Ep. 1694 - Trump Invokes ＂Alien Enemies Act＂ for MASS DEPORTATIONS
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It s Day 56 of Trump s second term, and the hits just keep on coming. President Trump just vaporized a top ISIS leader, invoked a law from 1798 to deport hundreds of Venezuelan gangsters, over the impotent protestations of an Obama-appointed federal judge, and he announced his probable plans to annex Greenland.
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It is day 56 of Trump's second term, and the hits just keep on coming.
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President Trump just vaporized a top ISIS leader, invoked a law from 1798 to deport
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hundreds of Venezuelan gangsters over the impotent protestations of an Obama-appointed
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federal judge, and he announced his probable plans to annex Greenland.
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The Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Man, you know, people say that we conservatives, we just want to
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go back in time. You know, oh, you just want to relive the Reagan era. Oh, you guys just want to go
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back to the 1950s. With the Trump administration, you sometimes hear, oh, you want to go back to
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the McKinley era. President Trump himself has invoked President McKinley in a curious way that
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actually helps us understand the Trump administration. We'll get to that story a
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little bit later. But no, no, forget about even the McKinley era. We're going back to 1798, baby,
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because the libs have tried to stymie Trump from deporting illegal aliens. And not just the nice
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abuela who makes street tacos in your neighborhood who you like, not just the guy that mows your lawn
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that's an illegal alien, but he's a generally amiable fellow. We're talking about face tattooed,
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human smuggling, fentanyl dealing, absolute animals. Even those people, the liberal bureaucrats
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and judges will not let Trump deport. So Trump has invoked a law from the 18th century to make it
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easier to get these animals out of our country. Trump's order reads, here's just a little bit.
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It's obviously a long order. Here's just a little bit of it. Trendy Aragua, TDA, is a designated foreign
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terrorist organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United
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States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United
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States. But a pause here. How could you say they're conducting warfare? Well, they're killing
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people. They're breaking our basic laws. They're invading the country. They're poisoning people,
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even the ones they don't kill. They poison with fentanyl. They're smuggling human beings. They're
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running brothels. They're doing all sorts of harmful stuff. But would you call that warfare?
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Isn't warfare the kind of thing that occurs between two nations or at the very least between
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a terrorist organization and a national government, not just street crime, not just prostitution,
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not just murder? Well, Trump explains, TDA has engaged in and continues to engage in mass illegal
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migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming US citizens, undermining public
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safety, and supporting the Maduro regime's goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas,
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including the United States. So what Trump is saying here is these cartels are not just operating
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as ordinary street criminals or even as ordinary organized crime. They are working with foreign
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governments. So they're working with the Maduro regime in Venezuela. They're working with hostile
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governments to undermine the United States. They're not working against those governments that the
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governments are merely helpless to deal with them. They're actually working in concert with them.
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TDA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the
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territory of the United States. No one could deny that. So the White House said they had 300 people
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who were in custody, who were identified as members of the gang, who could be deported soon.
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An Obama-appointed judge comes out, this guy James Bozberg, and he says that Trump has to stop the
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deportations. He issues an emergency order. He says any plane containing these folks, I love the folksy
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talk, these folks, you know, face tattooed, child smuggling folks, that is going to take off or is
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in the air needs to be returned to the United States, however that is accomplished. So even if
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the plane is about to land in Latin America, it's got to go back up, turn around, go back to the United
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States. We will not allow you to deport these Venezuelan gangsters. The judge concludes, make
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sure it's complied with immediately. And then one of the greatest tweets ever posted on the internet
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comes out. This by way of the leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who posts that headline and then just
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says, oopsie, too late, with a laughing face emoji. Because, as you might recall, us discussing on this
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show months ago, weeks ago, it feels like months in the Trump administration because so much is
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happening every day. President Trump has a deal with El Salvador. Nayib Bukele, the greatest strongman
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in Latin America, said, we will take your prisoners. You don't know where to bring your prisoners. He even
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offered to take American citizen prisoners that we don't want to deal with. But the Trump administration
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said, okay, just the illegal aliens from Latin America, if we don't know how to deal with them, if our
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prisons are really light and easy and kind of a joke in the minds of these gangsters, and if we don't
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know exactly where to put these guys when we deport them, we're going to send them to El Salvador. We'll pay
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a small fee for that because El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, if he knows one thing, it is how to deal with
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gangsters because he locked up. He undertook a mass incarceration program for face-tattooed gangsters who
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had made El Salvador the most dangerous country on earth. And when he locked them all up and
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humiliated them, then went to their cemeteries and destroyed their gravestones. This guy is not
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joking around, okay? When he did that, El Salvador went from being the most dangerous country in the
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world to the safest country in the Western Hemisphere. Pretty amazing. So just the message this
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sends, first of all, that Trump can say, oh yeah, oh judge, you sent out that order. Oh, too bad.
