Wednesday, 30 April 2025

The Bait Worked,Trump Is Exposing The Shadow Tyrannical Government,In The End Trump Wins – Ep. 3574

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Lee Zeldin found Biden’s hidden money, nice try. Jobless claims are up in DC, people are going to see the jobs that were created were in DC. Trump gives a list of money that DOGE saved. [CB] created the Impoundment Act of 1974. Calls to audit Fort Knox is getting louder. London is sending gold to NY. The [DS] was baited by Trump. They are now calling him a tyrannical dictator. Trump is the opposite, he is dismantling the system tyrannical system. The [DS] took the bait, now the people will see who the shadow tyrannical government really is. In the end Trump will win.

 

Economy

  •   Industrial Average has lagged the S&P 500 by 17 percentage points over the last 2 years. As large cap technology stocks increasingly drive the market, the Dow is falling behind. Currently, large cap tech only reflects ~14% of the Dow compared to ~33% of the S&P 500. Is the Dow Jones Industrial Average index outdated?

    • All federal spending is taxation What the gov’t doesn’t take in from tax revenue, it takes via inflation The only way to stop inflation is to lower gov’t spending That’s what DOGE is doing Low inflation = freedom and prosperity for Americans

    Top Auto CEO Says He May Pull Production Out of Mexico If Trump Follows Through on Tariffs

  • The CEO of Nissan has said he may be forced to move production out of Mexico if Donald Trump imposes tariffs on exports.
  • The head of the Japanese automaker made the comments during a press conference on Friday.
  • “From Mexico to the U.S., we are exporting a significant number of cars this fiscal year,” Uchida said, according to Reuters.
  • ”320,000 units are exported from Mexico to the U.S., and if the high tariffs are imposed, we need to be ready for this,” he continued.
  • ”Maybe we can transfer the production of these models elsewhere if this were the decision, we will think how we can make it a reality while monitoring the situation.”

    • Source: thegatewaypundit.com

    A 1974 federal law forces the President to avoid efficiency and cost savings

  • Average Americans can be forgiven for not understanding how Joe Biden was able to “forgive” student debt and stop Trump’s Border Wall construction without pushback from the media, Congress, or the courts, while Trump’s efforts to make government more efficient are being blocked at every turn.
  •  The Impoundment and Control Act of 1974 was passed at the height of the Watergate debacle and was a calculated move by Congress to stop Nixon’s so-called Imperial Presidency.
  • Understood in its most basic terms, Congress says that if it voted to spend money on something, the president may not change that amount, even if he can achieve the exact same outcome by spending less money. To put it bluntly, the Act says that the president is not allowed to save the country money.
  • As a hypothetical example, assume that Congress has budgeted $1 billion to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The President, however, finds a way to re-construct the bridge to the exact specifications laid out by Congress for $500 million, saving half the cost. Under the Act’s explicit terms, the president would be barred from this cost-saving approach. He must spend all $1 billion. If this has you scratching your head—well, welcome to the club.
  •  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has the power to enable all of Trump’s efficiencies to be made legal.
  • The House can vote on each saving effort separately
  • OR
  • President Trump can present a complete package to the House, with a Bill that would require an up or down vote—a sort of Omnibus Budget Savings Bill. (And doing this would get deep into the weeds of other legislation on the budgetary process requiring the approval of both the House and Senate.
  • OR
  • Mike Johnson’s House could pass legislation ending the ICA of 1974 once and for all. New legislation could be passed, placing the President and Congress into a partnership to make the government more efficient and answerable to taxpayers.

