Nov. 5, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to ABC News reporter Amy Robach’s allegations, revealed by Project Veritas, that ABC News, which is owned by Disney, covered up the Jeffrey Epstein story three years ago:

“Project Veritas’ release of footage featuring respected broadcast journalist Amy Robach describing how the Jeffrey Epstein story was spiked by her bosses calls into question the very concept of whether we still have a free and independent media. Robach alleges that Buckingham Palace and other influential world leaders threatened access to ABC News should her story run about Epstein’s pedophile island and the alleged abuses at the hands of many elites, including Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew. The severity of the charges against those who are named by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims are monstrous but when you realize that ABC is owned by the Disney Corporation it becomes beyond troubling. No corporation in the world has the same standing among children as Disney. And if Ms. Robach’s claims are true, Disney not only sheltered what may have been the worst pedophile in American history, but through their decision to not broadcast the allegations, subjected children to three more years of alleged torture and abuse.

“This is not the first time in the past two months that Disney’s journalistic ethics have been called into question, as their cable sports network ESPN kowtowed to the communist Chinese government during the flareup with the NBA by publishing maps that dramatically expanded Chinese territory including subsuming independent Taiwan into Red China. Our nation has a media crisis: Too few corporations own too much media. This is why Americans for Limited Government opposed the AT&T-Time Warner merger and continues to urge the Justice Department to review the approvals given to the Comcast-NBC Universal merger given almost a decade ago. When few control what gets reported, honest journalists like Ms. Robach have very few options to get the truth out and report crimes against humanity that impact the powerful who rub elbows with media owners.

“Over the last four years our nation has witnessed media collusion legitimizing intelligence officials’ assessments that are purely political poppycock and theater with the goal of overturning the presidential election of 2016. Any illusion that major media is independent and trustworthy has been shattered and this latest coverup of the Jeffrey Epstein predation by Disney validates all the concerns about the level of manipulation that America is subjected to, which is unacceptable and must addressed.

“In the specific case of Jeffrey Epstein, it is reasonable to ask whether victims over the past three years have a legitimate claim against Disney and if Disney could be prosecuted by the Justice Department under 18 USC section 4 for their failure to report the felonies allegedly committed by Epstein and his powerful friends. Given the irregularities of Epstein’s death and Attorney General William Barr’s Aug. 12 pledge to continue the investigation, Disney executives responsible for killing the Epstein story should not be resting easy in the wake of the Robach’s jaw-dropping revelations.”

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Nov. 1, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the latest jobs numbers:

“With steady growth and historically low unemployment, the Trump economy is shaping up just fine as the presidential election season is upon us. More than 6.3 million jobs have been created since President Trump took office in Jan. 2017. At this point in the Obama presidency, not a single job had been created yet as economy and labor markets were still reeling from the Great Recession. Labor participation is steadily rising for working age adults, which means more Americans are able to provide for their families free of government assistance. This is quite simply one of the best labor markets ever, and is a testament to President Trump’s tax cuts, deregulatory polices and pursuit of better trade deals for American workers. While Democrats are wasting valuable time pursuing their doomed to fail impeachment of President Trump, the economy is growing, Americans are working and wages are rising. What more can you ask?

“In addition, August and September revisions to the establishment survey significantly alter the media narrative over the past two months, as job gains have now averaged 176,000 a month the past three months, due to the 95,000 new jobs that have been reported. These changes bring the establishment survey into closer alignment with what people have been telling the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the household survey over the past three months about their employment situation.”

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Oct. 31, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to testimony by National Security Council Senior Director for European Affairs Tim Morrison that there was no quid pro quo:

“Democratic impeachment claims largely rest on the concept that there was some kind of quid pro quo on the military funding pause to Ukraine being released in exchange for an investigation into Joe Biden. Both the discredited original so-called whistleblower complaint and testimony by U.S. acting ambassador William Taylor rely on second-hand information as the source of this charge. Taylor’s source was Tim Morrison who testified that he neither conveyed a quid pro quo to anyone nor heard anything illegal in the President’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky. This puts an end to the false charge that President Trump had anything but a perfectly legal conversation with Zelensky.

“Pelosi’s impeachment push rests on a foundation of rumor and lies driven by a fantasy narrative concocted by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. It should be remembered Schiff is the one who kept promising high crimes and misdemeanors from the Mueller investigation, only to be debunked by Mueller who found no conspiracy by Trump or his campaign and Russia to hack the DNC or put emails on Wikileaks. Morrison’s testimony, combined with Volker and Sondland, eliminate any reasonable belief that there is any legal basis for the impeachment inquiry. Once again, America is a watching a prosecution in search of a crime, which violates the basic standards of American jurisprudence and fairness.”

