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President Trump announced Friday that the U.S. will make good on his earlier threat to cut ties with the World Health Organization. ...

President Trump announced Friday that the U.S. will make good on his earlier threat to cut ties with the World Health Organization.
 Several Democrats criticized the decision.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote “President Trump’s decision to leave the @WHO during a global pandemic alienates our allies, undermines our global leadership, and threatens the health of the American people. Trump needs to reverse this reckless decision immediately.”
Rep. Ted Lieu wrote “This action by @POTUS to terminate our relationship with the World Health Organization is insane. With the reality of global travel, #Covid19 will continue to threaten the lives of Americans until it is eradicated worldwide. More evidence that @realDonaldTrump is unfit to lead.”
Politico reports President Donald Trump on Friday said he would make good on his threat to withdraw from the World Health Organization — an unprecedented move that could undermine the global coronavirus response and make it more difficult to stamp out other disease threats.
Trump has criticized the United Nations health agency for failing to quickly sound the alarm when the novel virus emerged and accused it of helping China cover up the threat it posed. “Countless lives have been taken and profound economic hardship has been inflicted all around the globe,” Trump said in a brief statement from the White House.
Trump’s announcement was quickly panned by health experts, who claimed it would set back global efforts to track and defeat a virus that’s already killed more than 360,000 people and sickened nearly 6 million. But the move has been cheered by Trump’s base, which is distrustful of international bodies.
The U.S. has relied on its partnership with the WHO and other countries to share crucial data and information, including on treatments and potential vaccine development for the coronavirus, as well as other public health threats including HIV and Ebola. Experts cautioned the nation’s public health response to the coronavirus and other emerging diseases would lag without that international cooperation.
The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physician group, urged Trump in the “strongest terms possible” to reverse the decision. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the head of the chamber’s health committee, warned canceling U.S. membership could disrupt clinical trials for vaccines that will be in high demand around the world.
“Certainly there needs to be a good, hard look at mistakes the World Health Organization might have made in connection with coronavirus, but the time to do that is after the crisis has been dealt with, not in the middle of it,” Alexander said.
Trump last month temporarily froze U.S funding to the WHO while his administration was reviewing membership. The U.S has previously contributed over $400 million per year to WHO’s $4.8 billion annual budget, more than any other country.

Don Trump Jr. has had enough of the past her prime comedian Kathy Griffin and hit back hard today after she attacked President Trump. “...

Don Trump Jr. has had enough of the past her prime comedian Kathy Griffin and hit back hard today after she attacked President Trump.
“I don’t think past their prime comedians who tweet stupid things should be banned on here, but next time @twitter @jack bans a conservative for saying something not PC, just remember they have no problem with Dems making death threats against @realDonaldTrump on their platform,” he tweeted out correctly.

We will all wait and see if any action is taken against Kathy. Responding to a tweet by CNN’s Jim Acosta Kathy said:
“Syringe with nothing but air inside it would do the trick. F*CK TRUMP.” Nice, huh? When confronted by the Washington Examiner, Kathy doubled down:  “I SURE DID, F*CKER. #TrumpLiedPeopleDied”
In medical procedures, air accidentally injected into the body’s bloodstream through syringes or IVs can cause air embolisms, which can be fatal.

Within moments, Twitter users were remarking how Griffin can expect another visit from the Secret Service.
Griffin stirred controversy in 2017 when she held up a bloody prop of Trump’s severed head in a photo shoot, a move which disrupted her career and prompted a visit from the Secret Service, according to her lawyers.
“I don’t think I will have a career after this,” Griffin told reporters in tears after the photo became public. “I’m going to be honest. He broke me.”
In response to a Washington Examiner tweet for this report, which noted that stabbing someone with a syringe filled with air could be fatal, Griffin said she “sure did” advocate for the president to be stabbed with one such device.
Griffin ended her quote tweet with “#TrumpLiedPeopleDied,” a common social media hashtag used by the president’s critics blaming him for a poor response to the coronavirus pandemic that has been tied to nearly 100,000 deaths in the United States.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Secret Service about Griffin’s tweets.
The Washington Examiner also asked Twitter if she breached the platform’s violent threats policy. A representative said the company will “look into” the tweets.

The NAACP has issued a statement clarifying that Biden’s claim they have endorsed him in the past has been FALSE. During his intervie...


