RINGSIDE POLITICS WITH JEFF CROUERE - FEBRUARY 21ST, 2026

Summary

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Podcast Summary: RINGSIDE POLITICS WITH JEFF CROUERE – FEBRUARY 21, 2026

Podcast: Real America’s Voice (iHeartPodcasts)
Host: Jeff Crouere
Notable Guests: Corinne Clifford, Joe Bishop-Henchman, Reggie Littlejohn, Robert Eringer
Date: February 21, 2026

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

This episode of Ringside Politics centers on the latest political and cultural developments through the unapologetically populist, pro-Trump lens that Jeff Crouere and his guests are known for. The program covers recent Supreme Court decisions on tariffs, analysis of major state and national races (particularly in California), media bias and coverage of President Trump, election integrity, rising concerns about digital IDs and social credit systems, and exposes relating to global elites. Jeff is joined by journalists, analysts, and activists who lend perspective on these themes.

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MAIN THEMES AND KEY DISCUSSION POINTS

1. Project Keep the Republic & Community Engagement

• Jeff reiterates the importance of grassroots political action to “keep the republic,” referencing Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote (03:05).
• He shares his organizing initiatives: “Morning prayer Monday,” “Release the Kraken Tuesday,” “Sheepdog Wednesday,” “Tech Drive Thursday,” and “Fraud Busters Friday.”
• Listeners are encouraged to form local groups and contact Jeff with photos and stories: [e-mail] or via crewair.net.

2. Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs

• The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision is described by Jeff as a “devastating decision… a major blow” against Trump’s policy central to his mandate (06:37-09:30).
• Criticism is leveled at Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whom Jeff calls “another disaster.” He blames leftist influence and judicial activism for stalling the populist agenda.
• President Trump’s reaction: He vows to implement alternate legally tested tariffs (26:59).

Notable Quote:

"This is what I call judicial tyranny. And it's going on ever since he became president the first time. It's accelerated now in the second term."
— Jeff Crouere (08:32)

3. California Politics and Election Integrity

• Guest: Corinne Clifford (Independent journalist, White House press corps member)

  • Provides on-the-ground insight from California.
  • Excitement about entrepreneur Elaine Kolatti’s gubernatorial run and the openness of California’s system (top-two primary).
  • Spencer Pratt, actor-turned-activist, enters the LA race, noted for his criticism of local and state leadership and wildfire mismanagement (14:44-17:42).
  • Raises warnings about potential election manipulation:

    “We all know that, especially in Los Angeles county, the elections are messed with.” (16:17, Corinne Clifford)

• Discussion of Alex Villanueva’s run for sheriff and his MAGA credentials.

Media Coverage and Trump’s State of the Union

• Clifford expects Trump to project “positive energy” and tout economic success.
• Claims persistent media bias against Trump, especially since Epstein files' partial release (18:00-20:48).
• Clifford spends days “just talking to other people in the media and explaining what's really going on and standing up for MAGA... and President Trump.”

4. Election Vulnerabilities and Voter Fraud

• Segment featuring Nick Shirley’s investigation into California voter rolls:
  • Questions raised about registration of deceased/non-existent individuals and potential illegal voter participation (20:48-23:07).

5. Immigration and Missing Children

• Clip: Former ICE Director Tom Homan credits Trump’s administration for locating over 3,000 missing unaccompanied alien children—an achievement underreported by mainstream media (23:07-23:36).

6. Climate Change Skepticism and “Globalist” Agendas

• Clip: Whitney Webb debunks the mainstream climate change response focused on carbon markets, critiques elites like Bill Gates and Wall Street for profit-driven energy policies (23:36-24:36).
  • Key criticism: Solutions “are coming mostly from Wall Street… about controlling how much energy people can use.”
  • Jeff doubles down:

    “Thank goodness President Trump is pushing back on it. And maybe we can end this hoax once and for all.” (24:36)

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IN-DEPTH SEGMENT: SUPREME COURT, TARIFFS & SEPARATION OF POWERS

Guest: Joe Bishop-Henchman (National Taxpayers Union Foundation EVP)

• Explains the Supreme Court’s decision: The President used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) for tariffs—never intended for far-reaching trade policies (27:59-31:31).
• Historic context: Past presidents needed congressional approval for large programs (e.g., Obamacare, Bush’s tax cuts).
• Kavanaugh’s position: The President can still use other legal mechanisms for temporary tariffs but needs Congress for lasting change (31:31-34:28).
• Congress’s dysfunction makes presidential action difficult.

