Liars, Leakers, and Liberals by Judge Jeanine Pirro

This is a must-read book. If you have any question what so ever concerning the current presidency, this is the one you should read.

Before you open your mouth and show your one-sided understanding of Trump, and show your lack of proper research, you must secure a copy and read this side of the story.

It is a balance to  a lot of what you hear coming from the ignorant masses.

Pirro bases her book on interviews with top administration officials, family members and insiders. She reveals the dark sources seeking to obstruct and undermine the president.

No one president has had this much trust a him so soon. Obama didn’t. Clinton didn’t. Not right from the start.

Pirro puts forth that there is a plot against the people of the United States and the outcome they seek is to destroy our democratic republic.

And Trump is not the perpetrator.

Pirro explains what the 2016 election was all about. She explains false news and why it is so prevalent.

I find her research to be first rate. She doesn’t make claims and not back them up with facts. She is not an outsider herself having been friends with Trump long before he sought office.

One fact she points out concerning the charge of Russian influence is that as far  back as 2012 while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State , she and then President Obama sold uranium to Russia. That doesn’t sound good.

And Trump was not involved.

 Politics is not a nice game to play and you must respect the gumption of those men and women who seek the position. You must also recognize actions speak loudly. In the future our leaders will be judged by their actions much more than they are now. Pirro offers us a counter balance to what is in the papers and on the television and the radio concerning the present occupant of the office.

What you must do, if you are honest, is research for yourself the facts. This means reading both sides before coming to an opinion. You owe it to yourself.

This book is published by Hachette Book Group, Inc and retails for $29.00. I am sure you can find it on Amazon or your local library. You must secure a copy and read this side of the story.

The Shadow President by Michael D' Antonio

Everyone who gets into politics sooner or later gets a book written about them. Since Pence is vice president at the moment it is time for him to start to get his anal exam.

It is very important that we know just who it is we have in office. Politics is not an easy profession to do. There are thankless hours and tedious events. Most politicians you never hear about. I mean, how many vice presidents can you name? Not too many, I would venture.

I have heard someone say a person doesn’t enter politics because they love it. They enter politics to make a difference. When it comes to Mike Pence, I am sure, it is something he feels would make a difference doing.

He didn’t start out seeking political office. “Radio was Pence’s medium and as soon as he had arrived in Washington, he made sure he would some presence on the airwaves,” records D’ Antonio.

 He sought to live a lifestyle that was compatible with his Christian values and at the same time a life marked by aggression. Being third born in a family of six children he needed to be different from those who were born before him. A typical trait of middle children. In other words, he became, a person more complex than we know.

Which is one reason we need books such as this one.

D’ Antonio puts forth that Pence may be leaning toward a future role as president. Underneath what we see could very well be a striving for power.

It is not easy being a vice president. You must appear to agree with your mate and at the same time be your own person. That is the game plan for each person that gets this place on the ticket.  Expediency finds members of a party embracing programs to solve problems they should stay away from, he has once put forth.

Pence in the past has called for immigrants to be treated with compassion but now serving under Trump, Pence has become branded a hypocrite. Yet if he is seeking to move into the office of president he must act as Trump’s surrogate. Trump, as you know, has a record of firing people who don’t agree with him, so Pence has to play the part.

If this is so than this book is a good start to understand the person. In fact, I would highly recommend a person first understand what they are ranting against, so they act with knowledge.

It is published by St. Martins Press and retails for $28.99. It could also be found in your local library. Read it and be informed.

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

 
Here we go again. But wait, are we picking on President Trump or trying to explain him? It would seem this author, Michael Wolff, is writing a book to explain Trump.
  Wolff spent some time tracing Trump and observing the activity around him.
 Up to this point Wolff seems to have been writing books exposing other great figures. And with this book, Fire and Fury, he may have hot a jackpot. But you have to ask yourself, how much of this is true? It comes down to how much can you trust the media? Forget the rant and raving Trump makes about the media. Just how much truth does the media actually put out?
   The left has for along time been allowed to infiltrate the news media both in print and on the air. It just sells better. And since our schools no longer as a whole are training students to think but to accept without questioning what some grownup at the front of the room or who writes a book says as proven truth, how are we to know just how much of what Wolff discloses is true truth.
   How are we to know which details disclosed are true and which ones are bias?
   The answer is , we can't
   But the first step is to discern.
   If what Wolff has written is true we have a person in the White House now who doesn't know what he got himself into. If that is the case we need Christian to pray for him and for the vice president to get us through the next few years without destroying America and its' foundation.
    I would be very careful about accepting the facts presented in this book as true truth. Read with an open mind.
   Try to get this at a library and read it. I am not sure it is worth having in your personal library as something to keep.
   Should you decide to buy it at your local book store it is your money. Save yourself the cost.

