Will The Fed Sabotage Trump?
It’s an election year. Interest rates are high relative to current inflation rates and are the highest they’ve been since 2006.
Do those two conditions have anything to do with each other? The Federal Reserve would say no but history would say yes.
On the one hand, the Federal Reserve has always maintained they are above politics. According to Fed propaganda, members of the board of governors check their politics at the door of the Fed boardroom and act solely on the basis of economic data and what’s best for the U.S. economy in terms of inflation and unemployment.
Of course, that’s nonsense. The Fed has always been highly political. It’s just that they’re very good at hiding it.
A Long History of Political Interference
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Fed and the White House operated under a strict understanding that the Fed would keep interest rates low in order to help finance the war effort in World War II.
President Truman tried to perpetuate that deal into the Korean War years (1950-1953), but the Fed rebelled. An understanding was reached that the Fed would return to independence, but politics were never completely off the table.
In 1972, Fed Chair Arthur Burns revved up the money supply to help Richard Nixon win reelection that year. It worked. Nixon won by one of the greatest landslides in U.S. history. It wasn’t just because of the Fed, but it played a part.
But the legacy was horrendous, including inflation from 1977–1981 that cut the value of the dollar in half in just five years. What’s the situation today?
Before getting back to the Fed’s influence over this year’s presidential election, I want to briefly discuss the latest election developments.
Trump Wins Record Victory in Iowa Caucus
After yesterday’s record victory in the Iowa caucus, it’s even more clear that Trump will be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
Trump won 51% of the vote, 30 points ahead of the runner-up, Ron DeSantis. The previous record in Iowa was a 13% margin, established back in 1988. In all, Trump won 98 of 99 Iowa counties. Donor class favorite Nikki Haley came in third with 19% of the vote.
To repeat, Trump will win the nomination, regardless of his legal challenges (some of which may be falling apart) and opposition from the Republican establishment.
Trump’s landslide win in Iowa comes amidst a nationwide campaign by Democrats to strip Trump from the ballot based on the allegation that he was an “insurrectionist” as a result of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
No Coincidence
The word “insurrection” was used by Nancy Pelosi the day after the riot, which provides strong proof that the entire insurrectionist plot was planned in advance by Democrats. It wasn’t just a coincidence that she invoked that specific term. It was carefully chosen.
Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, insurrectionists who took an oath as officers of the United States are barred from seeking federal office.
That was designed to prevent Confederates from becoming senators or representatives after the Civil War.
It’s rarely been used since the 1870s, and the last time it was used at all was a 1921 court case, which the government lost. The candidate seeking election won and was reelected for several terms.
So Section 3 is practically a dead letter. Never mind. The Democrats are bringing it back to keep Trump off the ballot.
Challenges are pending in about 20 states. If Trump is kicked off the ballot in even a few states, it could tip the election in favor of Biden. Smart move by Democrats, right? Not at all.
Boomerang!
It’s backfired in the Democrats’ faces. The two states where Trump was kicked off the ballot, Maine and Colorado, involve decisions headed to the U.S. Supreme Court that are likely to be overturned with Trump put back on the ballot.
The Maine and Colorado cases are so constitutionally dubious that you could even potentially see a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against them.
Meanwhile, Trump’s standings in the polls go up every time the Democrats try another desperation play like this.
The 14th Amendment ploy confirms the Republicans’ worst suspicions about Democrat election-rigging and causes them to go on the offensive to stamp it out. Democrats are stoking so much outrage that they’re practically guaranteeing that Trump will be the nominee.
That’s not good news for Democrats because far from being easy to beat, Trump is ahead of Biden in the polls, especially in the swing states.
At the same time, Republicans are fully mobilizing to fight all kinds of election fraud including ballot harvesting, drop boxes, unverified mail-in ballots, rigged voting machines and much more.
Despite what you hear in the media, these were legitimate issues in the 2020 election. They may or may not have tipped the election to Biden in key swing states, but fraud and other voting irregularities certainly existed.
Now let’s get back to the Fed and its potential role in this year’s presidential election.
Stop Him!
To be sure, Fed Chair Jay Powell is a Republican — but he’s definitely a Bush Republican. That wing of the party despises Trump just as much as the Democrats, if not more in some cases. So you can count Powell as a Trump-basher, even though he’s a Republican.
Now, one of the top Democrat members of Congress, Ro Khanna, a radical progressive, has called upon Jay Powell to cut interest rates to help Biden win the election.
Khanna went so far as to say that if Powell doesn’t cut interest rates, “he may be the person most responsible for the possible return of Trump.”
Something similar happened ahead of the 2020 election, only then it was Bill Dudley, the former president of the New York Fed. Dudley suggested that the Fed should actively attempt to prevent Trump’s reelection by not cutting rates.
So much for the Fed not being political!
It Won’t Be About Politics After All
Powell is too smart to take the bait on this latest challenge, but he is listening. And the Fed might actually be right this time when it says it’s independent of politics.
The truth is, Powell may end up cutting interest rates in June or July anyway, regardless of politics. He won’t do this to help Biden or hurt Trump. He’ll do it because the U.S. economy will be headed for a severe recession by then and Powell will be getting the blame for the recession.
So Powell may be able to finesse his way through this political minefield. He’ll get to cut rates this summer (because of recession), keep the Democrats happy (because he cut rates) and keep the Republicans happy (because he caused a recession in the process).
It’s not that the Fed doesn’t care about politics. They do.
It’s simply the case that they’re good at keeping their heads down and leaving no fingerprints at the scene of the crime.
