The U.S. has No Obligation to Liberate Iran

So, I have a piece running at American Thinker today. If you have a few minutes, check it out. The takeaway is this:

In the main, Americans favor ending Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions even if that requires limited military action. They prefer negotiations to work, though. But they don’t want another regime change war. Not in Iran, not anywhere. No more occupations. They’ve seen enough blood spilled and treasure squandered in Iraq, Afghanistan, and long distant Vietnam — all fruitless and costly ventures.

Older and now current polling is clear: Americans don’t want the Iranians to possess nuclear weapons. They rightly view such as a threat to U.S. national security. They’ll tolerate or accept limited military action to destroy or cripple Iran’s nuclear weapons program, but they want nothing to do with a regime change war. Who does? Have failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam – the latter two catastrophic – taught us nothing?

Moreover, it didn’t require a lot of deep research to learn that the President of the United States opposes regime change wars. Donald Trump has been thoroughly consistent in his opposition to toppling governments and nation-building exercises. Both are championed by neocons, who haven’t met a war they didn’t want the U.S. involved in.

Neocons love cloaking U.S. interventions that they push in high moral tones. We have to “protect democracy” is one of their favorites. Like in Ukraine, where “democracy” doesn’t look much like democracy. After suspending elections, among other anti-liberty actions, Zelenskyy performs like an authoritarian.

Or, we have a moral obligation to “liberate” enslaved peoples. No, we don’t. As the founders proclaimed – particularly Washington – our obligation is to be a light in a dark world. There are a lot of bad players across the globe. The U.S. is supposed to hopscotch from country to country fighting wars of liberation? At what costs? There aren’t enough challenges at home? How many parents must bury their sons and daughters to serve these endless, “noble” causes?

More practical minded neocons claim it’s in America’s national security interests to fight the enemy in Afghanistan, for example. It saves Americans from fighting enemies here at home. Since Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, where in the U.S. have there been pitched battles with the Taliban? We’ve been hearing that balderdash since Vietnam.

No doubt about it, America’s leaders have a principal obligation to protect the homeland from threats, foreign and domestic. But not from ginned up threats. America shouldn’t be in the business of wars of aggrandizement. Its fighting men and women aren’t fodder for military brass to buff-up their resumés. The U.S. shouldn’t go to war to increase revenue streams for defense contractors.

If you don’t believe me, listen to Donald Trump and talk to your friends and neighbors.

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Is the Senate GOP is about to Ruin Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill?

By J Robert Smith

  • June 10, 2025
  • 2-min read

President Donald Trump wants to give middle-class and working Americans tax breaks. He pledged to do so during last year’s presidential contest. Those promises proved popular and helped elect him. Now, some Senate Republicans are balking. If they wind up gutting some of Trump’s most popular tax-cut initiatives from the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” they risk losing the U.S. House in next year’s midterm elections. If the House flips to the Democrats, it’s game over. The final two years of the Trump presidency will end up like the last two years of his first presidency: marked by investigations, impeachment inquiries, and gridlock. The stakes are enormously high.

Politico is reporting (June 10) that Sen. Ron Johnson (WI) is leaning against “no taxes on tips,” “no taxes on overtime” and tax relief for seniors” – the latter refers to permitting seniors to deduct up to $4,000 annually in taxes on their Social Security pensions. Why Social Security pensions are taxed in the first place is the real question. Working Americans are forced by law to contribute to Social Security. When they retire, Uncle Sam then taxes their pensions. How is that fair?

North Carolina’s Thom Tillis is raising objections, too. Tillis voted to impeach Trump back in 2020. He’s clearly no friend of the president’s. Tillis is an establishment Republican. Does he have any feel for the struggles of working North Carolinians? Tar Heel State conservatives are likely to challenge him for renomination in 2026.

Making legislation is a messy affair. Compromises are standard. Making minor adjustments to accommodate senators are expected. But any changes that break President Trump’s promises to help tens of millions of hardworking – often struggling – Americans should be a nonstarter.

Republicans hold a razor-thin majority in the U.S. House. Passing the One, Big, Beautiful Bill largely intact is critical to the GOP holding their House majority next year. Senate Republicans should remember that as they mark up Trump’s signature piece of legislation.

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Trump’s Mini Slump is ending

By J Robert Smith

  • May 21, 2025
  • 4-min read

Nick R. Hamilton at Slay reports that Trump’s poll numbers are starting to trend up. He draws from Nate Silver’s polling data. Silver has seen Trump’s approval rise four points in the last month, give or take. But here’s the revelation: Expect Trump’s numbers to continue to rise, albeit modestly for a while.

