We live in the day when one of the greatest political parties in American history is self-destructing in full view of most adult Americans. The statement posed by President Donald Trump in his State of the Union Address before Congress Feb.24, 20236, “The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens—not illegal aliens! If you agree with this statement then stand up and show your support. ALL Democrats remained seated and silent. Not one Democrat member of Congress stood for this foundational principle, “that all government leaders must serve citizens before invaders. Never has there been a more stunning moment in Congress” said Stephen Miller adding, “Democrats declared to the world their searing distain for, and profound disloyalty to, the actual citizens of the United States. Over and over they refused. It was a moment that chills to the bone and which will live for a thousand years.”
Trump’s killer State of the Union Address revealed the Democrats out of harmony with the American people on virtually every issue. So why is The Save America Act supported by 89% of the people unable to pass the Senate? Yes Republicans hold the Executive branch, and both Houses of Congress but in the Senate RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) vote with the Democrats against the House and President. Dems and RINOs want illegals to vote in US elections hence they won’t let ending it out of Committee and onto the floor for a vote. It was held up in a US Senate Committee by past RINO Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel and presently by RINO Senate Majority Leader John Thune. The will of the people is thwarted by both the Democrats and RINOs.
Commentator Scot Jennings On The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, called it the “Moment of the night: Democrats refusing to stand to affirm their allegiance to American citizens over aliens, will be the signature moment of this speech…They took an oath to protect and serve the American people none got up, they just broke their oath. The country saw this.” Indeed, it was impossible to misunderstand the statement made to them. Zero stood! Their contempt for the people, their elected government, their oath and the Constitution was stunning, unanimous, and totally on display. They verified to Americans they disagreed with the statement made.
Democrat Senator John Fetterman read it the only way it could be read, “This does not look good for the Democrat Party.” Indeed, the whole evening could not be read otherwise on almost every issue (X22 Report hereafter not cited, Ep. 3848b, Feb. 25, 2026, 50:24 ) The State of the Union Address demonstrated that the Democrats weren’t for American interests. They’d rather have higher taxes, and insurance companies getting rich off the poor, in addition to supporting illegals over citizens. The Democrat Party looked like the “true enemy” of the Republic. How do we know? 89% of the people want the Save America Act, Congressional Democrats do not. These just sat and everyone saw it. They would not clap even learning that the murder rate had descended to its lowest rate in America in 125 years (Ibid., 13:43).
Too few Democrats stood or applauded even for those receiving our nation’s highest honors. Buddy Taggart “badly wounded and almost killed by enemy machine guns” in World War II recovered and later helped “liberated the largest internment camp in the Philippines. One of the largest anywhere in the world,” and now will celebrate his 100th birthday this July 4, 2026. And just last July 4th when floodwaters tore through a girls’ summer camp in central Texas…rising 26 feet in a matter of minutes, tragically claiming many, many lives. As the waters threatened to sweep her away, 11-year-old Milly Cate McClymond closed her eyes and prayed to God. She thought she was going to die. Scott Ruskan descended from a helicopter above. Nobody knew where he came from. It was Scott’s first-ever rescue mission. … And he lifted not just Milly Cate, but 164 others to safety” (State of the Union Address).
Karoline Leavitt provided a list of issues the Democrats in Congress refused to stand up for during the State of the Union Address, other than placing American citizens above illegal alien invaders. These included: voter ID laws, the murder rate being at its lowest since 1900, keeping violent criminals locked up, protecting parental rights, stopping fraud, taking on drug cartels, no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security, and the present most secure border in history. The contrast could not be clearer. (E.p. 3848b, February 25, 2026,48:48).
Trump also had senators pause and indicate their support for the SAVE America Act previously passed in the House of Representatives last year. Democrats and RINOS do not support the SAVE America Act (Ibid., 55:15) which requires that only American citizens vote in America’s elections. This is presently held up in a US Senate Committee by RINOs, previous and current, Senate Majority Leaders Mitch McConnel and John Thune. Democrats and RINOS, working together, still encourage illegals to vote in our elections. The country saw this also. Democrats painted themselves as un-American and not representing the interest of the American people by Trump’s brilliantly forcing a vote with their feet (Ibid., 59:00). They may have lost elections 2026 and 2028 by this public demonstration.
