In the days since his historic victory President Donald Trump has released a series of planned appointments and nominations to key national security roles in his next administration.
FLASH: Hegseth to DoD, Ratcliffe to CIA.
Pete Hegseth has been proposed as Secretary of Defense. Hegseth is a graduate of Princeton University and has a Graduate Degree from Harvard University. He is an Army Combat Veteran who did tours in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan. For his actions on the battlefield, he was decorated with two Bronze Stars, as well as a Combat Infantryman’s Badge. His book, “The War on Warriors,” spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list, including two weeks at NUMBER ONE. The book reveals the leftwing betrayal of our Warriors, and how we must return our Military to meritocracy, lethality, accountability, and excellence.
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has been proposed as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). John Ratcliffe previously served as the sixth Director of National Intelligence (DNI). In that role, Director Ratcliffe served as the leader of the U.S. intelligence community and principal intelligence advisor to President Trump.
Prior to his nomination and confirmation as DNI, Director Ratcliffe served in Congress for over five years as the U.S. Representative for the 4th Congressional District of Texas. As a Congressman he was a leading policy maker on national security issues as a member of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees and as Cybersecurity Chairman on the Homeland Security Committee.
Although the names released thus far don’t shed a lot of light on how Mr. Trump will approach Russia, so far, the team appears to portend a tough line against our enemies, particularly Red China and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
President Trump’s selection of Congressman and former Green Beret Mike Waltz as his national security advisor points toward a very tough line with the Communist Chinese and Iran’s jihadi regime.
Rep. Waltz shares Trump’s “Do what you have to do” policy toward Israel’s existential war with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In naming Waltz, JTA.org reported Trump said, “Mike has been a strong champion of my America First Foreign Policy agenda, and will be a tremendous champion of our pursuit of Peace through Strength!”
Regarding reports that the United States had stopped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from striking Iran’s nuclear facilities, Waltz who has been among Israel’s most robust backers in the U.S. House of Representatives, has also said Israel should not hesitate to hit Iran’s nuclear sites and oil fields.
“So far…it’s important to note what hasn’t been hit in Iran,” Walz said in an Oct. 25 tweet, listing an Iranian oil facility and a nuclear facility. “This might be Israel’s last best chance to diminish Iran’s nuclear program and shut down their cash. Did Biden/Harris pressure Israel once again to do less than it should?”
Waltz has been one of the most vocal China critics in Congress, wrote Rishi Iyengar in a report for Foreign Policy magazine. Waltz served on the China Task Force and sponsored legislation to restrict government funding from U.S. universities with ties to China. He also serves on the Armed Services Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee.
While Waltz has broadly been supportive of U.S. aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, he has more recently criticized what he called the “blank check” approach and called on European countries to shoulder more of the burden, observed Mr. Iyengar.
On the domestic security front President Trump’s designation of Tom Homan as “Border Czar” was greeted with universal enthusiasm among conservatives.
Trump promoted Homan to acting ICE director in January 2017, then nominated him as director, however, the anti-Trump Senate never acted on his nomination. Homan has a reputation as a non-nonsense law enforcement official. Homan told Fox News over the weekend that the deportation campaign Trump plans is "going to be a well-targeted, planned operation conducted by the men of ICE. The men and women of ICE do this daily. They're good at it."
Blaze Media reported Homan demonstrated the continued strength of his resolve in an interview last month with CBS News' "60 Minutes." When asked about the potential cost of deporting one million illegal aliens a year, Homan said, "What price do you put on national security?"
While it is unclear what Mr. Homan’s chain of command authority would be as a White House staff Czar, as opposed to the proposed Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor Kristi Noem.
Two of Trump’s planned ambassadorial nominations also portend a tough line against our enemies and squishy European “allies.”
President Trump has proposed Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel. Both are seen as tough opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and particularly in the case of Rep. Stefanik, proven advocates of Trump’s America First foreign policy and opponents of the UN’s institutional anti-Semitism.
One other important position that is rumored to be filled, although no official statement has been issued to back up the rumors, is that Florida’s Senator Marco Rubio will be nominated to be Secretary of State.
Senator Rubio, like his Florida congressional colleague Rep. Mike Waltz, is a pro-Israel, anti-Red China hawk. Hailing from a family displaced by Cuba’s Communist revolution Sen. Rubio is a longtime opponent of Marxist regimes in the Americas, however, it remains to be seen if the rumors regarding Rubio’s move to the State Department will prove to be true. If President Trump does nominate Sen. Rubio to be Secretary of State his prompt confirmation appears to be assured as at least one Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, has already said he vote to confirm his Republican colleague.
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Jews and Persians had been friends for 2,500 years, from when Persia's Cyrus the Great ended the Jews' Babylonian captivity and helped build a new temple, until Khomeini. Iran's nuclear facilities should be destroyed, but not their infrastructure (at least not yet). If the Persian people overthrow the theocracy, they will probably be Jews' friends again, but maybe not if Israel destroys their main source of economic livelihood.
We should celebrate "Peace through Trump" but don't let your guard down. Most Republican presidencies have been one step back for leftists, followed by two steps forward. America's internal and external enemies are just biding their time until the traitors in the Democrat party pull their puppeteer strings and get a new…