Exclusive: Steve Bannon Furious With Congress Over 'Handcuffing' Trump

Dec 15, 2023 By Rachel Dobkin

Right-wing media personality and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is furious with Congress over "handcuffing" former President Donald Trump if he were to win reelection in 2024, Bannon told Newsweek.

The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the 2024 fiscal year on Thursday. The defense act was already passed by the Senate on Wednesday night and is expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden. The $886 billion bill lays out the budget and policy for the Pentagon in the coming fiscal year.

Included in the NDAA is aprovision that bars the U.S. president from withdrawing the country from NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) without approval from the Senate or an act of Congress.

Bannon told Newsweek via phone on Friday that the provision is "handcuffing Trump on NATO" if the GOP front-runner were to regain the presidency.

"That should be a major concern to everybody in the United States," Bannon said. When Trump was president, he repeatedly threatened to pull the U.S. out of NATO.

Trump has long seen NATO as a waste of U.S. resources. In his 2000 book titled The America We Deserve, Trump wrote that Europe's "conflicts are not worth American lives. Pulling back from Europe would save this country millions of dollars annually."

According to Trump's campaign website, as president, he would continue to scrutinize NATO. "We have to finish the process we began under my administration offundamentally re-evaluating NATO's purpose and NATO's mission," the website says.

Bannon insisted that the NDAAprovision is "totally unconstitutional."

"The Constitution has very strict provisions for what has to happen to have a treaty approved. Right. It doesn't say anything abouthow a treaty is not approved and leaves it to the commander in chief," Bannon argued.

However, who holds the power to pull out of treaties is debatable. In Thomas Jefferson's A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States, printed in 1801, the Founding Father and America's third president wrote: "Treaties being declared, equally with the laws of the United States, to be the supreme law of the land, it is understood thatan act of the legislature alone can declare them infringed and rescinded."

Bannon criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, for suspending the rules to get the NDAA passed. "We support him right now, but he's beyond on thin ice," Bannon warned.

Bannon was not only upset over the NATO provision, but that the final bill did not include amendments that Republicans added to a version of the bill passed by the House over the summer. The amendments were aimed at blocking the Pentagon's abortion policy and its funding of gender-affirming surgery.

Newsweek also reached out to Johnson via email for comment on Friday.

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-steve-bannon-furious-congress-over-handcuffing-trump-1853018

>>20083136

Newsweek has put up a Fairness meter on their site. I’m tempted to participate, but we are probably tracked by AI and put on a list.

Anons, any thoughts!

>>20083143

Really? Pretty interesting. The RINOs know Trump will win, and they will intentionally try to take any powers away from the President, and any America First policy.

I haven’t trusted Mike Johnson since his weird election to Speaker. House conservatives are still trusting him, but there’s too many snakes in the Congress.

Did Dixon say anything about the leaders of the House and Senate?

Do you have a video I can watch or article on Dixon’s dream or prophecies?

>>20083163

I found his website with all his prophecies and videos.

https://timothyvdixonministry.org/media/series/w3k8rxm/new-prophetic-dreams

>>20083235

Thats probably why he should provide transcripts on his prophecies. Kek but it would make things easier. Thx anon

Melania Trump's Immigration Journey Speech Mocked

Dec 15, 2023 By Kaitlin Lewis

Former first lady Melania Trump is facing backlash online after delivering a speech about facing hardships while immigrating to the United States. In a rare public appearance at the National Archives Naturalization Ceremony on Friday, the former first lady, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Slovenia,shared her experience shifting through the complexities of the American immigration processafter moving to the U.S. to pursue a modeling career in 1996.

Her address was in front of 25 immigrants from 25 different nations who were sworn in as new U.S. citizens, andMelania applauded the new citizens "for every step you took, every obstacle you overcome, and every sacrifice you made" to obtain citizenship.

"My personal experience of traversing the challenges of the immigration process opened my eyes to the harsh realities people face, including you, who try to become U.S. citizens," she told those in attendance Friday. "Then, of course, there are nuances of understanding the United States immigration laws and the complex legal language contained therein. I was very devoted, but I certainly was not an attorney."

Critics of Melania (paid shills) noted over social media that her husband, former President Donald Trump, has campaigned on promises to crack down on U.S. immigration policies if reelected to office in the 2024 election, a stark contrast to the former first lady's story about how her pathway to citizenship was "arduous."

__What Critics Are Saying_

"Melania has the audacity to speak of hardship path to citizenship when her husband has criminalized immigration and path to citizenship," wrote author Ann Yonanon X, formerly Twitter. (Wrong!)

Other social media users raised questions about the pathways that Trump and her family used to become U.S. citizens. According to a report by The Washington Post in 2018, Melania received a green card in March 2001by obtaining a visa that is reserved for "=individuals with extraordinary ability," also known as the "Einstein visa." She was sworn in as a U.S. citizen in 2006==, shortly after the birth of her and former President Trump's son, Barron.

"Who else thinks @USNatArchives insulted new citizens by having Melania Trump as keynote speaker?" wrote another X user. "She lied on her immigration form to obtain an Einstein Visa. She really doesn't care, but I do!"

In 2018, Melania's parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, were sworn in as citizens through a pathway that former President Trump has repeatedly suggested eliminating “chain migration," helping their family members obtain residency.

"Did anyone ever interview Melania's immigration lawyer who got her into the US via the 'Einstein Visa' program so she could later 'chain migrate' her parents?" "What exactly was her special talent?"

Michaels Wildes, a self-proclaimed Democrat and the immigration lawyer who represented the former first lady, told The Hill in 2018 that Melania's parents were given no special treatment to become U.S. citizens.

