Americans have to start believing in America again, and just because we might have stumbled a little by believing that our elected officials would always be there to defend and protect our nations principles and guidelines as put forth by our founders, but the truth is not always as it appears, and if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything Obama Told You About Iran, and that includes what the ‘Paid to Report’ Mainstream Media told you!
You have to know that for the corruption to run so deep within the Obama Administration, that the Administrations of Bush I, Bill Clinton, Bush II, and the closer, Barack Obama, were all part of the master plan to open our borders, open the airways, dish out more visa’s, and reach out to other cultures that in complete opposition to our governing body, or our religious preference! If you really think back about it, it was Jimmy Carter that gave us the first indication of the globalization indoctrination of America, but then Reagan, like President Trump, stopped it dead in its tracks!
Moving on we have the long awaited Inspector General’s report on Hillary’s emails and other atrocities against the American people supposedly coming out any day now, but I’m wondering if the report, like the subpoenaed documents that the Congressional oversight committee requested and still waiting for, with just redacted versions trickling down from the powers to be, that the same slow walking and redactions are going to be the reality as long as Rod Rosenstein is running the show, and Jeff Sessions doesn’t reverse his recusal!
If you’re a ‘Never Trumper’ you probably think that President Donald J. Trump is not the one responsible for the booming economy, is not the one responsible for the rebuilding of our military from the pre WWI levels and status that were left to this President by the Obama Administration, and guess if you believe that the message of making America first and great again is an Obama idea and just didn’t have the time to implement it over the 8 years when he had the chance to, but instead decided to finish off his own phase 1 of ‘Hope and Change’ which resulted in the historical highest numbers ever recorded for the number of people out of work, the number of people on welfare, the number of people in poverty, the number of mass murders than any other President in history, the lowest GDP under any President in history of America based on a sitting President’s yearly average, and then responsible for creating the highest National Debt in the history of America! Oh, I forgot, that was Trump’s doing, right?
As an Independent I’m having a hard time trusting, let alone voting, for anyone that’s a Democrat that’s a carryover from the Obama years, and I have to believe that the slow walking after 500 days of confirming President Trumps nominations of his cabinet members is due to the fact that those Obama left overs are still in place and the ones leaking everything and anything that would take this President down!
I’m also having a hard time believing anything that Obama says about there being no scandals during his tenure as President, and as we’ve now discovered why, and that’s because the higher echelons of the FBI, DOJ, and CIA were in the tank for the 8 years Obama ignored and bypassed the ‘Rule of Law’ and Constitution while the opposition Republican Party looked the other way and did nothing to stop him!
Deep down you have to know that when Obama said he learned about all of these supposed scandals the same way Americans did, and that’s by watching the News on TV. Well, I think we know that’s not true when we heard about FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page going back and forth about how Obama wanted to be briefed all the time about everything.
When it comes to Obama’s ‘non-scandalous’ scandals that he claims weren’t scandals it makes me believe that Obama knew everything, and then my suspicions were reconfirmed when his obvious disdain for Israel and its leader Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, and then showing us that disdain time and time again. Obama used his first term campaign committee members, plus $350,000, to go to Israel to torpedo Netanyahu’s bid for reelection, which he failed to accomplish! Then we have Obama intentionally weaponizing Iran’s ability to get the bomb by forcing the rebirth of the Iran deal when what was already in place was working just fine, but I guess Obama thought Iran could use a couple extra bucks to order up some nukes from its number one trading partner, North Korea, or buy America’s Uranium from the Russians who now own 20% of America’s Uranium due to Hillary’s State Department to enrich their own Uranium!
We also had Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation being told to abstain from backing Israel on the settlements on the West Bank after America had defended our number one ally in the Middle East’s position for decades before Obama left office! How can Americans forget that late night smuggling of large sums of cash on palates being delivered in a unmarked plane to Iran that wasn’t supposedly for the release of the hostages, but for the debt that needed to be all of a sudden paid after its been sitting and collecting interest since the hostage crisis back in the 1970’s, and then coming up with an unbelievable excuse that the American taxpayer would benefit by paying it now because of the low interest rates!
