Friday, April 30, 2021

SEN. TIM SCOTT: 'THE LEFT HAS LOST THEIR MIND TODAY,' A 'BACKLASH TO THIS LIBERAL OPPRESSON' IS COMING

 

Sen. Tim Scott: 'The Left Has Lost Their Mind Today,' a 'Backlash to This Liberal Oppression' is Coming

 By Michael W. Chapman | April 30, 2021 | 11:09am EDT

 
 
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)   (Getty Images)
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) (Getty Images)

In response to leftists smearing him as an "Uncle Tim" because of his conservative beliefs, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), a black Republican, said "the left has lost their mind" and the left-wing news media are fueling a "backlash" against this "liberal oppression."

"[T]here is a coming backlash to this liberal oppression that is becoming front and center and they are not even hiding their hands anymore," said Sen. Scott on Thurday's edition of Hannity

"That's why it's so important that we stand in the gap for the nation, because the greatest comeback in American history is on its way."


Earlier in the interview, Sean Hannity asked Scott -- who delivered the GOP response to President Biden's Apr. 28 speech to Congress -- about why the Democrats are always complaining about alleged racism but then they smeared Scott with racial epithets to try to discredit his conservative message.

"The left has lost their mind today," said Scott. 

"It's really saddening to see that. What the left is doing is fighting bigotry with bigotry. 

And they have exposed their hypocrisy and their true motivation."

"It has nothing to do with ending prejudice," he said.  

"It has everything to do with claiming or getting more power."

"I have never seen such a power grab and using people in such a despicable way," said the senator. 

"It is really disheartening to see the left's response, and frankly, even Twitter's response to racism and racial slurs. 

If it comes from the left, it must be okay according to Twitter's response 12 hours later."

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Hannity then asked, "[I]n this woke cancel culture, it seems like there's very few areas where this type of intolerance is accepted. 

And it seems to be accepted by major news organizations.... Do you have a message to them specifically tonight?"

Senator Scott said, "Well, in my opinion, what they are fueling is a backlash. 

Maybe they don't realize it or not, but at some point people get sick and tired of being sick and tired, and they start reacting as opposed to responding to the criticism and the negativity."

"Fortunately for me, I've had to endure -- I've had to endure for the last couple of years as I keep coming to the conclusion that we got it right, the most inclusive economy, frankly, in American history, he said. 

"The last administration, President Trump, we created 7 million jobs with two-thirds going to African Americans and Hispanics and women."

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) speaks at a MAGA rally with then-President Donald Trump.  (Getty Images)
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) speaks at a MAGA rally with then-President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)













Scott continued, "We saw the lowest unemployment rate. 

We didn't care whether you were black or white. 

We looked for ways to expand opportunities and give people options to make their own decisions. 

That's what America is about."

"And sure, we've had some challenges, but we keep rising to the occasion," said Scott.  

"We confront the person in the mirror which allows us to move over.  

But the left, Sean, the left refuses to do that. 

The left wants to find a fall guy. They want to find a scapegoat."

"As opposed to helping build a better America, what they want to do is spend $6 trillion," he said. 

"Where are we going to get it from? 

They don't care. To do what? 

To make sure that they have a permanent underclass. 

People that think they can control."

"But what I am seeing -- and I spoke to President Trump today -- what we're seeing happen is this response from good-intentioned people who happen to be black, who happen to be Hispanic, who happened to be white, who happen to be Asian, rising up and saying you won't tell me what to think. 

I'm going to decide that for myself," said the senator. 

"So, there is a coming backlash to this liberal oppression that is becoming front and center and they are not even hiding their hands anymore," said Scott. 

'That's why it's so important that we stand in the gap for the nation, because the greatest comeback in American history is on its way."

Senator Scott, 55, is the first black elected to the Senate from South Carolina. 

Scott grew up in poverty. 

His parents divorced when he was seven. 

His mother worked 12-plus hours a day to rear Tim and his other two brothers. 

