The Lost Horizons News (Pete Hendrickson)

I’m No Fan Of Donald Trump, But I’ve Got Some Advice For Him, Nonetheless…

…because I AM a big fan of the rule of law, and at this point, helping the one importantly supports the other.

DONALD TRUMP HAS TWO PRODUCTIVE PATHS toward salvaging his presidency, or at least minimizing the harm looming before him personally and America itself at the hands of his enemies if he loses it. Both offer big positives for the rest of us, as well as for Trump himself.

I’ll discuss them each in turn.

FIRST, TRUMP SHOULD ISSUE a couple of pardons right away, starting with a pardon of Julian Assange. That’ll not only be a big blow to the Deep State, but will offer the best chance that all the “Russiagate” hoax (and crimes) evidence will see the light of day. It also offers the best chance that the C19 hoax evidence will be exposed.

These two narrative attacks have been devastating for Trump, and will continue to be. His best hope of regaining the upper hand in all of what’s going on and what lies in store for him and his friends is to see the truth about both laid bare to the light of day. Wikileaks is the proven master of that sort of exposure.

Also in the cards would then be the airing of the Biden influence-peddling crimes. This, too, offers big benefits to Trump and his supporters, as well as to everyone who values the rule of law and real accountability.

And, of course, the corruption and fraud deployed in the election will also be very much on Julian Assange’s radar screen.

THE PARDON SHOULD BE STRAIGHT UP, full and unencumbered. No attempts at securing quid pro quos or saving face.

It’s the right thing to do, and any demand for a “deal” would pollute the atmosphere and be of no value, anyway. Assange will expose the truth because it needs to be exposed, and exposing it is the right thing to do. That’s what he does.

So, DO IT, Orange Man! Release the truth-Kraken!!

And do it NOW, before your enemies can figure out some way of thwarting you.

THERE’S NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT, here. You’ve got the the ultimate weapon against all your persecutors bottled up and useless, and for the foulest of reasons.

After all, Assange committed no crimes. Every honest observer knows this.

Set this paragon of real journalism loose to do what he does best, and which you very much need done. You’ve had nearly the whole “mainstream” media against you from the start, and that’s been a major factor in how things have gone. Julian Assange outpunches all of them combined, and his blows against their corruption will be blows on your behalf, even though he doesn’t give a damn about you personally.

EDWARD SNOWDEN SHOULD GET PARDONED, too. His righteous exposure of real crimes by the NSA has been recognized by Congress and courts across the land for years now.

Snowden’s no longer in a position to do the heavy-lifting on revelations of wrongdoing, but he’s an articulate and very well-informed spokesman for openness and honesty.

Further, like Assange, Snowden is a #1 nemesis of the “intelligence community” which has been chewing on you, Donald, since even before you took office. Pardoning Snowden will stick in that community’s craw like a sideways chicken-bone.

And again, issuing pardons of these good and outrageously persecuted men will not only raise your moral stature and let you hold your head high regardless of what happens going forward while also being a vicious kidney-punch to your foes. It will also be a very high-upside-potential tactical play.

Do it.

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HERE’S MY OTHER PIECE OF ADVICE, Donald: Challenge Kamala Harris’ qualification for office. If what is on record about the particulars of her birth is correct, she doesn’t make the cut.

DON’T ROLL YOUR EYES! Don’t shake your head. READ WHAT FOLLOWS, completely and carefully, including all linked materials.

I know that the issue of so-called “birthright citizenship” has been aired in the past, and hooted down by your opponents. But this is not because they are right; it is because they know they are not.

Those opponents hoot down the issue in hope that the whole matter can be deep-sixed without an airing– and hope this even more strongly now that you have a Supreme Court with a majority of law-respecting jurists on board.

Don’t let their calculated and manipulative derision dissuade you.

I’M GOING TO REPOST below my observations on this issue made in this space a few months ago, and trust that this time they will get to you somehow, or that you will this time pay attention:

I’VE RECENTLY SEE CLAIMS that Kamala Harris, while born in the USA, is the child of non-citizens in America merely on student visas. If so then she is not qualified to be vice-president, or even senator, for that matter.

