Now that the dust has mostly settled we can see much more clearly what happened in Iran that was mostly censored by America’s Deep State medias. Disclose TV reported, "The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs, go off, they're upset. They want to hear bombs, because they want to be free." They all knew the bombs were from America. Failure to hear them meant that America’s attack on the hated Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core (IRGC)– had been unsuccessful. POTUS explained to a reporter that the Iranian people yearn for freedom: “We've had numerous intercepts; ‘Please keep bombing, and these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding’… They want freedom. They have lived in a world that you know nothing about” (X22 Reports, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3877b, April 6, 2026, 42:41).
Islam has a centuries long history of suppressing women’s rights. Today demonstrations in Iran focus on women’s right to life and freedom. Activists, journalists, singers and other public figures are targeted by the government for arbitrary detention, torture through flogging, coercive interrogations and threats. Some few have been murdered. Compulsory veiling is the major sign of subordination. The IRGC sees protesting as defiance toward the government.
Nima Ebadi, an Iranian, explained what that world was/is like. “Let me tell you what POTUS is talking about here: In Iran, if you protest, you die. Not metaphorically. Snipers on rooftops shoot people in the head and chest. In January, the regime massacred thousands in the streets, many of them young people whose only crime was demanding a normal life. When he says Iranians are telling the US to keep bombing he is describing a population so desperate to be free from the regime that murders them for political protesting that they are willing to endure war if it means that the system that is terrorizing them for 47 years finally falls. You may not understand that. Most westerners can't. You've never lived in a country where your daughter can be shot in the face for not covering her hair. Where your son disappears into even prison and you get a call to come pick up the body. Where the Internet goes dark so the world can't see the killing. That's what they have lived. In a world that you know nothing about.…Understand the Iranian people have been begging the world to see them for years. This is the first U.S. president to say it out loud” (Rapid Response 47, Ep. 3878b, April 7, 2026, 36:52). Or, to offer help he may add.
The uncensored outlets spoke of at least 30,000 Iranians massacred in Iran by their own IRGC government last January for protesting and another 12,000 in the three months following. With the nation on total blackout at the time it was virtually impossible to confirm. It appears clear that both Israel and the United States only targeted the hated IRGC regime and not the Iranian army or the Iranian people. The IRGC, served as their Deep State police to protect the fanatical Islamic Theocratic system—the part that feels itself destined by God to destroy all that do not convert to Islam or are not obedient to the rules of Islam. It allows no tolerance.
Those protesting included eight women condemned to be executed by hanging for not covering their hair in public. Trump issued a plea to Iran to release these women. "Please do them no harm!,” he said. Iran, decided not to carry out the sentence. Instead, “Four will be released immediately, and four will be sentenced to one month in prison. Trump expressed his appreciation to the leadership in Iran for honoring his request.” The left's only comment was these photos look AI enhanced. Perhaps, but that has nothing to do with story accuracy.
Those protesting included eight women condemned to be first raped then executed by hanging for not covering their hair in public. “Not a word from even one international community or so-called human rights organizations.” Trump issued a plea to them to release these women. "Please do them no harm!,” he said (Ep. 3888b, April 21, 2026, 21:430). Iran, decided not to carry out the sentence. Instead, “Four will be released immediately, and four will be sentenced to one month in prison. Trump expressed his appreciation to the leadership in Iran for honoring his request” (Ep. 3889b, April 22, 2026, 29:37). It is likely, this leniency came about because of the developing new government, the Republic of Iran. The IRGC government would have permitted no such leniency. They believe raping first, before execution, degrades the victim beyond repair in the next world—a double punishment for their defiance.
As a result of 47 years of religious tyranny the people have never loved their government. Consequently even now, last week, Tausi TV reports, "Armed clashes erupt across major cities in Iran. Confirmed fighting reported in Tehran, Tabriz in the northwest, Ahvaz in the south, and Isfahan in the center near key nuclear facilities including Natanz. Verification took hours due to a flood of disinformation and an ongoing Internet shut down inside Iran. Zero Internet access, with only some using Starlink, is slowing communication as the situation unfolds.”
This is confirmed by The Iran Watcher. "Armed clashes between the Iranian army and the IRGC are reportedly erupting inside Iran. According to Alhurra, citing informed military and political sources inside Iran, tensions between the regular army, and the IRGC have escalated into armed confrontations in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Ahraz following the death of Khomeini… The backdrop here is important. The founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, originally created the IRGC because he feared a military coup from the regular Iranian army after the revolution. Over the decades, the regime transformed the IRGC into a parallel military empire, giving it far more funding, political influence, economic control, and technological favoritism than the regular army. While the army was often sidelined and distrusted, the IRGC became the regimes real power center, controlling major sections of the economy, missile forces, intelligence operations, and proxy networks across the regime” (Ep. 3910b, May 21, 2026, 29:48).
Iranian resistance to the IRGC government was in place even before Trump dropped the first bomb on Iran last February. Tony Seruga, an investigative reporter, in a May 29, 2026 piece called “Iranians vs. Iran:Mossad’s Sleeper Agents—Not Israelis—Led the Ground Assault that Crushed Tehran’s Air Defenses in Operation Rising Lion,” enabling Iranian nationals recruited & trained by Mossad (Israel’s intelligence arm) to destroy “a key air-defense site near Tehran, paving the way for Israeli jets to strike deep. Weapons, drones & missile parts were smuggled in — disassembled and hidden in everyday items like luggage or appliances. Final target coords dropped only minutes before launch. Additional Mossad cells activated that same night guided precision strikes on senior IRGC aerospace commanders and crippled more air defenses + ballistic missile systems across Tehran and western Iran.”
America’s Deep State media get their news exclusively from the IRGC. The censored side, and Trump, prefers the side of the people and new forming Republic. Trump says "Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the USA and those that are with us.” Trump tells his critics, "Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – it always does!” (Ep.3917b, June 1, 2026, 31:53). He expects Iran to liberate itself and it appears to be doing just.
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America, and the world as well, is at war with very different types of terrorists: Transnational narco-terrorists and gangs, Legacy Islamist terrorists, and Violent Left-wing extremists terrorists. All are transnational, have evil and destructive intents, hate Christians and Jews and would destroy the U.S. Constitution and individual liberty had they power to do so. In America all three terrorists priority groups favor the Democrat Party and hate President Donald Trump because he seeks to destroy them, The common denominator to them all is that the Deep State is embedded in them and is happy to use them, and does, for its controlling purposes.
Presently America, liberty and the Constitution are threatened more than at any time in U.S. history except for the November 3, 2020-through January 6, 2021 presidential election and Electoral College certification. Previously, enemies were identified as nations we were at war with at different times: Vietnam, Korea, USSR, Germany, Japan, Spain and Great Britain. Today enemies are not necessarily countries but enemy groups within nations including from within our own government. For the first time in US history the majority of our most dangerous enemies are domestic terrorists. That is why President Trump assembled the military last Sept. 30, 2025, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, warning them that they could play a role in dealing with enemies from within (Trump Discloses to The U.S. Generals “The Enemy is From Within,” by Harold Pease, Ph. D., LibertyUnderFire.org, October 8, 2025).