Scott is an evangelical Christian.

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/sen-tim-scott-left-has-lost-their-mind-today-backlash-liberal-oppression

REPORTING SYSTEM SHOWS MORE THAN 330,000 ADVERSE EVENTS FOLLOWING COVID VACCINES

 

Reporting system shows more than 330,000 adverse events following COVID vaccines

Report broke down data by vaccine, type of injury, country

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(CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE) – Every week The Defender publishes the latest data from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) on injuries and deaths reported after people received one of the three COVID vaccines that have received Emergency Use Authorization in the U.S.

VAERS, which operates under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. In the EU, suspected drug reactions are reported to EudraVigilance, which also tracks reports of injuries and deaths following the experimental COVID vaccines.

Health Impact News compiled the latest EudraVigilance data on reports of COVID vaccine-related injuries and deaths and found – as of April 17 – 7,766 reports of deaths and 330,218 reports of injuries following injections of the four COVID vaccines approved for emergency use in the EU: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, marketed under the Janssen brand.

https://www.wnd.com/2021/04/reporting-system-shows-330000-adverse-events-following-covid-vaccines/

IT'S BIDEN'S MOMENT - BUT HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?

 

It's Biden's moment – but how long will it last?

Pat Buchanan wonders about impact of 'a Federal Reserve running the printing press night and day'

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Joe Biden may not be a radical socialist, but he is doing the best imitation of one this writer has lately seen.

After enacting a COVID-19 relief package of $1.9 trillion in March without a single Republican vote in Congress, Biden proposed a jobs and infrastructure program of $2.2 trillion. 

He has now added an "American Families Plan" of another $1.8 trillion.

In his speech to the joint session of Congress, Biden laid out its contents. The Washington Times relates:

"Mr. Biden's latest spending package includes $225 billion for child care, $225 billion for a national paid family and medical leave program, $200 billion to extend bolstered Obamacare subsidies in his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, $200 billion for universal pre-K, and $109 billion for two years of free community college for all Americans."

While Biden's $6 trillion in total spending is spread over several years, it represents a claim on the nation's wealth equal to 30% of GDP – a figure comparable to FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society.

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One hundred days into his term, our oldest president is seeking to become a transformative progressive president in the FDR mold, and he is betting his presidency he can bring it off.

Where does Biden propose to get the money to pay for this great leap forward for government?

Biden proposes to raise the U.S. corporate tax by one-third to 28%, raise the personal income tax rate to 40%, double the tax on capital gains to 40%, and raise death and inheritance taxes to effect a greater equality of wealth in America.

To accomplish this, without Republican support in either house of Congress, Biden would need a solidly united party in the House and a party in lockstep in the Senate where the Democrats' margin is the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.

During the runoff races for the two Senate seats in Georgia last year, Sen. Chuck Schumer blurted, "Now we take Georgia, then we change the world."

That is an apt description of what is going on. Biden, Schumer and Nancy Pelosi mean to use the window of opportunity their slimmest of margins on Capitol Hill have provided them – to "change the world."

To enact his infrastructure and families plan, Biden will have to move swiftly. Yet, his timing may be auspicious.

For there is a sense of optimism in the land.

U.S. GDP rose 6.4% in the first quarter of 2021. We are coming out of the economic free fall of 2020 and the pandemic that produced it.

COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths are fractions of what they were at the height of the pandemic. Vaccinations, while tapering off, continue in the millions daily.

And all those billions of federal dollars sloshing through the economy are going to make tens of millions of Americans feel better.

While the TV audience for Biden's address tilted Democratic, the 85% approval of his speech in one poll, along with the 75% who said it made them more optimistic about America, suggest that this is Biden's moment.

And the Republicans?

While there are elements of Biden's proposed infrastructure spending the GOP might support – funding for roads, bridges, airports, broadband – Democrats are not likely to agree to cuts in the social spending in Biden's plans to win Republican votes.