I think we all know that the protection of Obama and Hillary by the FBI, DOJ, and CIA leadership is being led by Rod Rosenstein, who was Mueller’s right hand man when Rosenstein was in charge of the cover-up of the Uranium One Deal when Mueller was the head of the Obama FBI under his first term as President! 
What people don’t understand is that Rosenstein, due to the unnecessary and unwarranted recusal from Trump’s AG Jeff Sessions, is censoring, blocking and slow walking the Mueller investigation, and doing it solely to protect himself and Mueller from their part in the sale and cover-up of the Uranium One Deal back during Obama’s first term, and their extremely light sentences a.k.a. slap on the wrist pardons given by the same corrupt powers to be that kept them out of jail, but on the bench to become readily available should the need arise, which it did when President Trump beat the unbeatable Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential Election!
It’s time for Americans who really care about the future of America to pay attention to these little things, and with using a little hindsight being able to comprehend that the fix for the future of America was in, and in for at least the last 4 Administrations since Reagan was in office! The ultimate Obama inspired goal, without the American people knowing it, was to join other nations in an effort to be all for one, and one for all in a new World Order where America, because of its successful economic, domestic and foreign policies would be on the hook for the funding of this one size fits all mission, and having it come to fruition through Obama’s ideological Socialist ‘Hope and Change’ narrative stemming from the successful transformation of America!
I predict that the Mueller Investigation will be dragged out until the Midterm elections. I predict that within the last week before the Midterm elections that some piece of unverifiable information from an unnamed source about President Trump will be released in the exact same way the information was released by the left in the Alabama election to name a replacement for Jeff Sessions who decided to take the AG job under President Trump, but sabotaged Roy Moore’s attempt to be that Republican replacement! I also predict that if the investigation ends before the Midterm elections that both Sessions, and Rosenstein will be fired on the spot because they are no longer a political protected asset for the Mainstream Media or the leadership of the Progressive Left led by Schumer, Pelosi, and the George Soros funded Adam Schiff that continue to undermine anything and everything Trump in order to prevent his agenda of making America first and great again!
The slow unraveling of the Obama Administration’s lawlessness is deafening, but with the American people finally waking up and realizing how lucky we were because this outsider non-politician Billionaire Businessman decided that America and what it stands for in the world, is much more important then rubbing elbows with the insider elites that he’s hung out with on the fringes of Society for a very long time! His position and acceptance within Societies upper crust is what enabled him to hear everything that was being planned for the future of America, and the reason he made the decision to come down off that fence on the side of the American people!
I have to believe that the only motivation this man needed to be President had nothing to do with any other alternative objective then making America first and great again, and if ‘Never Trumpers’ can’t see that after the first 500 days of his Administration, then something is definitely wrong with their assessment of the facts, and truly believe that being against America being actually first and great again is a bad thing because it will give other peoples of the world hope, which is something Socialism can’t allow to happen because of their need to control the masses and the direction of the lives of the masses!
Obama bent over backwards to enhance Iran’s ability to eliminate Israel’s power in he Middle East, and I’m also reminded when Hillary was Secretary of State that $6 Billion dollars went missing or lost from the State Department, I also remember how that misplaced or lost $6 Billion coincided with the start of ISIS and then Hillary’s accidental turn over of $400 Million in weaponry to ISIS, which the Obama Administration confirmed happened! I remember how Obama and the Hillary led State Department intervened in other countries regimes through the Arab Spring, and Benghazi, and how the Uranium deal that gave Russia 20% of America’s Uranium that as a result netted the the Clinton Foundation some $145 Million in thank you’s.