The Trump administration has categorized today’s enemies into three terrorists priority groups: narco terrorists and transnational gangs, legacy Islamist organizations, and violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and Antifa. The third priority is the violent left-wing extremists. The strategy for its removal directs the present government to map their membership, sever international ties, and cripple them operationally before they can carry out attacks. As evidence of the threat the document cites the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical whom the strategy describes as espousing extreme transgender ideology (THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY 2026).
The recently declassified Kennedy files revealed that the CIA, found to have been most responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and a shadow government now referred to as the Deep State, would have been in this third group. Over the decades American Deep State cells were established in Cuba, Iran, Ukraine, and Venezuela—in that order. Both are knee deep in all three terrorists and priority groups.
The Biden administration had previously identified white supremacists and anti-government extremists as the domestic terrorism threat. By October 13, 2023, the Biden U.S. Department of Homeland Security put out a meme called Potential Terror Threats adding to the list those in opposition to his COVID measures, those claiming election fraud, those believing Trump can be reinstated, and those honoring 9/11 anniversary and religious holidays. The meme was published by CBS Nightly News. Soon thereafter the Biden FBI and DOJ added Catholics, parents speaking out at school board meetings against CTR indoctrination of their children, and the 55% of Americans who support Trump’s Making America Great Again (MAGA) movement (See, “Biden’s Chilling Pursuit of Conservatives, Arctic Frost,” LibertyUnderFire,” Sept. 23, 2025). Consequently, the majority of Americans were decreed domestic terrorists by their own government. At what point do the majority realize that it (the federal government) not they (the people) was the actual domestic terrorist?
As mentioned last September 30, 2025, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of the nation’s top military officers to Marine Corps Base Quantico. Trumps two principle messages given all the generals and admirals were that the enemy is within this country and the military must remember its oath to protect and defend the Constitution from “all enemies foreign and domestic.” This time domestic. Trump said, “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.”
On May 6, 2026, President Trump signed the 2026 United States Counterterrorism strategy (referenced above) setting out the clearest statement yet of his administration's national security priorities. The strategy must address all three priority groups. They interrelate and all must be dealt with simultaneously. The Deep State cells America established within other countries, in their efforts to control the world, must be removed which is what Trump is doing. Trump is treating counterterrorism and counterinsurgency as the same thing, as are we. The insurgency happened when the presidential election of 2020 was rigged. That insurgency is treated as a type of terrorism —they overthrew the Trump government in a Coup d'état. Biden was installed not elected.
Under Biden the majority of Americans were decreed domestic terrorists by their own government. At what point do the majority realize that it (the federal government), not they, (the people) was the actual domestic terrorist?
The 16 page document frames counterterrorism as a core mission centered on protecting Americans from both foreign and domestic threats, “Our nation has not been well served by its Intelligence Community (IC),… has been actively weaponized by its leadership as a political tool…This Administration will continue to prohibit the IC from being used politically against innocent Americans. As real threats were ignored or underplayed, Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by the violent left-wing.” We will “prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent” (Ibid.).
So Trump has setup the counterinsurgency of the people, the military and the executive branch which has exposed the Deep State insurgency of 2020-2021 and is putting everything in place to counter everything yet anticipated as well, which already included the participating trans community, Antifa, illegals, and brainwashed Democrats—the domestic terrorists within our country willing to work alongside the other two terrorists priority groups the narco terrorists and foreign Islamists terrorists to bring down America. Trump has prepared for what is to come defending America from all enemies, foreign and domestic as required in his oath of office.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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 @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #874.
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On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. For Russia the number one issue starting the war was the American built and funded biolabs on Ukraine’s border that threatened their country. The Biden administration “denied the existence of US-owned or US-operated ‘chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine,’ dismissing the claims as Chinese and Russian propaganda in a March 9, 2022, statement, the month after Kremlin forces invaded."
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just acknowledged the existence of more than 120 biological laboratories located in at least 30 countries abroad that have been funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades. Forty of these were in Ukraine. Biden and his administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of these US-funded and supported biolabs and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”
But Biden was caught in his own lie when his own Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, the day before the invasion, panicked and said: “Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of.” Her blurting out what had been classified throughout the Obama years, was spot on and later verified in congressional testimony (“DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad,”By Josh Christenson, New York Post, May 11, 2026). The Biden administration and their Deep State media went into overdrive and successfully censored this admission. Few dared counter it.
At the time, spring of 2022, LibertyUnderFire.org published what was known about secret American bio weapon labs in Ukraine, built by our own Department of Defense and tax payer funded, in the following columns: “It’s a Matter of Trust: Biden or Putin on Ukraine,” March 4, 2022, “Are U.S. Run Bioweapon Labs in Ukraine as Russia Says?”, March 11, 2022, “Putin is Destroying the New World Order in Ukraine,” March 18, 2022, and “The War Behind the War in Ukraine, April 1, 2022” . At least 13 biolabs were experimenting with gain of function research on lethal pathogens to human beings. We were right then and we remain vindicated today. If Mexico was doing the same thing on our border and one mistake could put a lethal virus in the U.S. we would demand it cease and if Mexico refused we’d also invade to destroy the labs.
Today, as a result of President Trump’s executive order ending federally funded “gain-of-function” research, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard acknowledges the existence of more than 120 biological laboratories located in at least 30 countries abroad that have been funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades. Her team will be identifying more specifically “where these labs are, what pathogens they contain and what ‘research’ is being conducted to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and the world.” She said, “The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have."
Gabbard continued, “Yet despite these obvious dangers, politicians, so-called bs can hahealth professionals, like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of these US-funded and supported biolabs and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.” The funding past through a Department of Defense program that ironically “sought to dispose of weapons of mass destruction after the end of the Cold War” but instead may have incentivized new weapons of mass destruction. These clinical trials currently being conducted at the biolabs are now “raising significant, ethical, financial and security concerns,” ODNI officials said (“DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad).
The top map shows where Russian missile strikes were first made in Ukraine. The bottom map where the U.S. biolabs in Ukraine were located. Notice they were the same places. Russia was initially taking out the biolabs they felt endangered their people.
Last May, “Trump signed an executive action to ban all federal funding for the gain-of-function research in China, Iran or other nations that don’t exercise proper oversight, claiming that SARS-CoV-2 had proved dangerous pathogens “can leak out innocently, stupidly and incompetently, but innocently [can] destroy half the world.” Some dare to include for political purposes.
