by Clarice Feldman
Another sterling week for the Trump administration, another interval of agony for his opponents.
The attention of those less politically minded is focused on the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy -- always fodder for the would-be Colombos and Miss Marples -- and the Olympics. Yet this week saw some victories for the administration along with some serious unfinished business.
The ousted dictator Nicolás Maduro seems isolated, depressed, and devoid of funds sufficient to hire teams of lawyers to defend him. Any claims he might have for immunity seem destined to fail. The evidence establishes he was born in Colombia; his claim falls because only a native Venezuelan is entitled to hold the office of president. Without his presence and with the active engagement of the U.S., the Venezuelan economy appears to be rapidly coming back to life. Without the assets looted from there and used to sustain the neighboring tyrants of Cuba, that country is teetering rapidly to an end. It is out of fuel, electricity, medicine, and food. American flags have been seen flying over some of the dilapidated buildings which remain after decades of misrule. I can’t imagine it will last much longer, and I expect there will be many exiles from there, willing to return and rebuild the island once the thieves are out of office.
The fall of Maduro has implications outside of this hemisphere. There is evidence that Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez, whose family and administration are demonstrably corrupt, and his predecessor Jose Zapatero have been linked to Venezuelan corruption. Faced with increased unpopularity among Spaniards, Sanchez plans to regularize 500,000 invaders and give them residence rights for one year. European leaders, already faced with the impossible burden of vast numbers of Third-World immigrants, correctly fear the impact on the Schengen agreement, which allows people in 29 countries (the EU and four others) to travel and move freely from one country to another.
Sanchez is not the only European leader on shaky ground. The UK’s Starmer, France’s Macron, and Germany’s Merz all are polling badly. Keir Starmer is in the worst shape and may be forced to resign within days. The loony Chagos deal he promoted and his connection to Peter Mandelson seem the tipping point. Mandelson’s close connection to Jeffrey Epstein is revealed in the documents just released by the Department of Justice, and Starmer has admitted in Parliament that he knew of Mandelson’s ties to Epstein when he named him ambassador to the U.S. (The appointment seemed designed to allow Mandelson to lobby in Washington for the Chagos deal, a deal so bad only China would benefit from it.) Other European political personages, Norway’s Mora Juul and Slovakia’s Miroslav Lajcak, have careers negatively impacted by the connections revealed in the Epstein files. Norway’s Princess Mett-Marit is in hot water as her extensive relationship with Epstein was unveiled.
The European Union has not abandoned its efforts to shut down Twitter and expand its undemocratic censorship of speech from inside Europe to us. (French officers invaded X’s Paris office this week.) It can hardly be a shock to learn that Hillary Clinton, who with her husband seems to be still trying to evade congressional oversight into their knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, played a significant role in this overreach:
Heritage Foundation exposes Hillary Clinton was directly behind getting the European Union to use their Digital Services Act to pressure Elon Musk and America back into censorship
Hillary Clinton flew overseas for a meeting to facilitate this against America
"Free speech is in a free fall in Europe -- They (The European Union) gathered in Berlin, and it was the most anti-free speech gathering I've ever been part of -- Hillary Clinton was there, and she really fueled the anger.
When Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, she called on the EU to use the infamous Digital Services Act, which is one of the most anti-free speech pieces of legislation in decades. And she called upon the EU to use the DSA (Digital Services Act) to force the censorship of American citizens, force people like Musk to censor.
AdvertisementIt's an extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate” -- Law professor Jonathan Turley
The subpoenas were issued with the concurrence of some Democrat members of the relevant House subcommittee, a shocking development and a sign that not all party members are willing to cover for these two any longer.
As successful as the administration has been in this hemisphere and in exposing corruption in Europe, the lag time between the redline the President set for Iran grows. Inside the country -- despite the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians and the ongoing revolution, including the destruction of significant regime assets -- the need for U.S. and Israel assistance remains unanswered. I keep seeing evidence of substantial U.S. assets being moved into the area, and I understand that we need to protect 19 of our bases in close proximity and coordinate with Israel and other surrounding countries. Still, it seems time to act.
Domestically, the economy is doing very well. Contrary to “expert” opinion of economists, this week the Dow soared to new heights.
In what the confounded experts are calling “statistically impossible” and “clearly some kind of data error,” the Dow Jones Industrial Average sailed past 50,000 points Friday, a milestone that sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists had confidently predicted would never happen because President Trump’s policies would first reduce the American economy to a smoking crater populated only by unemployed factory workers trading bitcoin for canned goods. CNBC, June 2024 (even before the election):
Sixteen! Sixteen Nobel laureates took breaks from polishing their prizes (which are apparently handed out like candy by Scandinavian Epstein fanboys) to warn us Trump would “reignite inflation.” And… the Dow just hit 50,000, with eggs and gas cheaper than ever. Too bad the Nobel Institute doesn’t have a return policy. Maybe the Committee should create a new category for people who excel at failing upward.
From a consumer’s point of view, gas prices are at their lowest in five years, inflation is under 3% and the gross domestic product at 4.2% is soaring. Trillions of pledged foreign investments are on the horizon.
The legacy media is not doing as well. This week the Washington Post terminated another 300 employees, and who knows how long the ever-thinner Democrat broadsheet will continue operations.
In a very significant development concerning illegal immigrants, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that DHS was correct: Illegal aliens can be detained without bail, pending their removal proceedings. This should make removals faster and easier.
Now -- if you crossed illegally and ICE finds you, you’re done. You’re not walking American streets freely again unless you prevail in your removal proceeding (which is supremely unlikely). You won’t be able to go to your apartment and grab your things. You are simply done. You can either accept deportation or sit in immigration detention while your lawyer wastes their time on futile filings, and then get deported when you lose.
This will lead to a lot more illegal aliens simply giving up on their frivolous court fights and accepting deportation, which will help relieve the court backlogs. This will also lead to many more illegal aliens self-deporting. Would you rather pack up your things, settle your affairs, and get a free flight and $2500? Or would you rather try and hide from ICE, knowing that the moment they find you, you will never breathe free air in America again?
It’s a much easier choice.
In sum, I think the EU plan to muzzle free speech will fail in the face of strong U.S. opposition, that Starmer will resign; that Sanchez will also or be forced from office, though perhaps that will take longer; that the mullahcracy is about to end in ways we cannot yet entirely foresee; that the removal of millions of illegal aliens will take place faster and in greater numbers than we might have anticipated. The SAVE Act is due to come up this coming week. If what we find in the seized Georgia election records and/or what we gleaned in Venezuela reveal what I think they will, it would be political suicide to vote against it.
Clarice Feldman
Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/02/a_complicated_week.html
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