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Actually, the plane's already in El Salvador and Bukele's dealing with them. We'll get to the
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constitutionality of that, the legality of that in one second. But even just imagine you're one of
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these gangsters. You're just any illegal alien, but certainly if you're one of these gangsters,
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your view is that the United States is a joke, that you can just go right up to the border.
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This is the Biden administration. They're inviting you in. You go to the border. You present yourself to
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Border Patrol. Border Patrol has to process you, and then Border Patrol lets you go. You don't even
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really have to sneak into the country anymore. You can just walk up, say, hey, all right, I'm here.
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Cuff me. You're going to uncuff me in five minutes. Then I'm going to go into the country. I'm going
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to get lost. I'm not going to show up for my court appearance. And now I'm just, I'm on the path to
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being an American citizen. I can do whatever I want. Your country is a joke. And by the way,
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even if I get arrested, you guys are going to go really easy on me in prison. It's no big deal.
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The Democrats want to abolish prisons in the first place. But even if I go to prison,
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those prisons are a joke. No big deal. Why wouldn't I break the law?
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That's what the gangsters are thinking. Then Trump comes out and he says, yeah, I just struck a deal
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with the strongman leader of El Salvador. And so what's going to happen, I think we have B-roll
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footage of it. When you land in El Salvador, you're going to be ferried into one of Bukele's prisons
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by Salvadoran military. And then you're going to be paraded around like the absolute animals that you
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are. You're not going to have any privacy. And you're not going to have the cushy luxuries that
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people in the United States demand as rights. You're going to be treated the way you deserve
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to be treated. That sends a message to anyone who wants to consider crossing our border illegally,
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which is illegal. It's a misdemeanor the first time. It's a felony if you do it multiple times.
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And it's greatly offensive to the American people who, if they don't have the right to control their
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border, they don't really have any right of self-government. They don't have really any
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political liberty. So the big question here is, can Trump violate this court order? Is this illegal?
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Is this unconstitutional for the plane to land in defiance of the court order? And you're going to
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hear a lot of prattling on MSNBC and CNN and all the liberal news channels about the separation of
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powers. Checks and balances and the separation of powers. Ironically enough, those arguments
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favor Trump. The arguments from checks and balances and the separation of powers,
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they justify what Trump is doing. They do not justify what the judge is doing.
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The judge is overstepping his boundaries. The judge has no right to stop the president of the United
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States from executing the most basic aspects of his job. Protecting our border, the sovereignty of
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our nation. He has no right to do that. Checks and balances and separation of powers mean nothing
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if the Supreme Court just has the final say over everything.
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The liberals have been arguing in recent years that the Supreme Court just gets to do whatever it wants.
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With some exceptions. When the Supreme Court observes that there's no right to abortion in the
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Constitution, then we need to take away all the Supreme Court's power. When the Supreme Court
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rules that Democrats don't just get to throw the former president and current leader of the opposition
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in prison, then the Supreme Court should have no power. But when it comes to stopping the enforcement
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of basic immigration law, then what the liberals are arguing for is not separation of powers and checks
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and balances. It's judicial supremacy. But we don't have a system of judicial supremacy. That's not in
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the Constitution. That's not in the Federalist. It's not what the founders and framers gave us.
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Judicial review is what they'll say. They'll say, well, the Supreme Court has the right of judicial
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review. And this comes from Marbury versus Madison, longstanding precedent that the court has the right
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to interpret the Constitution. First of all, all three branches have an obligation to interpret and
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be faithful to the Constitution. But furthermore, judicial review in Marbury v. Madison is a self-asserted
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right. It's the court saying, hey, we have a lot of power. So obviously there are some limits to that
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power. The court just can't say, hey, by the way, we have decided, we on the Supreme Court,
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that we're the most important branch of government. We can do whatever we want. They don't get to do
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that. Okay. And this is what gives you a little clue into Trump's view of the second term.
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Great American presidents, great in the historic sense, really significant American presidents,
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have ignored the Supreme Court on much shakier, more dubious grounds than Trump is doing.
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Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, men who are considered among the great presidents of the
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United States, have ignored the Supreme Court with far less justification than Trump is ignoring the
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court. This federal judge, this random district judge, James Bosberg, when it comes to the deportations.
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and Bells candle with my brand new La Polina lighter. Okay. Once Trump got rid of the face
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tattooed gangsters, sent them over to Bukele for Bukele to do whatever he wants with him.
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Then Trump turns across the Atlantic on the other side of the world to take out a top ISIS leader.
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This is Abdallah Maki Muzli al-Rifa, also known as Abu Khadija, and a second ISIS operative.