Why? The economy is doing better. Employment is up. Prices are down, particularly at gas pumps and in grocery stores. This is happening as energy production is just ramping up and as Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill wends its way through Congress. Passage is anticipated by Independence Day, July 4. The C.R. contains a broad range of tax cuts that were scheduled to lapse but will be made permanent and newer tax cuts – elimination of tip taxes and taxes on Social Security payments. The measure includes other economic incentives, too.

Trump’s numbers are rising as the public learns more about the impact of his tariffs. Nations are negotiating to settle difference. Britain has just made a deal. Various enterprises in Asia and elsewhere pledge to site manufacturing facilities in the U.S. or increase investments here. Trump just announced $600 billion in investments from Saudi Arabia in U.S. concerns.

Trump also continues to work diligently to broker a peace deal between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. He’s seeking a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear weapons program development. Unlike neocons, Americans want peaceful settlements of differences, not war.

Finally, in less than four months, Trump has effectively closed the U.S.-Mexican border, proving that Biden’s handlers lied all along about grappling with ways to end the tide of illegals into the country. In fact, everything that Biden’s White House did was to encourage millions of migrants to enter the country. It was a cynical ploy to build Democrat consistencies and voter bases.

Not that there aren’t challenges ahead for the president. The U.S. Supreme Court needs to shutdown lower federal courts from interfering with the chief executive’s right to deport illegals, particularly those deemed dangerous.

But, all in all, mid and longer term, the positives outweigh the negatives for Trump’s presidency. With critical midterm elections slated for November 2026, Democrats can’t be very happy about that development.

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Equity is Failing,
And We Are Better Off

By Anthony Trevlac

  • May 12, 2024
  • 5-min read

Unfortunately for people who are smart and knowledgeable, most public policy, even at its highest levels, is determined by something other than logic or facts. Examples abound.

Equality is a foundational value in our country. Historically, that has meant equality of opportunity and equality before the law. Those are defensible, widely loved elements of the American Dream. They fit cleanly into a society where people can be as successful as their ability and effort will take them.

Equity (the “E “in “DEI”) is an entirely different concept. Its supporters use it interchangeably with words like equality, in an effort to obfuscate its true meaning. But equity, as practiced by the Biden Administration, means treating certain races more favorably than others. It is the opposite of equal opportunity.

Equity rests not on any identifiable, defensible, or constitutional principle, or even on any generally accepted social norm. There is no tenet of traditional liberal thought that supports discrimination based on membership within a group. And discrimination is the core concept behind equity.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits that, as SCOTUS has ruled. But that is what Biden and Harris repeatedly did, hiring and promoting people based on race, appointing judges or selecting candidates based on race, and even allocating governmental largesse based on the race of the recipient, and not on need.

Emotions always come into play. Anyone brave enough to question equity is at risk (or inevitability) of being accused of racism. Equity, as practiced by Biden-Harris under the orders issued on “Day One,” proscribes that government benefits and opportunities be allocated based first on race, not merit.

If you weren’t a preferred sex or race, Joe Biden didn’t consider you for his VP slot or for his SCOTUS appointment. He said so. Both selections were therefore made, in a nation of about 330 million people, from a pool of less than 8 million. Equity is the enemy of equal opportunity and merit.

Calling someone names is the go-to tactic for people who have lost an argument. Calling someone racist is possibly the most egregious charge that can be made against them in contemporary American. If you ask questions about DEI, you are very likely to be called a racist. Very few people are brave enough to even ask questions about what is meant by equity. Even asking the question can result in raised voices and pointed fingers.

Emotion is powerful. If you convince an audience that you are on the side of love, compassion, and justice you will probably prevail. But if emotion isn’t tied to facts and reason bad law inevitably results.

Leftists are obsessed with viewing everyone in groups. Very little of their agenda can survive even a cursory dose of common sense. The left prevails when voters make decisions on broad emotional appeals rather than details and facts.

This just in: Groups don’t do things, people do. All members of a group – any group – are not the same. Yet we use broad categories like Hispanics or Asian Americans, that suggest they are uniform.

Asian Americans are…. well, what? Is a Korean the same as a Japanese person? Are all Chinese people the same? If not, why do we lump them into categories as if they were? The reason is that emotion is an easier tool to wield when the facts are made deceptively simple.

