"With his Venezuelan Victory fresh in the news again due to his new award for protecting world peace, the president also happily announced this week that he had already sold his first half-billion dollars worth of Venezuelan crude oil to an unnamed recipient. As further evidence of the transparency of the Trump regime, he also said the money from the redacted sale would all go into an offshore bank account somewhere in Qatar, as is now standard Trump Treasury protocol. ...
"Not disclosing the buyer of this US oil—now that the US [government] owns all Venezuelan oil—is also how businesses is properly done by the transparent Trump regime because they’ve realised that redacting names ahead of time will make it easier to comply with likely congressional mandates to release files about these offshore oil transactions ... Protection of the name of the buyer also helps assure that the public will never know if the oil went to one of Trump’s top billionaire campaign supporters, a guy Paul Singer, who recently bought Citgo, the American arm of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company. ...
"Singer bought Citgo for a song, paying dimes on the dollar for the Venezuelan-oil producer when US courts ordered its sale to one of Singer’s companies shortly ahead of Trump’s invasion. The court-ordered sale came because the Venezuela state-owned rig was unable to pay its bonds due to typical commie mismanagement … and possible due to Trump’s embargo on Venezuelan oil. The president keeps his reputation clear of sending billion-dollar windfall deals to his most loyal supporters by keeping their names well-redacted out of his deal disclosures.
"If the president of the United States of Armerica proved nothing else this week, it is that using American arms to change the press news cycle away from the topics you are tired of—a long-favoured ploy of many a US president—really does work well because, outside of Blondi boasting about her Republican Redactors, there was not a second left in the week for news about the Epstain Files.
"Trump is nothing if not the King of Distractions.
"It was practically a stain-free week … other than the American bloodstains inside of an SUV where a mother was shot in the head ...
"The need to battle the fires of internal insurrection by trying to turn the nation into a police state is clear proof of a peaceful president, meriting his coveted Nobel prize."~ David Haggith from his post 'A DEEPER DIVE into the Chaos'
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
"Trump is nothing if not the King of Distractions."
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Hey! What happened to the post containing the article by Harry Binswanger, Trump’s Gestapo is now murdering protestors.
ReplyDeleteThat was a cool article, especially this bit which amped up the title:
If far Left organizations are protesting ICE and deportations, good for them.
The Minneapolis people should round up all the ICE officers, put them on some island in a lake (there's 10,000 of them of so and a few must have islands) and then open fire on them with cannons, just to make it perfectly clear what's happening here.
Post is still there. And, yes, good for them.
DeleteSince you're following Harry's commentary so assiduously, you'll be delighted in his follow-up arguing that ICE goons are not owed obedience: 'ICE vs. the Rule of Law'':
"ICE’s hired guns are not agents of law enforcement. Law enforcement in America is part of the fabric of the whole government, with its separation of powers among the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch, and with the Constitution’s safeguards of rights of the accused. ICE is a paramilitary group operating within the executive branch, answerable to the president.
"It is ICE itself that has no respect for the rule of law, not just in the frequently brutal and sometimes deadly behaviour of its agents, but in operating as 'enforcers' outside the actual legal system.
"ICE makes its own rules and is not part of American justice."
And, yes, good for them.
ReplyDeleteI think the opposing argument is summed up well by this ICE officer:
That vehicle right there is honking and impeding our investigation while we’re trying to arrest a child sex offender. That’s who you guys are protecting. Insane.“
Maybe the US should just dump child sex offender laws along with drug and immigrant laws? Go full Foucault.
Regarding the legality of ICE your, and Mr Binswanger, should probably read this, which I already linked to here on another post regarding Ms Good:
But the claim floating around social media that ICE officers have no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens is simply wrong. They are law enforcement officers with the authority to detain citizens briefly as part of their investigatory powers, and to arrest citizens who conspire to obstruct and/or do actually obstruct their lawful operations.
Title 18 U.S.C. Sec. 111 is a federal criminal statute involving interference with federal law enforcement
And while ICE is a "new" department it's roots go back to 2002 when it was formed by parts of the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service - part of the DOJ) and the U.S. Customs Service (Department of the Treasury). Specifically, most of their investigative and interior enforcement functions.
So it is a Federal Police force, just like the FBI and others.
Don't like all this? Then get elected and change the laws and disband ICE via Congress. Chances of that happening are near zero of course, as Trump's opponents well know.
Finally I'll leave you with this advice from a young woman on how not to get arrested, let alone shot, while "protesting". SHe also cites the relevant laws, as did the previous link. Or - if you suspect she's a MAGAt (ooo... funny, you could watch this veteran Lefty protestor explain the same things - although he's much angrier than she is about all the people, especially the Democrats, who exploited Ms Good both before and after he death,
I shall simply refer you and interested readers back to Harry's two complete posts which, I believe, already provide you with proper responses.
DeleteAnd also point out that the principle of due process is not simply a nice-sounding phrase, but is in fact a constitutional requirement—despite its being routinely violated by these goons.