Two major concerns that arose for the Gabbard team was first they were“unable to determine how many possible enhanced potential pandemic pathogens were being researched in China or other nations — despite more than $1.4 billion being spent on such experiments outside the US between 2014 and 2023.” We should know. A second was harnessing oversight to their grants. “Between 2014 and 2021, US-funded experiments on bat coronaviruses at the now-infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology were also found by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to have violated grant terms by making the viruses 10,000 times more infectious, though officials have denied that the research caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the Spring of 2022 we documented that the Deep State built 13 (shown now to be 40) bio-labs in Ukraine (and over 120 world-wide) to study the most dangerous viruses on the planet. All potentially doing gain of function research, but without any government able to limit their dark experiments. These threaten the whole planet. (It’s a Matter of Trust, Biden or Putin on Ukraine?”, LibertyUnderFire.org). The Defense Department argued then that these labs are to identify threats not create threats. Why then would they seek to hide or destroy the evidence? Don’t we already have such labs in the United States, say Fort Detrick, Maryland, to identify threats? But in the U.S. gain of function research has to be explained and people ask questions. Hence they have outsourced it to Ukraine, China, and 30 countries where it is not illegal.
We argued in 2022 and do so again in 2026, escaping viruses know no national boundaries. If a pathogen has not been seen anywhere on the earth in the last 50 years why not extinguish the last remnant of it from your lab, not study it risking its escape, thus re-emerging killing perhaps millions again? How stupid, or evil, is man? (“Are US-Run Bioweapon Labs in Ukraine as Russia says?,” LibertyUnderFire.org, March 11, 2022). Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has confirmed what was already known but censored by the Deep State Obama/Biden media and government. Thank you Trump and Gabbard for bringing this evil again to light.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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 @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #873. Help preserve our Republic while we still can by sharing this column.
After the November 2016 defeat of Hillary Clinton and election of Donald Trump, President Obama, the outgoing president with mere days left in office, directed his intel staff to create a fake 2017 Intel Community Assessment on Trump to prevent him from ever taking office. It served as the basis for what was essentially a year long coup against the duly elected president of the United States, subverting the will of the American people and attempting to delegitimize Donald Trump's presidency” (NEW EVIDENCE UNCOVERS OBAMA-DIRECTED CREATION OF FALSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT USED TO LAUNCH YEARS-LONG COUP TO UNDERMINE PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Press Release, Tusi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, July 23, 2025).
Obama violated all the above conditions and has for nearly a decade. He TOTALLY lacked authority, was not authorized by Trump either term, and clearly undermines the U.S. government’s official foreign policy and diplomatic efforts. It is true no-one has been convicted on the Logan Act but it is also true that no one of higher position has violated it and to the depth, extent, and frequency as Barack Obama. If not enforced now it never will be.
Although Barack Obama left office 9 1/2 years ago and has been a private citizen for almost a decade, he still runs his shadow government as he did through Trump’s first term, Biden’s only term and just last week, 15 months into Trump’s second term, he met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and a mix of other globalist Deep State figures. “The gala connected to the Global Progress Action Summit (co-hosted by Canada 2020 and the Center for American Progress Action Fund), held mainly on May 9 at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. This progressive policy gathering included various international figures, but these were mostly cabinet ministers, former leaders, and U.S./European politicians rather than sitting foreign heads of government alongside Obama and Carney (Grok.com). Obama gave the keynote address.
This mostly secret “think tank” event was closed to the public and media. There are no transcripts, photos or public statements, thus few specifics—only that which has leaked out. Citizen Obama could clear his name by publishing his and the addresses of all attending but won’t because the Left won’t insist that he does. Others view the assemblage as the criminal syndicate leader, Obama, meeting with his criminal syndicate.” (X22 Report hereafter not cited Ep. 3901b, May 10, 2026, 22:00).
Critics claimed Obama’s meeting violated the Logan Act, a 1799 U.S. law barring unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments in disputes with the United States. “Former presidents often meet foreign leaders, they say, and that there was no evidence of policy negotiations in this case, a standard courtesy—NOT TEN YEARS LATER—and no casual get-together requires a key note speaker, which Obama was (“Obama’s Toronto visit with PM Carney draws Logan Act backlash” May 9, 2026, MSN). Carney debunked that when he wrote. Obama, "Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future—and empower more people to build with us.” (Newsweek, “What Is the Logan Act? MAGA Seethes as Obama Meets Carney in Canada,” by Hollie Silverman, May 9, 2026). Sounds like Biden’s “Build Back Better” 2020 campaign strategy. Certainly highly political.
Saggezza Eterna, platform author, said it best, Obama “is utilizing his status to provide a back-channel for foreign leaders to circumvent the elected will of the American people. The spectacle of a former executive jetting across the border to play statesman reveals the true nature of the globalist insurgency. Barack Obama remains the primary architect of the shadow government [we now call the Deep State ] that views American sovereignty as an obstacle to be managed or dismantled” or betrayed or disregarded by someone whose authority to do so ended almost a decade ago. Today, Barack Obama’s authority is nothing more, nor less, than a bricklayers or plumber.
Obama’s “arrival in Toronto on May 8, represents a direct assault on the current administration’s mandate. While the media paints this as a routine speaking engagement, the strategic reality is far more sinister. Obama is utilizing his status to provide a back-channel for foreign leaders to circumvent the elected will of the American people. This is the behavior of a man who believes his ideological vision grants him immunity from the laws that govern ordinary citizens. We are watching a calculated effort to preserve the neoliberal order by any means necessary, including the betrayal of national interests for the sake of a "more just" globalist hegemony.”
To globalists, “the law of the land is a mere suggestion for the anointed elite of the radical left. Barack Obama’s keynote address at the Canada 2020 Gala is a definitive case study in institutional arrogance. As a private citizen with no official authority, he has inserted himself into the delicate machinery of U.S.-Canada relations. The Logan Act expressly forbids unauthorized citizens from engaging in intercourse with foreign governments to defeat American measures. Obama treats this 1799 statute as a relic intended for his political inferiors. By holding ‘important conversations’ with Prime Minister Mark Carney during active trade disputes, he operates a shadow presidency designed to sabotage the ‘America First’ agenda. He is leveraging his past status to provide political cover for foreign leaders who seek to resist American tariffs and security policies. This is a calculated breach of federal code. He has chosen to act as a freelance diplomat for a progressive vision that the American electorate has firmly rejected.”
Moreover, Saggezza Eterna, concludes, “By headlining this gala, Obama coordinates a multinational resistance against U.S. economic interests. These closed-door sessions represent a deliberate attempt to embolden Carney’s defiance against American trade demands. The ‘just future’ they discuss is a code for a world where American prosperity is subordinated to the whims of international bureaucrats,” [the globalists] ( Saggezza Eterna@FinalTelegraph ). If Trump did send someone to represent him in this secret meeting of globalists in Toronto May 9th, it certainly would not be Obama!!!
Thus far only one U.S. Senator saw what Obama was attempting to do and spoke out, Democrat John Fetterman. “I don't know who he thinks elected him to do that, but it wasn't the people I serve, "said Fetterman, “Honestly, I find it offensive.” Fetterman seemed annoyed also with the Obama weekly visits to the Capitol to keep Democrats in lock step agreement. Fetterman says “Obama has been conducting these visits weekly since he has been in the Senate.“ (Ep. 3901b, May 10, 2026, 24:32). Obama’s shadow government, now 9 1/2 years old, remains very active.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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 @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #872.
