TRUMP WATCH: 12.17.16 - Trump's New Israel Ambassador Looks Forward to Serving From "Israel's Eternal Capital, Jerusalem"

Trump picked Tillerson for tough new Iran policy - http://www.debka.com/article/25832/Trump-picked-Tillerson-for-tough-new-Iran-policy

 

Rex Tillerson, Chairman an CEO of Exxon Mobil, was named this week as the next administration's Secretary of State to execute the tough foreign policies charted by president-elect Donald Trump, including his decision to stiffen the nuclear accord signed with Iran as soon as he moves into the White House on Jan. 20.

 

debkafile reports this exclusively from New York and its intelligence sources. 

 

While campaigning for the presidency, Trump called the accord "the worst deal" ever.

 

According to our sources, a special team is already working on revisions of the accord which the US and five other global powers concluded with Iran in 2015 in the hope of retarding Iran's nuclear weapons program by a decade.

 

As new president, Trump will issue Tehran with a unilateral demand to accept those revisions as pre-condition for the continuation of relations between the US and Iran. He does not intend consulting America's co-signers, Russia, China, Germany, Britain and France, or asking them for their endorsement of the revamped accord.

 

The teams preparing the Trump administration's Iran policy were put in place last week by Tillerson and designated national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

 

No members of the incumbent NSC, State Department, Pentagon or Treasury, who managed the Obama administration's Iran policy, was invited to take part. The teams were instead chosen from among scientists, military leaders and intelligence officials who opposed the nuclear accord with Iran.

 

Also attached were former administration officials hired by Exxon for their extensive knowledge of Iran's oil trade and their close ties with oil circles in the Gulf Emirates, which like Israel, fought hard to pre-empt the nuclear deal with Iran.

 

Our sources have also learned that if Iran rejects the revised accord, the president elect has a list of new economic sanctions drawn up which are a lot tougher than the sanctions regime imposed by the Bush and Obama administrations.

 

The incoming president will have a fight on his hands to get the Tillerson appointment through the Senate in the face of objections raised by Republican lawmakers over his ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, Trump hopes to turn those ties to his advantage. He trusts that Tillerson is just the man to sell the new administration's Iran policies to the Russian president.

 

Trump's New Israel Ambassador Looks Forward to Serving From "Israel's Eternal Capital, Jerusalem" - By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz - https://www.breakingisraelnews.com

 

"When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people sigh." Proverbs 29:2)

 

President elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday evening that he will nominate David Friedman to be the US Ambassador to Israel.

 

Trump made the announcement on his transition team website.

 

"The bond between Israel and the United States runs deep, and I will ensure there is no daylight between us when I'm President," said President-elect Trump. "As the United States' Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman will maintain the special relationship between our two countries. He has been a long-time friend and trusted advisor to me. His strong relationships in Israel will form the foundation of his diplomatic mission and be a tremendous asset to our country as we strengthen the ties with our allies and strive for peace in the Middle East. Nothing is more critical than protecting the security of our citizens at home and abroad."

 

"I am deeply honored and humbled by the confidence placed in me by President-elect Trump to represent the United States as its ambassador to Israel," Friedman said in statement on Thursday. "I intend to work tirelessly to strengthen the unbreakable bond between our two countries and advance the cause of peace within the region, and look forward to doing this from the US embassy in Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem."

 

Friedman reportedly does not see Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria as obstacles to peace.In an interview with Haaretz in June, Friedman stated the Trump supports Israel annexing parts of the areas.

 

Last month , Friedman and  Jason Greenblatt, the other Israel-US adviser to Trump, released a a 16-point position paper which included:

 

Israel is the state of the Jewish people, who have lived in that land for 3,500 years.

 

Israel is a staunch ally of the U.S. and a key partner in the global war against Islamic jihadism. Military cooperation and coordination between Israel and the U.S. must continue to grow.

 

The U.S. should veto any United Nations votes that unfairly single out Israel and will work in international institutions and forums, including in our relations with the European Union, to oppose efforts to delegitimize Israel, impose discriminatory double standards against Israel, or to impose special labeling requirements on Israeli products or boycotts on Israeli goods.

