All three of the above know that the Deep State is real, is embedded to some extent in every country, seeks to destroy liberty wherever it exists, and to eventually control the planet. Zelenskyy was installed into office by it. Trump was opposed by it more than any other and was the first elected president, besides John F. Kennedy, to openly stand against it at all odds—even risking life in prison or assassination. Putin’s 22 year reign too was threatened by it. In a color revolution the Deep State assimilated Ukraine located next door to Russia, constructed 13 bio labs therein on its Russian border, each capable of releasing, by accident or intent, a killer pandemic on the Russian population, and threatened making Ukraine a NATO member thereby placing a formerly hostile military organization directly on Russia’s border. Putin is an enemy of the Deep State as much as Trump. We have the right people dealing with Deep State Ukraine. Both Trump and Putin know the real enemy to the world and can’t be misdirected, bribed, or intimidated from removing it’s grip on the world.
Trump is criticized for not dumping more billions into the Ukraine conflict—a war that would never have begun had Trump been recognized as the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election. A war that would never have begun had the Obama administration not fostered a color revolution in Ukraine bringing the Deep State into power in that country in 2014—it became an American Deep State country. A war that would never have begun had Ukraine not allowed the construction of 13 bio-labs on the border of Russia threatening them with the potential of a killer pandemic. LibertyUnderfire.org has published much on stories dealing with Ukraine.
The Deep State still controls the news in the United States, so on any given issue the reader, is not likely to get more than half the news on any subjects they are sensitive to. Here are some stories they portray very differently. It’s not Russia that is derailing the peace talks in Ukraine. The EU, NATO, and Ukraine are countering everything in Trump’s Peace Plan. They want to keep Russia as the enemy and “boogie man” forever. They want World War III to obliterate their crimes. Left to themselves without U.S. weapons and EU or NATO involvement they have no chance of winning—actually they lost years ago. If Ukraine, EU, NATO really wanted peace they would have come to the table long ago. Instead, their actions demonstrate they want world war (X22 Report, not cited hereafter, Ep. 3780b, Nov. 23, 2025, 2:30).
Zelenskyy has 30,000 political prisoners locked up. No elections either. He’s a king a dictator. (Ep. 3788b, Dec. 3, 45:56). He has the support of only about 20% of the people. The past Fall 100,000 Ukrainian military-aged men fled. They know they are fodder in a war they can not win. Meanwhile, “NATO allies pledge over $1 Billion for purchase of US arms for Ukraine,” (By Martin Fornusek, THE KYIV INDEPENDENT, Dec. 3, 2025). They do not want a real peace plan (Ep. 3789b, Dec. 4, 2025, 37:36). They are building for war.
Ukraine has become the aggressor in that war continuing missiles drone attacks hundreds of miles into Russia. Deep State news outlets cover only Russian attacks on Ukraine not Ukraine attacks provoking Russian retaliatory strikes. Russian President Putin says, “Europe’s only goal is to prevent US President Trump from achieving peace through negotiations” (Ep. 3787b, Dec. 2, 31:48). Even the Nord Stream pipeline explosions was to bring Russia to war some say with Biden approval. Putin does not want war and is trying NOT to let the EU provoke him to one.
Meanwhile the European Union is becoming decidedly more tyrannical. Press and speech freedoms have been removed in the United Kingdom and EU. “The British government decided to smuggle 40 K Afghans into the country. Neither the media nor members of Parliament were allowed to ever report, they were being gagged, much less report on the government decision to bring tens of thousands of Islamic migrants secretly into the country at a cost of $9 billion.” It was called “Operation Rubific.” (Ep, 3791b, Dec. 8,2025, 27:25). They succeeded!
The European Union, a merger of 27 formerly independent countries, created by the Maastricht Treaty, came into effect on November 1, 1993. It opened its borders to Islamic countries who consequently poured in without vetting. Crime escalated, “At LEAST 400,000 children, women and men have been killed or raped by non-– European migrants and refugees since 2010. It’s a genocide of ethnic Europeans, sponsored by the EU and those who support it.” Elon Musk, who posted this information, adds, “when does it become a genocide?” X (Daily Romania, Ep, 3791b, Dec. 8,2025, 31:49).
