Trump Returns
I’m sure we all remember the headlines that began as soon as Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and continued throughout the Biden years. Here are a few examples:
“Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power”
“As Trump Upends Foreign Policy, Scholar Sees Irreparable Damage To U.S. Power And Prestige”
“What Trump Doesn’t Understand About Alliances”
That’s all we have heard for the past ten years. After his election, Joe Biden used to say, “I can’t name any names, but world leaders are telling me, ‘We’re so glad America is back.” I guarantee you nobody told him that. But they’re saying it now with Trump back in office.
Here’s NATO leader Mark Rutte on President Trump’s leadership:
“Donald, you have driven us to a really, really important moment for America and Europe and the world. You will achieve something NO American president in decades could get done. . . Europe is going to pay in a BIG way, as they should, and it will be your win.”
Far from “demolishing” our alliance and causing “irreparable damage,” our alliance with NATO is just fine.
It’s good to remember these headlines from all the “experts” who were 1,000% wrong as President Trump returns from a six-day Asia trip with major deals signed with six countries, increasing fair trade, creating jobs in America, and strengthening our alliances.
Trump & Xi
Some commentators are saying that President Trump’s agreement with Xi Jinping is not “the big deal” that will restore the relationship between the United States and communist China. No, it’s not. And that deal will never happen. It’s impossible.
Communist China is a rising power with a grudge. Beijing’s Communist Party bosses believe they should be running the world. They are determined to replace the United States as the world’s major superpower.
For decades, they have used our own foolish policies against us. From misnamed “free trade” to infiltrating our universities, communist China has been robbing us blind, stealing our technology, and spying on us.
The only way communist China will be stopped is if we have a string of presidents like Donald Trump who will keep them at bay while we build up. That is essentially what he has done with this deal.
Defending Drug Smugglers
The political Left has been hostile toward law enforcement and weak on crime for decades. Anytime so-called “progressives” get control of a city, they cut the police budget, let criminals out of jail without any bail, and provide sanctuary to criminal illegal aliens.
I don’t expect them to change, but I did not expect them to extend this weakness for criminals to thugs outside the U.S. But that’s exactly what they’re doing with their outrage over the sinking of cartel drug boats.
President Trump ordered our military to protect us from foreign drug cartels. He even designated some of them as “foreign terrorist organizations.” So, multiple cartel drug boats and the thugs operating them have been blown out of the water.
By the way, there is an alliance between communist China and the drug cartels. They are waging war on America by poisoning our youth with deadly drugs.
But leading Democrats are demanding President Trump get permission from Congress first. What they’re really saying is that these drug runners should be read their Miranda rights and brought to the United States, where they will be given high-priced lawyers and jury trials.
These left-wing policies don’t work. But left-wing politicians just don’t seem able to learn the lesson.
Was Himes High?
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) made a really bizarre statement yesterday. Asked about the military’s interdiction of cartel drug boats on MSNBC, he said, “All my MAGA friends who are cheering . . . need to imagine who gets killed when President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” is in power.
What is he smoking?!
President Trump is taking out foreign drug smugglers who are trying to kill Americans. Is Himes suggesting that AOC will kill MAGA supporters in the U.S.?
Himes is also echoing something that weak establishment Republicans have said: “We can’t do this or that because the Democrats will do it to us when they get back in power.”
I hope I don’t have to keep saying this for the rest of my time in this battle. The Left will do whatever it wants to do. If Republican “leaders” haven’t figured that out yet, they’ll never get it.
Some Republicans are worried that prosecuting James Comey and other Deep State operatives will cause Democrats to turn federal law enforcement against us. They already did!
From the Russia collusion hoax to the raid on Mar-a-Lago, from Jack Smith to Letitia James, Alvin Bragg to Fani Willis, the Deep State and their Democrat allies have persecuted Donald Trump for the past ten years!
That’s why we must hold them accountable for their corruption and abuse of power. The miscarriage of justice would be letting them get away with it. (See next item.)
