In Cleveland, I urged voters, “please, don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”
After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
I’ve made this decision for two reasons. First, last year, I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word.
Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee, by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable — that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary.
Six key policy differences inform my decision. First, and most important, the Supreme Court. For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights — free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment — the Court hangs in the balance. I have spent my professional career fighting before the Court to defend the Constitution. We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices. We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices “in the mold of Scalia.”
For some time, I have been seeking greater specificity on this issue, and today the Trump campaign provided that, releasing a very strong list of potential Supreme Court nominees — including Sen. Mike Lee, who would make an extraordinary justice — and making an explicit commitment to nominate only from that list. This commitment matters, and it provides a serious reason for voters to choose to support Trump.
Second, Obamacare. The failed healthcare law is hurting millions of Americans. If Republicans hold Congress, leadership has committed to passing legislation repealing Obamacare. Clinton, we know beyond a shadow of doubt, would veto that legislation. Trump has said he would sign it.
Third, energy. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s war on coal and relentless efforts to crush the oil and gas industry. Trump has said he will reduce regulations and allow the blossoming American energy renaissance to create millions of new high-paying jobs.
Fourth, immigration. Clinton would continue and even expand President Obama’s lawless executive amnesty. Trump has promised that he would revoke those illegal executive orders.
Fifth, national security. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s willful blindness to radical Islamic terrorism. She would continue importing Middle Eastern refugees whom the FBI cannot vet to make sure they are not terrorists. Trump has promised to stop the deluge of unvetted refugees.
Sixth, Internet freedom. Clinton supports Obama’s plan to hand over control of the Internet to an international community of stakeholders, including Russia, China, and Iran. Just this week, Trump came out strongly against that plan, and in support of free speech online.
These are six vital issues where the candidates’ positions present a clear choice for the American people.
If Clinton wins, we know — with 100% certainty — that she would deliver on her left-wing promises, with devastating results for our country.
My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that.
We also have seen, over the past few weeks and months, a Trump campaign focusing more and more on freedom — including emphasizing school choice and the power of economic growth to lift African-Americans and Hispanics to prosperity.
Finally, after eight years of a lawless Obama administration, targeting and persecuting those disfavored by the administration, fidelity to the rule of law has never been more important.
The Supreme Court will be critical in preserving the rule of law. And, if the next administration fails to honor the Constitution and Bill of Rights, then I hope that Republicans and Democrats will stand united in protecting our fundamental liberties.
Our country is in crisis. Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to be president, and her policies would harm millions of Americans. And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way.
A year ago, I pledged to endorse the Republican nominee, and I am honoring that commitment. And if you don’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.
Comment
At a Brit, we can be proud of many things, but the one thing that stands above all else, is a system of law and order which we endowed to over 50 countries (not least the US) and which as an example to the rest of the world has created a global system of law and order in which (theoretically) we are all equal before the law. And whilst few seem to understand, without a philosophy of equality before the law or “Isonomia” as the Greeks called it, there cannot be any real democratic government and there will never be any other kinds of “equality”.
Over the years, what I have seen in the US, is that government agencies and individuals can flout the law with impunity so long as they are pursuing a politically acceptable campaign. Government do nothing, the press do nothing – except lead the attack on the innocent, and through their corrupted reporting, the people do nothing to stop this corruption. And likewise, those who tell the truth against those pursuing such campaigns can be attacked with impunity and the full weight of government.
Indeed, if it was not for the freedom of the internet, bypassing the distortions of the once “mainstream” media, few of us would know about this corruption.
I do not know whether the corruption we see know is new. It may well have been endemic well before the internet. So I do not know whether this corruption has increased massively as it appears to have done so to me, or whether the internet has pulled back the curtain to reveal this sordid state of affairs. But I do know that those now caught in the spotlight of the internet will try their damned hardest to draw back the curtain, to curtail the freedoms we now enjoy and to ensure they continue in power without the scrutiny of the internet.
I sincerely believe, that if Clinton is elected – with all the clear evidence of corruption – both of herself and the previous presidential controlled administration, such corruption will become so endemic that the system will be controlled not by the people, but by those who have the most money to buy the elections, buy the administration, and turn the US economy toward their own enrichment – and those people will not necessarily be Americans. They will be Saudis, Chinese – and any rich global company.
Once these people control the US (which they already do to a large extent), their corruption spreads out and infects the whole world (as it has already to a large extent). And that is why they cannot allow internet freedom to continue. As we have seen the establishment can control what is printed in the mainstream media distorting what the public hear until lies become “truth”, what they have hitherto been unable to do, is to prevent the internet bypassing that censorship.
So, whilst Trump may not know it himself, this election is not one of Republican versus Democrat, nor free-enterprise versus state-aid, but anti-democratic and corrupt tyranny versus freedom and democracy, not just of the US, but the whole world.
For in a real sense, if the US falls – we all fall, for if Clinton is elected, as Cruz says, the judiciary will be corrupted, immigration will corrupt the electorate to gerrymander a naive immigrant class who believe they owe the Democrats something, and government will be corrupted, all to serve the paymasters who control Clinton. For if she ever goes against their wishes – they can bring her down and bring in another puppet.