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Family of Autistic Woman, 20, Murdered by Illegal Alien Sues Biden Admin for $100 Million
The family of a 20-year-old autistic woman from Maryland who was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal alien from El Salvador has launched a $100 million lawsuit against the Biden administration for causing her death.
The wrongful death suit accuses the Biden admin and the Department of Homeland Security of failing to bar U.S. entry for the 17-year-old “undocumented non-citizen” who went on to kill Kayla Hamilton in July 2022.
The illegal from El Salvador who was allowed in as a UAC (unaccompanied child) later turned out to be an MS-13 gang member with a criminal history, information which Kayla’s family argues would have prevented the murder had immigration officials phoned authorities in his country of origin.
“We bring this landmark lawsuit in honor of Kayla to get answers on how this catastrophic failure occurred and help prevent another senseless murder,” Brian Claypool, the lawyer for Hamilton’s mother, Tammy Nobles, stated according to The Washington Times.
“The killer had been arrested in El Salvador in 2020 for being associated with an illicit gang. All DHS had to do was make one phone call to verify this and Kayla would be alive.”
Kayla had recently moved to the Aberdeen area with her boyfriend, when the illegal broke inside her mobile home, raped and strangled her with a phone charger cord, then fled, stealing her phone and money.
Emergency crews initially believed they were responding to a cardiac event, however, they arrived to a grisly murder scene.
According to Kayla’s mother, she had tried to call her boyfriend at the time of the attack, however he didn’t pick up and the call was instead answered by voicemail.
“Ms. Nobles said the voicemail was a 2-minute, 30-second recording of the murder,” reports The Washington Times. “When the boyfriend returned, he found a phone charger wrapped so tightly around Hamilton’s neck that he had to use his teeth to get it off, Ms. Nobles said.”
Kayla’s murder sparked a House GOP investigation which blamed Biden’s “open border” policies for the incident. It was also revealed immigration officials “missed key warnings signs about the alien’s propensity for violence,” which were caught by law enforcement officials investigating her death.
A rundown of the numerous missteps by immigration officials appeared in a Judiciary Committee report on her murder, mentioning how immigration officials failed to observe gang tattoos denoting the killer’s MS-13 affiliation, and how, “While the alien’s homicide charge was pending and after his affiliation with MS-13 was disclosed, authorities still placed the alien in a foster home with other children present.”
Kayla’s mother, Tammy, and her attorney joined Fox News on Wednesday to discuss the case.
Tammy will testify before the Committee on Homeland Security Thursday on her daughter’s death.
Here’s a transcript of her statement:
Testimony of Tammy Nobles
Committee on Homeland Security
Voices for the Victims: The Heartbreaking Reality of the Mayorkas Border Crisis
January 18th, 2024Good morning and thank you for having me here today. My name is Tammy Nobles. I am the mother of Kayla Hamilton.
July 24th , 2002, was one of the best days of my life. I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and named her Kayla Marie. She loved to smile and laugh. She always kept her friends close and never forgot anyone. She was kind, caring, thoughtful and funny. She loved life and God. She showed the world that being yourself was ok and you didn’t have to follow everyone else. But sadly, on July 27th, 2022, I received the worst news that a parent doesn’t want to hear that my newly 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered in her own room and left on the floor like trash.
The illegal MS-13 known gang member brutally raped and murdered my daughter by strangling her with a cord and robbed her of $6.00. During the attack Kayla called her boyfriend for help but went to voicemail. The voicemail of the murderer strangling Kayla was 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.
DHS employees failed to visually inspect the assailant by lifting his shirt to check for gang related tattoos. Had DHS employees performed a visual inspection of the assailant’s body, they would have seen MS-13 gang related tattoos on his body, disqualifying him from entering the U.S. DHS employees failed to make a simple phone call to the El Salvador government to verify if assailant was on an MS-13 gang affiliation list. Had they done so, El Salvador government officials would have confirmed that the assailant was a known MS-13 gang member with a prior criminal history. DHS supervisors had failed to train and supervise DHS employees to properly screen minors attempting to enter US soil from El Salvador.
The operational neglect committed by DHS carried over into DHHS whose operational neglect further sealed my daughter’s fate. DHHS’s operational neglect included its employees violating clearly articulated protocol requiring a minor to be placed with a “verified” relative before entering the US. DHHS employees neglected and recklessly failed to verify a legitimate family member of the assailant or sponsor before allowing him to enter U.S. soil. There were clear inconsistencies in the DHS and DHHS records regarding the identity of the relative to whom the assailant was released. Ultimately, DHHS’s failures allowed the MS-13 gang member, as a minor, to rent a room in a trailer park from another individual who was also an illegal immigrant. There was also a lack of transparency by DHS and DHHS, including but not limited to DHHS failure to provide House of Representative Chairman Jim Jordan a copy of its audit report.
Let’s take a moment and think about how Kayla felt that day. How scared she must have been that day knowing that she was dying. And if she was going to see her mommy again, her baby sister, her brother or her cat Oreo. Kayla fought for her life that day with all that she had and in the end she lost to an individual that wasn’t even supposed to be allowed in the country.
For me this not a political issue this a safety issue for everyone living in the United States. This could have been anyone’s daughter. I don’t want any other parent to live the nightmare that I am living. I am her voice now and I am going to fight with everything I have to get her story told and bring awareness of the issue at the border.
If we had stricter border policies my daughter would still be alive today. Nothing will bring my daughter back nor fix the pain of not having her here, but I want to prevent this from happening to someone else’s child. This isn’t about immigration this is about protecting everyone in the United States.
Tammy Nobles’ GoFundMe for Kayla: https://www.gofundme.com/f/bring-kayla-hamilton-justice
H/t: The Washington Times
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