Email from American Values Plus, putting the pinch on Putin.   Fighting For Faith, Family & Freedom Thursday, July 31, 2025 To: Friends & Supporters From: Gary Bauer Day 193 It’s Day 193 of President Trump’s second term. No one has lost their Social Security, Medicare, or veterans’ benefits in spite of constant media and leftist lies. Deep State Deception Nearly two months ago, FBI Director Kash Patel made a stunning announcement. He found a secret room inside the FBI headquarters where James Comey and others hid thousands of documents. We are just now learning what some of those documents are. They are important files related to the Deep State’s efforts to nullify the 2016 election through the Russia collusion hoax. Not only were the documents hidden in this secret room, they were stuffed into multiple “burn bags” that were meant to be destroyed. (See next item.) Whoops! Meanwhile, the people who ran this conspiracy in the Deep State, in the media, and the Democrat Party are still engaged in it. In the last week, Susan Miller, a former CIA official, suddenly emerged. Miller claims she wrote the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that Tulsi Gabbard recently declassified. Gabbard says the intelligence was “manufactured and manipulated” to support the claim of Russian collusion when there never was any collusion with Russia. Miller claims Gabbard doesn’t know what she’s talking about. No surprise, all the legacy media have done interviews with Susan Miller. Well, now things are getting really strange. Investigative reporter Matt Taibbi writes that multiple people in and out of the CIA say Miller did not write the Intelligence Community Assessment. One senior intelligence official told Tabbi that her claim to have authored the ICA is “just totally bizarre.” So, why would she say that? The most obvious explanation is that Miller, a known Trump-hater, is still part of the ongoing conspiracy. It’s possible she still “works” for the CIA, even if she says she no longer works at the CIA. It’s clear that whatever Miller did at the CIA was biased against Donald Trump, and her job now is to discredit anyone trying to expose the Deep State conspiracy against Trump. In fact, she may have a personal interest—avoiding jail—in discrediting Gabbard and others. There’s a certain irony in the discovery of these burn bags of classified materials. Obviously, someone was incompetent. But these are the same people who raided Donald Trump’s house and accused him of mishandling classified material! The Durham Annex Some of the documents found in the hidden FBI room were the classified “annex” (supporting documents) to the final report from Special Counsel John Durham, who investigated the FBI’s conduct of the “Crossfire Hurricane” operation that became the Russia collusion hoax. Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, released the Durham annex today. While there are significant redactions, the annex makes it absolutely clear that the entire Russia collusion hoax was a political hit job concocted by Democrat campaign aides and approved by Hillary Clinton to smear Donald Trump. And, of course, George Soros operatives were also deeply involved. In fact, it was a Soros operative who indicated that “Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.” He wrote that six days before the FBI launched “Crossfire Hurricane.” More importantly, the Durham annex makes it clear that James Comey and other Deep State officials knew all of the Russia collusion allegations against Trump were Clinton campaign lies. But they ignored the truth and used the smears, hoping to sabotage Trump’s campaign and elect Hillary Clinton. When that failed, they continued using the smears to sabotage Trump’s administration. In a statement, Chairman Grassley said: “History will show that the Obama and Biden administration’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump. This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions and is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history. “The new Trump administration has a tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and do so with maximum speed and transparency.” More Deals Last night, President Trump announced that he had reached another historic trade deal, this time with South Korea. Here are the basic details: South Korea will invest $350 billion in the United States. It will buy $100 billion of American energy. It will open its markets to U.S. products. South Korean products to the United States will have a 15% tariff, generating more revenue for us. President Trump also announced a deal had been reached for the United States to help develop Pakistan’s oil and gas reserves. There was a major discovery last year that could vault Pakistan to the top of the list of world energy producers. And President Trump has put America first by making sure our companies get the contracts. Putting The Pinch On Putin President Trump has been clear about his desire to see the killing and destruction in Ukraine come to an end. Now, he is strategically using America’s economic might to change the dynamics of the conflict. Trump said India would face a 25% tariff “plus a penalty” for being one of the biggest buyers of Russian weapons and oil. In other words, President Trump is playing hardball. He is telling India that it must choose between Russian oil or access to U.S. markets. That’s not the action of someone who is “Putin’s puppet.” Trump is threatening to cut off a major source of money for Russia, money it needs to continue the war in Ukraine. And don’t forget that Trump already got the European Union to purchase American energy and not Russian energy. The Schumer Shutdown Democrats are pulling out all the stops in their attempt to force the release of what they call “the Epstein files.” (I believe these files may have been corrupted during the Biden years.) There is even some indication that they may force a government shutdown if they don’t get what they want. When Republicans threatened to shut down the government in order to get concessions from Barack Obama or Joe Biden, Democrats and the media howled in outrage. They claimed Republicans were threatening the economic stability of our country. Seniors and government workers were going to starve because Social Security checks and government paychecks wouldn’t go out. Envy is never a good thing. But I admit to being envious of how Democrats can turn on a dime and never have to worry about being held accountable for their past positions! Earlier this week, Vice President Vance was asked by a reporter about “the GOP protecting pedophiles.” Vance fired back with both barrels. He said: “We’re not shielding anything. The president has directed the attorney general to release all credible information . . . related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. . . But I think I've got to make an observation. . . For four years under Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, the media didn’t give a damn about the Epstein files or about the Epstein case. . . “For 20 years you had the Obama and George W. Bush Departments of Justice go easy on this guy. They didn’t fully investigate the case. They didn’t show any curiosity about the case. . . “If you want to criticize the people who aren’t showing full transparency, you ought to go after the administrations who went easy on Jeffrey Epstein, the administrations who concealed this case for 20 years, and the administrations that failed to show transparency. Donald J. Trump has nothing to hide.” Left-wing Hate It’s a good thing Cincinnati City Councilwoman Victoria Parks announced that she wasn’t running for reelection six months ago. That way she won’t have to answer to the people at the ballot box for her appallingly hateful and outrageous comments about the innocent victims of the recent Cincinnati mob attack. Parks celebrated the vicious assault, saying, “They begged for that beat down!” She’s happy it happened. Of course, no Democrat will be asked to condemn Parks. Have any leading Democrats even condemned the mob attack to begin with? The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the brutal mob violence to see if hate crime charges should be brought against the attackers. I used to say the best way to get Democrats to shut down the Department of Education was to make the department push schools to teach real American history, phonics, and moral character building. If it did that, Democrats would recoil in horror! 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