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Oct. 31, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the House’s vote on the impeachment inquiry resolution against President Donald Trump:

“Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment gambit has effectively driven her majority in the House off a cliff as only two Democrats who represent strong Trump districts voted against the ongoing and unfair impeachment witch hunt. A wise Speaker would have been content with a simple majority vote, allowing those vulnerable members to present the illusion of honesty and fairness rather than revealing themselves as Trump derangement syndrome enablers. Democrats Collin Peterson and Jeff Van Drew’s votes against the probe have earned praise for standing up to Pelosi and in favor of their constituents, due process and the truth. While this may scare some GOP establishment insiders, the 2020 Congressional election will be nationalized as an up or down on President Trump, and Pelosi just handed them the key to Republican control of the House in 2020 if only they are smart enough to grab it and use it.

“The House GOP leadership has done a remarkable job of educating their members about Pelosi and Schiff’s abuses of power, consolidating Republican support across inter-conference lines against this impeachment inquiry driven by blind hatred that shields political good judgment. The only question is when House Democrat survival instincts will kick in resulting in massive defections from the demands of the AOC-led radical political impeachment push.”

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Oct. 30, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the Senate for rejecting S.J. Res. 52 and upholding 1332 waivers that restore state primacy in health insurance markets:

“The President kept his word by administratively undoing parts of Obamacare that decrease competition and drive up health care costs, beginning the process of restoring state primacy over the insurance markets. House Democrats tried to undo that using the Congressional Review Act, but thanks to the Senate that effort failed. And the Senate should also reject any other attempts to create artificial government price controls including the unintended consequences in health care policy in the surprise medical billing legislation currently being considered in the House, which would have the perverse effect of driving up overall health care costs as well.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2019/10/senate-rejects-s-j-res-52-upholds-1332-waivers-that-restore-federalism-to-health-insurance-markets/

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Oct. 30, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the latest GDP numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showing a 1.9 percent inflation-adjusted increase in economic growth in the third quarter of 2019:

“The Recessionistas have been proven wrong yet again as the economy continues to sustainably grow in the third quarter by 1.9 percent. While this growth rate is not spectacular, it’s not horrible either and in view of the perpetually wrong economic pundits’ gloom and doom prognostications, it should be viewed as a repudiation of those who attempted to talk down the Trump economy.

“Fewer Americans are unemployed right now than at any time since 2000, and the unemployment rate is lower than at any time in the past 50 years. Americans are working, wages are on the rise, and the only people unhappy are the Never Trumpers and those with Trump derangement syndrome who are perpetually mad.”

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Oct. 30, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to State Department employees complaining that President Donald Trump used informal intermediaries including Rudy Giuliani to gather and relay information in Ukraine in the conduct of his foreign policy:

“Let’s be clear. The President of the United States leads U.S. foreign policy under Article II, and any policy carried out in contravention of his stated policies is illegitimate and rogue. The fact that State Department career officials have forgotten this basic fact reaffirms once again the reach and power of the deep state foreign policy apparatus. The President has a right and responsibility to receive and relay information from whichever sources he chooses in the conduct of foreign affairs. Only a fool wouldn’t have. This is particularly true when many of the established foreign service advisors in the arena may have been compromised by alleged illegal actions taken in the prior administration. The House of Representatives should be smart enough to recognize that in any administration there will and should be different ideas and diverse policy alternatives discussed internally. However, the President makes the decision at the end of the day of what to do.

“As much as Speaker Pelosi and her henchmen would like to pretend otherwise, America elects one President every four years, and right now that’s Donald Trump. Their clear fear of President Trump’s probable reelection is driving the Pelosi House to increasingly desperate and constitutionally dangerous measures that the American people must overwhelmingly reject.”

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Oct. 29, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to testimony by Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman that he was “uncomfortable” with President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

“Leaked testimony by Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman to the House Intelligence Committee is shocking in its revelation on three critical points. First and foremost, a career NSC employee somehow believes that his policy preferences supersede those of the elected President of the United States. This reveals the ongoing deep state battle where unelected bureaucrats resist the constitutional powers vested in the President with full belief that they have moral authority. One simple question to Vindman: Who the heck elected you? The second troubling aspect of his testimony is that he clearly believes that the Democrats would engage in partisan retribution against the Ukraine government as a result of their help in getting to the bottom of the origins of the Russiagate scandal and any potential findings of corruption against former Vice President Joe Biden. Ironically, this is exactly what the Democrats falsely say they are impeaching Trump over, saying that exposing 2016 interference by Ukraine is in itself interference. Third, as an officer in the U.S. military Vindman appears to be violating the military code of conduct that allows for disobedience of an unlawful order but does not allow testifying to the legislative branch in opposition to a presidential national security policy that he was uniquely privy to.

“It no wonder that the President of the United States cut out career foreign service and national security council personnel from decision-making related to Ukraine and presumably elsewhere in the world. And it begs the question as to what value any of these resister bureaucrats provide when the President cannot include them in the decision-making process due to their infidelity to their constitutional and legal duties. At this point, it is reasonable to question whether the entirety of the National Security Council should be required to submit their resignations and reapply for their jobs if they believe they can actually inform and in good faith implement the President’s policies.”

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