Hungry, a EU member, refused to assimilate and was “fined half a billion for not letting migrants in, for not following the EU’s migration rules and the meters are still running, at about 1 million a day.” A member country makes a decision the EU doesn’t like and suddenly unelected judges are draining their national budget. “This is what happens when a union turns into a rule by law machine.” An unelected body is now flexing their muscles saying to every single country in the EU, ‘You do not have sovereignty. You must do exactly what you are told or else.’” (Mario Nawfal, Daily Romania, Ep, 3791b, Dec. 8, 2025, 33:25).
With the EU’s decree Hungry’s Prime Minister Victor Orban responded, “With today’s decision, Brussels is attempting to force Hungry to pay even more or take immigrants in. This is unacceptable. Hungry already spends enough to protect the unions exterior border. We will not take a single migrant in, and we will not pay for other migrants. Hungry will not implement the measures of the migrant past.” (Mario Nawfal, Ep. 3792b, Dec. 9, 27:05).
Trump is criticized for not supporting NATO, created after World War II to confront the Soviet Union and communist expansion, but this was when the West was still modeling the republic form of government—the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights—very different from the authoritarian forms of government emerging in the present. We united then under the banner of liberty, today we are asked to support tyranny as expressed by the EU and Zelenskyy and NATO their tool to protect tyranny. Why should Trump feel compelled now to protect tyranny?
Meanwhile in true Deep State modus operandi NATO [the new aggressors] call for defense [aggression] against Russia, NATO’s Mark Rutte “warns allies they are Russia’s next target, [thus] must step up defense efforts to prevent a war waged by Russia, that could be ‘on the scale of war, our grandparents and great grandparents endured’” (France 224’s Dave Keating Reports, 11/12//2025, Ep. 3794b, Dec. 12, 37:44).
Trump realizing that NATO, the EU, and Ukraine — all Deep State organizations or governments—hell-bent to force World War III on the world to cover their crimes released his own warning to them, “If everybody keeps playing games like this, you’ll end up in a Third World War” (Ep. 3794b, Dec. 12, 38:07). Trump remains for peace.
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The term “Deep State” describes the network of unelected U.S. government officials, intelligence agencies (e.g., CIA), and entrenched bureaucrats who operate behind the scenes to influence or undermine policy, particularly today under Donald Trump, but many decades old under other names. In relation to Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro’s regime is portrayed as a Deep State proxy or “asset” enabling threats to U.S. interests. U.S. conservatives (e.g., MAGA) frame Venezuela as a hub for narco-terrorism, cartels, and foreign adversaries like Iran and China. Human sex trafficking long known but with children horrifyingly becoming common. Knowledge of it is largely blocked by what has been dubbed the “Worldwide Pedophile Pervert Mafia.”
The rightful winner of the July 28, 2025 Venezuelan presidential election with estimated 67% of the vote was Maria Corina Machdo. Long-termed dictator, Nicolas Maduro, with 30% refused to relinquish power. She was briefly arrested by him then released. The Free World stands with her. She “thanked the citizens who took to the streets to claim our victory on July 28th and to OWN IT!” She also was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but feared being present to receive it. She has mostly been in hiding for her life since her victory.