Sadly and pathetically “There was a substantial boycott by Democratic members of Congress, with roughly half of House and Senate Democrats absent from the address in protest. Axios’ head-count analysis found that about 20 Senate Democrats and nearly 110 House Democrats did not take their seats in the chamber at the start of the address.” (Axios, Feb. 24, 2026). “This is what Democrats are [were] doing instead of attending President Trump’s State of the Union Address. Democrats are literally hanging out with deranged leftist dressed in giraffe costumes bragging about getting arrested by ICE. Some dressed up as frogs” (RNC Research, Feb. 24, 2026, Ibid., 41:40). Voters should primary these.
But most Americans loved Trump’s State of the Union Address which was received positively by 63% (+27), negative 36% —by CNN, an extreme leftist Deep State news outlet, (Ep. 3848b, February 25, 2026, 59:20). So likely the favorability percentage was much higher.
Trump ended his 1 hour and 41 minute address positively with, “The Golden Age of America is upon us, the revolution that began in 1776 has not ended. It still continues, because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot. And our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder and more glorious than ever before” (The American Presidency Project, 47th President of the United States: 2025—present. Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, Feb. 24. 2026). And it is looking to be so more every day as America returns to the U.S. Constitution and freedom and removes those destroying it.
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Article VI of the Constitution is called the Supremacy Act for a reason. “Laws …made in pursuance thereof… shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby; …Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding…Members of the several state legislatures, and all executives and judicial officers, both of the United States, and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution.” Federal law trumps state law and sanctuary law does not constitutionally exist. Defiance against deportation and acts of aggression on ICE agents enforcing federal law is serious insurrection. As we have reported all conditions have been in place for the constitutional use of the Insurrection Act since April 28, 2025 (“First Day in Office Trump Prepared America for the Coming Insurrection,” Jan. 28, 2026, and “Trump Will Use The Insurrection Act When Coming Chaos Demands It,” Feb. 4, 2026, both LibertyUnderFire.org ).
Abraham Lincoln “We The People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” The elector, not elected officials or judges, are the ultimate authority. The oath every members of Congress pledges. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same….” Trump is appealing to the elector. It was the right answer in Lincoln’s day and again in ours. We must remove all judges and legislatures who break their oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. This could be at least a third of those in both houses of Congress.
Only 10 U.S.C. Section 334 of the longstanding laws of the land remained to trigger it’s use. The President must issue a proclamation ordering insurgents to disperse before deploying military force. It reads, “Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the Armed Forces under this chapter, he shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgence to disperse and retire, peaceably to their abodes within a limited time. (See also, August 10, 1956, ch. 1041, section 1, 70A Stat. 16.).
For public awareness and confidence in its elected leadership, it is advisable to first prove that established and ordinary measures to gain compliance were first tried without success. For the remaining eight months of 2025, the administration attempted standard enforcement through “National Guard deployments under existing authority. October 4, 2025, Trump federalizes 300 Illinois National Guard members to protect ICE personnel in Chicago. Governor JB Pritzker files immediate legal challenge. Federal courts block deployment. Posse Comitatus restricts military involvement in domestic law enforcement. November 2025, Portland Judge issues permanent injunction against guard deployment in Oregon. December 23, 2025, The Supreme Court denies emergency relief in Trump vs Illinois.”
THE CORRUPT COURTS BLOCKED EVERYTHING but, more importantly, in doing so they established that “ordinary measures cannot succeed when states organize, systematic resistance. They certified that regular law-enforcement has become impracticable.” They documented the exact threshold that previously existing law 10 U.S.C. Section 332 required (The Insurrection Proclamation , EKO, January 5, 2026, pp. 4-7). It reads, “Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into federal service, such of the militia of any State and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.” The only way to stop their treasonist assault against the federal government is the Insurrection Act which allows the armed forces, not just the National Guard, to defend freedom and the Republic on American soil.
