24 posts from Tuesday, July 22, 2025

It's a great honor to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines, a great family, great family legacy, and highly respected in this country. I know that because you have many friends in the Philippines, and there's great respect, or I couldn't say it, so congratulations. We're going to be talking about trade, we're going to be talking about war and peace. They're a very important nation militarily, and we've had some great drills lately. We're back with them. I think I can say that the last administration was not getting along with them too well. They didn't get along with anybody, they didn't know. Honestly, they didn't know what they were doing. But we have some fantastic military relationships with the Philippines, and that's been reinstituted. And Pete, I would say that you couldn't be happier with the relationship. So I just want to say it's an honor to have you. We're going to talk about trade today, and we're very close to Finnegan Sheena trade deal. Big trade deal, actually, and we do a lot of business with you, it's a lot of income coming in for both groups, but I was surprised to see the kind of numbers, they're very big, and they're going to get bigger under what we're doing and what we're proposing. And I just want to thank you for being with us, it's a great honor. You and your representatives, it's really a great, great honor.

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So it explained very briefly what happens, you got so you got 15 out of 17 judges, Democrat appointees, Obama or Biden appointees. So that's a nightmare, right? We got to get people confirmed, meaning Jonathan's got to actually hold people over for Senate votes over the weekends and maybe cancel a vacation. So you get all of Trump's nominees confirmed. Otherwise, they're never going to get confirmed. So Jonathan, if you're watching, just just make Chuck Schumer stay for a weekend. You'll start getting people confirmed. But but what happens? The district judges get to vote on whether this continues, her term continues for people who don't know this. Yeah, it's a very weird statute. And you know, frankly, Laura from from one lawyer to another, I think the statute is probably deeply unconstitutional. But the statute purports to say that after the 120 day statutory limitation for an acting U.S. attorney for his or her term to end, then I at that point, either the U.S. Senate has to confirm the acting U.S. attorney or the federal judges in that particular state can bestow upon their imprimatur of legitimacy to essentially say this acting U.S. attorney's term can continue unless and until the U.S. Senate actually acts. I think that is zooming out and getting out and getting out the weeds a little bit here, Laura, the biggest issue, as you again correctly said, is that Chuck Schumer is gobbling up time. Jonathan needs floor time to get these U.S. attorneys confirmed. If he had a full-time U.S. attorney, this wouldn't be an issue in the first place. Yeah. Well, we have too many actings and not enough permanent and confirmed appointees in the Trump administration. The Senate has got to stay in session and get these appellate judges and all these other top officials confirmed in every department. A lot of these secretaries are missing key staffers. Josh, thank you very much.

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Victor, when you think about the time, the man hours, the tens of millions of dollars, probably over $100 million, when you add it all up, of the Mueller investigation, that entire thing was built on a lie, running all the way up to the election of 2020, all the way up to the debates, as you said, but that entire thing was a fraud. And Obama knew those reports, what they were, right? He knew. And all these individuals knew the truth, but they wanted Trump's presidency to fail. They wanted it to be considered illegitimate as they said that he was against democracy. That's the rub here. Yeah, they wanted Donald Trump's administration to fail and they wanted to destroy him career-wise, presidential-wise, psychologically, they wanted to destroy him. And so they went through the collusion false narrative in 2015 and '16. That failed. They took a little breath. Then they ate up 22 months and $40 million of his administration to destroy it. Then they took a little breath and they went into the first impeachment phony, Zelensky phone call, and Venman and the "whistleblower." And so this was a three-year project to overturn the will of the American people and to destroy administration. It makes Watergate, as people have remarked on Laura, look like small potatoes. It really does. It's such a magnitude we can't even grasp it.

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