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March 1, 2022
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Good morning!

Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!

Today's newsletter includes:

  • Zelensky: An old-fashioned hero
  • Invasion: Six Days and Counting
  • Moderate Democrats: Out of touch with most Americans
  • Zelensky: An old-fashioned hero
  • They're still keeping secrets about Hunter Biden
  • And much more

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

Pray for my brother, Paul (64y) He is in a medical mental facility that he will have peace, comfort and some type of quality of life. Thank you. God Bless you

Job 5:9 NIV

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Invasion: Six Days and Counting

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its sixth day Tuesday, with Putin showing no signs of backing off despite worldwide condemnation, accusations of war crimes, and banking and oil sanctions devastating the Russian economy and sending the ruble plummeting in value. Even Switzerland dropped its famous neutrality and cut off Russian access to Swiss banks.

This is the link for the latest bulletins from Fox News:

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-day-6

With his belief that this would be a quick and easy invasion blowing up in his face, Putin seems to be getting more dangerously angry and irrational. He’s even put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert. This article by Dennis Santiago at Redstate.com contains valuable information about the relative strengths of the Russian and Ukrainian forces, Putin’s thinking and his tragic miscalculations, and what should be done next to get him to climb down.

https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/02/28/analysis-as-russias-ukraine-campaign-struggles-the-west-must-neuter-putins-nuclear-threat-n529736

Here are some of the latest developments: The European Union accepted Ukraine’s emergency application for admission, which would allow it access to Europe’s power grid and ally it further with the rest of Europe against Russia.

Satellite images show Russia has sent a 40-mile convoy of “killing machines” to threaten the capital city of Kyiv, and Russia state media are warning of imminent attacks on the city.

Elon Musk sent a shipment of his Starlink Internet terminals to Ukraine at President Zelinsky’s request, to restore Internet access cut off by Russia.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/28/elon-musks-starlink-satellite-internet-terminals-arrive-in-ukraine/

There is a claim that a militia of mercenaries known as the Wagner Group has been flown in from Africa with orders to kill President Zelinsky and other prominent Ukrainians. Key line: “The Kremlin once again denied it has any influence over Wagner and suggested that (its reputed boss Yevgeny) Prigozhin only provides catering services to the Russian government.” I assume that “catering to Putin” means assassinating people.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10559811/Putins-militia-orders-kill-Zelensky-Blood-thirsty-mercenaries-Wagner-Group-revealed.html

The CEO of Shell Oil announced that Shell is cutting its business dealings with Russia and pulling out of the Nord Steam 2 pipeline project.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/shell-is-pulling-out-of-russia-dumping-gazprom-deal

Here’s a photo that went viral that gives you an idea of Putin’s unstable frame of mind.

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/02/28/recent-photo-of-russian-president-vladimir-putin-suggests-that-theres-something-to-all-those-rumors-that-hes-losing-whats-left-of-his-mind/

And as I always remind you, breaking news from a war zone often is unreliable. It can turn out to be an honest mistake or well-disguised propaganda. For instance, we already mentioned that the Ukrainian troops on Snake Island who defied the Russian warship were captured, not killed as originally reported. We’ve also learned that the former Miss Ukraine hadn’t actually joined the fighting but just posed with a prop rifle in a show of support. But all things considered, I'd still rather have her fighting beside me than Justin Trudeau. There are other stories, too, that we didn’t cover but that have since been debunked or amended. The National Pulse rounds up a few, some of them actually from movies or video games.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/28/pro-ukraine-propaganda-floods-social-media/


Moderate Democrats: Out of touch with most Americans

The polls have Democrats looking forward to the November elections with as much optimism as bugs look forward to a visit from the Orkin man. So between now and then, their friendly media will be trying to gaslight us in all sorts of ways to convince us that they’re not responsible for the messes they’ve created. You’ll be expected to believe that they never went overboard with COVID restrictions, that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is responsible for Putin invading Ukraine, and that most Democrats in Washington are patriotic moderates who don’t back the far-left radical ideas pushed by “The Squad.”

