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Chief Justice Roberts Can Avert an Impending Constitutional Crisis — But Will He?

March 22, 2025/in Courts & Law, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Techno-Fascism/by Family Research Council

For nearly a decade, Democrats have campaigned on little more than the message that President Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler reincarnated. Although Trump won both the electoral and popular votes in November, effectively having been given a mandate from the American people to govern the nation, the old cries of “Dictator!” may soon be heard again from the progressive corners of the nation — unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in and averts a rapidly approaching constitutional crisis.

As this writer previously noted, Trump was elected in order to carry out the agenda that he promised he would: gutting the swollen federal bureaucracy, eliminating the waste and fraud plaguing the American taxpayer, ending the woke stranglehold suffocating key federal institutions, and initiating the mass deportation of millions of illegal immigrants who have violated the laws and disregarded the sovereignty of the United States of America.

However, a spate of unelected, largely-partisan federal judges — almost exclusively at the district court level — have issued sweeping restrictions against many of the president’s executive orders and actions. Some recent examples include a U.S. district court judge halting the Trump administration’s virtual shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), another district court judge blocking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from reclaiming roughly $20 billion hastily spent by the previous administration on climate hysterics, and yet another district court judge preventing the U.S. military from barring transgender-identifying individuals from enlisting, citing the musical “Hamilton” in her order.

One of the most egregious examples of this recent judicial overreach came when District Court Judge James Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order demanding that U.S. planes deporting 250 members of the criminal terrorist organization Tren de Aragua return the violent gang members to the U.S. In concert with his top immigration advisor, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a war-time measure allowing the president to arrest and detain or deport any male over the age of 14 who comes from a foreign country which has been designated an enemy. The Alien Enemies Act has actually been used on several occasions throughout U.S. history, including during the War of 1812 and both the First and Second World Wars.

Miller and the White House have spent the past several days defending the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act — which Trump pledged on several occasions to invoke while campaigning. In an interview this week, Miller took a particularly strong stance against Boasberg’s ruling, explaining, “The Alien Enemies Act, which was passed into law by the founding generation of this country — men like John Adams — was written explicitly to give the president the authority to repel an alien invasion of the United States.” He continued, “That is not something that a District Court judge has any authority whatsoever to interfere with, to enjoin, to restrict, or to restrain in any way. … There’s not one clause in that law that makes it subject to judicial review, let alone District Court review.”

The Alien Enemies Act, which is part of Title 50 of the U.S. Code, explicitly bars federal courts from curtailing the president’s use of the Act. In fact, Title 50 § 23 addresses the jurisdiction which federal courts do or do not have over the president’s exercise of Title 50: federal courts are allowed to detain or deport “any alien enemy resident” within their jurisdiction or district, even if the president’s terms for invoking the Alien Enemies Act does or would exempt that individual from detainment or deportation. What a federal court is most certainly not allowed to do, according to the clear terms established in Title 50, is prevent the president from invoking the Alien Enemies Act or rescind his proclamation of invocation. “Under the Constitution, who makes that determination? A district court judge elected by no one? Or the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy?” Miller asked regarding the Alien Enemies Act. He answered, “The president and the president alone makes the decision of what triggers that.”

Since then, Miller has continued to warn of the dangers posed by an unchecked, unelected cabal of partisan judges who are empowered to effectively shape — via restrictive court order — the policy of the executive branch of the federal government and prevent the administration from enacting the policy that the American people overwhelmingly voted for. “There are nearly 700 unelected district court judges. If the most extremist of these judges on any given day decides he is in charge of the executive branch then Article II, democracy[,] and government itself cannot function,” Miller observed in a social media post.

He added, in another post, “Currently, district court judges have assumed the mantle of Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security[,] and Commander-in-Chief. Each day, they change the foreign policy, economic, staffing[,] and national security policies of the Administration.” He warned, “It is madness. It is lunacy. It is pure lawlessness. It is the gravest assault on democracy. It must and will end.”

This is where the U.S. Supreme Court comes in — or, rather, where it should come in but has so far refused to. As The Washington Stand previously reported, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a case where a district court judge forced the administration to pay $2 billion, erroneously labeling his order of compulsion as a temporary restraining order. The Supreme Court refused to intervene in the matter, accepting, as did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the district court’s temporary restraining order “at face value,” as Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito put it in a scathing dissent. “Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars?” Alito asked, in his dissenting opinion, with which Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh joined. He continued, “The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned.”

The justices’ majority in rejecting the Trump administration’s petition was comprised of Obama appointees Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, Biden appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed by George W. Bush. The fact that Roberts sided with the Supreme Court’s left-leaning trio (Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson) is not much of a surprise, as the nominally conservative jurist has sided with the court’s more liberal wing on numerous occasions, seemingly in an effort to maintain some form of consensus. What was only slightly more surprising was that Roberts publicly rebuked the president for calling for Boasberg’s impeachment.

Following the district court judge’s order demanding that hundreds of already-deported terrorists be returned to the United States, Trump suggested that Boasberg should be impeached. “I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” the president declared over Truth Social.

In a relatively rare public statement, Roberts replied, “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.” He added, “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.” This is, once again, not the first time that Roberts has seemingly been at odds with Trump, although his public statements on such subjects are a relative rarity. In 2018, after Trump disparaged a federal judge as an Obama appointee, Roberts told the media, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges, or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”

Of course, the recent rash of overreaching temporary restraining orders and the years-long partisan lawfare campaign aggressively waged against Trump stand themselves as rebukes against Roberts’s 2018 claim. While “Bush judges” and even “Trump judges” may not see themselves as levers of power for one ideological faction over another, “Obama judges” and “Clinton judges” — and especially Biden judges — are largely blatant activists. Therein lies a crucial part of the problem: if the president is to do his job and carry out the agenda that the American people elected him to carry out, then he cannot be hampered by activist judges who are willing to bend, misconstrue, reinterpret, and misinterpret the very U.S. Constitution which they were sworn to uphold.

Trump has a very limited period of time in the White House, a very limited period of time in which to enact his agenda; he should not have to waste months or even years working his way through a federal court system at least partly run by the very activist judges erroneously and (in many cases) disingenuously thwarting his executive efforts in the first place. As, once again, Miller noted, “Unelected rogue judges are trying to steal years of time from a 4 year term. It’s the most egregious theft one can imagine: robbing the vote and voice of the American People.”

Yet Roberts is unwilling to intervene. While his siding with left-leaning justices is par for the course and his public rebukes of the president are not thoroughly shocking, his refusal to intervene is something of a surprise. Despite numerous decisions Roberts has made (some of which he has himself authored) that have disappointed conservative Americans, he has long been a strong and clear proponent of the separation of powers.

One of his most consequential rulings, in Trump v. United States, is typical of the Chief Justice’s bent for preserving not only the integrity and power of the federal judiciary but the integrity and power of the executive branch of the federal government too. In that case, Roberts penned a landmark opinion defending the core constitutional duties and powers of the presidency, clarifying that a president is entitled to absolute immunity for any of his actions which fall within the scope of his core constitutional duties and powers, as delineated in Article II of the Constitution, and is entitled to presumed immunity for all of his official acts.

“Appreciating the ‘unique risks’ that arise when the President’s energies are diverted by proceedings that might render him ‘unduly cautious in the discharge of his official duties,’ the Court has recognized Presidential immunities and privileges ‘rooted in the constitutional tradition of the separation of powers and supported by our history,’” Roberts himself wrote in July. He continued, “Such an immunity is required to safeguard the independence and effective functioning of the Executive Branch, and to enable the President to carry out his constitutional duties without undue caution.” In other words — again, as Roberts himself noted — there is a fundamental urgency inherent in the office of the president and the president himself is empowered by Article II of the Constitution to make bold decisions for the good of the nation. When it comes to the exercise of his core constitutional duties and powers as established in Article II, the president should not be able to be enjoined nationwide by activist judges who are, frankly, acting outside their jurisdictions.

This line of reasoning is one which Roberts should readily reach, particularly given his robust defense of the executive branch and the separation of powers over the course of his jurisprudential career. Yet he has still declined to intervene in these urgent cases wherein the Trump administration has sought the Supreme Court’s ruling. The very fact that Trump and his White House officers have repeatedly beseeched the Supreme Court for relief is demonstrative of the fact that the president will abide by the Supreme Court’s decision, as he has numerous times in the past.

As recently as this week, Trump insisted that he does not, at present, intend to openly defy court orders. “You can’t do that,” he said, affirming that he expects the Supreme Court to make a just and reasonable decision, once his cases reach that level. That is, of course, if one of Trump’s numerous petitions is taken up by the Supreme Court. Thus far, the record reflects that Roberts and Barrett, at least, are not inclined to allow the president to make his case. But the refusal of the justices to act may precipitate a constitutional crisis on a scale not seen in the U.S. in over 160 years.

Should the Supreme Court refuse to examine the question of whether activist judges are maliciously — and, more than likely, unlawfully — stepping outside their jurisdictions to bombard the Trump administration with a bevy of temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, court orders, and other such, the president will be faced with a gravely difficult decision.

On the one hand, in the absence of Supreme Court intervention, the president could simply waste the next four years attempting to battle these multitudinous court orders, effectively allowing unelected activist judges to throttle the executive branch of the federal government. He may prevail in a Court of Appeals or even at the Supreme Court, but by the time the cases are litigated, argued, decided, and appealed over and over again, Trump will be on his way out of the White House, having achieved very little of what he was elected to achieve. In essence, national policy for the next several decades will be shaped not by elected officials, but by a judicial mafia appointed by agenda-driven Democrats in the first quarter of the 21st century. More crucially, the judicial branch will have managed to subdue the executive branch, shattering that barrier hailed as the “separation of powers” and choking the vitality and potency from the presidency. Such a situation would, clearly, be a constitutional crisis, and even the oft-assailed authority and legitimacy of the Supreme Court may not prove a strong enough force in such times to check the power-snatching of the district courts.

On the other hand — again, in the absence of Supreme Court intervention — the president may choose to continue exercising the powers clearly granted to his office in Article II of the Constitution, even in seeming defiance of the lawless orders of activist judges. There is a dangerous sort of precedent for such a course of action, no doubt made all the more appealing to a man of Trump’s character by the “Great Man of History” theme associated with it. President Andrew Jackson’s infamous line, “The Chief Justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it,” comes readily to mind, as does Napoleon Bonaparte’s maxim, “He who saves his country violates no law,” which Trump himself recently quoted. Following such a course of action, the president would be flagrantly violating the letter of the law, as contained in the host of court orders assailing his administration, but would still be able to present a strong case for upholding the law and saving his country. This, too, would be an obvious constitutional crisis and would certainly see a resurgence of wailing progressives crying, “Dictator!” and “Hitler!”

