Mike Howell
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President of the Oversight Project @ItsYourGov; Captain of @Phase2Deport; VF @Heritage; @NICEnforcement; Contrib. for @theBlaze; @ClaremontInst Lincoln Fellow.
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"Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency.” I tweeted this out on March 6th of this year and the autopen scandal began. On March 22nd, the New York Times, a sudoku creating company with fake news as a side dish, wrote an article titled “How an Autopen Conspiracy Theory About Biden Went Viral” It was what we in the business call a bum steer written by Ken Bensinger, a long time amplifier of the work of my Oversight Project. No one calls it a conspiracy theory today. But the real story began much earlier. In the Summer of 2024, everyone around the world wondered who was actually running the White House because it was abundantly clear that it was not Biden. Biden’s malfunction at the presidential debate put an end to any reasonable argument that he was actually in charge. Gathered around a conference room, my team tried to find the answer. We knew it was inevitable that Biden would exit the stage. We were exploring several ways to accelerate that. One was our litigation threat that if the DNC waited too long to legally substitute another candidate that we would sue to prevent them from pulling a last minute switch. The DNC admitted in leaked memos that that very litigation threat impacted their thinking. The result was a fake and fast primary that crowned the weak Kamala Harris, wounded by her undemocratic ascension out of the gate. Another was intense litigation to obtain the audio of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Hur. We won that fight and the audio was released earlier this year, and to no one’s surprise, Biden malfunction in that interview was clear. But the most important part of that summer meeting was when we were gathered around a television watching Biden stumble across the screen. Someone asked how he was even signing documents and then there was a contemplative pause. Autopen. A long and intense process was then launched. We got to work gathering up every original document we could find purporting to have the President’s signature. We then gathered calendars and Biden’s schedule and confirmed that Biden frequently used the autopen when he was in D.C. and had a relatively light schedule. We took a deep-dive into the legal and constitutional authority around presidential power and whether certain decisions were delegable. Our team spent hundreds of hours on this and the results were not only jarring but abundantly clear. Joe Biden wasn’t the President, an autopen was. President Trump has brought up the autopen perhaps more than any other topic. He has called it the scandal of the century. If you look at trends of google searches as a metric, the word autopen was searched more this year than over the entire history of the Internet by many degrees. It is now part of our national language, it is a historical term for a historic scandal. But now is the most important part, the only part that really matters. We’re getting close to accountability. To date, the Department of Justice hasn’t taken any action to back up the President’s repeated directions that all autopenned documents are null, void, and of legal effect. Despite President Trump’s clear orders, the Department of Justice is still treating these documents as legal. They have already released awful criminals with fake commutations from Federal prison during the Trump Presidency. We broke the scandal that Biden’s own DOJ objected both to the form of these commutations and the fact that while the Biden Administration claimed they are non-violent felons many are in fact murderers and gang-bangers. They are scheduled to release more later this month. To be sure, brave individuals like Pardon Attorney Ed Martin have urged the Department to implement President Trump’s Orders, but the Department’s position remains that these autopen commutations are valid. We’re trying to stop it. For four years, this country operated completely out of order with its Constitution, which vests executive power in one man, and not one autopen directed and operated by unelected bureaucrats and special interests. (12/12 monologue on Fine Point w/ Chanel Rion)
Mike Howell97,772 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
If there were ever a time the United States needed President Trump to be the best version of himself, then that time is now. Last week, an Afghan shot two national guardsmen here in Washington, D.C. It is reported that he yelled Allahu Akbar as he pulled the trigger. He killed one American and has critically wounded another. Predictably, left-wing media blamed President Trump for having the National Guard there in the first place, conveniently forgetting that Democrat leaders like Mayor Bowser in Washington, D.C. have allowed our nation’s urban centers to become overrun by criminals. Days later, we learned that another Afghan here in America had posted a video to TikTok indicating that he was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Both of these animals were brought over by our own government during what was sinisterly called Operations Allies Welcome. The word “allies” there is doing as much heavy lifting as the “affordable” in Affordable Care Act. The same politicians that wasted American lives, treasure, and credibility in the wastelands of Afghanistan were the ones who brought these men and tens of thousands more like them here. Take Senator Lindsey Graham for example. Senator Graham, and many more like him on both sides of the political aisle, but on the same side of the rotten military and foreign policy consensus, have made a mockery of our very system of government. The duty of elected leaders is to the people they represent and to the Constitution of the United States, and no one else. These elected leaders have a moral obligation to always make that duty primary, above all else. They do not have the authority to instead confer moral obligations on those that they represent. To do so is an inversion of our system of government. The politicians work for you, and it is your government. Not the other way around. Despite this, our national political leaders, protected by special interests to fend off challengers, corporate narrative control, and the dominant power of incumbency, have run our country for purposes that have not served the people they are supposed to represent. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the issue of immigration. The foreign-born population of the United States is at a record near 16%, higher than any level recorded since 1890. No one can even tell you how many illegal aliens are residing within our borders. Americans did not ask for this. They certainly never voted for it. But politicians like Senator Graham tell you that you, and you specifically, have a moral duty to take more immigration, more cultural change, more chaos. Americans will not stand for more Afghan extremists nor feign surprise as these incidents continue. They won’t buy false promises of vetting and security guarantees. they’ve had enough. They will not stand watching cities like Dearborn, Michigan become unrecognizable. Or simply gawk as New York City slides into third-world socialism. President Trump, from the moment he came down the golden escalator in 2015 became not only a physical manifestation of a rejection of these trends, but a collective personification of a population that had enough of these policies and these so-called leaders. Judging by his recent comments and policy promises, president trump appears to be going back to those roots. His calls for immigration pauses and reasserting the need for mass deportations will be characterized as callous and extreme, they are not. it is instead the status quo that is callous and extreme. Americans have just gotten used to it, and for too many, have submitted to the consequences of these policies in favor of political correctness. The Trump Administration’s fidelity to these promises and ability to vigorously implement policies that back them up will form the legacy by which history will judge the trump-era. More important than legacy, they will decide what kind of nation we have and even if we have one at all. A nation is at its core its people, their cultures and traditions, and their well-being. On those terms, the core of our nation is under attack. President Trump has the mandate to center his administration’s focus around the most fundamental issues. He can do that by turning the full force of the government to urgently solve our still ongoing immigration crisis. (12/1 monologue on Fine Point w/ Chanel Rion)
Mike Howell74,272 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
"It's a grave risk unfortunately to all kinds of religious practices, whether you're Christian or Jewish or Hindu or Islamic. Basically looking at the potential for the government to bring a trafficking case against you." John Lauro on Fine Point w/ Chanel Rion
Mike Howell51,311 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
During World War 2, a young engineer named Kelly Johnson working out of a circus tent with a skeleton crew developed America’s first jet fighter in less than six months. Twenty years later, the same engineer developed the blackbird spy plane in less than two years. No one believes American industry is capable of that now. American innovation today is not about the physical world around us but about the digital world Big tech wants us to live in and exotic new financial instruments that wall street develops. Look at recent headlines to see what our best and brightest are up to. Facebook spent billions on the metaverse only to abandon it to go all in on AI. DoorDash lets you use buy now, pay later services to pay for your burrito in six equal installments. And in a move that would have Kelly Johnson rolling in his grave, Boom supersonic, a start-up originally planning to bring back supersonic jet flights, announced it will use its research to power an ai data center. If we want to power the future and restore America’s position as the world’s most technologically advanced country, we must do better. We need an America first industrial policy. The Trump Administration’s tariff policy is only one element to address this. Another critical tool to addressing this problem is the power of the federal contract. Trillions spent, headline our government spends trillions of your dollars buying products across the globe. You don’t need a great long-term memory to understand how the international supply chain failures hurt the United States during COVID. It’s one thing to wait six months for a Peloton. It’s another to wait six months for materials needed for our national defense. The defense sector in the United States should be the home to great engineers and doers, not bureaucrats and middle-men. The current status of that sector leaves much to be desired and reflects many of the problems attendant to our administrative state. It is bloated, slow, reliant on timelines, specifications, and proposals, and consolidated amongst a blob of A few major defense prime contractors that gobble up nearly 90% of the defense budget. Meanwhile, the alleged best technological talent in America holds little allegiance to this nation. They reject the notion of even being called American companies, turning their back on the idea of serving the nation to which they owe their existence. Their focus is on profit by selling more and more ads for more and more products made overseas. Their understanding and appreciation of America centers George Floyd above George Washington. What have these people truly invented as of late, anyways? AI generated videos to keep you scrolling? And these are the people, and the major donors as of late, we trust to guide American policy into the artificial intelligence age? This is a problem on both sides. A bloated procurement bureaucracy and defense and tech giants more focused on profit than innovating. We don’t just need government reform, we also need elite reform. It’s time for a renewal and return to a better time when innovation was paired with patriotism, with a government designed to sustain both the good news is that a gigantic federal defense budget provides ample ammunition to solve this problem. We need not only the best and brightest to come and serve their nation in various capacities, but the biggest dreamers. The biggest innovators. America’s engines of production and innovation need to be humming in a rhythm, focused squarely on our global power competition and domestic renewal. With President Trump in office and Secretary Hegseth at the helm of the department of war, this is entirely possible. It is also entirely needed. Let’s make sure American hardware is also hard-wired with the heart and soul of a patriotic class of innovators. Let’s have an America where corporate success requires nationalistic pride. Spirit and duty, it’s happened before and it can happen again. (12/10 monologue on Fine Point w/ Chanel Rion )
Mike Howell16,205 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
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