When you hear that, remember this:

In a move that some pundits are calling “a gift to Republicans,” Senate “Majority” Leader Chuck Schumer forced a show vote on a bill that would have made it legal to perform abortions at any time. It would have wiped away every state-level protection, making it legal to kill a child in the womb at nine months if a doctor says there’s a risk to the mother’s health -- despite the fact that obstetricians say there’s almost no circumstance under which an abortion at that stage is less dangerous to the mother’s health than birthing the baby.

As of that weren’t radical enough, check out this, from the Fox News write-up:

“The bill also claims that abortion rights qualifies as ‘reproductive justice’ seeking to address ‘systems of oppression, lack of bodily autonomy, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism.’ While the bill claims that abortion restrictions ‘are a tool of gender oppression,’ it also clarifies that despite using ‘the terms ‘woman’ and ‘women,’’ legislators intend to ‘protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy—cisgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others—who are unjustly harmed by restrictions on abortion services.’”

That’s right: it’s “racist” to oppose abortion, even though blacks make up 14% of the population but black women get 36% of all abortions. Since Roe v. Wade, about 20 million black babies have been killed by abortion, more than the entire black population of America in 1960.

https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/02/25/abortion-the-overlooked-tragedy-for-black-americans/

And here’s now all those “moderate” Democrats voted: The House already passed it 218-211, with every Democrat except Rep. Henry Cuellar supporting it. And in the Senate, it was blocked by filibuster from coming to a vote by 48-46. Six Senators didn’t vote. Joe Manchin was the only Democrat to join Republicans in voting against it. And Manchin and Bob Casey (who did vote to bring it to debate) were the only Democrats who didn’t co-sponsor it.

How do these allegedly moderate Democrats who sponsored and voted for it compare to average Americans? A recent Marist poll found that only 17% of Americans think abortion should be available at any stage of pregnancy, as do only 31% of Democrats. The Democrats in Congress are so far left, they’re even out of touch with other Democrats.

So when you’re voting in November, unless you’re voting for Joe Manchin or Henry Cuellar, remember that all that talk about moderate Democrats in Congress is, as our President would put it, “malarkey.”


Zelensky: An old-fashioned hero

This is an interesting article by Tom McTague in the Atlantic, about how Western nations are rallying to support Ukraine and its courageous President Zelensky without actually getting into the fighting themselves.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/02/volodymyr-zelensky-courage-ukraine-russia/622948/?utm_source=feed

He makes the point that Zelensky has suddenly come to embody many old-fashioned Western virtues reminiscent of great men of the last century like Winston Churchill: those who were willing to stand and fight against impossible odds for their country and their independence.

For too long in America and other Western nations, we’ve allowed these traits that should be celebrated to be denigrated and for heroes like Churchill to be maligned and “canceled.” Now that we’re seeing one rise in front of our very eyes, people worldwide are rallying to support him. They can see the truth about what’s good and right when it’s not at a distance and being obscured by lies and propaganda. It’s as if nobody needs an old-fashioned hero – until we need one. This has prompted some commentators to ask how we can expect our leaders to fight for traditional Western and American values when they don’t even believe in them themselves anymore.

Of course, this is the Atlantic, so McTeague gets some things wrong due to political bias (for instance, it’s idiotic to claim that the “Trump view of the world” is that China and Russia are no worse or better than the United States. If any politician of recent years believed in American exceptionalism and calling out bad guys on the international stage, it was Trump, and he was roundly attacked for it.) But if you’d like some food for thought, this is at least a good appetizer.


They're still keeping secrets about Hunter Biden

Does it strike anyone as fascinating that the hotspots of world tension right now –- Ukraine, Beijing and Moscow –- are the very places the family of our sitting President, led by son Hunter, has done business to the tune of billions of dollars? It boggles the mind. As Russia continues its invasion of neighbor Ukraine, the revelations concerning Hunter Biden’s longtime business affairs in that part of the world, and in China, continue as well.

The New York Post’s Miranda Devine, author of the bestselling LAPTOP FROM HELL, reports that Hunter’s old business partner Devon Archer was sentenced on Monday for his role in a scheme to defraud a cash-poor Native American tribe. This is something he appears to have been doing separately from his work with Hunter.

