Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Illegal Orders No Obstacle



On ABC's This Week without George Stephanopoulos, Senator Elissa Slotkin told Martha Raddatz

This president in the last administration, his last administration, asked his secretary of defense and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs to, quote, "shoot at their legs” at unarmed protesters in front of the White House that he wanted moved.

Raddatz responded "Actually, I know- I know you're talking about Mark Esper's book," to which Slotkin replied "yeah" and Raddatz commented "He didn't exactly say that. he said the president suggested that, but they were never ordered to do that."

Well, Martha, you got us there because in Esper's book 

"The president was enraged," Esper recalled. "He thought that the protests made the country look weak, made us look weak and 'us' meant him. And he wanted to do something about it.

"We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Gen. [Mark] Milley and said, 'Can't you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?' ... It was a suggestion and a formal question. And we were just all taken aback at that moment as this issue just hung very heavily in the air."

It was not an order, but a mere "suggestion." Raddatz also asked "Do you- so- so, let's talk right now. Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?" Slotkin responded

To my knowledge, I -- I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela. And I think that's why --

A few questions later, Raddatz maintained

And with these service members calling you, couldn't you have done a video saying just what you just said? If you are asked to do something, if -- if you are worried about whether it is legal or not, you can do this. It does imply that the president is having illegal orders, which you have not seen.

The Michigan senator noted that when a member of the armed services with a concern approaches her, he or she is told "go to your JAG officer, ask them for explanation, for top cover, for their view on things."

That's fine but inadequate, thus giving rise to this objection from Utah's senior US Senator:


It's hard to blame Lee for being opportunistic by jumping on a mistake by omission by a Democratic colleague, who might have mentioned that three days earlier

that President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington D.C. was likely unlawful and inflicted serious harm on the District’s right to govern itself.

 U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb, appointed by former President Joe Biden, found that the Trump administration overstepped the law when it deployed more than 2,000 Guard members into D.C. streets for routine patrols.

This wasn't the last word because

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb put her order on hold for 21 days to allow the Trump administration time to either remove the troops or appeal the decision. The ruling marks another flashpoint in the months-long legal battle between local leaders and the president over longstanding norms about whether troops can support law enforcement activities on American streets.

Nonetheless, the moral of the story remains that President Trump issued an order which probably is illegal and at least could raise in the minds of Armed Services personnel a question about its legality. Yet, Senator Lee claims there has been "an absence of illegal orders." 

This wasn't an isolated order given that ten days before Judge Cobb determined that the Administration had violated the law with deployment of Guard members to the District of Columbia, free speech organizations had filed a friend-of-the-court brief 

in the Supreme Court in Trump v. Illinois, the state’s lawsuit challenging President Trump’s attempt to federalize National Guard troops and deploy them into Chicago and surrounding counties. Both the federal district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit have so far blocked this deployment. The case is at the Supreme Court on the Trump administration’s emergency application seeking to stay or temporarily lift the lower courts’ orders blocking the deployment.

Most recently are the strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Call the victims "narco-terrorists-  as does Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth- they still are very likely extrajudicial killings. 

Never issued an an illegal order, my foot.  If no illegal order is contemplated, someone inform the President, who asked in a post on his ironically named Truth Social (emphasis his)"LOCK THEM UP???" and reposted someone else's "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!" He neglected to say "I haven't issued any illegal orders and wouldn't."  Credit him with uncharacteristically not lying.

On November 24, Hegseth labeled the video "despicable, reckless, and false." It is unclear what was "false." Was it "you can refuse illegal orders" or "it's a difficult time to be in public service" or "Americans trust their military?" Hegseth doesn't say, yet now has initiated against Senator Mark Kelly, retired U.S. Navy captain, a "thorough review" to "determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures." Still no claim that the President has issued no illegal order nor that he will not in the future..

