By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

"Who," you might ask?  Last night the first Republican presidential debate took place on the uber-woke Australian Murdochs' Fox News in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Former President Donald Trump wasn't there, but elected to appear in a pre-recorded interview by Tucker Carlson on Elon Musk's despicable Twitter, or "X" as it is called now.[2]

The winner of the debate was Vivek Ramaswamy, a remarkable 38-year-old Harvard- and Yale Law School-educated billionaire entrepreneur from Cleveland, Ohio, whose wife is a doctor.[3]  Essentially, everyone trashed Trump except Ramaswamy and Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina, with New Jersey's "porky the pig" Chris Christie being the worst of them all.  Florida's Ron DeSantis was "lame" at best.

The most pressing issues facing Americans were raised in the questioning, with one notable exception: the re-emergence of Covid.  Lots of us thought it was finally laid to rest after hurting so many globally, and destroying businesses and jobs.  Ramaswamy made it clear that defending our borders against illegal aliens, the cartels and killer drugs such as Fentanyl was more important than the war in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, it appears that Russia's savage Vladimir Putin has killed again, which may result in more chaos in that country.[4]. The brain-addled criminal Joe Biden continues to occupy our White House, when he's in Washington and not vacationing—or masquerading as our President in Maui, Hawaii and elsewhere.  If the pathetic Republicans had any guts, he would have been impeached, or prosecuted in the states that they control by now, but neither has happened yet.

Lastly, did the Biden campaign take over Fox News last night[5]; and if Ramaswamy won the debate, why does he need Trump, and vice versa?  After being savaged by the Left since 2016[6], Trump knows "where the bodies are buried," politically.  Ramaswamy needs to spend the next four years learning, or he may be "eaten alive" by the Democrats, the "Deep State" and their media cohorts, and other sinister forces.[7]

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© 2023, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University.  He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service).  Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12439625/Trumps-Tucker-Carlson-interview-gets-87-MILLION-views-eclipses-Republican-debate-Rivals-bicker-stage-ex-President-discusses-threat-U-S-civil-war-savage-animals-trying-kill-him.html ("Trump celebrates 'BLOCKBUSTER' interview with Tucker on Musk's 'X' platform and says it could top 200MILLION views as he steals limelight from Fox News GOP debate as he readies for today's arrest and mugshot") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/trump-and-maga-supporters-are-not-welcome-at-twitter-x/ ("Trump And MAGA Supporters Are Not Welcome At Twitter/X")

[3]  See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy ("Vivek Ramaswamy") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12439783/Vivek-Ramaswamy-beats-Ron-DeSantis-best-performance-tops-Donald-Trump-real-winner-poll-Republican-debate.html ("Vivek Ramaswamy beats Ron DeSantis for best performance AND tops Donald Trump as the 'real winner' in poll of the Republican debate") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12441199/Meet-Vivek-Ramaswamy-standout-GOP-star-Republican-debate-married-father-two-whos-Ivy-League-educated-likes-rapping-Eminem.html ("Meet Vivek Ramaswamy: the standout GOP star of the first Republican debate is a married father of two who's Ivy League educated and likes rapping to Eminem")

[4)  See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12440165/Wagner-mobilisation-plan-Prigozhin-killed-claimed-vow-revenge-assassination-MI6-chief-says-signs-Putin-took-plane-crash-hes-not-dead-soon-be.html ("Wagner 'had full mobilisation plan if Prigozhin was killed' it is claimed as they vow revenge for 'assassination' - as MI6 chief says there are signs Putin 'took him out' in plane crash and if he's not dead 'he soon will be'")

[5]  See, e.g., https://dcdailyjournal.com/elections/fox-news-gets-taken-over-by-the-biden-campaign/

[6]  See, e.g., https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/08/23/with_her_many_statements_in_jan_6_courtroom_trump_judge_seems_the_pot_calling_the_defendant_inflammatory_974586.html ("In Her Jan. 6 Courtroom, Judge Who Will Hear Trumps Case Is the Pot Calling the Defendant Incendiary")

[7]  See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12439349/Who-heck-skinny-guy-funny-Rising-GOP-star-Vivek-Ramaswamy-starts-debate-slamming-Mike-Pence-furious-forth-calling-Ron-DeSantis-super-PAC-puppet.html ("'Rookie' Vivek Ramaswamy fends off attacks from ALL his GOP rivals - and becomes debate breakout star") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/who-controls-america/ ("Who Controls America?")