In fact, at the time of his sentencing, he read a statement explaining that at the time of the fraud he was “doing too many things at once...all the business deals I was involved with and the overseas activities.” He expressed “deep remorse for the victims of the crime,” so let’s hope he was remorseful enough to cooperate with investigators about those various “overseas activities” he participated in with Hunter as part of Rosemont Seneca Partners.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/28/only-hope-for-hunter-bidens-best-friend-now-is-a-presidential-pardon/

This is the end of a six-year legal battle for Archer. Judge Ronnie Abrams for the Southern District of New York sentenced him to one year and one day in federal prison, and he must pay “his share” of $43 million in restitution to the victims and more than $15 million in forfeiture of assets. Prosecutors had asked for 30 months, but the judge cited conditions in prison because of covid as the reason for her relatively lenient sentence.

Hunter and Devon met Russian oligarch Elena Baturina, ex-wife of a corrupt former Moscow mayor, in 2014, weeks after she wired $3.5 million to a bank account associated with Devon.

Devon visited with then-Vice President Biden in the White House a week before being named to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian energy company. Hunter was named to the board soon after that. The two were paid $4 million for their “services,” with Biden using his share of the windfall as “walking-around money” to fund his incredibly lavish lifestyle, as described in LAPTOP FROM HELL. The business endeavors of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were “intertwined,” to use Devine’s word.

Archer has 60 days before he has to surrender to authorities. One way he might avoid prison now is through a presidential pardon, and Hunter did text him at one point that he was “part of a great family –- not a sideshow, not deserted by them even in your darkest moments.” So we shall see. Again, if President Biden doesn’t pardon him, there’s still one other way he might avoid prison: by cooperating with prosecutors investigating Hunter. Tell me, which looks worse: the President pardoning a “family member” who ripped off a Native American tribe, or possible revelations about the President’s son and perhaps the President himself?

In another story that’s been just about buried thanks to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Secret Service says it can’t find years of travel records for Hunter Biden. Extensive trips to China, Russia and India took place while he was under Secret Service protection, from January 29, 2009, to July 8, 2014, and entire years have gone missing.

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sought these records –- in unredacted form –- last month but were told in a February 14 letter from Secret Service Director James Murray that no records turned up for the years 2010, 201l or 2013.

If that smells bad to you, you’re not the only one holding your nose. Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research for Judicial Watch, which has also been seeking the records and may file suit, told The Epoch Times that it’s “highly improbable” that the Secret Service just “lost” these records. “I would not be surprised if there was political pressure on the Service to withhold records because it would be politically damaging to President Biden,” he said.

According to the Washington Examiner, the Secret Service did hand over 259 pages of records from other years, but those had “extensive” and improper redactions. “The USSS hid names and other information contained in email conversations regarding Hunter Biden without any proper legal justification,” Sens. Grassley and Johnson wrote in their last request for records.

We’d say this hiding of information brings new meaning to the term “Secret” Service.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/secret-service-says-it-cant-find-hunter-biden-travel-records-for-2010-2011-or-2013

Sen. Johnson appeared Sunday with Maria Bartiromo on SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES and was asked about this, and he attributed it to “a simple word: corruption.” He says that after his committee subpoenaed FBI Director Christopher Wray, they were given “a fraction” of what they should have received. He said he and Sen. Grassley had also written to CIA Director Gina Haspel with a “long list” of items they wanted for their investigation. She wrote back that she’d be “responsive to legitimate oversight” but she didn’t turn over even one page, he said, and did not even return their phone calls.

“...We do have a deep state,” he told Maria. “It’s populated by leftists. And that’s something we need to address.”

A congressional report in 2020 found that Hunter engaged in millions of dollars in “questionable financial transactions” with associates and foreign individuals, including the above-mentioned Baturina and people with ties in the Chinese Communist Party. Biden’s presidential campaign dismissed it at the time as “hard-core right-wing conspiracy theory.” (Yes, another vast right-wing conspiracy.) For a refresher on these findings, you can’t do better than the New York Post.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/gop-senators-release-explosive-report-on-hunter-biden-burisma/

More recently, it was learned that George Kent, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine –- remember him from President Trump’s first impeachment? –- emailed colleagues to express concern that Hunter’s influence peddling would “undercut” anti-corruption efforsts in the Ukraine. That would have been exculpatory evidence for Trump, as it offered good reason to look into his affairs in Ukraine, but it was withheld at the time. And, gosh, when Kent was testifying during Trump’s impeachment, he never mentioned anything about it.

