July 1, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump and his administration for successful launch of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade deal and the end of NAFTA:

“Today President Trump kept a promise that many before him failed at, he ended NAFTA and replaced it with a trade deal which will help rebuild the American economy.  American manufacturing will grow as U.S. auto jobs will dramatically expand due to the changed rules that President Trump negotiated and other changes in Mexico will encourage overall manufacturing investment in the United States meaning more high paying jobs.  Most importantly two of the unsung costs of NAFTA were the lack of intellectual property protections for U.S. inventors, USMCA corrects this issue, and in the past, Mexico was one of the biggest currency manipulators always making U.S.-made goods more expensive and Mexican made goods less so — USMCA ends this trade cheat.

“Combined Canada and Mexico are our nation’s largest trading partners. Today marks a new day in these relationships and it was only through President Trump’s leadership that it was achieved. Our nation’s economy will recover from the Chinese-originated virus and the President’s visionary new USMCA trade agreement will play a big role in that long-term, sustained growth.”

Attachments:

“USMCA begins new Trump-led era of America first on trade in July,” By Robert Romano, July 1, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/06/usmca-begins-new-trump-led-era-of-america-first-on-trade-in-july/

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org.

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June 30, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Trump administration to block access by Chinese military-controlled companies to U.S. capital markets:

“The Pentagon’s announcement that there are twenty well-known Chinese companies who have embedded their businesses in the U.S. financial system while selling products to U.S. consumers who are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army is not a shock.  What is a shock is that our government hasn’t taken immediate action to sever the access of these foreign spy operations to the U.S. capital markets at the very least.

“Many have heard the names of Huawei, China Telecommunications Group and China Railway Construction Corporation, but even a company with a benign name like Panda Electronics which sells earbuds and other consumer electronics over Amazon has a sinister side through their electronic surveillance business. Not only are they tied to assisting the North Korean government repress its people, but as a PLA agent, it is reasonable to assume that their creations are being used to repress and put down the freedom movement in Hong Kong.  And while Panda is traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and to date there are no restrictions on U.S. financial asset managers from investing American pension dollars into companies which are full-fledged enemies of freedom.

“As we watch the Chinese government’s ending of Hong Kong’s agreed upon quasi-independence on July 1, the very least the federal government can do is cut these cancerous 20 companies out of the U.S. financial systems, meaning ending the capitalization of repression by companies like BlackRock and other massive investment houses.  One thing that could be done immediately would be for the U.S. Department of Labor to issue an emergency guidance to private pension fund managers that these companies are not suitable for inclusion into any pension portfolio mandating divestment.  Why are they not suitable?  If the fact that these companies are dedicated to the destruction of the United States is not enough,  it is obvious that a company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party is not going to provide the transparency to allow a prudent investor to determine if it is secure enough to meet the standards for pension investing established by law.  The Labor Department could end all private U.S. pension investment in these twenty Chinese agents under a corporate cover with a simple one-page guidance update to pension managers.

“President Trump took meaningful action when he ended the push for U.S. federal employee and military pensions to be invested in Chinese companies seeking to build the weapons that are aimed at America, now the rest of the federal government needs to follow suit by ending private sector investments in these risky and dangerous entities.  China is not playing a game, and it is time for America to wake up to the threat.  On a personal level, the next time you go to Amazon to buy electronics or other goods, dig deeper to find out where they are made.  The best way to stop the Chinese regime which uses child and slave labor to make many of the products we buy, is to just say no when you see it is made in China.  Perhaps if Americans lead the way, our financial leaders will follow as their blood-soaked investments in China have a hard time finding buyers.”

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June 26, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Richard Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to rescind home rule for Washington, D.C.:

“The government of the city of Washington, D.C. affirmed over the past two weeks why it should in no way become a state.  The District of Columbia is just that, a federal district.  It is constitutionally the seat of the federal government for a reason: to ensure that those who work for the government don’t influence the laws that directly impact them.

“Over the past weeks, the D.C. government has chosen to forget its place in the Constitution and has been very slow to bring its significant police presence to bear on insurgents determined to breach the White House, leaving the task to the Secret Service.  The District government effectively evicted National Guardsmen from Utah called into service to do the job the D.C. government refused to do, forcing these patriots to have to sleep on the streets of D.C. as if they were in Fallujah, rather than in a hotel in the nation’s capital.