The Founding Fathers designed America’s federal government — and the crucial separation of powers — in such a way to ensure that no one state and, even worse, no one man could force his will on the entire nation. Yet that’s exactly what these unchecked activist judges are doing, defiling the very Constitution which they swore to uphold and corroding the nation they purport to safeguard. If the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice continually refuse to intervene, a constitutional crisis of near-unrivaled magnitude will decimate the nation. If Roberts continues rejecting the president’s pleas for order and clarity, then Jackson’s quote may be amended to read, “The Chief Justice has made his decision. Now let him live with it.”

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S.A. McCarthy

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Habits of Honor, Faith, and Patriotism — Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai

March 22, 2025/in Elections, Hot Topics, Must Read, National Security, Video/by Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS)

One of the new appointees to the USAFA Board of Visitors is retired Air Force Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai, a 1989 graduate of the Air Force Academy and F-16 pilot.

He has extensive combat, tactical, and operational experience with more than 2,800 flying hours, including more than 260 combat hours earned during Operations SOUTHERN WATCH and IRAQI FREEDOM.

His assignments have included the following duties: F-16 Weapons Instructor Course Pilot, Flight Examiner, Flight Commander, Assistant Operations Officer, Chief of Wing Weapons and Tactics, Chief of Squadron Standardization and Evaluation, Chief of 11 Air Force Weapons and Tactics, Operations Officer, Director of Staff, F-16 Squadron Commander and Deputy Group Commander.

He served as Chief of the Weapon Systems Liaison Division of the Secretary of the Air Force’s Legislative Liaison Office, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 watched a presentation Stoli gave for the organization, Leading With Power, which aims to build up men to be better husbands, fathers, leaders at work and leaders in the community.

Col. Scott highly recommends this presentation: Leading with Power

Rangers Lead the Way – New Army Video

March 22, 2025/in Elections, Hot Topics, National Security, Policy, Video/by Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS)

The U.S. Army just dropped an impressive new 8- minute video called, “How DO you become a U.S. Army Ranger? | Army 101” featuring the 75th Ranger Regiment.

The movie-like visuals, storyline and music are pretty stunning and a welcome relief after the cartoon Emma and her two moms nightmare of previous years.

Pure meritocracy in this one.

WATCH: How DO you become a U.S. Army Ranger? | Army 101

ELECTION VICTORY: Federal Judge Upholds the Right to Inspect Maryland Voter Rolls

March 22, 2025/in Courts & Law, Election Fraud, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Judicial Watch

Maryland is finally learning what other states have learned: federal law requires transparency in the voting process.

District Court Judge Matthew J. Maddox of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland struck down a Maryland State Board of Elections regulation that restricted and criminalized the use of voter registration lists for voter fraud and other “investigations.”

Citing a separate Judicial Watch court victory in Maryland that opened up voter rolls to public scrutiny under federal law, the court recognized that restricting the use of the state’s voter rolls presented an obstacle to upholding federal voter roll maintenance as required by the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA).

This ruling comes in the case Katherine Strauch Sullivan, et al., v. Michael G. Summers, et al., (No. 1:24-cv-00172), in which we filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in support of the Maryland voters who challenged the new rule:

One of the many necessary documents in order to determine whether a jurisdiction is in compliance with the NVRA’s list maintenance provisions are the voter registration list with voter history for prior general federal elections. These records were at issue in 2017, when Judicial Watch sued in this Court alleging that the state law requirement to be a Maryland registered voter was unlawful and preempted by the NVRA’s public disclosure provision…. This Court agreed, finding that both the records requested in the voter registration list were subject to disclosure under the NVRA and the state’s requirement to be a registered voter frustrated the purposes of the federal law and was preempted by it.

As several federal courts have recognized, the public records provisions of the National Voter Registration Act were intended to enhance the ability of private groups to monitor whether states are removing ineligible voters from their voter rolls. In August 2019, a federal court in Maryland noted that organizations “such as Judicial Watch” have “the resources and expertise that few individuals can marshal. By excluding these organizations from access to voter registration lists,” the purpose of the federal law is undermined. That court ordered Maryland to produce the voter registration list, with fields indicating name, home address, most recent voter activity, and active or inactive status. In April 2020, the same court ordered Maryland to provide Judicial Watch with the dates of birth.

Judge Maddox notes in his opinion: “On or around June 2023, the SBE [Maryland State Board of Elections] adopted the regulation restricting the use of voter registration lists by Maryland voters who request them.”

A voter requesting access to the voter registration list, including voting history, must provide a signed and sworn statement that the list is not intended for commercial solicitation or any other purpose “not related to the electoral process.” …

As they have done in the past, Plaintiffs [Sullivan] anticipate using the registered voter list from the SBE [State Board of Elections] and voting histories for registered voters to conduct statewide investigative canvasses to identify and analyze what they believe are potential errors, irregularities, or anomalies within MDVOTERS [voter database going back to 2006].

Judge Maddox’s opinion concludes:

In sum, the Court concludes as a matter of law that the Use Restriction in COMAR [Code of Maryland Regulations] … presents an obstacle to accomplishing and executing the purposes and objectives of the NVRA [National Voter Registration Act] and is, therefore, preempted.

This new federal court ruling affirming a transparency requirement for voter registration lists is an important victory for Maryland voters and election integrity. It was truly outrageous that Maryland election officials tried to criminalize voters asking questions about election integrity.

As you know, we are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. As part of our work, Judicial Watch assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements.

Earlier this month, we sent a notice letter to Lt. Governor Deidre M. Henderson, notifying her that Utah is currently in violation of federal NVRA public disclosure requirements. The notice letter warns of a lawsuit after 90 days if the issues are not resolved.

In July 2023, we filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, supporting the decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, which struck down Maine’s policy restricting the use and distribution of the state’s voter registration list. The lawsuit is now in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. According to a national studyconducted by Judicial Watch in 2020, Maine’s statewide registration rate was 101% of eligible voters.

Also in July 2023, we settled a federal lawsuit against the Illinois State Board of Elections, requiring it to grant access to its centralized statewide list of registered voters. State officials had refused to allow the nonprofit Illinois Conservative Union and three lawfully registered Illinois voters to obtain a copy of the state’s voter registration list, despite their lawful request for those records under federal law.

In recent years, Judicial Watch’s analysis and use of voter registration lists has led to lawsuits and legal actions that have resulted in the removal of four million names from voter rolls in nearly a dozen states and localities, including Los Angeles County and New York City.

Full Appellate Court Takes Historic Step to End Counting of Votes Received after Election Day

This is an important victory for Judicial Watch. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to rehear its previous ruling, in which it agreed with Judicial Watch that it was unlawful for Mississippi to count ballots that arrived after Election Day. The full Circuit declined to hear the case by a vote of 5 to 10.

We filed a civil rights lawsuit in February 2024, challenging the Mississippi election law on behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi (Libertarian Party of Mississippi v Wetzel et al. (No. 1:24-cv-00037)). The suit was consolidated with one filed by the Republican National Committee, the Mississippi Republican Party, and other complainants.

(We filed the first challenge to require all ballots to be received by Election Day in 2022 against Illinois.)

The October 25, 2024, Fifth Circuit appellate opinion at issue found:

Congress statutorily designated a singular “day for the election” of members of Congress and the appointment of presidential electors. Text, precedent, and historical practice confirm this “day for the election” is the day by which ballots must be both cast by voters and received by state officials. Because Mississippi’s statute allows ballot receipt up to five days after the federal election day, it is preempted by federal law. We reverse the district court’s contrary judgment and remand for further proceedings.

Earlier this month, we filed a federal lawsuit against California on behalf of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa to prevent state election officials from extending Election Day for seven days beyond the date established by federal law. California counts ballots received up to seven days after Election Day.

In an Illinois “Election Day” lawsuit in November 2024 we filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court challenging the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in the case filed on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors from Illinois to prevent state election officials from counting ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day.

This Fifth Circuit action is a historic victory for honest elections. Federal law sets “Election Day” not “Election Week.” California and the 17 other states should take notice. Our lawsuit just filed against California for counting ballots received for up to seven days after Election Day has even more urgency and strength.

Judicial Watch Sues for DHS Records on Trump Assassination Attempt at Butler, PA

Why is there so much secrecy surrounding the assassination attempt on Donald Trump?

To find out, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records related to security provided for the July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, PA, during which there was an assassination attempt on President Trump (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:25-cv-00704)).

The lawsuit was filed after the agency failed to comply with a July 15, 2024, FOIA request for:

All records, including emails, email chains, email attachments, text messages, video or audio recordings, photographs, outlook calendars, meeting minutes, correspondence, statements, letters, memoranda, reports, briefings, presentations, notes, summaries, requests for assistance, agreements, travel records, receipts, or other form of record, regarding providing support or manpower to President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign rally that was held in Butler, PA, on July 13, 2024.

The request specifically sought records from the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations, which is believed to have helped provide security at the Butler event.

On July 13, 2024, at a campaign rally in Butler, PA, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinatePresident Donald Trump. After the attempt on President Trump’s life, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas named a bipartisan panel to conduct a 45-day independent review of the planning for and actions before, during, and after the rally.

Federal agencies need to come clean on the events that led up to the assassination attempts on President Trump. It is now eight months since the first attempt, and the American people have yet to receive any answers under FOIA on the failures of the Biden administration to protect President Trump.

We are extensively investigating the assassination attempts on President Trump.

In August 2024, we received Secret Service records that showed the Secret Service has made it a top priority that “diversity and inclusion is not just ‘talked about’ – but demonstrated by all employees through ‘Every Action, Every Day.’” [Emphasis in original]

We also uncovered records from the district attorney’s office in Butler County, PA, detailing the extensive preparation of local police for the rally at which former President Trump was shot, including sniper teams, counter assault teams and a quick response force.

In response to a separate open records request, we obtained bodycam footage of the July 13 assassination events from the Butler Township Police Department.

We reported that the FBI withheld information on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information about its coordination with the U.S. Secret Service regarding the July 13 Butler, PA, rally.

On July 31, we reported that the United States Secret Service completely denied multiple FOIA requests for documents about the assassination attempt on former President Trump.

Judicial Watch Sues for Files on Former Trump Lawyer Christina Bobb

We’re taking another step to expose the Biden administration’s legal persecution of Donald Trump.