The war on Iran was clearly billed as removing Iran as a nuclear threat to Israel, America and to the world. Existing nuclear bomb facilities were destroyed, the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core) consisting of the mullah government, likely brought to power with the help of the Deep State in America, was mostly also destroyed, and its ability to enrich Uranium removed. In 45 days Trump removed that threat and their radicalized leadership that made Iran the leading terrorist nation in the world although there remains some limited resistance.
In 2015 under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action “the Obama administration unfroze $100-$150 billion in Iranian assets and sent $1.7 billion in literal cash transfers on pallets to Iran. BBC News offered this photograph. Within months of the payment Iran funneled hundreds of millions to Hezbollah, Hamas, expanding its IRGC cut throat operations across Syria and Iraq and increased funding for Yemen Houthis’ insurgency. “Barack Obama bears primary responsibility for today's Middle East crises.” Had he not shipped 1.7 billion dollars in cash to Iran, “they would not have had the funds to build their nuclear, missile, and drone programs.
Obama was the second most important reason we attacked Iran. I have always said if a conspiracy theory lasts more than five years it is probably not a conspiracy because truth can’t be fully destroyed and any attempt to do so gives life to it. Most of the things thought to be conspiracy theories in 2020 have proven instead to be conspiracy fact.
One such is the The Uranium One Deal, now 16 years old and goes like this. In 2010, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State under Barack Obama, sold uranium acquired from Wyoming and Utah (20% of America’s supply) to a Russian firm, passing then to Iran, and North Korea. This can be forensically proven or disproven by uranium’s specific isotope signature as having come from America when it is unburied from Trump’s B-2 bomber attack on Iran’s nuclear site Fordow. If so, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama directly gave the Iranians the fuel for a nuclear bomb to be used against Israel or America (X22 Report, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3879b, April 8, 2026, 51:31). Giving aid and comfort to the enemy is defined in the U.S. Constitution as treason.
Nine years ago on October 19, 2017, Trump wrote, “The Uranium Deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama administration knowledge, is the biggest story that fake media doesn't want to follow!” Clandestine, an investigative reporter, asked, "What if the single most damning piece of evidence against the Deep State/Obama administration, was sitting underneath the rubble at Fordow? Uranium” (Ep. 3886b, April 19, 2026, 28:25). Will this evidence be discovered? Trump says yes. “It is now and has been under very exacting satellite surveillance (Space Force). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack” (Ep. 3879b, April 8, 2026, 51:07).
In 2015 under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action “the Obama administration unfroze $100-$150 billion in Iranian assets and sent $1.7 billion in literal cash transfers on pallets to Iran. The official explanation was that this was Iran's own money part of a decades old settlement from the Shaw era. In reality, it became the single greatest funding injection ever received by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core, a military and intelligence octopus already controlling the nation’s economy through shell corporations, terror alliances [and] front groups.
History reminds us that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted for conspiracy to commit espionage and were executed by electrocution June 19, 1953 for passing to the USSR our atomic bomb secrets. This act of treason was alleged to have advanced the USSR’s acquiring a nuclear weapon many years beyond the most optimistic predictions. Has history repeated itself with Obama / H. Clinton and Iran?
“Within months of the payment Iran funneled hundreds of millions to Hezbollah, Hamas, expanding its IRGC cut throat operations across Syria and Iraq and increase funding for Yemen Houthis’ insurgency. They were responsible for targeting civilian ships in the Red Sea. Iranian officials themselves admitted everything from what we eat and drink to our rockets comes from Tehran's regime coffers [from America], while Iranian cities fell further into poverty, the regime's war machine booms. Drones, ballistic missiles, and oil smuggling networks began popping up in violation of international sanctions that Obama himself had dismantled.…Neoliberal chaos as a governing strategy via the Obama team: Clinton, Newland, Powers, [and] Rhodes weren't naïve idealists. They were intentional engineers of this disorder" (Tony Saruba, Ep. 3877b, April 6, 2026, 16:00). Thus—“Barack Obama bears primary responsibility for today's Middle East crises.” Had he not shipped 1.7 billion dollars in cash to Iran, “they would not have had the funds to build their nuclear, missile, and drone programs – nor to arm Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis” (Saif Alderei Ep. 3873b, March 31, 2026, 16:32).
The $1.7 billion transfer to Iran occurred in early 2016, Obamas last year in office, “with the first $400 million delivered on January 17, 2016 coinciding with Iran's release of four American prisoners. The remaining $1.3 billion was transferred in installments: $700 million on January 22, 2016 and $600 million on February 5, 2016. These payments were part of a settlement resolving decades – old arbitration claim between the United States and Iran over a failed arms deal from the 1970s” (ChatGPT). The money was first flown “to Switzerland aboard an unmarked, chartered aircraft, and then converted into euros, Swiss francs and other currencies. An Iranian transport aircraft then flew the cash to Iran in three shipments” (ifmat.org).
The consequence of this “aid and comfort” to the enemy was addressed by Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. “Many of the Iranian military factories and bases that were systematically destroyed were PAID FOR by the pallets of American cash that Barack Obama flew into Tehran under the Iran Deal… Iran took our money and turned it into weapons and bunkers and ammo, and now we're destroying those weapons and were righting. You're righting, Mr. President, that government's grievous wrong” (Ep. 3868b, March 26, 2026, 31:21)!
None of this is new to those of us who were on top of this story in 2016 but most of the people were still programed by the Deep State news sources that, if they covered it at all, it was discredited as a conspiracy theory. No one can legitimately do so now.
President Trump made his demands very clear. Iran cannot obtain a nuclear bomb to threaten the United States and Israel and they must turn over the enriched uranium that's in their possession. He said, “We await their response." Why must the uranium be returned to the United States? It is a matter of national defense. It has the nuclear footprint needed to connect Obama and Clinton with treason (Rapid Response 47, Ep. 3890b, April 23, 2026, 45:00). Obama should want it returned and evaluated to prove his innocence as the source of Iran's nuclear bomb fuel.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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 @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #871.
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The news is filled with the most recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. This time at the White House Correspondents Dinner April 25, 2026, by 31 year old admitted would be assassin, Cole Thomas Allen, a guest in the Washington Hilton, the same hotel where John Hinckley tried to assassinate Ronald Regan in 1981. Allen fired and hit an agent as he ran through several in the lobby but was soon stopped and arrested. The Deep State media framed this attempt as the third on the life of Donald Trump in the last two years, which is true, but it is also the 6th on him in ten years. They are responsible for the constant hate Trump rhetoric that has propagated the news, which is the source of this violence for over a decade. Let’s briefly remind ourselves of five prior attempts to assassinate the president from the most recent back to 2016.
