They even turned the president’s use of hydroxychloroquine into a partisan controversy, although professional scientific evaluation has moved between innocuous and therapeutically useful. It was regarded by—I would have thought, your guess is as good as mine—80 or 90 percent of observers at the time that he announced he was a candidate for president as a frivolous brand-building, publicity-seeking exercise of no chance, or virtually no chance, of getting anywhere politically. In most cases, the proliferation of siblings and the limited ability of their mothers to earn enough to pay for the normal requirements of their truncated families commended amateur drug dealing as a well-paying form of unskilled labor. “If we just get rid of Trump, you won’t have chaos,” but they created the chaos—not Trump. We saw that during the Access Hollywood Billy Bush tape. They or their families had come voluntarily to the United States and weren’t burdened with the legacy of slavery, the consequences of which are so vivid in the consciousness of my African American fellow inmates. That was a disgraceful, shameful blot on the history of the country for which both parties are responsible. My prison employment was as a tutor for all of those prisoners who hadn’t matriculated from secondary school, and under Bureau of Prisons rules, they were obligated to attempt to do so. In all of that, he was unlike anyone who preceded him in that office. The views expressed herein are solely those of the author. Where was the government? He doesn’t lose his judgment or his determination, the more difficult things get. Mr. Black: To start with, he is, as you know, the only person in the history of that office who had never previously sought or held any public office, elected or unelected, or a high military command. This includes personalizing content and advertising. Conrad Black. In this episode, we sit down with former newspaper publisher Conrad Black, author of “A President Like No Other: Donald J. Trump and the Restoring of America.”. But Trump supporters or Trump personally do not get so easily demoralized. 2020-05-01. He is, at one and the same time, extraordinarily thin-skinned about certain insults from people well beneath the normal notice of the President of the U.S., but at the same time, apparently oblivious to tremendous waves of public antipathy in fields where he is confident of himself. Some had wildly optimistic notions that the gates of America’s bloated prisons were about to be thrown open to those of the president-elect’s pigmentation. The Epoch Times: February 12, 2020: Conrad Black: The Davos elite have seen the future, but didn't recognize it — it's the U.S. National Post: February 10, 2020: State of the Union Reveals Bankruptcy of Democrats' Opposition to Trump: The Epoch Times: February 5, 2020: Please Speak Out, John Roberts: National Review: February 5, 2020 Of course, in the so-called War on Drugs, the low-hanging fruit for the authorities was to cruise through the ghettos, round up people randomly, charge those in possession of illegal substances, and give them slap-on-the-wrist sentences in exchange for denunciations of those from whom they bought the drug. I got on well in prison with all of my fellow residents and almost all of the so-called correctional staff, and apart from the fact that it was an outrage that I was there, I found it interesting and in some ways enjoyable. Can you do that for me? Once I had earned their trust, they all tended to be quite loquacious. The object now is to soften the public into believing that somehow Trump horribly mismanaged the pandemic, is still President Chaos, and as polling confirms, is heading for the last round-up anyway. He’s got a good story to tell, and this is his way of getting off his back foot and taking the offense again in the last month of the election campaign. Not all of the jobs lost can be refilled, but the president sharply reduced the effects of the virus and confined the more depressed economic conditions to approximately three months. He was looking for the proper vehicle, he waited for his time, and he struck. I would also add that he does have undoubtedly an extraordinary intuition into where public opinion is. Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years, and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. With the full connivance of the Trump-hating media, which is, in fact, conducting the Biden campaign in the merciful absence of the candidate, the pandemic disaster theory is regularly supplemented by a barrage of polls showing absurd leads for Joe Biden. Unfortunately, the public will not be enlightened as to the extent, if at all, that the special counsel thinks that the present president was the victim of illegal skullduggery. Mr. Jekielek: Why don’t we start there? There is some truth to that. They uniformly regarded the police as dishonest, trigger-happy, rough with them physically, very often racially hostile, and lacking a normal sense of humanity. Jan Jekielek: Conrad Black, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. Federal Appeals Court Upholds Maine Law Denying Tuition Reimbursement for Religious School Students, Trump Wins Kentucky, According to Sen. Rand Paul and AP, Trump Thanks Campaign Staffers, Predicts ‘Incredible Night,’ Has No Concession or Victory Speech, Postal Service Fails to Meet Judge’s Deadline to Sweep Facilities for Mail-In Ballots, Surgeon General Pleads Not Guilty to Violating Hawaii’s Public Health Restriction. The Epoch Times Today at 9:40 AM Opinion by Conrad Black The idea that President Trump is somehow re ... sponsible for the plan of a group of lunatics in # Michigan to … In sports metaphor, his nerves don’t get to him. I was sent the candidates who had failed the classes the Bureau conducted, and I got to know hundreds of these men very well. If he has endured what other people might be celebrating as his defeat, he is seeing it as the necessary prelude to a great victory that is about to happen and that his critics are too obtuse to recognize. People who had varied careers and they got to where they were like Harry Truman or Warren Harding, there were similarities there, and similarities of socio-economic background as well. 1.7k members in the TheNewsFeed community. In every case, it was a matter of debriefing them when they sullenly arrived to see me by assuring them that this wasn’t another attempt by the regime to exploit and belittle them, that it wasn’t my concern whether they wished to make a serious effort or not as long as they didn’t disturb those who were trying to graduate, but that I was available to them if they wanted to outsmart our jailers and rejoin society with a foot on the up escalator and the possibility to make a survivable income in a way that didn’t lead directly back to such places as the one where we unhappily found ourselves. But I think, to begin with, it is much closer than the Democratic media are claiming as they did four years ago. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. They arrived in prison unskilled, hostile, embittered, betrayed, and facing unpromising horizons. I recall, you called it a 50/50 show, so to speak. And no one could have foreseen many of the things that have happened this year, and it would be a very incautious person who claimed to be able to predict with accuracy how it’ll finish out these last four weeks. With that said, I’m assuming what he’s going to do, and he’s going to have to do it, as he seems to have started to do, promptly and very efficiently, or he remains the underdog. That doesn’t make him unlike any previous president, but it makes him unlike all but a very few of them. In my opinion, [this] is the closest the United States has ever come to having tanks on the White House lawn. We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. With 105 days left, Trump still has the lead, whatever the polls cited by the Democrats and their sympathizers say. Mr. Black: It is his nature to avoid any admission of defeat, even when he has in fact endured a defeat. I corresponded with them from prison but through my office, under my letterhead as a member of the British House of Lords, one legislator to another, questioning them about the initiatives they had undertaken for incarcerated people. The country and the world were groping their way forward with a new virus; nobody had the answers and there was nothing for it but to learn from experience. The president must raise his game and develop a more focused message on the dangers of implementing the Biden-Sanders strategy, on the Trump achievements of the past four years, and on an imaginative program for the next four years starting with health care and infrastructure. We have to be very careful for the others but the rest of us have to get on with our lives and not listen to the Democrats’ self-serving claptrap without shutting it down again, unctuously invoking the scientists as if there were any unity of opinion there. He changed party affiliation seven times in the 13 years prior to his election, had no party loyalty whatsoever. After I overcame their initial reticence, they looked upon me as a somewhat exotic representative of a world of which they had had even less knowledge than I had had of theirs. This includes personalizing content and advertising. Black is a widely read commentator on American Greatness, National Review Online, Epoch Times, and elsewhere. I understand that the argument from the purists in the Department of Justice is that even if Trump loses the election, Durham has a mandate that is not revocable, and he will indict who he wants to indict, when he wishes to indict them. Of course, his predecessors, taken all 43 of them together, are certainly not a uniform group, but they do at least share the characteristic of not being remotely like Donald Trump as a personality. He didn’t live up to those expectations. I understand, and it’s absolutely right that he should be immune to any tampering from anyone, and I don’t question that he has earned his reputation as an absolutely fair, disinterested, non-political prosecutor. It airs on Verizon Fios TV and Frontier Fios on NTD America (Channel 158). They just took a hike for 20 years. It was building the celebrity of his name deliberately, systematically, and in echelons where historically, national politicians through the United States have not operated, including as impresarios of great sports spectacles, beauty pageants, and acts of what I described as unutterable hucksterism such as selling 95,000 tickets to the Pontiac Silverdome in a wrestling contest, which ended in his shearing the hair off the head of World Wrestling Federation [CEO], Vince McMahon. There’s also this other element actually, that comes through in the book which I find really fascinating, that Trump, even in moments of actual seeming failure, these bankruptcies, and marital difficulties, and so forth that you chronicle in there, he portrays this as being a win. Most of the polls that are quoted and are used by the aggregators in their averages of the polls involve a non-representative preponderance of Democratic voters, are focused on registered voters rather than those categories of registered voters most likely to vote, make no effort to revise the echelons of voters polled to allow for Trump’s unusually high appeal to some groups of voters that haven’t been in the habit of turning up on election day, and ignore the reluctance of many Trump voters to become involved in excessive questioning about why they support their candidate. There are people whose whole career really was moving up the ladder to be president, like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, there were similarities there. So you have a temperamental, I think, distinction between him and his predecessors. It was a pleasure and an honor to have assisted them. In fact, I think that it is well understood that many of the polling organizations are basically Democratic front operations who front load the numbers by choosing an echelon of the electorate that is not representative, either deliberately or from incompetence.

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