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May 19 2025

Answering a Familiar Question with a Current Example


Posted originally on CTH on May 18, 2025 | Sundance 

I often hear or receive this question in various iterations.  When discussing the research outlines of current events, especially when we cite the historic background of what took place leading to those events – and how it created the outcome we now witness, we often get this question – or a version therein:

…”Have you tried to meet with DNI or DOJ or NSC people to attempt to ”unsilo” their thinking and understanding of all that transpired so they can connect all the dots. You have said that different people you’ve spoken to know pieces and parts, but the silos prevent anyone from knowing the whole. Can you not be the link? I love that we know but we can’t affect change. We/I only become more frustrated as our new leaders bumble along talking and focusing on seemingly trivial things compared to the Treason that has been on display since 2008.”….

My friends, part of the reason the corrupt DC system is so transparently predictable, is precisely because everyone engaged in the events has a vested interest to retain the corruption.  When you peel down the onion, when you get through the smoke to the fire, when you go deep into the rabbit hole and finally reach the dead end, you discover the root of everything that permeates everything is money. It is not ideology – it’s money.

From my myriads of travels and interactions with the system operators, I can boil down the answer to a few key points:

♦First, to the point of those we count on to stop the corruption, these are not smart people.  You project infinitely more intelligence upon them than they actually possess.  The high-information voter and researcher has much more knowledge than they do.  We fail and become frustrated when we mistakenly believe they carry an awareness that is factually not present.  You know more than your representative, and you know the context of that information at a much, much higher level than they do.  They ARE NOT smarter than you; where “they” applies to every-single-one of the names you might reference.  You are smarter than them.

♦Second, corruption is a business; whether in the initiation of it, or in the maintenance of it. Quoting myself in discussion of the situation: “My honest and respectfully intended question to you would be: What is it that makes our representatives always want to “talk about the information” rather than act upon the information, when the information is there for the taking?

Perhaps, by training, by habit, or by unintended consequence our representative form of government, our American system of politics, has developed to live for the process itself as an end result. Is it logical to believe that removing corrupt activity is a discussion; the conversation is the point; the smoke is the fire?

The business of Washington DC has evolved into reveling in the process and, as a consequence, it completely ignores the end point, misses the bottom line, doesn’t actually SEE the subject matter and never actually applies action to what might be discovered. In fact, I’m led to believe that sometimes those within system avoid the corruption deliberately, because if they get their heads around it and nail it home, they won’t have anything to talk about anymore–nothing to fundraise from anymore-because they will have exhausted their stash.

Washington DC has gotten into the habit of milking every example of corruption for “so many talking points,” “so many interviews,” “so many column inches,” and “so many angles” that problem-solving does not appeal to them at all. They oddly appear to favor the endless process.

So, when there’s an approach like what they encounter with me, with our significant research, and our reluctance for self-involvement or financial benefit, well, I just don’t fit in–because I don’t give a flying flip about “the process.” And therefore, I do not fit into the rationale of the box or their predicted PERT chart.  And I say this having been a target of their stupid investigative nonsense.

♦Third, and this is the one that hurts; as long as the money is flowing – they really don’t care about the consequences outside the bubble of corruption that surrounds them.  This is where the “pretending not to know” aspect becomes a matter of importance to retain position.

They built the silos as a self-preservation system, where what they are preserving is their access to money.  The examples of corruption that flow like an endless stream around the silos, the feeder material for the DC swamp is simply an outcome of their own creation.

Perhaps it is better to give you an example FROM TODAY as to how this applies to what we review.  All three points noted above will be visible in this example.

♦ READ CAREFULLY– Back in December of 2017 and January of 2018, there was a battle within Washington DC -in the headlines- around the issue of the “Nunes Memo.”  Devin Nunes wrote a five-page outline of the corruption evident within the Carter Page FISA application used to conduct political surveillance on Donald Trump.  The DC Silo System operators within the DNI (Dan Coats), FBI (Chris Wray, Andrew McCabe), and DOJ (Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller) did not want the Nunes Memo released, so they said it contained “classified” material.

Remember, this was President Donald Trump’s DNI, DOJ and FBI telling the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Devin Nunes, that they would not permit the public release of the Nunes Memo; despite the material inside the memo largely exonerating the President and providing material, factual and irrefutable evidence of the corrupt and weaponized use of the FISA application itself by the DOJ, FBI and CIA.

At the same time as this “Nunes Memo” issue was being argued, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was attacking the office of the presidency with fraudulently narrated material from the surveillance the fraudulent FISA warrant authorized.  Read that again if needed. SLOWLY.

The Silos (DNI, DOJ, FBI, CIA), while working for the President, were operating to isolate and target the President.

Now, in the background of this Nunes Memo fight, the FISA-702 bill was also up for reauthorization.  The DNI, DOJ, FBI and CIA wanted the FISA-702 reauthorization that permits them to conduct surveillance on Americans without a warrant.  The DC Intelligence Silos wanted 702 reauthorized.  HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes, who ultimately controlled the reauthorization, wanted his memo declassified.  Nunes lead strategist was Kash Patel, the senior staffer within the HPSCI.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes entered negotiations with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to declassify the Nunes Memo, in exchange for reauthorizing FISA-702.   They negotiated a position where a “redacted version” of the Nunes memo would be released, in exchange for 702 reauthorization.    That’s what they did.  FISA-702 was reauthorized and the Nunes Memo was released [albeit with redactions].