A friend once said it is “…easier for people to believe a simple lie than a complex truth.” The leftist narrative maintains that all Black people are victims, and all white people are oppressors. That is the core of Critical Race Theory and the driving force behind the Democrat agenda. But in America, Black Americans are not the only group that has suffered economically compared to their neighbors. Neither are white people outperforming everyone else. The most successful groups in America are Asians and Indians, not whites. But those details are inconvenient to leftist race-baiters.

The emotional and group-based appeals of the left fall completely apart once people start considering what their policies really mean. No reasonable person argues that every person of any group is oppressed or that every person of any group is privileged. There are too many examples that prove otherwise.

I know people of Cuban heritage who hate Mexicans, Mexicans who hate El Salvadorans, and Cubans who hate some other Cubans. Should this surprise us? Only if we haven’t been paying attention. People act as individuals, not groups, and no policy developed for broad group appeal can ever bring justice. Stop pretending it will.

The theory is that equity will make up for past injustices. The problem is that isn’t possible. We might as well dedicate ourselves to preserving unicorns. It can’t happen and never will. It is not possible to make up for past injustices or to make it as if they did not occur in the first place.

Two reasons: you can’t change the past (if this is news to you, please report to the Department of the Obvious for further information). Plus, the supposed “cures” aren’t applied to the people who were injured. In the case of slavery, for example, those people are no longer among the living. Neither are slaveholders. You can’t atone for injustices to one person by giving benefits to someone else.

There is also the inconvenient fact that not all slaveowners were white. Records aren’t particularly reliable – we can’t look up their Instagram accounts – but it is certain several thousand Americans owning slaves were themselves black or of mixed race. Some also held white indentured servants. Irish people were among America’s first slaves.

Modern equity programs maintain that all members of certain groups are victims, they have all been held back and have all been denied a chance to succeed. They also maintain that all white people are oppressors and themselves advantaged. Really? Neither of these points are true.

When you elevate one group, you devalue another. That has always been the catch-22 behind affirmative action and equity, and law has finally come to grips with it. SCOTUS says so, as do the federal statutes. Will the woke left ever stop viewing the whole world as a Marxist struggle of the classes? Don’t count on it.

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A Corrupt Party Wants to Keep Government Corrupt

A good rule of thumb in contemporary politics is that the people who oppose a change are the ones who benefit from things staying as they are.

Take election integrity. Americans today need proof of identity to get a job, enroll their child in school, open a bank account, or adopt a pet. Yet opponents of secure elections are adamantly opposed to requiring ID for voting. If it is not racist to ask for identification to open an account at your neighborhood savings and loan, why is it racist to prove you are eligible to vote?

The answer, of course, is that it is not racist to ask for ID. It is a reasonable, common-sense requirement. So why do Democrat leaders oppose it? Simple: they benefit from cheating. If they did not, they would not fight so vociferously to keep it easy to cheat.

It has recently come to light that more than two million people who entered the U. S. illegally were given social security numbers by Biden/Harris. Their administration lied, directly and repeatedly, about this. If we had an honest and professional media, it would be a scandal playing out on the front page of every American newspaper. Most news outlets have ignored it, thus expediting their descent into irrelevance.

In the last Congress, the very top priority of the Democrats was to nationalize elections; effectively banning voter ID and requiring same day registration. It was called HR 1, and it was their single most important goal. The Democrats want people voting who are not eligible. It is undeniable.

Look also at Ukraine. President Trump was the only candidate in 2024 who campaigned on ending the war. Harris/Biden wanted more war, more spending, more unaccounted dollars flowing east they could be sent back west to fill the coffers of defense contractors, crooked politicians, and their ilk.

Zelensky has said about half of the money sent to Ukraine has “disappeared.” They do not know what happened to it. Yet when the House GOP wanted to require the full accounting of all taxpayer money sent to Ukraine, Democrats overwhelmingly opposed it. Why? Who is opposed to honest and transparent management of government funds? People who are corrupt, aka, Democrats.

Then there is DOGE. The entire apparatus of the national Democrat Party has fought tooth and talon against all efforts to make government more honest, open, and accountable. They are outraged that any federal employees might no longer be needed, might be asked to come into the office, or might be subject to even the most basic expectations associated with professional management.

When Bill Clinton reduced the federal workforce by more than 300,000, Democrats cheered it. When Trump tries it today, he is vilified. The reason is pure politics. Democrats feel Trump’s efforts are reducing their power. And power is their sine qua non.