In March, US District Judge James Boasberg ordered aircraft taking accused gang members to Venezuela to return to the USA. Instead, they landed in Venezuela and the detainees were held in what is considered a "notorious prison." Boasberg found probable cause to hold the Administration in criminal contempt of court and a hearing is scheduled for December 1. One expected witness is "a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who filed a whistleblower complaint that claims a top official in the department suggested the Trump administration might have to ignore court orders as it prepared to deport Venezuelan migrants it accused of being gang members."

Not only have illegal orders been issued by this regime, the President's reaction on November 23 to the video by the Patriotic 6 contains a glaring omission. He contended

The traitors that told the military to disobey my orders should be in jail right now, not roaming the fake news networks trying to explain that what they said was OK. It wasn't, and never will be. It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime. There can be no other interpretation of what they said.

Funny it is that Senator Lee and other Trump sycophants are claiming on behalf of the President what the latter won't claim himself- that no illegal order has been issued.

Terrorism is the go-to term today to rationalize any illegal action. Our future may include "gambling terrorists" or "shoplifting terrorists" or even "Democratic terrorists." (Trump himself already has gone there.).  The possibilities are endless. When the Administration more brazenly ignores court orders, we probably will hear of "judicial terrorists," especially if we don't oppose illegal actions as boldly as have those six members of the House Democratic caucus.



   



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Sunday, November 23, 2025

No Holds Barred


No doubt you remember

George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked the largest racial justice protests in the United States since the Civil Rights Movement. But the movement went far beyond this nation's borders — it inspired a global reckoning with racism.

This time last year, countries across the globe had some of the largest Black Lives Matter protests in their history, all inspired by the video of Floyd brutal death in police custody on May 25, 2020. Crossing continents and cultures, Black activists saw Floyd's death as a symbol of the intolerance and injustice they face at home.

Some of these countries had their own George Floyd — a Black person whose death by police brutality or racial violence created national outrage. Everywhere, activists knew there was no going back to the way things were before they witnessed Floyd's final moments.

President Biden said that when he met with Floyd's young daughter Gianna, she told him, "Daddy changed the world." These worldwide protests show how right she was.

Chauvin was arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, as he should have been. However, contrary to Biden's enthusiasm, the movement the crime spawned did not change the world, and it changed the nation in an unexpected way. Exactly one month before the 2024 elections, Chris Stein of The Guardian reported

Since Floyd’s death in May 2020, Republican-led states have enacted laws expanding the definition of rioting to encompass protesters who stayed peaceful when others did not, protecting drivers who run over demonstrators that block roads and enhancing penalties against protesters who target oil and gas infrastructure and deface monuments. The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), which tracks the legislation, has found that hundreds of proposals have been made by state and federal lawmakers nationwide, and more than two dozen signed into law.

The push comes as the GOP’s standard bearer, Donald Trump, campaigns for the presidency on a platform that includes suppressing protests. He has vowed to deploy the national guard “where there has been a complete breakdown of law and order”, while simultaneously promising pardons for people convicted over the January 6 insurrection. As president, Trump reportedly encouraged the military to shoot protesters, and, this year, allies such as the speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, have said the national guard should be used against college students demonstrating over Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

And then Donald Trump was elected President for a second time. Arguably, the Black Lives Matter protests were a miserable failure, having created relatively little change and sparking a major backlash. Inarguably, the rationale for the movement was grossly exaggerated.

While police overreach against black males no doubt has continued, nothing since has compared to the grotesque murder of George Floyd. None has been reported and in the age of Everyone a Photographer, we would know it if it had.  Ben Crump would have been at the scene of the crime, surrounded by the distraught family of the deceased. MSNBC, CNN, NewsNation, and possibly even Fox News would run video footage repeatedly. Social media, obviously, would be all over it.

Despite other incidents which shock the conscience and are emblazoned on our minds, other events of abuse have transpired which are not only much more common but cast a light on a very dark side of law enforcement, circa 2025. In a video released by U.S. Representative Herb Conaway (D-NJ)

A Ring camera recording appears to show masked federal immigration agents at the doorstep of a Burlington Township woman’s house. The jackets read “POLICE,” and one patch reads “ERO,” but they never identify which agency they represent. They present no badge and no warrant.