  • source: americanthinker.com

  •  Knox Gold Robbery: An article was written connecting Rockefeller Family and The Federal Reserve 3 days later the source was thrown out of a window to her death “So just how did the story of the Fort Knox gold robbery get out? It all started with an article in a New York periodical in 1974.
  • The article charged that the Rockefeller family was manipulating the federal reserve to sell off Fort Knox Gold at bargain basement prices to anonymous European speculators. 3 days later, the anonymous source of the story, Louise Auchincloss Boyer, mysteriously fell to her death from the window of her 10th floor apartment in New York.
  • How would missus Boyer have known of the Rockefeller connection to the Fort Knox Gold Heist? She was the long time secretary of Nelson Rockefeller. For the next 14 years, this man, Ed Durell, a wealthy Ohio industrialist, devoted himself to a quest for the truth concerning the Fort Knox gold. He wrote thousands of letters to over 1,000 government and banking officials trying to find out how much gold was really left and where the rest of it had gone.
  • Edith Roosevelt, the granddaughter of president Teddy Roosevelt, questioned the actions of the government in a March 1975 edition of the New Hampshire Sunday news. — Unfortunately, Ed Durell never did accomplish his primary goal, a full audit of the gold reserves in Fort Knox. It’s incredible that the world’s greatest treasure has had little accounting or auditing.
  • This goal belonged to the American people, not the Federal Reserve and their foreign owners. One thing is certain, the government could blow all of this speculation away in a few days with a well publicized audit under the searing lights of media cameras. It has chosen not to do so. One must conclude that they are afraid of the truth such an audit would reveal. What is the government so afraid of?
  • Here’s the answer: When president Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, his conservative friends urged him to study the feasibility of returning to a gold standard as the only way to curb government spending. It sounded like a reasonable alternative, so President Reagan appointed a group of men called the Gold Commission to study the situation and report back to Congress.
  • What Reagan’s Gold Commission reported back to Congress in 1982 was the following shocking revelation concerning gold. The US Treasury owned no gold at all.
  • All the gold that was left in Fort Knox was now owned by the Federal Reserve, a group of private bankers, as collateral against the national debt. The truth of the matter is that never before has so much money been stolen from the hands of the general public and put into the hands of a small group of private investors, the money changers”

    • Why are U.S. banks flying gold from London to New York?

  • About 8,000 gold bars have been moved out of the Bank of England’s vaults in recent months
  • Deep under London’s Threadneedle Street lies an intricate network of tunnels holding the world’s second-largest depository of gold.
  • The Bank of England’s nine heavily fortified vaults hold hundreds of tonnes of the precious metal valued at more than £200 billion ($252 billion).
  • But now, they are slowly being emptied over fears that President Donald Trump is about to start a global trade war.
  • Much of the gold has been shipped to New York City where the commodity is, for the moment, worth substantially more than in the U.K. capital.
  • The U.S. bank JPMorgan and the U.K.’s HSBC are two of the biggest names flying the precious metal across the Atlantic to cover losses on short positions, reports the Wall Street Journal.
  • The disruption to the gold market, and subsequent movement of bullion from London to Manhattan, appears to be a consequence of Trump’s looming tariff threats against imports from the European Union entering the U.S.
  • This week, the president has already announced sweeping 25 percent import taxes on two other metals: steel and aluminum.
  • Traders are now nervous that Trump will impose tariffs on gold.
  • Banks are, in essence, shorting the price of gold.

  • Source:  independent.co.uk 

    Potential Effects on Transitioning Back to the Gold Standard:
  • Countering the Transition:
  •  If gold is being moved to cover short positions or to stabilize markets before a gold standard is implemented, it might not directly counter the transition. However, if this gold is used to artificially inflate the dollar’s value or gold reserves right before a conversion, it could temporarily mask the need for more gold to back the dollar, leading to potential instability once the gold standard is in place.
  •   Transferring large amounts of gold from the UK to the US could affect global gold prices. If this gold is then not immediately used to back currency but stored, it might lead to a short-term surplus in the US, possibly lowering gold prices, which could make the transition to a gold standard more challenging if the goal is to peg the dollar at a higher gold value.
  •   If the gold is transferred into the US Treasury or Federal Reserve to augment US gold reserves, it would help in the transition by increasing the physical gold backing for the dollar. This would be crucial if the new gold standard were to be based on a fixed gold-to-dollar ratio, ensuring there’s enough gold to cover the currency in circulation.
  •   Adding to the US gold reserves could enhance confidence in the US dollar, especially if part of the narrative of returning to the gold standard is to demonstrate fiscal discipline and stability. More gold would mean a stronger backing for each dollar, potentially stabilizing or even increasing its value once the standard is implemented.

    • Sen. Rand Paul Calls for First Fort Knox Gold Audit in 50 Years, Taps Elon Musk’s DOGE for Verification — FOIA Requests Show 7 Out of 13 Previous Audits Reportedly Missing 

  • Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has called for a long-overdue audit of the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox—something that hasn’t happened in nearly 50 years.
  • The demand comes as concerns grow over whether the 4,580 tons of U.S. gold supposedly stored in Fort Knox still exist or if bureaucrats and the Federal Reserve have been engaging in financial sleight-of-hand behind closed doors.
  • The call for transparency gained momentum when conservative news outlet Zero Hedge sparked debate on X, posting:

  • A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request aimed at obtaining all audit reports from this period revealed that seven of these crucial documents are reportedly unaccounted for.
  • The missing audit reports came to light following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by researcher Koos Jansen of Bullion Star. The request aimed to obtain all audit documentation from the specified period. However, the Treasury Department was unable to produce seven of these reports.
  • According to Jansen, 7 out of 13 audit reports from 1974-1986 are missing and could not be obtained through FOIA requests. The Office of Inspector General, responsible for gold audits, only had access to 4 of the 13 reports.
  • Jansen wrote in 2015:

    • On February 25, 2015, I submitted a FOIA request in order to obtain the audit reports drafted by the Continuing Audits Of U.S.-Owned Gold committee in 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983 and 1984. Shortly after I got an email that stated my request had been received and was being processed.

    Two months later I still got no response. When I logged in at my account at the FOIA website, I saw my request had disappeared. I decided to send an email to the FOIA online Help Desk to ask what happened to my request.

    […]

    After some correspondence back and forth I finally got an email saying my FOIA was exported out of FOIAonline because my request was for access to historical records. Then, the official response from the offline department to my request I received on May 13 as a PDF attachment (click here to view) – oddly enough it’s dated ‘March 25, 2015’ but not sent to me at the time. This is what it said:

    For your information, we contacted a librarian at the Treasury Department who informed us that “reports from ‘Committee for Continuing Audit of the U.S. Government-owned Gold’…are not in our collection.” And we attempted to contact a records management officer at the Treasury Department, but did not receive a reply as of the date of this letter. Given the date range of your request 1975-1984, the nature of the report —an annual audit of gold, and the fact that reports of similar type have been periodically published on the Internet, it is likely that copies and drafts of these reports are in the legal and physical custody of the Department of the Treasury. You may consider submitting a FOIA request directly to the Treasury Department.

    In short, the US National Archives could not extradite the 7 audit reports I requested. The reports were not present at the National Archives, the OIG or at the Treasury Department. I doubt an attempt to “submitting a FOIA request directly to the Treasury Department” will bring me anything; likely it will be a waste of time as I had already contacted all possible government departments separately, which could not deliver me the reports I was looking for despite none of them was unwilling to help me. I will, however, submit a couple of new FOIA’s at the US government regarding gold audits.

     

    Source: thegatewaypundit.com

    Fort Knox, KY Severe Weather Alertstar_ratehome

  • Issued: 5:55 AM Feb. 17, 2025 – National Weather Service
  • …WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING… * WHAT…Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 6 inches possible. * WHERE…Portions of south central Indiana and east central, north central, northwest, and south central Kentucky. * WHEN…From Tuesday evening through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS…Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will likely become slick and hazardous. Travel could be difficult. The hazardous conditions could impact the Wednesday morning commute. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS… Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
    • Yes, there is significant flooding around Fort Knox, Kentucky. Here’s a summary based on the available information:
  • Flood Warnings: Flood warnings are in effect for the area around Fort Knox, with flooding occurring due to excessive rainfall. The warnings specifically mention that flooding is expected until late Monday evening, February 17, 2025.
  • Impact: Numerous roads remain closed due to flooding, and there’s a risk of further flooding in rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying, flood-prone locations. Between 4 and 6 inches of rain have already fallen in the warned area.
  • Weather Forecast: There’s also a Winter Storm Watch in effect from Tuesday evening through Wednesday evening, which might exacerbate the situation if snow comes after the flooding.
  • Public Sentiment: Posts on X indicate concern about flooding in the Fort Knox area, with some users mentioning that Fort Knox itself is not flooded but surrounding communities are experiencing significant issues.
    • Despite the flooding around Fort Knox, there are clarifications on X that the Fort Knox Bullion Depository sits on high ground and is not directly affected by the floods. However, the broader area, including nearby communities, is indeed dealing with the impacts of this weather event.

     

    Political/Rights

    White House Mocks ‘Moron’ Senator Chris Murphy For Launching Foul-Mouthed Rant at Lara Trump Parody Page

  • On Sunday, the senator for Connecticut launched a foul-mouthed rant against Lara Trump, seemingly unaware that he was speaking to a parody fan page.