The DOJ, FBI, CIA and SSCI kept attacking President Trump and the Special Counsel operation continued for another year.

[Six months after the FISA-702 reauthorization, with the term of the search warrant exhausted – and the content no longer useful, the FISA Application used against Carter Page was released publicly by the Robert Mueller special counsel.]

Hopefully you can see from the outline above how the Silo system operated during these events.  The key takeaway is how Patel and Nunes worked within a corrupt and weaponized system and played by the rules of the corrupt and weaponized DC Silo operation.  There was ZERO reform, either to the DOJ, FBI, CIA (silos) or the FISA-702 surveillance process.  The corrupt system just moved along as it does.

This is why you cannot reform this system by using the participants within it that accept and continue playing by corrupt rules.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have played a strategy where they confronted the DNI, CIA, DOJ and FBI by saying publicly Dan Coats was holding the declassification of the Nunes Memo hostage.  They did not.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have gone to President Trump and told him the issues, and requested President Trump declassify the memo without any redactions.  They did not.

There were alternatives to playing within the rules of the Silo system.  But they didn’t. They accepted the Silo process and in doing so perpetuated the process that targeted President Trump.

Now, we fast forward to today.  What does that factual outline of HPSCI Kash Patel tell you about the predictive nature of FBI Director Kash Patel?

I often hear or receive this question in various iterations.  When discussing the research outlines of current events, especially when we cite the historic background of what took place leading to those events – and how it created the outcome we now witness, we often get this question – or a version therein:

…”Have you tried to meet with DNI or DOJ or NSC people to attempt to ”unsilo” their thinking and understanding of all that transpired so they can connect all the dots. You have said that different people you’ve spoken to know pieces and parts, but the silos prevent anyone from knowing the whole. Can you not be the link? I love that we know but we can’t affect change. We/I only become more frustrated as our new leaders bumble along talking and focusing on seemingly trivial things compared to the Treason that has been on display since 2008.”….

My friends, part of the reason the corrupt DC system is so transparently predictable, is precisely because everyone engaged in the events has a vested interest to retain the corruption.  When you peel down the onion, when you get through the smoke to the fire, when you go deep into the rabbit hole and finally reach the dead end, you discover the root of everything that permeates everything is money. It is not ideology – it’s money.

From my myriads of travels and interactions with the system operators, I can boil down the answer to a few key points:

♦First, to the point of those we count on to stop the corruption, these are not smart people.  You project infinitely more intelligence upon them than they actually possess.  The high-information voter and researcher has much more knowledge than they do.  We fail and become frustrated when we mistakenly believe they carry an awareness that is factually not present.  You know more than your representative, and you know the context of that information at a much, much higher level than they do.  They ARE NOT smarter than you; where “they” applies to every-single-one of the names you might reference.  You are smarter than them.

♦Second, corruption is a business; whether in the initiation of it, or in the maintenance of it. Quoting myself in discussion of the situation: “My honest and respectfully intended question to you would be: What is it that makes our representatives always want to “talk about the information” rather than act upon the information, when the information is there for the taking?

Perhaps, by training, by habit, or by unintended consequence our representative form of government, our American system of politics, has developed to live for the process itself as an end result. Is it logical to believe that removing corrupt activity is a discussion; the conversation is the point; the smoke is the fire?

The business of Washington DC has evolved into reveling in the process and, as a consequence, it completely ignores the end point, misses the bottom line, doesn’t actually SEE the subject matter and never actually applies action to what might be discovered. In fact, I’m led to believe that sometimes those within system avoid the corruption deliberately, because if they get their heads around it and nail it home, they won’t have anything to talk about anymore–nothing to fundraise from anymore-because they will have exhausted their stash.

Washington DC has gotten into the habit of milking every example of corruption for “so many talking points,” “so many interviews,” “so many column inches,” and “so many angles” that problem-solving does not appeal to them at all. They oddly appear to favor the endless process.

So, when there’s an approach like what they encounter with me, with our significant research, and our reluctance for self-involvement or financial benefit, well, I just don’t fit in–because I don’t give a flying flip about “the process.” And therefore, I do not fit into the rationale of the box or their predicted PERT chart.  And I say this having been a target of their stupid investigative nonsense.

♦Third, and this is the one that hurts; as long as the money is flowing – they really don’t care about the consequences outside the bubble of corruption that surrounds them.  This is where the “pretending not to know” aspect becomes a matter of importance to retain position.

They built the silos as a self-preservation system, where what they are preserving is their access to money.  The examples of corruption that flow like an endless stream around the silos, the feeder material for the DC swamp is simply an outcome of their own creation.

Perhaps it is better to give you an example FROM TODAY as to how this applies to what we review.  All three points noted above will be visible in this example.