The Trump White House by Ronald Kessler

Wait. Before you turn away from this review because you feel it is just another poorly constructed praise job for Trump, think again.

This book is written by Kessler who for twenty years has been a friend of Donald Trump. That should be enough time to see the warts under the exterior.

This book concerns the people Trump choose to bring into the White House. It also concerns the issues he has had to face in his first year as president.

Sure, it concerns Trump. Kessler points out there are two faces to Trump. The one we see is his public face. Brash, making outrageous comments on television to get attention, a persona. The second one, the private face, is the dearest, most thoughtful, most loyal, most caring side that only insiders know.

Childhood scars. We all have some. Trump didn’t have it easy, growing up in Queens, New York. He would erupt in anger and pummel other boys or break baseball bats when he struck out. In school he often could be found in detention. He will admit that he created mischief “because for some reason, liked to stir things up, and I liked to test people.”

He seemed to have a need to be first at everything and wanted everyone else to know he was first.

We do see that in his actions today.

When he was forming his staff, he seemed to have let his family loyalties blind him. He has for some reason allowed his daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared, to function on his staff.

Chief strategist Stephen Bannon has said, “They are nice people, but they don’t know anything. If their name wasn’t Trump they would be midlevel marketing managers somewhere.”.

 Neither Jared nor Ivanka have any experience in government yet they can influence his decisions. They also lack the judgment necessary to maneuver in Washington. A case in point is the firing of Comey. Both Ivanka and Jared pushed for Trump to fire Comey without understanding it would be impossible to get a new nominee through the Senate. This step Trump took opened him to the special council being formed.

Trump seems to be treating the Presidency as a business and not an office. As a businessman he would need to cower other businesses and push his brand over theirs. He doesn’t seem yet to understand how to act as a politician. Calling the leader of North Korea “Rocket Man” is not the way to gain friends and influence others.

Former president of the United States, Jimmy Carter has said, “I think the media have been harder on Trump than any president certainly that I’ve known about. I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”

Kessler with his years of knowing Trump can give us a picture and an understanding we need to fully parse this man. He used twenty-five chapters and a Prologue to do so. Chapter twenty-four is titled “Interview with The President.” This alone is a good reason to read this book.

The subtitle of this book is” changing the rules of the game.” One should read this book also to be up on what is the dream Trump has. Everyone who has ascended to the level Trump has carries with them a dream.

Random House is the publisher and the price is $29.00 retail.

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Explanation

She asks a good question. The answer is simple. She lost. She just must get over it and face the truth.  The people didn’t want her in the White House.

There is a principle I learned in my Psychology class—the more you talk about a subject trying to justify an action, the more likely it is that you are trying to convince yourself of a truth which isn’t true.

When I pick up a book written by Mrs. Clinton I get the feeling a snow job is being presented. We may never really know what happened if the only document you depend on is written by a politician. Their job, as I see it, is to snow the people. And with a history such as Hillary has going into this book, the more your snow discerner should be active.

Not that she doesn’t believe her explanation to be truth and as such only she can properly present the facts. In this book she whines (in the fourth grade I wore glasses and the children called me four eyes. That hurt.) and blames.

When the dust settles and historians in years to come research the time covered in this book, from the start to the end, the massive tomes left behind by Clinton will be one of the documents they use. Care must be taken to understand the context, the time in which it was written, and the internal factors that went into the reporting.

This seems to be a popular book. I got my copy through the library. I had to put it on the hold list and I was one of the 325 people who were waiting for one of the 26 books held by the library to be made available. So that is why I am doing this book in 2018

Reading this book, I still don’t know why she lost. What I do understand is her view of the journey. She tries to justify her deserving of the position she didn’t get. She whines and seems in shock. Ultimately, she talks about herself, and do we really need another book about Hillary?

Her chapters are long and rambling somewhat. I do notice when she talks about women she portrays them as strong, independent individuals. Most all. She may be doing this to try to present herself as a strong woman.

 In her chapter about her youth her dad is somewhat absent.

