by Sharon Rondeau

(Dec. 3, 2019) — At a Tuesday afternoon press conference following the release of House Intelligence Committee Democrats’ report on their findings from their “impeachment inquiry” against the president, Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA28) contended that President Trump engaged in a “scheme” to “coerce” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to launch two investigations involving Trump’s potential 2020 political rival former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

Those actions, Schiff said, caused Trump to jeopardize “national security,” attempt to subvert the 2020 election, and violated Trump’s oath of office.

In a July 25 phone call with Zelenskiy, Trump said that “our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.  I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike…”  The phone call would become the catalyst for a CIA “whistleblower” to file a complaint with the Intelligence Community inspector general, but not until after he or she contacted Schiff’s office first, according to The New York Times.

Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Preamble to the Democrats’ impeachment report, respectively, refer to the possibility that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election as a “discredited theory” and a “conspiracy theory.”

Schiff claimed that Zelenskiy “desperately” wanted to meet with Trump at the White House to lend additional legitimacy to his new administration following his April election and the seating earlier in July of a politically-friendly Rada, or parliament.  A former Soviet socialist republic, Ukraine has struggled with corruption and hostilities with Russia since the fall of communism beginning in 1989.

Just after the 3:00 mark in the C-Span coverage of his presser, Schiff said, “At the same time there was something President Trump desperately wanted and believed that he needed, and that was an investigation that would damage the rival that he feared apparently the most, Joe Biden, as well as an investigation into a debunked conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in our last election. Now that’s a conspiracy theory which is often summarized and characterized by the term ‘Crowdstrike.’  That conspiracy theory is a Russian narrative.  That is a conspiracy theory put out, promulgated by Vladimir Putin to deflect attention away from Russia’s interference in our own election and to try to drive a wedge between the United States and the nation of Ukraine.”

Schiff did not expound as to what “Crowdstrike” is.

Moments later, Schiff reemphasized that Trump’s alleged desires amounted to “two sham investigations:  one into Joe Biden; also debunked and discredited, that sham investigative theory; but also into this idea that Ukraine interfered in our elections, not Russians…”

While vice president during Obama’s second term, Joe Biden was appointed liaison between the U.S. and Ukraine following the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea.

Trump has not only been criticized by Schiff and others, but also said by Democrats to have committed an impeachable act by allegedly delaying congressionally-appropriated military aid to Ukraine to fend off Russian aggression in order to “coerce” Zelenskiy to open the two referenced investigations.

The Obama regime chose not to sendlethal” aid to Ukraine following the Russian invasion, while the Trump administration has sent Javelin anti-tank missiles and hundreds of millions of dollars beginning in 2017, a set of facts which several Republicans raised during the hearings.

According to other witnesses, the investigations into the Bidens and Burisma were never opened as a result of the July 25 conversation, and Zelenskiy did not make the “public statement” which Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani allegedly had wanted.  Reporting by now-independent investigative journalist and Fox News contributor John Solomon contends that Ukraine had already reopened an investigation into Burisma Holdings, which appointed Hunter Biden to its board of directors at a salary of at least $50,000 a month while his father was vice president and U.S.-Ukraine envoy.

On October 9, Solomon told “Hannity” host Sean Hannity:

The U.S. government had open-source intelligence and was aware as early as February of 2019 that the Ukrainian government was planning to reopen the Burisma investigation. This is long before the president ever imagined having a call with President Zelensky.

Two witnesses, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and State Department Ukraine official George Kent, admitted that Hunter Biden’s position on the board suggested a conflict of interest given Joe Biden’s position in the U.S. government.  For his part, Kent said he wrote to Biden’s office on the matter but received no response.

Throughout the two weeks of hearings held by the Intelligence Committee before Thanksgiving, committee Democrats and the attorney who acted as their interrogator, Daniel Goldman, appeared to discredit the notion that Ukraine might have interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.  “Isn’t it also true that some of President Trump’s most senior advisers had informed him that this theory of Ukraine interference in the 2016 election was false?”he asked Hill former National Security Council member Fiona Hill on November 21, as reported by CBS News with the caption, “Hill says Trump ignored warnings on Ukraine conspiracy theory.”

