About Jeffery

I am going to give you the whole thing, because you will find it anyway, and I would rather you got it straight.

Five years in the U.S. Army as a 19D Cavalry Scout. Sergeant. Iraq. A Combat Action Badge, and between twenty‑five and thirty‑five soldiers who were my responsibility. Then twenty years in the trades.

I also spent ninety days in federal prison.

I was a Trump supporter. Not a lukewarm one - all in. I believed the man meant it about putting this country first, and I acted like somebody who believed it. Then I sat in a federal cell for ninety days under the administration that came next, and the man I had gone all in for said very little while we rotted there.

Understand what the charge actually rested on. The statute I was prosecuted under only applies because a Secret Service protectee was inside the building. That protectee was Mike Pence. His location is the legal reason I carry a federal record - not what I built, not what I took, not who I hurt. Where he was standing.

The pardon came through, and I will say plainly that I am glad it did. But a pardon gives you your rights back. It does not give you back ninety days, and it does not buy my agreement for the rest of my life.

What ended it for me was watching that same man turn around and put another country ahead of this one. I did not serve five years in a scout platoon and ninety days in a federal cell to watch American policy get written for somebody else’s benefit.

And here is the part that ought to make you angrier than any conspiracy theory would: none of it is hidden. Foreign lobbying in this country is legal, registered and filed in public. The money is disclosed. The meetings are on the calendar. Anyone can pull the reports in about ten minutes. Our politicians are not being fooled by a hidden hand - they are being paid by an open one, in daylight, and they keep voting like men who have been paid. That is worse. A secret can be exposed. This has already been exposed, and nothing happened.

So I do not hand it off to somebody else to fix. I run it through the one thing I actually control, which is who I am willing to put in front of you.

That is where the rule on this site comes from. If a company’s ownership, its financing, or its production runs through a foreign government, it does not go on your list. I do not care what the price is. Money buys advertising space here. It has never bought a place on a short list, and it is not going to.

You do not have to agree with a word of it. You can think I am wrong about the President, wrong about the lobbying, wrong about all of it, and still hire us to find you an American supplier who answers the phone and ships on time. But you are going to know where I stand before you send the email, not after.

Jeffery A. SmithFounder, Patriot Projects LLC · Sergeant, U.S. Army, 19D Cavalry Scout