I have to believe that Obama’s creation of a ‘one size fits all’ ‘Deep State’ has been the mission all along, and Obama’s gravitating to the guiding and backing by the United Nations instead of Congress is what his intentions to be King of the world were true then, and still are today! I also believe that by Obama attacking America’s men in Blue, playing the race card, and declaring ‘Peacetime Martial Law’ while allowing U.N. Troops to work with Cities on American soil to fight against extremism were all part of the overall plan to destroy America from within while elevating his personal position on the world stage!
I don’t know how many of you caught Obama’s farewell speech at the United Nations before he left office when he recommended that America and its people should succumb to international law and the policing by an international police force and military! He bashed America and everything it stood for while outlining the points he felt were wrong with our constitutional Republic and our founders lack of inclusion and acceptance of others who aren’t on the same page as America is. The problem with Obama was that he has decided to ignore our founders conclusions hundreds of years ago before they decided to risk their lives to seek out a new and free world on their own! So, why are those concerns still an issue when legal American citizens challenge the reasons why immigrants shouldn’t be allowed to enter this country, and why do the backers of illegal immigrants care more about the Obama’s anti-America inspired lawlessness then they do the safety and sovereignty of America!
I have to assume that everybody knows that our own immigration laws where passed by America’s past immigrants who are here legally, and that should be telling all of us that we recognize that we are a nation of immigrants, but that doesn’t mean we’re a nation of immigrants that don’t follow the letter of the law that the immigrants that came before made into law. I don’t know of one person that is against legal immigration because they know that the process comes hand in hand with assimilation and the respect needed for this countries heritage and past history, but where the problem is the illegal immigrants that believe they can jump the line of people that are doing everything by the book including paying the fees and taxes needed to secure a legal American Citizen status, and who should come first before any other illegal immigrants is granted a path to citizenship, but never ever amnesty!
The American people, and I’m not talking about political party affiliated Americans, need to get behind and back what’s made this country what it was before the attempt by Obama to undermine its exceptionalism, and take that road trip around the world to denounce and disrespect the people that elected him to office by apologizing to the world for the American people’s magnanimous and charitable gestures when called upon to do so!
It’s time for Americans to realize that “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” and I say lets make that something ‘Making America first and great again,’ and drain the ‘Swamp’ of the naysayers who are betting it can’t be done!
And now we get this information today that further advances the notion that Obama was made President to upset the balance of power in the Middle East while at the same time allowing Iran to get the money they need to continue to finance, not their own people, but terrorism…..
OBAMA-ERA LICENSE AIMED TO LET IRAN CONVERT MONEY IN DOLLARS!
The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.
An investigation by Senate Republicans released Wednesday sheds light on the delicate balance the Obama administration sought to strike after the deal, as it worked to ensure Iran received its promised benefits without playing into the hands of the deal’s opponents. Amid a tense political climate, Iran hawks in the U.S., Israel and elsewhere argued that the United States was giving far too much to Tehran and that the windfall would be used to fund extremism and other troubling Iranian activity.
The report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that under President Barack Obama, the Treasury Department issued a license in February 2016, never previously disclosed, that would have allowed Iran to convert $5.7 billion it held at a bank in Oman from Omani rials into euros by exchanging them first into U.S. dollars. If the Omani bank had allowed the exchange without such a license, it would have violated sanctions that bar Iran from transactions that touch the U.S. financial system.
The effort was unsuccessful because American banks — themselves afraid of running afoul of U.S. sanctions — declined to participate. The Obama administration approached two U.S. banks to facilitate the conversion, the report said, but both refused, citing the reputational risk of doing business with or for Iran.
“The Obama administration misled the American people and Congress because they were desperate to get a deal with Iran,” said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, the subcommittee’s chairman.
Issuing the license was not illegal. Still, it went above and beyond what the Obama administration was required to do under the terms of the nuclear agreement. Under that deal, the U.S. and world powers gave Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for curbing its nuclear program. Last month, President Donald Trump declared the U.S. was pulling out of what he described as a “disastrous deal.”
The license issued to Bank Muscat stood in stark contrast to repeated public statements from the Obama White House, the Treasury and the State Department, all of which denied that the administration was contemplating allowing Iran access to the U.S. financial system.