Hill, who resigned in July, characterized the “Ukraine meddling” theory as a “fictional narrative” that “has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.”  Hill has been a board member of one of George Soros’s foundations and was said by former Trump associate Roger Stone to be a “Soros mole,” to which the mainstream media forcefully objected, particularly following Hill’s testimony.

In that same vein, The American Independent, a self-described “progressive” news outlet, reported of the Goldman-Hill exchange, “Fiona Hill says senior White House aides told Trump his conspiracy theories about the DNC server being in Ukraine were wrong, but he didn’t listen.”

The media was prompt to repeat the Democrats’ talking point on the Ukraine “conspiracy theory.”  On November 23, CNN reported:

In 2016, the Russian government and military, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, launched an unprecedented attack on the US election. They spent millions of rubles on hackers and trolls who systematically tried to weaken Hillary Clinton and boost Donald Trump. It’s impossible to know if their efforts tipped the scales, but Trump won by a razor-thin margin.

These are the conclusions of the top US intelligence agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. Russia’s role was also confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller, who brought criminal charges against Russian hackers and trolls.

But for three years now, Trump has questioned, dismissed and contradicted these findings. He and many of his Republican allies instead adhere to an alternate reality about the 2016 election.

On November 21, The Guardian reported:

Some Republicans on the intelligence committee have pushed a discredited conspiracy theory, embraced by Trump and amplified by conservative media, that Ukraine, rather than Russia, meddled in the last election.

They contend that Ukraine was complicit in the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and that computer records were fabricated to cast blame on Russia. A key talking point is CrowdStrike, a security firm hired by the DNC that detected the hack.

During the hearings some Republicans presented evidence they had gathered, including a January 11, 2017 Politico article of which the witnesses and perhaps Democrats appeared to be unaware, claiming that certain “Ukrainian government officials,” with the assistance of a Ukrainian-American and DNC operative, Alexandra Chalupa, “tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.”

Further, the article states, “…Politico’s investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the race that appears to strain diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one another’s elections.”

On November 15, Mother Jones reported that “Democrats Say Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Parallel Putin’s.”

In relating testimony from current U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, NBC News reported:

Taylor shared several new pieces of information in his opening statement Wednesday, including his belief that White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was an integral part of an “irregular” communication channel between Washington and Kyiv and that the Ukrainians were “ready to move forward” with the probes desired by the White House.

Taylor, however, also reiterated his belief that he felt it was “clear” that a proposed White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was tied to launching investigations into the Bidens and a conspiracy theory about alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election — information he shared in his closed-door testimony in October.

“Crowdstrike” is the private company the DNC hired to complete a forensic examination of its servers in 2016. The reported breaches of the server or servers led to the transfer of thousands of DNC and Hillary Clinton-campaign emails to WikiLeaks, which published them in the months leading up to the election.

In 2017 testimony to Congress before he was fired, FBI Director James Comey admitted that the FBI never examined the server(s) so breached.

In its spring 2016 report on the DNC server breaches, Crowdstrike wrote:


The firm posted an update to its findings directly following the release of the Trump-Zelenskiy call transcript in late September.  As had the FBI, Crowdstrike reported, “We have never taken physical possession of any DNC servers. When cyber investigators respond to an incident, they capture that evidence in a process called ‘imaging.’ It involves making an exact byte-for-byte copy of the hard drives. They do the same for the machine’s memory, capturing evidence that would otherwise be lost at the next reboot, and they monitor and store the traffic passing through the victim’s network. This has been standard procedure in incident response investigations for decades. The images, not the computer’s hardware, provide the evidence.”

