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The title of this column on April 3 was Trump’s Three Greatest Betrayals So Far. Today, I’m highlighting Trump’s fourth greatest betrayal so far. And, given the fact that we are only three months into Trump’s second term, there are doubtless many more betrayals on the way.
Trump’s Greatest Betrayal Number Four
On May 7, the Trump administration will require that all Americans obtain a Real ID to be able to board a domestic airliner.
FOX News covers the story:
Conservatives are speaking out against the Trump administration’s plans to finally enact long-expected REAL ID laws in a bid to crack down on illegal immigration.
"If you think REAL ID is about election integrity, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. Someone has lied to you, or you’re engaged in wishful thinking. Please don’t shoot the messenger," Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., wrote on X earlier this week.
Responding to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem's video announcing the May 7 REAL ID deadline, the former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin questioned in a lengthy post: "Or what?? Evidently, existing ID requirements for American citizens just aren’t adequate now, so Big Brother is forcing us through more hoops for the ‘right’ to travel within our own country."
Palin continued: "Other administrations delayed this newfangled, burdensome REAL ID requirement. Are you curious why its implementation is imperative now?? And who came up with this?"
The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005, but the federal government has yet to implement it 20 years later. It requires all U.S. travelers to be REAL ID compliant when boarding domestic flights.
This was during G.W. Bush’s purge of constitutional liberties via his “war on terror,” which created the Department of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, etc.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced last week that REAL ID would go into effect May 7, and that no other state-issued ID cards would be accepted for air travel.
While an overwhelming majority of Republicans appear to have few issues with the change, some on the right have cried foul.
Republicans at large have always been eager to join Democrats in two areas: 1) Going to war with anybody overseas and, 2) Enabling and enlarging a police state and surveillance state inside America.
Massie argued in an X post, "As long as the pilot’s door is locked and no one has weapons, why do you care that someone who flies has government permission? REAL ID provides no benefit, yet presents a serious risk to freedom. If a person can’t be trusted to fly without weapons, why are they roaming free?"
"REAL ID is a 2005 George Bush-era Patriot Act overreach that went completely unenforced until Trump got into office. Let me guess: he’s playing 4D chess and I should just go along with it?" Massie wrote.
Former presidential candidate and ex-House Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, wrote on X, "Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem announced Friday that the notorious PATRIOT Act-era REAL ID scheme would go into effect at the end of the month. REAL ID is one of the greatest threats to Americans' civil liberties in decades."
Kentucky state Rep. TJ Roberts, a Republican, agreed with Paul on social media, writing, "Repeal REAL ID!!"
New Hampshire state Rep. Joe Alexander, a Republican, added on the accusations, calling REAL ID a "violation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution," and writing, "the Federal Government should not be mandating ID for its citizens to travel between states. Just say NO."
Cato Institute senior fellow Patrick Eddington told Fox News Digital, "I’m not aware of a single post-9/11 instance of an alleged or actual terrorist being apprehended, much less successfully boarding an airliner, with false ID credentials — which is the entire-stated rationale for REAL ID."
Eddington argued it imposed unconstitutional burdens on people who are seeking to travel by air versus train.
"If you got word that your mother had just had a stroke and her prognosis was uncertain, and you wanted to quickly fly home to be with her but couldn’t because you didn’t have a REAL ID-compliant ID card, that would be one very real-world example of a tangible harm this insane law could cause on literally a daily basis," he said.
"The REAL ID Act effectively institutes a form of mass surveillance and verification that doesn't discriminate between those who have given reason for suspicion and those who haven’t, which is why it should never have been enacted in the first place."
The reason the REAL ID Act hadn’t gone into effect after the GOP Congress moronically passed this super surveillance atrocity until now is due to the fact that conservatives and libertarians en masse rose up in opposition to it, forcing Bush to procrastinate signing it into law. And since then, neither Obama nor Biden wanted to awaken the sleeping giant on this issue. Of course, the sleeping giant has turned into Rip Van Winkle since Trump became president. So, now Trump is allowed to greenlight more egregiously unconstitutional assaults against our liberties than even Obama and Biden dared to do.