We filed lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for records regarding Christina Bobb, a former lawyer for President Trump.

We also announced that Bobb has joined the litigation team at Judicial Watch.

We sued the Justice Department after the FBI failed to respond to a January 24, 2025, FOIA request for records about Bobb (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-00588)).

Among other records, the lawsuit seeks all related investigative reports, intelligence products, or similar records, as well as all records of communication between any official or employee of the FBI and any official, employee, or representative of any other branch, department, agency, or office of the federal government mentioning or referring to Bobb.

We sued Homeland Security after the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) failed to respond to January 24, 2025, FOIA request for all records regarding Bobb’s enrollment in the TSA PreCheck Program and any cancellation or suspension of that enrollment, as well as all records of communication between any official or employee of TSA and any official, employee, or representative of any other branch, department, agency, or office of the federal government mentioning or referring to Bobb (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:25-cv-00834)).

Bobb was an attorney for President Trump from 2022-2024 before joining the Republican National Committee to assist election integrity efforts for the 2024 election.

She was a part of Trump’s legal team during the Biden Justice Department’s pursuit of the classified documents case.

On August 8, 2022, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Bobb was Trump’s custodian of record at the time and was at Mar-a-Lago during the raid.

The classified documents case was ultimately dismissed by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in July 2024.

Bobb, a former on-air host for One America News Network, is also the author of Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What it Means for 2024.

Bobb joins the Judicial Watch team after working for President Trump and his campaign to secure the 2024 election. In 2022, she joined President Trump’s PAC Save America to help secure America’s elections and ensure President Trump received a fair opportunity to win the White House again.

Bobb has been a long-time friend of Judicial Watch and an advocate for government accountability.

Shortly after she began working for the president, the Department of Justice and FBI embroiled her in both Jack Smith investigations of the Mar-a-Lago documents and January 6. She saw firsthand how partisan government operatives abuse their authority to eliminate political opposition, and she’s now determined to eliminate partisan threats from the government.

Prior to working for President Trump, Bobb held executive level positions in the Department of Homeland Security, served in the United States Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate, practiced civil litigation in San Diego, and now returns to her litigation roots with Judicial Watch in Washington, D.C.

Bobb commented: “I am thrilled to be joining the litigation team at Judicial Watch. There is no better organization to hold government officials accountable for their actions. At this time in history, there is no greater mission than to root out government corruption. I’m grateful to be on the team.” Christina’s unique experience and dedication make her a perfect fit for our mission. We’re happy to have her join the team and look forward to having her skills and expertise help expose the full extent of anti-Trump lawfare and government corruption.

U.S. Global Media Agency Fired Journalists Behind Newscast Critical of Soros

The tax-funded agency meant to proclaim U.S. values to the world was turned into an anti-American propaganda machine, which the Trump administration is now moving to shut down. Our Corruption Chronicles blog explains.

The government-funded media syndicate being dismantled by President Trump spreads anti-U.S. propaganda, covers news with a distinct leftist bias and even utilized Stalinist techniques to retaliate against journalists and producers behind a newscast—that cited Judicial Watch as a source—critical of leftwing billionaire George Soros. The taxpayer-funded news agency also ordered staff to refrain from calling Hamas terrorists, suppresses negative stories about Iran, has been infiltrated by anti-American, pro-Islamic state interests and employed a Russian anti-U.S. propagandist. This history indicates that scrutiny of the public conglomerate, known as U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), was long overdue. The president’s recent executive order to gut it will save American taxpayers around $900 million a year that could easily be applied to a myriad of domestic programs.

Five international media networks—Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting—operate under USAGM and reportedly reach 345 million people worldwide in 59 languages. The global media agency was created to counter disinformation spread by oppressive regimes abroad. The USAGM website states that its mission is “to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.” The editorial objective of this government-funded media was developed during the Cold War and is supposed to support the national strategic objectives of the United States. It was specifically created to provide people in communist nations, via outlets such as Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe, with information about the free world that is prohibited by their totalitarian rulers.

It makes no sense for American taxpayers to fund anti-U.S. propaganda that gets broadcast and published worldwide. That apparently is what has been occurring for many years at USAGM, which has a workforce of around 3,500 and an $886 million budget in 2024. The agency requested a substantial budget increase of $950 million for fiscal year 2025. In its Congressional Budget Justification, USAGM touts its Diversity and Inclusion Initiative with the appointment of an inaugural Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) who will collaborate closely with the Office of Civil Rights to align Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) training with a focus on crucial conversations, cultural diversity, and inclusivity. In the document, the agency assures that the new diversity chief will implement greater visibility and awareness of USAGM’s DEIA initiatives, identify new opportunities for DEIA initiatives agency-wide, and advance equity for underserved communities.

Since Trump ordered USAGM’s shutdown, the administration official charged with the job, senior adviser Kari Lake, has found a multitude of problems, including massive national security violations in which spies and terrorist sympathizers infiltrated the agency, eye-popping self-dealing involving contracts, hundreds of millions of dollars spent on fake news companies, and obscene overspending on building leases with no broadcasting facilities. Lake’s team even uncovered a $9 million commission to a private real estate agency with connections. “Waste, fraud and abuse run rampant in this agency and American taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund it,” said Lake, a former television news broadcaster. She has determined that, from top to bottom, the USAGM is a giant rot and burden to the American taxpayer as well as a national security risk. It is not salvageable, and Lake’s team will clean it up so it can meet the “core mission of telling America’s story throughout the world in a meaningful, impactful and effective way.”

Liberals have long been in charge at USAGM, and the previously mentioned Soros broadcast is just one of many examples. The Spanish-language segment, which focused on the Hungarian philanthropist’s efforts to cripple sovereign governments in Latin America, aired on Television Martí (which operates under OCB) and was available for months online before a scandal-plagued Democratic senator discovered it and demanded an investigation. The disgraced veteran lawmaker, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribery, extortion and conspiracy. At his request, Obama’s USAGM chief, John F. Lansing, fired eight reporters and editors involved in the Soros broadcast. Judicial Watch was cited as a source because it investigated State Department funding of Soros groups in Colombia and published a report on Soros’ initiatives to advance a radical globalist agenda in Guatemala.

Elon Musk’s Dragon Rescue Starliner Saves Astronauts Abandoned by NASA

March 21, 2025/in Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by Editorial Board - DrRichSwier.com

It is amazing that some are actually fact checking the rescue of the two astraunauts abandoned by NASA. Sarah Usandivaras and Robert Farley from FactCheck.org wrote:

During a Fox News interview with host Sean Hannity on Feb. 18, Trump said he gave Musk the “go-ahead” to accelerate a mission to retrieve the astronauts, claiming that they had been abandoned on purpose by former President Joe Biden to avoid political backlash. Trump said, “They didn’t have the go-ahead with Biden. He was going to leave them in space. I think he was going to leave them in space. … He didn’t want the publicity. Can you believe it?”

[ … ]

Several leaders at NASA said they were unaware of Musk’s offer to bring the astronauts home sooner.

WATCH: Elon Musk just Exposed SpaceX OFFERED Rescue Starliner Astronauts But NASA Refused

Who do you trust more a NASA bureaucrat or Elon Musk?

WATCH: Rescued Astronauts Stun the Internet with Unexpected Message

So, the two rescued astronauts thank Elon Musk and President Trump for saving them after being abandoned in space for 9 months!

WATCH: Elon Musk Just Declared this after Dragon rescue Starliner Astronaut Return…

TRANSCRIPT

“Elon Musk saved the U.S. space program…If it weren’t for Elon Musk, we would not be able to fly U.S. Astronauts from U.S. soil to the International Space Station. There is no doubt about it.”

These are huge words of praise from former NASA astronaut Charles Camarda for Elon Musk, recognizing what he and SpaceX just have accomplished.

And it’s absolutely true! The story of the Starliner astronauts has finally come to an end—they have returned home safely.
What did Elon Musk declare after this mission?

Let’s find out more on today’s episode of Alpha Tech!

Elon Musk Just Declared this after Dragon rescue Starliner Astronaut Return…

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as their planned short stay in space stretched into a more than nine-month, politically fraught mission — are finally home.

Williams and Wilmore, alongside NASA’s Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, safely splashed down off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida at 5:57 p.m. ET Tuesday.

The crew’s highly anticipated return came after the crew climbed aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and departed the International Space Station at 1:05 a.m. ET Tuesday.
Elon Musk Just Declared this after Dragon rescue Starliner Astronaut Return…

The quartet is part of the Crew-9 mission, a routine staff rotation jointly operated by NASA and SpaceX. The Crew-9 capsule launched to the space station in September with Hague and Gorbunov riding alongside two empty seats reserved for Williams and Wilmore, who had been on the orbiting laboratory since last June, when their original ride — a Boeing Starliner spacecraft — malfunctioned.

Safely reaching Earth concluded a trip that, for Williams and Wilmore, has garnered broad interest because of the unexpected nature of their extended stay in orbit and the dramatic turn of events that prevented them from returning home aboard the Boeing Starliner vehicle.

Then President Trump does this!

BTW, the fake news doesn’t want you to see this clip. President Trump just said he will pay the two stranded astronauts overtime pay for the 286 days that they were stuck in space — out of his own pocket.

WATCH: President Trump will pay the abandoned astronauts out of his pocket!

We are truly in the Gloden Age of America. We have a loving and caring President in Donald J. Trump and an American hero in Elon Musk.

Skin In The Game

March 21, 2025/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Policy, Politics/by Kenneth R. Timmerman

You could call it the Donald Trump theory of international relations: getting skin in the game without sending U.S. troops.

That’s what you saw when President Trump offered Zelenskyy the deal to exploit Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. The Z-man was obsessed with getting U.S. “security guaranties” — a promise to send U.S. troops should Russia attack again in the future.

Trump rightly said, no. Instead, he offered to put U.S. companies on the front lines, essentially making those civilians a tripwire should Russia dare attack.

Similarly, this week Trump convinced both Putin and Zelenskyy to engage in a limited ceasefire by ending strikes on energy and other civilian infrastructure, and then floated the idea that Ukraine should sell its power plants to U.S. companies as a deterrent to Russian attacks.

Now as a shareholder, I’m not sure I would want my company owning such a high risk asset. But still. The intent was clear: skin in the game.

Without skin in the game, we see what happens. On Friday, Russia launched waves of armed drones against the Black Sea port city of Odessa, sparking power outages, and the Ukes responded by allegedly blowing up a gas metering station near Kursk, Russia.