 

The U.S. should cut off funds for the UN Human Rights Council, a body dominated by countries presently run by dictatorships that seems solely devoted to slandering the Jewish State. UNESCO's attempt to disconnect the State of Israel from Jerusalem is a one-sided attempt to ignore Israel's 3,000-year bond to its capital city, and is further evidence of the enormous anti-Israel bias of the United Nations.

 

The U.S. should view the effort to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) Israel as inherently anti-Semitic. The BDS movement is just another attempt by the Palestinians to avoid having to commit to a peaceful co-existence with Israel. The false notion that Israel is an occupier should be rejected.

 

A two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians appears impossible as long as the Palestinians are unwilling to renounce violence against Israel or recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.

 

The U.S. should support direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians without preconditions, and will oppose all Palestinian, European and other efforts to bypass direct negotiations between parties in favor of an imposed settlement.

 

 The U.S. will recognize Jerusalem as the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state and Mr. Trump's Administration will move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.

 

 A Trumpian Israeli initiative - Caroline B. Glick - http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-Trumpian-Israeli-initiative-475547

 

US President-elect Donald Trump won't even take office for another month, but he has already killed the status quo.

 

During the election campaign, Trump trounced the untouchable consensus on NATO's post-Cold War purpose. Questioning the purpose of an alliance formed to fight a war that ended 25 years ago is indisputably a reasonable thing to do. But until Trump came around, no one did.

 

Since November 8, Trump has continued to reject accepted wisdom. For 37 years no US president would speak with the president of Taiwan. And then President-elect Trump took a call from Taiwan's President-elect Tsai Ing-wen.

 

It's not clear where Trump stands on either NATO or Taiwan. But it is eminently apparent that by ignoring protocol, Trump expanded his maneuver room in his dealings with NATO and China.

 

Then of course, there is Jerusalem. Since 1948 the US has refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital - or even as part of Israel. This policy of nonrecognition - embodied by the US refusal to transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem - has been maintained by a bipartisan consensus despite the fact that for the past 20 years, US law has required the State Department to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the embassy to Jerusalem.

 

When Trump promised to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, his words were greeted with cynicism.

 

But then this week his senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Trump is serious about moving the embassy to Jerusalem.

 

In one fell swoop, the 68-year-old consensus is gone.

 

Thirty-five years ago, on December 14, 1981, Israel took a Trump-like step. Israel took a wrecking ball to received wisdom.

 

That day, the Knesset passed the Golan Heights Law. Then-prime minister Menachem Begin decided on the initiative the day before. In less than 24 hours, the law went from an idea in Begin's head into the law books.

 

The Golan Heights law canceled the Military Government and Civil Administration that had governed the area since 1967 and replaced them with Israeli law and administration.

 

The Reagan administration was livid. Begin had neither asked Ronald Reagan for permission nor given Reagan a head's-up on what he was about to do.

 

Begin was clearly operating on the basis of the "It's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission" protocol.

 

In the event, the Americans weren't really mad.

 

Reagan prevented the UN Security Council from sanctioning Israel for its action.

 

The Syrian regime did nothing. The Arab world yawned.

 

Israel was spared international condemnation in large part because of the way Begin explained the purpose of the law.

 

The day before the Knesset passed Begin's law, the Syrian regime announced it would prefer to fight Israel for 100 years than live at peace with it. That statement, like hundreds of similar ones over the 13 years since Israel took over the strategic plateau, reinforced yet again the basic truth that Israel would be responsible for the Golan Heights for a long, long time.

 

After the law was passed, Begin and his advisers insisted its purpose was administrative. Israel couldn't wait for a hundred years to register births and deaths and marriages, they explained. The Syrian legal code through which the Military Government administered the areas was unsuited to a modern democracy. There was no way to protect the rights of Golan residents so long as Syrian law was the law of the land.

 

Begin and his advisers explained over and over that the application of Israeli law would have no impact on Israel's willingness to make territorial concessions to Syria on the Golan in the event that the regime had a change in heart. And indeed, from 1992 until the war in Syria began in 2011, every Israeli government expressed willingness to discuss the future of the Golan Heights with the Syrians.