Jonathan Turley wrote an excellent piece about this last month; highly recommended reading. “The level of success of the Biden team and the media had in burying this scandal is breathtaking,” he said. He likened it to the magic trick of making an elephant disappear.

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/02/04/report-diplomat-complained-that-hunter-biden-was-undercutting-anti-corruption-efforts-in-ukraine/

At a time when the world has suddenly transformed into a powder keg, it would be nice to know that our Commander-in-Chief, the person supposedly entrusted with our safety and best interest, had no conflicting interests of his own. But thanks to his family’s propensity for cozying up to oligarchs and world leaders and raking in literally billions in cash –- and their need to perhaps keep secrets about their activities –- we unfortunately don’t know any such thing.


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  • Scotty Strickland

    03/01/2022 04:47 PM

    I read an article a day or so ago that said Zelensky was arresting citizens and leadership of an opposing political party, much like Putin is accused by most of doing. AND what we're seeing shades of in our own country. Simply for opposing. He DOES sound like a good leader lately, but are we jumping to conclusions about his "goodness" just to stand against Putin?

  • Susan Myers

    03/01/2022 04:11 PM

    Why are Americans – All Americans Believing the Media about Russia and Ukraine?
    Most Americans Cheer for Underdogs, We seem to enjoy David vs Goliath stories from small town USA to the Ukraine. Maybe because of our founding, a small band of settlers take on the British Monarchy.
    My heart goes out to the citizens in the Ukraine and the horrible position those innocent citizens are in.
    But why are we believing the media (even Fox) after 2 years of misleading and vilifying a huge portion of US citizens? Is it because we want to root for an Underdog? Do we want so desperately to believe Someone is telling us the truth?
    The US now has volunteer veterans on the ground in the Ukraine rescuing US citizens and trying to assist the Ukrainians defend their nation. Fortunately, these volunteers don’t have to abide by the new military regulations and can DO what they DO best: Protect Defend and Fight!
    The reason I say all of this is there is a 21-minute video worth the time to expose the duplicity we are seeing on all media – right, left, Russia, Ukraine, MSM and social media. So, before we get worked up maybe take 21 minutes to see the below video:
    https://rumble.com/vw18tg-fake-stories-out-of-ukraine-dont-believe-everything-on-twitter.html
    My position is still: NO American Boots on Ukrainian Soil
    Send Armaments to help Ukrainians defend themselves as they must (it should have been done months ago, Putin wake up one morning and say I’m attacking Ukraine today)
    Keep praying for the Ukrainians
    We US civilians are still rescuing Americans from Afghanistan and now the Ukraine and grieving the needless loss of 13 US servicemen and women.
    Anger note: Maybe Biden can beg the Taliban to send some of the $85 billion dollars of Armament left behind while he’s begging OPEC for more gas.

  • Stephen Russell

    03/01/2022 04:10 PM

    Read other newssite that Russia can only last 10 days then we win & marines on Russian ships did Mutiny over Putins actions

  • Sad4theUS

    03/01/2022 03:52 PM

    Zelenski is a president who knows too much about the Biden's, the Obamas and the Clinton's corruption. So I have a feeling they wouldn't mind if Ukraine or Zelelinski were destroyed.

  • Chelsea Martin

    03/01/2022 03:36 PM

    "It’s as if nobody needs an old-fashioned hero – until we need one. This has prompted some commentators to ask how we can expect our leaders to fight for traditional Western and American values when they don’t even believe in them themselves anymore."

    Anyone expecting our "leaders" to fight for anything but their own place at the teat of the Private Western Central Banking System (aka the "NWO," "WEF," or "Neo-Nazi Satanic World Order" - take your pick) needs to have their heads examined. Western and American values can't exist in a world that views people as a means to an end rather than an end in themselves. The West has already fallen to the oligarchic Communists who control it. It would take a war to get it back. Despite what the DOJ/CIA/FBI/Stasi seems to think that kind of "war" will never happen - people have been well trained in learned helplessness, surrender, abject submission to the collective, and "prayerful" timidity.