Venezuela under Maduro is a “Deep State asset” from the Obama era, allegedly offshoring U.S. secrets, enabling election fraud technology via Smartmatic, created in Venezuela, to be used in several countries and in 2020 in U.S. elections installing Joe Biden. Ex-CIA Gary Berntsen and defector Hugo Carvajal (narco-trafficking guilty plea, June 2025) pushed election fraud by Smartmatic from Venezuela to Trump. Then Gen. Michael Flynn warned of Deep State false flags to drag the U.S. into ‘Vietnam 2.0’ thus urged regime change to curb China’s hemispheric influence (e.g., via Cuban/Mexican proxies)” (Infowars, Dec.2025). Regime change through an honest and verifiable election (not that of 2024 lost by Maduro who reinstalled himself anyway), is seen as essential to dismantle this network, aligning with “America First” goals like border security and countering foreign influence.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Maduro’s regime an “illegitimate transshipment organization” for cocaine (9% of U.S. supply) and a base for the Cartel de los Soles (designated as a foreign terrorist organization, FTO, on November 24, 2025). Strikes target Tren de Aragua gang drug vessels in international waters, heading for the United States, linked to Maduro, amid a refugee crisis (8 million plus people displaced). Critics like ex-intel asset Patrick Byrne claim Venezuela’s attack on the U.S. includes narco-trafficking and election meddling (Fox News Marco Rubio interview, December 3, 2025).
Rubio stated Venezuela is the “anchor” for Iran’s IRGC and Hezbollah now operating from inside Venezuela, and serves as a foothold for our adversaries (Iran, China, Russia) enabling their terrorism, drone manufacturing, and financial networks to add to the Venezuela arsenal.. This ties to broader Deep State fears of Obama-era deals “offshoring” threats.
As of December 9, 2025, tensions peak with U.S. naval buildup (e.g., USS Gerald R. Ford in Caribbean) and “Southern Spear” targeting narco-infrastructure. Rubio, a board member of the International Republican Institute leads this as a “Monroe Doctrine” blow against global threats. Trump allies like General Flynn advocate forcing Maduro’s flight for free elections. MAGA voices view Venezuela as a Deep State “cancer” requiring excision by its own people, not by the CIA as per pre Trump. American ships in the harbor are to encourage Maduro, who lost his recent election, to leave, the Venezuelans to insist he does, and the U.S. to demonstrate that we have the strength to eliminate his cartels at will. Trump wants the cartels afraid of us.
One other point needs emphasized. Narco boats lack any evidence of fishing. They also routinely lack a flag. “A vessel in international waters is required, under UNCOLS, to sail under the flag of a specific nation. If it doesn’t, it is legally considered a stateless vessel. A stateless vessel has no right of protection, normally afforded to ships under a national flag…including immunity from interference by others states (UNCLOS Articles 92, 94, 110 and customary Maritime law). A state may stop, board, search, seize or disable a stateless vessel under UNCLOS Article 110…. War crimes require an armed conflict.” There is none. You cannot commit a war crime outside an armed conflict.
This boat and it’s drug contents was vaporized in international waters off the coast of Venezuela on its way to America. Now its cocaine contents will not kill any of our youth. Blowing up theses vessels and poison contents make its street value much higher thus fewer persons will be able to purchase reducing the number poisoned by it. Narco boats routinely lack a flag which is required. “War crimes require an armed conflict between nations.” There is none. Lethal force is lawful “when a vessel …attempts to flee, poses a threat, or engages in an illicit activity such as piracy, or narcotic trafficking. Trump has not violated international law or maritime practice.
Also, “Even lethal force is lawful when a vessel refuses lawful boarding, attempts to flee, poses a threat or engages in an illicit activity such as piracy, or narcotic trafficking…. Sinking a stateless vessel is not prohibited by UNCLUS…. Many states routinely do this to drug smuggling vessels without it ever being treated as a war crime….” (X22 Reports, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3791b, Dec. 8, 2025, 36:19). Flagless boats sunk in international waters outside Venezuela, by order of Trump, are not Venezuelan boats, they are stateless boats. Trump has not violated international law or maritime practice.
Ex-Maduro Intelligence Chief, turned whistleblower, says Maduro exported gangs into the United States during the Biden’s border collapse, “and has run two decades of espionage against America.” Hugo ‘Elpollo’ Carvajal “warns that Maduro’s regime is not a government, but a transnational criminal cartel. He reveals Trend de Agua operatives were sent into the US during Biden’s border breakdown. He says the regime treats narcotics as a strategic weapon against Americans and insists Trump was correct to confront Maduro.” (AMUSE, Ep. 3789b, Dec. 4, 2025, 24:36). Moreover, he “exposed that the CIA allegedly out sources it’s election, rigging software and voting machines [Smartmatic] to multiple countries, including the US, from Venezuela” (The SCIF, Ep. 3789b, Dec. 4, 2025, 25:33).