One ray of hope shown through the Trump vs. Illinois ruling, but was exactly what was needed. Justice Kavanaugh filed a brief consequential footnote: “One apparent ramification of the Court’s opinion is that it could cause the President to use the US military more than the National Guard.” Northwestern law professor Paul Gowder saw it for what it was and said, “This is basically an invitation for Trump to go straight to the Insurrection Act next time” (Ibid.). It opened the door to the only way to save the Republic. Trump saw it too and almost immediately pulled the Guard out of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland. He would wait for constitutional judges.
Federal judges take two oaths before assuming their duties: the Constitutional oath, which requires them to support and defend the Constitution, and the judicial oath, which mandates that they administer justice impartially and fairly. The Constitution only created the Supreme Court but allowed “such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” They were created to preside judicially over a district, not the whole nation. Actually, Congress could dissolve the district courts to destroy the insurrectionists justices if it wanted to. These unsuccessfully tried to take over the executive branch by blocking every Trump executive order. President Trump uses a Sharpie pen to sign his executive orders, hence the pen is his sword in this cartoon.
Minneapolis came and mostly went, likely the worst exhibition of treason against the federal government since the Civil War but it was still just a few actually on the streets, plus the Deep State fake news hype, and only one state actively physically threatening ICE and deportations. They pushed Trump with everything they had because they wanted him to use his “ammunition,” The Insurrection Act, too early. No! He would threaten its use but the “big fish” Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden would never be prosecuted by their own appointed judges nor would George Soros, the insurrectionist’s lead funder. Nobody would go to prison.
The insurrection behind the scenes may be a hundred times bigger than that yet expressed on the streets of Minneapolis and the people are not yet convinced that they want real justice which has to include the death penalty for those found guilty of serious and intentional treason. He must wait to use the Insurrection Act until the anticipated insurrection climaxes and is mostly simultaneous—until everyone can see its intent is to overthrow the U.S. government, again. After all, their acts of insurrection are against “We the People,” the laws and sovereignty of the United States and its Constitution. Trump must wait even until the Insurrection Act’s use is demanded of him.
Both sides know that only one side can win this bout, socialism or freedom. The boil hast to burst and the most likely time is around the 2026 election. One side wants cities burning as in 2020 and their criminals, already incarcerated by local authorities, released into society rather than have them transferred peaceably to ICE custody, seemingly to maximize crime and chaos. The other side wants all insurrectionists rounded up, judged by judges loyal to the Constitution, and punished for their crimes or deported. If they return it must be through the front door only.
Presently Trump’s DHS is purchasing industrial warehouses in at least eight states to accommodate 23 large-scale detention centers for holding and deportation of at least one million illegal aliens annually (X22 Report, Ep. 3830b, Feb. 1, 2026,48:11). The Constitution requires it.
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As previously published Trump prepared the nation in 2025 for the coming use of the Insurrection Act of 1807; all constitutional requirements addressed. But it is not likely to be used until the public demands it, most likely around the 2026 election (“First Day in Office Trump Prepared America for the Coming Insurrection,” Jan. 28, 2026, LibertyUnderFire.org ). It has been used several times before and the military has been told they will have a role in its use.
Thomas Jefferson The Founding Father most responsible for both The Declaration of Independence and the Insurrection Act of 1807 and the first president to use the Act in 1808 against Aaron Bur. The Act’s predecessor was the Militia Act of 1792 used by George Washington enabling him to use state militias to protect federal interests on the frontier. The Insurrection Act of 1807 enlarged the authority to include as well use of the army and navy to curb insurrections. Over time some 14 presidents have used it including Abraham Lincoln. And in the last century Dwight D.; Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Most recently George H. W. Bush to curb the LA Riots of 1992. It and the Constitution are vintage documents time tested over the centuries.
But the time to use it nationally in sanctuary states and cities is not yet because of three reasons. (1) The Judicial coup d’état is still in place and no justice can be expected until corrupt judges, who do not follow the rule of law, are replaced with those who do, by impeachment this year by the House of Representatives and/or, failing that, because Deep State power is so entrenched, by the people in the election in November. Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution requires this. It reads, “…All civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Insurrectionists members of Congress from both parties MUST be removed from office in state elections as well. This IS the 2nd American Revolution.