Protestors are tussling with Secret Service over the last fence barrier before, though sheer force of numbers, invading the White House seeking access to President Trump obviously to kill him. Secret Service agents rushed the President to a White House bunker below for safety. Notice the fire in the distance, top middle of the photo. Reinforcements and pepper spray finally stopped them. Some 60 Secret Service members were injured!! What if they had breached this last fence and had access to Trump? Where are the discussions and investigations of how Trump and / or democracy barely survived May 30, 2020?
Number 5, Sniper at Trump’s Golf Course, September 15, 2024, Assassination Attempt. Ryan Wesley Routh (58), had made a nest from which to shoot former President Trump with his SKS rifle just outside the fence of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida when Trump reached hole 6. Routh, had to have possessed leaked information that Trump would be golfing that day. After hiding there for nearly 12 hours, and on the former president’s arrival, Routh pointed his weapon through the fence line, approximately 400 yards (370 m) away from Trump. A Secret service agent noticed and fired four rounds towards Routh, who them fled the scene. He was subsequently arrested. On February 4, 2026, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Number 4, Butler, Pennsylvania Rally July 13, 2024, Trump Assassination Attempt. The official story has 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a lone gunman, shooting from an unsecured rooftop—the line of fire unobstructed. Everyone knew the lone gunman, a favorite Deep State narrative, would be all that most would get, despite all the evidence otherwise (“Was Trump’s Assassination Attempt an Organized Deep State Operation?,” July 17 2024, and “Deep State’s Lone Shooter Narrative 100% Debunked by Forensic Data,” July 24, 2024, both by LibertyUnderFire.org). Predictably a lone gunman was the Biden FBI’s final report. We have learned since that Thomas Matthew Crooks was taken out—not by Secret Service snipers as alleged—but by local law enforcement. Where were the Secret Service or Biden FBI? So many questions unanswered and the Trump Administration seemingly has moved on. Still, out of nowhere Trump announced, during the bombing of Iran in March, that he got his Iranian assailant. LibertyUnderFire believes that Iran was involved and that this story is wrapped up in the “Grand Conspiracy” which will tie the assassination attempt to Deep State treason with foreign assistance when the time is right.
Number 3, Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home was raided by the Biden FBI August 8, 2022 with Authorization to Use Deadly Force. Released court documents, forced out of the Department of Justice largely by America First Legal, revealed unacceptable details about the FBI’s raid. Many conservatives believe it was a failed attempt by Deep State leaders, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland, to endanger Donald J. Trump, his family and the U.S.Secret Service (USSS) in a potential line of fire should the raid go awry—with Trump the intended victim. According to the filing, “The DOJ and FBI agents planned to bring standard issue weapons, MO, handcuffs and medium and large sized bolt cutters. They were also instructed to wear unmarked polo or collared shirts and to keep law enforcement equipment concealed.” (Brooke Singman, Fox and Friends, Fox News, May 21, 2024). Why? So Trump might think them thieves and protect himself drawing fire? Thirty agents descended that evening on Trump’s home (“FBI’s Deadly Force Policy on President Trump Smells Really Bad,” LibertyUnderFire.org, June 5, 2024). This was eventually known except for the authorization to use deadly force entrapment ending in Trump’s planned death in a gun fire exchange between USSS and FBI agents dressed in plain clothes in the dark of the night. Casualties in the “accident” would be considered necessary collateral damage. A very sober charge.
U.S. Secret Service members stand guard outside former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after Biden FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Florida, Aug.8, 2022. They could have mistakenly exchanged fire with FBI agents dressed in plain clothes. Had Trump been at Mar-a-Largo, instead of Trump Tower in New York City, any misstep in the dark could have left him the target of the Biden FBI. Casualties would be considered necessary collateral damage and the Deep State would have removed their arch enemy willing to reveal them.
Number 2, Attack on Trump in the White House. 60 USSS agents injured, May 30, 2020. Most remember the White House under attack when hundreds of angry BLM and Antifa anarchists violently protested the death of George Floyd and simultaneously threatened President Trump. They burned cars and pillaged businesses in big cities across the nation. They intended the same for the White House and its resident. They burned St Johns Episcopal Church across the street. CNN reported, “More than 60 US Secret Service Uniformed Division officers and special agents were injured starting Friday night through Sunday morning near the White House as protests rocked Washington DC. Rioters breached the fences surrounding the White House and tussled over the last fence barrier.”
The Hill reported, “Barricades have fallen to the west of the White House and the crowd is surging forward, once again coming face-to-face with Secret Service who’ve moved into formation and raised their riot shields” Yahoo! News reported, “The demonstrations led to dramatic clashes involving fists, shields and tear gas against the backdrop of Trump’s official residence.” As Trump’s home, the White House itself, looked next to be breached, “Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker” (“Remembering Trump’s Bout with Deadly Force at his Home 4 Years Ago,” June 12, 2024, LibertyUnderFire.org).
Number 1, Trump's Assassination Attempt in Las Vegas, Nevada Rally, June 18, 2016. The first assassination attempt on Donald Trump occurred while a candidate for president by a most unlikely foreign assassin, a resident of Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom overstaying his VISA. Michael Steven Sandford, age 20, spent a year and a half in New Jersey before traveling to California then Las Vegas, where he attended a Trump rally at the Mystery Theater in the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. He was arrested after trying to grab an officer’s gun from her holster. He had lingered near the officer, telling her he wanted Mr. Trump’s autograph. In an interview after his arrest, Mr. Sandford told the authorities that he “made a conscious effort to come to Las Vegas to kill Trump,” and that he had been “planning to attempt to kill Trump for about a year.” He also said, “He expected to be killed by law enforcement personnel during his attempt on Mr. Trump’s life. (Man Arrested at Rally tells Authorities ‘He’ Wanted to Kill Donald Trump, New York Times, Nick Corasaniti, June 20, 2016). Sandford, charged with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, was ultimately sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, then when served, deported back to the United Kingdom.
As a candidate for, or president, Trump’s life has been threatened six times from June 18, 2016 through April 26, 2026, a span of ten years; five as former or present president of the United States.
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We are at war as serious and real as any in our history with real casualties fighting to keep our liberty. Everything is politicized and aimed at capturing your mind often with narratives or ideas that may have no truth in them. I have lectured and published on keeping our freedom for over fifty years. This war is real and dangerous. It may have deceived you. Sometimes someone else says it better. This time it is Ken Blackwell, a nationally syndicated columnist. I had to go through at least 100 pro ‘No Kings’ protest propaganda Deep State sources on Google to get this one article giving the other side. Exclusion is censorship. Blackwell’s arguments were suppressed, that is why I am sharing him on my site to give you access. What he shares resonates. Much of what follows is from him. He titles his comments, “No Kings Explained for People Who Think They’re Fighting Fascism."
This is the 3rd No King protest preceded by June 14, and October 18, 2025 protests. The common denominators of all No King protests is they are almost entirely far-left Democrats, despise Trump and the MAGA movement, are heavily funded by the extreme left especially George Soros, and never opposed their own king-like presidents Obama and Biden or COVID governors: Como, Whitmer, Murphy or Newsom. We remember these “wannabe kings—all Democrats. Nor can they identify specifically anything illegal that Trump has done.