Intel tells us Venezuela is run by the drug cartels, not really Maduro. Rumor has it that Maduro may yet turn states evidence by“releasing PROOF that Biden asked the Venezuelan government to ship Trend de Aragua drug gangs into the United States” (Tik Tok, Ep. 3787b, Dec. 2, 2025, 24:36). If that comes forth, Biden may have to stand trial for treason. It’s conceivable, but a very long shot, that Maduro may authorize Trump to bomb Venezuelan cartel’s. And certainly, if asked, we will oblige and, with permission, it would not be attacking Venezuela—still not likely!
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At one time Democrats were as vociferous against free healthcare for illegal aliens unlawfully crossing our borders as Republicans. Consider the following. Bill Clinton, “All Americans, … in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more, by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.” (Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Address given on January 24, 1995).
In the Democrat presidential primary debate (June 27, 2019) the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hands if their health-care plans would cover undocumented immigrants—the illegals. Of the 20 Democrat candidates seeking the presidency 19 raised their hand. At this moment illegals became their main constituents.
Hillary Clinton promoted her husband’s healthcare reform as First Lady, “We do not think the comprehensive healthcare benefits should be extended to those who are undocumented workers and illegal aliens.” She stated that undocumented immigrants would not be eligible for his proposed plan. (The Washington Post, July 1, 2019) Adding, “We do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration in this country. We know now that too many people come in for medical care as it is. We certainly don’t want them having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to have” (X22 Ep. 3763b, Oct. 29, 2025, 51:38).
Barack Obama in a joint session of Congress Sept 9, 2009 emphatically stated, “There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false — the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.” (“Providing Health Care for Illegal Immigrants: Understanding the House Health Care Bill,” by Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation, Nov. 24, 2009).
Five years later President Obama told Congress. “Even as we are a nation of immigrants, we’re also a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable — especially those who may be dangerous. That’s why, over the past six years, deportations of criminals are up 80 percent… But today, our immigration system is broken, and everybody knows it. Families who enter our country the right way and play by the rules watch others flout the rules. Business owners who offer their workers good wages and benefits see the competition exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them far less. All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America….”
Obama continued, “When I took office, I committed to fixing this broken immigration system. And I began by doing what I could to secure our borders. Today, we have more agents and technology deployed to secure our southern border than at any time in our history (Administration of Barack Obama, Address to the Nation on Immigration Reform, November 20, 2014).
Chuck Schumer, presently the lead Democrat in the US Senate, once held similar views. In archived records from the Congressional Record on August 1, 1996, then Congressman Chuck Schumer, made remarks about immigration and benefits. He stated that non-citizens receiving SSI had grown sharply (from ~128,000 in 1982 to ~738,000 in 1994) and said: “…a whole lot of people determine they can come to the United States … they come to the United States for a hand-out. What did they do? They received SSI and Medicaid. They received a lot of Government assistance. Thank you very much, taxpayer…” GovInfo
The idea of the American taxpayer, who could barely afford his own healthcare, funding healthcare benefits for 50% of his neighbors who pay no federal income taxes, AND those who unlawfully crossed our borders reflected a mainstream Democratic stance at the time thus national health insurance explicitly limited eligibility to U.S. citizens and legal residents. Both political parties agreed, hence the laws prohibiting were very clear—still are. Illegals, those coming into the county through the back door and illegally, were prohibited the benefits of the taxpayer. There is no free money. Socialism forces those who produce to fund those who do not.