“Can I help you?,” the woman is heard asking the men at her door.

“Good morning, this is the police, can you come to the door? Is anyone home right now?,” one of them says.

The woman, who tells the officers she is out of town dealing with a family death, repeatedly tells them no one is inside. But the knocking intensifies. The officers insist they are looking for a man, his name redacted in the recording, and demand to know whether he lives there. The woman says she doesn’t know him. The questioning continues.

“Do you have a warrant? Show me a warrant,” she says. “What kind of problem are we going to have?,” one of the men says.



“No, there’s no one home … why do you have a mask on?,” she says. “It’s cold out here,” comes the response.

The woman, who tells the officers she is out of town dealing with a family death, repeatedly tells them no one is inside. But the knocking intensifies. The officers insist they are looking for a man, his name redacted in the recording, and demand to know whether he lives there. The woman says she doesn’t know him. The questioning continues.

“Do you have a warrant? Show me a warrant,” she says. “What kind of problem are we going to have?,” one of the men says.

Lacking a warrant but wearing a mask, they are what we once called "armed intruders," though presumably they are agents of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of course, that's not to suggest there aren't opportunists roaming neighborhoods while wearing a mask and sporting a jacket with a "POLICE" patch.

In a foreboding observation, Representative Conaway remarks "there was another incident around the same time. It appears they are stepping up operations here in New Jersey." They are in jurisdictions in the nation without the apparent approval or even knowledge of state or local authorities, in what in the past we'd call a national secret police force. Combine that with the the declaration by White House Deputy Chief of Staff that ICE agents have immunity from federal or state prosecution (of questionable legality) and the President Trump's assurance "they can do whatever the hell they want" and masked men can act with virtual impunity.

As far as anyone has noted, we've never had a situation in which local, state, or federal authorities have said law enforcement "can do whatever the hell they want" and would be protected from prosecution.  Yet, now we have the President and one of his top advisers saying what even the most inhumane and racist southern sheriff of the 20th century would have avoided saying about blacks. 

It's unlikely that a murder as unjustified as that of George Floyd will happen any time in the next several years. And if it does, we will hear of it, see it, and watch as the offender is prosecuted and probably severely punished. Meanwhile, stealth agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement are on the move in much of the country, doing as they wish with no Brown Lives Matter movement on the horizon.



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Friday, November 21, 2025

Refusing to Be Silent


Excellent:

                



Forget the Republican Party, whose members- aside from Representatives Massie, Mace, and Boebert, and Greene- were set to vote against the release of the Epstein files until the latter resisted pressure from President Trump. This is the real Republican Party:


"They" must be a chapter name in the GOP playbook. As was the case with many conservatives, such as Senator Mike Lee of Utah, it was "they" who killed Charlie Kirk. Now, Florida's Senator Moody says, in the video below, "They were hinting at it when they were encouraging people to attack our officers in the middle of cities." Seen in the context of the Senator's response to the question, the "they" clearly does not refer to the six Senators. It refers to, well, "them." 

Nonetheless, nothing says "Republican" more these days than "lie." Moody claims Democrats are urging officers to "ignore the law." 

But the ad speaks only of illegal orders. Senators Slotkin and Kelly assert "you can refuse illegal orders." Representative Crow- legally correctly notes "you must refuse illegal orders." 

It's ironic that presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt would weigh in as she did on the same day as the funeral service for former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney was (still is) the public official most associated with the unitary executive theory, in which the President commands total and personal control over the entire executive branch.

And so it was that Lying Leavitt, asked about President Trump's threat against the Democratic congress members, would maintain at the news conference on Thursday

Why aren't you talking about what these members of Congress are doing, to encourage and incite violence? They are literally saying to 1.3 million active duty servicemembers to defy the chain of command, not to follow lawful orders.... Every single order that is given to the United States military by this Commander in Chief and through this chain of command, through the Secretary of War, is lawful. And the courts have proven that.