♦ READ CAREFULLY– Back in December of 2017 and January of 2018, there was a battle within Washington DC -in the headlines- around the issue of the “Nunes Memo.”  Devin Nunes wrote a five-page outline of the corruption evident within the Carter Page FISA application used to conduct political surveillance on Donald Trump.  The DC Silo System operators within the DNI (Dan Coats), FBI (Chris Wray, Andrew McCabe), and DOJ (Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller) did not want the Nunes Memo released, so they said it contained “classified” material.

Remember, this was President Donald Trump’s DNI, DOJ and FBI telling the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Devin Nunes, that they would not permit the public release of the Nunes Memo; despite the material inside the memo largely exonerating the President and providing material, factual and irrefutable evidence of the corrupt and weaponized use of the FISA application itself by the DOJ, FBI and CIA.

At the same time as this “Nunes Memo” issue was being argued, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was attacking the office of the presidency with fraudulently narrated material from the surveillance the fraudulent FISA warrant authorized.  Read that again if needed. SLOWLY.

The Silos (DNI, DOJ, FBI, CIA), while working for the President, were operating to isolate and target the President.

Now, in the background of this Nunes Memo fight, the FISA-702 bill was also up for reauthorization.  The DNI, DOJ, FBI and CIA wanted the FISA-702 reauthorization that permits them to conduct surveillance on Americans without a warrant.  The DC Intelligence Silos wanted 702 reauthorized.  HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes, who ultimately controlled the reauthorization, wanted his memo declassified.  Nunes lead strategist was Kash Patel, the senior staffer within the HPSCI.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes entered negotiations with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to declassify the Nunes Memo, in exchange for reauthorizing FISA-702.   They negotiated a position where a “redacted version” of the Nunes memo would be released, in exchange for 702 reauthorization.    That’s what they did.  FISA-702 was reauthorized and the Nunes Memo was released [albeit with redactions].

The DOJ, FBI, CIA and SSCI kept attacking President Trump and the Special Counsel operation continued for another year.

[Six months after the FISA-702 reauthorization, with the term of the search warrant exhausted – and the content no longer useful, the FISA Application used against Carter Page was released publicly by the Robert Mueller special counsel.]

Hopefully you can see from the outline above how the Silo system operated during these events.  The key takeaway is how Patel and Nunes worked within a corrupt and weaponized system and played by the rules of the corrupt and weaponized DC Silo operation.  There was ZERO reform, either to the DOJ, FBI, CIA (silos) or the FISA-702 surveillance process.  The corrupt system just moved along as it does.

This is why you cannot reform this system by using the participants within it that accept and continue playing by corrupt rules.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have played a strategy where they confronted the DNI, CIA, DOJ and FBI by saying publicly Dan Coats was holding the declassification of the Nunes Memo hostage.  They did not.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have gone to President Trump and told him the issues, and requested President Trump declassify the memo without any redactions.  They did not.

There were alternatives to playing within the rules of the Silo system.  But they didn’t. They accepted the Silo process and in doing so perpetuated the process that targeted President Trump.

Now, we fast forward to today.  What does that factual outline of HPSCI Kash Patel tell you about the predictive nature of FBI Director Kash Patel?

I expect nothing from FBI leadership that plays by the rules of a corrupt and weaponized system.

Do, or do not.  There is no try.

When you see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to invoke your sixth amendment right to due process, you need to obtain permission from men who rebuke the constitution – when you see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics – when you see that men get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and your representatives don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified – you may well know that your freedom too is soon to perish.

I will never relent, because I do not consent.

Love to all,

~ Sundance

May 19 2025

France Asks Telegram to Censor Conservative Voices Ahead of Romanian Election – Durov Tells Macron to Go Spit


Posted originally on CTH on May 18, 2025 | Sundance

As we have outlined extensively, the stakes for Europe are high on many fronts.  The totalitarian leftists who control the European Union from Brussels have designated allies in key countries like Germany and France in their effort to retain control.  President Trump is only one threat to their collective assembly; President Putin represents another.

It is their underlying dependency that creates the symbiotic relationship between the EU, NATO, the United Kingdom, the CIA and the intelligence apparatus they deploy.  Ukraine is an example of their unified interests; the pending election in Romania is another.

Pavel Durov is the founder and creator of Telegram, a communication platform that fights to keep the global intelligence apparatus out of the speech dynamic.  Durov’s goals and objectives are solid and the political systems who control the intelligence apparatus do not like him at all.

Durov notes today that France (represented by the Baguette) has asked the platform to restrict the reach of conservative voices in Romania.  This is a similar pattern to how the U.S government (under Obama then Biden) did the same thing with Facebook, Instagram, Google and Twitter in the U.S. elections.  However, Durov tells France to get lost.

[SOURCE]

You might remember, it was France who previously arrested Pavel Durov for not complying with their demands to control information.

May 18 2025

Joe Biden’s Dept of Justice – Merrick Garland was AG In Name Only for a Specific Reason


Posted originally on CTH on May 17, 2025 | Sundance 

There has been a lot of discussion about who was running the Biden administration against the backdrop of numerous revelations about his cognitive incapacity while in office.  However, one key point keeps being overlooked about the DOJ during his tenure.