Both seemed to be pretty clear ceasefire violations. But with no skin in the game, neither attack has led to consequences, yet.

With NATO, President Trump is using a similar strategy.

This week, he floated the idea of allowing a French general to become the Supreme Allied Commander, the first time ever a non-American would command NATO. Some Republicans on the Hill were unhappy with that, but that’s because they don’t understand the notion of skin in the game.

Let the French suddenly be in charge of NATO troops and I’ll bet you they increase their defense spending significantly. Because now they will have skin in the game.

The European Union is beginning to understand the concept, although how they get to execution is another matter.

European Commission president Ursula Van der Leyden is floating her “Readiness 2030” plan that would obligate EU members to spend 800 billion euros over the next five years to expand their defense capabilities.

How they actually achieve that goal is another matter. She is calling on the EU as an institution to “lend” 150 billion to member countries to get the ball rolling, perhaps by magically printing money or just by asking richer countries to pony up cash for their poorer neighbors.

She wants the money to be spent on massive purchases of new weaponry – mainly from European defense companies, specifically excluding US and British companies from the competition.

Good luck on that.

President Reagan tried to open a “two-way street” of defense procurement with Europe in the 1980s, but after many years of trying, the Euros didn’t have that much to offer the Pentagon, and certainly zero in terms of major weapons systems.

Germany’s Leopard II tanks have turned out to be clanking coffins in Ukraine, and the Ukes are clamoring for more Patriot air defense systems, not the European knock-offs. But it’s always worth a shot.

The Iranians are also beginning to realize they’ve got skin in the game in Yemen — and wish they didn’t.

President Trump this week made sure they understand that the United States considers every Houthi drone to be an Iranian drone, every Houthi missile to be an Iranian missile, and every Houthi attack on Israel or international shipping in the Red Sea to be an Iranian attack.

Desperate to divert President Trump and Pete Hegseth from utterly demolishing the Houthis in Yemen, the Iranians summoned the chief-let of their main proxy militia in Iraq for meetings with top revolutionary guards brass in Tehran.

The word on the street is that they ordered Akram al-Kaabi to carry out a massive rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy Baghdad. I can’t wait to see how that works out for them.

The last time they tried that stunt, which I describe in some detail in Chapter 40 of The Iran House, President Trump ordered a drone strike that took out the commander of the Quds Force, the master of those proxy militia groups.

It’s no coincidence that Qassem Soleimani’s successor, Esmail Qaani, has become a bit shy about appearing in public. If you are an Iranian Quds Force officer these days, you just never know when you might meet an American drone with your name on it.

I discuss the many instances of “skin in the game” in this week’s edition of Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday open 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. Otherwise, you can listen to the podcast later here.

Yours in freedom.

Ken Timmerman’s 14th book of non-fiction, THE IRAN HOUSE: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, can be ordered by clicking here or by viewing my author’s page, here.

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Big Pharma wins, Dr. Dave Weldon withdrawn from CDC cofirmation

March 21, 2025/in Commentary, Elections, Healthcare, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Kelleigh Nelson

“Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.” — James Morcan

“The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.” — Marcia Angell

“Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can’t even tell health scientists the truth about vaccine contaminants and their likely effects. The agency is bound and gagged by proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements forced upon them by the pharmaceutical industry. Let us not forget that the pharmaceutical industry, as a special interest group, is the number one contributor to politicians on Capitol Hill.” — Leonard Horowitz

Every year, pharmaceutical companies contribute millions of dollars to U.S. Senators and Representatives as part of a multipronged effort to influence health care lawmaking and spending priorities. And they’re successful in buying the votes of these rewarded members. The senators and reps care nothing for the American people, they are beholden only to those who fill their pockets. As a result, their votes aid those who fund them, not the American people they are elected to represent.

According to Statnews.com, “Seventy-two senators and 302 members of the House of Representatives cashed a check from the pharmaceutical industry ahead of the 2020 election representing more than two-thirds of Congress, according to a new STAT analysis of records for the full election cycle.

“Pfizer’s political action committee alone contributed to 228 lawmakers. Amgen’s PAC donated to 218, meaning that each company helped to fund the campaigns of nearly half the lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Overall, the sector donated $14 million.”

Opensecrets.org shows the top 20 member recipients of money from Big Pharma and health products between 1990-2024. The money comes from employees or PACs affiliated with the industry, not from the companies themselves. Biden, Harris and Obama were the top three recipients.

For decades, Democrats have thrashed Big Pharma in their campaign ads and speeches, and the drug industry has responded by shelling out millions to the Leftists.

According to an analysis by the group, Conservatives for Lower Healthcare Costs, “Between the 2016 and 2022 election cycles, the top 10 pharmaceutical firms have given $29 million to Democrats and $24 million to Republicans.”

Open Secrets tells us that our founders funded their own campaigns and the very thought of asking for money was verboten. Kathleen Frydl, a historian at the University of California-Berkeley, said the first fundraising committee organized by an interest group was the Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee (CIO-PAC), which was formed in 1943 to support Franklin Roosevelt’s 1944 presidential bid. More than 60 years later, there are more than 3,880 active federally registered PACs. It is now 82 years later, and that number has undoubtedly grown.

Corporations distort public policy and subvert the will of the electorate by donating to politicians and expecting quid pro quo for their monetary gifts. All corporate funding needs to be eliminated.

CDC Nominee Dr. Dave Weldon

The following three-minute video by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services lays out what he and his team will concentrate on during their first 100 days. Kennedy tells us that chronic disease is the top priority and they will examine every possible contributing factor. He wants to Make America Healthy Again, just as we were when his uncle, John F. Kennedy, was our president from 1960 until his untimely death in 1963.

Three men have been nominated to the operating divisions within HHS, and one has already had his name yanked at the last minute.

Dr. Dave Weldon, a former congressman whose district included the Space Coast and Treasure Coast, says opposition by the pharmaceutical industry played a large role in his failure to win confirmation as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a statement Weldon released after his nomination was withdrawn, he blamed Big Pharma for the concern that some Republican senators would vote against confirming him. “The concern of many people is that Big Pharma was behind this, which is probably true,” Weldon said. “They are, hands-down, the most powerful lobby organization in Washington, D.C., giving millions of dollars to politicians on both sides of the aisle.”

In Sharyl Attkisson’s 2019 documentary on her show, Full Measure, she interviewed eleven current and former Congressmen about their experiences with pharmaceutical industry lobbyists and agents in Washington. Dr. Weldon is interviewed at 7:40. I urge you to watch the 10-minute clip where we find out that vaccine makers don’t defend their vaccines, the federal government does that for them. It is done in the little known “vaccine court” created by Congress in 1988. Money for victims’ fees comes from patient fees added on to every vaccine given.

Attkisson states, “Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a world-renowned pediatric neurologist, was the government’s top expert witness in a case of a child who became autistic after a vaccine. He testified that vaccines do not cause autism. But now, Dr. Zimmerman has supplied new information. He claims that during those vaccine court hearings all those years ago, he privately told government lawyers that vaccines can and did cause autism in some children. That turnabout from the government’s own chief expert should have changed everything about the vaccine autism debate if the public were to find out.”

The United States government, the Department of Justice suppressed his true opinions. Zimmerman then partnered with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who said, “This is one of the most consequential frauds arguably in all of human history.” RFK Jr. was instrumental in getting Dr. Zimmerman to document his remarkable claim of the government covering up his true expert opinion on vaccines and autism.

Dr. Dave Weldon, spoke candidly about what happens to representatives who raise the issue of vaccine safety. “It would typically be in a hallway or on the street, and you know, people would come up to you and say, you know, you really need to back off on this. It could be bad for the community or bad for the country or bad for you.”

The CDC which promotes vaccines and monitors vaccine safety never disclosed that the government’s own one-time medical expert concluded that vaccines can cause autism. And to this day, public health officials deny that’s the case.

Dr. Peter McCullough tells us, “Physician and former Congressman, Dave Weldon, who was about to undergo his examination by the Senate panel posed the greatest risk for vaccine-crazed senators to publicly face evidence-based concerns over the safety of the ever-increasing childhood vaccine schedule and the four-year COVID-19 vaccine debacle.

“Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA), a gastroenterologist from Illinois who said during the RFK panel that not a single dollar should be spent investigating the relationship between vaccination and autism.”

Close minded because of their funding by Big Pharma? Most senators believe in vaccines, but they were exempt from the COVID mandates.

“Perhaps Cassidy was in agreement with billions of dollars spent over the past four-years on nonsensical and unproductive transgender research in laboratory animals. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) also said she would vote against Weldon. Both Cassidy and Collins voted in 2022 against reinstating military who refused the COVID-19 vaccine.”

So, freedom from mandates for them, but not for us.

Losing Dr. Dave Weldon as CDC Director is a massive blow to health freedom. RFK Jr. backed his nomination. Why? Because Dave Weldon knew the dirt behind the CDC and the decades of lies given to the American public.

Weldon’s name was pulled telling the public, “He’s too anti-vax and didn’t have the votes.” That is an outright lie. Obviously, the Big Pharma funded senators wouldn’t vote for him or they’d lose their cash cow.

In 2004, Congressman Weldon asked the U.S. House Appropriations Committee chair to fund an autism research center that would be led by Dr. Andrew Wakefield.

“Wakefield was the first author of the 1998 study, published and later retracted in The Lancet, that linked the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism in certain children.” Weldon wanted Wakefield to head up an autism center. That act alone, that proved Weldon was concerned about autism and American children, was enough to sideline his nomination.

Dr. Wakefield felt there was a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. A former CDC researcher by the name of William Thompson came to the same conclusion.

Thompson publicly admitted that he and his CDC co-authors cooked the study on MMR and autism so that it would not show any connection. They purposely omitted vital data.

He later wrote his confession and had it posted on his attorney’s website.

August 27, 2014 Press Release, “Statement of William W. Thompson, Ph.D., Regarding the 2004 Article Examining the Possibility of a Relationship Between MMR Vaccine and Autism”

Then he told Congressman Bill Posey that he and his CDC co-authors tossed the study data in the trash.

Thompson knew Wakefield and he apologized to him in private. Had he spoken out about the connection of the MMR to autism, it would have helped Wakefield.

Wayback Machine has the recorded statement in an 82-second video of the phone call from whistleblower Thompson to Brian Hooker PhD. Hooker is the Chief Scientific Officer for Children’s Health Defense. Thompson stated that he had a boss who forced him to lie. He also said that autism studies are 10 years behind and Congress needs to say, “Give us the data, and we’ll do an independent study.”

