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facelift and skin color and
moving to Thailand, “where
they love pedophiles.”
In an interview after his
speech, Steele said that he
was “confounded” that judges
appointed by Trump dismissed
election fraud cases, citing no
evidence of any fraud that
could have changed the out-
come of the election.
He said what puzzled him
was that all nine Supreme
Court justices refused to hear
a case that 20 states brought.
He said the only “specula-
tive” conclusion that he could
come to was that the time was
not right, and they did not
want to do the court cases.
Steele said he believes the
justices wanted to do more
forensics and surveillance
work with the National Sur-
veillance System and make
the deal outside of the legal
system.
“The federal court system
is not where you’re going to
solve this problem,” he said.
Steele also blames the U.S.
government for the 9/11 ter-
rorist attacks despite con-
trary conclusions reached by
the 9/11 Commission, which
released its findings in 2004.
He said Israel was behind the
attack while former Vice Pres-
ident Dick Cheney and former
Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld were “inside guys.”
Steele also “absolutely”
believes that high-ranking
Democratic Party officials
were running a human traf-
ficking and child sex ring out
of a pizza parlor.
The widely debunked con-
spiracy theory, dubbed “Piz-
zagate,” is considered a pre-
decessor to the QAnon
conspiracy theory and alleged
that a cabal of Satanic, can-
nibalistic pedophiles ran a
global child sex trafficking
ring and conspired against for-
mer president Donald Trump
during his term in office.
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Bob Jackson Minor, dressed as Abraham Lincoln, riffs on the harmonica Thursday during the Arise USA rally at the Grant County Fairgrounds.
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
Grant County resident Dave Traylor spoke at Thursday’s event.
tarian Party is not interested in
winning elections.
“The Libertarian Party
leadership today is interested
in keeping its fat paychecks
as national level leaders,” he
said.
He said 50% of voters have
dropped out of the system
completely and are not partic-
ipating. There are many rea-
sons, Steele said, as to why
they’re not voting.
“Either they’re being
scared away — a lot of black
people being scared away —
or they’re being intimidated
away,” Steele said.
He said half of all Demo-
cratic and Republican precinct
seats are vacant.
“In my own personal view,
I will tell you this tour is about
destroying the Republican and
Democratic parties and put-
ting people, not parties, back
in charge,” he said.
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
Trent Loos, a radio host and Thursday’s emcee, speaks during
the Arise USA rally at the Grant County Fairgrounds.
Constitutional counties
He said constitutional
counties are a way to get peo-
ple to realize they can take
back the power.
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A constitutional county,
Steele said, will not allow the
federal, state or local govern-
ments to pass and enforce an
unconstitutional law.
“Which means that if
someone is telling you that
kids have to wear masks in
a lockdown, and there’s no
science and no law behind
it, that’s an unconstitutional
act,” Steele said. “Which
means that if you are in Cal-
ifornia, and they’re telling
your kids that they have to
roll around on the floor with
drag queens and be taught
that they have the option of
asking for a sex change oper-
ation before they’ve reached
maturity, which generally
is between 28 and 33, that’s
unconstitutional.”
Critical race theory,
COVID-19 vaccine and
the culture wars
Jenkins, who
the show, railed
ous culture war
including critical
closed out
about vari-
flashpoints,
race theory
Former Indiana law enforcement officer John Bowen speaks
Thursday at the Arise USA rally at the Grant County Fairgrounds.
and the COVID-19 vaccine.
He said people are in a
“war” for their “very soul.”
Jenkins said he walked
into a restaurant in Flor-
ida that had vaccinated and
unvaccinated sections.
“I said, ‘Excuse me, I’m
black, where do I sit,’” he
said. “I’ve been fighting for
100 some odd years in this
country, to feel free to walk in
some place and not be victim-
ized because of my color like
you should not be victimized
because of where you live,
and what you think about God
and country, and family and
community.”
Jenkins said people are
being divided by race. He
asked the crowd what critical
race theory was. He said that
there is “maximum sophisti-
cated confusion” going and
that a group of people are orga-
nizing themselves to “rewrite”
the narrative of humanity.
“It is the most ridiculous
thing ever,” he said, “but
we’ve allowed it to happen.”
According to Brittanica
online, critical race theory
is an academic concept that
is more than 40 years old,
which posits that racism is a
social construct and the prod-
uct of individual bias or prej-
udice and something embed-
ded in legal systems and
policies. The basic tenets of
critical race theory emerged
from a framework for legal
analysis in the late 1970s and
early 1980s created by legal
scholars Derrick Bell, Kim-
berlé Crenshaw and Richard
Delgado.
Marc Seigel, communica-
tions director with the Oregon
Department of Education, said
the state develops academic
standards, not the curriculum,
and critical race theory is not
mandated in any standards.
He said local school boards
adopt curriculum to meet state
standards.
Bret Uptmor, Grant School
District superintendent, said
unless ODE defines critical
race theory and creates stan-
dards around it, they will not
teach it.
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Steele said the purpose of
the tour is to unite Trump sup-
porters with Bernie Sanders
supporters.
He said Sanders “rolled
over and played dead” for
Hillary Clinton twice.
Steele said a populist
believes that citizens give the
government rights, not the
other way around. The left and
the right, Steele said, need to
set aside their differences.
He said the Democrats
control 17% of the voters,
while the Republicans con-
trol 13% of the voters. Steele
said those are the people that
go through the motions of
voting.
He said 20% of the voters
are Independents and Libertar-
ians whose votes don’t count.
He said he used to be a Repub-
lican and then he became a
Libertarian but said the Liber-
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Uniting the populist left
and the populist right