Merrick Garland was not selected to be Joe Biden’s Attorney General because the crew in control of the events wanted Merrick Garland as Attorney General.  Garland was removed from his position as DC Circuit Court Justice in order to make room for Ketanji Brown-Jackson to take Garland’s place, get Senate confirmed and then await the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bryer. {GO DEEP}

As a standalone Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson would have been a radical pick.  Judge Brown-Jackson was a known activist in the DC District Court; however, by removing Garland as chief circuit justice and replacing him with KBJ, who needed Senate confirmation as chief circuit justice, she could get through a later Senate confirmation easier and then sit on the Supreme Court for thirty years.  Garland was removed to make room for KBJ.  It was a strategy.

Garland was a U.S. Attorney General in name only.  The actual lead of the DOJ was from Obama’s crew, Deputy AG Lisa Monaco.

WHY?

Back in 2009 President Obama selected Eric Holder to be Attorney General.  AG Holder’s role was to lead the Lawfare ‘fundamental transformation’ we have seen in the 16 years since.  In the 2010 midterms, Obama was “shellacked,” that triggered AG Holder to ask the Treasury Department to participate in a “special research project.” {Go Deep}

The IRS was asked for the Schedule-B’s of groups who were registered as “patriot” groups (Tea Party Patriots) and other names associated with the political uprising against Barack Obama and the takeover of federal healthcare, ie Obamacare.   The Cincinnati field office of the IRS then sent the DOJ a batch of CD-ROM’s containing the names of the individual donors listed on the IRS 501-c (3)(4) forms.  That list was then compiled and used by the federal government to target the donors and supporters.  A whistleblower came forward; the IRS controversy swirled in 2012.

On September 25, 2014, the Justice Department said Attorney General Eric Holder would resign as soon as his successor is confirmed. Holder was succeeded by Loretta Lynch on April 27, 2015. Lynch was selected because she was the bridge to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016. Remember the Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting?  It’s all connected.

[Sidebar – the reporter who broke the story of the Arizona Clinton/Lynch tarmac meeting later died from “suicide.”]

Summary so far:  Obama appointed Holder to lead and create the weaponized Lawfare transition within Main Justice.  Eric Holder did just that, and also created the DOJ-National Security Division (to use FARA investigations against DC operatives as leverage).  Holder then left the DOJ, took the special research project data, and went to work in California.  Loretta Lynch was then appointed as the transitional AG between Obama and Hillary Clinton.  That was the plan.  The DOJ/FBI would protect Clinton’s interests, and that’s exactly what they did in 2015 and 2016.

Eric Holder was then hired by the State of California right after the surprising and unexpected election result of 2016 [LINK].  Eric Holder then began constructing the BETA test for what was to come later.  Eric Holder organized the motor-voter rolls in California to auto-register illegal alien voters.  The California legislature passed a law permitting illegal aliens to get drivers licenses.  Eric Holder’s program linked those drivers licenses automatically to voter registration.  Do you remember the 2018 mid-term election in California?

For weeks after 2018 election day in California, the new process of mail-in ballots changed the entire election day outcome.  California was the BETA test for the national 2020 mail-in ballot fraud system.  It all links back to the California ballot and illegal alien voter registration operation carried out by Eric Holder.

Eric Holder was Obama’s weaponized Attorney General (2009-2015).  Loretta Lynch was the Attorney General in place to facilitate the transition to Hillary Clinton (2015-2016). Merrick Garland was Biden’s Attorney General (2021) to pave the way for Ketanji Brown-Jackson to be a U.S. Supreme Court Justice (2022).  Lisa Monaco was the person running the day-to-day DOJ operations (2021-2025).

KBJ was put into the planning book back in February 2020, yes, 2020!

It was February 25th, 2020, to be precise, just four days before the South Carolina Democrat primary.  South Carolina Representative James Clyburn went backstage at the presidential debate and told Biden, “You’ve had a couple of opportunities to mention naming a Black woman to the Supreme Court,” Clyburn lectured his friend of nearly half a century, like a schoolteacher scolding a child. “I’m telling you, don’t you leave the stage tonight without making it known that you will do that.” {link}

Unbeknownst to Biden at the time, just two days earlier Barack Obama and James Clyburn came to an agreement and created the most consequential alliance of the 2020 Democrat campaign.  Barack Obama the figurative and ideological leader of the movement known as “Black Lives Matter”, and James Clyburn the figurative and ideological leader of the political construct within the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, had struck a deal.

Obama and Clyburn really had no choice but to come to an agreement and form the alliance.  If they did not act fast, Bernie Sanders was gaining momentum, and they could not have Sanders at the top of the 2020 ticket, because he was too outside the club system which was now almost exclusively focused on racial identity as a tool for political power.

A Bernie Sanders -vs- Donald Trump general election would have been a disaster; and it would be almost impossible for the racial operatives in the key precincts [Atlanta (GA), Philly (PA), Clark County (NV), Wayne County (Mich), Madison (WI)] to feel inspired enough to risk themselves and commit fraud to help Bernie win.

To get rid of Sanders, BLM and AME aligned.  This was the actual moment when Hillary Clinton was cast into the pit of irrelevance in Democrat politics.

Within the agreement, Obama and Clyburn selected Biden as the tool they could easily control to deliver on their larger, progressive, leftist intentions.