Video here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140917192449/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8697rSvIqhg

Conclusion

Look into Dr. Weldon’s legislative history during his time in Congress. His work on healthcare and family-focused policies speaks volumes. Congress.gov.

Dr. Weldon’s background as a physician is well-documented, especially his contributions to medical literature and public health discussions. PubMed

In a time when our children’s health and future are at stake, we must support leaders who uphold the values of family, science, and common sense, values of this nominee. Dr. Weldon’s absence from this role is a missed opportunity for America.

Where was the White House in fighting for Dr. Weldon? Or did Susie Wiles put the kibosh on Dr. Weldon?

Two Republican Senators, Collins and Cassidy, cost Weldon the confirmation for CDC Director. Those are the politicians who need to be primaried.

How President Donald J. Trump, the Peacemaker, Paved the Way for Peace in Ukraine

March 21, 2025/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by Amil Imani

For years, the war in Ukraine has been a deep wound on the global stage—an unending quagmire fueled by establishment warmongers and ineffective leadership. Enter President Donald J. Trump, who vowed to end conflicts, not prolong them. In his second term, Trump has wasted no time demonstrating that his brand of America First diplomacy can achieve what others deemed impossible: a genuine opportunity for peace between Ukraine and Russia. This is not merely a diplomatic footnote; it’s a historic triumph, and Trump is the catalyst who made it happen.

Trump signaled a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy when he reclaimed the White House. The days of Biden-era blank checks to Kyiv and saber-rattling with Moscow are over. Instead, Trump brought his signature deal-making savvy to the table, cutting through the clamor of the globalist elite. On February 12, 2025, he shocked the world by announcing direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war—a move left European leaders scrambling and the mainstream media gasping. This wasn’t mere posturing; it was decisive action. Within weeks, reports surfaced of a proposed 30-day ceasefire, developed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukrainian representatives. Trump’s message was clear: the killing must end, and he’s the one to make it happen.

What sets Trump apart is his ability to see the bigger picture. While the Biden administration became fixated on punishing Russia, Trump recognized that achieving peace requires leverage, not just lectures. He proposed incentives—easing sanctions, reintegrating Russia into the G7, and providing economic support to a Russia grappling with inflation and military overreach. At the same time, he applied pressure, subtly reminding Putin that America’s military and economic power could worsen Russia’s situation if negotiations faltered. This isn’t a weakness; it’s a strength through pragmatism. As Vice President JD Vance noted in a March 2025 interview, Trump has “economic tools of leverage” and “military tools of leverage” available if necessary. Putin respects that. Zelensky trusts it. The result? A framework for peace that’s gaining momentum faster than anyone expected.

Trump’s critics—the same swamp creatures who cheered for endless war—cry foul, claiming he’s selling out Ukraine. They point to his refusal to support Kyiv’s maximalist ambitions of reclaiming all lost territory or expediting NATO membership. But let’s be honest: those goals were fantasies fueled by a failing Biden strategy that left Ukraine exhausted and Russia fortified. Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized this in Brussels: Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders are lost, and prolonging the fight only leads to more death. Trump isn’t abandoning Ukraine; he’s saving it from a war it can’t win. His initiative to link U.S. aid to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals—a $500 billion prize—ensures America gets something in return for its investment. That’s not betrayal; it’s business.

The Jeddah talks are only the beginning. Trump’s vision includes an international peace conference, possibly mediated by global powers like China—a bold move that could lead to a lasting truce. He has even proposed European peacekeepers, a concession reportedly accepted by Putin, highlighting Trump’s skill in navigating competing interests. This isn’t about conceding to Russia; it’s about ending a war that has cost countless lives and billions of American dollars. As Trump stated after his February call with Putin, “We’re going to get it done.” And he will.

The right-wing faithful have long recognized that Trump’s strength lies in his unpredictability and determination. Unlike the polished diplomats who struggled for three years, Trump excels in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation. His first term demonstrated this—no new wars, ISIS was defeated, and North Korea was brought to the table. Now, he’s doing it again. Posts on X from supporters like @NavarroThinker capture the sentiment: “Trump’s unmatched deal-making skills and America First approach brought peace through strength.” Even the New York Post, once a Trump supporter turned skeptic, cannot deny the seismic shift he’s engineered.

Indeed, challenges persist. Russia’s history of deceit—such as Crimea in 2014 and Debaltseve in 2015—continues to be significant. Putin may postpone or hinder negotiations to extract further concessions. While cooperative, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky might be reluctant if the agreement is lopsided. However, Trump isn’t naïve. He has already cautioned that any betrayal will provoke a response, and his record indicates that he doesn’t bluff. The establishment may scoff, but the American public recognizes a leader committed to ending the violence.

This is Trump’s moment. He isn’t just ending a war; he’s redefining America’s role in the world—strong, decisive, and unapologetic. The globalists aimed for perpetual conflict, and Trump delivered peace talks. The neocons desired Russia’s defeat; Trump proposed a way out. As he stated in his January 20, 2025, inaugural address, “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker.” With Ukraine and Russia nearing a deal, that legacy is coming into focus. President Donald J. Trump isn’t merely a catalyst—he’s the architect of a new era. And the world is better for it.

John Roberts is the Judas of the Judiciary

March 21, 2025/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Elections, Hot Topics, Lawfare, News, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Amil Imani

Chief Justice John Roberts was expected to be a conservative stalwart and a guardian of the Constitution, appointed by George W. Bush to guide the Supreme Court towards originalist principles. Instead, he has transformed into something completely different—a turncoat whose rulings have betrayed the values he vowed to uphold. For those of us who believed in a judiciary that honors the will of the people and the intent of our founders, Roberts has become the ultimate disappointment: a Judas in black robes, selling out the American Right for thirty pieces of silver from the progressive elite.

Let’s start with the Affordable Care Act. In 2012, conservatives held their breath as NFIB v. Sebelius threatened to unravel Obamacare, a bloated government overreach that symbolized everything we despise about the Left’s nanny-state agenda. Roberts had the chance to strike it down. Instead, he twisted logic into knots, declaring the individual mandate a “tax” rather than a penalty — a semantic trick that saved Obama’s signature legislation. Legal scholars still scratch their heads over that one, but the message was clear: Roberts wasn’t here to fight for principle. He was here to play it safe, cozying up to the Beltway cocktail circuit where progressivism is the currency of prestige.

Fast forward to 2020, when election integrity hung in the balance. After a chaotic presidential race marred by allegations of fraud—claims that millions of Americans still find credible—Roberts had another chance to prove his mettle. Texas brought a case challenging the election procedures in several swing states, and conservatives begged the Court to hear it. Roberts refused. He didn’t just avoid responsibility; he ensured the case was dead on arrival, reportedly pressuring his colleagues to sidestep any “political controversy.” Never mind that the Constitution’s survival sometimes requires tough choices. For Roberts, maintaining his reputation as a neutral arbiter outweighed any obligation to the republic. The result? A stolen election—or at least the perception of one—was left to fester while Roberts washed his hands like Pontius Pilate.

Then there’s his track record on cultural issues, where his betrayal cuts the deepest. In the 2020 case of Bostock v. Clayton County, Roberts joined the liberal bloc to redefine “sex” in Title VII, effectively rewriting federal law to include sexual orientation and gender identity. This wasn’t merely interpretation; it was legislation from the bench, a favor to the woke mob, an act that undermined religious liberty and common sense. Conservatives who had spent decades battling judicial activism looked on in horror as their “reliable” chief justice handed progressives a victory they couldn’t achieve at the ballot box. The man once celebrated as a textualist revealed himself as a weathervane, swaying to the winds of cultural pressure.

What drives this treachery? Some say it’s cowardice—an obsession with dodging the Left’s inevitable tantrums. Others suggest leverage: rumors of compromising secrets or backroom deals have swirled around Roberts for years, from his unusual handling of the FISA court to his adoption records from Ireland. We may never know the complete story, but the pattern is unmistakable. Time and again, when the stakes are highest, Roberts flinches. He’s not a warrior for the Constitution but a referee, more concerned with the game’s optics than its outcome.

Compare him to the justices whom conservatives admire. Clarence Thomas, a lion of originalism, never wavers, delivering opinions rooted in first principles regardless of the backlash. Samuel Alito, another Bush appointee, has consistently stood against the tide of progressive overreach. Even the Trump trio—Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett—have shown more backbone in their short tenures than Roberts has in two decades. Yet, it’s Roberts who holds the gavel, setting the Court’s agenda and casting decisive votes. His influence isn’t just disappointing—it’s disastrous.

The Right trusted Roberts to be our champion, but he has become our albatross. His tenure serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of establishment picks—those polished résumés and Ivy League backgrounds that mask a weak character. We don’t need more Roberts clones hiding their cowardice behind robes of respectability. We need justices who will stand their ground, confront the howling mobs, and say, “This is the law, and it doesn’t bend for your feelings.”

So, where do we go from here? Roberts isn’t going anywhere soon—he’s only 70, and justices cling to their positions like barnacles. But conservatives can send a message: demand accountability from our leaders. Advocate for nominees who will counter his weaknesses with unapologetic strength. And never forget: the judiciary isn’t a gentleman’s club—it’s a battlefield. Roberts may have surrendered, but the war for America’s soul rages on.

Ultimately, John Roberts will be remembered not as a conservative hero but as a traitor who exchanged principles for applause. His legacy stands as a warning etched in the rubble of rulings that could have saved us. Judas betrayed with a kiss; Roberts betrays with a gavel. The Right deserves better.

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“TESLA TAKEDOWN”: Democrats Incite To More Tesla Terrorism As Violent Attacks on Dealerships, Owners Spike

March 21, 2025/in Communism, Courts & Law, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Violent attacks against Tesla dealerships and facilities are spiking with a nationwide Tesla attack scheduled for The “Tesla Takedown” movement has been linked to groups that get funding from Act Blue, and Democrat Socialists of America – funded by Soros groups and USAID.

How long before the Democrat party is designated a terrorist organization?

Soros, his foundation, Indivisible and their founders being held criminally accountable as co-conspirators for funding this terrorism.

‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters planning ‘biggest day of action

By: The Verge, March 20, 2025:

Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th, organizers said during a mobilizing call Wednesday.

The protests started at a handful of Tesla locations in early February, and has grown to hundreds of locations across the world, as more people have come out to demonstrate against CEO Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government. Waving signs and chanting slogans, the so-called Tesla Takedown protesters have become a flashpoint for opposition to Musk’s actions to eliminate federal aid programs and fire tens of thousands of government employees as the head of DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency.