 

Aside from safeguarding the civil rights and legal protections of the Israeli citizens and permanent residents on the Golan, the law also defused the issue as a political cause inside Israel.

 

Everyone could accept the law. Those who wished to conclude a land-for-peace deal with Syria could support the law. Those who wished to retain perpetual Israeli control could live with it.

 

To safeguard against irresponsible concessions the Knesset passed the referendum law that requires a two-thirds Knesset majority to approve territorial compromise on the Golan.

 

By transferring administrative responsibilities from the military to the government, Israel freed its armed forces to concentrate on their primary mission - defending the country from its enemies.

 

When Begin passed the Golan Heights Law, he had already learned its basic lesson: When Israel speaks modestly about its objectives, it can achieve a lot more than when it bloviates about them.

 

Begin learned that lesson a year and a half earlier when he passed Basic Law: Jerusalem. Unlike the Golan Heights Law which changed the situation on the ground, Basic Law: Jerusalem, which announced that Israel's capital is united Jerusalem, merely described reality. United Jerusalem had been Israel's capital since immediately after the Six Day War. Weeks after the war the government united the city by expanding its municipal borders to include the neighborhoods that had been under Jordanian occupation since 1949.

 

Basic Law: Jerusalem was a bit of chest beating.

 

But the beating reverberated like drums of war in the West. And the US responded by enabling the Security Council to pass Resolution 478. Whereas in 1981 the US blocked the Security Council from passing sanctions against Israel for the Golan Heights law, in 1980 it enabled sanctions to be incorporated into the condemnatory resolution.

 

Resolution 478 enjoined member states that had embassies in Jerusalem to remove them. Within weeks, 11 of the 13 states that had embassies in Jerusalem had shut them down. The last two were closed in 2006.

 

The Golan Heights Law's 35th anniversary was celebrated Wednesday evening at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. There, Transportation Minister Israel Katz and former cabinet secretary Tzvi Hauser said Israel must lobby Trump to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

 

While reasonable on their face, their calls ignore the basic lessons of the Golan Heights law, and seem to misread or ignore Trump's modus operandi.

 

Trump cares about what works, not what looks good.

 

He isn't interested in moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem because he cares about recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem or over anything else for that matter. If Trump moves the embassy he will do so to advance America's interests.

 

In one fell swoop, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem will correct a great deal of the damage that eight years of President Barack Obama's foreign policies have caused to US credibility worldwide.

 

There is no single step the US can take that will do more to rebuild US credibility as an ally than moving the embassy to Jerusalem. By taking the step that none of his predecessors would take to stand in support of the US's most embattled ally worldwide, Trump will show that America can again be trusted. And moving the embassy will accomplish this goal without placing one US soldier at risk, and will cost US taxpayers no more than a few million dollars for construction and moving fees.

 

On a basic level, from Israel's perspective, what distinguishes Trump from his predecessors is that he has signaled that he views Israel as an ally whereas his predecessors viewed the Jewish state as a burden.

 

Trump wants and expects wants Israel to be a credible ally. To achieve this, Israel has some status quo icons of its own to shatter. And the Golan Heights Law provides just the road map for action.

 

Begin wasn't bluffing when he said that the Military Government lacked the legal tools to protect and uphold the rights of the residents of the Golan Heights. In Judea and Samaria, the situation today has similarly reached a critical moment. And whereas Begin canceled the military government on the Golan when a mere 6,000 Israelis were living there, today 450,000 Israelis live under military administration in Judea and Samaria.

 

The Israelis in Judea and Samaria all in live what is referred to as Area C. When the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994 it took over governing authority from the Military Government in Areas A and B - the Palestinian population centers.

 

A mere 100,000 Palestinians live in Area C.

 

The Military Government administers on the basis of the Jordanian legal code, which has been revised over the past 49 years by various military administrative orders.

 

As the human drama taking place in the community of Amona makes clear, the existing legal system is incapable of protecting the civil and legal rights of either the Israelis or the Palestinians living under it.

 

In Amona, 40 Israeli families are about to be thrown out of their homes because Jordanian law doesn't allow Jews to easily purchase land from Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority has made selling land to Jews a capital offense. Israelis in Area C cannot properly adjudicate their legal rights to land in Israeli courts.