Nevertheless, the lies keep coming because that's the way the President wants it and the assorted enablers and sycophants pay no price.  Yet, if Donald Trump is to accomplish his goal of complete despotic control, he'll eventually need the support of the military. That would require officers and enlisted men and women to comply with one or more illegal orders and there are at least six Democratic Senators and Representatives who are sounding the alarm.



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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The National Embarrassment


People, at least those not taken over by PTDS (Pro-Trump Derangement Syndrome) are justifiably perturbed by this:


 SHOCKING: In a disgusting moment, Trump shouted personal insults at a reporter asking him about incriminating evidence in the Epstein files, shouting "Quiet! Quiet Piggy."

Facing little blowback, it was time to pick it up a notch.

MB: Is it appropriate, Mr. President, for your family to be doing business with Saudi Arabia while you're President. is that a conflict of interest? And Your Royal Highness, US intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist. 9/11 families are furious. Why should Americans-  

DT: Who are you with?

MB: ABC News, sir.

DT: Fake News. ABC News, one of the worst in the business. But I'll answer your question.

After lying about is involvement in the family business, Donald added

As far as this gentleman is concerned, he's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about, whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen but he ne knew nothing about it and we can leave it at that. You don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that.

After the Saudi autocrat feigned concern about Jamal Khashoggi's "death," Trump

criticized Bruce for asking the prince a “horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question.” He laced into her after a third query, about why the White House is waiting for congressional action to release more details about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s correspondence. “Why not just do it now?” Bruce asked.

“It’s not the question that I mind,” Trump said. “It’s your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It’s the way you ask these questions.”

After addressing the Epstein question, he returned to Bruce, saying that “people are wise to your hoax.”  

In October of 2018, The New York Times reported

Saudi agents were waiting when Jamal Khashoggi walked into their country’s consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. Mr. Khashoggi was dead within minutes, beheaded, dismembered, his fingers severed, and within two hours the killers were gone, according to details from audio recordings described by a senior Turkish official on Wednesday…

American intelligence officials say they have growing circumstantial evidence that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in the disappearance of Mr. Khashoggi, who entered the consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago to obtain a document for his coming wedding and did not emerge.

Despite leading Saudi officials denying involvement in the murder, they "reiterated their conclusion that a team of 15 Saudi agents, some with ties to Crown Prince Mohammed, was waiting for Mr. Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate the moment he arrived, at about 1:15 p.m. on Oct. 2." 

The following month, the C.I.A. concluded that the murder of Mr. Khashoggi was ordered by the man whom Trump on Tuesday praised for having "done a phenomenal job." Khashoggi needed documents to prove that he was divorced in order to marry his fiancee.  Mohammed bin Salman, according to the C.I.A., told his brother, the Saudi ambassador to the USA, to tell Khashoggi to go to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul the following day to obtain the documents, There he was assassinated.


 


Khashoggi was a citizen of Saudi Arabia and resident of the USA, in voluntary exile from the Kingdom while writing columns for The Washington Post urging moderate reform of the monarchy.   Although not an American citizen, the journalist was a graduate of Indiana State University and at least two of his adult children are citizens of the USA.

He deserved better from the President of the USA. Yet, so did Mary Bruce and Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg labeled "piggy" by the leader of the Free World, who much prefers the noun to the object of that preposition. They deserve much better. We deserve much better.

Yet, the American press proceeds as usual, as if it is unaware that the President is determined to suppress not only dissent, but only questioning. "Don't embarrass our guest," says the guardian of the most powerful military in world history, who asserts power and influence over American citizens while frightened even to question heads of state of large dictatorships. He is both aggressively domineering and, when national interests demand strength, a pathetic coward.


 


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Monday, November 17, 2025

Anti-Transparent Transparency



As Politico notes

Capitol Hill Republicans are rapidly falling in line behind a bill that would force the disclosure of Justice Department files concerning Jeffrey Epstein after President Donald Trump signaled Monday he would sign it.

Two prominent House committee chairs said they planned to support the bill compelling the release of materials related to the late convicted sex offender, and GOP leaders are exploring whether to advance the measure under special fast-track rules later this week.