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He takes him out. Khadija was the chief of global operations and the delegated committee
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amir for ISIS. So officially the second in command for the Islamic terror group. And Trump just vaporized
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these guys from the sky. He tweeted out, or he truth socialed out, today the fugitive leader of
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ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life
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was terminated along with another member of ISIS and coordinated with the Iraqi government and the
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Kurdish regional government. And then this is the key for understanding the deeper level of politics
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here. He goes, peace through strength, all caps. So this reminds us, of course, of when Trump took
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out the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, during the first term. And he came out, he said,
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instead of doing the diplomatic thing, saying, you know, well, the United States government has
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conducted an operation that has neutralized and eliminated, you know, kind of that Obama thing.
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Trump comes in and goes, he died like a dog. He was begging for his life, that disgusting,
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sweaty animal. And, you know, so he does another iteration of that here with this other leader of
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ISIS. But then he concludes, peace through strength. Two takeaways to understand about Trump here. One,
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Trump is good at multitasking. It sounds a little bit trite, but it's an important reminder.
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Presidents sometimes get tunnel vision and they only focus on one or two at most, three things in
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their administration. There's so much to do. Trump seems pretty good at multitasking. He's moving the
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ball down the field on a lot of fronts. On tariffs, on immigration, on resolving the war in
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Ukraine, on resolving the war in Gaza, on annexing Greenland. We'll get to that later. On taking over
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Canada, on maybe taking back the Panama Canal, on this, on that. He's pretty good on deporting the 300
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gangsters, on killing the leader of ISIS. He's, the machine is moving very efficiently right now,
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and it's covering a lot of bases at the same time. But, and the second takeaway, from the peace
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through strength line. Peace through strength, which is a slogan that Republicans have repeated
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for decades now. Virtually every Republican repeats it. It harkens back to the Reagan administration,
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goes back to Barry Goldwater. Peace through strength. Peace through strength does not work
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if you always fight every battle everywhere. Okay? Peace through strength does not work if you're
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constantly invading every country on earth for whatever reason. Then you're not going to remain
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strong. You're going to be overextended. This is, this is what happened by the end of the second Bush
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term, is said, oh, look, we're fighting every war. We're trying to bring Madisonian democracy to the
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Middle East, and we're just overextended, and it's not working. The center's not going to hold.
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On the flip side, peace through strength doesn't work if you never fight any battle.
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If you just say, we're going to come get you someday, but you never actually make good on your
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threats, then your adversaries are going to know that you're just always bluffing, and they're going
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to take advantage of you. This is the special Trump genius. Trump is more of a dove probably than any
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president in my lifetime. I was going to say maybe George H.W. Bush, but no, George H.W. Bush launched
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Operation Desert Storm. So Trump is the Republican least inclined to war of my lifetime in the presidency,
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democracy. And yet, every so often, he drops the Moab. Every so often, he kills the top Iranian
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general. Every so often, he goes in and vaporizes an ISIS leader. And so you never know. Is he going
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to do it? When Trump goes to Putin and says, if you invade Ukraine, I'll blow up Moscow. If you're
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Putin, you have some reason to think that there's some chance that the guy might just be crazy enough
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to do it. That's how peace through strength works. And it's a reminder that politics is not an abstract
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philosophical endeavor. It is a practical science. It is, in the words of the political philosopher John
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Gray, less an argument, more a conversation. I think it's a really helpful way to understand
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politics, practical politics. It's not just some argument that you make from a lectern with absolutely
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precise, rigorous logic that totally wins the battle, totally vanquishes one's opponents,
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and gives one absolute power. That's not how politics works. Politics is always a negotiation.
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It's always a compromise. It's always trying to find out what really people want, what's really
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making them tick, what they really mean when they say a phrase, what the true meaning of what they're
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trying to convey. It's a conversation. And that's what Trump is doing here. Is he a dove? Is he a hawk?
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He's having a conversation. And really, when he does things like this, he's not only having a
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conversation with terrorists in Iraq and Syria, he's having a conversation with Xi Jinping in China.
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He's having a conversation with Vladimir Putin in Russia. FAFO, may you guys proceed at your own risk.
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Now, speaking of Trump's aggression and expansionism, Trump has come out,
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and he's asked about one of the more eccentric projects of his second term. He's asked if he's
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What is your vision for the potential annexation of Greenland and getting the potential?
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Yeah, well, I think it'll happen. And I'm just thinking, I didn't give it much thought before,
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but I'm sitting with a man that could be very instrumental. You know, Mark, we need that for
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international security, not just security, international. We have a lot of our favorite
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players cruising around the coast, and we have to be careful. And we'll be talking to you. It's a
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very appropriate, really a very appropriate question. Thank you very much.
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And there's an issue in the high north, so the Arctic. So what you did, so when it comes to Greenland,
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yes, we're not joining the U.S. I would leave that outside for me, this discussion, because I don't want
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to direct NATO in that. But when it comes to the high north and the Arctic, you are totally right.