 

As was the case with Syria in 1981, the Palestinian leadership - from the PLO to Hamas - has made clear that it has no interest in making peace with Israel. Palestinian intransigence has brought about a 16-year stalemate in the so-called peace process which has convinced even true believers on the Israeli Left that the time has come to put aside the two-state paradigm.

 

The latest person to come on board was novelist and leftist ideologue A.B. Yehoshua. Earlier this month Yehoshua told an astonished audience in Jerusalem that the two-state solution is impossible.

 

Yehoshua then endorsed the plan to apply Israeli law to Area C and grant full civil rights to the Palestinians living in the area.

 

Trump's rejection of the status quo and his respectful view of Israel gives our leaders the opportunity to join Yehoshua in rejecting the failed "two-state solution" status quo and act on the growing consensus on the Left and Right that the time has come to apply Israeli law to Area C.

 

True, to a degree even greater than on the Golan Heights, Israel has the legal and historic right to full sovereignty over all of Judea and Samaria.

 

But it is equally true that most Israelis would be willing to negotiate the permanent status of Judea and Samaria with a credible, sincere Palestinian neighbor.

 

By simply applying its law to the area as an administrative step, Israel keeps all options on the table while securing the civil, legal and human rights of both the Palestinians and the Israelis who live in the area.

 

Rejecting received wisdom is far less risky than maintaining allegiance to it when it is wrong.

 

Trump obviously recognizes this. The time has come for Israel to recognize it as well.

 

 

Former NFL great Jim Brown meets with Trump - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

When we look at fake news, headlines like "In Trump's America, NFL players are targeted with racist messages" found at Mashable.com cannot be ignored. The story makes the case that incidents of racism against NFL players are on the rise because of Donald Trump. The story cites the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center (the radical group that lists the Family Research Council as a hate group) as saying hate crime reporting is up since the election because "The white supremacists out there are celebrating his victory and many are feeling their oats." Despite the attempt at labeling as racist everyone who supported Trump, civil rights activist and former NFL great Jim Brown has a different assessment.

 

Many consider Jim Brown as the greatest football player ever. He also has been a vocal civil rights activist that doesn't mince how he feels about any subject, especially racism. Brown's organization Amer-I-Can is instrumental in working to empower mostly inner-city kids to "meet their academic potential, to conform their behavior to acceptable society standards, and to improve the quality of their lives by equipping them with the critical life management skills to confidently and successfully contribute to society." Brown is a no-nonsense, call-it-like-he-sees-it sort of man. He, former NFL linebacker Ray Lewis, Cleveland pastor Darrell Scott, and Kayne West met with Trump on December 13.

 

Brown told CNN reporter Brooke Baldwin, "We couldn't have had a better meeting. The graciousness, the intelligence, the reception we got was fantastic. He's amenable to listening to people who didn't vote for him...I can't speak for the pastor, but I fell in love with him, because he really talks about helping African-American, black people and that's why I'm here." Lewis said, "Urban development and job creation are everything. What we believe with the Trump administration is if we can combine these two powers of coming together--forget black or white. Black or white is irrelevant. The bottom line is job creation and economic development in these urban areas to change the whole scheme of what our kids see."

 

Brown said, "The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island...When I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial. I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings." Brown said he admired Trump because "People that called him names when he won, he reached back and brought them along with him. He held no grudges." CNN's Baldwin was so taken back that Brown said to her "You're outta speech?" It's not supportive of the fake news narrative of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the likes of CNN. It's real. Those who go out of their way to accuse others of hate, usually hate. As Jesus said in Matthew 12:34, "for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."

 

 

 The Wall - Terry James - http://raptureready.com/rap16.html

 

Everyone who has access to any news outlet these days is familiar with the wall mentioned hundreds of times by Donald Trump throughout the presidential campaign season. Now president-elect Trump continues to proclaim that he will build a wall on America's southern border.

 

That highly controversial proposed wall involves Mr. Trump's promise to keep illegal would-be immigrants from entering the United States. Those who support building of such a wall obviously believe this will prevent potential terrorists from entering the country en masse, as they fear is happening presently. A physical structure of the nature described by some will be a massive and expensive undertaking to be sure, as I perceive the project as proposed. It is to be constructed in order to keep American citizens safe.