But in the 2010’s progressives (socialists) saw votes from the masses attracted by free food, subsidized housing and healthcare. California began covering undocumented children under Medi-Cal (2016) and adults under certain income thresholds (2019–2024). Illinois, New York, and Washington followed with similar limited-coverage programs. By the end of the 20-teens a rhetorical and policy shift from exclusion to total inclusion for everyone was complete in the Democrat Party. Every one in the world could invade America and expect free or subsidized everything at the American taxpayer’s expense—and they came in the millions. Biden unconstitutionally let them in and they were instantly Biden Democrats. If America could not afford them they just printed more money. The escalating NATIONAL DEBT NOW OVER $38 TRILLION AT $328,220 PER TAX PAYER (the readers bill) would just be moved to the next generation.
Everyone in the world could now invade America and expect free or subsidized everything at the American taxpayer’s expense–and they came in the millions . Notice the shoe prints are going into the U.S. but the border gate was pushed outward into Mexico by the Biden government inviting them in.
The best visual of the above described transition was the Democratic presidential primary debate (June 27, 2019) where the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hands if their health-care plans would cover undocumented immigrants—the illegals. Of the 20 Democrat candidates seeking the presidency 19 raised their hand. Free healthcare—the world noticed and flooded in.
When Congresswoman Maxine Waters was recently asked by a reporter whether “Democrats are willing to shut down the U.S. government to prioritize healthcare for illegal immigrants,” she partially avoided the question by saying “Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody;” which, of course, would include illegals (“Maxine Waters Gets TESTY When Asked if Democrats Are Shutting Down Government Over Healthcare for Illegals,” by Mike LaChance, Gateway Pundit, Sep. 30, 2025). Democrats now demand that American taxpayers foot the bill for healthcare for illegal immigrants world wide, even if doing so remains against the law and unconstitutional.
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In front of the largely hostile Deep State United Nations 80th Session Sept. 23, 2025, Trump spoke with power and minced no words. He opened, “Six years have passed since I last stood in this grand hall and addressed a world that was prosperous and at peace in my first term. Since that day, the guns of war have shattered the peace I forged on two continents…. One year ago our country was in deep trouble. But today, just eight months into my administration, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world….America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships and the strongest spirit of any nation on the face of the earth. This is indeed the Golden Age of America.” We present a few major portions of what he told the world.
Trump reminded the U.N. that in 2024 they “budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States.” The UN was supporting people that were invading the United States. If done by a single country it would be an act of war. “The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens on the way to infiltrate our southern border.”
The Invasion of the United States Southern Border. Trump continues, “ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER, WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY REPELLED A COLOSSAL INVASION. And for the last four months, and that’s four months in a row, the number of illegal aliens admitted and entering our country has been zero. Hard to believe because, if you look back just a year ago, it was millions and millions of people pouring in from all over the world, from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers.” NOW, “Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the United States, you’re going to jail or you’re going back to where you came from, or perhaps even further than that.”
The UN Helped Fund the Southern invasion of America. He reminded the U.N. that in 2024 they “budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States. Think of that. The UN is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States, and then we have to get them out. The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens, can you believe that, on the way to infiltrate our southern border… Just a year ago, millions and millions of people were pouring in, 25 million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration, and now we have it stopped, totally stopped. In fact, they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through.”
What took place was totally unacceptable. “THE UN IS SUPPOSED TO STOP INVASIONS, NOT CREATE THEM AND NOT FINANCE THEM. In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime and deplete our social safety net. We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people.”
The UN is destroying Europe also by encouraging Unmitigated Mass Migration. Trump continues, “I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens as well. You have to do that…[otherwise] You’re destroying your countries… But to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders. You have the right to control your borders as we do now, and to limit the sheer numbers of migrants entering their countries and paid for by the people of that nation that were there and that built that particular nation at the time.”
Trump warned, “Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe…and nobody’s doing anything to change it, to get them out. It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it. Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before, with different customs, religions, with different everything. Where migrants have violated laws, lodged false asylum claims or claimed refugee status for illegitimate reasons, they should, in many cases, be immediately sent home.”