A child of non-citizen parents does not acquire citizenship simply by being born on American soil– myths about so-called “birthright citizenship” notwithstanding. The law on this is perfectly clear and unambiguous; see it laid out and explained here.

AS NOTED IN THAT ABOVE-LINKED ARTICLE AND ANALYSIS, the Wong Kim Ark ruling by the Supreme Court in 1898 which is relied-upon by advocates of the mistaken “birthright citizenship” as supporting their notions, is wrongly decided. The court in that case failed to recognize the distinction between United States and state citizenship that is the heart of the 14th Amendment provision in question– perhaps due to poor briefing by the litigants in the case.

But even if Wong were soundly decided, it would not avail Harris in her claim, if indeed her parents were merely in America on student visas at the time of Harris’ birth.

The Wong court reached its conclusions in Wong’s favor based solely on the legal residency of Wong’s parents, who were found by the court to have been “permitted by the United States to reside here” and to, in fact, have “permanent domicil and residence in the United States”. The court reasoned that in seeking and establishing legal residency Wong’s parents had affirmatively and deliberately relinquished their former allegiances and become allegiant to the USA, thus– and only thus– bringing them under the relevant provisions of the 14th Amendment.

If Harris’s parents were in the country merely on visas, as I understand to be the case, this would not meet the standard laid down by the Wong court.

“Resident” is a condition of specific legal meaning, as stated here, in Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 1856:

RESIDENT, persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period. See 6 Hall’s Law Journ. 68; 3 Hagg. Eccl. R. 373; 20 John. 211 2 Pet. Ad. R. 450; 2 Scamm. R. 377.

Obtaining or being in the country by virtue of a student visa is merely visiting on a deliberately and declared temporary basis, and not for purposes of, or with permission to, establish permanent residency. Entry into a country on a student visa involves no relinquishment of prior national allegiance and replacement of it with allegiance to the USA either affirmatively and deliberately or even casually and by accident, and being here on such a visa does not constitute legal residence.

In fact, particular legal steps must be taken by student visa holders in order to convert their status to one with the potential for lawful residence of the sort on which the Wong court rested its decision. See this for some professional discussion of the subject.

In sum, even if it were not incorrect overall in its finding of a “birthright citizenship” right on behalf of Wong Kim Ark (as it is), on its terms the Wong ruling offers nothing on behalf of Kamala Harris’ claims. If the student visas thing is sound, the Senate should initiate proceedings to evict Harris (and I suppose it should consider examining its votes during the time she has been seated against the possibility that the outcomes of some of the squeakers should be reversed…).

TO ADD A BIT TO THE FORGOING, let me point out the particular importance of a correct understanding of the “birthright citizenship” issue in the context of the citizenship qualification for high Constitutional office (such as is involved in the case of Kamala Harris). That qualification requires that a Vice President or President be a natural born American citizen (at Article II, Section I) for a very good reason.

It is the wise intent of the Founders and Framers that such significant offices be held only by a person meaningfully immersed from birth in the American culture. Only one born to and raised by American parents– themselves immersed from birth in our unique traditions, principles and perspectives; or born again through formal naturalization in love, respect and firm allegiance for those traditions, principles and perspectives– can be qualified to such high positions of trust and honor.

Based on the facts of her birth as I understand them to be, Kamala Harris isn’t qualified to be Vice President (and, since she doubtless has never sought citizenship, is also not qualified to be a Senator, the lesser standard for which nonetheless requires nine years of citizenship prior to holding the office).

SO, DONALD, GET YOUR PEOPLE GOING on this issue. It actually has much to offer America even beyond the simple matter of the validity of the “Biden/Harris” ticket, but that alone should be enough to get you going.

As noted above, opening this can of worms will call down on your head a tornado of opposition.

But don’t worry about that. Just order your lawyers to READ THROUGH EVERYTHING AT THIS LINK (and everything in the foregoing discussion).

Then make them read it again after their mutterings of “That can’t be right” have died away. Then one more time so all the mistaken notions are pushed out, the actual facts are settled in, and they can begin realizing how to make their case.

You actually have it within your grasp to establish a real stature to your presidency, just by pursuit of this important issue alone. Plus, of course, it could pull your chestnuts out of the fire they’re in right now.