“These experiences make it clear that Congress should rescind home rule in D.C., rather than extending statehood.  The ugly truth is the locally elected D.C. government has lost its legitimate right to govern over our nation’s capital, and a vote in the House of Representatives for statehood, effectively puts the interests of the federal government and the locality where it resides in direct conflict now and in the future.

“This is bad for the republic and bad for the people who choose to live in D.C. knowing full well the limitations that the choice entails.”

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June 25, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the newly disclosed hand-written note by former FBI Peter Strzok from Jan. 2017 confirming key involvement in the investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn by former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden:

“The newly revealed Strzok hand-written note confirms that former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden were intimately involved in decisions made in early Jan. 2017 that eventually resulted in Michael Flynn being charged. This shouldn’t surprise anyone given the Obama White House’s close involvement with the tea party targeting by the IRS. This proves the left, which always says that the White House shouldn’t be involved with DOJ decision making, had no problem with Obama and Biden being involved with a top-level criminal investigation of the incoming Trump administration.

“If the same thing happened with Trump, the impeachment hearings would already be proceeding. Yet now we know that Obama was at the heart of investigating his political opponents, with the Logan Act being discussed in the Oval Office and Obama-Biden withholding information from the Trump transition team, and directing the FBI to continue investigating the now debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.

“The Justice Department dropping the Flynn is a good first step but every DOJ employee who is found to have been a protagonist should be summarily canned and those who’ve already left should have their pensions challenged given the gross malfeasance uncovered that interrupted the peaceful transition of power in 2017.”

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June 24, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for getting the 200th judge confirmed since Jan. 2017:

“President Trump has appointed and had confirmed 200 federal judges. To put this into perspective, there are only 870 federal judges on the bench, meaning the President has already impacted almost 23 percent of the federal judiciary.

“Why does this matter? You only have to look at today’s ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to put a writ of mandamus on the Judge Emmet Sullivan who was seeking to continue the prosecution of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. The opinion overturning Judge Sullivan and demanding he allow the Justice Department to dismiss the charges against Flynn was written by Trump appointee Naomi Rao. Rao’s clear concise opinion that upholds the rule of law and the Constitution is a refreshing change from the out of control federal judiciary that we’ve become all too accustomed to. If you don’t think judges matter, ask Lt. Gen. Flynn. To him, they made all the difference in the world.

“Due to President Trump’s aggressive approach to finding and appointing constitutionally solid jurists, it is fair to say the federal judiciary has been changed for a generation. President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have done a great job of tag-teaming judicial nominations and deserve the thanks of those of us who believe in constitutional limited governance.”

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June 22, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s executive order to cut legal immigration into the U.S.:

“President Trump is putting Americans first with his memorandum cutting the number of legal immigrants into the country.  At a time when more than 20 million Americans are on the unemployment rolls, it is important to insure that opportunities generated by the U.S. economy go to those who have lost their jobs due to the Chinese-originated COVID-19 virus response.

“America is a very generous nation, and the President’s executive order will ensure that those who have high-end unique skill sets will still be able to contribute to our nation’s growth over the next six months. But this executive order should put an end to the days of companies like Disney replacing their American workers in their IT shops with cheaper, temporary foreign workers.  When Donald Trump ran for President, he campaigned against this abhorrent practice of forcing U.S. workers to train their foreign replacements with the threat of losing their pensions and unemployment benefits hanging over their heads.

“As our’s and the world’s economy resets, this is the perfect opportunity to reconfigure visa allocations to best reflect our nation’s needs, and President Trump’s actions today are projected to open up as many as 500,000 jobs for hard working, willing Americans.  The President campaigned as an America first president, and today’s announcement is just one more proof point that he is governing as an America first President.”

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June 18, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s claim that President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Zinping to help out with the election during trade talks in Osaka:

“The release of excerpts from a book by fired National Security Advisor John Bolton reveals much more about Bolton than President Donald Trump.  As is always the case when money is to be made, Bolton makes claims about the President designed to titillate the ‘Orange Man Bad’ crowd.  One of the most scurrilous of the claims relates to an alleged conversation that the President had with Chinese President Xi asking for help with the election, which both U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney say never occurred.

“Lighthizer who was in the room for the meeting Bolton sites told the Senate Finance Committee that the allegation is, ‘Absolutely untrue, never happened. I was there, I have no recollection of that ever happening. I don’t believe it’s true, I don’t believe it ever happened,’ Lighthizer testified during a Senate Finance Committee hearing, concluding that Bolton’s allegation was ‘completely crazy.’