Notable Quotes:

"We're not here to decide the economics... we're just here to decide what is the proper separation of powers."
— Joe Bishop-Henchman (29:35)

"In the past, we've been taken advantage of by some of these other countries. We haven't exactly been on a level playing field as far as the tariffs."
— Jeff Crouere (33:05)

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DIGITAL IDs, SOCIAL CREDIT, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

Guest: Reggie Littlejohn (Anti-Globalist Women’s Rights Campaigner)

• Reggie is preparing to speak at the European Parliament against digital IDs, warning about the risk of a “China-style social credit system” coming to the West (35:18-39:02).
• Critiques “real ID” programs as precursors to broader surveillance and control.
• Digital IDs consolidate personal, financial, and behavioral data, allowing governments to control social media and even financial access.
• Both Reggie and Jeff share personal experiences of social media censorship.
• Reggie’s call to action: Sign petition at antiglobalist.net.

Notable Quotes:

“Any mandatory, interoperable digital ID can serve as the platform for the China social credit system.”
— Reggie Littlejohn (36:22)

“If it's mandatory... you can put all... your life... your medical records, your Internet spending, your banking history... and come up with a score about how compliant a citizen you are.”
— Reggie Littlejohn (37:46)

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SPOTLIGHT: GLOBAL ELITES AND ROYAL SCANDALS

Guest: Robert Eringer (Spymaster of Monte Carlo, author)

• Eringer discusses his tenure as intelligence advisor to Prince Albert of Monaco (41:51-47:29).
• Draws parallels between Prince Albert and Prince Andrew over allegations of corruption and sexual misconduct.
• Claims corruption in Monaco has increased, with Russian organized crime infiltrating the region.
• Critiques the sense of impunity among global elites, closures with:

  “...there's a lot that connects these elites, their behavior, they feel like they can get away with anything. And now a lot of that is being exposed.” (45:43)

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HUMOR & LISTENER INTERACTION

• Audience-submitted memes and video clips satirize American politics and progressive immigration rhetoric (47:29–48:00).
• Jeff encourages continued viewer content and engagement via email and web polls on crewair.net.

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TIMESTAMPS OF IMPORTANT SEGMENTS

• 01:06 – Introduction, “Keep the Republic” initiative, and community organizing
• 06:37 – Supreme Court ruling on tariffs and judicial power
• 14:05 – California political analysis with Corinne Clifford
• 17:42 – State of the Union preview and media coverage discussion
• 20:48 – Voter fraud investigations in California
• 23:07 – ICE’s recovery of missing migrant children
• 23:36 – Climate change narrative critique with Whitney Webb
• 26:59 – President Trump’s response to the tariffs ruling
• 27:59 – Constitutional, legal, and political ramifications of the tariffs ruling with Joe Bishop-Henchman
• 35:18 – Digital ID and social credit warning with Reggie Littlejohn
• 41:51 – Global elite scandals: Monaco and Prince Albert with Robert Eringer
• 47:29 – Meme of the week, listener video, audience engagement

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MEMORABLE MOMENTS & NOTABLE QUOTES

• “This is what I call judicial tyranny.” (08:32, Jeff Crouere)
• “The media… is so anti-MAGA, anti-America First, and anti-Trump.” (20:02, Corinne Clifford)
• “If we don't have voter integrity, what even are we?” (21:41, Clip from Nick Shirley segment)
• “You control their economic activity... It's fear-driven to get people to accept policies.” (23:36, Whitney Webb)
• “Any mandatory, interoperable digital ID can serve as the platform for the China social credit system.” (36:22, Reggie Littlejohn)
• “I was just silenced.” (39:26, Reggie Littlejohn)
• “There's a lot that connects these elites... they feel like they can get away with anything.” (45:43, Jeff Crouere)
• “How to become a Democrat: Remove your brain… How to become a patriot: Never give up.” (47:29, Meme of the Week)

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TAKEAWAYS

• The host and guests argue that populist, nationalist policies face persistent pushback from “the system”—the judiciary, the media, and entrenched political elites.
• Grassroots activism, insider perspectives on national and state politics, and vigilance regarding digital surveillance and elite corruption are recurring calls to action.
• The populist and often conspiratorial framing reflects the show’s commitment to challenging mainstream narratives and rallying its audience for direct engagement in American political life.

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For more information, listener polls, and ongoing updates, visit crewair.net or contact Jeff at [e-mail].

