Trump v. Putin

President Trump met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the White House yesterday. Dealing with the war in Ukraine was at the top of their agenda, and the president announced tough new sanctions on Russia’s largest oil companies and dozens of their subsidiaries that fund the Kremlin’s war machine.

President Trump has done everything possible to try to bring both sides to the table. He has encouraged Russia and Ukraine to make concessions to end this weeping wound in the middle of Europe, which, at any moment, could go “sepsis” and sink the world into a nuclear war. 

Of course, he gets no credit for these efforts, not from the Democrats and not from some in the war wing of the Republican Party. But the carping from his critics isn’t stopping him from being a “peace president.”

These are the toughest sanctions any U.S. president has ever imposed on Russia. So, I’m sure hundreds of leftist talking heads, who have argued for years that Putin has something on Trump, will now admit they were wrong.

Adam Schiff repeatedly told us that he had evidence of Russian collusion and that this evidence was “in plain sight.” Of course, he lied. And, of course, the media will never call him out for it. 

All the slanderous lies and fabrications that the Democrats and the fake news media threw at Donald Trump—from the day he came down the escalator to today—were just a massive smear campaign in order to stay in power.

The Left will do anything it has to do to get and keep power, even if it means tearing the country apart by accusing the president of being a traitor. It’s abhorrent and revolting! And the media should be ashamed of themselves for being willing accomplices to the worst partisan scandal in history.

The Big Picture

Here’s a point that many “analysts” are missing. These new sanctions don’t just target Russia’s largest energy companies. Any business or country that deals with the sanctioned Russian companies will be hit with secondary sanctions. That’s aimed directly at communist China and India. 

India is the second largest buyer of Russian oil. Trump has been pressuring India to stop buying Russian oil, but the Indian government has resisted. Until now. Bloomberg reports that Russian oil sales to India “will plunge” as a result of the sanctions—a significant cut to Putin’s oil revenues.

Communist China also faces a tough choice. It just cut off our supply of rare earth minerals. These sanctions are a huge card for President Trump to play during talks with Chairman Xi Jinping next week. Trump can tell Xi to end China’s mineral embargo or get hit with tough secondary sanctions. 

President Trump is playing on a level that most pundits can’t comprehend.

The Democrat Danger

Last month, a deranged leftist opened fire on immigration police officers in Dallas. He reportedly used an app that tracked the locations of immigration police. Under pressure from the Trump administration, Apple pulled the app and others like it from its App Store because of the obvious threat to law enforcement.

Well, congressional Democrats are now making their own “master” immigration police tracker. I guess they were unhappy that the Dallas shooter didn’t kill any immigration police officers. So, they’re going to help other deranged leftists who want to assassinate immigration police.

Three things immediately stand out here.

First, Democrats are at war with law enforcement. It is obvious to everyone that this tracker puts officers’ lives in danger. 

Second, it shows yet again just how committed they are to putting illegal aliens first—before American citizens, before innocent crime victims, before taxpayers, and before law enforcement.

Third, if they get power again, they will go right back to open borders and mass amnesty to “fundamentally transform America” by replacing our population with more pliable voters.

That’s why they are fighting every effort to secure America’s border and deport criminal aliens. That’s why leftist mobs are attacking immigration police officers who are simply doing their jobs and enforcing the law. That’s why they are all in on amnesty and giving free, taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens. 

None of that makes any sense at all unless you’re trying to import a new population who you believe will be your voters.

It doesn’t have anything to do with “compassion.” Sex trafficking tripled under Biden’s open borders madness.

Trouble In Chinatown

Illegal vendors selling counterfeit merchandise (fake Gucci purses, designer clothing, high-end watches, etc.) have taken over parts of New York City’s Chinatown district. 

That’s not only illegal, it also hurts legitimate merchants who can’t compete with the fake knockoffs when they’re trying to sell the real products. Merchants have repeatedly complained to the city, but the city hasn’t done anything to get it under control. 

Selling counterfeit goods also happens to be a violation of federal law. So, federal immigration police launched an enforcement operation yesterday. They arrested nine illegal aliens, most of whom had committed additional crimes. Their rap sheets included robbery, assaulting police officers, drug trafficking, drug possession, forgery, and domestic violence. 

This enforcement operation was a “win-win” for New York City. Immigration police got rid of illegal merchants and criminals. But what happened? There was a riot in Chinatown as leftists rushed into the streets to prevent immigration police from doing their jobs. 

This is what the Left has fomented around America. They have inspired an insurrection that is resisting federal law enforcement. That is exactly what happened yesterday in New York City. It also happened in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Teacher Calls For Insurrection

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, pro-mass migration activist Ron Gochez is calling for an armed insurrection against immigration police. At a press conference Tuesday in Los Angeles, Gochez told the crowd:

“Don’t forget where you’re standing. This is South Central Los Angeles. They [immigration police] are not the only ones with guns in this city. Don’t forget that.”

Gochez founded the Los Angeles chapter of Union del Barrio—a revolutionary socialist movement that demands an end to capitalism and open borders from Alaska to Chile. The group sees communist dictators Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Che Guevara as heroes.

Gochez and his gang of revolutionaries routinely patrol the streets of Los Angeles, tracking the movements of immigration police and posting their locations online. For his efforts thwarting federal law enforcement, he won the California Teachers Association 2025 Human Rights Award. He’s no humanitarian. He is a communist.

You can’t get more direct about stoking violence and an actual insurrection than threatening to shoot federal law enforcement officers.

Democrats and the media spent four years telling us that a few thousand people going into the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, which is usually open to the public, was the darkest moment in America since 9/11 and a fundamental threat to our Republic. That protest was over in four hours. 

I know some may say, “They were trying to stop the counting of electoral votes.” That’s ridiculous. The votes were going to be counted. The protesters were not going to occupy the Capitol overnight. And even if they did, the Electoral College votes would have been counted the next day. 

What is happening now is a much bigger threat to America.

Now, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year, the Left is stoking an insurrection against our constitutional Republic by encouraging attacks on duly appointed law enforcement officers. In every Democrat city and every Democrat state, they are aiding and abetting criminals and putting American citizens at risk. 

The Left is trying to stop the will of the American people expressed when we gave Donald Trump the majority of the popular vote and an Electoral College landslide election. They are using violence to stop the president of the United States from doing the number one thing that “We The People” elected him to do. 

That is an insurrection!

Minnesota Madness

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled unanimously this week that men have a right to cheat in women’s sports. The particular sport in question makes the ruling even more outrageous—powerlifting. 

Well, of course, it’s Minnesota. Nothing this absurd would come out of Florida, Ohio, or Texas. But this is what happens when you’re governed by leftists like “Tampon Tim” Walz, who put tampons in boys’ bathrooms while letting boys go into girls’ bathrooms.

Walz and his Democrat predecessor appointed all of the state’s Supreme Court justices. The fact that the decision was unanimous proves how the Left is all in on radical transgender ideology. 

So, thanks to the all-Democrat court, every bathroom in Minnesota was just declared a multigender bathroom. That is the obvious implication of the ruling. There are no more private places for women. Period. 

That’s where liberalism has ended up. They spent years fighting for equal rights for women in the beginning only to end by telling women, “You have to let a man watch you undress and your daughter has to compete against boys.” 

These so-called “progressives” have gone insane. They have lost the ability to reason. 

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