“Three billion dollars in revenue. Pre-printed signs stacked and shipped before you even knew what you were supposed to be mad about. That is not a spontaneous uprising. That is infrastructure. That is planning. That is money. That is message discipline. And that is what you walked into on Saturday [March 28, 2026]. You looked around, saw the crowd, saw the slogans, felt the energy, and told yourself this was democracy. ‘No Kings.’ It sounded clean. It sounded righteous. It felt like you were part of something organic. But the signs were ready before your outrage was. That should bother you.” Did it?
“Because you are not living under a king. You are living in a constitutional republic with elections, term limits, and a press that has spent years attacking the most powerful figures in the country without consequence. No one is being arrested for calling a president a fascist. No one is being silenced for dissenting. That is not tyranny. And yet you are being told it is. You are being trained to see normal functions of a country as authoritarian. Loving your country becomes suspicious. Wanting a secure border becomes immoral. Believing parents should have a say in their children’s lives becomes dangerous. Asking basic questions about elections becomes taboo. That is not clarity. That is conditioning. Every country on Earth enforces its borders. Most require identification to vote. That is not controversial anywhere else. It is only controversial here because you have been told it should be. And you believed it.
“Meanwhile, look at the people who actually hold power and how long they have held it: Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign. That is what entrenched power looks like. Decades. Not months. Not a single term. Decades.
“But you are told the threat to democracy is the outsider who disrupted that system for a brief window of time. You are told he is the king. No. What you are reacting to is not monarchy. It is loss of control. You do not hate kings. You hate kings that are not yours. Because when power consolidates on your side, you justify it….
“Three days before you marched, lawmakers aligned with your movement rejected voter identification requirements. At the same time, you lived through a period where you had to show documentation to participate in basic parts of life. You needed proof to eat, to travel, to work. But asking for proof to vote is suddenly oppression. That contradiction should stop you cold.” Did it?
Blackwell continues, “Look at how power is actually maintained. Non-citizens are counted in the census. Census numbers determine representation. Representation determines power. Remove verification, expand the count, and you increase influence without ever needing a crown. That is how modern systems entrench themselves. Then look at speech. There is written evidence of government officials pressuring platforms like Facebook to suppress information. Not just misinformation. Information that later proved to be accurate. [During COVID] scientists were sidelined. Doctors were ignored. Even humor and satire were targeted. Humor. When people in power are deciding which jokes are allowed, you are not dealing with a healthy system. That control did not come through loud decrees. It came through quiet coordination with corporations that act as extensions of political authority. That is far more effective than any throne….
I had to go through at least 100 pro ‘No Kings’ protest propaganda Deep State sources on Google to get this one article giving the other side. Exclusion is censorship.
“Then there is the selective enforcement of rules. During lockdowns, small businesses were shut down. Churches were closed. Families were kept from their loved ones in their final moments. At the same time, large scale unrest that caused billions in damage and cost lives was treated as justified or even necessary. One standard for one group. A completely different standard for another. That is not equal application of law. That is power deciding what counts. And when it comes to political violence, the conversation is selective….
“Look at who you marched alongside. Organizations like the Party for Socialism and Liberation were not hiding. They were present, organized, and clear about their goal: revolution, not reform. That ideology has already been tested in the real world. It does not produce freedom. It produces control….And yet they had signs ready for you. Hundreds of groups. Billions in funding. A coordinated message. And money that traces back to figures like Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire operating out of Shanghai with ties to networks aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were participating in something far more organized than you realized….
“So when you chant about kings, understand what you are actually defending and what you are actually ignoring…. You marched against kings. But what you are actually enabling is a system that does not need a crown to control you. And the most dangerous part is that you think you are fighting for freedom…” The truth behind No Kings protests: were you deceived? Walk away!! Two more are scheduled before elections. Don’t go!
Thanks Ken Blackwell for the censored side.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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 more of his weekly columns @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #869
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I began my professorship career in 1975 in Blythe, California with at least 20% Iranian foreign students who chose Palo Verde College for its like environment because it was hot and dry like Iran. I remember well an early classroom conversation with them. They did not hate the Shay of Iran that was then being displaced in 1979, they said by America. I told them that we had nothing to do with it. One student said, “You know, how you say his name, R o c k e f e l l e r, he take over and removed the Shay,” he protested. They seemed so emphatic and in total agreement that America was responsible, I could not argue against them.
The ruling Ayatollah is no more. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core (IRGC) which existed to protect the fanatical Islamic theologic system that most everybody hated except the mullahs, is but a shell of what it once was. Iran has no navy, no air force, virtually no defense. It lost the war in 45 days. The shell of what once was is kept alive almost entirely by other Deep State countries, mostly the U.S. and Europe and their medias, encouraging it to stay alive with fake news for propaganda purposes. And Trump is allowing ships to go in and out of the Strait of Hormuz at his discretion. The people will rise up and throw off the rest as soon as they feel safe in doing so. The Republic of Iran will likely chose to become a Constitutional Republic.
Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice President under Gerald Ford, just two years before the Iranian Revolution of 1979 under Democrat President Jimmy Carter. He and his brothers John and David were sons of John D. Rockefeller, who at one time virtually controlled America’s and the world’s oil industry. No name in U.S. history was better known than Rockefeller as internationalist or globalists (now known as the Deep State). That the Rockefeller’s would be heavily involved in the politics of Iran, even regime change, of one of the world’s largest oil producing countries is very logical. My Iranian students knew more than I. They hated the Rockefeller name. We had more conversations on this subject. They repeatedly said “Your media lie to you.” Today, 47 years later, we also know this. The Rockefeller's had been heavily involved in the oil industry in America since 1863 and in the 20th century in Iran and Venezuela. Because of them oil became the largest source of energy for the global economy.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshall Asim Munir, offered to moderate in America’s conflict with Iran to end the almost total destruction of Iran’s military resistance. Amazingly, after over 1,200 hits, the necessities of life: water and electric power plants, bridges (that did not have a military purpose), schools and hospitals and etc. were untouched. Even the oil refineries and oil tanks are still in place which would enable a new government to rebuild quickly—and non-military facilities on the Strait of Hormuz also untouched. Kharg Island houses 90% of Iran’s oil exports. Trump’s strikes were on facilities and the terrorist government—not the people. We were never at war with the Iranian people.
It became readily apparent that there were two forces seeking political power in Iran, the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core) consisting of the mullahs likely brought to power with the help of the Deep State in America and the people calling themselves the Republic of Iran. The first viciously retained that power by oppressing the people for 47 years—even slaughtering 32,000 demonstrators last January. America’s and the European Union’s Deep State media side with the mullahs. Clearly the MAGA movement, conservative media: One American News (OAN), NewsMax, mostly Fox, and dozens of podcasters, side with their people.