 

There is a wall of another sort I would like to think on for a bit. This is a structure that also involves keeping America safe. However, it is a wall not of physical materials as in the case of the one proposed to stand between America and Mexico. I'm referring to the barrier that has suddenly appeared with this presidential election. Again, it is not a physical wall, but one that is made of much sterner stuff--as Shakespeare's Mark Antony might put it.

 

Globalism's growing invasion into the American way of life has been marching all but unchecked for at least two decades. Its force of movement into all strata of life has increased dramatically during the administration of Barack Obama over these past eight years.

 

Globalism's threat is greater than just the hordes of illegals from the south--those illegals being but one ingredient within the globalist elite's plans of action: to bring America into configuration with new world order as they envision it. The danger implied stretches across the broad spectrum of culture and society of our nation.

 

The inculcation has been a long time in process. The youth of America in particular have been dumbed-down to the point that they know little of truth about the country's founding principles.

 

The churches of America have not, since the days of the Moral Majority efforts, resisted the globalist drive to take the nation as far away from God's influence as possible. The godless teaching of the corrupted and corruptive educational system from K through the doctorate programs has convinced many that there must be a separation of church and state. That demand has come down, finally, to governmental dictate--approved by the Supreme Court--that opposition to social matters perceived as anti-biblical must be confined to the sanctuaries. Just as the president-elect plans to put up that wall to stem the physical flow of illegals in to America, there has suddenly been erected an even more spectacular wall.

 

It is a spiritual wall, as I view it. God, Himself, has put it up for His own good purposes. It is, almost certainly in part, a wall to stop the globalist invaders from continuing to move the United States farther along the pathway toward the new world order being prepared for Antichrist and his regime of horror. I wrote the following in my commentary that immediately preceded the November 8 presidential election.

 

Although the nucleus of God's people who hold fast to the Heavenly Father's precepts and promises might be a dwindling number, we are still here in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. We are engaged in this prayer war for a restoration of sanity in America's government, society and culture.

 

We are praying specifically that the evil forces that are raging to make this nation into a state totally apart from all godliness will be, at least on an interim basis, kept from their lucifirian goal.

 

I say "on an interim basis," because Bible prophecy plainly foretells that the satanic, globalist forces will for a time one day achieve establishment of a one-world order as Antichrist's platform of power. It will happen. It's just a matter of time.

 

Meantime, however, while the church of Jesus Christ is here, thus the Restrainer(the Holy Spirit) resident within that body holding back evil, it is right and proper--and I believe expected--that God's people, called by His name, are to pray the prayer of 2 Chronicles 7:14.

 

God has erected this wall in answer to the prayers of His people. Yet, only He knows the purposes in full. One reason, I sense, is to give the true church (all born-again believers) time and room to carry out the Great Commission. At the same time, as I've written previously, this wall seems to offer hope of a brighter economic future. The free enterprise forces seem to be saying this with their optimism.

 

But, this, if it does eventuate, makes these days just ahead precisely like the time predicted when Christ will next catastrophically intervene into the affairs of mankind.

 

Jesus indicated, as recorded in Matthew 24:36-42 and Luke 17:26-30 that business will be good--even perhaps booming--at the time He next intervenes. This will be the Rapture of the church.

 

There is one more wall I wish to touch on in this essay--the wall that separates lost mankind from God and Heaven in eternity. The wall is made of the awful, soul-killing matter called sin. Man himself constructed this wall with his disobedience in the Garden of Eden. This wall keeps all of the lost of mankind from entering into God's Kingdom. They are aliens who cannot go through that great barrier.

 

But, God has provided a Gate in that great wall of separation. It is a narrow gate that leads to salvation, the Scripture tells us.

 

Jesus put it this way: "I am the door: if by me any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture" (John 10:9).

 

I believe the reason God has constructed this wall against globalism is primarily to provide time and opportunity to get out this message that Jesus is the only way to salvation. Let us who are called by His Holy Name do our utmost for His Highest in honoring Him for allowing this reprieve.