In the meantime, we shouldn’t delude ourselves. If “progressives” ever get control of Congress again, they will eliminate the filibuster and ram their radical agenda down our throats.
They will make Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico new states, adding four more radical socialists to the Senate. They will pack the Supreme Court, wiping out our hard-won majority. They will reopen the border, pass a mass amnesty, and wipe out all election integrity laws.
Then, their “fundamental transformation of America” will be complete.
Biden’s Enemies List
The Deep State’s partisan witch hunt known as “Arctic Frost” is a much, much bigger scandal than just a handful of Republican senators having their phones monitored.
Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced yesterday that Jack Smith issued nearly 200 subpoenas covering more than 400 individual Republicans and conservative organizations. Smith demanded “bank records, donor lists, and emails.”
Referring to the subpoenas, Sen. Ted Cruz said, “Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning.”
Smith also attempted to obtain phone records from a landline in Ted Cruz’s Senate office. Thankfully, AT&T refused to comply with that subpoena, saying it was a violation of the Constitution’s “speech and debate clause.”
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley blasted Smith’s “total lack of restraint” as a “seriously dangerous step when it comes to the balance of powers under our constitutional system.”
At Grassley’s press conference, Sen. Ron Johnson noted, “The records we are now making public . . . were not obtained from the agency. They were obtained through a whistleblower.”
Johnson called on more whistleblowers to come forward because “partisan actors” still burrowed in at the FBI and the Justice Department are “trying to sabotage” the efforts of Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.
By the way, the name of the FBI operation, “Arctic Frost,” is a not-so-subtle jab at Donald Trump. Arctic Frost is a type of orange that resists cold weather. This was Smith’s little inside joke, essentially naming his operation “Get Orange Man.”
Erika Takes The Stage
Last night, Erika Kirk addressed her first Turning Point USA event since her husband’s assassination. She spoke to 10,000 students at the University of Mississippi and did a masterful job of relaying the spirit of Charlie Kirk.
Don’t forget that Charlie played a major role in convincing Donald Trump to take J.D. Vance as his running mate. The Kirk and Vance families are very close. It’s no secret that Charlie wanted Vance to be the GOP nominee in 2028. So, Vice President Vance also spoke last night. He took a play out of Charlie’s book and spent more than an hour answering questions from the audience.
The Ole Miss College Democrats tried to hold a counter event. Obviously, they weren’t going to attract the same crowd as the vice president. But there are plenty of liberals in every college town. They brought in leftist California Congressman Ro Khanna and former Senator Heidi Heitkamp. Maybe 100 people showed up.
More Mamdani Madness
This item isn’t about Zohran. It’s about some of the radical comments his parents have made—comments that shed a light on the home Zohran grew up in.
His mother, filmmaker Mira Naira, described her son as “a total desi,” meaning someone from the Indian subcontinent. She added, “We are not firangs [Westerners] at all. . . He [Zohran] is not an Uhmericcan [American] at all. . . He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian.”
Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, thinks that one of America’s greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, inspired Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. Just three years ago, Mahmood Mamdani smeared America as the “genesis of what we call settler-colonialism,” as if no other nation displaced native populations before America. Then, he said:
“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations. They herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration. Hitler realized . . . that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized.”
That’s a new one to me. Lincoln inspired Hitler. That’s nonsense. Apparently, Marx inspires the Mamdanis.
Clearly, the Mamdanis don’t have a favorable view of our country. They don’t want to be seen as Americans because they see America as evil from the beginning and think Lincoln, the man who freed the slaves, inspired the Holocaust.
The Power Of Prayer
Sophia Forchas is a 13-year-old student at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis. She was shot in the head when a deranged gunman opened fire on the students. Sophia is home now after an incredible recovery that her parents attribute to “the boundless grace of God and the miraculous power of prayer.”
Read more in my latest public policy update for the James Dobson Family Institute.
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