When the Keystone Pipeline was cancelled on day one by Biden, about 10,000 people lost their jobs. When asked about it, Biden laughed derisively and said they could “…learn to code.” No Democrat leaders cared.

When hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their jobs because they did not want to get an untested, experimental Covid vaccine, no Democrat cared. Their opposition to DOGE is based on their desire to cling to power, and nothing more.

People who benefit from corrupt systems do not want them changed. The adage says, “follow the money.”

The entire federal government has become a massive trough from which big government swine feast at our expense. Elected officials get rich through insider trading; governmental agencies throw around money like it was confetti; NGOs allied with the Democrats live off your tax dollars; and the kids and spouses of elected officials get plush appointments, contracts, and funding that keeps them fat and happy.

The people who benefit from this corruption oppose ending it.

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GOP Anti-Trumpers Look More Foolish All The Time

By Rob Meyne

  • April 23, 2025
  • 4-min read

Formerly Republican anti-Trumpers love to act superior to members of the Party to which they were previously loyal. Nonsense. They aren’t smarter, more principled, or better than Trump voters. They are less so.

The least courageous thing a person could have done in 2024 was to abandon the principles they used to claim to have and vote for Harris or even sit on the sidelines.

GOP Anti-Trumpers used to support lower taxes, smaller government, a safer world, lower risk of nuclear war, free speech, less censorship, and more freedom. Now they throw all of that away so they can strut around and pat themselves on the back for turning on their Party and country.

Every person who is serious about politics has voted for people they didn’t like, just because they were better than the alternative. There are no perfect options. I never liked McCain but voted for him because he was better than Obama. I supported Rubio for president but when Trump got the nomination, I worked to elect him. Every election is a binary choice. Harris would have been a disaster in the White House from which we would never have recovered.

It took courage for Americans to stand with the best candidate in 2024, while running from Trump was the worst kind of hypocrisy and cowardice. Lots of anti-Trumpers think they are cool, wise, and morally superior. What a joke. Trump’s record was clearly superior to Biden/Harris. If anti-Trumpers think it is more important to have someone who doesn’t send mean Tweets than someone who is trying to prevent nuclear war, God help them.

It is laughable to see anti-Trumpers virtue-signaling. They are the types who want coveted invitations to the best parties and to eat lunch at the cool kids’ table. But it mostly shows they are unprincipled. The people who clung to their core values in 2024 are the real heroes. Fortunately, that was the majority. God bless each of you who had the guts not to run away from conservatism when it got tough. That is real courage.

It is astonishing how many formerly conservative Republicans have decided they are morally, factually, or intellectually superior to the tens of millions of people who recognized Donald Trump was a better president than would be Kamala Harris and then voted accordingly.

These anti-Trumpers are fortunately not a large group, relatively speaking, but what they lack in sheer numbers they more than make up for in condescension. I’ve spent my entire life with conservative Republicans who say they are patriots, loyal Americans, principled conservatives, and willing to sacrifice for the country. A few of those people (the formerly conservative ones) have now decided Trump is bad for the nation, as if voting for his opponent might have given us the second coming of James Madison rather than the intellectually bereft cackling cipher she was.

Anyone who thinks Harris would have been a better president is: one, a hardcore Marxist/leftist; two, uninformed; three, anti-Trump to the point of verifiable mental illness; or, four, all of the above. There simply is no way to factually and logically make the argument that the Biden-Harris presidency was more successful than Trump’s.

An acquaintance recently ranted that they are patriotic, conservative, and willing to sacrifice, but we should throw Trump overboard because of the recent stock market volatility. It brings to mind the famous comments from Patrick Henry, long a rallying cry for the right, when he said “ Give me liberty and a robust 401-K, or screw America, you’re on your own.” Well, maybe that isn’t exactly what he said.

Solving long-term challenges facing America will not be easy or quick. Our national debt is crippling and not one Democrat or old-school Republican has a solution. Fraud and waste is out of control. The border was wide open for four years and we have just learned that millions of the people who came here illegally were given social security numbers.

Our military was not meeting recruitment goals and was more concerned with the color of our soldiers than with their lethality. Record drug deaths and historic inflation have become the norm. And our young women have been told they have to learn to like showering with, and competing against, biological men. What could go wrong?

In three months, we’ve made tremendous progress. But curing the ills of the last four years will take time and courage.