A few days later, James Clyburn then endorsed Biden while Barack Obama began making phone calls telling each of the other candidates to drop out in sequence and support Biden or else the club would destroy them.  The only one told not to drop out yet was Elizabeth Warren, as she would be needed as the insurance policy, the splitter against Bernie Sanders.

Each of the candidates was promised the traditional indulgences for toeing the party line, and the rest is history.  Joe Biden wandered around doing what everyone told him to do, which was mostly stay in his basement and let the club work on his behalf, until the club delivered the nomination.

Inside that process, the strategic map was modified to ensure Ketanji Brown-Jackson would advance to the Supreme Court.

With Biden installed, he would select Merrick Garland as his Attorney General.  Judge Garland was an important judge on the important DC Circuit Court.  Garland’s replacement would need to be a Senate confirmed seat for that Circuit Court assignment. Brown-Jackson would be put into Garland’s open spot, and the Senate could not deny her the SCOTUS confirmation, having just confirmed her months before. {Go Deep}

It was always the team around -and including- Barack Obama operating in the background of Biden.

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May 18 2025

Death Toll from Deadly Tornados in Kentucky and Missouri Rises to 27


Posted originally on CTH on May 17, 2025 | Sundance 

The death toll continues to climb in Kentucky and Missouri as recovery efforts continue from a devasting night of tornados in the region.

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Death toll from severe storms and tornadoes rises to at least 27, including 18 in Kentucky.

KENTUCKY/MISSOURI – […] Some of the hardest hit towns by large tornadoes Friday night in Kentucky were the Somerset area and London, where local officials reported nine people died amid significant damage.

The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office says the tornado touched down in London just before midnight and tore through two neighborhoods and the London Corbin Airport area, “causing mass casualties in its path.” Aside from the nine dead, officials reported “numerous severe injuries occurred to others.”

Video from London shows extensive damage with multiple homes destroyed and vehicles barely recognizable as debris littered the neighborhood and lightning still flashed in the background.

[…] The severe weather outbreak began earlier Friday in Missouri as supercell thunderstorms spawned deadly tornadoes.

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer said at least five storm-related fatalities have been confirmed in her city. She implemented a city-wide curfew because over 5,000 homes were affected by the storms.

In Scott County, located about 2 hours south of St. Louis, the sheriff reported at least two storm-related deaths and multiple injuries.

“Today, our county was struck by a devastating tornado in the southern region, causing significant damage to several rural areas,” Scott County Sheriff Derick Wheetley said. The tornado moved from the eastern part of the county, leaving behind a trail of destruction, with multiple homes completely lost and areas left unrecognizable.” (more)

May 18 2025

President Trump will Hold Phone Call with President Vladimir Putin on Monday


Posted originally on CTH on May 17, 2025 | Sundance

Making the announcement via his Truth Social account, President Trump notes he will be speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday and then conducting further discussions with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his NATO allies thereafter.

[SOURCE]

The principals phone call follows on the heels of Secretary of State Marco Rubio having a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

WASHINGTON DC – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. During the call, Rubio delivered a message from US President Donald Trump.

During the conversation with Lavrov, the US Secretary of State welcomed the prisoner exchange agreement reached in talks between Ukraine and Russia on May 16 in Istanbul.

Rubio also conveyed a clear message from President Trump.

“The United States is committed to achieving a lasting end to the Russia-Ukraine war. The comprehensive peace plan proposed by the United States outlines the best way forward,” Rubio emphasized.

The Secretary also stressed President Trump’s call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to violence. (more)

May 18 2025

Part II – President Trump Discusses Russia and Geopolitical Affairs with Brett Baier


Posted originally on CTH on May 17, 2025 | Sundance

The first segment of the interview is HERE.  Here is the second interview segment with President Donald Trump later uploaded by Fox News.

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May 18 2025

President Trump asks a Looming Question, Who Was Behind the Biden Auto-Pen?


Posted originally on CTH on May 17, 2025 | Sundance

At first blush the question seems curious, but when you further think about it the question becomes rather important.  If Joe Biden was not cognitively aware of what was happening around the office of the president, then who exactly was controlling the use of his signature via the auto-pen?

In a functioning democracy with a purposefully curious media, the fourth estate would be demanding a congressional investigation to get the answers and context for who was really carrying out the agenda of the Biden administration.  Unfortunately, as a nation we lost that ‘fourth estate’ a long time ago, and congress is of no help.  President Trump:

…”Whoever had control of the “AUTOPEN” is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment. It is a major part of the real crime, THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN! Millions and millions of people knew that, but the Radical Left Democrats waged a campaign of inoculation and innocence like none that had ever been waged before. THIS IS WHY THE UNSELECT COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL THUGS, WHO WERE GIVEN A FULL AND COMPLETE PARDON BY THE PERSON WHO WIELDED THE NOW ILLEGALLY USED AUTOPEN, DELETED AND DESTROYED ALL EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION FROM THEIR CORRUPT AND VICIOUS WITCH HUNT AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE, WHOSE LIVES WERE COMPLETELY SHATTERED AND DESTROYED BY THIS HISTORICALLY CRIMINAL EVENT. Remember, it all began with DIRTY COP James Comey, Obama, a hapless and cognitively impaired Sleepy Joe Biden, and my now very famous ACCUSATION that,“THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!” Whoever had control of the Autopen is just the beginning. The biggest crime of all is that THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED! I (MAGA!) WON THE ELECTION BY MILLIONS OF VOTES, AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. GOD BLESS AMERICA, FOR THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN!!!” (source)

May 17 2025

With Biden/Hur Tapes Released the Question is, Who Was Running the Country?