 

 

  Wisconsin recount ends, deception continues - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

Wisconsin, a state the Republican presidential candidate hasn't won since Ronald Reagan did it in 1984, has certified its recount. President-Elect Donald Trump widened his lead over Hillary Clinton by 131 votes-adding 844 to 713 respectively. Remember, these are not new votes. Recounts mean that votes are disqualified and a winner is determined-the one that gains the most from disqualified votes. While the progressives (sic communists) Jill Stein and Clinton did not come out ahead, they did set a precedence of throwing enough of a tantrum to challenge election results. They and the news media cast doubt on America's election system that will not soon be forgotten.

 

The stated reason for the recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania was to determine if there was any interference from a foreign source, Russia. The Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton continue the narrative that the Russians swayed the US elections. They have pulled enough strings to get the CIA to brief members of Congress and to get the "president" talking about it, too. The media continues to write stories about "fake news" sites that spewed propaganda generated from Russian sources. There has been no evidence presented of Russian hacking the election. The "fake news" was all the media who were writing about skewed polls and declaring Clinton the winner before the vote.

 

This ruse is two-fold: One, it attempts to call into question the veracity of America's election system and cast doubt on the outcome. Two, it is a designed attack on the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote. If a handful of states with large populations should control every presidential election, then abolishing the Electoral College is the route to go. If every American's vote counts, keeping the Electoral College preserves their votes. For all the talk about not requiring voter identification because it would disenfranchise minority voters, the Democratic Party doesn't mind disenfranchising the majority of Americans by allowing large population centers of democrats to determine the election.

 

But the real problem here is the optics-trying to make it appear that the Russians told Americans how to vote and they did it. No, it's not the Russians' fault that the Democratic Party and its vassal, the mainstream media, lost the election. It's that their own sins caught up with them. They couldn't secure, nor cared to secure, sensitive information pertinent to national security. There was an organized pay to play influence scheme. The Democrats believed that those who didn't agree with them were irredeemable deplorables. The Clintons have been duping Americans for decades. Jesus said in Matthew 10:26, "for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be known." Maybe, this was a "hand of God" election, but even so, these scoundrels wouldn't understand that because having eyes, they do not see.

 

 It was the Russians after all, yeah right - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

The Washington Post is reporting that the CIA has briefed Congress that the Russians tried to influence the presidential election in favor of President-Elect Donald Trump, trying once again to sell the narrative that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton repeated throughout the campaign. It was the Russians, the CIA is saying, who may have hacked the Clinton and Democratic Party emails that exposed Clinton's unethical, if not possibly illegal, acts. Still no evidence, however. The point here is not who hacked the emails and turned them over to WikiLeaks, it's who wrote the emails and what was in them that brought to light an entire Clinton governmental organized crime scheme. But there is more to it than that.

 

If Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party were so "qualified" to lead the nation, then one would have to assume that they were also adept at keeping sensitive information secure. But Clinton and her minions were loose with the information that was most sensitive to them, and with information that was vital to national security. Email servers in home closets? Really? There is no way for Clinton to convince anyone that she was a good steward of classified documents. The Russians, according to the CIA narrative, hacked the information. Who are among those we want to keep our secret information from the most? Traditionally, it has been the Russians. Clinton and Democrats couldn't even do that.

 

The Washington Post and other news outlets are also on the squawk about what they are calling "fake news." The Russians and fake news brought down the Clinton campaign. If there is anyone who should be able to recognize a communist, it's the Russians. And if there is anyone who is able to recognize fake news, it's the Washington Post. The Post and organizations like it have been peddling fake news for decades. There is so much misinformation out there that one has to have great spiritual discernment to separate the truth from the lies. When Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you," he was warning about the end times, but it is good advice for any time.

 

Paul also warned in 2 Timothy when he said in verse 3:1, "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come," and in verse 3:13 saying, "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." Its about time the Clintons and the Democratic Party take responsibility for losing the election because of the content of their character rather than shifting blame to the whistleblowers. It's also time for the mainstream media to do some self-examination. If they would report real news without an agenda, they wouldn't have to blame fake news for exposing their agenda. It may have not been the Russians or fake news at all, just the Lord exposing the darkness to the light for all to see.