On Tuesday, csoonline reported:

President Donald Trump, Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have all given credence to what cybersecurity experts and the US intelligence community deride as a baseless conspiracy theory pushed by Russia. That theory posits that Ukraine, and not Russia, was responsible for hacking into the networks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

Kennedy quickly backtracked from blaming Ukraine for the DNC hack, but nonetheless left wiggle room to return to this contention. After admitting he was “wrong” to imply Ukraine and not Russia hacked the DNC, he went on to say, “There is a lot of evidence, proven and unproven — everyone’s got an opinion — that Ukraine did try to interfere, along with Russia and probably others, in the 2016 election.”

This promotion of a discredited theory by the highest government officials undermines efforts to deal with the consensus primary threat, security experts believe. It also casts doubt on established security forensic practices.

The concept that someone other than Russian hackers transferred the DNC emails to WikiLeaks has also been assiduously attacked by the media, effectively silencing Sean Hannity on the subject in May 2017.  The media drumbeat rose to the level whereby Hannity feared he might lose his popular Fox News Channel show due to an organized petitioning of his advertisers to cease their support.  Likewise, other Fox personalities dropped their reportage on the issue.

Lawsuits were then filed against Fox, one of its reporters, and businessman Ed Butowsky which were dismissed, although one dismissal was overturned in September. In turn, Butowsky has sued a number of parties for alleged defamation and loss of income.

One suit, filed against The Washington Times, was settled out of court, a development seized upon by left-leaning media at the time.

Although mainstream articles predating Barack Hussein Obama’s successful 2008 presidential campaign reported him as born in Kenya or Indonesia, the same media later called the “theories” that he was born outside the U.S. “conspiracies” which had been “debunked.”  However, those reports ignore a 5+-year criminal investigation conducted by a former detective and private investigator under the authority of the Maricopa, AZ County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) whose findings of forgery in the “long-form” birth certificate image uploaded to the White House server were reported publicly on three occasions.

At the third and final presser on December 15, 2016, lead investigator Mike Zullo revealed not only “nine points of forgery” demonstrating that items were copied electronically to a blank template to create the “long-form” image presented to the public bearing Obama’s name, but also that two well-credentialed forensic experts agreed with his conclusion that the image cannot possibly be genuine.

Neither the media, FBI, nor Congress would investigate why the “official” documentation of a sitting president was fraudulent.

The responsibility for the rise of the “birther movement,” or those questioning Obama’s origins, was placed squarely on Trump by The New York Times. 

Tying that to the current Ukraine controversy and impeachment inquiry, Bloomberg opinion writer Timothy L. O’Brien wrote in October, “One of the telling aspects of Trump’s turn to sprawling conspiracy theorizing eight years ago, and his subsequent immersion in it, is that it’s one of the few signature pieces of his current repertoire that isn’t a throwback. Most of Trump’s behaviors are decades old. Peddling conspiracies is a relatively recent phenomenon. And his deployment of half-baked, bonkers schemes attached to former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, as well as some of his ludicrous theories about Ukraine as a haven for interference in the 2016 presidential election, have boomeranged on him in ways I’m sure he never anticipated.”

While Schiff invoked Trump’s alleged violation of his oath of office and the U.S. Constitution’s Article II, which details the election, oath and duties of the president and executive branch, it is that same Article which states that the president and commander-in-chief must be a “natural born Citizen.”

Since the close of the investigation, Zullo has further reported that two U.S. intelligence agents informed him that it is “an open secret” in Washington, DC that Obama was not born in the United States, again to media silence.  Additionally, Zullo said, the Trump administration has been provided with the evidence, much of which has not been released publicly, from their findings that the birth certificate image is a “computer-generated forgery.”

The “birther” moniker has persisted throughout the media to this day, although the “theory” was “debunked,” The Washington Post asserted in April.

“Some Republicans Still Think Obama Was Born in Kenya as Trump Resurrects Birther Conspiracy Theory,” reported Newsweek, which recently fired a writer and disciplined an editor for inaccurate reporting, in December 2017.