Posted originally on CTH on May 17, 2025 | Sundance

Axios obtained the audio of former President Biden’s October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur. In the first segment below, recorded on the first day of interviews, former President Biden was questioned about where he kept documents. Biden had difficulty recalling that it was 2015 when his son Beau died. Biden also shared that President Obama discouraged him from running for president.

The interview tapes reveal the scope of cognitive decline the control agents around Joe Biden were trying to keep hidden from the country. As the tapes reveal, Joe Biden was not in any capacity to be in office. The question remains, who was running the country? Listen:

Biden’s mental capacity was severely compromised.  It is obvious everyone around him knew the problem.  We all saw it even before he took office and the answer to the question is the same today as we discussed in 2020, 2021 and beyond.  These tapes only confirm what we already knew.

The State Dept was being run by Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power.  The Clinton and Obama networks, along with their allies in congress and in various political organizations, were being paid and financed through various NGOs and stood up non-profits organized by the beneficiaries of the funding.  All of those connections were revealed by the DOGE audits of USAID and other agencies.

Keep in mind that Susan Rice was part of the White House network up to the day Biden announced his intent to run again in 2024; so, she obviously knew his mental state.  Others in the White House, again part of the Obama and Clinton networks were running the day-to-day operations.  Biden was a figurehead, an avatar for the handlers operating in the background.

The DOJ, Main Justice and the FBI were being run by Lisa Monaco, again an Obama operative.  The job at Main Justice was to use their Lawfare strategy to protect the fake and corrupt administration, keep everyone in line and attack all of their political opposition.

Obviously, Jill Biden was/is a power-hungry enabler for the entire dynamic.  Sick and twisted people operate like this.  Think of all the COVID-19 nonsense this crew carried out in 2021 and 2022, including the vaccine mandate and all of the authoritarian rules that came with the “Biden” COVID response stuff.  These are sick people.

Congress, both parties, knew all of this.  In fact, the entire Washington DC system was well aware of the cognitive state of mind behind the false presidency.  Biden wasn’t in control of anything – that’s transparently obvious when you listen to the tapes.

The media covered for all of it.  They all knew, yet they attacked anyone who dared question the obvious. There is no one associated with the preceding four or five years around the 2020 campaign and administration that followed who did not know of the mental issues.  Additionally, they all knew who was running things and they lied to the American people because these are power-hungry psychopaths.

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There are not enough words to listen to these tapes and express the level of disgust that comes to mind.

The damage done to our country is horrific.  However, at the end of that review we must remember all of the economic pain and suffering that accompanied the anxiety the handlers of Joe Biden willfully delivered to our nation.

These people are sick!

May 17 2025

President Trump Debriefs on His Middle East Trip, Outlining Results


Posted originally on CTH on May 16, 2025 | Sundance

President Donald Trump sits down with Bret Baier to discuss the results of his trip to the middle east.  President Trump discusses investments in America, trade negotiations, the ongoing discussions with Iran and plans to solve the conflict between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.

President Trump outlines Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “angry man,” albeit rightly angered by the attack on Israel on October 7th. President Trump’s remarks about Iran come as the Iranian regime is beginning to indicate a willingness to concede to Trump’s requirements.  It’s all about the economics of the thing, the Trump Doctrine.  WATCH:

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THE TRUMP DOCTRINE – What you will notice from President Trump’s responses to questions during foreign leader engagements is the unique nature of his honesty.   In the most consequential of ways, President Trump is the most consequential foreign policy leader in generations.   We forget that during Trump’s first term in office, the headlines about North and South Korea were not about conflict, but rather about the possibility of unification on the Korean peninsula.

♦President Trump’s foreign policy approach brought North and South Korea together away from the table of conflict.  ♦President Trump’s foreign policy approach brought Serbia and Kosovo together away from the table of conflict.  ♦President Trump’s foreign policy rallied the Gulf Cooperation Council to stop Qatar’s support for Islamic extremists via the Muslim Brotherhood. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy brought Turkey and the Kurdish forces together away from war and conflict.  ♦President Trump’s foreign policy created a ceasefire to stop the bloodshed in Syria.  President Trump mediated a cessation of hostilities between India & Pakistan in the Kashmir region. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy brought Israel and the UAE together… and then Bahrain… and then Sudan in the Abraham Accords.

President Trump executes a unique doctrine of sorts, where national security is achieved by leveraging U.S. economic power. It is a fundamental shift in approaching both allies and adversaries; summarized within the oft repeated phrase: “economic security is national security.”

The Trump Doctrine using economics to achieve national security objectives and global peace is a fundamental paradigm shift.  Modern U.S. history provides no easy reference for the effective outcome.