There have also been an uptick in incidents of arson, vandalism, and violence against Tesla showrooms that, while unrelated to the protests, have led to Musk and
President Donald Trump labeling them “domestic terrorism.” Other members of the Trump administration have signaled the protesters could come under scrutiny as well. Attorney General Pam Bondi promised “severe consequences on those involved in these attacks, including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.”

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Soros, his foundation, Indivisible and their founders being held criminally accountable as co-conspirators.

Over the next few days you’re going to see an organized progressional protest effort at Tesla stores put together by a group called Indivisible.

George Soros foundation has given Indivisible nearly $8 million dollars for their “activism”.

They’re calling these “Tesla takedown” events and they’re doing it in the midst of a domestic terror spree targeting Tesla and Tesla owners. They have these planned across the entire country. These images are just six examples.

How can this not be seen as encouraging more violence and terrorism? I personally think that any violence occurring near locations they’ve chosen should result in Soros, his foundation, Indivisible and their founders being held criminally accountable as co-conspirators.

The indivisible founders are Ezra Levin and his wife Leah Greenberg. They became “resistance” figures during Trump’s first term and their work is celebrated by elected Democrats. So yeah, it’s clear to me that the Democrats and their typical thugs are organizing this insanity.

There’s reportedly even a form protest leaders can fill out to receive “reimbursement” payments for their protests.

Radical Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett spoke on a CALL TO ACTION call organized by the Tesla Takedown organizers who have been vandalizing and attacking @elonmusk’s Tesla Showrooms and charging stations across the country and all over the world.

Crockett said her birthday is on March 29th, and “all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.”

Attendees of the Tesla Takedown protests have carried out acts of DOMESTIC TERRORISM, including lighting Teslas on fire and throwing Molotov cocktails inside Tesla ShowRooms, prompting an investigation by Pam Bondi and condemnation at the White House by the President.

Jasmine Crockett should be CENSURED for enabling Domestic Terrorism.

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Pamela Geller

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Netanyahu: Leftist Deep State ‘Weaponizes’ Justice System to Undermine Right-Wing in U.S., Israel

March 21, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, Lawfare, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Social Issues, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Indeed. Radical Leftist judges are the greatest threat to democracy in America, Israel, and elsewhere.

Netanyahu: Leftist Deep State ‘Weaponizes’ Justice System to Undermine Right-Wing in U.S., Israel

By Breitbart, March 19th, 2025

“The leftist Deep State weaponizes the justice system to thwart the people’s will,” according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who warned that such tactics are being used against right-wing leaders in both Israel and the United States.

In a post shared on X on Wednesday, the Israeli Premier suggested that judicial institutions are no longer acting independently but are instead being manipulated to serve a political agenda.

“In America and in Israel, when a strong right-wing leader wins an election, the leftist Deep State weaponizes the justice system to thwart the people’s will,” Netanyahu declared, emphasizing that such tactics are being used both in Israel and the United States.

“They won’t win in either place! We stand strong together,” he added, reinforcing solidarity between right-wing movements in both nations.

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Geller Report Staff

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Israel Kills Four Senior Hamas Leaders

March 21, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism/by Jihad Watch

The IDF, having endured a series of rejections by Hamas of extending the first phase of the hostages-for-criminals deal, finally had had enough, and on March 17, waves of IAF planes attacked Hamas targets in Gaza. Hamas claims that 404 people were killed, including “dozens of children,” and 600 were wounded. There is no reason to believe those figures, because Hamas has a long record of exaggerating the number of those killed. In addition, it does not distinguish between combatants and civilians, but does supply the media with unproven claims that “most of the casualties are women and children.” These claims are uncritically repeated by that media. The IDF does not know exactly how many casualties there have been, and how many of those are civilians, and of those how many are women and children, and it will be weeks before it will come up with what it believes are more accurate estimates. The IDF is always at a disadvantage in the information wars with the practiced dissemblers of Hamas. As Mark Twain said, “A lie can travel halfway round the world, while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

Among those killed, however, as announced by Hamas and confirmed by the IDF, were four of the six highest-ranking Hamas leaders. More on those high-value targets that have now been successfully eliminated as they were plotting, according to Israel, another surprise assault on the Jewish state can be found here: “IAF strikes in Gaza Strip kill four senior Hamas officials,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, March 18, 2025:

The IDF confirmed Tuesday evening that it has killed four out of six senior Hamas officials who the terror group itself have announced as being hit by IDF strikes.

It is possible that all six are dead, but Hamas sometimes spreads misinformation for a variety of strategic reasons, so the IDF does not confirm deaths of its senior officials until it obtains its own independent evidence (and even then there have been a few cases where the IDF wrongly announced having killed a Hamas official.)

The four were: Issam al-Da’alis, who has served as Hamas’s political Gazan prime minister, Mahmoud Abu Watfa, the director-general of Hamas’s Interior Ministry and related terror forces, Bahjat Abu Sultan, operational chief of Hamas’s internal security apparatus, and Hamas justice minister Ahmed Omar al-Hatta.

Hamas also said that senior officials Muhammad al-Jamasi and Yasir Herev were killed in IDF strikes, though the military has not yet confirmed those deaths.

Hamas has said that six of the most senior Hamas officials were killed. The IDF, ever cautious, is waiting for more information on Al-Jamasi and Herev before it will confirm their deaths.

Al-Da’alis was the most senior of the officials, but the most critical officials for Hamas at this stage are its military chief Muhammad Sinwar, brother of Yahya Sinwar, and one of the few remaining central planners of the October 7 invasion, and Khalil al-Haya, who was Yahya Sinwar’s political deputy and has been the lead Hamas negotiator on the hostages issue….

Israel has said it will continue to strike at Hamas until it agrees to an extension of the first part of the lopsided hostages-for-criminals deal. The IDF has announced that this is “not a one-day strike.” How long, do you think, do Yahya Sinwar and Khalil al-Haya have to live?

Hamas eulogized the “martyrs” saying: “As we mourn these leaders who have worked since the beginning of the war of extermination to alleviate the suffering of their people, faithfully shouldering the responsibility entrusted to them, and who have ascended after a journey filled with sacrifices and honorable stances—serving as exemplars of dedication and devotion to their work—we affirm that the loss of government leadership will not deter us from fulfilling our national duty toward our Palestinian people. We remain committed to our religious obligation and our ethical and professional role in serving them, supporting their resilience, and standing firm in the face of this brutal aggression.”

The only “war of extermination” in the region is that which had its opening salvo when 6,000 Hamas operatives smashed into Israel on October 7,2023 and proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis — men, women, children, and babies. This was the opening salvo in what was to have been a war of extermination. Hamas would gladly have extended that war in time and space, until every last Jew in Israel was either killed or expelled. Unfortunately for Hamas, the people of Israel girded their loins, 360,000 Reservists showed up as one man to fight, and the war which lasted 16 months in its first phase — with Israel moving heaven and earth to warn civilians in Gaza away from sites about to be targeted — is now, it seems, after a two-month ceasefire, on again. This time the Israelis mean to completely crush Hamas.

Diplomatically, the American government, under new management, now has Israel’s back, and the Israelis are keenly aware of the Trump administration’s steadfast support. It was Donald Trump who, instead of following Biden and withholding weapons to force changes in the IDF’s operations, told Prime Minister Netanyahu to “do whatever you want” in Gaza. And the Israelis have kept Washington informed, in advance, of the latest bombing campaign in Gaza, with not the slightest objection being raised by the Americans. In fact, the American military are apparently coordinating their attacks on the Houthis with the IDF’s attacks in Gaza, keeping the Houthis on the defensive, unable to effectively respond to Israel, while waiting nervously for the next airstrikes on western Yemen by the Americans. Can you imagine that sort of military coordination with Israel happening under the Biden-Blinken dispensation? No, I can’t, either.

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Lying corporate media continues to gaslight American parents on measles outbreak: Here’s the truth about America’s ‘first measles death’ since 2015

March 21, 2025/in Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Fake News, Healthcare, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, National Security, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Leo Hohmann

A video report was just released by Children’s Health Defense exposing the corrupt mainstream corporate media, which loudly and repeatedly announced that a 6-year-old child died in Texas recently of measles.

Due to new information, we now know that this report was patently false. The child did not die of measles. The child died from medical malpractice. Let’s unpack the facts, which belie the propaganda we’ve heard on the television, radio and social media.

Let’s start by saying these reports recklessly spread panic and fear throughout the mostly rural West Texas community that includes nine counties in and around Lubbock. The rampant media fearmongering was used to get more kids vaccinated who didn’t need to be vaccinated.

Media reports like this one from the local NBC affiliate spread like wildfire and caused parents anxiety far beyond Lubbock, Texas. The CDC was also guilty of spreading the disinformation, as it colluded with the media outlets to report “the first measles death in the country since 2015,” according to NBC’s false report.

Key points from the Children’s Health Defense findings included the following list compiled by medical researcher Steve Kirsch and posted to his Substack:

The parents authorized release of the medical records to CHD.
The 6-year-old child was recovering from the measles (and was out of danger from dying from the measles), but developed pneumonia.
The hospital gave the child the WRONG antibiotic combination (deviating from the standard of care).
The child got worse.
The doctors should have tried the correct antibiotic at that point, but did nothing.
The test results on the culture revealed the type of infection and the doctor ordered the correct medication, but it was ordered to be started 10 hours later (instead of immediately).
The correct medication was started after it was too late to stop the infection.
Note: the community of Lubbock, Texas, avoids vaccines due to too many vaccine adverse events in the community. Apparently, the gaslighting (“this is normal”) is not working in this community.

Kirsch noted:

“The mainstream media lied to you creating a panic and questioning RFK’s measured response. Do you think any of them will apologize for getting it wrong? In your dreams, maybe. I’d be absolutely amazed if there were any apologies for getting it wrong and falsely alarming people.I’d be further amazed if any of them correct the story. Mainstream media should be telling parents to follow the science and do NOT vaccinate your kids.”

Kirsch pointed out there have been 10 studies in the peer-reviewed literature now comparing fully vaxxed and fully unvaxxed kids. The fully unvaxxed kids do better on every single health measure. The mainstream media does not want you to know any of this because it would make them look foolish and corrupt for all the untruths they’ve been feeding the American public for decades about vaccines.

The truth is, kids have been getting measles for hundreds of years. Outbreaks come and go. The overwhelming majority of cases do not end in death or permanent injury. Vaccines were never the cure-all for measles that they were promoted to be by the lying American media in collusion with a corrupt American government and medical establishment.