Trump agreed to hold off further destruction of Iran for two weeks. Why? Because those representing the Republic of Iran requested it and offered a 10 point proposal conceding most of what America wanted. This included never having a nuclear weapon and “gifting” the Strait of Hormuz (already taken) as a sign of how serious they were to ending the conflict. According to Trump, “We have already met and exceeded all military objectives.” The objective was never to destroy Iran only the IRGC powered government American Deep Staters installed in 1979 against the will of the Iranian people. And Trump added “a two-week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.” So why did the cease fire work for only a few hours? It was with the new Republic of Iran—not the IRGC government who would have Iran and its people destroyed rather than concede anything, as would also the American and European Deep State. Trump only needed proof that the new Republic was strong enough to clean out the old guard and stay in power. This could be demonstrated by there opening the Strait of Hormuz. This would never be allowed by any other than the IRGC government. Turns out they weren’t powerful enough yet. The delegation to Pakistan to negotiate further collapsed for now.
Simultaneously Trump hoped that the European Union countries would help protect the Strait as they are its principle users and it is supposed to be international waters. The U.S. receives only 1% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The islands that are in the Strait actually belong to the United Arab Emirates —not Iran. Oil is found largely in four areas of the globe: Russia, Venezuela, Iran and the United States. The United States now controls the oil in three of these areas which essentially means that Europe must purchase their oil from either Russia, whom they tried to provoke to war via Ukraine for at least the last ten years, or the United States whom they recently offended by not letting it use its bases funded, built and manned by America in this war.
Iran was involved in and did help fund the Hamas Massacre Oct. 7th, 2023 of over 1,200 unprovoked Israeli children, women and men and the taking and holding of 250 hostages. There were also dozens of rapes. Indeed the mullahs did have blood on their hands.
European Union countries refused to support America’s refusing to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon and insisting the Strait return to international waters status. Their countries have no oil. Trump closed the Strait pending his removal of underwater mines placed there by the IRGC government. This accomplished, he reopened the Strait without fear of Iranian retaliation or resistance and all counties soon will be free to use it as once was. Venezuelan oil is now available on the free market and Iranian oil under the Republic of Iran soon will be as well.
The biggest win of all is that these Deep State countries, who once controlled the supply of oil world-wide, even in America with their bans on drilling, now have no oil outside America and Russia. Trump is gradually forcing The European Union who are just now, this week, arguing that they should have a role in opening the Strait of Hormuz—essentially the argument Trump was trying to get them to take before the war with Iran. Presently empty oil ships are racing to the Gulf Coast of Texas to fill up. The United States became the world’s emergency gas station.
Trump has cleared the Strait and controls it without meaningful resistance from London, China or the world’s Deep State and is returning Iran to what it was before America’s intervention in 1979. When Iran is ready its people through their Republic of Iran are set to finish the deal and govern themselves with free elections. Its an optimistic view but at least now possible because of Trump. My students, if still alive, are very happy. Hated Rockefeller has been removed.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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 @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #868.
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President Donald Trump ignited the birthright citizenship issue by an executive order mandating that we return to the Constitution as written by ending the practice. His EO was titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” Consequently 22 Democrat state AG’s sued the Trump Administration (PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS Executive Order, Jan. 20, 2025). Generally Republicans agree with this action and many Democrats do not. A ruling accepting or rejecting this practice is expected by the Supreme Court any day.
All Deep State media quoted only the message they wanted remembered highlighted in yellow, knowingly leaving out the eligibility requirement of six words essential to the amendment “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Amendments 13, 14, and 15 were created to incorporate the newly freed ex-slaves in the South. None of these amendments had anything to do with immigration or contained even the word yet some Democrats saw this group as a way of supersizing to a permanent single party rule, thus encouraged this serious PERVERSION of the Constitution.
The post Civil War amendments all dealt with what to do with the former slave residents the North had made free against the will of the South; the 11 states once holding them in bondage, and although now free, wanted to keep them as still subservient in citizenship and voting. The 13th Amendment was ratified December 6, 1865, constitutionally ended slavery, the 14th on July 9, 1868) giving their yet unborn citizenship, and the 15th on March 30, 1870 extending the right to vote—together they equalized ex-slaves by law. The amendments must be treated together. None had anything to do with immigration—the word was not mentioned or implied.
Actually, birthright citizenship is prohibited by the 14th Amendment. LibertyUnderFire.org published on Sept. 28, 2010, “Are ‘Anchor’ Babies Constitutional?,” and we have followed with several like columns over the many years. The concept of “anchor” babies refers to those whose parents are illegal immigrants into the United States and while here have a baby. That baby then inherits full citizenship and even the right later, as an adult, to sponsor his/her own illegal parents in their quest for citizenship. How can a child of such a parentage have what his parents clearly do not have? Is this practice constitutional? No, and although miss-practiced widely the last several decades, has never been original intent or practice.
For the casual reader the amendment seems to validate such if we omit the middle highlighted six words : “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The debate for or against the practice of allowing citizenship for babies of illegal’s born in the U.S. rages on with virtually no expert or otherwise going to the source of the alleged authority—the crafters of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Senator Jacob Merritt Howard, architect of the 14th Amendment, actually structured the Amendment, (one of two defining the legal status of freed slaves after the Civil War, the other being the 13th which gave them freedom) to prevent that very interpretation. He wrote: “This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and [already, as were ex-slaves] subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. THIS WILL NOT, OF COURSE, INCLUDE PERSONS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE FOREIGNERS, ALIENS [emphasis added], who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.” It was he who insisted that the qualifying phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” be inserted into Section I. Those sneaking across our borders in the cover of darkness (under Biden in open daylight) are clearly foreigners and thus specifically excluded from automatic citizenship. Notice the exclusion of babies born of ambassadors while here too.
The early record of Senate deliberations on the 14th Amendment show this to be the view of the Senate. There is no such thing as automatic citizenship from this amendment without serious and unscholarly distortion of it. In fact, Lyman Trumbull, co-author of the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery, addressing the definition of the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” asked, What do we mean by complete jurisdiction thereof? Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means.” Those crossing our borders illegally have jurisdiction or allegiance elsewhere and thus cannot have automatic citizenship—nor can their babies.
On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. The text of the order states that it applies only to newborns. It is not retroactive for people who are already U.S. citizens. According to a lawsuit filed by virtually every Democrat state AG in the country, there are about 150,000 children born each year to two parents who are illegal aliens. How can a child of such a parentage have what his parents clearly do not have? Trump wants to return to Amendment 14 which denied this practice.
Citizenship was denied Native Americans until 1924 as they owed allegiance to their Sioux or Apache or Blackfoot, or whatever, Indian nations and thus were not yet “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” of the nation they lived within. Certainly one must cease to be at war or conflict with the conquering country. So just being on U.S. soil, even all their life as were they, did not make them citizens automatically until the “jurisdiction thereof” part of the Amendment was satisfied.