    Tell me again why I should think Vladimir Putin is the dangerous tyrannical despot? All he did was invade a country. The Elite in the West would render our very bodies, thoughts and souls their property. Don't believe me? Ask Matthew Perna. Oh, wait...he learned what happens to people who are "resistive" and who "won't be soothed," didn't he. Maybe you could skip up to Canada and ask Tamara Lich, before she either learns the same lesson or comes out parroting State Propaganda CCP-style.

    Now, in the words of our Glorious Leaders: shut up, put on your mask, take your vaccines, don't question, show us your "health passport," mind your social credit score left you be de-banked for being an insurrectionist terrorist, it's YOUR fault if you're unhappy, and for the sake of "our Democracy" just OBEY!

    Meanwhile I'll sit here in the chains of unending debt and quietly cheer for the "tyrant" that doesn't seek the enslavement of souls, thank you.

  • Creola Loyd

    03/01/2022 03:08 PM

    I do not always have time to read the full letter. From the beginning of you posting the daily verse I have read it, reposted it on my FB page and saved it in a file. Thank you for sharing. I have a small tax practice, reduced by selling part of it in 2014; own and manage condos at Snowshoe, WV during ski season (high season for renting) and have for several months been dealing and losing deals on selling some property. Now if you have absorbed that, I am 89 years young. And, for the last 2 months, my 69 year old son, who is a diabetic, has been living with me following serious surgeries for flesh eating bacteria. Please pray for him - he is healing nicely and he was so blessed not to have it get to the bone. He lost 1/2 of his right foot over 10 years ago to a similar infection. This time it is outside of his left ankle. Today I signed up to make a very modest monthly donation to Sarah and will be praying for her success. We got our great governor already this year and hope Arkansas is so lucky and gets Sarah! Have watched her and you since you ran for President. My late husband (Colonel David R. Loyd) was from Morrilton, AR, retired from US Army; and, died as result of contact with agent orange during his two tours of duty in Vietnam. Visited Conway and surrounding areas many times - after he died, I often went to Homecomings at a country church for which his dad had transported huge stones by horse and wagon. I also hiked a little on Pettijean Mountain. Just a bit of what I know about a great state and its friendly people. I will be watching and praying for Sarah in the coming months. I sometimes catch your show on Sundays.
    Blessings,
    Creola Loyd

  • Jerry

    03/01/2022 01:54 PM

    As I have mentioned a few days ago to my wife the four leaders of the East XI Putin Z and biden all have their hands in its country's taxpayer's funds. Biden and his pals have not spent much time working with their hands or have done much much physical labor in their entire life. So to rip off the people that do is amusement for them as biden laughs at the people the same way harris does does make me feel a bit stupid that I will be paying taxes to support this horror story they call a government. It is disgraceful for sure all I can do is to keep distance from the tentacles of the biden government and our state government is getting my tax dollars this april 15 even thou our treasury has 9 billion dollars in surplus funds does one question why I might find paying taxes on my social security an over reach shameful as you know Mike I have complained many times I still believe in keeping services operating on the Federal State and Local venues not to the degree of the elected official I only get one vote and I am in the minority I wonder if I can get a handout for that I really feel victimized by this government intact today

  • B. L. Murdock

    03/01/2022 01:52 PM

    Fox News interviewed a female Ukrainian politician, Kira Rudyk, and she said “we are not only fighting for Ukrainian democracy, we are also fighting for this New World Order” WOW, and Zelensky is backed for George Soros. So all is NOT as it seems. The world is so quick and eager to blindly follow Ukraine, did they forget what happened back around 2013-14, especially in Odessa.

  • Lawrence Foster

    03/01/2022 01:22 PM

    Governor Mike,

    Your denigration of the so-called 'moderate' dems fails to recognize the scale they use to measure their radicalness. If you use the Joe/Stalin/Pol-Pot/Adolf Hitler/Kim Jong Un scale, 20 million babies is ''moderate".

    CNN is already on message telling us these democrats are not neutered pink poodles in Granny Pelosi's "pack" but are Moderates. Let the gas-lighting begin.