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Text America to 989-898 and get your free info kit today. All right, let's check out some of the big topics that we're following here on the program. Of course, yesterday, devastating decision for the Trump administration, in my view. Six to three decision, the Supreme Court striking down on the president's tariffs in a major ruling. I think it was a major blow. This is a policy that you and I voted for. This is a policy that the president ran on. This is a policy that was approved by the American people. You know, you have all these other countries putting tariffs on our goods. We've had unfair trading for decades with these other countries. The president Comes in, tries to level the playing field, tries to have reciprocal tariffs, tries to put America manufacturing American factories, American jobs. First Supreme Court says he can't do it. This is what I call judicial tyranny. And it's going on ever since he became president the first time. It's accelerated now in the second term. They're constantly trying to block what you and I voted for. All of these Democrats always run to the courts. They try to get the left wing judges to overrule everything. And now something has gotten to the Supreme Court where a court of a mixed bunch, lot of liberals that always vote together. These moderates sometimes do the right thing, but often do not. Conservatives that we can rely on. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. This time joined by Brett Kavanaugh getting kudos from the President. He's very upset with Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett from our area of New Orleans. But I have to say, I've never been impressed with her. Have you? Have any of you been impressed with her from the day she started? I mean, it's like a DEI pick. And I don't know. I mean, sadly, some of his picks and some of these positions have been terrible. Um, Gorsuch is usually better. Brett Kavanaugh showed himself to be strong. But Amy Coney Barrett's never. I mean, she just seems to vote with John Roberts, who's another disaster guy who gave us Obamacare. Illinois governor is now demanding $8.6 billion payment from the US government, saying, hey, with these, you know, tariffs struck down, American people and the people of Illinois paid extra for all these goods. So we need to get reimbursed for that. Heck no. I mean, as President Trump said, the court didn't even address how you deal with this money that's been collected, this hundred and seventy five billion dollars. So it's a terrible decision in, in a lot of respects. The media, Fox News and other media outlets continuing to overload us with information about that Nancy Guthrie case. Again, it's a tragic situation. The woman has been kidnapped. But they spent hours and hours and hours and hours on this story to the exclusion of many other important news items that are going on. And I think it's. The coverage is ridiculous. I'm curious to get your view if you agree or not. Obviously, the big international story this week is going to be what kind of action we're going to be taking in Iran is war likely. That's why we're doing the [e-mail] you know, peace talks have been going on the Iranians have been resistant. We'll see if something can be negotiated. We've got massive military forces in the region. I certainly don't want to see the United States getting into another open ended war. A limited military strike is what the President has been known for and might be what is happening in this case in Israel. Tucker Carlson visited to interview Ambassador Mike Huckabee. The interview went off the rails two and a half hours. He was also detained at the airport along with his producers. So we'll give you a chance to check that out. I'd love to get your thoughts on how that interview went down. Obviously, Mike Huckabee has been, you know, a strong defender of Israel, strong friend of President Trump, was the ambassador there. Tucker Carlson has many different views and they were engaged in a civil but serious debate on a lot of issues involving Israel. One thing that can't be debated is a lot of the people hanging around Jeffrey Epstein were creeps and criminals. One of them is the former Prince Andrew who has now been arrested. The monarchy could be threatened in the uk. I wouldn't be shedding any tears over that. I mean, I think it's a bloated institution that's very expensive. And remember, we fought a revolution to get away from that. This guy was obviously using his influence to pal around with Jeffrey Epstein and doing things that could have been very illegal, like sharing secrets. Good thing is being treated like everyone else. And he was certainly not given any kind of special accommodations. He doesn't deserve it. President Trump has also given total liability protection to the producers of glyphosate, which is the ingredient in Roundup. And this has made a lot of Maha supporters very nervous, very upset. RFK Jr. Is backing this. This is going to be something that we're going to be addressing on future programs. Very important issue. GDP did not do so great in the last quarter. The president blaming the Democrats, blaming the shutdown. Obviously that's what I think the Democrats want to do, bring the economy to a halt, make it difficult for President Trump to run on a good economy in the midterms. But one thing that I think he can run on, that he has been the most transparent president of all time, producing files that no other president produced. And now he has promised this week to release the alien files so we'll know what the government has known for all these decades about UFOs and what could be aliens. Maybe not. The truth is out there, right? So we want to applaud the President for his commitment to get the facts out to the American people. And we deserve the truth on all of these issues. We need transparency on everything. All right. A lot more to get to as we roll on. It's ringside politics here in real America's Voice. Thanks for joining us today. We'll be right back. Hey, we're back. A lot of issues we want to address with our first guest today. She's back with us. Good to have her back. Independent journalist, White House press corps member Corinne Clifford is with us. And, Corinne, how are you? Welcome.

