Letter from America:with KENNETH MUFUKA
As we were going to press, we watched the presidential debate live. It was a disaster. Vice-President Joe Biden called President Donald Trump a clown and a liar.
On his part, Trump needled Biden so many times turning the debate into a schoolboy brawl.
The captured media went away with the idea that Trump refused to condemn racists. On August 14, 2017, after the Charlottesville riots, Trump said this: “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the Ku Klux Klan, neo Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups.”
Two weeks ago, Trump issued a directive, naming the KKK (right-wing) and Antifa (left-wing) as hate groups punishable by law.
So the country is faced by two very bad candidates, Trump a hurricane, who supports keeping American jobs at home, and Biden a Manchurian candidate, a 50-year career politician who will say anything, do anything, kiss any babies and women, and promise a green new deal to replace coal power stations. The new windmills and solar panels are made in China.
The issue then arises: Will the silent majority go for a mad billionaire, who has renegotiated trade deals with China, or will they go for a career politician, decent enough, who will sell their jobs overseas?
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There is a general feeling that the November 3 presidential election will mark a turning point in the trajectory of the US on the world stage. The New York Times 1619 Project defined the present-day US society as born on a platform of slavery, oppression and racism. As such, it cannot be redeemed in its present form.
If these progressives (and Democrats) are correct, then Biden will walk away with the trophy.
I do volunteer work among the needy (both white and black). I feel that there is a silent majority there that finds this caricature of US society as offensive and destructive. If I am correct, Trump will win a second term, hands down.
Six and half a dozen The years between 2000 and 2016 witnessed the phenomenal growth of the political class. This class has learned to avoid corruption laws by using surrogates.
They spoke the same words, said whatever suited the audience at the time, and did the opposite when in power. This they did with the connivance of a captured press. Senior press corps members often secured lucrative million-dollar deals as they rotated into government and back into the private sector.
If I were to give examples, there would be no end to the list. Here are examples of what political operatives like Biden did. Biden was in charge of Ukraine and Russian policy between 2012 and 2016. He often travelled with his son, Hunter.
In the Ukraine, Hunter secured a board membership of Burisma Energy for a $50 000 per month stipend for the next four years. Biden gave a six-hour ultimatum to the Ukraine president to dismiss from office the prosecutor-general, who was investigating the bona fides of Hunter Biden.
Similarly, Hunter received a US$3,5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, wife of the mayor of Moscow at the time. There is no description of the work he did for her.
Biden usually travels with members of his family, son Hunter among them. On his return from China, Hunter had a US$1,6 million input from a Chinese bank. And so the story goes on and on. In all this, the elites will say Hunter is not the vice-president. Biden himself says that he had no knowledge of Hunter’s business deals.
The “Hunter Biden” issue came up in the debate. The vice-president had nothing to say except to say that Trump was a liar and a misfit. It appears, however, mom and pop radios, which are found in every little town throughout the US, are on this matter. The idiom is that Biden is being swiftboated. If our readers believe that Biden had no knowledge of Hunter’s sleazy contracts, then I can sell them a bridge in Brooklyn, New York.
When Hillary and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama went to Washington, they were well below the million-dollar mark. The Clintons, through their Clinton International Foundation, came out with a portfolio of US$200 million. Similarly, Michelle Obama secured a book deal of US$65 million. And the story goes on endlessly.
Foreign policy The damaging aspect of the elite incumbency was that they spoke with forked tongues. Congress authorised the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem. Democrats financed the Israeli military, which smashed Palestinian settlements. Then, with loud cries and huge watery tears, they funded Palestinian hunger relief efforts. They ran with the dogs and comforted the hares as well.
Trump accomplished the transfer against stiff opposition from the State Department.
Obama and Biden were supporters of family values before election in 2008. They had, however, secretly made a contract with gay groups that they would recognise gay marriages in their second term.
With the support of gay sympathisers in the Supreme Court, they imposed gay marriages without Congressional support.
Similarities with 2016 There are two bad choices before the US electorate. Trump is a loud-mouthed New Yorker who speaks for the little man. As we speak, Trump has made an effort to wean away blacks from the Democrats.
In what he called the Platinum Contract with Black America, he has proposed a new deal which will bring affirmative action to black enterprises. He has already placed black colleges on a 10-year funding cycle, rather than an annual repetitive cycle.
He repealed the Biden Crime Bill, 1994, which differentiated black drug crimes from white drug crimes, sending 40% of all young blacks to jailhouses. This was followed by a new kind of private jail system, built and run by investment companies. These companies needed a constant input of 3% annual increase in inmates in order to make profit.
A group of conservative black pastors attended the Platinum Contract meeting with Trump and spoke with tears on their faces. Their issue is that any amount of progress in the black community must begin with the rebuilding of the black family, which was destroyed by the Biden Crime Bill. These pastors are being called names.
We warn our readers that the world gets its news from the New York Times and its acolytes, which are surrogates of the elites and sworn enemies of the Trump administration.
In the 2016 election, these anti-Trump fascists said that Trump had a 3% chance of winning the election. Little girls cried in the streets, as they were told that girl candidate Hillary Clinton had lost to a Russian surrogate.
l Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwean patriot. He writes from the US. His latest book, Life and Times of Robert Mugabe: Dream Betrayed, and other books are available at Innov Bookshops in Zimbabwe and at kenmufukabooks.com in the wider world.