2) Under the Constitution insurrection is treason which allows the death penalty—punishment serious enough to make generations yet unborn not return to the practice of overthrowing their elected government by insurrection or coup d’état. Is society ready for firing squads? Finally, 3) Moving too fast until the public is ready for real justice may feed the insurrection against the established constitutional government now in power.
Thus far Congress has failed to curb the judicial insurrection with the Constitution therefore Trump must wait until enough of the people are awake to DEMAND the use of the Insurrection Act to save the Republic, the Constitution and liberty. Insurrection violence has awakened most of the people as the following Rasmussen questions and answers attest. This, despite the fact that the Deep State insurrectionists still control what is news, what is education, what is in encyclopedias, what is in AI, and what is social media—consequently what is portrayed as truth.
Consider the following Rasmussen poll questions and the public’s response to them. *“Do you approve or disapprove of the Trump Administration’s program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally? Approval was 62% of ALL voters and 60% of ALL races, even Democrats approved 42% (X22 Report not cited hereafter, Ep. 3820b, Jan. 18, 2026, 53:08). The people are looking behind the curtain and moving to Trump.
Other Rasmussen questions, *“How likely is it that non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in the state where you live? 32% very likely, 23% somewhat likely, for a total of 55% likely. *Should only US citizens be allowed to vote in US elections? Yes – ALL voters 85%, all categories 70% or higher, Democrats yes 81%, GOP: 87%.” *“Is requiring photo ID to vote a responsible measure to protect the integrity of elections? Yes, ALL voters 73%, all categories 67% to 86% (Rasmussen Reports, X22 Report, Ep. 3823b, Jan. 21, 2026,1:01:19 and 1:01:44). *“Would you support or oppose your state government doing an audit of voter registration and removing all non-citizens from the rolls? SUPPORT was 78% of ALL voters, Dems 66%, GOP 86% (Ep. 3824b, Jan 22, 2026, 1:05:55). The people are awake.
The Insurrection Act is two sentences long and has been needed and used by 14 presidents to suppress insurrections in this country for over 219 years. The first sentence may be hard to read in this copy of the original document. It reads, “AN ACT authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States, in cases of insurrections.” Only insurrectionists should fear it.
So why have Senate Democrats and RINOS not voted for the SAVE Act which would ensure all of the above that the people clearly want? Because “We the People” are NOT their constituents, the illegals and insurrectionists are. Congress could have removed the corrupt judges but have for at least five years refused to impeach them. All insurrectionists members of Congress, both Houses, regardless of political party, must be removed from office in their next election if we are to restore a Republic, the Constitution, and liberty. The polls show the people came to understand in 2025. In the next 11 months, if movement is similar to that of 2025, we may very well come to support treason trials, even the death penalty for some of the biggest names in the Democrat Party and some Republicans as well, particularly in Georgia.
Trump is waiting for a universal insurrection so the people know who the real traitors are and so all low level insurrectionists are on the streets so that they can be “rounded up” at approximently the same time (Ep. 3825b, Jan. 25, 2026, 2:20). The high level insurrectionist like George Soros are themselves never on the streets. He expects the insurrection to spread throughout the sanctuary cities of the nation in 2026 but he is prepared for use locally if places like Minneapolis get beyond manageable before time to use the Insurrection Act nationally. In January, before Gov.Waltz and Mayor Frey backed down, Trump had ready to go into Minneapolis “1,500+ 11th infantry on standby, 500+ military police on standby, 500+ Federalized National Guard OFR on standby, 3,000+ DHS/ICE agents on site, Undisclosed FBI/DOJ on site/en route” (Ep. 3825b, Jan. 25, 2026, 1:12:26). Trump will not use the Insurrection Act nationally until demanded.
Waltz called up his National Guard troops and had them wear “neon reflective vests to help distinguish them from other agencies who may be in similar uniforms.” This would have made no difference as Trump has the power to federalize state national guards and would have done so. They were oath bound to defend the Constitution and federal law when they joined the National Guard (Ep. 3825b, Jan. 25, 2026, 59:15). If they failed to stand by their oath their neon vests would have immediately identified them as the enemy and they too would have been rounded up.
