Activist Judge Fights Trump, Dealing With the Houthis, Biden Pardons Voided
Another activist judge has sparked a fight with the Trump administration by trying to block the deportation of 200 members of the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang. President Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport the gang members. Judge James Boasberg ruled that the act only applies in conditions “commensurate to war,” blocked deportations for 14 days, and ordered all flights to return to the U.S. However, the administration allowed the flight to continue to its destination, arguing that it had already left U.S. airspace and that courts had no jurisdiction over the president’s conduct of foreign affairs. “A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft … full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Our article “President Trump vs. the Bureaucratic State” is your guide on what to expect on the showdown increasingly dominating the news.
The U.S. is finally dealing with Houthi terrorists, after the militia group spent the year attacking Red Sea shipping. For months, the small terrorist group successfully defied the most powerful navy on the planet, in a powerful symbol of America’s broken will. President Trump has promised to use “overwhelming lethal force” until ships are able to travel freely again. He also promised to hold Iran “fully accountable.” An air strike on the Houthi capital of Sanaa over the weekend killed 53, and U.S. officials say more attacks are coming.
Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes in his booklet The King of the South that “our refusal to use our military might is often not because of righteousness, as we like to believe, but despicable weakness resulting from our sins. We simply lack the faith, character and courage to fight against Iran, the number one terrorist nation today. In the end, we will prove too weak to survive!” The fact that the Houthis could shut down one of the most important sea lanes in the world while America responded with little more than a slap on the wrist revealed a deadly weakness. Mr. Trump has more courage than we’re used to seeing from America, but dealing with these weaknesses is hard. It will require national repentance for the nation to have the strength and unity necessary to deal with Iran. But strong actions like this give America more time to turn to God.
Pardons signed by Joe Biden are “void,” Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this morning, “because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.” “Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” President Trump wrote. “The necessary pardoning documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden.”
This comes after the New York Post claimed a senior aid decided what documents to sign and used an autopen to add Joe Biden’s signature. Previous presidents have used autopen signatures for minor approvals. But this could mean that major decisions were made without Joe Biden’s knowledge. That’s not at all surprising, but it further exposes how low the U.S. sunk during what was effectively Barack Obama’s third term. America was effectively taken over by an unelected dictator, with the president supposedly chosen by the people having very little interest in what was going on. As Trumpet executive editor Stephen Flurry wrote after last year’s presidential debate:
What a powerful stamp of approval this debate put on my father’s book America Under Attack! He has said since the beginning of the Biden presidency that Biden was merely a puppet of Barack Obama. Many were initially skeptical of this claim, but now the whole world can see Joe Biden clearly is not running the country. He is barely capable of stringing together sentences, so his staff must be taking orders from someone else. Who would that person be?
At least 40 people died in tornadoes, wildfires and dust storms over the weekend. Tornadoes hit Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi and Arkansas. Strong winds whipped up wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma. The winds also stirred up dust storms. Eight died in a 50-vehicle pileup on a Kansas highway during the storm. Our in brief has more updates on these weather curses. The deaths are tragic, and a lot of communities have been affected. These weather curses are a warning that the nation still needs to repent and turn to God to receive His protection from the disasters building around us.
Finally, a sad story local to our UK office. Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust, which runs the historic buildings linked to Shakespeare, announced they will “decolonizing” their exhibits to “create a more inclusive museum experience.” This comes after a research project the trust collaborated on complained that Shakespeare was presented as a “universal” genius. Apparently the belief that the genius in Shakespeare’s work transcends national boundaries “benefits the ideology of white European supremacy.” Celebrating Shakespeare is part of a “white Anglo-centric, Eurocentric and increasingly ‘West-centric’ worldviews that continue to do harm in the world today,” the report claimed. It said that “the narrative of Shakespeare’s greatness has caused harm—through the epistemic violence.” (I don’t think the report’s author really understood what that last part means.)
Now if you go to Stratford upon Avon, you can find events celebrating Rabindranath Tagore—a poet I doubt even a single reader of this e-mail has ever heard of.
“God had big plans—world-ruling plans—for Britain in these latter days,” Mr. Flurry wrote in “Shakespeare and the British Empire.” “Is it possible that, in order to help Britons in that task, God would do all He could to enable them to become educated? I think God would give His birthright nation who had David’s throne a royal education to give it every opportunity to do great things with the empire. It was, after all, an empire that reached out to the whole world! It is logical to me that God would want Britons to be able to think and conduct themselves as true leaders, and that He would educate them for that role. God gave them the birthright, so wouldn’t He want to help them in other ways?
“I believe God had a hand in the life of William Shakespeare for that purpose. This man lived during the reign of Elizabeth I, while this future empire was in its infancy. Yes, he was just a carnal man with many flaws, but when it came to his literary work, no author has been more venerated.”
So much of British and American history points back to God. It points to God’s involvement in world affairs and shows that He decrees which nations rise and when. These nations have done a lot of good for the world. As Mr. Flurry points out, even a lot of Shakespeare goes back to the Bible and deals with such important subjects as repentance. The attack on this history is really an attack on God, on the faith of our nations and on the good done through them. Herbert W. Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy shows God’s plan for these nations and for the world. This history is under attack because of a hatred of God’s plan for all mankind.