The French say, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."  The more things change, the more they stay the same. The President advocated release of the files, then continually called the documents a "hoax" and lobbied House Republicans to oppose their release, and now has called for their release.

Chris Cillizza (video below) understands Republicans are thinking "it's time to move on" and "there is a recognition by Republicans that the more time they spend talking about Jeffrey Epstein, the worse." 

He understands that Trump can count votes, realizes that the vote in the House and then in the Senate will pass, and doesn't want to be on the losing side. Additionally, there is this from The Bulwark's anti-Trump veteran GOP strategist:

That is Trump's M.O. Recall that in in 2022

Former President Donald Trump on the eve of the Missouri primaries gave his much-coveted endorsement in the Republican primary for Missouri's open Senate seat, but there was some confusion about who had been selected.

"I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslide victories in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!" Trump wrote in a statement Monday night.

And with that, Trump apparently rejected anyone in the field of 19 who is not named Eric. There are two leading candidates who share the first name: Attorney General Eric Schmitt and former Attorney General Eric Greitens, and one candidate trailing them.

(Eric won.)

Cillizza fears, realistically, that (emphasis his) "even if he signs this into law and says "the Department of Justice needs to release all its files on the Epstein investigation, I think the DOJ could come back and say "well, we're in the midst of some ongoing investigations- we can't release all that stuff."

Unfortunately, there probably is another, more sinister and dangerous, reason, first divulged by Illinois senator Dick Durbin.  The Times of India reports

An old report has brought back a question Donald Trump's team hoped would disappear: did the FBI work through the night to remove his name from the Jeffrey Epstein files before saying there was nothing left to release? The timing is important as Trump has suddenly reversed his stance on making the documents public.

Trump announced on Truth Social: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide." It marked a sudden U-turn after months of resisting pressure from both parties. His shift only came once it became clear that the house was preparing to move forward without him.

The move was surprising given that Trump had previously dismissed the Epstein issue as a  Democratic "hoax" despite having campaigned on transparency in 2024. Bloomberg reported in August this year that an FBI FOIA team had already blacked out Trump's name from the documents during an exhaustive internal review. 

Sources familiar with the process told Bloomberg "We know from news reports that Trump's name was in the Epstein files. But what hasn't been reported is that an FBI FOIA team redacted Trump's name and the names of other prominent public figures from the documents."

The review involved up to 1,0000 FBI agents and staff working through more than 100,0000 documents.

The White House referred questions about the redactions to the FBI. The FBI declined to comment and the Justice Department offered no response. In July, DOJ and the FBI said they had collected more than 300 gigabytes of Epstein-related evidence but concluded that "no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted."

In a fitting choice of words, the publication observes "downplaying the gravity of the situation, Trump has now pivoted...."  

As is the case with most organizations and individuals, public officials need to be nimble and there is no one more skilled than Donald Trump at pivoting from one side to the other and back again. Democrats must adjust to the new reality that the files, in one manner or another, are likely to be released.

 Presumably, there will be little mention of Donald Trump other than to highlight his unequaled humility, manly dedication to women and girls, and existential greatness.  How Democrats respond to the release and their contents may define the remainder of President Trump's second term. They need to devise a strategy to address the false narrative which will be depicted because, whether the impact is direct or indirect, nothing less than democracy's future is at stake.


 



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Saturday, November 15, 2025

J.D. Vance, Again Feigning Ignorance



A podcaster who is running for the US House of Representatives from Missouri is right about immigrants and investors and wrong about a remark being complete nonsense. The Cato Institute, which is as a libertarian organization is wrong about almost everything
On the blog of the Cato Institute, as a libertarian organization wrong about almost everything, points out

As a libertarian organization, the Cato Institute is wrong about almost everything. However, one of its bloggers notes that a disproportionate percentage of immigrants works in the construction industry but

all immigrants demand housing. Even immigrants who work in construction increase housing demand first before they can construct more housing. That increase in demand drives up prices and incentivizes new supply through further construction, renovation, or increasing the supply of rental units through other means. However, the marginal immigrant increases housing demand more than he increases housing supply.