As with the “theory” that Ukraine might have interfered in the 2016 election and that someone other than Russian operatives penetrated the DNC servers to obtain the incriminating emails, the birth-certificate conclusions have been noticeably avoided or refuted, without any independent investigation, by the mainstream media.  “There’s a media blackout. Nobody wants to cover this; nobody wants to talk about it,” Zullo told Carl Gallups of “Freedom Friday” in April.

As The Post & Email reported of the broadcast at the time, “Zullo referred to a book published last year by Obama Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer who Zullo said ‘actually boasts of the media blackout surrounding the [birth certificate] issue.’”

“It was Fox News; it was MSNBC; it was everything across the gambit that an order had to come down somewhere: collusion with media executives not to talk about the birth certificate,Zullo said.  “That’s bone-chilling.”


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  1. Message e-mailed to President Trump and AG Barr today: [Professional Responsibility]

    GOD BLESS President Trump, AG Barr and US Attorney Durham…for risking your health and lives to stand up to an out-of-control life-all-its-own US Government-citizenry!

    And today, it feels like America has two Presidents: Constitutional President Trump and Fraud President Pelosi

    2020 VISION in 2120: The Righteous Right Trumpers vs The Theft Left Pelosi’s

    With all the powers vested in me as a MADE IN USA “natural born Citizen”, you have my permission, Donald, William and John, to BE YOUR NATURAL SELVES and ARREST NANCY+BARRY+HILLARY for heretofore accumulated unaccounted HIGH CRIMES and COLLUSION against The US Constitution (aid and support to Terror Tehran et al) and humanity (murderous ignition of the Middle East in 2011 et al)!

    And those gross crimes began officially, and continue today, when Nancy Pelosi FORGED THE ELIGIBILITY PAPERS for FAKE presIDent Soetoro-Obama II on 08-28-08:


    It is bad for frauds, NANCY+BARRY+HILLARY, to commit the crimes, and worse for government-citizens and media-citizens to help cover-up the crimes, yet today, the worst crime of all is for TRUMP + BARR + DURHAM to refuse to prosecute the crimes!

    The lawless liberals are in need of a woodshed spanking for their endless candy store temper tantrums…and you three are just the ones to START THE SPANKING!

    Do not continue RELYING ON LYING, IG Horowitz, as US Government-citizens do when it comes time to discipline one of their own elite government-criminals…this time, RELY ON STUBBORN FACTS and BLIND JUSTICE!



  2. I truly hope that Trump has everything needed to prove Obama was ineligible and is simply waiting for his second term to begin when he will unload on Pelosi and the rest of them. I can imagine that Pelosi is in full panic mode and is desperate to have him removed from office or at least prevent him from being re-elected.

  3. I hate the word “debunk” and its past tense “debunked.” To me those words are like fingernails on a chalkboard. The root word, bunk, came to the English language in the 1923 novel “Bunk”, by American journalist and historian William Woodward. They are slang terms for bunkum and meant “take the bunk (absurd, ridiculous, insincere or nonsense) out of things.” A debunker is one who claims something has been exposed, discredited or proven false even if it hasn’t. The leftist media will gladly use those words any chance they get. They are their favored intonations, especially when it involves a claim by conservatives about something that is supported by the left. In their leftist minds, those words defeats any opposing conservative argument. Those words are often used when the topic of Barack Obama’s birth certificate and or his status as a natural-born Citizen arises. Mention either topic to the angry leftist and they swoon with the vapers and chant “that has been debunked.” Once those intonations are deployed, the leftist ends the debate, claims they’ve won, claims you’ve lost and; oh, calls you a RACIST.

    There is no evidence Barack Obama was born in the United States (or anywhere else). It has been over 10 year since the issue first arouse and the only (so called) evidence presented by the left is a DEBUNKED PDF, created in cyberspace by a forger(s).

    New law school students are taught if the law is on your side, you argue the law. If the evidence is on your side, you argue the evidence. If you have neither pound the table.
    As I’m writing this, Nancy Pelosi, the criminal Speaker of the House of Representatives, just announced that the evidence discovered thus far in the various House committees is sufficient to impeach President Donald Trump for some, thus far, unidentified HIGH CRIME(S). She asked the House of Representative to vote for impeachment of Trump soon. This is an example of Pelosi “POUNDING THE TABLE” because there is no evidence Trump committed any offense.