“America is at a crossroads.  China is engaged in a wholesale assault on our nation from attacking the dollar as the world reserve currency to infiltrating our nation’s university and laboratory system to stealing our intellectual property and coercing U.S. multinational corporations to become their political and legislative advocates, and it is an indictment on John Bolton’s character that in an environment where Marxists are burning our cities that he is seeking to destroy the only person standing in China’s way.  The fact that Bolton’s massive ego was hurt when the President fired him and the former National Security Advisor has been offered a small fortune for a book is no reason for him to effectively provide aid and comfort to the enemy out of spite.

“It is a shame that someone with a distinguished career like John Bolton would be so wrapped up in his own ego and shame over being fired that he would gaslight the President with clear lies. Sadly, the Bolton book writes the epitaph on his political tomb as, ‘turned his back on his country when America needed him most.’”

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June 16, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising Justice Clarence Thomas for criticizing the Supreme Court for not taking any cases to defend the Second Amendment:

“Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is correct in expressing his concern that the Supreme Court of the United States is treating the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms as a redheaded step-child of the Bill of Rights. Americans from all walks of life have observed and in some cases experienced in real-time the pressing need to be able to own and carry firearms in the past few weeks, yet the Supreme Court continues to allow its two established precedents in the Heller and MacDonald decisions to effectively be trampled by lower courts and states which thumb their noses at both the Supreme Court and the United States Constitution through egregious violations of the rights of law-abiding citizens.

“It is the Supreme Court’s job to protect citizen’s rights, yet while the Court has proven itself willing to rewrite statutes related to workplace discrimination based upon sex that Congress has expressly refused to change, they, once again are unwilling to protect the rights of Americans that are plainly written into the Bill of Rights and which they have previously affirmed.  One of the great frustrations many Americans have with the federal courts including the Supreme Court, is that left-wing jurists go to any length in attempts to thwart the will of the people when it comes to immigration and other important security topics, but when it comes to the Second Amendment, a presumably textual driven Supreme Court is flaccid while the left abuses the rights of citizens.

“The failure of the Supreme Court to take up and address fundamental freedom issues combined with previous contortions to uphold Obamacare and other Constitutionally dubious government overreaches brings into question whether fighting massive political wars over who sits on the federal bench is worth the time, energy and effort.”

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June 15, 2020, Washington, D.C.—Former Attorney General Ed Meese led more than 100 signers in a letter to President Donald Trump and Congress titled “Mainstream Americans Know…Before We Can Have Healing, We Must Have Law and Order.”

The letter, which was also signed by many black leaders, begins by asserting: “America is founded on the rule of law. Without law, there can be no justice, and there can be no peace or prosperity. The rule of law exists not to control the people, but to empower them; not to impose the will of the State on the people, but to guarantee to all law-abiding citizens an orderly and peaceful framework in which they can exercise their rights. Every day, hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers across the country selflessly place their own lives at risk to uphold the rule of law, better their communities, and protect the most vulnerable. Their brave sacrifice builds safer and more secure communities, and they deserve our respect.

“No profession is perfect, and people in every profession will always be flawed…

“In this time of turmoil, it is particularly important that voices are raised who stand against the planned anarchy on the streets of our nation. Anarchy which is doing lasting harm to the very communities that they portend to support.”

The following signatories of the letter are available for interviews:

Sheriff David Clarke:  Sheriffclarke.events@gmail.com – 202 969-8555

Col. Allen West: Contact Luke Twombly at ltwombly93@gmail.com or 650-575-5375

Rick Manning, Americans for Limited Government: 703-383-0880

Steve Deace: Steve@stevedeace.com or 515-771-8664

Tim Daughtry, author: Timothy.Daughtry@yahoo.com or 336-707-8833

Tabitha Walter, Eagle Forum: tabitha@eagleforum.org or 202-341-5737

The letter clearly rejects the notion of systemic racism stating, “We all agree that we can continue to better our police departments, along with every area of our government, but we reject the radical notion that law enforcement, or this great nation, is inherently and systemically racist or beyond repair. We reject the radical notion that defunding police departments will increase public safety. But we support the notion of individual responsibility and freedom. We support those who insist that individuals who betray the public trust be held accountable.”

We are available to join the conversation on your platform.

Attachments:

To read the full letter go to: https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/FINAL-Ltr-Riots-and-the-rule-of-law-June-15-2020.pdf

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