President Trump doesn’t just represent an office or title, nor does he simply represent the majority of the American people; President Trump’s voice is the voice of every ordinary person, what the non-English speaking world defines as “simple people,” and he channels a global message from the majority to the top of the highest power structures.

The nature of the Trump foreign policy doctrine, is to hold manipulative influence agents accountable for regional impact(s); and simultaneously work to stop any corrupted influence from oppressing free expression of national values held by the subservient, dis-empowered, people within the nation being influenced.

The need for control is a reaction to fear.  President Trump is fearless because he doesn’t seek control, he seeks optimal solutions.  There are increasing examples of his doctrine at work.

When President Trump first visited the Middle East, he confronted the international audience with a message about dealing with extremist influence agents. President Trump simply said: “drive them out.”

Toward that end, as Qatar was identified as a financier of extremist ideology, President Trump placed the goal of confrontation upon the Gulf Cooperation Council, not the U.S.

The U.S. role was clearly outlined as supporting the confrontation. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates needed to confront the toxic regional influence; the U.S. would support their objective. That’s what happened.

Another example: To confront the extremism creating the turmoil in Afghanistan, President Trump placed the burden of bringing the Taliban to the table of governance upon primary influence agent Pakistan.

Here again, with U.S. support. Pakistan was the leading influence agent over the Taliban in Afghanistan; the Trump administration correctly established the responsibility and gave clear expectations for U.S. support.

If Pakistan doesn’t change their influence objective toward a more constructive alignment with a nationally representative Afghanistan government, it was Pakistan who will be held accountable.  Again, the correct and effective appropriation of responsibility upon the influence agent who can initiate the solution, Pakistan.

The process of accurate regional assignment of influence comes with disconcerting sunlight. Often these influences are not discussed openly. However, for President Trump the lack of honesty is only a crutch to continue enabling poor actors. This is a consistent theme throughout all of President Trump’s foreign policy engagements.

Recently President Trump remarked the G7 is only a group of Seven because the Obama-led group took out Russia.  How did that benefit the larger goals, it didn’t.  President Trump wants to bring Russia back into the group and make it the G8 again.

Perhaps the most obvious historic application of the Trump Doctrine was found in how the Trump administration previously approached the challenging behavior of North Korea.

Rather than continuing a decades-long policy of ignoring the influence of China, President Trump directly assigned primary responsibility for a DPRK reset to Beijing.

China held, and holds, all influence upon North Korea and has long treated the DPRK as a proxy province to do the bidding of Beijing’s communist old guard.

By directly confronting the influence agent and admitting openly for the world to see (albeit with jaw-dropping tactical sanction diplomacy) President Trump positioned the U.S. to support a peace objective on the entire Korean peninsula and simultaneously forced China to openly display their closely guarded influence.

While the Red Dragon -vs- Panda influence dynamic was quietly playing out in the background, the benefit of this new and strategic approach brought the possibility of peace between the two Koreas’ closer than ever in history.

No longer was it outlandish to think of North Korea joining with the rest of the world in achieving a better quality of life for its people.

Not only was President Trump openly sharing a willingness to engage in a new and dynamic future for North Korea, but his approach is removing the toxic influences that have held down the possibility for generations.

By leveraging China (through economics) to stop manipulating North Korea, President Trump was opening a door of possibilities for the North Korean people. This is what I meant when I said Trump was providing North Korea with an opportunity to create an authentic version of itself.

What ultimately came from the opportunity President Trump constructed was lost in the 2020 U.S. election outcome.  However, the opportunity itself was stunning progress creating a reasonable pathway to prosperity for the North Korean people.

Chairman Kim Jong-un had the opportunity to be the most trans-formative leader within Asia in generations; but it was always only an ‘opportunity’ that could exist if President Trump remained in place to provide it.

Whether Kim Jong-un could embrace openness, free markets and prosperity was never seen. But we saw the opportunity that was nonexistent without Trump’s guiding hand to create it.

♦The commonality in those foreign policy engagements was the strategic placement of responsibility upon the primary influence agent; and a clear understanding upon those nation(s) of influence, that all forward efforts must ultimately provide positive results for people impacted who lack the ability to create positive influence themselves.

One of the reasons President Trump was able to take this approach was specifically because he was beholden to no outside influence himself.

It is only from the position of complete independence that accurate assignments based on the underlying truth can be made; and that took us to the ultimate confrontations – the trillion-dollar confrontations.

A U.S. foreign policy that provides the opportunity for fully realized national authenticity is a paradigm shift amid a world that had grown accustomed to corrupt globalists, bankers and financial elites who have established a business model by dictating terms to national leaders they control and influence.  In Europe they are currently apoplectic at the thought of the unwashed masses becoming ungovernable.

We had/have our own frame of reference with K-Street lobbyists in Washington DC. Much of President Trump’s global trade reset is based on confronting these multinational influence agents.  The Wall Street crowd hate him for it.

When you take the influence of corporate/financial brokers out of foreign policy, all of a sudden, those global influence peddlers are worthless. Absent of their ability to provide any benefit, nations no longer purchase these brokered services.

As soon as influence brokers like the World Economic Forum are dispatched, national politicians become more accountable to the voices of their citizens. When representing the voices of citizens becomes the primary political driver of national policy, the authentic image of the nation is allowed to surface.

In western, or what we would call ‘more democratized systems of government‘, the consequence of removing multinational corporate and financial influence peddlers presents two options for the governing authority occupying political office:

♦ One option is to refuse to allow the authentic voice of a nationalist citizenry to rise. Essentially to commit to a retention of the status quo; an elitist view; a globalist perspective. This requires shifting to a more openly authoritarian system of government within both the economic and social spheres. Those who control the reins of power refuse to acquiesce to a changed landscape.  This is what Europe is currently doing.

♦The second option is to allow the authentic and organic rise of nationalism. To accept the voices of the middle-class majority; to structure the economic and social landscape in a manner that allows the underlying identity to surface naturally.  This is what El Salvador and Argentina are doing.

Fortunately, we are living in a time of great history.  National elections like Romania, Georgia, Italy, France and Germany are highlighting responses to dysfunctional multiculturalism and financial influences from corrupt elites within the institutions of globalist advocacy: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

In the U.K. the voices of the British people voted to Brexit from the European Union, as noted by JD Vance during his speech at the Munich Security Conference.  However, we see the British government turning more authoritarian and distancing itself from the voices of the majority who chose to rebuke the collective association of the EU.  The U.K. government ultimately takes a harsher approach toward suppressing opposition, and as a consequence oppressing free speech and civil liberties. [Insert the example of Tommy Robinson here – there are many others.]

This does not come as a surprise to those who follow the arc of history when the collective global elite are challenged or rejected. Globalism can only thrive amid a class structure where the elites, though few in number, have more controlling power over the direction of government.

It is not accidental the EU has appointed officials and unelected bureaucrats in Brussels as the primary decision-making authority.  By its very nature the EU collective requires a central planning authority who can act independent of the underlying national voices.

As the Trump Doctrine clashes with European global elite, the withdrawal of the U.S. financial underwriting creates a natural problem.

Trump plays the economic card because in fact, subsidies are needed to retain domineering government. If the national citizenry has to pay directly for the indulgent decisions of the influence class, a crisis is only a matter of time.  This is the “fear” component within the need for control by the European elite.

Wealth distribution requires a host.

Since the end of World War II, the U.S. had been a bottomless treasury for EU subsidy. The payments have been direct and indirect.

The indirect payments have included U.S. military bases providing security, the NATO alliance, and also U.S. trade policy permitting one-way tariff systems.

All forms of indirect subsidy are now being reversed as part of the modern Trump Doctrine.

Brussels, led by the EU’s largest economy, Germany, is having fits!

May 17 2025

Supreme Court Keeps, Mostly Punts, Temporary Block on Deportation of Terrorist Aliens Using ‘Alien Enemies Act’


Posted originally on CTH on May 16, 2025 | Sundance

The Supreme Court attempted to split the baby between executive “national security” power and the dynamic use of the “Alien Enemies Act” today with a ruling that temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deporting criminal alien gang members under the UEA until the criminals are afforded some undefined amount of time to appeal their repatriation status.  Essentially, this is a stall and punt routine. [READ RULING HERE]

From the Ruling, “To be clear, we decide today only that the detainees are entitled to more notice than was given on April 18, and we grant temporary injunctive relief to preserve our jurisdiction while the question of what notice is due is adjudicated. [See post, at 13 (ALITO, J., dissenting).] We did not on April 19 —and do not now— address the underlying merits of the parties’ claims regarding the legality of removals under the AEA. We recognize the significance of the Government’s national security interests as well as the necessity that such interests be pursued in a manner consistent with the Constitution. In light of the foregoing, lower courts should address AEA cases expeditiously.”

The 7-2 ruling was unsigned. Justices Alito and Thomas dissented. The main opinion issued by the court was labeled “per curiam” — a term meaning that it was issued by the court as a body, rather than any individual justice. However, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a separate opinion concurring in the decision. But Kavanaugh wrote that he’d prefer to have the Supreme Court dig into the legality of Trump’s Alien Enemies Act invocation right away, without waiting for the issue to be hashed out by lower courts.

NEW YORK TIMES – The Trump administration will not be allowed to deport a group of Venezuelan detainees accused of being members of a violent gang under a rarely invoked wartime law while the matter is litigated in the courts, the Supreme Court said on Friday.

The justices sent the case back to a federal appeals court, directing it to examine claims by the migrants that they could not be legally deported under the Alien Enemies Act, the centuries-old wartime law invoked by the Trump administration. The justices said the appeals court should also examine what kind of notice the government be required to provide that would allow migrants the opportunity to challenge their deportations.

The court said its order would remain in place until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled and the Supreme Court considered any appeal from that ruling.  Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote a dissent. He was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas. (more)

The Alito dissent, which appears beginning on PAGE 11 of the pdf, is well worth reading.  Within the dissent Alito documents the timeline of the case and outlines why the Supreme Court intervention is unwarranted.   From the Alito opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts dragged the high court into the case without any reasonable justification for interceding.