Many of our Mexican friends send portions of their paychecks home to Mexico and plan to return to their native land upon retirement with pensions and/or social security sent to their “first” country from the country they extracted the wealth from—the U.S. Some vote in Mexican elections from here. It is indeed hard to argue that they are not instead subject to the jurisdiction of another land other than the United States—and most admit it. Unfortunately for them the U. S. Constitution specifically denies such citizenship.
Democrat AG’s from 22 states are now taking Trump to court for this “long-standing right.” This is likely to progress to the Supreme Court where it will be defeated if the court holds to original intent as understood and practiced for at least the first hundred years of the amendment’s history. No new amendment is needed to get us back to original intent. Trump’s executive order on this matter is within his authority and enough. Only ignorance, or intent, took us off the Constitution to begin with. It remains the law of the land as written. Only the grossest distortion or intent by those in power and a population grossly ignorant of their founding document could miss this. The president swears by oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” which, in this case, he is doing.
Either the Supreme Court follows the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, or it doesn’t! Justices, if you fail to uphold the Constitution on one of the clearest amendments written, you will lose the confidence of the people that you are fit for your high, Holy and distinguished office.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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 more of his weekly columns @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #867
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The “No Kings” protests swept the nation just last week, March 28, the third such array of protests against anything Trump does, says or supports. It is anything but spontaneous and was organized and funded by the same Deep State type cadre of people that John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully confronted. It was preceded by the first planned “No Kings” protest, intentionally to undermine Trump on his birthday, June 14, 2025, followed by the second October 18, 2025. Drawing massive crowds—organizers suggesting several million people participated in the third such organized protest, although a real headcount is not possible. It is designed to unleash itself on the public before, on, or about the midterm this November.
George Soros has used his billions to shift power structures in multiple continents probably giving himself more power than any king. No one has been more influential bringing to power dictators (kings) or removing elected leaders then he. He is the single greatest influence for the Islamic flood of immigrants in dozens of European countries and in the United States. He is a self hating Jew and loathes Israel and the U.S., especially Trump. There exists no one more Deep State than he. He likely created the “No Kings” movement giving it $72 million and through his Tides Foundation another $45 million making him its lead funder. As a devout socialist he hates the US Constitution and works to destroy our liberty.
The six leading individuals or foundations financing the ‘No Kings” protests are: “Arabella at $79 million, Warren Buffet at $16 million, Ford at $51 million, Rockefeller at $26 million, George Soros at $72 million, and Tides at $45 million for a grand total of $ 294,487,641 million.” Everyone knows these are “rent a mob” entities to fund socialist demonstrators and causes on the streets (X22 Report, hereafter not recited, Ep. 3834b, Feb. 5, 2026, 41:51).
We already had presidents and governors acting like kings. Obama spied on the 2016 Trump campaign and forced everyone to buy into Obamacare, Biden to take the mandatory COVID vaccine and subsequent boosters or lose their jobs, and in New York, Wisconsin and New Jersey governors Andrew Como, Grethen Whitmer and Phil Murphy sent COVID patients into nursing homes to up the pandemic’s death rates. Gavin Newsom of California denied people the right to assemble in churches and restaurants and arrested people for just being on the beach. Illinois Governor Pritzker then threatened to shoot anyone on the streets that refused to stay in his house and now allows illegals to be sworn in as police officers. (Ep. 3755b, Oct. 19, 2025, 15:29).
We remember these “wannabe kings” —all Democrats. Trump has not forced anything. He has required illegals who “broke in” to this country to obey established law to self-deport or be deported, required also by all his predecessors, nor have any of the rallies against him identified specifically anything illegal he has/is doing. The movement against Trump lacks a plaintiff.
According to Libs of TikTok on CNN “Liberals Want Obama to be King, Not President” (By Dean Obeidaliah, June 8, 2012), and on NBC “Why Obama Wishes He were King” both implied Obama would be a good king and toyed with the thought. Obama admits liking the idea of his being in the basement with an earpiece telling the president what to say and do which many believe is what he did during the Biden Administration.
Trump responded to the accusation of his being a king. “By the way, I’m not a KING. I work my ASS OFF to make our country great. That’s all it is! It’s a joke. I looked at all the people [protesting]…all the brand new signs. It was paid for by Soros and radical left lunatics… we’re checking that out. Very small and ineffective and the people will back out, [they are] not representative of the people of this country” (Ep. 3756b, Oct. 20, 2025, 33:22).
Should coming “No King” rallies (there are two scheduled later this year) lead to another Coup d’état as on Capitol Hill Jan. 6, 2021, Tony Saruba explains how data signatures is used by law enforcement to know everything about involved protesters through their cell phones. He says a geofence surrounds every protest. “Understand that if someone uses a faraday bag or even leaves their device at home, we can still reconcile their likely movements and locations. In fact, it's after dispersal that the real data exploitation begins. When a large protest happens, especially when that isn't institutionally approved, you can always assume it's being mapped in real time by every intelligence and policing network with overlap to that jurisdiction.
Tony Saruba explains how data signatures is used by law enforcement to know everything about involved protesters through their cell phones. Everything!!
“They don't watch in the traditional sense, he says, “they analyze systems. The modern apparatus doesn't care about shouting crowds. It cares about data signatures. Every phone becomes a tracking beacon so they know where these people come from. They know where they go to, they know whom they're in contact with …. Even if location off is toggled, the phone still admits continuous metadata, cell tower handoffs, triangulation gives position within meters, Wi Fi, pings, router logs, MAC addresses, Bluetooth scans and proximity signals IMSI catch or stingrays mimic cell towers, forcing all nearby phones to connect. “That gives agencies mass identifier lists and movement paths, device fingerprinting once a phone's radio signature is logged. It can be matched later, even with a new SIM license plate readers. ALPRs tie individual physical location to digital ones. All this gets piped into fusion centers, where predictive models weigh social stability indexes and generate risk ratings on protesters."
Saruba concludes, “Before, during and after the protest. My team and I rely on automated social media ingestion, pattern mapping, bot scan, hashtags, Telegram channels, Discord groups, signal and even private messaging servers that leak metadata, sentiment clustering, AI classified, classifies users as organizers, participants, sympathizers or hostile observers. Social graph scoring once a few key IDs are confirmed algorithm find second and third degree ties, family employee affiliations. That's how protests get pre neutralized, not by arrest, but by psychological operations, deep platforming, malware, intimidation messages or pressure on employees to deter attendance, even if data is encrypted, end to end, traffic analysis exposes networks and leads to the identification of each user, key groups and demographics in the crowd....” (Ep. 3871b, March 29, 2026, 31:00).
Consider the benefits to patriots and eventual justice. We have an accurate feel of the strength of this insurrectionist movement at all times and over time. Geomapping allows patriots to identify movement leaders and to document their every action when they go to violence. What if geomapping records are still available for 2020 when Antifa left some cities burned and looted and these match what happens in 2026? Criminals seldom change. Trump said he caught them all.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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 more of his weekly columns @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #866
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