    In 2008, the Democrat Party of Hawaii (DPH) chaired by Brian Schatz determined that Barack Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States per “ARTICLE II, Section 1” of the U.S. Constitution and should not be allowed on the Hawaiian ballot because he had not provided the DPH with a needed document(s) verifying his eligibility.
    The DPH was responsible for verifying the qualifications of DNC candidates to ensure their eligibility for placement on the Hawaiian ballot; and the completion of the Official Certification of Nomination (OCON).

    The document Obama was unable to provide is not known for certain because Hawaiian law does not permit the public to know what that document(s) was. But Obama met the age (47) and residency (Chicago IL) requirements of ARTICLE II , Section 1, so, all that remained was the natural-born Citizen requirement. To meet that NBC requirement, Obama needed a Hawaiian birth certificate; and given his bizarre history regarding identity documents, the only reasonable conclusion is that the (secret) DOCUMENT(s) Obama was unable to provide was his Hawaiian BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

    The Official Certification of Nomination (OCON) is a required document sent by each party’s state and national organization to all other elections’ committees before each election. It gives the Chief Election Officer in each state assurance that candidates seeking to be on their state’s ballot are eligible to serve in the office they seek.

    Hawaiian law required that candidates for president provide evidence that they met the requirements of ARTICLE II, Section 1 of the Constitution. the requirements of the Constitution. Since the DPH declared that Barack Obama did not meet the constitutional requirements, due to his failure to produce the required document(s), it was unlawful to place him on the Hawaiian ballot. Hawaii may be the only state that requires the specific constitutional language be in its OCON.

    This DPH decision caused a clandestine scheme of conspiracy orchestrated by Obama and the then DNC Chairperson, Nancy Pelosi. The DNC illegally overrode the decision of the DPH and invented reasons to keep Obama on the Hawaiian presidential ballot. The just certified Obama as eligible, ignoring the decision of the DPH and his failure to provide the prerequisite document(s). This act corruption by the National Democrat Party is historically typical of that organization. ARTICLE II, Section 1 of the Constitution describes the requirements for president, but state authorities oversee the validation of candidates on their state ballot.

    In late October 2008, Obama was in the closing days of his presidential campaign and had lots of campaign stops to attend. But he also had to be in Hawaii for a couple of days to straighten out his eligibility problem there. His excuse for leaving the campaign trail was that his grandmother was dying, and he wanted to see her one last time before her death. But that was a ruse to hide the real reason he flew to Hawaii which was to attend a secret meeting with accommodating Hawaiian Democrat politicians. Obama first visited his grandmother, then attended the secret meeting which included the Hawaiian Chief Elections Officer Kevin Cronin; and with the help and acquiescence of these politicians, maneuvered himself onto the 2008 Hawaiian ballot.

    The scheme was to proclaim publicly that Obama was eligible though he was not, keep him on the Hawaiian presidential ballot and hide from the public the fact that the DPH had refused to certify him.

    At the August 2008 DNC Convention held in Denver, Colorado, Chairperson Nancy Pelosi performed her wicked hoax and created and submitted two different, sworn Official Certifications of Nomination (there is only supposed to be one) for Obama containing similar but different language. Both versions of the OCON were sent to the Hawaiian Office of Elections, but only one was sent to the other 49 states’ Election Offices.

    All the states’ Election Commissions were sent one Official Certification of Nomination with the following statement:

    “THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democratic Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though (sic) 28, 2008, the following (Obama and Biden) were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively.”

    The typo “though” is in both OCONs. In the above version there is no mention of Obama’s Constitutional eligibility as required by Hawaiian law. In the OCON sent only to Hawaii’s Election Commission, it states the following:


    The difference in the content of these two OCONs raises serious questions about the criminal liability of Nancy Pelosi and the other officials who signed both documents.