Other nations have infiltrated Europe AND HER PRISONS. Trump continues, “According to the Council of Europe in 2024, almost 50% of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants. In Austria, the number was 53% of the people in prisons were from places that weren’t from where they are now. In Greece, the number was 54%. And in Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness, and that’s what they did, THEY REPAID KINDNESS WITH CRIME, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders… Your countries are going to hell.
“Just a year ago, millions and millions of people were pouring in, 25 million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration, and now we have it stopped, totally stopped. In fact, they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through… We have successfully repelled a colossal invasion,” Trump said.
“Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you’re in a different country. You can’t do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately. This cannot be sustained. What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique.” Uniqueness is being destroyed.
Climate Change Predictions Were ALL Wrong. “It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you’re involved in that. No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, … were wrong.”
What Europe Must Do to Save itself. “They must take control strongly and immediately of the unmitigated immigration disaster and the fake energy catastrophe before it’s too late. The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions and they’re heading down a path of total destruction.”
Only a portion of Trump’s very long message is summarized here, he concludes,“I love the people of Europe. And I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake and they cannot let that happen any longer.”
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Trump. “I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal… Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD NOW,… Iran, must make a deal, before there is nothing left,… No more death, no more destruction. JUST DO IT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” (X22 Report hereafter not cited, Ep. 3665b, June 13, 2025, 27:45). “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal!.’ They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance! (Trump Warns Iran To Make A Deal Before ‘There Is Nothing Left’, By Kassy Akiva, DailyWire.com, June 13, 2025).
It began with B-2 bombers taking off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri in two groups both in silence and in secret one flying directly West over the Pacific, the decoy, the other directly East over the Atlantic, both refueling several times midair in route and traveling over 620 mph.. Operation Midnight Hammer , with 7 stealths each manned by a crew of two, arrived at target areas in Iran 18 hours later for a 25 minute drop of 14 massive bunker busters each capable of destroying solid concrete with rebar 300 ft deep—then home again. Said to be a total success and they were never detected.
Trump was removing the Deep State Iranian government so the people themselves, who last demonstrated against the government in 100 days of protest in 2022, where “more than 500 protesters, including 69 children, have been killed,” according to the Human Rights Activists’ News Agency (HRANA) (Iran protests: ‘No going back’ as unrest hits 100 days, by Parham Ghobadi, 26 December 2022). The clerical government is not loved by the people. Iranians now can successfully come to power choosing to be free and elect their own government, This is the very opposite of the CIA directed regime change that came about in 1979 in Iran. Trump still believes this will result and that the Iranian people support what he has done. We will see.
Israel says “it destroyed over 120 Iranian missile launchers overnight: we’ve achieved aerial superiority over Iran…Israel is expected to issue its first – ever ‘evacuation orders’ for buildings and neighborhoods in Iran’s capital Tehran. (“IDF says a third of Iran’s missile launchers destroyed, urges parts of Tehran to evacuate,” by Emanuel Falbian, The Times of Israel, 16 June 2025). Iran had no allies.
The Wall Street Journal was among the first to suggest that the Iranian people might want to negotiate peace, (“A Battered Iran Signals it Wants to De Escalate Hostilities with Israel and Negotiate Messages passed by Tehran through intermediaries seek a return to talks if the U. S. Stays out of the Fight,” By Summer Said, Benoit Faucon, and Angt Peled, June 16, 2025). Obviously America was very much in the fight after their takeout of the nuclear sites June 21. Iranians were likely kept in the dark as to why either Israel or American was bombing them.
With Trump’s call to“Evacuate Tehran” the Deep State U. S. media went berserk expecting Trump to initiate a nuclear attack on Tehran. But Trump said nothing about nuclear. He was likely trying to cause some kind of chaos there to force Iran back to the table to discuss peace (Ep. 3667b, June 17, 2025, 14:51). Remember all wars are also information wars long before any real fighting. He’s always said, “IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.” Notice Trump’s disabling comments. “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran.” Then indirectly to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei,”We now know exactly where the supreme leader is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there. We are not going to take him out, at least not for now, but we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patients is wearing thin” (Ep. 3667b, June 17, 2025, 39:13). Trump has an uncanny ability to get into the head of his opponents.
