What Newt's Reading | June 5, 2020

What Newt’s Reading The conclusion from Rosenstein's testimony: Obama's DOJ plotted against the election of Trump without evidence. – Newt Rod Rosenstein’s Admission Exposed Heinous Plot Against Trump By David Marcus New York Post This week, Congress has been looking into allegations that Barack Obama’s Department of Justice spied on President Trump’s campaign. On Wednesday, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein admitted before the Senate Judiciary Committee that, if he knew at the time what he knows now, he would not have signed a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant renewal concerning Trump campaign aide Carter Page. “And just like that, it became clear that the national torture of three years of the Russian collusion investigation simply should not have occurred.” In Rosenstein’s words, the FBI “was not following the written protocols,” and “significant errors appeared in applications.” In short, the recent inspector general’s report and Rosenstein’s testimony showed that the Obama administration’s efforts “to investigate and prosecute Trump administration officials weren’t based on facts, but negligence or malice.” The Department of Justice wanted to prevent, and then destroy, a Trump presidency, manipulating facts and hiding evidence take down Trump and his associates. And the news media played along the whole time. President Trump's decision to declare Antifa a terror organization is crucial because it helps stop recruitment and gives authorities the tools to track its members down. – Newt Trump's Antifa Declaration — This Is How It Helps US Fight Back By Jim Hanson Fox News President Trump said recently that the US will designate Antifa as a terrorist group. This is an important decision for several reasons. First, Antifa is a domestic terrorist group as it fits the definition under federal law by breaking laws “to intimidate or coerce a civilian population” or to “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.” Most of Antifa’s hardcore activists wouldn’t even disagree. But the array and severity of crimes and punishments just jumped significantly. “Many of these wannabe revolutionaries are willing to spend a night in jail, but how many are willing to do 20 years in prison?” Designating Antifa won’t stop the die-hards from rioting, but it will slow the movement’s ability to recruit new people, many of whom will be reluctant to risk being swept up for supporting terrorism. “Those are real benefits and should not stop anyone who wants to peaceably assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances.” The designation will also prohibit financing or providing material support to Antifa. “While Antifa operations are not particularly high budget, they do cost money and require some types of expertise. Anyone providing that type of support will now find themselves in jeopardy.” The past few months have been a preview of what government-run health care would look like. – Newt The Lesson of Government's Ugly Intrusion Into America's Health Care Must Not Be Forgotten By Andy Biggs Washington Times We have now witnessed in effect what a government takeover of America’s health care looks like, and it’s ugly. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, government officials, especially at the state level, based their decisions on unreliable models. In New York City, a surge of patients came into hospitals, unlike in many other places. But when the surge came, government officials and their guidelines failed to recognize the surge was in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other places that house the sick and elderly. “Places like New York City refused admittance or transferred elderly patients, including those with the coronavirus, back to nursing homes. Turns out, the majority of COVID-19 patients, and those who perished in deaths related to the virus, were in those facilities. The surge was the nursing home residents.” Without government decision-making, those patients would have been properly treated and cared for in hospitals with better equipment and trained professionals. “Medicare-for-All and other broad attempts to centralize and nationalize health care will create the scarcity and rationing that prevent treatment necessary to preserve lives.” Our return to space is historic. The public-private partnership allows space travel to be much more affordable. Space will provide a huge economic benefit for our future. – Newt A New Era: The Space Age Is Making a Comeback, but It's Cheaper This Time With SpaceX By Glenn Harlan Reynolds USA Today SpaceX’s successful launch of a human crew into orbit was the first such launch involving an American spacecraft in nearly a decade and the first such launch ever by a commercial spacecraft. But the real difference between this launch and past ones is that SpaceX is doing it for much less money. “To get a kilogram into orbit on the space shuttle costs $54,500. To do the same thing with SpaceX’s newest rocket, the Falcon 9, costs $2,720.” Furthermore, SpaceX’s Starship reusable rocket, under development now, “is to cost a mere $2 million per launch, and Elon Musk says its cost per kilogram to orbit will be at least 10 times lower than the Falcon 9.” This year is also transformative for space travel because President Trump has moved to make the extraction and processing of resources from the moon and asteroids a new industry. There is much potential wealth in asteroid mining and other economic activities in space. The Trump administration is also working on agreements with other spacefaring nations. President Trump again stands up for religious freedoms across the globe with his latest executive order. – Newt Trump Signs Executive Order on International Religious Freedom By Christopher Vondracek Washington Times On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order to prioritize religious freedom as a foreign policy initiative. The order requires all civil service employees to undertake “international religious freedom training” and sets aside $50 million annually for advancing international religious freedom “by deterring attacks on sects and enhancing security at houses of worship.” Under Secretary Mike Pompeo, the State Department has increased attention on religious freedom. “Tuesday’s order appears aimed at bolstering global incentive programs and restricting the issuance of visas under the 2012 Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which targets perpetrators of human rights abuse and corruption.”

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