    Falsifying a public record is a criminal offense that involves the altering, changing, modifying, passing or possessing of a document for an unlawful purpose. It may be called by different names depending on the state or be included as part of other collateral crimes. States charge the crime of falsifying a public record as a FELONY.

    All the OCONs were mailed to the various state election offices throughout the 50 United States. Once there, a clerk would receive them, date stamp them and placed them into a file cabinet where the DNC hoped they would never be seen again. But fortunately, the scheme was discovered and hopefully someday the schemers will answer for their crimes.
    It appears that Brian Schatz, a Democrat, put loyalty to the Constitution ahead of loyalty to the Party in refusing to certify Barack Obama as being eligible to be the president.
    Most of the media who learned of the above corruptive behavior by Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, the DNC chose to ignore it.

    See online articles written by Pen Johansson-Editor, The Daily Pen
    and by J.B. Williams, Canadian Free Press

    See video
    Democratic Party of Hawaii Refused to Certify Obama –

  4. Nikita’s_UN_Shoe

    Thank you……..I am glad you are sending it to your Representative. I hope you get a reply that is more than just another useless form letter…….I have gotten my share of those over the years……..

  5. The report some months back stated, “it is an open secret in the White House that Barry Soetero was foreign born and not eligible to be POTUS”. So, those holding that secret are also complicit to treason. My guess is Dan Bongino knows all about it but he never brings it up as former Secret Service under Obama (Soetero).

    Until a spine is fortified against the fraud, corruption, and deceit we the people will never see the real fruits of our Republic function under the rule of law.

  6. Bob68:
    Request permission to use your narrative to send to my Congressional Representative in the House. I will mention to him that I feel the same way that you do.

    Since my two Illinois U.S. Senators are pretty much a lost cause, I won’t bother them, for I can only expect a tin-canned reply.

  7. My opinion again on why the panic to remove President Trump from office…and how it relates to the “birther” issue.
    I believe President Trump has in his possession everything needed to conclusively prove Obama is an ineligible, identity fraud con-artist who usurped America’s presidency for 8 years. Both political parties and the MSM were/are complicit in the biggest criminal act against American citizens and her Constitution in history which effectively gave America’s government and her military to her Deep State/Globalist enemies. A goal they had been working toward for years was reached, and so many people were complicit in this HUGE criminal act that the crime became self-protecting. Some of the complicit actually planned and carried out the installation of the fraud Obama while others were cheerleaders for what could be, “America’s historic first black president”. They were too afraid of being called racist to reveal the many danger flags which were everywhere in Obama’s claimed past, his friends and acquaintances, and even in his proof that he actually is Barack Hussein Obama. None of this was difficult to see all the way back to 2008/2009, but once Obama was allowed to be sworn-in it was, “game over”, for anyone trying to expose the truth about Barry no matter how convincing and accurate their evidence of The Obama Fraud was….it would be rejected one way or the other……..

    The Globalist dream of a complete and lasting take over from the inside out was to have been completed by the planned and promised in 2008 after Obama continued cover and “closer” Hillary Clinton. She failed and the “birther” Donald Trump was elected creating a panicked effort to remove him from office before the coup of 2009, which put Obama in office as the putative president, is fully revealed and acted on by President Trump…..that panic is driving what we are watching unfold in super-slow motion as the days go by.

    In my opinion the winner of this battle for our Constitutional Republic depends of whether or not even President Trump and his administration will use their ultimate trump card to end the endless battle we are watching and bring all involved in The Obama Fraud and it’s still on-going cover-up to justice……appropriate for the crimes committed. Justice delayed is often justice denied and there seems to be no limit in the ability of the complicit….some of whom have created the illusion of trying to reveal the truth but refuse to touch the reality of the Obama fraud because that are often also complicit, sometimes by their inaction and in the case of Congress, lying to their constituents over the years of Obama’s usurpation and even up until today…………..
    How will this end?………………..