And, even given the popularity of some of Biden's proposals, it is difficult to see how a party that not so long ago preached the gospel of small government and balanced budgets could sign on to much of this.

Jimmy Carter said at Notre Dame in 1977 that we Americans had gotten over our "inordinate fear of communism."

Have Republicans of the party of Coolidge and Reagan gotten over their inordinate fear of deficits, debt and inflation?

Democrats have the votes to prevent Republicans from amending, in ways Democrats do not like, the infrastructure and social spending bills.

Republicans, however, would appear to have no choice but to do battle to cut the bills back, and, failing that, kill them.

Events seem to be pointing to an up-or-down vote on Biden's plans in both houses, and, as of today, Democrats appear to be in the catbird seat.

Yet, one recalls: After LBJ ran up the largest electoral landslide since FDR and launched his Great Society in 1965, he lost 47 House seats in 1966. 

And, with Johnson's presidency broken by Vietnam, crime and riots, Republicans won five of the next six presidential elections.

Plus, there is a real risk to the nation in these massive Biden bills.

Deficits exceeding $1 trillion. 

A national debt larger than the national economy and growing inexorably. 

A Federal Reserve running the printing press night and day to produce the dollars to push the nation back to full employment.

This is Biden's hour. The question is how long does it last.

https://www.wnd.com/2021/04/bidens-moment-long-will-last/

RUDY GIULIANI, TIME SCOTT AND THE BIDEN SPEECH FROM HELL

 

Rudy Giuliani, Tim Scott and the Biden speech from hell

Exclusive: Joseph Farah identifies odds-on favorite for Trump running mate in 2024

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Wednesday started out as a rough day with Rudy Giuliani getting a Gestapo-style raid.

It got a little better when his son, Andrew, got in a word.

Then Joe Biden spoke – or droned on endlessly it seemed.

Tim Scott cleaned his clock in the rebuttal – in a response that finished with a flourish in far less time.

Where to begin. Let's start with something I never dreamed of – the early morning storming of Giuliani's New York City office and apartment.

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UNSPEAKABLE!

Andrew Giuliani said any American should be "extremely disturbed" over the raid. An understatement!

"Any American, whether you are red or blue, should be extremely disturbed by what happened here today, by the continued politicization of the Justice Department." Even a bigger understatement.

He continued: "If this can happen to the former president's lawyer, this can happen to any American." He further suggested that the Department of Justice is not "independent of politics."

We'll hear from Rudy on Tucker Carlson Thursday night.

But his son did an admirable job defending dad.

"The only piece of evidence that they did not take up there today was the only piece of incriminating evidence that is in there – and it does not belong to my father; it belongs to the current president's son."

What was he talking about? Hunter Biden's laptop, of course – or specifically, a copy of its hard drive. 

The Gestapo wasn't interested in that – all it contained was potential evidence of kiddie porn and definite evidence of corruption at the highest levels of government.

What did they take? In the dawn raid (why do they always come at dawn?) they took Rudy's electronic devices, his cell phones, etc. But not Hunter's laptop data. When Rudy pointed out what it was, they showed no interest.

The intent was to make Rudy, America's mayor, look like a criminal. The New York Times, of course, got the scoop. 

In Rudy's statement, he said the devices seized were "replete with material covered by the attorney client privilege and other constitutional privileges."

Them came Biden and the speech from hell – his first address to Congress.Let me quote the articulate so-called president: 

He falsely claimed the "insurrection" at the Capitol Jan. 6 was "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." I don't know which is dumber or a bigger lie – that claim or the one about "Jim Crow 2."

One the other hand, there was a breath of fresh air when Biden stopped droning and Sen. Tim Scott started rebutting.

"America is not a racist country," Scott said. "Race is not a political weapon to settle every issue like one side wants."

Thank you for saying that, Sen. Scott. It's an assertion you don't hear enough these days.

"It's backwards to fight discrimination with different discrimination," he said, without providing examples of what he meant. "And it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present."

I love this guy!

"Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future," Scott said.