Trump's Immigration Policies

Former President Trump's immigration plans for his second term include reinstating his 2019 "Remain in Mexico" program, restricting immigration from migrants coming from the Middle East and ending automatic U.S. citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants who are born in America.

"[Peter] Baker today in The New York Times, he said that I want to be a dictator.I didn't say that, I said I want to be a dictator for one day," Trump said, "And you know why I wanted to be a dictator? Because I want a wall, right? I want a wall and I want to drill, drill, drill."

Praise for Melania's Speech

Several other users on X praised the former first lady's speech, such as Fox News anchor David Asman, who said that Melania's speech pointed to"how difficult but rewarding it is to become a LEGAL citizen, unlike the millions coming in ILLEGALLY."

"Many legal migrants are fed up with [President Joe] Biden's open border policies, and would prefer Trump's merit-based system," Asman added.

Another X user, who goes by the name "johnny maga," also bashed Biden's immigration policies while praising Melania's message. "Melania Trump gave a speech at the national archives where she said becoming a citizen takes time, stressed the importance of 'guarding freedom' & 'contributing to society,'" the user wrote. "Stark contrast to the Biden admins effort to grant citizenship to tens of millions of foreign invaders."

https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trumps-immigration-journey-speech-mocked-1853024

Dear Boomers: Here's What Gen Z Conservatives Want You To Know

By Juan P. Villasmil Opinion

A conservative is someone who, to borrow the famous phrase of National Review's William F. Buckley "stands athwart history, yelling Stop." With the rise of the Soviet threat, that phrase and the hundreds of articles published in Buckley's magazine became generation-defining. Almost 70 years later, young conservatives, growing in the Trump era and lacking the nostalgia of our Boomer parents, have been asking ourselves a pertinent question: what the heck are we yelling at?

Stuck in the '70s, many of those who came before us find themselves "yelling Stop" at radically different things. Unlike what some of the Boomers may initially think, the difference in our yelling doesn't originate from Gen Z conservatives falling in love with progressive orthodoxies—although a portion has. Gen Z conservatives are not adopting the views of their liberal peers. What we are doing is responding to the unique ills we detect in the unique times we find ourselves in.Our lack of focuson some of thepolicies cherished by Boomer conservativesis better attributed to prioritization than rejection.

The mission statement of National Review was once the mission statement of conservatism writ large, which included propositions such as "we are, without reservations, on the libertarian side" in fighting "the growth of government." Back then, pro-business and pro-America were almost exclusively seen as synonymous. Back then, leftists talked more about unionizing than about inculcating DEI ideology. Back then, cultural preservation was not the animating spirit of Republican politics; institutions weren't completely overtaken and the status quo was acceptable. It was "morning in America" indeed, until it wasn't.

Irritable as the term may be,opposition to wokeness, for instance, has become one of theprincipal attractors of conservatism for young people. We are all in part a product of our environment. Boomers' conservatism was understandably marked by different perceived threats and it concentrated its energies on those—mainly, defeating the communists. Gen Z now simply concentrates its energies on threats the Boomers never encountered in their youth.

We find ourselves in an environment where declining community and radical individualism, not fear of government collectivism, engross our dissatisfactions. The mere size of government is not something that we lose sleep over, not because we think more like communists, but because we have seen conservatives before us fail to conserve anything beyond market fundamentalism.

Even if it sounds counterintuitive, in the eyes of Gen Z conservatives, conserving the conservatism of our parentsmay be the least conservative thing to do.The values-neutral liberal order many Boomers love to appeal to is dead.

Progressives have wielded government power, and wielded it well, to a point at which refusing to use such power in the name of principle has become masochistic.

The battle of ideas Boomers experienced on the college campuses of yesteryear is not there like it was before.The leftists we meet on campus don't "agree to disagree"; they'd rather just make us agree. The reality is that whenever a Republican says "I think the law should stay out of it," like Nikki Haley did when asked about legislation on sex-change procedures for children, Gen Z conservatives don't think, "yes, individual responsibility! Small government rocks!"

The culture and institutions that held this country together are vanishing. Hence, if we can use some government power—with prudence, of course—to strengthen them, so be it. Boomer conservatives grew up hearing that the more government grows the more chaotic things will turn. Though this idea is theoretically coherent, here's the issue: if you let the government expand, it will be hard to reduce its size, but if you let anti-American activists dictate policy and spearhead culture without restraint, forget about tax rates, America won't be America anymore.

Boomers still have melancholy—but we don't. We have been made to want to conserve something that we never knew,which is why we are so starkly positive-visioned. We don't know what living in an America without ubiquitous and suffocating progressivism feels like. We just know, maybe in part because of the Boomers' stories, that this country is heading in the wrong direction and that playing the same cards won't change that.

If "yelling Stop" means sticking with the belief that government inaction is in itself virtuous, Gen Z conservatives disagree. We want radical changebecause we face radical circumstances and if Boomers had grown up in the America we have, they would want it too.

https://www.newsweek.com/dear-boomers-heres-what-gen-z-conservatives-want-you-know-opinion-1852158

>>20083510

Being from the boomer generation, this makes sense and completely understandable. It’s the very thing, the next generation works to change and accomplish.

This has been the eternal cycle, that the next generation will fix, clean up or add to the policies the prior one created or believed.

The millennials with fix, clean up or add to, what Gen Z did.

>>20083149

Send it to them, I haven’t been back after this site was created. It was fun though…

>>20083474

Yeah I figured but I don’t do social media, and certainly don’t want to be added to more lists by the media. If one gives conservatives answers it will obvious.