mortensen, Aug. 28, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/how-americans-are-unwittingly-funding-chinese-concentration-camps/

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Sept. 8, 2020, Fairfax, Va. – Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement regarding a media report tying Kamala Harris’s husband to potentially shady Chinese business deals in the United States:

“Democrat vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris has some serious questions to answer about her family’s business dealings with China.

“Her husband, Douglas Emhoff, is a partner in DLA Piper’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice, a firm with extensive ties to China.

“Given that China’s intellectual property theft is one of our primary trade issues, it is disconcerting, at best, if her husband has been assisting the Communist Chinese Party in getting around our patent laws.

“What’s more, DLA Piper is directly involved in the financial integration of the United States with China at a time when Americans are demanding that supply chains for items like pharmaceutical products be brought home from China and that our retirement  accounts and other individual investments be protected from unsafe Chinese assets.

“ Harris must provide a full and complete disclosure of her personal ties to Beijing, as China continues its efforts to not only influence U.S. public policy but to achieve economic and military dominance over the United States and indeed the world.”

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Uses Aerial Advertising for Labor Day Weekend Flyover

Sept. 4, 2020, Fairfax, Va.— Americans for Limited Government (ALG), a conservative political advocacy group, will troll presidential candidate Joe Biden on Labor Day at his Rehoboth, Delaware beach house with an aerial banner promoting their DivestChinaNow.org campaign.

“There’s a good bet Hidin’ Joe Biden will be holed-up in the basement of his Rehoboth Beach house on Labor Day and we want to get his attention,” said Rick Manning, president of ALG. “As vice president, Joe Biden brokered a sweetheart deal with China that could blow up the retirement accounts of millions of hard-working Americans by poisoning them with unaudited, risky Chinese assets. We want Joe to know his China collusion at the expense of Americans is coming to an end.”

DETAILS ON FLYOVER FOR MEDIA:

• Date: Monday, September 7
• Place: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
• Plane will be flying over the beach for three hours: 11am-2pm ET

Background on Biden’s Sweetheart China Deal

In 2013, Biden orchestrated a deal with the Chinese Communist Party giving Chinese companies access to U.S. capital markets without having to comply with the same strict disclosure regulations required of U.S. companies.  This puts the retirement accounts of millions of Americans at risk because investors have no way of knowing the true value of any of those Chinese investments.

As a result of Biden putting his thumb on the scales in favor of China, as of Feb. 2019, 156 Chinese companies were listed on U.S. exchanges with a market capitalization of $1.2 trillion, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Under the terms of the Obama-Biden Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which came after a series of meetings between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping (then-Vice President) in 2011 and 2012, U.S. regulators have very little ability to “open the kimono” and look into the books of these Chinese companies.

“There’s no telling when Biden’s ticking time bomb could decimate the retirement savings of millions of Americans,” concluded Manning. “This aerial campaign is just one way that we are moving forward with to inform Americans about Biden’s China-first record.”

NOTE: For more on the growing movement to divest from China, go to: http://DivestChinaNow.org.

Click here and here to view pictures of Biden’s Rehoboth Beach.

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Sept. 4, 2020, Fairfax, Va.— Today Americans for Limited Government president Rick Manning issued the following statement on the August unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

“Today’s employment report shows that this is President Trump’s ‘Great American Rebound’ from the Chinese originated coronavirus economic shut down. Since April, 13.8 million Americans have returned to work as a direct result of President Trump’s leadership to save lives and safely reopen the economy. Trump is America’s jobs president.”

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Sept. 3, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement noting the number of unadjusted continued unemployment claims has dropped from 15.8 million on July 25 down to 13.1 million on Aug. 22 as 2.7 million Americans left unemployment a month, according to the Department of Labor:

“The Trump administration delivered more great news for people who want to work as the unemployment claims report shows that another unadjusted 2.7 million Americans have come off of continued unemployment between July 25 and Aug. 22 from the depths of the Chinese COVID virus crash. That will surely build on the between 9 million and 10 million jobs that have been recovered in the three months since our economy began to reopen after April. Tomorrow’s unemployment could be another huge gain for the American people in terms of dropping the unemployment rate, recovering jobs and bringing more people back into the work force, thanks to President Trump’s leadership to reopen the economy and as COVID cases continue to stabilize.”

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Sept. 2, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to rescind home rule for Washington, D.C.:

“Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for the removal or defacing of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument and other D.C. landmarks puts the nail in the coffin for the argument that the District should be self-governed. Washington, D.C. was set up constitutionally as a federal district to house the federal government as a limit on the national government.  Since Congress granted the District home rule in 1973, it has seen a drug addled mayor, a federal budget control board so it could avoid bankruptcy and on-going corruption.  Here is the truth.  Over the past few months, America has witnessed our national monuments being defaced, the local government choosing to not provide adequate protection for people leaving the White House following the President’s nomination acceptance speech, and a local refusal to call out the D.C. National Guard in the face of riots that threatened the security of the White House.  The D.C. Mayor has even refused to pay for the hotel rooms for the National Guard members who were called to serve from South Carolina and Utah to defend the city.