He hit all the right notes.

He even praised Donald J. Trump for his achievements that created "the most inclusive economy in my lifetime."

"Our best future won't come from Washington schemes or socialist dreams," he said. "It will come from you – the American people."

With a speech like that, he should be the odds-on favorite for Trump's new running mate in 2024.


Speaking of Trump, he brought us some news that also made me happy. He's considering heading back on the road to hold his MAGA rallies – starting as soon as May. 

He talked with Dan Bongino on his podcast this week – great interview. But or course, he was censored by YouTube! 

But video site Rumble has the whole thing.

Good times are almost here again. Get ready to RUMBLE.

https://www.wnd.com/2021/04/rudy-giuliani-tim-scott-biden-speech/

BIDEN: WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARE AMERICA'S 'MOST LETHAL TERRORIST THEAT'

 

Biden: White supremacists are America's 'most lethal terrorist threat'

'We won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined'

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In his first address to Congress, President Joe Biden declared white supremacists posed the "most lethal" terrorist threat to the United States.

He said Wednesday night the threat "has evolved way beyond Afghanistan," referring to war that began in response to the 9/11 attacks.

"And we won’t ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today, white supremacist terrorism," he said.

"We’re not going to ignore that either," Biden added.

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But Matt Palumbo argues that both Islamic and white supremacist terror have become rare, never accounting for more than 1% of all homicides in any given year, with the notable exception of 2001.

The 9/11 attacks resulted in many more deaths than every white supremacist terror incident in the 21st century combined, he pointed out, writing for The Bongino Report. And recently, Islamic terrorist groups such as ISIS have decimated, thanks to President Trump's policies.

Just before Biden's speech, noted ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace the "predominant part of that domestic threat" is white nationalists.

"We can’t ignore that because of a political sensitivity that some of the folks are part of the Trump base," he said.

On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported the Biden Justice Department is considering whether to seek a new law that would allow prosecutors to bring specific charges for domestic terrorism.

Polumbo noted that Biden and fellow Democrats point to a Homeland Security report that spawned headlines such as CNN's "White supremacists remain deadliest U.S. terror threat." 

But the 18th page of the report shows the conclusion is based on a sample size of only one year of data, 2018-2019.

The key passage of the report states: "American domestic violence extremists, racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists – specifically white supremacist extremists will remain the most persistent and lethal threat to the homeland."

That's based on white supremacists conducting half of all lethal attacks – eight total – among domestic violent extremists in 2018-19.

Palumbo noted that in 2016, the ISIS-inspired Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando alone killed 49 people, more than all white supremacists combined in 2018-2019.

Further, the Homeland Security report doesn't provide details of the incidents to demonstrate they were indeed terrorist attacks. And neither does a 2017 study by the Government Accountability Office titled "Countering Violent Extremism" that claimed 73% of terror attacks were conducted by "far-right" groups.

In one example of such an attack, the report said, a "White Supremacist member of Aryan Brotherhood killed a man." But the report provided no evidence of the motive or the race of the victim."Since when does a murder become a terrorist incident just because the murderer also happens to be a bigot?" Palumbo asked. "A hate crime perhaps, but not a terror attack."

In another, a case in which a "far rightist murdered a homeless man" is counted as a right-wing terror attack.

Further, the report describes a "white supremacist" who shot and killed nine people at his community college." That was the 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, carried out by a self-described "mixed race" man who singled out Christians for his attack.

Palumbo also noted that Muslims make up 1% of the population while Whites make up 63%.

"Even an equal number of attacks from the radicalized fragment of each group would still mean Islamic attacks are 63 times more frequent per-capita," he argued.

"Overall, the FBI’s perpetrator data shows that whites are underrepresented when it comes to their share of hate crimes committed, accounting for only 52.5% of hate crime perpetrators – though it’s actually 25% of perpetrators when you adjust for the fact that the FBI stats count Hispanics as White."

