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Stealing the Rights of Us All [1]

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Date: 2025-05-12

If you listen to any right-wing pundit or Trump cheek kissing politician, migrant crossings at the southern border have virtually stopped. Michael Banks, US Border Patrol chief, told Fox News, “US Border Patrol knows how to get the job done, we know how to secure the border. All we needed was a president that was going to empower us — a strong leader like President Trump — and a secretary like Secretary [Kristi] Noem that knows exactly what we need to do to secure the border,” Banks went on to say the number of illegal migrants, stopped, trying to cross the besieged southern border has dropped an astonishing 90% since January 21 — a day after President Trump’s inauguration. Of course, Banks was short of data. Amid this astonishing assessment, President Trump is seeking to eliminate habeas corpus based on the same notion that he is using to suspend due process –that undocumented migrants are invading us.

…where does the suspension of Constitutional rights stop?

“The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,” Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, said outside the White House. “So, I would say that’s an option we’re actively looking at. A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.” Either border invasions have practically stopped, or we are being invaded—in this case, two things are not true at once. Even in this topsy-turvy world of Trump-land, we must all shout out that the Constitution still has meaning. If Stephen Miller would blatantly lie to the American people about the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against the White House, in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation case, where does the misuse of our Constitutional rights stop?

I have written and warned about the chaos being used as a cover to steal and subvert the Constitution. Article 1 Section 9 of the Constitution states: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

The significance of that portion of the Constitution is up for debate— in Trump world, although it is clear to any honest reader, except those in Trump-land. Accepting a gift from a foreign leader or potentate is in direct violation. The nation of Qatar is offering an airplane to Trump. The Trump administration is making plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8, a jumbo jet from the Qatari monarchy. The estimated worth of the plane is valued at $400 million and is described as a “flying palace.” The Trump administration is trying desperately to disguise the potential gift as a donation to the Defense Department, to be transferred to his presidential library after he leaves office for his personal use. Both Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, and his top White House lawyer, David Warrington, reportedly arrived at that conclusion after lawyers for the White House counsel’s office, as well as the Justice Department, said the gifted plane was not conditioned on any official act and therefore was not bribery, according to a report from The Guardian.

Despite the obvious security concerns of a foreign entity having complete knowledge of the technology of a plane carrying a United States president, it appears that the new standard for thievery, accepting a bribe, and violating the Constitution is to do it in the open and call it transparency. The chipping away of our rights is dragging all of us into the Trump Constitutional burning pit of criminal fascism. Frighteningly, too many are willingly jumping into the fire.

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