I hope every media outlet that reported the lie about a Texas girl dying from measles gets sued into oblivion.

Please visit LeoHohmann.com: Investigative reporting on globalism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and where politics, culture and religion intersect.

JFK Files Reveal New Depths Of CIA Incompetence

March 21, 2025/in Assassination attempt, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

Newly declassified documents related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination shed additional light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, in the weeks leading up to JFK’s death.

Documents reveal that the CIA tapped the phones at Cuban and Soviet diplomatic facilities in Mexico City, according to journalist Steven Portnoy. Oswald traveled there multiple times to meet with officials just weeks prior to the assassination. It was previously known that the CIA was aware of Oswald’s travels — a fact they withheld from the Warren Commission — but details about CIA wiretapping were classified until Tuesday.

“The docs dropped last night add more specifics about the CIA’s operations, namely in Mexico City, where Oswald met with Cuban and Soviet Officials in Sept. 1963,” he said. “These docs reveal how the CIA tapped phones of the Cuban and Soviet diplomatic facilities, information that had been classified until now.”

Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963.

Oswald lived in the USSR from October 1959 to June 1962. Soviet spies, however, did not want him in the country permanently, particularly after his suicide attempt, according to a previously released CIA document. His trips to the embassy in Mexico City were allegedly to try to obtain a visa to return to the USSR, documents show.

The newly-released documents also reveal how a JFK advisor issued a warning to Kennedy about the CIA’s influence over foreign policy. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., JFK’s nephew, previously discussed how his uncle was “at war” with his military and intelligence community over his desire to keep the U.S. out of regime-change wars.

Jefferson Morley, a JFK assassination expert, noted that one memo from Arthur Schlesinger Jr. told JFK that “CIA encroachment on the traditional functions of state” affected his ability to direct foreign policy without the CIA’s influence.

Schlesinger was a historian and served as Special Assistant to JFK from 1961 to 1963, according to his biography in Foreign Affairs.

Schlesinger warned JFK that “CIA encroachment on the traditional functions of State” undermined his abilit to conduct his own foreign policy independent of CIA.

See pp.4-5 for what the CIA didn’t want you to know.https://t.co/FDvXekWAAm

— Jefferson Morley (@jeffersonmorley) March 19, 2025

Schlesinger argued that the “CIA has, in effect, ‘made’ policy in many parts of the world.”

In another letter from Schlesinger, he called the agency a “state within a state.”

“The contemporary CIA possesses many of the characteristics of a state within a state,” he wrote.

Another previously redacted memo was released Tuesday without redactions. It demonstrated that a CIA source, Samuel Cummings, owned the International Armament Corp, and Intercarmo. Interarmco reportedly was a supplier for the sporting goods store at which Oswald allegedly purchased the firearm used to kill JFK.

Cummings was the largest private weapons dealer in the world, and he sold arms to Cuba’s Fidel Castro, among others, The Washington Post reported in 1981. A lawsuit by Armco Steel forced him to change Interarmco to Interarms, the outlet noted.

“These items were to remain the property of the CIA, and their cost was to be returned to the Agency after they were sold,” the CIA document revealed.

Worth noting: the Trump admin did release the memo today but without redactions. The redactions weren’t about JFK though – instead, the CIA admitted that they owned the arms dealer Interarmco, which sold weapons around the world and were the original exclusive agent for ArmaLite. https://t.co/ZLvxKQDcXt pic.twitter.com/ZwgWAkyVTx

— Damin Toell (@damintoell) March 19, 2025

Morley revealed that he reached out to the CIA regarding the popular “Who Killed JFK?” podcast the week prior to the March 18 document release. Morley said a spokesperson called him and spoke to him off the record on March 18 and then sent him a statement.

“The notion that CIA was involved in the death of John F. Kennedy is absolutely false,” the statement read.

President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency. Today, per his direction, previously redacted JFK Assassination Files are being released to the public with no redactions. Promises made, promises kept. https://t.co/UnG1vkgxjX pic.twitter.com/XBbkQfz4Bx

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) March 18, 2025

On Monday, President Trump said “80,000 pages” of documents would be released. Over 60,000 pages and more than 2,000 files were published Tuesday night.

Trump signed an executive order in January mandating the declassification of the assassination files of JFK, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Time for Some Green Card-Holding Muslim Leaders to be Deported

March 20, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Social Issues, Terrorism/by Jihad Watch

In an earlier article, I wrote about a report I had completed looking at statements coming from various leaders in the Muslim American community that were hostile toward Jews and Christians, the United States and Israel, and supportive of terrorists and terrorist organizations.[1] In this article I am focusing on particular statements made by seven of the individuals mentioned in that report. I have been able to verify that six of those seven were born outside the United States[2]; I have seen no evidence that any of the seven are American citizens:

Ayman Aishat (a Jordanian citizen^[3])
Sheikh Abdullah Alhajj
Imam Amro Elaswalli (born in Egypt^[4])
Imam Sheikh Mongy El Quesny (born in Egypt^[5])
Imam Yassir Fazaga (born in Eritrea^[6])
Imam Alhajie Jallow (born in Gambia[7])
Dr. Fadi Kablawi (born in Jordan^[8])

Recently we have seen that statements in support of terrorists and terrorist organizations can have consequences when it comes to individuals who are in the United States by virtue of having a visa or a Permanent Residence Card (green card); such individuals can be deported. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio said of such individuals,

…if you are in this country, to promote Hamas, to promote terrorist organizations…We never would have let you in if we had known that and now that we know it, you’re going to leave.[9]

With regard to a matter involving support for the terrorist group Hezbollah, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman stated,

“A visa is a privilege not a right,” the spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement to The New York Times. “Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is common-sense security.”[10]

As we can see in the statements arranged alphabetically by speaker in the latter part of this article, five of the above individuals have expressed support for terrorists: Aishat, Alhajj, Fazaga, Jallow, and Kablawi.

There is another section of federal law that allows for the deportation of visa or green card holders: 8 USC 1227 (4)(C)(i). This section states:

An alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable.

This was the basis for the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the leader of the pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University, who was arrested for allegedly circulating “pro-Hamas propaganda flyers.”[11]

So how does this pertain to our seven individuals? Among them, five of those individuals (Aishat, Elaswalli, El Quesny, Jallow, and Kablawi) have called for the killing of Jews/Israelis, Christians (Crusaders), and Arab and Muslim rulers. In terms of our foreign policy, how could it not have an adverse effect on our relations with the people of Israel and Arab leaders when we passively allow certain leaders in the Muslim American community to call for their killing? And how can we discuss human rights with other nations when we passively allow certain leaders in the Muslim American community to call for the killing of certain groups of people?

It is time to ask our federal officials when the deportation of certain green-card holding leaders in the Muslim American community will begin.

Statements

Ayman Aishat

On May 3, 2024, Ayman Aishat, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Director of Mosque Engagement, live streamed a Friday Sermon on the YouTube channel of Masjid Hawthorne, in Hawthorne, CA. In this sermon, he called for Allah to annihilate the “plundering Zionists” and support Hamas:

For us to understand the current circumstances, we don’t have to go thousands of years back. Just go [back] a hundred years ago, and see what happened when the Zionist movement went ahead and wanted to get a small piece of land in the heart of the Muslim nation in Palestine…

Oh Allah, annihilate the plundering Zionist aggressors. Oh Allah, annihilate them and drive them out of Gaza defeated. Oh Allah, support our brothers in Gaza, stand by them and accept their martyrs, support them against our enemies, Your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, we can see the glad tidings of victory. Oh Allah, we ask that You allow us to pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque when it is liberated from these criminals.

On January 12, 2024, Ayman Aishat delivered a Friday Sermon at a mosque in Harrisburg, PA. In this sermon, Aishat expressed support for Hamas and called for the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem to be liberated “from the plundering Zionist aggressors”:

Oh Allah, grant us victory over our enemies, Your enemies, the enemies of Islam, for they are no match for You. Oh Allah, stand by our family, our brothers, the oppressed Muslims in Palestine. Oh Allah, stand by them in Gaza, and grant them your support. Annihilate their enemies, our enemies, the enemies of Islam, and those who are hostile towards Islam and the Muslims, wherever they are. Oh Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the plundering Zionist aggressors, and allow us to pray there before we die.

Sheikh Abdullah Alhajj

On August 9, 2024, Sheikh Abdullah Alhajj gave a Friday Sermon in Highland, IN. In this sermon, he praised Ismail Haniyeh, a leader of Hamas who was killed on July 31, 2024 :

Allah be praised, we had a big hit, a painful strike last week, when the mujahid Sheikh Ismail Haniyeh was attacked or slaughtered or… Huh… Assassinated… He was assassinated by the enemies of Islam in a Muslim country. And he was a doctor. He was a mujahid since he was a child. When you look at some of his videos when he was like 10-12 years old, Someone asked him: ‘What do you want to be?’ He said: ‘I want to be a martyr’…

Palestine has been and is still and will continue to bring and to give birth to martyrs for the sake of Allah, to defend Islam and the Muslims, and the holy sites of the Muslims…When they assassinated him, it was a big hit, it hurt so much, and the entire world felt that, and thousands of mosques prayed for him, and we continue to supplicate to Allah: May Allah accept him as a martyr. Yet Palestine will continue to bring and feed… and to replace martyr after martyr. Allah willing. This is the fight that Allah told us would continue.

Imam Amro Elaswalli

On October 13, 2023, Imam Amro Elaswalli gave a Friday Sermon at the Muslim Association of Greater Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. In this sermon, he referred to the hadith about Muslims killing Jews who are hiding behind trees and rocks[12] and called on Allah to “annihilate the Israelis”:

… We always have hope, the Prophet gave us the promise that is in an Al-Bukhari [Hadith collection] that there will be a day – and the Day of Judgment will never come until that day comes – when the Muslims will fight against the combatant Jews, and they will hide behind trees and rocks, and on that day the trees and rocks will speak and say: ‘Oh, Muslims, there is a combatant^[[13]] Jew behind me, come and kill him’… Oh Allah, grant victory to our oppressed brothers in Palestine. Oh Allah, destroy their enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, annihilate the Israelis, remove them from the land of Your Prophet. Oh Allah, remove them from the land of Your Prophet’s Night Journey. Oh Allah, purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque from their filth.

