Trump Popularity Direct Result of White House Lawlessness and Policies

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“We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence,” Obama frequently laments, a claim judged false by Politifact and the Washington Post who called his language “slippery.”
In fact, the U.S. ranks 11th in per capita fatalities from mass public shootings — behind European countries with stricter gun control laws such as France, Switzerland, Norway and Belgium — according to a Crime Prevention Research Center analysis of the period from 2009 through 2015. Meanwhile, total U.S. homicides are at historic lows.
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Turns out, Obama is a better salesman for guns than gun control, the New York Times noted. During Obama’s tenure, gun ownership has nearly doubled, with women and concealed-carry owners representing the fastest-growing segments. Even as the stock market suffered its worst yearly start ever, shares of firearm manufacturers soared.
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While Obama was repeating his “if you like your guns you can keep them” mantra, presidential frontrunner Donald Trump drew deafening applause in Vermont after saying, “You know what a gun-free zone is to a sicko? That’s bait!”
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If addressing gun violence is such an urgent priority, why have weapons convictions declined 6 percent since last year and 35 percent since peaking in 2006? Why is Obama releasing dangerous gun felons and hardcore Guantanamo Bay jihadists? Why insist on resettling Syrian refugees whom the FBI says it can’t vet and Islamic radicals intend to infiltrate?
Why does Obama sanction “sanctuary city” policies that ignore immigration laws by releasing criminal, illegal immigrants into unsuspecting populaces? Between 2010 and 2014, 121 released illegal immigrants proceeded to commit murder — that’s two souls lost per month.
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Testifying before Congress about accumulating separation of powers violations — over-reaches for which the Supreme Court unanimously rebuked the White House 12 times — constitutional law professor and Obama-voter Jonathan Turley said Obama is “becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid — the concentration of power in any single branch.” Turley insists the President “can’t say the solution to gridlock is you simply have to resolve it on my terms.”
By forcing his agenda on Americans, Obama is building a Trump Tower of insecurity and distrust, an edifice Trump unapologetically promises to destroy to “make America great again.” He’s tapping into Americans’ “dissatisfaction with government,”

http://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/20132135-113/sturm-the-trump-tower-that-obama-built

Melanie Sturm
Think Again
January 14, 2016
Sturm: The Trump tower that Obama built