If you’re whining about the value of your portfolio and, after 90 days, are determined to brand Trump a failure, please, just go ahead and join the Democrat Party. Goodbye and good riddance. There is no shortage of people who pretend to be patriotic until the road gets tough. Just leave. We will both be happier if you do.

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Happy Easter

Advances in science and technology have answered some question about the Shroud of Turin. Other questions have been raised. One critical question: How did the image form on the Shroud? In photo negative, it’s clearly the image of a man who suffered profound physical trauma. The image is believed to have been radiated onto the topmost fibers in the cloth only. No pigments are evident.

Pollens in the cloth place its origin in Judea.

For many Christians, there may be mysteries about how, but no mysteries about who and why. Jesus Christ is the son of God. His life, death, and resurrection shattered the world. His Will is still at work and shall be until the end of time. Happy Easter.

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Trump Will Win on Trade

Investors are skittish. Wall Street is down. Trump’s gambit on tariffs has investors spooked. The sky is falling. Yada, yada, yada.

In fact, the sky isn’t falling. Yes, investors are roiling the markets. They fear that Trump’s big play to change the global dynamic on trade will backfire. MAGA isn’t in their blood. Do understand a thing or two about Wall Street. Investors don’t like change. The status quo is working quite well for them. In other words, their making oodles of money.

Not most Americans. Most folk have meager stocks and bonds portfolios, usually held through 401Ks. The more affluent you are, the more you’re invested in the market. Most people are living paycheck-to-paycheck. They’re concerned about the prices of groceries, gasoline, utilities, rent, and what have you. Many people don’t have rainy day funds. Their credit card debts keep climbing.

Trump means to reverse that. His broader economic goal is to create jobs, boost paychecks, and bring down costs. He’s concerned about the welfare of a majority of Americans, not the overreactions of a well-heeled minority. If Trump succeeds – the bet here is he will – then more of the American pie will be shared with a greater number of Americans, not just a privileged few.

Trump’s aim with trade and tariffs is, yes, reciprocity – meaning, hammering out fair trade agreements with other nations. High tariffs by other countries on U.S. products and services are protectionist measures. Those must go, for starters.

Not all Trump’s tariffs are meant only to level the playing field.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been abusing the “free trade” system put in place in the 1990s and early 2000s. China’s economy is built around cheap exports. Off-shoring American manufacturing has been a boon to China and U. S. manufacturers who are always looking to cut costs. Consumers have benefited by cheaper prices, too. But U.S. workers and small businesses – the latter being the engine of economic growth – haven’t.

Trump wants to restart the manufacturing engine here. Some tariffs are good in that they incentivize manufacturers overseas to build facilities here. It also incentivizes existing U.S.-based manufacturers and start-ups. That’s more jobs for more Americans. It will eventually result in competitive pricing – in other words, affordable – products and services, made domestically. More jobs, rising wages, and decreasing costs are goals.

Speaking of China, Trump’s tariff strategy is about more than economics. It’s about national security. Why do we want so much of what we consume in the hands of Xi Jinping and his communist cabal? We’re talking about medicines, steel, computer technology – the list is long. China also steals our technology and as much commercial and military intellectual property as it can.

China’s media is full bellicose threats of war with us. Xi’s Belt and Road initiative isn’t just about seeking economic advantages. It’s about choking off rare minerals and other resources that our evolving AI-tech economy needs.

When it comes to Chinese “management” of the Panama Canal, the PRC means to dominate that critical link between the Atlantic and Pacific. In time of war, that has profound commercial and military implications. Trump is in the process of ending China’s presence in Panama and its control of the Canal.

The broader economic program that Trump is pursuing involves making tax cuts permanent, slashing red tape, taking an ax to big government (DOGE is on that), and giving entrepreneurs and independent contractors the incentives they need to let their ideas, dreams, and work ethics take off.

Trump will succeed because World War II and the Cold War are long over. The post-Cold War world is played out. Trump sees the rot, unfairness, inequities, and growing failures of the system. His is a quest for an historic reset. I’m not being being Pollyanna. Bumps and disruptions along the way? Of course. But I’ll trust Trump’s experience, savvy, steely will, and business track record. He’s leading us into a new era – brighter and better for tens of millions of Americans.

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The Dems Show Us Who They Are

By Rob Meyne

  • March 6, 2025
  • 2-min read

If you just pay attention, people will tell you what they care about. Congressional Democrats showed us this week.

President Trump’s speech this past Tuesday, was one of the more significant, impactful, and definitive messages ever delivered by a president.