Imam Sheikh Mongy El Quesny

On November 10, 2023, Imam Sheikh Mongy El Quesny gave a Friday Sermon at the Northwest Indiana Islamic Center in Crown Point, IN. In this sermon, he praised the actions of Hamas, and he called for Allah to “bring annihilation upon the plundering and criminal Zionists, the hateful Crusader [Christian] aggressors…”:

What is happening to Gaza is a victory. People think that victory is [when] you defeat your enemy – no…Victory is when people stand firm, and adhere firmly to what they believe and they die for that…

We have here in the United States sending special forces and special agents, and they are the ones telling the Israelis what to do, because they know that the Israeli army is the most cowardly army on the planet. With all these weapons and this technology, they run away from young men, who are fighting with sneakers on their feet, AK-47s in their hands, nothing else, but they run like rats…They have no mercy, they know what happened to their ancestors. They keep bugging us about six million Jewish people burned in the Holocaust. What are you doing to the Palestinians? What are you doing? That is what Allah said: ‘Their heart became hardened’…Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon Your enemies, their enemies, and our enemies. Oh Allah, count them, kill them one by one, and do not leave a single one of them alive. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the plundering and criminal Zionists, the hateful Crusader aggressors, and the treacherous Arab and Muslim rulers. Oh Allah, demonstrate upon them the wonders of Your might. Oh Allah, seize them with a crushing grip.

On December 8, 2023, Imam Sheikh Mongy El Quesny gave a Friday Sermon at the Northwest Indiana Islamic Center in Crown Point, IN. In this sermon, he asked Allah for victory for Hamas and called for Allah to “bring annihilation upon the aggressor Zionists, the criminal and spiteful Crusaders, and the treacherous Arab and Muslim rulers”:

America is the one fighting Palestinians, not Israel. As one Israeli scholar said, Israel is not a state—it is a project. Israel is a project of all those Christians. The Crusaders, the West, they failed. So they are using all of this, preparing for the last war [Armageddon], for the return of Jesus. So Israel is a project, it is not a state…We ask Allah for a speedy and perfect victory for our brothers and sisters in Gaza. This is our central issue—Palestine and Jerusalem, that is our main issue…Oh, Allah, bring annihilation upon the aggressor Zionists, the criminal and spiteful Crusaders, and the treacherous Arab and Muslim rulers. Oh, Allah, count them, kill them one by one, do not leave a single one alive.

Imam Yassir Fazaga

On November 1, 2024, Imam Yassir Fazaga gave a Friday Sermon at the Memphis Islamic Center in Tennessee. In this sermon, Fazaga lauded Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas who was killed on October 16, 2024:

In Gaza, we just saw one of the beautiful – if not the most beautiful – Gazan leaders. We have seen these people sell their own selves for the sake of their people to please Allah. May Allah have mercy on his soul, oh, Lord of the Universe. You know, this idea of living like a man and dying like a man… And this man has demonstrated what it means to die honorably, and that it is to live my life fighting you, and the very last action in my life was an act of rebellion. Do you know how many people nowadays look at somebody like [Yahya] Sinwar and they say that man is a legend. The man is a hero, the man is brave – he not only talked the talk, but walked the walk.

Imam Alhajie Jallow

On October 13, 2023, Imam Alhajie Jallow gave a Friday Sermon at the Madinah Community Center in Madison, WI. In this sermon, Jallow praised the Hamas fighters and said that Muslims would kill all the Jews:

Our brothers in Gaza are heroes! By Allah, they are warriors, heroes, they are men, just like the Companions. They do not fear death…

Oh Jews, you unjust, criminal, corrupt oppressors – stop! You will all most definitely be killed. The Jews, the aggressors, the evil… You describe them, what they do. By Allah, all of them will be killed by Muslims. They all will be executed by Muslims. They will all be killed, this is a divine promise that will inevitably be fulfilled. This is a promise from Allah and it is going to happen. They will all be killed. They will all be killed, and on that day, the believers will rejoice in Allah’s victory.

Dr. Fadi Kablawi

On November 24, 2023, Dr. Fadi Kablawi gave a lecture at Masjid As Sunna An Nabawiyyah in North Miami, FL. In this lecture (at 28:23), he expressed support for Hamas, called for Allah to support Hamas against the “tyrannical Jews,” and called for Allah to annihilate the Zionists:

My major warning to myself and to everybody is we go back to prior of October 7th…that we go back to what happened before October 7th to think that we can trust these people, to think that these people will not do it again. To think that these people are going to leave our land. To think that these people are not oppressive…We, as Muslims, need to keep our mind and our eyes toward the prize…From the river to the sea. From the river to the sea…[Following statements translated from Arabic by MEMRI:] Oh Allah, support our brothers in Palestine against the tyrannical Jews. Oh Allah, support our brothers in Gaza against the tyrannical Jews. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the Zionists, for they are not match for you. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon them, for they are not match for you. Oh Allah, shake the ground under their feet. Oh Allah, shatter their unity, disperse their gathering, and make their hearts quake.

On March 8, 2024, Dr. Fadi Kablawi spoke at the Masjid As Sunna An Nabawiyyah in North Miami, FL. During this talk (at 30:24), he accused the “Nazi Zionists” of murdering over 30,000 people, supported by the “Zionist regime in Washington.” He called for Allah to support the mujahideen[14] and annihilate the “accursed Zionists”:

What happens in Gaza, I promise you, gonna propagate…Over 30,000 people already murdered by Nazi Zionists supported by Zionist regime in Washington. All Zionist Nazis. There is no difference between them and Hitler or anybody else who behaved like that…No difference between Republicans and Democrats. They’re all same idea [unintelligible] Satan. That’s all what rules them…[Following statements translated from Arabic by MEMRI:] Oh Allah, support their mujahideen. Oh Allah, guide their shooting. Oh Allah, support them with your soldiers. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the accursed Zionists. Oh Allah, curse them and then curse them some more…Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the Zionists, the hypocrites, and the enemies of Islam…Oh Allah, support our mujahideen.

On April 26, 2024, Dr. Fadi Kablawi gave a Friday Sermon at the Masjid As Sunna An Nabawiyyah in North Miami, FL. In this sermon (at 26:10), he accused the Israeli army of harvesting human organs, and called for Allah to “support our oppressed brothers in Palestine” and “annihilate the tyrannical Jews”:

[Referring to Israel’s army] The most immoral army, Nazis, worse than Nazis, and I apologized to Nazis last week, because these people have proven to be worse than the Nazis…They steal the skin of the Palestinians. Not enough they stole their land, now they steal their skins. Organs missing, from children, from adults, organs are missing. Go and find who is behind organ trading in this country or in this world. Go ask the Haitians, when they had the earthquake, what happened there with these Israeli organizations going under medical help…The guy will come limping into their tents for treatment. He will walk out, he will be carried out dead, organs missing. All that is because there is no God for these people. All that because these people look at you as nothing but a mistake. Or the best, you were created for their service. That’s what they believe, that’s what they say…[Following statements translated from Arabic by MEMRI:] Oh Allah, support our oppressed brothers in Palestine. Oh Allah, annihilate the tyrannical Jews. Oh Allah, annihilate them for they are no match for you. Oh Allah, annihilate the brothers of apes and pigs…Oh Allah, cut off their seed. Oh Allah, break up their fellowship. Oh Allah, disperse them and render them asunder.

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[1] “What is Going On at Muslim American Mosques and Events?” Jihad Watch, March 10, 2025, https://jihadwatch.org/2025/03/what-is-going-on-at-muslim-american-mosques-and-events.

[2] According to a 2020 study of mosques, 68% of the imams in the United States were born outside the United States. See: Dr. Ihsan Bagby, “Mosque Administration,” “The American Mosque 2020: Growing and Evolving,” https://ispu.org/report-1-mosque-survey-2020/#participants.

[3] Ted Rosner, “CAIR Appoints Pro-Hamas Lawyer as Ambassador to American Mosques, Focus on Western Islamism, August 1, 2024, https://www.meforum.org/fwi/fwi-news/cair-appoints-pro-hamas-lawyer-as-ambassador-to-american-mosques. See hyperlink in Paragraph 2 regarding Aishat being denied citizenship.

[4] See Elaswalli’s Resume: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52729fa3e4b08767362364a2/t/55da0e84e4b072906c9b88e5/1440353924605/elaswalli_cv_july2015.pdf.

[5] https://www.darelsalam.ca/Our-Religious-Advisors#SheikhMongyElQuesny

[6] https://nabic.org/sh-yassir-fazaga/

[7] https://madisonmuslims.org/imam-alhagie/

[8] https://altayyib.com/biography/

[9] “ Transcript: Secretary of State Marco Rubio on ‘Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,’ March 16, 2025,” CBS News, March 16, 2025, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marco-rubio-secretary-of-state-face-the-nation-transcript-03-16-2025/.

[10] Dana Goldstein and Jenna Russell, “D.H.S. Sheds Light on Why It Deported Rhode Island Doctor,” The New York Times, March 17, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/rasha-alawieh-brown-university-doctor-deported-hezbollah.html.

[11] George Fishman, “Is It Constitutional to Deport the Ringleader of Columbia University’s Pro-Hamas Demonstrations?” Center for Immigration Studies, March 12, 2025, https://cis.org/Fishman/It-Constitutional-Deport-Ringleader-Columbia-Universitys-ProHamas-Demonstrations.

[12] Muhammad taught that the end times would come when Muslims fight against and kill the Jews. During that battle, even the rocks and trees would call out if a Jew was hiding behind them:

Abu Huraira reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them will [sic] the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Abu’l Hussain ‘Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, Sahih Muslim, trans. ‘Abdul Hamid Siddiqi (New Delhi, India: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), Vol. 8, No. 2922, p. 349.

On another occasion Muhammad just referred to Jews hiding behind the stones:

Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’”

Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 2926, p. 113.

[13] In neither of the authoritative hadiths above is the word “combatant” used to describe the Jew.

[14] Mujahideen are Fighters in the Cause of Allah (Jihad). They are promised Paradise if they become martyrs by dying while fighting in that Cause.

Muhammad stressed the importance of martyrdom and stated that martyrs would be admitted to Paradise:

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet said, “Allah assigns for a person who participates in (holy battles) in Allah’s Cause and nothing causes him to do so except belief in Allah and in His Messengers, that he will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr).” The Prophet added: “Had I not found it difficult for my followers, then I would not remain behind any Sariya (an army-unit) going for Jihad and I would have loved to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then made alive, and then martyred and then made alive, and then again martyred in His Cause.”

Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 1, Book 2, No. 36, pp. 72-73.

In Koran Chapter 9, Verse 111, Allah also promised Paradise to the martyrs:

Verily, Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties for (the price) that theirs shall be Paradise. They fight in Allah’s Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed…