This Jewish Grandmother Is Riding on the Trump Train

By Lynne Lechter, PHILADELPHIA EXPONENT

The popular dystopian series The Hunger Games contrasts the pampered, powdered denizens of the capital district of Panem with the hardscrabble, miserable lives of the inhabitants of the surrounding districts that the capital controls. It stands as an allegory of our current choices for president. Hillary Clinton is the ultimate capital insider, with rings of assistants who poll test her every rehearsed and guarded word. Donald Trump is the rough-at-the-edges outsider, whose speech is not well-oiled, fluid or nuanced. He identifies with the poor workers and strives to overthrow the corrupt, oppressive power of the capital.

Will we follow our British cousins who voted, via the Brexit referendum, to leave the European Union and throw off the shackles of stifling bursaries? Will we vote for Trump with high hopes of once again feeling pride in the America of exceptionalism? Trump alone is fighting for those ideals and to liberate America from the constraints of the unaccountable and disdainful federal bureaucrats. He wants to eliminate safe spaces and victim categories. When he says he wants to “make America great again,” he envisions “the shining city on the hill,” the return to our founding freedoms to worship as one pleases without government interference, to freely speak without being labeled as racist, misogynistic or xenophobic, and the return to a free press.

Trying to hold on to power, the entire Democratic Party, some Republican elites and our blatantly pro-Clinton press are against Trump. Academia and Hollywood attack machines are also out to get him.

Remarkably, in the third and last debate, Clinton did not deny she was behind the violence instigated at Trump rallies by Democratic thug operatives; she did not deny she was for open borders and amnesty; she did not deny she was for sanctuary cities that harbor criminals, known rapists, murderers and drug gangs, who prey without fear of deportation.

Clinton’s lamentable record proves she is unfit to serve as president of the United States. With Russia, it was she who pushed a “reset button,” and it was she, through machinations inside the Clinton Foundation, who implemented a series of sales that culminated with Russia owning 20 percent of all United States uranium production. Yet, she has the chutzpah to claim that Russia is interfering with our elections to assist Trump.

Her failures in the Middle East have proved deadly, leaving much of the region in ruins. Our precipitous withdrawal from Iraq left a power void in which ISIS was hatched and nurtured. She called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a “reformer” and stood silently by while President Obama repeatedly allowed Assad to cross his Syrian “line in the sand.” She helped implement the dangerous Iran nuclear deal. As secretary of state she refused multiple requests for additional security from the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, refusals that ultimately led to his death. She covertly aligned herself with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, overtly did so in Libya and helped overthrow the governments in both countries, leaving chaos in their wake. Her callousness in promoting the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is especially chilling: “We came, we saw, he died,” she gloated. This is the legacy of “leading from behind.”

Her avowed friendship with Israel is questionable. In an infamous telephone call, she berated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for almost an hour over the building an extension to an apartment complex. She hasn’t objected to Obama’s recent decision not to recognize Jews born in Jerusalem as having been born in Israel. Nor has she fought back against the odious UNESCO votes that affirm Jews have no historical connection to the Temple Mount.

The entire world now knows that Clinton set up and maintained an illegal private server and email system as secretary of state. She destroyed and lied about evidence after having received a subpoena from Congress.

Clinton helped create and implement the Obamacare monstrosity. The program has resulted in lost jobs, failed insurance programs and exorbitant premiums with untenable deductibles for those not receiving subsidies. Even her husband, former President Bill Clinton, has called it a “crazy system.” Despite our prolonged period of low wages and unemployment, Clinton has vowed to raise taxes and close our remaining coal mines, thereby eliminating even more good-paying jobs.

Contrasted with these failures and wrong-headed policies, Trump offers an exciting and promising future. He is fighting for the fundamental compact between our government and its citizens: to protect them from harm both internal and external. That means defeating ISIS and all strains of radical Islamist terrorism. Trump will rebuild our military and enforce existing immigration laws. He will ban sanctuary cities and cut off federal funds to them. Trump will surround himself with a Cabinet and select Supreme Court justices who share these values.

