
Cliff Kincaid
We applaud the arrest of two Democratic judges in Wisconsin and New Mexico for aiding illegal aliens and interfering with federal immigration enforcement. On the federal level, however, President Trump’s policies are being undermined not only by the courts but his own personnel, in particular former Soros operative Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary. As Trump’s second term hangs in the balance, it is time for truth.
“No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling,” is a headline from one of those “new” conservative outlets, The Free Press. But Trump SHOULD be defying the Court. Responsible conservative media should remind the president that he has the constitutional duty to defy the courts when they infringe on the powers of his office. What is more, it is time to consider the matter of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent undermining Trump’s effort – and campaign promises – to hold Red China accountable for poisoning the American people through COVID and fentanyl.
Look at the headlines from Thursday, April 24:
- Three judges, including two Trump appointees, rule against the Department of Education’s anti-DEI policy (CNN).
- Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it enforce ban on transgender service members for now (CNN).
- Judge blocks Trump effort to expand proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration (CNN).
Why is the Trump administration pleading with the Court? This is humiliating.
In fact, as highlighted by the outlet known as Axios, federal judges ruled against the White House on four major policy initiatives.
In the previous anti-Trump 7-2 Supreme Court ruling against deportations, historian Lex Greene remarked, “The only two ‘constitutional justices’ on our Supreme Court dissented, while the other seven justices, including all three appointed to the bench by Trump, acted to subvert the constitutional powers of the Presidency, increasing the continuing violent threat to all legal U.S. citizens in the process.”
What we desperately need is a president who will not only defy the Court but order his Attorney General to seek the removal of those interfering with the president’s attempt to protect America from a foreign invasion. They can be removed for “bad behavior.”
Please read the Constitution, specifically Article III. It says judges, both at the Supreme Court and inferior courts, “shall hold their offices during good behavior.” They are not entitled to life terms.
Again, Lex Greene comments that nothing in Article III suggests that a bad judge can only be removed from office via “impeachment.” He explains that a judge’s attempt to usurp the powers of the Oval Office from the bench is an attempt to undermine the Constitution and subvert the will of millions of American voters. As such, these decisions are a form of usurpation, subversion, sedition, and even “treason,” and therefore constitute “bad behavior” at the very least.
I, for one, am getting sick and tired of those weak-kneed “conservatives” who think somehow that the president must take orders from the Court. He takes orders from our founding documents—the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The response, if people disagree with him, is impeachment of the president by the legislative branch.
He most decidedly must not take orders from the Pope, and yet Trump is heading off to Rome to pay respects to the first Pontiff with pro-communist views who made deals with the Chinese Communist Party, (allowing the communists to pick Catholic officials), and the Moscow-controlled Russian Orthodox Church.
Meanwhile, Trump’s statement that China tariffs will decrease “substantially” represents a blatant surrender to a regime that poisoned the world with a bioweapon and is continuing to ship chemicals to Mexican cartels who are making fentanyl to kill Americans.
At Trump’s scheduled 100-day rally in Michigan, he would be well-advised to urge mass resignations from the Court and their replacement by constitutional conservatives. He could also urge the installation of a new global Catholic leader like Pope John Paul II, the anti-communist pope who worked with President Reagan against communism worldwide.
Trump can’t afford to go soft on Red China at this critical juncture.
Trump is not a Catholic, but the church still has a lot of influence. The good news is that many who claim to be Catholics resist donating to a top-heavy bureaucracy implicated in child sex abuse scandals and cover-ups. Trump could order his Attorney General to investigate the church hierarchy under the terms of RICO for a racketeering conspiracy to hide financial assets from families of the victims through phony bankruptcy schemes. Such a move would be greeted by conservative Catholics looking for a revolution against the corrupt hierarchy.
Most importantly, Trump must take on Wall Street and the Big Banks.
To be sure, several important Wall Street operatives have taken Trump’s side, such as Morgan Stanley’s former top officer Michael Grimes, highlighted by the Wall Street Journal as “leading Trump’s Invest-in-America push.” But those on Wall Street fighting Trump’s America-first agenda are clearly on China’s side.
A real Trump revolution would not have allowed a former Soros operative in his cabinet. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is the openly gay former Soros operative and investor in a globalized world who is benefitting from what one outlet calls “a spate of leaks describing him as the economic team’s voice of sanity” in the Trump administration. That means he is leaking to undermine Trump’s tariffs against Communist China.
How can Trump trust this guy? Bessent claims to have had a Damascus Road conversion to the America First agenda. Count me as a skeptic.
It is telling that Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, who has been tough on China for decades, has been sidelined. That is a tragedy. Navarro went to prison for Trump.
The liberal “business” channels are ecstatic. Look at the headline about Bessent saying “there is an opportunity for a big deal here” on trade issues between the United States and China.
During the campaign, Trump demanded $50 trillion in reparations over the release of the China virus from the Wuhan lab. His White House has now posted a website over the “lab leak.”
It was not a leak; it was deliberate.
On Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures, Trump said China had to pay. “They have to pay reparations.” In this interview, he proposed $60 trillion in reparations.
Bessent is opposed to Elon Musk, who calls Soros a hater of humanity. It is Musk that the Democrats hate, as evidenced by their terror campaign against his electric cars and assassination attempts against him personally.
Wall Street and the Big Banks love Bessent.
I would add at this point: where is the official push for deporting Soros to his native Hungary to be tried for crimes against humanity?
Attorney General Pam Bondi can and should take action. Perhaps she could call Scott Bessent as a witness in Soros’ deportation trial, if Bessent will blow the whistle on his former boss.
Meanwhile, the president is backpedaling on matters that involve the war in Ukraine, blasting Ukraine one day and Russia the next, and the Iran nuclear weapons program, one day threatening to bomb their nuclear sites and then opening negotiations with the Islamists running the country.
Constitutional conservatives are getting worried as we pass the critical 100-day mark in Trump’s second term.
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