The NAACP has issued a statement clarifying that Biden’s claim they have endorsed him in the past has been FALSE.
During his interview on “The Breakfast Club” Biden falsely claimed “The NAACP has endorsed me every time I’ve run.”
Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, made the following statement about a remark by former Vice President Joe Biden during his Friday morning interview on “The Breakfast Club.”
“Yesterday, former Vice President Joe Biden made a comment about the NAACP’s endorsement.
“We want to clarify that the NAACP is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates for political office at any level.
“Persons affiliated with the NAACP at the national, state, and local levels are free to make candidate endorsements in a personal capacity, but they do not reflect support by the NAACP as an organization.
“The NAACP has one mission and that is fighting for and advancing our Black communities towards an equitable reality.
“Our primary focus at this moment is to ensure that our communities that have been victims of domestic terrorism and disproportionately impacted by this pandemic have the opportunity to cast their powerful vote come November.”
Per Heavy, shortly after Biden made his statement, Gerald A. Griggs, an attorney, shared a statement from the President of the Georgia NAACP, James “Major” Woodall.
The tweet reads: “Let the record reflect that the @NAACP has NEVER endorsed @JoeBiden. We don’t endorse candidates as an organization. Per @iMajorWish @Georgia_NAACP.”
Woodall tweeted the same on his account. He wrote: “Let the record reflect that the @NAACP has NEVER endorsed @JoeBiden. As a nonprofit organization, we do not endorse candidates. We organize around issues that benefit the liberation of our people.”

Ukrainian parliament member Andrii Derkach just released audio recordings purportedly of Joe Biden and former Ukraine President Petro Porosh...

Ukrainian parliament member Andrii Derkach just released audio recordings purportedly of Joe Biden and former Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko discussing getting rid of the pesky prosecutor.
Poroshenko:  (7:10 mark) I have some good news…  Yesterday I went and seat with the general prosecutor’s office.
Joe Biden: Yes.
Poroshenko: I especially asked him to resign… as his position as a state prosecutor… He promised to give me statement of his presentation. One hour he gave me statement of his presentation.
Joe Biden: Great.
Joe Biden: (10:20 mark) I am prepared to a public signing for a commitment for a billion dollars.  Again I am not suggesting you want it or don’t want it.  I am suggesting that is what I am prepared to do.  Again it won’t be finalized… Let me when you and I finished speaking let me huddle with my team… I agree with you there is a sense of urgency here.
Joe Biden — (14:30 minute mark from November 2016 call) Congratulations in getting the new Prosecutor General. I know there’s a lot more to that. I really think that’s good. It is going to be critical that he works to repair the damage of Shokin. I’m a man of my word. Now that the new prosecutor general is in place we’re ready to move forward to signing the one billion dollar loan guarantee. And I don’t know how you want to go about that…  I’ll leave it to you to how you want it done and where you want it done.
Here is the section where Joe Biden starts talking and Joe Biden mentions Donald Trump!
From the audio — Joe Biden tells Poroshenko: We will help you get the vote… Let me ask you one thing before I forget, Privatbank… This is getting very, very close. What I don’t want to have happen. I don’t want Trump to get into *** where he thinks he’s about to buy into a situation… where it is about to collapse where he is going to pour more money into Ukraine… So anything you can do to push the Privatbank to closure so that the IMF loan comes forward I stress this is critical to your economic and national security.

The Hill  reports  Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he does not expect a criminal investigation of former President Obama or...


 The Hill reports Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he does not expect a criminal investigation of former President Obama or former Vice President Joe Biden to result from the probe undertaken by U.S. Attorney John Durham.
“Based on the information I have today, I don’t expect Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man,” Barr told reporters at the Justice Department. “Our concern over potential criminality is focused on others.”
 Barr was asked about President Trump’s recent remarks encouraging investigations into Obama and other officials from the previous administration during a press conference on December’s Pensacola Naval Air Station shooting. The president has suggested Obama administration officials were involved in criminal wrongdoing in connection with the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference, a probe that dogged him during his first two years in office.
Barr answered that he wouldn’t address Trump’s remarks specifically but denounced “increasing attempts to use the criminal justice system as a political weapon.”
Barr has tapped Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to oversee an investigation into the FBI’s decision-making in the investigation, including potential criminal wrongdoing. The attorney general has been deeply critical of the bureau’s handling of the investigation into contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign, and he renewed that criticism on Monday.
“What happened to the president in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years of his administration was abhorrent,” Barr said. “It was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in American history.”
“The law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country were involved in advancing a false and utterly baseless Russian collusion narrative against the president,” he added.
Barr said Durham was assessing whether criminal laws were broken, but insisted “this cannot be and it will not be a tit-for-tat exercise.”
“We are not going to lower the standards just to achieve a result,” he said, before adding he did not expect criminal investigations into either Obama or Biden.
Barr’s remarks may be met with disapproval by the president and his conservative allies.
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During an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, President Trump said that those behind the Russia hoax and the spying on his campaign ar...

During an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, President Trump said that those behind the Russia hoax and the spying on his campaign are basically traitors to this country.
The discussion had shifted from who was behind the Russia hoax to what can be done about it.

“If this happened to Obama, instead of to me, you know what? Everybody would be in jail for years already, for years. It’s a disgraceful thing,” the President said.
Of course well all know Trump is right. There’s a double standard, one for Republicans and one for Democrats.
“But it’s — it’s — we caught them in the act, Maria. It’s a beautiful thing,” the President continued. “Every day, we’re seeing more and more information come out. We caught them. And their guys are gone. They were guarding the fort. Comey and all these guys, they were guarding the fort. And once they left, it got easier and easier.”
The president then got to his main point “And now it’s like an avalanche of really bad — call it treason, call it whatever you want, but they tried to take down a duly elected president of the United States.
Watch via Fox News:
Transcript:
BARTIROMO: How involved was John Brennan?
TRUMP: Totally involved. He was totally involved. John Brennan was one of the architects, in my opinion. You look at Brennan, you look at Clapper, you look at them all. But, ultimately, the president knew everything. The president knew everything. President Obama and Vice President Biden, they knew everything.
BARTIROMO: So, what can you do about it?
TRUMP: And, again, if…
BARTIROMO: What can you do about it, that…
TRUMP: Let me just tell you, if I were in that position, it’d be a whole different thing. If this happened to Obama, instead of to a Republican president, that’s popular, 96 percent in the Republican Party, but it’s a whole different thing.
If this happened to Obama, instead of to me, you know what? Everybody would be in jail for years already, for years. It’s a disgraceful thing.
But it’s — it’s — we caught them in the act, Maria. It’s a beautiful thing. And, every day, we’re seeing more and more information come out. We caught them. And their guys are gone.
They were guarding the fort. Comey and all these guys, they were guarding the fort. And once they left, it got easier and easier.
And now it’s like an avalanche of really bad — call it treason, call it whatever you want, but they tried to take down a duly elected president of the United States.
BARTIROMO: They didn’t care that 53 million voted for you and wanted you in the office.
TRUMP: More than 63 million. Just so you understand that they got caught in the act. They never thought that was going to happen. And they got sloppy, where Lisa Page would text and send messages through service.
You know one of the other things that is missing? The DNC server. Where is it?
Why is it that the FBI didn’t take it? They arrested all of these people, but they didn’t arrest — they went in to see the people at DNC, right?
They go in to see, you know, her wonderful campaign manager. You know all about that, right? They went into see those people, whose brother, by the way, was supposed to be arrested. And the brother never got arrested, right?

It used to be when we took in immigrants or offered refuge to people displaced by war in poorer countries those people became patriotic Amer...

It used to be when we took in immigrants or offered refuge to people displaced by war in poorer countries those people became patriotic Americans in short order.
What a privilege to come here and get free everything including school, housing, food, medical, money, etc. Do you know that Ilham Omar has always worked non-profits, most of whom receive money from various government grants? Has she spent one day since she has been here not getting taxpayer money somehow? I doubt it.

But sadly things have changed and we now have absolute ingrates like Ilhan Omar and her daughter literally calling American soldiers bitches on social media.
The congresswoman’s 17-year-old daughter Isra Hirsi made the comments during a social media video that did not sneak past conservative activist CJ Pearson.
“I know this is a joke, but the fact that these men are calling me a bitch when they are actively killing innocent children abroad and also furthering US imperialism makes me think that they are actually the bitch,” Hirsi said.

Pearson wrote:
In this video, @israhirsi the daughter of Congresswoman @IlhanMN calls American soldiers “bitches” and accuses them of “furthering American imperialism” and “actively killing innocent children abroad”.
Where does she get these views from? I guess the apple doesn’t fall far!
@IlhanMN – do you agree with your daughter’s characterizations of American soldiers?

President Trump is tired of the games Congress has been playing during this crisis. Americans are suffering as liberals in D.C. fool around....


President Trump is tired of the games Congress has been playing during this crisis. Americans are suffering as liberals in D.C. fool around.
Democrats like Nancy Pelosi have been holding up funding for small businesses—in a bid to get what they want. Imagine putting politics ahead of the wellbeing of millions of Americans?
It looks like Democrats could be keeping Congress open to block Trump’s agenda. And he’s had enough.

From Fox News:
President Trump announced during a White House address Wednesday that he is considering adjourning Congress and using its absence to make political appointments…
Trump added that he has the constitutional authority to dismiss both chambers and accused Congress of failing the American people and shirking their responsibilities as elected leaders.
President Trump called out Congress for delaying needed action. He threatened to adjourn Congress so he could go ahead and make needed appointments to his staff.
While Congress keeps running pro forma, from a distance, they are not allowing the President to make appointments in their absence. And they sure won’t be voting for his appointments while things are open.

Since President Trump entered office, Democrats have worked overtime to block his America First agenda.
Even during this crisis, they refuse to put their bias aside for the good of the country.
What have we seen from the government since this pandemic started? Well, from the White House we’ve seen a task force led by Trump and Pence working around the clock.
They’ve done all they can to battle this crisis, both medically and economically.
Democrats in D.C.? Oh, they’ve been playing games, delaying needed legislation. They even refused to keep the small business loans going.
Some may argue that Trump doesn’t have the authority to shut down Congress. But Democrats have been blocking the administration for years.
Hopefully, they’ll wake up and do the right thing, before the president goes to extremes.
SHARE if you stand with Trump, not Democrats in Congress.
Source: Fox News

Barack Obama appeared at a virtual graduation ceremony last night and continued taking his cowardly veiled shots at Trump. He missed, as he ...

Barack Obama appeared at a virtual graduation ceremony last night and continued taking his cowardly veiled shots at Trump.
He missed, as he often does and ended up smacking himself in the face instead, and in doing so exposed himself as a fraud for all the world to see.
“Doing what feels good, what’s convenient, what’s easy, that’s how little kids think,” Obama said taking his by now familiar yet still quite cowardly veiled shot at President Trump.

“Unfortunately, a lot of so-called grownups with fancy titles and important jobs still think that way.”
“That’s why things are so screwed up,” he added. “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing.”
“A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”
“Our society and our democracy only work when we think not just about ourselves, but about each other.”
“It’s woken a lot of young people up to the fact that the old ways of doing things, just don’t work,” Barack said before taking another veiled shot at Trump for not only not having “all the answers” but “not even asking the right questions.”

Barack actually makes the case for Trump not against him as the pandemic has made one thing clear – sending our middle-class jobs to China and sending manufacturing capacity of key supplies needed for the health and security of this country has been an even bigger disaster than we thought.
And we know Obama is a fraud because he actually ran on bringing the jobs and key industries back. That is how he beat Clinton, McCain, and Romney – he accused them of sending jobs and key industries not just overseas but to regimes that are actually against what we stand for.
Obama didn’t do anything to fix this debacle and that is why we elected Trump. We are not as dumb as Obama likes to think we are.
We know that was the biggest mistake in American history, to send the crown jewel of America – our middle class – to China.
We may not ever be able to fix what Obama and the rest did to this nation with their disastrous trade policies but we know that if we do not at least try, we will be screwing over our grandchildren.
We elected Trump to clean up the messes Obama and Bush and Clinton left because we agree with Barack that this pandemic has exposed has “finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” and we elected Trump to fix what you did.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s most recent coronavirus relief package incorporates a plethora of ridiculous mandates, including sections that ...


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s most recent coronavirus relief package incorporates a plethora of ridiculous mandates, including sections that would allow “nonviolent” felons to be set free from prison and illegal immigrants to be released from federal detention.
On Tuesday, House Democrats unveiled the $3 trillion proposal, which also includes protection for illegal immigrants if their jobs are deemed “essential.”

Releasing convicted criminals onto the streets to re-offend and granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants is just part of top Democrats’ partisan wish list.
Taking into consideration that violent criminals often plea down to a lesser offense in return for a shorter prison sentence, it simply does not make sense to release federal prisoners en masse.
According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s 2018 annual report, over 97 percent of federal convicts took plea deals instead of facing more serious charges at trial, as Breitbart reported.
So while releasing thousands of “nonviolent” felons might sound like a good idea in theory — at least if you’re a Democrat — it could lead to dangerous criminals being released onto our streets.

“During a declared national emergency relating to a communicable disease, [the legislation] mandates the release into community supervision of federal prisoners and pretrial detainees who are non-violent and, for instance, pregnant women, juveniles, older prisoners and detainees, and those with certain medical conditions,” a summary of the bill reads.
The bill “Modifies probation and supervised release policies to avoid unnecessary in-person contact with probation officers and to reduce the numbers of those supervised and those imprisoned for violations” and “Mandates the release of non-violent pretrial defendants on their own recognizance.”
Pelosi’s HEROES Act also includes provisions that 1) grant judges the ability to shorten the sentences of convicted felons and 2) terminate the fees that jail inmates need to pay before their trials so they can be released without posting bail.
“During the COVID-19 emergency, expands court authority to order compassionate release for federal prisoners and to reduce sentences, and removes administrative barriers that slow the ability of 81 prisoners to seek compassionate release. Authorizes courts to temporarily release persons who have been sentenced, but have not yet been transported to a Bureau of Prisons facility, to protect them from COVID-19,” the summary reads.
“Authorizes the establishment of a grant program that distributes funds directly to state and local courts, with the condition that they impose a moratorium on the imposition and collection of court-imposed fees and fines during the COVID19 crisis,” it adds.
The massive multi-trillion dollar bill is making it easy for most of the establishment media to gloss over the small but powerful sections about illegal alien amnesty.
One section buried all the way down on page 1,762 of the House Democrats’ “HEROES Act” directs the Department of Homeland Security to release back onto the streets illegal immigrants being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“The Secretary of Homeland Security shall prioritize for release on recognizance or alternatives to detention individuals who are not subject to mandatory detention laws, unless the individual is a threat to public safety or national security,” the bill reads.
Moreover, under the act, illegal aliens fortunate enough to work in “essential critical infrastructure” are protected from being deemed in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
That protection is buried all the way down on page 1,737 of the bill.
Employers who hire illegal immigrants to work “essential” jobs would also be exempt.
Thankfully, this partisan play was flagged by Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who said it was a push for “amnesty.”

 “These pages of the proposed bill create a deferred action program for aliens based on the CISA essential workforce list. Granting both deferred action and employment authorization. The aliens wouldn’t even have to apply for an EAD or deferred action, they get it automatically,” Cuccinelli tweeted.
Instead of focusing on getting getting Americans back to work, Pelosi and her Democratic cohorts are intent of freeing felons and illegal immigrants.
We have already witnessed inmates being released from prisons and jails in California and New York.
If bill were to pass, this short-sighted policy could affect communities across the nation.
The sheer chaos that would presumably ensue would make it difficult for us to get our society functioning again.
Unfortunately, it appears this is precisely what some Democrats are hoping for.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy just found a scandalous skeleton in Barack Obama’s administration closet and if Trump didn’t know befo...


Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy just found a scandalous skeleton in Barack Obama’s administration closet and if Trump didn’t know before he will be furious.
Gowdy, appearing on Fox News, made the astounding claim that team Obama did not just go after Mike Flynn but they went after Trump’s kids.
Gowdy said on the day of Trump’s inauguration this is what team Obama did: “The morning of the inauguration, President Trump’s family members’ names were unmasked.”
From BPR:

Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy revealed Thursday that then-incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn wasn’t the only one whom Obama administration officials had sought to unmask in late 2016 and early 2017 — they’d also tried to unmask members of then-President-elect Donald Trump’s family.
“There was an unmasking request made the morning of the inauguration,” he said during an appearance on FNC “America’s Newsroom.” “The morning of the inauguration, President Trump’s family members’ names were unmasked.”

While the former congressman cited no evidence to back this up, it’s presumed he gleaned this information from intelligence reports he’d read during his tenure as the chair of the House Oversight Committee prior to his retirement in early 2019.
Reporting by award-winning journalist Adam Housley suggests Flynn “is just the tip of the iceberg” apropos those who were targeted by the Obama administration:
In light of all this emerging information, the goal now is to investigate these unmaskings, according to Senate Judiciary chair Lindsey Graham.
“In light of General Flynn’s unmasking by the Obama Administration, the job of Congress will be to perform oversight of these unmasking requests to ensure the process was used for legitimate national security concerns, not reprisals or political curiosity,” he said in tweets posted Wednesday.
“I specifically want to know how many unmasking requests were made, if any, beyond General Flynn regarding members of the Trump campaign team, family, or associates.”

Nancy Pelosi kept the House closed as she prepared a $3 trillion spending bill. The package is filled with nothing but liberal goodies and h...


Nancy Pelosi kept the House closed as she prepared a $3 trillion spending bill. The package is filled with nothing but liberal goodies and had no input from Republicans.
Naturally, a bill with such a big price tag would require serious debate, right? You can’t expect something this huge to be passed without bipartisan discussion.

If you thought that, you underestimated how far Nance would go to force her agenda.
From YouTube:



Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that “it’s important for us to put forth our bill now without too much conversation,” when she appeared on MSNBC on 5/11/2020.
Dang. Democrats accuse Trump of a lot of things. But you could never accuse him of getting something done “without too much conversation.”

Yet that is exactly what Pelosi wants to do with the largest spending bill in U.S. history. She actually thinks she can ram this far-left, Democratic boondoggle through Congress without any discussion.
Just about every piece of legislation requires debate from all sides. That’s a crucial part of the process.
Each member of the House represents Americans. Those Americans deserve to have their say, in the form of their elected congressperson.
But Pelosi just admitted she doesn’t want to hear from Americans, as she forces this burden onto us.
Um, excuse me, Nance? I think the American people should have something to say about this $3 trillion price tag.
We’ll be paying that off for decades. Yet Nancy doesn’t want your elected representatives to discuss it!
It seems Nancy thinks Americans should have no input on the very laws that will affect all of us.
“Just let us make the decisions, like good little boys and girls,” she seems to be saying.
Are we going to let her get away with that? Did we miss a meeting of Congress that made Nance Queen of America?
This bill is one of the biggest expansions of government we’ve ever seen. Yet she thinks it won’t be discussed by members of Congress?
SHARE to tell Republicans to say no to Nancy Pelosi!
Source: YouTube

A Michigan man with a passion for music and teaching children has seen his life’s work wiped away with the stroke of a pen by Democratic Gov...

A Michigan man with a passion for music and teaching children has seen his life’s work wiped away with the stroke of a pen by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Steve Walker, the owner of Walker Music & Textiles Co. in Hastings, Michigan, wept as he spoke with WXMI-TV during a recent interview in which he said Michigan’s lockdown order had forced him and his wife out of business.
Walker puts a very human face on Whitmer’s broad lockdown order, and for him, Walker Music was more than a business, it was a dream come true.

Unfortunately, that dream is dead, at least for now.
Through tears, Walker told WXMI-TV that the closure of his business will have far-reaching implications for him and all those with whom he shared the gift of music.
“This is my dream. Shutting it down. Closing out this phase of my life,” he said. “It won’t be a retail shop anymore, and it won’t be an inviting environment for kids to come and be loved and to learn music.”
Walker opened his music store 11 years ago and was well-liked in the small community of Hastings, which is about an hour west of Lansing, where Whitmer and other lawmakers reside and continue to draw their paychecks.

He lamented Michigan’s overreaching treatment of small business owners like himself.
Per the lockdown order, music stores have been deemed nonessential by Whitmer.
“This is who I am. People that know me, know it is,” Walker said. “If you look on Facebook and Instagram, you’ll see what this means to people. And you’ll see what it means to me.”
“I’ve been sitting here for 60 days watching my neighbors do business day in and day out,” he said. “They aren’t thriving, but they are surviving. There’s no reason in hell I couldn’t have done the same thing. None. And that’s what makes me angry.”


Walker applied for grants from the state in an attempt to keep the business afloat, but that effort proved fruitless.
His landlord has agreed to release him from his lease and now he is liquidating his inventory.
“For our future, we’ve decided that the best thing for us is to close,” Walker’s wife, Nancy, told the TV station. “So right now we’re having 20 percent sales off for the next two weeks, and then we’re only going to run our sales for about six weeks.”
Walker blamed Whitmer directly for killing his dream.

“I put the responsibility of that on the governor’s shoulders because if she had been reasonable, this would not be happening,” he said. “But oh well. That’s the way it is. That’s life. And I have to move on and deal with it.”
The musician and soon-to-be-former businessman also made it clear he never wanted anything from his government but his right to the pursuit of happiness, which he has been denied, thanks to Whitmer’s lockdown order.
“I don’t want a stupid handout from the government, I want my hands untied so I can work,” he said.
But Walker will be forced to find another way to earn a living, and Whitmer and other Democrats will apparently continue to go on deciding what is and isn’t essential — which apparently does not include music.
Thomas Jefferson would probably disagree with any such assertion.
“Do not neglect your music, it will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you,” the country’s third president wrote in a letter to his daughter Martha in 1790.
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