And speaking of imminent threats the nation faces, Palumbo added, "one can only wonder why the $2 billion in property damage during the George Floyd riots, or the 19 deaths during them, aren’t counted as 'left wing terrorism.'"

'Worst attack on our democracy'

During his presidential campaign, Biden accused then-President Donald Trump of stoking white supremacism and deadly attacks with his rhetoric.

The Democrat has said many times that his decision to run for president was prompted by Trump's remarks after the deadly riot in Charlottesville in 2017. However, Biden falsely claimed that Trump said white supremacists were "very fine people." Trump immediately made it clear he was not talking about the neo-Nazis, declaring "they should be condemned totally."

Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Twin Towers in New York City (U.S. National Park Service via Wikimedia Commons)

At the beginning of his address Wednesday night, Biden said the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War."

That remark drew widespread criticism on Twitter, including from left-leaning journalist Glenn Greenwald.

"January 6 was worse than 9/11? Or Pearl Harbor?" he asked.

"Or the Oklahoma City bombing? Or the dismantling of civil liberties in the name of the Cold War and War on Terror? Or the mass surveillance program secretly and illegally implemented by NSA aimed at US citizens?

"How about the War on Drugs, mass incarceration and Jim Crow? Were those worse ‘attacks on democracy’ than the 3-hour Capitol riot on Jan. 6? The assassination of JFK? The interference in domestic politics by the CIA? The list of worse attacks than Jan. 6 is endless," he wrote.

Defenders of the president argued the incidents Greenwald cited were not direct attacks on democracy.

But Jerry Dunleavy of the Washington Examiner argued the 9/11 was an attack on U.S. democracy because "Flight 93 was headed for the U.S. Capitol, and if not for the brave actions of those on board, it’s very possible the building would’ve been a smoking crater."

And 9/11, he wrote on Twitter, "successfully targeted the Pentagon — a prominent global symbol of our democracy’s military might."

In addition, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and President Reagan was shot and nearly died.

And don't forget, he said, that among other domestic terror attacks, the Weather Underground bombed the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and the May 19th Communist Organization did the same in 1983.

https://www.wnd.com/2021/04/biden-white-supremacists-americas-lethal-terrorist-threat/

CUBAN REFUGEE: AMERICAN HAVE DIGESTED 'POISON PILL OF COMMUNISM'

 

Cuban refugee: Americans have digested 'poison pill of communism'

'You can tell how much [media] hate this country'

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Cuban immigrant Maximo Alvarez speaks to the Republican National Convention on Aug. 24, 2020 (video screenshot)

Former Cuban refugee Maximo Alvarez warned in a speech at the Republican National Convention last summer that many Americans have swallowed the "poison pill" of communism, but now he says they've "digested" it.

In an interview Wednesday with Lisa Boothe, he recalled witnessing during his childhood dictator Fidel Castro's elimination of human rights, the Daily Wire reported.

Fidel Castro (Photo: Twitter)

Alvarez fled to the United States in 1961 under Operation Peter Pan.

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Boothe, referring to Alvarez's RNC speech, asked him if he believes Americans have "swallowed the communist poison pill."

"Not only have they swallowed it, they digested it," Alvarez replied. "Listen to the media. They’re no longer objective. 

You can tell how much they hate this country.

"Look at our, our academia!" he said. "Our kids are not being ... they're indoctrinated! They are taught that America is a bad country. 

That we're a bunch of racists, that we're bad people, and we have to pay back."

Alvarez said that if "this country was racist, I wouldn't be here."

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"If this country was a racist country, most of us wouldn’t be here because even some people in your family came from another country," he said.

'A conformity that feels terrifyingly familiar today'

Many other emigres from communist nations also are speaking out, warning they are seeing in the United States some of the same developments that eventually caused them to flee their homelands.

President Ronald Reagan meeting with Natan Sharansky Dec. 10, 1986, after the dissident was released from the Soviet Union (White House photo)

Among them is the famous Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who wrote an essay published in February titled "The Doublethinkers."

