The legal word ’emoluments’ is not often bandied about. A more common phrase is ‘time to talk turkey’, that is, ‘time to talk the hard facts’. It was time to talk turkey, ’emoluments’ and more this week as a US Senator spoke
Category: US President Donald Trump
Another Executive Order, a “Department of War”
By order of the President of the United States, an updated name, the “Department of War”, was officially recognized today via Oval Office ceremony… The new “Secretary of War”, Pete Hegseth, explained prior to the signing that “lethality” is the intent of the re-naming…
August and Talk of a “Golden Age”
As summer winds come upon Washington DC, a president who learned the Hollywood ways of showmanship as a TV “You’re fired!” host of the “The Apprentice”, is now re-decorating the White House. Gold is the motif, backdrop for public visits and viewing, media recorded events and lines delivered from “Golden Age” set stages at 1600 […]
Broken Pledges, Rumbling War
Back in the 1990s with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union with its release of control over Eastern European nations, came a negotiation. This would eventually bring the world to today — and war in Ukraine. Let’s look more closely …
DOGE – Nuclear Oversight?
Two men @work, Trump & Musk. And Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump, 47th president of the United States, messages the nation on February 16, 2025 – He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.
Trump and the Nuclear Button
January 20, 2025 / Inauguration Day / Again the United States and nations of the world have a US President/Commander-in-Chief who has a penchant for threats accompanied by dis- and mis-information, “hell to pay” belligerent quotes and over-the-top, use-of-military threats. We should ask — What could possibly go wrong with this scenario? #SingularAuthority
Missed Opportunities Led to Russia-Ukraine War
As the war in Ukraine moves into a tenth year of conflict and over a thousand days of a war Russia calls a ‘special operation’, the escalating war’s reality pushes new nuclear strategies and, as a new U.S. president comes on stage, Strategic Demands recalls a man who speaks of how we got here…
Indictment of Ex-President Trump
The United States of America versus Donald J. Trump, defendant August 1, 2023: The former president has been charged with grave federal crimes by the US Department of Justice — attempting to block the outcome of the 2020 US election for president… attempting to defraud the people of the United States and the democratic republic
Democracy in the U.S. in Deep Danger
Think about the events of Jan. 6… We are in a battle for the soul of America. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation. And I’ll allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.
A Failed Coup, Now Slow-Mo
January 6th’s insurrection, riot, attack on the U.S. Capitol, call it what you will, wasn’t a frolic of citizens out to ‘visit’ their ‘representatives’ and express ‘free speech’ as ‘protected by the Constitution’. In fact, the January 6th attempt at an election coup has now become a calculated, manipulative slow-motion coup
Insurrection Investigation
The January 6th, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol is coming back in a revealing light. The ex-president’s role, the role of those who planned the rally that led to the attack on Capitol police, and the rioters who charged into the halls of Congress… it is insurrection investigation time