    • source: thegatewaypundit.com

     

  •   high-tech American developer or company that is willing to give back to our country. Tomorrow, members of
    @elonmusk

    ’s SpaceX team will be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in VA to get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system. Because I know the media (and Hillary Clinton) will claim Elon’s team is getting special access, let me make clear that the

    @FAANews

    regularly gives tours of the command center to both media and companies.   Later in the week, I will travel to the FAA Academy in Oklahoma to meet with air traffic controller instructors and students to learn more about their education and how we can ensure that only the very best guide our aircrafts. My door at

    @USDOT

    is open to any and all patriotic developers or companies who want to help our country in this incredible, game-changing mission. I hope to hear from any company committed to ushering in America’s golden age of travel! 

    • Geopolitical/Police State

     

    A 1974 federal law forces the President to avoid efficiency and cost savings

  • Average Americans can be forgiven for not understanding how Joe Biden was able to “forgive” student debt and stop Trump’s Border Wall construction without pushback from the media, Congress, or the courts, while Trump’s efforts to make government more efficient are being blocked at every turn.
  •  The Impoundment and Control Act of 1974 was passed at the height of the Watergate debacle and was a calculated move by Congress to stop Nixon’s so-called Imperial Presidency.
  • Understood in its most basic terms, Congress says that if it voted to spend money on something, the president may not change that amount, even if he can achieve the exact same outcome by spending less money. To put it bluntly, the Act says that the president is not allowed to save the country money.
  • As a hypothetical example, assume that Congress has budgeted $1 billion to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The President, however, finds a way to re-construct the bridge to the exact specifications laid out by Congress for $500 million, saving half the cost. Under the Act’s explicit terms, the president would be barred from this cost-saving approach. He must spend all $1 billion. If this has you scratching your head—well, welcome to the club.
  •  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has the power to enable all of Trump’s efficiencies to be made legal.
  • The House can vote on each saving effort separately
  • OR
  • President Trump can present a complete package to the House, with a Bill that would require an up or down vote—a sort of Omnibus Budget Savings Bill. (And doing this would get deep into the weeds of other legislation on the budgetary process requiring the approval of both the House and Senate.
  • OR
  • Mike Johnson’s House could pass legislation ending the ICA of 1974 once and for all. New legislation could be passed, placing the President and Congress into a partnership to make the government more efficient and answerable to taxpayers.

  • source: americanthinker.com

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    MORE – German prosecutors appear to find it funny to raid the homes of citizens: “They’re shocked, ha ha ha.”

  •   Conference but he failed miserably in his objectives and broke down in tears after @JDVance‘s speech. Heusgen was also Merkel’s top advisor when she implemented the ‘Wir shaffen das’ open border policy that flooded Germany and Europe with millions of hostile migrants. Oh and when Heusgen’s mailbox got hacked, it appeared he had given his own wife a very lucrative job at the UN, but this scandal was swept under the rug because the hackers were said to be Russian. Europe must replace these weak, pathetic and corrupt politicians with real leaders or we will perish.

  • Source: theconservativetreehouse.com

    • US Tech companies, Including X and Google, Threaten To Leave Starmer’s Leftist Britain Over the Cost of Funding Online ‘Safety’ Censorship

  • As of now, Tech companies, including Elon Musk’s X and Google, have warned businesses could leave the PM Keir Starmer’s leftist experiment in Britain over the cost of funding the online safety crackdown.
  • Google said the fees charged to internet companies will drive services out of the UK, while X says it will ‘disincentivize’ global companies from entering the British market.
  • The Telegraph reported:
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    • Source: thegatewaypundit.com

     

    War

  • Yes, according to recent news, an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon on Monday, February 17, 2025, killed Mohammad Shaheen, who was identified as the head of Hamas‘s operations department in Lebanon. This information confirms that the drone strike targeted a vehicle carrying a Hamas leader.

    • Zelensky says he WON’T accept the outcome of US-Moscow peace talks unless Ukraine is able to participate – as Lavrov says Russia will not give up any land  

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Kyiv will not take part in US-Russian talks on the war and will not accept the outcome without having a seat at the table.
  • Zelensky said that Kyiv ‘did not know anything about’ the talks in Saudi Arabia this week, adding that his country ‘cannot recognise any things or any agreements about us without us. And we will not recognise such agreements.’
  • Speaking to journalists on a conference call from the United Arab Emirates, Zelensky said the talks would ‘yield no results’, given the absence of any Ukrainian officials. 

    • Source: dailymail.co.uk

    MAJOR UPDATE: President Trump Says He Is Working on a Plan for Ukraine to Pay Back the $350 Billion the US Sent to Ukraine

  • President Trump tells reporters that Ukraine will pay back the $350 billion the US sent to the country to fight Russia.
  • During the questions and answers, President Trump made when he announced that Ukraine was going to pay back the estimated $350 billion the US generously sent to the Zelensky regime.
  • This was a major announcement by President Trump.