What Happened is more a justification for her than an explanation of why she fought so long and still came short of the prize. She spends a large portion on her political carrier, justifying her right to be president. She tends in portions to become a bore.

It has 464 pages and an index.

Published by Simon and Schuster.

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Trump's War by Michael Savage

A war is going on for America. This war, a type of world war 3, is presently taking place not with guns and bombs but with traitors in the ranks. It seems a nation is defined by its borders and language and culture. Such is the premise of this book.

Every president enters the office with the unpaid bills of the administration before. Obstacles stand in the way that must be worked with and conquered.

Each administration needs to make game plans and march forward to implement them. Such is what we have with Trump and his years in the White House.

He was placed in the White House because his vision resounded with enough people to get the votes. Now we must see that he is able to do that. Trump must carry out his promises made that got him elected. And he must watch out for the hidden traps. One such trap was the advice he got from Senator Dole to contact Taiwan, which made China mad and didn’t succeed in getting America any points in foreign policy.

We need to know what landmines have been planted and help navigate him through them. Savage calls it a war. In this book he names each obstacle laid by the previous administrations one by one. He doesn’t sweeten the list. What he does is lay out a guide to the mine fields, so we can choose to aid the President in the future war.

He is not a politician and will make some political blunders, but he seems to be a promise keeper. We should allow him the space. I am sure we shouldn’t expect one hundred percent of what he promised but even if he can fulfill a good amount of the promises it is more than others have done.

He needs to build the wall. Something we can see and touch and regulate. This can cut down on the diseases that are brought in by our illegal immigrants.

He will need to bring jobs back that have been outsourced. “It is Bill Clinton and NAFTA that put most middle Americans out of work.” Savage says. We need to bring jobs back.  

We need to interface with Russia.  Savage suggests some ways we can do that.

These are just a few of the ideas taken up in this book.

This is an important book and should be read by as many people as possible. It doesn’t matter what political party you claim.

This book is dangerous as it might expand your mind and you may start thinking. And when that happens—watch out.

The last chapter gives you solutions or bullet points to work with in formulating a battle plan. This book should be on every true patriot’s bookshelf. Read it often and apply it.

Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich

With all the vitriol going on around Donald Trump we must ask ourselves, do we really know him enough to react with a clear mind or are we just responding emotionally to the liberal information that is being put forth?

In short, are we allowing facts to determine our reaction or the slanted news vomited out by the so-called news media?

Some will say the author of this book is also a person not to be trusted to be fair. But really? Come on. Use your intellect and realize freedom of speech means listening to both sides. It is freedom of speech not freedom from speech that is guaranteed in the Constitution.

If I sound slanted it is just that I feel to be fair, we must use our right to listen to both sides before drawing a conclusion. Trump is not aware of the game rules, but he seems to be a fast learner.

Books about Trump need to be written and read. He is a compassionate and caring person who is also brilliant and strong. Gingrich presents a person who is striving to do the best he can with what he has been elected to. He has an agenda which be contained in four boxes. He wants to make government work. He has a box for health. He has a box for American competiveness. Box four is keeping America safe.

We need to step back and read and use our brains. We should not let the false news be our only research avenue. False in the sense of putting opinion in the straight news articles as if it is the truth.

Trump’s venture as president so far has been a whirlwind of activity. It is unfortunate that we have plenty of information about Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and not enough about Trump. But here we have a chance to rectify that.

Trump was not born in Trump towers but in a 2,000-square foot stucco house in Queens. He is someone who spent five years in a military prep school not some exclusive private high school. He was not allowed a silver spoon existence. He is more of an entrepreneur using knowledge as a tool to get things done. “He makes certain he knows what he needs to know to be successful at the time he needs to know it,” reports Gingrich.

This is how we learn things—by doing them. “Learning occurs when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach” according to Roger Schank, a former professor of computer and cognitive sciences at Yale University, Stanford University, and Northwestern University.

If you feel this is not so, read the book and come to your own conclusions. Learn to think for yourself.

Trump has proven to be a fast learner but a firm resister of being taught. A casual chat with him is the best way to impart instruction. He seems to be able to absorb information. He seems to test all that he absorbs as he integrates it and does something with it. He moves fast.

I would highly recommend this book for everyone. I would especially recommend it for those who are open minded enough to want to learn who we have in the White House and are brave enough to consider the Media is not telling us all.

It is 345 pages. It is published by Hachette Book and is $27.00 in the United States.