The insurrectionists are showing themselves as the enemies of the Republic. Why destroy an enemy in the process of destroying itself. Stories of the two martyrs Renee Nicole Good and Alex Petti being innocent peaceful demonstrators were debunked within hours. Some few isurrectionists reportedly brought “their babies” to the “show.” Were they hoping to get a martyr if one were hurt or killed? Sick!
Trump will use The Insurrection Act when coming chaos demands it just like the 14 other presidents preceding him.
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Despite what we see in Minneapolis today justice is coming for the insurrectionists. At the moment it is scheduled for late Fall 2026, likely associated with the 2026 election. It will be clean and swift. Almost everything is in place for mass arrests. That preparation began January 20, a year ago on Inauguration Day just hours after Trump took the oath of office a second time. Trump’s Proclamation 10886 announced the reason. “America’s sovereignty is under attack. Our southern border is overrun by cartels, criminal gangs, known terrorists, human traffickers, smugglers, unvetted military-age males from foreign adversaries, and illicit narcotics that harm Americans.” He called it a four-year-long invasion that caused widespread chaos and suffering.
10 U.S.C. § 332. Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority. “Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.” The military will be supporting the Constitution and long established law.
Thus began the legal framework for issuing the Insurrection Act of 1807 which will be, the most important action of his presidency. It will save the Republic. It will save the Constitution. It is intended to remove the Deep State from over 100 years in power initially in both political parties and it should restore justice. But bringing the armed forces in to remove long standing treason requires following the Constitution in every detail—every t crossed and every i dotted. Trump did this in 2025 with respect to the coming insurrection. The framework is completed for use.
Getting Trump back into office was critical and a HUGH win for saving the Republic—but just the beginning. Had Harris / Waltz won in 2024 this would never have been done, the Republic would have been lost. Trump knew the Deep State intended both World War III with Russia over Ukraine and civil war between blue and red states in this country in 2025. Either event would cover over the crimes of the Deep State of the last 100 years. Joe Biden provoked both events. America became the lead funder of missile and drone attacks by Ukraine on Russia and encouraged the millions who invaded our southern border, those from overseas coming largely through Venezuela. LibertyUnderFire.org has published dozens of columns on these issues. Trump and Putin have made nuclear war with Russia unlikely and that war is destined to be the ninth conflict between nations resolved by Trump in his second term.
But the Deep State will not back off from creating, funding and provoking civil war by open insurrection between the federal government (through ICE) and sanctuary cities and states loaded with illegal, even criminal, aliens. Otherwise Deep State participants go to jail. Trump knows that sooner or later, likely this Fall, the Insurrection Act of 1807 will have to be used to save the Republic. That is precisely why he assembled the generals and admirals on Sept. 30, 2025 to Marine Corps Base Quantico, He told them, “This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it’s the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. It won’t get out of control once you’re involved” (“Trump Discloses to the U.S. Generals ‘The Enemy is From Within,”’ LibertyUnderFire.org,10 October 2025).
Using the Insurrection Act of 1807 required a national emergency as a base, Biden’s four-year unvetted invasion on our southern border of millions of illegals from countries around the world was that base. The invasion was visualized by every American on television every day and night. This included at least 24,000 military-aged men from communist China through Venezuela among the millions invading (“China is Invading America Without Firing a Shot. Biden Lets Them!!.” LibertyUnderFire.org ). Those not coming from central and south America came almost entirely through Venezuela. As mentioned Trump issued Proclamation 10886, on Inauguration Day January 20, 2025, which ended the Biden invasion.
Section 6(b) of that Proclamation required a joint report within 90 days on whether to invoke the Insurrection Act. That time period ended April 20, 2025 and eight days later, April 28, 2025, Trump issued Executive Order 14287 “Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens.” His national emergency declaration established crisis conditions. The 90-day clock resulting forced formal evaluation and the executive order provided the legal predicate for the eventual Insurrection Act. The clock ran the required 90 days (The Insurrection Proclamation, EKO, January 5, 2026, p. 3-4).