Thus, immigrants do place some upward pressure on housing prices. However, the tweeter without a first name is correct:

         


These, and several other, are the reasons for our chronic shortage of housing. Please inform J.D. Vance. 


Name-checking Springfield, Ohio, Vance argued also during the presidential campaign that the demand for housing by illegal immigrants is pushing upward the cost of homes. Nobody asked him how those individuals without a Social Security card were able to obtain a home mortgage loan. Nor is it likely they'd be able to pay for a house with cash, no matter how much they were saving on food bills in Springfield with their cat-focused diet.



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Friday, November 14, 2025

Americans Last

I suppose tomorrow I need to destroy m unexpired D size Duracell batteries manufactured in the USA.

There is a split in MAGA land, one aside from disagreement over Israel, the high cost of living, and release of the Epstein files. Though less visible and contentious, it goes to the heart of what Donald Trump is.:


That segment from Laura Ingraham's interview of President Donald Trump on Fox News on November 12, 2025 illustrates a difference in attitude toward the American people.


DT: No, you don't have- you don't have certain talents and people have to learn. You can't take people off an unemployment line and say "I'm going to put you into a factory where we're going to make missiles or I'm going to put you into-

LI: Why did we ever do it before- when you and I were growing up?

DT: Well, I'll give you an example. In Georgia, they made it because they wanted illegal immigrants, uh. They had people from South Korea. They made batteries all their life. You know, making batteries is a very complicated- it's not an easy thing to- it's very dangerous, a lot of explosions, a lot of problems. They had like five or six hundred people, early stages to make batteries and to teach people how to do it. Well, they wanted them to get out of the country- you don't need that here, Laura. 

I know you and I disagree on this. You can't just say a country's coming in, they're going to invest $10 billion to build a plant and you know, take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked in five years and they're going to start making their missiles. It doesn't work that way.


Bless her heart. Laura Ingraham apparently was under the misapprehension that Trump's trade policy, characterized by off-and-on, bobbing and weaving tariffs has had something to do with expanding the USA's manufacturing basis.

It never was. The "what's in it for me" President may have varied motives for the games he has played with trade, including blackmailing or rewarding some businesses. Less than a month into the tariffs, Pro Publica reported 

.... the White House released a list of more than a thousand products that would be exempted.

One item that made the list is polyethylene terephthalate, more commonly known as PET resin, the thermoplastic used to make plastic bottles.

Why it was spared is unclear, and even people in the industry are confused about the reason for the reprieve.

But its inclusion is a win for Reyes Holdings, a Coca-Cola bottler that ranks among the largest privately held companies in the U.S. and is owned by a pair of brothers who have donated millions of dollars to Republican causes. Records show the company recently hired a lobbying firm with close ties to the Trump White House to make its case on tariffs.

Whether the company’s lobbying played any role in the exemption is unclear. Reyes Holdings and its lobbyists did not respond to questions from ProPublica. The White House also did not comment, but some industry advocates say the administration has rebuffed requests for exemptions.

Perhaps Trump has been eager to impose a high tariff against a nation and then after negotiations, lower them, proving again that he's the awesome dealmaker he always claims to be. The President does see the world as a zero-sum game, in which everything begets a winner and a loser. If a leader elsewhere is hurt or harmed, Donald believes, he is helped by the same degree.

But it has nothing to do with a country Donald clearly doesn't like. Whether he's calling the USA "evil," its people generally "fat, bloated, and disgusting," or dishonoring deceased or active members of the Armed Services, he has made contempt for Americans clear. 

And now, while millions of Americans- with Trump's help- are losing access to food they can afford:


Maybe the key is in "nothing American about this at all."  Donald makes policy based on what helps him and his family., with extra points if it hurts others. Tariffs never had anything to do with rebuilding the country's manufacturing base because Donald Trump has about as much regard for American workers as, well, nations of the Middle East have for Palestinians.



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