Trump deems terror perpetrated in Israel equivalent to terror in the United States and elsewhere. He has pledged to recognize Israel’s capital as Jerusalem. In fact, Trump’s platform, combined with his dedication to defeating terror, presents the strongest pro-Israel candidate ever. How can Clinton, bought and paid for by “quid pro quo” Arab money, ever be as loyal to Israeli interests?

Donald Trump has a clear practical approach to improving our sagging economy which will create good-paying jobs and convert our dismal 1 percent GDP to 4 percent: He will cut corporate taxes to make American businesses more competitive; he will repeal and replace Obamacare; he will overturn all executive orders and bureaucratic edicts that stifle growth; he will grant a one-time tax break to corporations holding profits off-shore, thereby infusing our economy with billions of dollars that will create thousands of jobs; he will approve the Keystone Pipeline and invest in new infrastructure improvements; and he will renegotiate trade deals that are hurting our workers.

Trump is fighting for a return to the goals of our Founding Fathers: a free and prosperous nation based on the Constitution and governed by a system of laws, many of which are based on those set down in our Torah. How could I not vote for him?

Lynne Kessler Lechter is a practicing attorney in Philadelphia at Lechter & Sasso, P.C., and serves on the President’s Council of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

October 28, 2016 | 68 Comments »

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  2. apologies for actually commenting on this excellent post by Lynne Lechter, solely to post my clarification on this:

    In an infamous telephone call, she berated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for almost an hour over the building an extension to an apartment complex.

    The telephone rant by then SecState Hillary Clinton was about the announcement to build apartments in Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood in NORTH* Jerusalem that was built on a rocky hillside previously used by goats, for grazing.
    She made a point to have her telephone rant to PM Netanyahu PUBLIC through a news report in the NYTimes. Many would consider that to be very unprofessional for a “diplomat”.

    *while Ramat Shlomo IS in NORTH Jerusalem, it does happen to be east of the 1949 armistice line. The goats displaced were probably not Jewish, so I guess their descendants have the Right of Return (?)

  8. babushka Said:

    Verrrrrrrrrrry scandalous. Explains the delusions about trannys.

    Hmmmm guess I hit a raw nerve so it must have more than a grain of truth at bes.t You seem to be gender confused, but not only gender confused 😉 😉

  10. babushka Said:

    It is amusing that the dumbest person on the site invented a gender for me and all the lemmings fell into line.

    No so dumb after all. xoxoxoxo

  12. It is amusing that the dumbest person on the site invented a gender for me and all the lemmings fell into line. I do not blame Altacocker Yam, however, because the old fart is still traumatized about being run out of LA. Have AY tell you about it privately. Verrrrrrrrrrry scandalous. Explains the delusions about trannys.

  16. You have some sick fantasies, Altacocker Yam. Dreaming of transvestites and fantasizing about the gender of anonymous internet posters. No wonder the LAPD chased you out of town.

  19. @ babushka:
    Unlike you I never pretended to be anything…. you cannot say the same babsie…. A guy pretending to be a woman is perverse, even by internet loose standards.

  22. I am glad that at least one of us is rumored to be male, Altacocker Yam. Certainly, no one has ever accused you of being a man.

  25. @ honeybee:
    @ babushka:

    Thanks.

    Well, EXcuse Me.mpg (Steve Martin)
    https://youtu.be/zANvYB93u2g

    What people don’t understand about Trump is his remarks have all employed hyperbole to push one Point: “I’m popular!!!!!”

    And it turns out to be true that people walk through the door of your expectations. Katherine Hepburn said she carried herself into Hollywood like a basket of flowers.

    Wicked – Popular PROSHOT – Kristin Chenoweth
    WickedProshots

    https://youtu.be/CsKH2tqoFJ8

  27. I am a wicked witch and Martin is my winged monkey.
    C’mon, Sebastien.
    If you wish to excel on Israpundit, you absolutely must learn to interpret Insect’s misspelled demented ravings.

