With the recent court rulings, the stock market fluctuations, the trade wars, the kinetic wars, the new revelations about the lies and corruption of the Biden administration, and The Trump Show in general, heads are spinning.
Trump received a gift on Tuesday when Joe Biden made an appearance for his first public speech since leaving office in January. It was a reminder of the disastrous four years that he and his handlers imposed on this country, and the bullet that was dodged when Kamala Harris lost her bid for the White House.
It was a reminder of the “Being There” nature of his presidency, its lack of transparency, its inability to actually face the media, unless of course it was with the Rachel Maddows and Jake Tappers of the media universe who helped perpetuate the lie that Biden was as sharp as ever and on top of the issues facing the nation.
After just three months in office in his second term as president, Donald Trump has shown what near-complete transparency looks like. He, and many members of his cabinet and inner circle, face the press almost daily, taking questions from friend and foe alike. He refreshingly calls out the Fake News organizations like CNN and MSNBC, along with the rest of the usual suspects.
And while that same media clearly feel fear and loathing of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, fueling hatred toward Elon Musk and everything associated with him, DOGE is doing great work, exposing the waste, fraud, abuse and politicized weaponization endemic to a $7 trillion annual budget. If you missed seeing DOGE up close and personal and what it is actually doing and finding, I recommend you watch this interview they did with Bret Baier on Fox News last month. Meet the team.
Many on the Left are beside themselves. For the first couple of months they engaged in the circular firing squad, trying to find a narrative with which they could retake the offensive against Trump, while trying to explain and understand how this happened. Weren’t the years of lawfare against Trump, and the years of fawning over Biden, enough to convince enough people to prevent Trump’s return to the White House? Apparently not.
The lawfare has returned in a different form. Now it is leftist and other deep state judges attempting to shut down the Trump agenda at every turn and calling it a constitutional crisis when they feel he is defying the courts. Actually, the real constitutional crisis is the slow pace and lack of clarity by the Supreme Court to shut down these district judges who are issuing nationwide injunctions while attempting to dictate policies and actions, that are clearly and legitimately under the authority of the executive branch of the federal government, meaning the president.
Biden’s return this week, in which he spoke of how much “damage” Trump had done in less than 100 days, was a reminder instead of how much damage his administration did in four years. He completely corrupted the Department of Justice in going after former President Trump, orchestrating much of it from the White House, as I’ve previously documented, despite his denials to that effect. Evidence continues to come out regarding the extent of White House involvement with the prosecutions of Trump.
Other reminders of Biden are the 11+ million (official figure from the CBP) to the more realistic estimate of 20 million or more people who were allowed to come into this country, largely unvetted, while the administration and its representatives like Alejandro Mayorkas and Kamala Harris assured us that the border was secure. To the extent that it wasn’t, they told us, was because the only way it could be more secure was by Congress passing bipartisan legislation. Today that lie is apparent for all to see, as the border has been virtually sealed.
The Biden administration gave Social Security numbers and welfare benefits to thousands of people on the terrorist watchlist, who were barely vetted, if at all, as they came into the U.S.
Then there are the foreign policy disasters of the Biden administration, such as their continual enabling of the Iranian regime to enrich itself by stopping the enforcement of sanctions they were under from the previous Trump administration and letting them get away with attacking U.S. and other ships in the Persian Gulf region, while waging a seven-front war on Israel.
There was the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 26, 2021, leaving 13 Americans dead, leaving Bagram Air Base to the Taliban and China, with billions of dollars in weapons and equipment left there. With the Taliban running the country, the U.S. gave them over $20 billion, including some that was said to be for humanitarian purposes.
There should be no mercy for what is known and well documented about the Biden family getting wealthy from the Chinese Communist Party and then doing them many favors in return. No evidence? It was downplayed at the time the House was considering impeachment, but the evidence was substantial, even overwhelming.
Domestically, the administration pushed DEI, CRT and transgender ideology in schools and virtually all government institutions, along with energy-driven mandates in the quest to conquer global warming, which they called the greatest existential threat we faced.
Today, President Trump is attempting to re-order the global economic system, upending decades of so-called free trade. The question is, will the “art of the deal,” with the trillions of dollars of new investments into this country and new trade deals being written by the day, make the U.S. stronger and more self-reliant? And if so, isn’t that a good thing? I’m betting on Trump to pull it off, despite having been a long-time believer in the so-called “free trade” model we’ve operated under for decades. These are different times, and we are nearing a $37 trillion national debt.
But there are definite concerns. I’m disappointed in the spending and tax bill working its way through Congress, as the optimistic view is that it is going to cut $1.5 trillion dollars. That sounds like a lot, but it’s over ten years, meaning that if it actually happens, it amounts to $150 billion a year. Our deficit for the first 6 months of this fiscal year alone is $1.2 trillion. At this rate, we’ll continue adding at least $2 trillion a year to the national debt, which is unsustainable.
And the Iran deal that Trump is attempting to negotiate is a risky undertaking. Iran will agree to most anything to take the heat off. The JCPOA, negotiated by the Obama administration, was a fake deal and a hoax, in that it was never signed, as acknowledged in a letter from the State Department to then-Rep. Mike Pompeo, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, who responded by saying, “For the State Department to try to defend the unsigned and non-binding Iran nuclear agreement by calling it a ‘political commitment’ is about as absurd as the terms of the deal itself.”
Trump was right to pull the U.S. out of that deal in his first term.
The model for ending Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, if they don’t already have them, should be Libya, which gave up their weapons of mass destruction (WMD) transparently after Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003. Libya then allowed the U.S., the UK and others to come into the country to dismantle and remove them, without the sort of deceptions the Iranians were allowed in the JCPOA, such as 21-days’ notice if a site was going to be inspected, and military sites being off limits to inspections.
Even with that, Iran has been enriched to the tune of nearly $200 billion thanks to the non-enforcement of sanctions by the Biden regime, so they can still finance a lot of death and destruction through their various proxies, most of which have been severely crippled by Israel in the last year and a half.
And by the way, if you want to better understand the Trump administration freezing and withholding part of the $9 billion in grants and contracts the federal government currently has provided to Harvard (with its $53 billion endowment), watch this short interview with Alan Dershowitz, a law professor and author with more than 50 years as a professor at that formerly esteemed university.
Also, there needs to be some accountability for the alleged coup plotters who went after Trump with narratives based on proven lies, such as Andrew McCabe, James Comey, John Brennan, Christopher Wray, Peter Strzok, Adam Schiff and more. Looks like they may be starting with Letitia James, for her alleged financial fraud, ironically enough, and maybe a bit for her role in the lawfare attacks against Trump. That would be a worthy start, but not nearly enough.
One more thing. The administration is going to have to work around the obstacles to removing as many people who came here illegally as possible. With the kind of trouble they are running into removing the violent gang members from the country, imagine the difficulty with people whose only known crime was to come across the border illegally or to thumb their noses at deportation orders.
There are already well over a million people here who have been ordered to be deported because their asylum claims didn’t stand up in court. There are millions more who were let in by the Biden administration, who will each demand due process before accepting deportation. Trump’s latest plan involves stipends and a ticket out of the country for those who will self deport.
The open borders policy of the Biden regime was a disaster for America in terms of sex- and human-trafficking, other serious crimes, the economy and national security. Biden’s foreign policy was even worse. Trump has a steep hill to climb, to turn things around.
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