The fourth paragraph of Executive Order 14287 issued April 28 identified the heart of the issue, consider Minneapolis, Minnesota, sanctuary city and state, “this is a lawless insurrection against the supremacy of federal law” (The Insurrection Proclamation, EKO, January 5, 2026, p. 1-2 ). The federal government is obligated to defend the territorial sovereignty of the United States” as outlined in the Constitution Article IV, Section 4 which requires the federal government to “protect each of [the states] against invasion.” Simply, sanctuary jurisdictions are not now and never have been Constitutional because they create new governments within a state not authorized in the Constitution,— we already have counties and cities.
The laws established decades ago are very precise about insurrection and treason. I am a former political science college professor and am most concerned about the young students that have been blinded by the fake news and indoctrinating professors who have not taught them about these laws or about the Deep State. To the student I say, “You are playing with fire when you take on the federal government. You are NOT fighting for freedom. Sit this one out until you have all sides. You are signing up for one to twenty years in prison because of your ignorance. Please!!! I care! ICE is not your enemy. They are only enforcing the laws Congress passed.”
The executive order identified the offending actors as the Biden administration, international cartels, transnational criminal organizations and domestic terrorists. It described the unlawful conduct as those obstructing justice (18 U.S.C.1501 et seq.), unlawfully harboring or hiring illegal aliens (8 U.S.C. 1324), conspiracy against the United States (18 U.S.C. 371), and conspiracy to impede Federal law enforcement (18 U.S.C. 372), assisting aliens in violating Federal Immigration law could also violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. 1961et seq.). Executive Order 14287 was legal notification of their crimes.
The executive order also required the publishing and updating of a list of those obstructing justice within 30 days of the order which ended May 28, 2025. This compiled by both the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security notifying “each sanctuary jurisdiction regarding its defiance of federal immigration law enforcement and any potential violation of federal criminal law.” All have been notified that they are violating decades old established law.
Yes, Trump’s first day in office he prepared America for the coming insurrection, but it is not yet.
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Every major study of the 2020 Presidential Election shows it was rigged, was influenced by Dominion or Smartmatic voting machines, these originating from Venezuela, and was used world wide in elections during Nicholas Maduro’s reign. Maduro is the common denominator for it all. This is likely the main reason Trump went after Venezuela and had Maduro kidnapped. He is the star witness. He witnessed all of it.
Maduro photos after his kidnaping show him smilng, friendly and conversant with his captures—certainly atypical for someone living through the death of dozens around him in the assault on his home and the kidnapping also of his wife. Hand and finger gestures appear intentional, one with a peace sign, two with thumbs up (as shown above) and a third can’t be identified with common meaning. One has to wonder if he objected to his kidnapping. He looks almost freed. Perhaps his real captors were the Deep State, the cartels and his Cuban guards. Very strange.
The Deep State media treated these as conspiracies. I have said for many years a conspiracy theory that lasts more than five years is no longer a conspiracy nor likely a theory —this, assuming a free press. Still, today it is very difficult to get the other side, or sides. Everything is normally opposite what is given in their presses or computer domains, which comprise at least 85% of what is published—largely because they have the means and organization to publish.
We also know that Venezuela was the Deep State’s capital of South America and played a major role in the invasion of the United States. Biden even requested Maduro empty his gangs, prisons and insane asylums into the U.S. Thus technically Venezuela invaded the United States first. When a reporter asked Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, “Would you welcome a US military intervention in Venezuela?” She responded, “Venezuela has been invaded. We have the Russian agents. We have the Iranian agents. We have terrorists groups such as Hezbollah, [and] Hamas operating freely in accordance with the regime.” After telling us how invaded they already were, Machado added, “We will turn Venezuela into the energy, technological, and democracy hub of the Americas. We will host all of you in a bright, democratic, and free country, and it’s going to be soon” (X22 Report, hear after not cited, Ep. 3793b, Dec. 11, 2025, 41:50).