  30. Sebastien Zorn Said:

    something about monkeys and rothschild mispelled

    I told I don’t spell worth a load of watermelons. Watch the clip, Babs is just the most sickening of green. Matches her personality.

  32. @ honeybee:
    No, my subsequent post quoted the thing I don’t understand, something about monkeys and Rothschild mispelled?

    Incidentally, you asked if I was an American. My mother, who though she grew up in Brooklyn in the 20’s and ’30’s, was brought up to be “refined” and so knew nothing and could have cared less about sports, has joked that if she were an American soldier separated from his unit being quizzed by an American patrol on baseball scores by a sentry to see if he was really an American, like in all those WWII movies, she would have been shot as a spy.

    Come to think of it, “Wizard of Oz” is one of the most popular movies in the world. But, here, young adults don’t know or care about anything that’s “before their time”; I’ve met people who’ve never heard of Marlon Brando. So, actually, if you are familiar with that American movie, perhaps it would be more appropriate for me to challenge you: “HOw come you know so much ’bout an ‘merican movie, You some kina furrener sumpin’ “

  34. Hell’s Grannies was excellent, Sebastien. Feel free to keep the Monty Python clips coming. And since you are a Star Trek aficionado, do you remember that episode during which Bones and Chekhov collaborated with the Romulan Empire to rid the universe of bees? God, I loved that show. Or the episode in which Kirk and co-star Tina Louise (ably portraying Kavall, Queen of Klingon) used a photon death beam to eradicate all the annoyingly obtuse yentas in the Lone Star state? It is an eternal injustice that such a magnificent drama failed to win multiple Emmys.

  36. @ honeybee:
    FYI and question: If you do the common sense thing and highlight and copy the address in the web address bar of a youtube video, it will cut off the right side because of the Procrustean (great word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes) lines on the site. To get around this, you must a) click share, b) click email, c) copy and paste the address you see.

    – question: could you explain the reference, please; I didn’t get the joke. Thanks.

  37. @ babushka:
    Hillary understands the imminent threat of biker grannies@ babushka:
    Hillary understands and is ready to combat the real enemies we face: elderly, female biker gangs, though I confess, I don’t understand why no one is discussing the plague of crime in our cities which are being terrorized by the Pennsylvania Amish (must say, darn good eggs, though. Maybe we should let it alone. You know what they say (I have it on the highest authority) ’bout omelettes.)

    Hell’s Grannies – Monty Python’s Flying Circus
    https://youtu.be/UY-I3QTT8mY

  41. @ Austin:
    When I was in grade school, I knew a boy named Austin who got his head stuck in a septic tank, suffered irreparable brain damage, and spent years vegetating in intensive care. I am delighted to see that you ultimately survived.

  46. With all his imperfections, Trump is far closer to RR than ANY other member of the GOP!
    But the GOP is already convinced that it won’t be able to handle him!!! Therefore better “kill” him.

  48. ALL WHITE SUPREMACY GROUPDS ARE FOR DONALD TRUMS AS IS DUKE PREVIOUS HEAD OF KLU KLUX CLAN.THESE ARE ANTI SEMITES PAR EXCELENCE.IF TRUMP DOES NOT WIN HE WILL NOT ACCEPT ELECTION RESULTS.THIS REMINDS ME OF 1933, OR

  49. Hillary’s aide, Neera Tanden was exposed in Wiki Leaks saying “Israel is depressing”.
    This was written when Bibi addressed congress about the Iran deal.
    Clinton grew up in a suburb of Chicago that didn’t allow Jews. She is no lover of Israel and will continue Obama’S anti Israel policies.

  50. Donald Trump is the rough-at-the-edges outsider, whose speech is not well-oiled, fluid or nuanced. He identifies with the poor workers and strives to overthrow the corrupt, oppressive power of the capital.

    Donald Trump is an inveterate con man, which will become unavoidably obvious once you lay off the Manischewitz, Granny.