“The sole reason Washington, D.C. exists is to house the federal government, and the D.C. local government has effectively abdicated that responsibility putting our nation’s lawmakers and others at risk.  It is time for Congress to rescind the home rule act, declare a smaller portion of D.C. to be part of the federal district and return the remainder of the city to the state of Maryland.  Protecting our national treasures, monuments and even politicians is too important to leave up to incompetent radicals dedicated to the destruction of America and our history.  It is time to end this failed experiment by repealing home rule and jettisoning a significant portion of the current District of Columbia to beleaguer the poor citizens of Maryland.  The city has lost its right and honor to house our federal government as well as the tourist revenues generated through that honor.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2020/09/congress-should-rescind-d-c-home-rule-2/

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Sept. 1, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former Vice President Joe Biden’s question, “Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?”:

“Joe Biden asked a simple question, ‘Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?’ The answer is yes.  When Biden refused to condemn the violence that has gone on in Portland for almost three months, his silence was consent to that violence.  Don’t ask me, ask his running mate Kamala Harris who wrote in Cosmopolitan, ‘In times like this, silence is complicity.’

“So, Joe when you don’t come out of your basement and denounce the rioting, burning and violence in Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Chicago and Washington, D.C., while allowing your surrogates to pretend that it wasn’t happening, you were complicit.  Now you try to claim to be some kind of great moderate with the ‘you know me’ line.  Joe, what we know is that your convention did not stand up to those who seek to destroy our country and the rule of law.  Your convention did not stand up to those who would defund the police. Your running mate supported cutting $150 million from the LAPD.  Your political party refused to allow Senator Tim Scott’s police reform bill to come to the floor of the Senate and you said nothing.

“Your running mate indicts you with her own words, because your silence on the riots makes you complicit in every store that has been burned, every law enforcement officer who has been killed or injured and every innocent bystander who has been attacked and in some cases killed.  We know you Joe, you are the guy who is too scared to stand up for what is right and after the fact complains about those who did.

“Yes, Joe, we know you.  And we know that our President can’t hide in his basement in fear and remain silent as domestic terrorism grips our streets.  It is because we know you, that America will not vote for you.”

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Aug. 31, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging U.S. stock exchanges to de-register 31 Chinese companies the Department of Defense has labelled as owned or controlled by the Chinese military:

“The Pentagon has named another eleven Chinese companies as owned or controlled by the Chinese military. The announcement comes on the heels of a June Pentagon announcement naming an additional twenty companies as Chinese military controlled. The size and scope of the companies named by the Department of Defense is breathtaking ranging from Huawei to China Communications Construction Company which is heavily involved in the Chinese government’s Belt and Road initiative.

“The Pentagon has named another eleven Chinese companies as owned or controlled by the Chinese military. The announcement comes on the heels of a June Pentagon announcement naming an additional twenty companies as Chinese military controlled. The size and scope of the companies named by the Department of Defense is breathtaking ranging from Huawei to China Communications Construction Company which is heavily involved in the Chinese government’s Belt and Road initiative.

“DoD’s on-going effort to identify Chinese companies which are national security threats is a momentous step forward in protecting American investors and most importantly businesses from entangling themselves with these risky and dangerous firms.

“The latest list includes: China Communications Construction Company (CCCC); China academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT); China Spacesat; China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd; China Electronics Corporation (CEC); China National Chemical Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (CNCEC); China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina); Sinochem Group Co Ltd; China State Construction Group Co., Ltd.; China Three Gorges Corporation Limited; China Nuclear Engineering & Construction Corporation (CNECC).

“This latest list points to the danger of U.S. investments in Chinese assets.  It is a dead certain guarantee that these companies litter Emerging Market Index Funds and U.S. investors have been unwittingly capitalizing these companies who are part of China’s effort to gain military capacity to challenge our nation.

“Every U.S. stock exchange which has any of the 31 companies listed on them, need to de-register them immediately.  What’s more portfolio managers and index fund managers have a responsibility to rid these companies from their investments.  Americans don’t want to capitalize China’s military industrial complex and those mutual funds which include Chinese investments unwittingly make Americans investors in companies focused upon defeating the United States of America.”

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Aug. 25, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the first night of the Republican National Convention:

“The first night of the Republican National Convention stood as a stark contrast to the dark vision of an evil America proposed by the Democrats just last week. The emphasis on the opportunity of America and the American dream is the exact kind of forward-thinking optimism that people want and need during this Covid crisis. The speakers, ranging from African-American Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones to Donald Trump, Jr., had a consistent message about America’s greatness and exceptionalism, a place where everyone has an opportunity to succeed and meet their dreams and aspirations. Before the Chinese virus struck down our economy, African-Americans, Hispanics, and women were working at levels never before seen in our history.

“Congressional candidate Kim Klacik’s story is particularly important as she seeks to represent one of the most economically devastated districts in America, overcoming decades of Democrat neglect. It is not compassionate to consign people living in the inner city to boarded up buildings, trash-heaped and rat-infested streets and regular drug gang violence where it is unsafe for children to go out and play.

“The GOP vision shines like a bright light of hope for those Americans the Democrats have long taken for granted with false promises of prosperity ahead.”

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