    • Source: thegatewaypundit.com

  • Donald Trump has reportedly demanded a higher share of Ukraine’s GDP as part of an economic agreement than the reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. According to information on the web and posts found on X, this demand covers control over Ukraine’s critical minerals, ports, infrastructure, oil, and gas, essentially aiming for a significant economic influence over the country. This proposed share of Ukraine’s GDP is said to surpass the financial penalties Germany faced under the Treaty of Versailles, which were later reduced but initially set a high bar for reparations.
  • These demands have been met with consternation in Kyiv, with the terms described as amounting to the economic colonization of Ukraine. It suggests a reparative burden that could be unachievable, leading to panic and rejection by Ukrainian authorities. This situation has been likened to conditions typically imposed on aggressor states defeated in war, rather than on a nation like Ukraine, which has been defending itself.

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    The context of these demands also includes strategic considerations, with some suggesting it’s a move to bolster support for Ukraine by presenting it as an economic benefit to the U.S., while others see it as an attempt to leverage the conflict for U.S. economic gain. However, the feasibility and the ethical implications of such demands are under scrutiny, especially given Ukraine’s ongoing struggle and the historical lessons from post-WWI Germany.

    False Flags

      rumors about Hanks, he had no reason to disrespect every Conservative in America. This appears to be random and divisive.

    Q

    House Republicans Drafting Impeachment Articles Against Activist Judges Blocking DOGE

  • According to The Hill:

    Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) said he is drafting articles of impeachment against Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York, who in a ruling last weekend temporarily restricted Musk and DOGE aides from accessing a Treasury Department payment system.

    Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is working on an impeachment resolution against Rhode Island District Judge John McConnell Jr. over his ruling halting the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding.

    And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), chair of the House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee, pledged in a hearing this week while referencing Engelmayer that “We will hold this judge and others who try to stop the will of the people and their elected leaders accountable.”

    Source: zerohedge.com

    •  Reorganizing Government Act of 2025, proposed by Representative James Comer (R-Ky.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah).

     

    Details of the Legislation:
  •  The Reorganizing Government Act of 2025 aims to renew and extend the President’s authority to propose executive branch reorganization plans until December 2026. This authority was last in effect in 1984, and the bill seeks to restore it to modernize and improve government efficiency.
  •  The legislation ensures that Congress must vote on any reorganization plans submitted by President Trump within 90 days, using an expedited process that cannot be filibustered. This “fast-track” mechanism requires an up-or-down vote, preventing delays or amendments that could stall the process.
  •  Proponents, including Comer and Lee, argue that this bill will allow the President to streamline government operations, reduce inefficiencies, eliminate bureaucratic redundancies, and “right-size” the federal government to better serve the American people. It aligns with broader efforts to shrink the size of the federal government, as evidenced by executive orders signed by Trump on his first day in office and the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk.
  •  The bill was introduced on February 13, 2025, amid a push from the White House and GOP lawmakers to address perceived government overreach and waste. This legislative effort builds on historical precedents where Congress granted presidents reorganization authority, such as during Ronald Reagan’s administration.

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    U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan Refused to Order Restraining Order Against Musk or DOGE, After Calling Unusual Holiday Hearing

  •   Late last night, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan called for an unusual hearing on a federal holiday to hear the arguments of 14 states who are seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Elon Musk and the Dept of Govt Efficiency (DOGE).
  • It’s interesting because Judge Chutkan called for the hearing today just 45 minutes after Trump’s U.S Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court to intervene on the matter of judicial TRO’s issued against President Trump’s Title II authority.  Last night in another case, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an “APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND REQUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE ADMINISTRATIVE STAY” with the Supreme Court. [pdf HERE] 45 minutes later Chutkan called for today’s TRO hearing.
  • Over the weekend, the Trump administration, in the application to the Supreme Court, outlined the series of Lawfare tactics the president has faced, telling the high court that lower court rulings “irreparably harm the Presidency by curtailing the President’s ability to manage the Executive Branch in the earliest days of his Administration.”
  • “The district court’s order exemplifies a broader, weeks-long trend in which plaintiffs challenging President Trump’s initiatives have persuaded district courts to issue TROs that intrude upon a host of the President’s Article II powers,” wrote Solicitor General Sarah Harris.
  • Judge John Bates support for President Trump, ruling discussion on CTH HERE.
  • Judge Gregory Katsas support for President Trump, ruling discussion on CTH HERE.