Shortly after the nuclear deal was sealed in July 2015, then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testified that even with the sanctions relief, Iran “will continue to be denied access to the world’s largest financial and commercial market.” A month later, one of Lew’s top deputies, Adam Szubin, testified that despite the nuclear deal “Iran will be denied access to the world’s most important market and unable to deal in the world’s most important currency.”
Yet almost immediately after the sanctions relief took effect in January 2016, Iran began to complain that it wasn’t reaping the benefits it had envisioned. Iran argued that other sanctions — such as those linked to human rights, terrorism and missile development — were scaring off potential investors and banks who feared any business with Iran would lead to punishment. The global financial system is heavily intertwined with U.S. banks, making it nearly impossible to conduct many international transactions without touching New York in one way or another.
Former Obama administration officials declined to comment for the record.
However, they said the decision to grant the license had been made in line with the spirt of the deal, which included allowing Iran to regain access to foreign reserves that had been off-limits because of the sanctions. They said public comments made by the Obama administration at the time were intended to dispel incorrect reports about nonexistent proposals that would have gone much farther by letting Iran actually buy or sell things in dollars.
The former officials spoke on condition of anonymity because many are still involved in national security issues.
As the Obama administration pondered how to address Iran’s complaints in 2016, reports in The Associated Press and other media outlets revealed that the U.S. was considering additional sanctions relief, including issuing licenses that would allow Iran limited transactions in dollars. Democratic and Republican lawmakers argued against it throughout the late winter, spring and summer of 2016. They warned that unless Tehran was willing to give up more, the U.S. shouldn’t give Iran anything more than it already had.
At the time, the Obama administration downplayed those concerns while speaking in general terms about the need for the U.S. to live up to its part of the deal. Secretary of State John Kerry and other top aides fanned out across Europe, Asia and the Middle East trying to convince banks and businesses they could do business with Iran without violating sanctions and facing steep fines.
“Since Iran has kept its end of the deal, it is our responsibility to uphold ours, in both letter and spirit,” Lew said at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in March 2016, without offering details.
That same week, the AP reported that the Treasury had prepared a draft of a license that would have given Iran much broader permission to convert its assets from foreign currencies into easier-to-spend currencies like euros, yen or rupees, by first exchanging them for dollars at offshore financial institutions.
The draft involved a general license, a blanket go-ahead that allows all transactions of a certain type, rather than a specific license like the one given to Oman’s Bank Muscat, which only covers specific transactions and institutions. The proposal would have allowed dollars to be used in currency exchanges provided that no Iranian banks, no Iranian rials and no sanctioned Iranian individuals or businesses were involved, and that the transaction did not begin or end in U.S. dollars.
Obama administration officials at the time assured concerned lawmakers that a general license wouldn’t be coming. But the report from the Republican members of the Senate panel showed that a draft of the license was indeed prepared, though it was never published.
And when questioned by lawmakers about the possibility of granting Iran any kind of access to the U.S. financial system, Obama-era officials never volunteered that the specific license for Bank Muscat in Oman had been issued two months earlier.
According to the report, Iran is believed to have found other ways to access its money, possibly by exchanging it in smaller quantities through another currency.
The situation resulted from the fact that Iran had stored billions in Omani rials, a currency that’s notoriously hard to convert. The U.S. dollar is the world’s dominant currency, so allowing it to be used as a conversion instrument for Iranian assets was the easiest and most efficient way to speed up Iran’s access to its own funds.
For example: If the Iranians want to sell oil to India, they would likely want to be paid in euros instead of rupees, so they could more easily use the proceeds to purchase European goods. That process commonly starts with the rupees being converted into dollars, just for a moment, before being converted once again into euros.
U.S. sanctions block Iran from exchanging the money on its own. And Asian and European banks are wary because U.S. regulators have levied billions of dollars in fines in recent years and threatened transgressors with a cutoff from the far more lucrative American market.
By Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee
Associated Press