As I have previously noted, Donald Trump has commissioned uber Zionists Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem with the task of expunging the First Amendment protection of the freedom of speech for those who are vocalizing opposition to Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza—or any other murderous policy emanating out of Tel Aviv, for that matter.
And Trump is also collaborating with Elon Musk and Peter Theil in orchestrating a technocratic takeover of the U.S. government. It is not hyperbole to say that Trump is engaged in a hi-tech coup against the constitutional government in the United States. I discussed this treachery in this column here and here.
I urge readers to watch a 16-minute video exposé on Palantir’s plot—using the Trump administration—to dominate and control the entire federal government politically, economically and militarily. If they succeed, the Constitution and Bill of Rights will completely vanish and so will the voice and power of We the People—not to mention our freedom.
The introduction to this video is as follows:
A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-powered software. They’ve been hired by the Department of Defense, the FBI, ICE, and even Wendy’s. Now DOGE will likely hire Palantir as well.
We talked to a former Palantir employee, dug into decades of research and listened to hours of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's own words to carefully unwrap the layers of Palantir’s carefully cultivated sales pitch — and how they capitalize on fear and unrest to make money.
We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power, and we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.
The plan is straight out of Orwell’s 1984. And Trump and Vance are the men who are bringing it into reality. Instituting the REAL ID Act by Trump is a major part of the technocracy surveillance agenda.
Watch the video here.
Pete Hegseth
In my view, Pete Hegseth is one of the most despicable people in Trump’s newly formed Zionist government. He is a maniacal Zionist. He has zero credentials to be Secretary of Defense. He is an uber neocon warmonger in the similitude of Lindsey Graham. And he is a punk bully, just like his boss.
That being said, we read this report:
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new leader at the Pentagon to replace Pete Hegseth, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. This comes as Hegseth is again mired in controversy over sharing military operational details in a group chat.
The defense secretary is under fire after revelations that he shared classified information in a group chat with his wife, brother and lawyer, according to the official.
The source said Hegseth used the Signal messaging app on his personal smartphone, detailing minute-by-minute classified information about airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. It happened at about the same time in March that Hegseth shared similar details with top White House officials in a different Signal chat group that accidentally included a journalist. That leak, hours before air strikes hit, could have endangered U.S. pilots if that information about the timing of strikes was intercepted by U.S. adversaries. Already the Houthis have twice shot down American predator drones.
I am already on record as saying that Hegseth should not only be fired for this flagrant violation of U.S. law but he should be criminally prosecuted. But if you think that Hegseth is being fired for these leaks, you need to think again.
During an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Max Blumenthal, editor of the Grey Zone, reported that it was Pete Hegseth, of all people, who was the one who actually talked Donald Trump out of following Israel’s madman Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to attack Iran last week.
As soon as I heard that report, I told my son-in-law that Hegseth would soon be relieved of his position as Defense Secretary. Sure enough, this seems to be the case.
But, again, if Hegseth is indeed sacked, it will NOT be for the leaks. No one in a senior position of government is ever sacked for violations such as these. Democrat or Republican, they are above the law. But what they are not above is the wrath of the Israel lobby.
Hegseth’s uber Zionism was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby—and C.I. Scofield. His appointment to Defense Secretary was due to the Israel lobby—and the Theil technocrats. When he was outed by people such as Max Blumenthal that he had been instrumental in Trump’s refusal to go along with Netanyahu’s massive attacks on Iran, the Israel lobby went ballistic.
Doubtless, the reason Hegseth opposed the madman’s plan was due to what America’s military officers (not the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I mean REAL military officers in the field) told him: That such an attack would be catastrophic; it would result in a total regional war; thousands of American troops in the region would die; it would produce an economic Armageddon; it would be a war that America could not win; and it even had the potential of igniting a global war with Russia and China.
Fortunately—albeit shockingly—Hegseth sided with his officers.
We might chalk this one up to a miracle of God.
But the wrath of the Israel lobby is now crashing down on Hegseth. Trump saying “No” to Netanyahu will not be repeated often. The Zionists were confident they had Hegseth in their pocket. You can bet that they will make an example out of him by orchestrating his dismissal. And who knows what will happen to the man after that?
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