He said that in "assessing my own liberation, I recall a conformity that feels terrifyingly familiar today."

If anyone should doubt his warnings, he said, they should take what he calls the Town Square Test. 

It's a method of distinguishing between "free societies and fear societies."

"Can you express your individual views loudly, in public, without fear of being punished legally, formally, in any way?" he asked. 

"If yes, you live in a free society; if not, you’re in a fear society."

He explained how people in "fear societies" such as the old Soviet Union become doublethinkers, people who keep their true thoughts private while mouthing things they don't believe in public.

"As the Party Line you follow publicly becomes increasingly disconnected from what you believe or see or experience privately, your cynicism grows along with your mental agility — your skill in living and writing in two contradictory scripts at once," he wrote. 

"That's how you become a doublethinker."

Author and columnist Rod Dreher was inspired to write his book "Live Not By Lies" when he began to hear warnings from people who had fled to America from communist countries.

One emigre told him of noticing a shift in the United States a decade ago when people would lower their voices and look over their shoulders before expressing conservative views.

"I grew up like this, but it was not supposed to be happening here," he said.

Dreher posed a question to a number of emigres from communist nations: "Is America drifting toward some sort of totalitarianism?"

They all said yes, "often emphatically." Dreher writes in his book. "They were usually surprised by my question because they consider Americans to be hopelessly naive on the subject."

Most Americans are blinded to what is happening, Dreher said, because they don't see secret police and gulags

In summary, he sees the following signs of a "soft totalitarianism":

  • Elites and elite institutions abandoning old fashioned liberalism
  • Replacing it with a progressive creed and utopian vision
  • Good and evil is a matter of power dynamics among ethnic, sexual identity groups
  • History rewritten and language reinvented to reflect the progressive definition of social justice
  • The consequence of not conforming is the loss of livelihood and reputation

'I've seen people like this before'

Alvarez address the RNC last August in the wake of Bernie Sanders' declaration that his "revolution" has mainstreamed policies once thought extreme in the Democratic Party.

"I'm speaking to you today because I've seen people like this before," Alvarez said.

"I've seen movements like this before. I've seen ideas like this before, and I'm here to tell you, we cannot let them take over our country."

Alvarez, the president of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors, recalled fleeing Castro's regime in 1961 at the age of 13.

"I've heard the promises of Fidel Castro, and I cannot forget those who grew up around me, who looked like me, who suffered, and starved, and died because they believed those empty promises," he said.

"They swallowed the communist poison pill."

Alvarez said that by the "grace of God, I lived the American dream, the greatest blessing I ever had."

"My dad, who only had a 6th grade education told me, 'Don't leave this place. You will never be as lucky as me. ... There is no place to hide.'"

Sanders, as WND reported, touted the success of his far-left "revolutionary" movement in his speech on opening night of the Democratic National Convention.

"Our campaign ended several months ago, but our movement continues and is getting stronger every day," said Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.

"Many of the ideas we fought for, that just a few years ago were considered 'radical,' are now mainstream."

Alvarez said the Democrats' proposals "don't sound radical to my ears."

"They sound familiar."

He noted that Castro was asked at the beginning of his revolution if he was a communist, and he replied that he was a Roman Catholic.

"He knew he had to hide the truth," Alvarez said. "But the country I was born in is gone. Totally destroyed."

Alvarez said that he may be Cuban-born, but he is "100% American."

"This is the greatest country in the world," he said, his voice beginning to break. " ... If I gave away everything that I have today, it would not equal 1% of what I was given when I came to this great country of ours."

America has a choice now, he said, pointing to the "echoes of his past" that he sees in Seattle, Chicago, Portland and other cities.

"I choose President Trump, because I choose America, I choose freedom," he said.

He concluded by recalling the words of his father.

"I still hear my dad," he said, pausing to collect himself as tears welled. "There is no other place to go."

See the speech:

https://www.wnd.com/2021/04/cuban-refugee-americans-digested-poison-pill-communism/