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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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President Donald Trump, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Impeachment trial in a John 16 era

America was built on a foundation of Judeo-Christian principles, rooted on virtues and morals and values taken straight out of the Bible -- and here we are, circa 2020, watching what has to be one of the most vicious take-downs of a president in U.S. history. Biblically speaking, for sure, we're living in John 16 times.

January 30, 2020
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a meeting with Jewish leaders at the Boro Park Jewish Community Council, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 in New York. Barr ordered federal prosecutors across the U.S. on Tuesday to step up their efforts to combat anti-Semitic hate crimes as he announced charges against a suspect who had slapped three Jewish women but was repeatedly released from jail under New York's bail reform laws. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

William Barr, voice from the wilderness: Religion ‘at the core of our country’

Attorney General William Barr, in an interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said religious freedom is key to keeping America free and that founders knew this and that's why they emphasized the importance of a virtuous, moral people. Bam. That's exactly what makes America America.

January 29, 2020
Some enthusiastic Trump fans say New Jersey might turn from blue to red after President Trump's rally there on Tuesday — which drew an unprecedented 100,000 requests for tickets. (Associated Press)

New Jersey, latest pro-Trump hot spot, voted for Hillary Clinton by 14 points in 2016

What's remarkable about President Donald Trump's New Jersey speech is the massive throng that gathered. This is a state that voted big for Hillary Clinton in 2016. And this is a time that Trump is supposed to be at his lowest point, facing his darkest days: impeachment and ousting. You'd think he'd be shunned, not showered with love.

January 29, 2020
Then-National Security Adviser John Bolton talks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)  ** FILE **

John Bolton just the latest Democrat tool in a very large shed

John Bolton, former national security adviser at the White House, could've penned a paragraph in his soon-to-be-released book about a picnic lunch with the president -- and the press, the left, the Democrats would've found some way to turn his recorded conversation with Donald Trump into an impeachable offense.

January 28, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Sioux City, Iowa. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Socialists like Bernie Sanders cash in big on ignorance

Socialism simply thrives on ignorance. It's the primary means that it's woven into the fabric of U.S. society and government. Socialists wouldn't have a following if today's youth were properly educated on American Exceptionalism and on U.S. history.

January 28, 2020
CNN's Don Lemon told viewers that it was "literally crazy" that President Trump's campaign would troll Democrats on Twitter with a Marvel-inspired clip featuring the character Thanos. (Image: CNN video screenshot) ** FILE **

Don Lemon’s disgusting on-air mock of Donald Trump

Don Lemon of CNN is more opinion than fact. But still: Busting out in a two-minute fit of laughter as show panelists go on a mocking routine of President Donald Trump is beneath even CNN. At least, you'd think. But here's the hypocrisy: A Lemon by a different employer -- say, Fox -- would be on suspension right about now.

January 28, 2020
In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., walks from the podium as the Democrats finishing presenting their case during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)

Democrats on impeachment know they’ve got nothing

Democratic political analyst Mary Anne Marsh on Fox News said John Bolton should be called to testify before the Senate on impeachment because he'd be the first witness in this whole impeachment process who could offer firsthand testimony on what President Donald Trump has said, or has not said. This is an astonishing admission.

January 27, 2020
National security adviser John Bolton listens to a meeting between President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 20, 2019, in Washington. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is at right.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

John Bolton book leak the latest Deep State jab at Donald Trump

The leftists in the media, the Democrats, the House managers -- all these players are in hyper mode over former National Security Adviser John Bolton's upcoming book in which he reportedly ties Donald Trump's release of aid to Ukraine to political information on Joe and Hunter Biden. But the bigger question is this: Who leaked?

January 27, 2020
George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, looks before the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

George Soros, 89, is still on a quest to destroy America

George Soros is 89, but by gosh, before he dies, he's going to see to the internal destruction of America. How else to listen to his words in Davos, Switzerland, track his funding of American political races and pay attention to what he says about President Donald Trump, capitalism, and the leftist causes he backs and conclude otherwise?

January 25, 2020
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a trip to Miami to attend the Republican National Committee winter meetings, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump rocks March for Life: ‘We declare that mothers are heroes’

President Donald Trump, against the backdrop of an impeachment effort that's been ongoing since Democrats realized he was about to be inaugurated, took a timeout from petty partisanship to speak of life -- to make a historic, first-ever-for-a-president personal appearance at the March of Life. And he rocked it.

January 24, 2020
In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., holds redacted documents as he speaks during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)

Adam Schiff’s media fawners cross journalistic lines

In the minds of Republicans, truth-tellers and, um, sane people, Rep. Adam Schiff is the liar, liar, pants on fire guy who's taken his bloviating lying self from the House into the Senate, to orchestrate another theatrical performance of Get Trump. But with so many members of the media carrying his water, he's proving unstoppable.

January 23, 2020
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speaking to members of the media outside the West Wing of the the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Steven Mnuchin puts Greta Thunberg in her place

It's not that children don't have the right to have their opinions. It's just that children who speak on matters of which they're largely ignorant and completely unschooled shouldn't expect to order sovereign countries around and tell U.S. leaders what to do and dictate radical policies to the world.

January 23, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Iowa Central Community College, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Joe Biden shines spotlight on left’s insane love for illegal immigrants

Joe Biden, the guy who quite a few Democrats want to see as the next president of the United States, said he'd go after Immigration and Customs Enforcement for daring to deport illegals arrested for drunken driving. This is all that's wrong with Democrats, wrapped in a big old Joe Biden bow.

January 23, 2020
Iranian lawmakers chant anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans to protest against the U.S. killing of Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani, at the start of an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. Soleimani's death Friday in Iraq further heightens tensions between Tehran and Washington after months of trading attacks and threats that put the wider Middle East on edge. (Mohammad Hassanzadeh/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Ahmad Hamzeh, Iranian lawmaker, puts $3 million bounty on Donald Trump’s head

One of Iran's lawmakers, Ahmad Hamzeh, said in a session of his country's parliament that he'll pay $3 million to anyone who can kill President Donald Trump. Watch for it, wait for it, it won't be long before Democrats go: Well, Trump brought this on himself by pulling America from the Iran nuclear treaty.

January 22, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump, right, arrive at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. The 50th annual meeting of the forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 21 until Jan. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Donald Trump, amid radical environmentalists, vows to conserve ‘God’s creation’

President Donald Trump, speaking in Davos, said the United States will join a One Trillion Trees Initiative aimed at better managing and growing and protecting forestry. Even this isn't likely to sooth the savage beasts called Radical Environmentalists who populated the forum, though. Why not? Trump said he'd do it in God's name.

January 22, 2020
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, center, attends the speech of US President Donald Trump during a plenary session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. The 50th annual meeting of the forum will take place in Davos from Jan. 21 until Jan. 24, 2020. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)

Greta Thunberg gifted global Davos stage to sell climate nonsense

Greta Thunberg, the teenager who is to environmentalism what young David Hogg is to gun control -- meaning, Exploited Because They're Minors Who Push Far Left Delusions -- made an appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos to plead, once again, for everyone in the world to stop being so mean to Planet Earth.

January 21, 2020
In this freeze frame made from a video, stage blood covers the iconic "Charging Bull" statue near Wall Street on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in New York. Demonstrators say they were protesting against a lack of government action against climate change. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) ** FILE **

Capitalism unfairly branded as doing ‘more harm than good’

A new survey of people around the world finds that capitalism is being seen as doing "more harm than good." But if truth be told, it's capitalism and only capitalism that takes into account the wickedness of human hearts -- the natural failings of humans -- and works within that reality to lift individuals and whole nations from poverty.

January 20, 2020