Trump maintains, “There is never any reason to put a single boot on the ground in Iran.” He executed his bombing of the nuclear facilities from inside the state of Missouri to inside the country of Iran, an 18-hour one-way flight, and back to prove this point stating, “That is how the forever wars were forever wars. They never wanted any war completed.” The Deep State used Iran and their production of weapons to fund the state funded terrorist. Thus the Deep State stayed in control. Trump allowed Israel to serve as a proxy to war until the people of Iran themselves say, enough is enough. The Deep State won’t be able to use Iran anymore. (Ep. 3668b, June 18, 2025, 31:32). Trump, “We’re not looking for long-term war. I only want one thing, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That’s it.”
Deep State power in the Middle East must end. To this end look what Trump has already done. He removed ISIS. Hezbollah is no more. He removed Hamas, he has removed the Houthis, Iranian proxy forces in Yemen. He is removing all the state funded terrorist organizations created by the CIA in decades past in the region and is now shutting down first their funding through USAIDS. He shut down their ability to get intelligence. Now he is going to Iran, the hub of the problem in the Middle East, they create most of the supplies and weapons for the region. His actions are more likely to prevent World War III than start it!
With respect to his use of the War Powers Act in Iran, it doesn’t make it right, but everybody used it to bomb other countries: Clinton, Obama, Bush. All that is required is that one notifies Congress and you can strike a nation for 60 days and you don’t need congress’s approval. Countries thus bombed included: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.
Trump wants the Deep State’s unconditional surrender. The Deep State until now controls the opposition in Iran. Trump supports no regime change unless it comes from the people. There will be no CIA puppet government as elsewhere, like Ukraine. Trump is weakening the Deep State enabling the people themselves to rise and throw it off (Ep. 3669b, June 19, 2025, 2:20).
Expect a peaceful transfer of power in Iran. The Deep State is almost gone and thus far Trump has all the leverage there. The Deep State used a nuclear Iran to push fear around the world. After the destruction of the facilities they can’t do that any more. As Trump said after the destruction of the nuclear plants, “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!” We will see.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 826.
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A few weeks ago we published, “Before 1913 No One Paid Income Taxes, Tariffs Covered Everything.” Actually we have always had tariffs as the Constitution requires “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives…” and, “The Congress shall have Power: To lay and collect Taxes, Duties Imposts and Excises…” with duties being a synonym for tariffs (Article I, Sections 7 and 8). But 124 years later, with the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913, America replaced the tariff tax on countries selling their products in the United States as the primary source of revenue for the federal government with a forced income tax on its own residents. Today most paying are taxed a fourth of their income.
Canals, shown in red, were a major source of transportation in the Old Northwest 1820-1860. Two north south canals from Lake Erie traversed Ohio to the Ohio river continuing South to the Mississippi River then to the Gulf of America. The most famous of all the canals was the Erie Canal carrying goods from the Great Lakes to Buffalo, New York then 363 miles East to the Hudson River than South to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean. Commerce to and from New York City necessitated their going to skyscrapers to accommodate the traffic. Tariffs funded all this including the skyscrapers. There was no federal income tax until 1913. Americans kept all their earnings. The same was so of four transcontinental railroads that followed.
The first concern of the newly formed Republic was how it would fund itself differently than had their former British government, as an object of economic control which fed their rebellion. They passed the Tariff Act of 1789, “which levied duties on imported goods to raise revenue and protect American industries from foreign competition” (TRUMP’S TARIFFS Constitutional, or Executive Overreach?,”New American, March 24. 2025, p. 21-22). Such funded a series of canals in or through the Appalachian mountains, the most famous being the Erie Canal linking the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, 363 miles long in an unprecedentedly efficient waterway. We had four transcontinental railroads, the Civil War, and the Spanish American War. We had schools, colleges, subways, an army and navy. Tariffs funded the Industrial Revolution and Americans kept all their earnings which stimulated the economy.