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The Chinese are now using these routes. We know that the Russians are rearming. We know we have
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a lack of icebreakers. So the fact that the seven outside Russia, seven Arctic countries working
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together on this under U.S. leadership is very important to make sure that that region, that that
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part of the world stays safe. And we know things are changing there, and we have to be there.
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Have to be there, simple as. Trump says, yeah, I think we will annex Greenland. We need it. We need it
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for national security. And this really opened up my eyes. I already had an intuition of this,
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but this really opened up my eyes. Trump has been comparing himself to McKinley on the campaign trail
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for the second term, into the second term. People made all sorts of comparisons for Trump in the first
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term. Oh, he's like Reagan. Oh, he's like Nixon. Oh, he's like Teddy Roosevelt. Oh, he's like
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Andrew Jackson. Trump himself has focused on this McKinley comparison. And a lot of people have just
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observed that McKinley was very pro-tariff. And McKinley made us really rich with tariffs. And Trump
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is talking about tariffs, so it's all about tariffs. You know what else William McKinley did?
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McKinley got us Puerto Rico and the Philippines and Cuba, sort of, and Hawaii. And he set the stage for
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the Panama Canal, which Trump also now wants to take back. I think that's the vision.
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Trump wants to be a great president. He wants to make America great. He wants to have a great legacy.
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And presidents don't go down as great. History does not consider presidents great
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if they give up territory, if they give up influence, if they give up power.
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Name me the great presidents who just gave things away and made the country
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smaller, maybe a little bit weaker, maybe less influential at least. There aren't any.
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So there are a lot of people who voted for Trump because Trump was going to forget about the American
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empire and make us into just a normal nation again, maybe even a yeoman republic like some of
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the founders envisioned. That was always a pipe dream. That is not Trump's vision.
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The guy who puts his name in gold letters on every big building he can get his hands on,
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that's not the guy who wants to go back to a yeoman republic.
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Trump has a great vision of himself, of the country, and I think he wants to go down in history
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as expanding America's influence, America's power, and probably America's territory.
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Get ready for a second golden age. Get ready for that second McKinley term.
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and pick the very best stuff. Speaking of power in the presidency, President Trump has just asserted
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a power that might be unprecedented, but it's to undo an abuse of power that also might be
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unprecedented from the previous president. Trump is rescinding all of the executive orders
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under Joe Biden that were signed by an auto pen. And that includes Joe Biden's pardons,
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his many, many pardons in the last moments of his presidency, including the pardons of his family.
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Now, wait, what are we talking about with the auto pen? The Heritage Foundation conducted a marvelous
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analysis of the Biden executive orders. As the Heritage Foundation said, we gathered every document we
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could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency. What they discovered was,
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in Heritage's words, all used the same auto pen signature, except for the announcement that the
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former president was dropping out of the race last year. And it shows the auto pen signature.
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So according to reporting, Heritage examined more than 20 Biden-era executive orders documented on the
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Federal Register's office between 2021 and 2024, found each had the same signature.
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So what does this mean? Just anecdotally, I'll tell you I've heard, and it's just scuttlebutt,
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it's not real. One hears stories in Washington of Joe Biden having been surprised when told of certain
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things in executive orders that he supposedly signed. At the very least, no one seriously believes that
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Biden was fully cognizant for his presidency. That's why the Democrats had to swap out their presidential
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nominee after that disastrous debate when the man was drooling on stage. So Trump's argument here is,
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Biden had the power to issue these executive orders. Biden has the pardon power in particular,
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but he didn't really do it. It was whoever was running the country while Joe Biden was drooling and not aware of
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what his name was. That's who did it. And the evidence is he didn't even sign them. He used an auto pen. An auto pen
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is just a machine that uses a pen to copy the user's signature. Trump in his own words.
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The pardons, quote unquote, that sleepy Joe Biden gave to the unselect committee of political thugs and many others
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are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further effect because of the fact that they were done by auto pen.
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In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, but more importantly, he did not know anything about them.
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The necessary pardoning documents were not explained to or approved by Biden.
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He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime.
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This is Trump usurping unprecedented power, is it? I don't know. The kinds of pardons that Joe Biden
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issued, forget here about just the unselect committee, you know, the House committee that
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went after Trump and the J6ers and all the rest of it. What is implicit here is that these pardons,
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including the pardons of Biden's family, including especially the Hunter Biden pardon,
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Never before in American history, before Joe Biden pardoned his son,
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had a president pardoned anyone, much less a family member,
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for crimes that the person may or may not have committed,
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for the Democrats to abuse power in the future.
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And they already do it every time they're in office.
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that pretty much every Republican in my lifetime