    • Source: theconservativetreehouse.com

     injunction to force the president to retain an agency head.” It’s high time SCOTUS stepped in and halted all the corrupt lower courts from playing politics from their benches.

    Pres. Trump Files Emergency Appeal to Supreme Court to Overturn Reinstatement of Hampton Dellinger as Head of Office of Special Counsel

     
  • President Donald Trump has been forced to take his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court after an Obama-appointed judge reinstated Hampton Dellinger, a Biden-era bureaucrat, as head of the Office of Special Counsel.
  • This latest legal battle comes after a series of judicial oversteps by the activist judiciary.
  • Last Friday, President Trump exercised his constitutional duty to dismiss Dellinger from his position at the Office of Special Counsel, an agency tasked with safeguarding federal whistleblowers.
  • Rather than accept his removal, Dellinger filed a lawsuit to reclaim his job. The case was conveniently assigned to none other than Obama-appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
  • Unsurprisingly, Jackson granted an administrative stay that blocked Trump’s decision and allowed Dellinger to continue running the agency.
  • This rogue judge went even further, dictating that Trump “must allow Dellinger to continue to have access” to the agency’s resources and forbidding the administration from recognizing any replacement Trump had in mind.
  • This is the first Supreme Court battle of Trump’s second term, and it signals an unprecedented fight between the executive branch and an activist judiciary hellbent on stopping Trump’s reforms.
  • The Justice Department’s filing, obtained by the Associated Press, makes a compelling argument that Judge Jackson’s ruling violates the president’s constitutional authority.

  • Source: thegatewaypundit.com

    Trump’s Napoleon Quote Baits the Left Into Yet Another Meltdown
  • President Donald Trump’s recent social media post—just one sentence from a historical film—has triggered a predictable wave of outrage from critics eager to cast him as a budding dictator.
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    For Trump’s critics, the post was proof of their worst fears, confirmation that he sees himself as a leader who transcends legal constraints.

     Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, reacted with characteristic alarm, writing, “Spoken like a true dictator.” Other Democrats and media folks quickly followed, framing the post as another glimpse into Trump’s supposed authoritarian ambitions. The pattern was familiar: a cryptic Trump statement, followed by a flurry of panicked analysis, leading to dramatic warnings that democracy itself was at risk.

     Trump baited his opponents into branding him a lawless ruler while exposing their own belief that he is illegitimate and a budding tyrant. The outrage was not about a single line from a film—it was about the broader struggle over whether Trump’s presidency, despite repeated efforts to block or overturn it, represents the will of the people or a break with the rule of law.

    The left and self-styled conservatives who are deeply committed to opposing Trump saw it in the worst possible light, a classic symptom of what Trump’s supporters call “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Conservatives who support Trump saw it as a fun callback to a historical figure who returned from exile and was elevated by a swell of popular support to lead his nation once again.

    Bonapartism is defined by centralizing executive power beyond traditional constraints, then the comparison to Trump quickly falls apart. Unlike Napoleon, who established an imperial regime, expanded state control, and restructured France’s governing institutions to concentrate power in himself, Trump is doing the opposite—dismantling entrenched bureaucracies and pushing power out of Washington. His presidency has been about firing, not hiring, career officials; cutting, not growing, federal agencies; and withdrawing, not expanding, military commitments abroad. The irony is that his critics accuse him of hoarding power while simultaneously demanding that power remain with the very institutions that resist democratic oversight.

    Trump’s presidency does not fit the mold of a Bonapartist regime, let alone a fascist one. His administration has not expanded the size of government but has worked to reduce it. His second term has been marked by aggressive efforts to fire entrenched bureaucrats, weaken regulatory agencies, and scale back America’s global military commitments. If his critics truly believed he was a dictator in the making, they would not be fighting to prevent him from shrinking the federal government. If they feared authoritarianism, they would not be racing to court to demand that unelected agencies be allowed to operate outside of presidential oversight. And they would not be decrying Vice President J.D. Vance’s defense of free speech in Europe if they feared Trump was going to curtail freedom in America

    His critics see his presidency as an existential threat, not because of what he has done, but because of what he represents: a direct challenge to a political establishment that believes it alone has the right to govern. Their insistence that he is a dictator has little to do with his actual use of power and everything to do with their fear that they have lost control over the system. 

    Source: breitbart.com


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