Many believe this still realistic if we do three things. 1) Remove the trillions in waste and fraud identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk. 2) Require all federal spending to stay within the constitutional list Article I, Section 8. 3) Return to the tariff as our source of federal income excepting “unavoidable wars,” as George Washington admonished in his famous Farewell Address.
It was Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt, however, that ushered in the fourth branch of government, the federal bureaucracy, that necessitated a gigantic federal budget. “Beginning with the New Deal, the entire complexion of the executive branch changed, as president Franklin D. Roosevelt effected an unprecedented revolution … a permanent entrenched, professional government bureaucracy to impose continuity.” He “set up a welter of new government agencies tasked with regulating every aspect of Americans’ lives, organs that could effectively legislate without the encumbrances of legislative process, and which were ‘apolitical’ – that is, unaccountable. All of this was accomplished by FDR via executive order, particularly during his fabled ‘First 100 Days,’ which featured an effusion of executive orders and proclamations without precedent, along with an enormous volume of enabling legislation passed by a supine Congress” (“President or King,” The New American, March 24, 2025, pp. 9-10).
Roosevelt created “69 new government regulatory agencies” now referred to as the alphabet soup agencies. No president changed the government and Constitution more in his first 100 days in office than he. It was indeed a bloodless revolution leaving us thereafter at the mercy of Big Government. Moreover, he put these —not under legislative branch authority but the executive—where they operated virtually “free of accountability….This sprawling regulatory regime, wholly illegitimate by any constitutional standard, has been inserted into the executive branch…[this] completely restructured the executive branch and redefined the powers of the presidency without even the formality of a constitutional amendment.” Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office established “an unprecedented executive power grab that utterly —and illicitly— transformed the entire federal government and laid the foundation of modern Big Government” (Ibid.).
Donald Trump emphasized the tariff in his first term and is presently making it ever more dominant in the economy today. With it he believes we can gradually end federal income taxes altogether—as was once the case for more than half of our history. He would also like to investigate and audit the Federal Reserve, with a view of removing it, which serves as an open-ended credit card for the Deep State allowing it to create money at will for its nefarious projects and purposes. The most visible consequence of it is inflation which destroys the value of everyones money especially retirees on fixed incomes and may prevent the young from ever owing a home of their own.
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt virtually created the Big Government regulatory state wholly illegitimate by any constitutional standard. He created “69 new government regulatory agencies” and served four terms in office. He controlled the legislative and executive branches of government. The media and his party swooned over him. After him his own party supported a two term limitation on the office. If we ever had a dictator in office it was him. Ironically, President Trump is called by them a dictator for trying to undo his/their regulatory state. This makes Trump the only dictator in history advocating less government and taxes.
There is considerable evidence that the Deep State, then called Internationalists, abandoned the tariff for their federal income tax and the open-ended credit system of the Federal Reserve or Central Bank. These hatched the same year, 1913. Trump’s America First Policy is a return to protectionism and a rejection of the past—even present— move toward globalism.
Trump believes that “America has been taken advantage of through unfair trade practices which have weakened America’s “manufacturing, led to job losses, and made the country too dependent on foreign suppliers—particularly China.” He would like “to reduce our reliance on foreign nations for essential goods.” (TRUMP’S TARIFFS, p. 22). He believes he can do this and restore the tariff as the nation’s majority source of income as it once was, leaving the people untaxed.
Some are critical, as am I, as the Constitution gives only Congress the “Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises”—not the president. But that authority too was transferred by FDR to the Executive Branch by his signing the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 (Ibid., p. 23). So Trump is not violating the Constitution by initiating tariffs as used by both parties for ninety years.
But that is a small issue next to Trump’s attempt to reveal and destroy the ‘secret combination’ now commonly called the Deep State and Congress seems unable to impeach even a single rogue judge. We’ll correct Mr. Trump later. Other than Kennedy and Reagan, Trump is the only president willing to take a bullet to remove the Deep State.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 820 `
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