News organizations conducted surveys following the speech. CBS found that 77% of those who watched it said they were very or somewhat positive about it. The number from CNN (both leftist news outlets) was 69%.

Yet Congressional Democrats could not applaud or stand in support of a single major issue or statement. Not. One.

Dems would not support a bill to require removing illegals who have committed a crime. They oppose banning men from competing in women’s sports. They do not want a secure border. They support race-based preferences mandated under the banner of DEI. They oppose voter id, support 9-month abortions, and love war. They want continued fighting, spending (money laundering), and death in Ukraine.

President Trump’s positions on each of those issues enjoys support in the range of 75 – 80%. They are not interested in solutions or finding common ground. Today’s Democrat leadership is interested in dividing us and clinging to power. They know that Trump’s efforts to reduce the size of government, save money, and reduce the bureaucracy are a threat to their power.

They are not on your side.

Things change, and Trump has challenges ahead, no doubt. And the Dems are nothing if not ruthless and power hungry.

But for today, if you support common sense approaches that will make America safer, freer, and more prosperous, you are on the right side of history. The Democrats – their leadership, more specifically – are against everything a majority of Americans favor.

Congressional Democrats couldn’t even stand in support of a child that beat cancer, a woman who was seriously injured by a man playing om a woman’s volleyball team, or the family of a young lady killed by a person who is here illegally.

Laken Riley died because, and only because, the Biden Administration literally flew a plane to Europe and brought a convicted criminal here and set him loose. She would be alive today if not for Biden and the Democrats.

They. Are. Not. On. Your. Side. Trump is.

You may not like Trump’s style or combativeness – that is a conversation we could have – but if you don’t believe in the majority of his policies you are out of step with most Americans. This is his time. This is our time. There is a lot of history to be written, but today we have more reason to be optimistic than at any time in the last five years.

Keep the faith. Enjoy the ride. And don’t be ashamed to love your country or its president.

Cheers.

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Bongino’s Appointment at the FBI Means No Prisoners Taken

By J Robert Smith

  • Feb. 25, 2025
  • 2- min read

On Monday, we learned that Dan Bongino was named deputy director at the FBI. He’ll report to Kash Patel, who was confirmed by the Senate last week. Patel and Bongino will make a dynamic duo. Yep, just like Batman and Robin. The lawbreakers at the FBI should be lawyering up – if they haven’t done so already.

In nominating Patel and appointing Bongino, Trump has kept another promise. He’s going outside of DC’s blue suits for these critical jobs. Patel and Bonigino have a simple mission: Clean out the FBI and make it a bona fide federal law enforcement agency tasked with pursuing real bad guys, like cartel honchos, drug gangs, spies, white collar criminals, and assorted homegrown bad guys.

The FBI is riddled with corruption. The worst of it started at the top and filtered down through the ranks. Former directors James Comey and Chris Wray were complicit in the corruption. And it wasn’t garden variety corruption, like bad cops taking payoffs and shaking down drug dealers. It’s political corruption, in that the FBI served as a strongarm for Democrats and the DC establishment. They’d become a version of the East German Stasi. The FBI went after the establishment’s enemies, most conspicuously, Donald Trump.

It can’t be stressed enough how dangerous it is for a law enforcement agency – guys with guns – acting as the cat’s paw for powerful political interests in Washington, D.C. The FBI wasn’t just loosed on Trump and his circles, but on people who peacefully oppose abortion. Sending a SWAT team to knockdown pro-life advocate Mark Houck’s door at the crack of dawn in January 2023, terrorizing his children, demonstrated the level of thuggery that Wray and his deputies were willing to permit. To his immense credit, Trump has pardoned 23 pro-life protestors. Congressional Republicans need to repeal the vile FACE Act, which grants the DoJ and FBI the power to prosecute peaceful pro-lifers.

Bongino’s pedigree is impressive. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an MBA. He’s run for Congress three times, coming close to being elected once. His five-day a week radio show and podcast are category leaders. He’s also a successful entrepreneur and investor (he has a stake in Rumble, notably).

Most importantly, Bongino is no stranger to law enforcement. He was an NYPD officer for seven years and a U.S. Secret Service agent for nine years. Notably, as a Secret Service agent, he provided protection for Barack Obama.

Patel and Bongino are kick ass guys. Their tenures at the FBI won’t be about cutting deals and trimming. Expect long overdue, wholesale changes. If they succeed, it’ll prove a brighter day for our rights and liberties. And a safer day for us. But a bad day for the bad guys.

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