There is no question Venezuela and Maduro had become a strategic impairment for the U.S. It had become a Latin American crossroads for all USA principle enemies. Maduro was nurturing relationships with Russia, Hesbollah, Iran and Communist China. All of which challenged the sacrosanct 203 year-old Monroe Doctrine that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is potentially a hostile act against the United States. Even Communist China imported at least 24,000 military-aged men in nine months during the invasion, traveling from China to Venezuela to Columbia then through seven Central American countries finally into the United States (“China is Invading America Without Firing a Shot. Biden Lets Them!!, LibertyUnderFire.org, Jan. 3, 2023). Venezuela was central to the invasion.
President Biden’s $25 million reward for bringing in Nicholas Maduro.
Both Deep State presidents Obama and Biden said they viewed Maduro as a national threat. In 2015 Obama “issued an executive order declaring Venezuela’s president a national security threat and the government a narco terrorist organization.” The Trump administration (first term) escalated actions against Maduro using Obama’s 2015 Executive Order as a foundation, adding Trump’s 2020 indictment of him. In addition he placed a $15 million bounty on him. President Biden expounded sanctions on him in 2022 and increased the then $15 million bounty on Maduro to $25 million in 2022. “25 million for anyone who can deliver Maduro to America.” He knew no one would. Both Russia and China supported Maduro’s injecting America with drugs (Ep. 3811b, Jan. 5, 2026, 17:23). Trump executed the order of Obama and Biden. He used what they put in place to actually bring Maduro to the United States, just what his predecessors started.
We know because under Barack Obama, “Nicholas Maduro’s nephews were arrested with nearly 2000 pounds of cocaine and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison.” Despite Maduro’s facing an active US arrest warrant, that Biden increased by $10 million over narcotics charges, “Joe Biden commuted their sentences using his pardon power” (“Biden Freed Maduro’s Narco nephews After Obama Jailed them” AMUSE Jan. 5, 2026). Remember Biden’s son Hunter used and stored cocaine in the White House.
One of the many questions emerging from Operation Absolute Resolve is why Maduro guardians were foreigners not Venezuelans —32 Communist Cubans. It is supposed that he did not trust his own countrymen to protect him as he was so hated, or someone wished to keep an eye on him. Several mysterious photos of him arriving in New York have him extending both thumbs and grinning or making what appears to be other “glad finger” gestures. His wife appeared notably dismayed. Why did we bring her unless, he requested it? Deep State sources suggest these gestures are AI generated but they do not share why they “know” this and these are the same sources that have been wrong on everything else. Most sources, that show the pictures, say nothing but have been previously reliable.
Nicholas Maduro is not the first dictator kidnapped by the U.S government. In Dec. 1989 President George Herbert Walker Bush kidnapped the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega—also for importing drugs into the U.S. He was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in a federal prison in Georgia. He was release from prison 2007 then extradited to France where he served another 7 years for money laundering then to Panama for human rights violations. He died in 2017 at the age of 83.
We know Maduro was hated by most Venezuelans. We know he was controlled by the cartels and the Deep State. We know Trump and Maduro had prior communications— even two days before the raid. Since I have taught current events long before President George Herbert Walker Bush kidnapped the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega—also for importing drugs into the U.S.—and he was convicted and served his sentence in Georgia, let me share a wild hunch. It follows: What if Maduro came to hate the Deep State and no longer supported what they were doing in and to Venezuela? What if he feared both sides would kill him, his people or the cartels?
What if he chose to leverage what he knew to turn states’ evidence? He could bid for a nice prison with his wife, that may be why she came. He knows Trump is not Deep State. He knows Trump is destroying the Deep State worldwide. What he knows is of high value in doing just that. He trusts Trump. There is no safe place in Venezuela in or out of prison. He could sing like a bird, and if I am right, he will. He could testify against Barack Obama and Joe Biden, how the machines from his country installed them both and the part they and George Soros played in financing the invasion, even how Biden virtually begged him to send his gangs and criminals to the US. All of it! Is this why his first message in the U.S. was to hold both thumbs up? May be.
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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.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist on current events. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #853
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