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I am so grateful to be with you today because there is so much news. I'm in Beverly Hills, California, right now. Of course, I'm going back to Washington, D.C. but we have so much to discuss.

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Well, you know, Beverly Hills is beautiful. I'm glad you're enjoying some time there. Obviously, let's start with California. California is a mess. So overall, I've been tracking the population numbers. People are leaving, businesses are leaving. So they've got to turn things around. So you've got a governor's race, you've got some local races going on. As far as the governor's race looks wide open. Corinne, what's your analysis of it?

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I mean, I am super excited because one of my closest girlfriends, Elaine Kolatti, just announced yesterday that she's running for governor. Now, she is an independent, successful entrepreneur, and California is what, the fourth or fifth largest economy in the world?

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The.

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So that's what we need. We don't need a career politician being governor of California. We need a successful entrepreneur like Elaine Kolate. So I'm very hopeful and excited that she may have the chance to win as governor because she can actually fund her own race. She does not need to raise that much money. But if people are interested in her, they can go to Kilati for California. And then we also have Spencer Pratt.

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So before we get in, before we get, before we get into Spencer Pratt, when is this election?

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So this election is June 2, which is coming up in three months, which is going to be shocking because in California, it's not about Republican or Democrat. It's about the top two people who win on June 2nd open.

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We, we have that here in Louisiana for our governor's election. It's the top two candidates. That makes it exciting. It makes it very exciting. All right, let's talk about la. You've got an actor who's become an activist, and he's really been speaking out ever since the, the fires last year, Spencer Pratt. What kind of chance does he have in that race?

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I mean, the real truth, Jeff is that we all know that, especially in Los Angeles county, the elections are messed with. Now, I'm not going to say how deep it goes, but I am going to be watching these elections like a hawk. I have other independent journalists, hopefully Nick Shirley and James o' Keefe and the whole team will come to LA and oversee these elections. But the bottom line is that Spencer Pratt is well known and well liked amongst all of California. His wife is Heidi Montag. And so he joined the race Jan. 2 after many of us have been asking him to join because he has been so eloquent and wise and giving us really important facts about how Karen Bass, the current mayor of Los Angeles, has stolen from the taxpayers in Los Angeles and about how Gavin Newscomb, we call him new scum in California, has just allowed California to burn to the ground. I grew up in Pacific States and I never thought that could happen. So then we also have Alex Villanueva running for sheriff. He was the sheriff in the past. He was a Democrat. Now, of course, he's leaning more towards Republican. He respects President Trump. And the bottom line is that he's going to be independent because, as I said before, you don't have to be Republican Democrat for the June 2 election. So this is going to get very exciting.

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Well, I'm glad you're there covering it, Corrine. Let's talk about what's going on up in Washington, where you also spend a lot of time. The president making his State of the Union address coming up on Tuesday. What do you expect to hear from the president?

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Corinne I really know that President Trump is going to give us so much positive energy. We really need that right now, especially because the mainstream media, which I have to deal with almost every day in the White House press corps, is not telling the truth about the fact that our economy is thriving under President Trump, especially with the fact that the current Supreme Court just tried to make President Trump's tariffs illegal, which President Trump has the best team, he's got the best constitutional lawyers. And so he's going to continue with his tariff policy, which is so good for our economy. So our economy is thriving, of course, right now. ICE is defunded, but that funding will come back. And everything that President Trump promised we, the people who voted for him, is happening a little slower than we thought, especially due to the fact that the Senate is not confirming President Trump's nominations fast enough. So the thing is that every President Trump tries to make a decision, he gets so many lawsuits, he gets sued, what, once or twice a day by Every governor of every state and attorney general. And people have to understand that the pushback that President Trump goes through is very serious. And he works 247 for us, let me tell you. I'm at the White House, and President Trump rarely sleeps. Maybe he gets four hours a day. And if you Air Force One, you get zero sleep.

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So it's, it sounds like you're working 247 as well, doing everything that you're covering. Final question to you here before we have to go, you know, with the, the media that you're with all the time up there. You know, the White House press corps, they seem to be so biased. It seems to be so negative as far as their, their coverage of President Trump. Have you seen any change in the past year of this second term? Have they there been any evidence that they've tried to become fairer or. To me, it looks like it's just gotten worse as far as their coverage.

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I think that a month ago, before the part of the Epstein files were released, it was getting a little bit better. But that's what I do mostly is talk to the mainstream media and give them the real news narrative that President Trump is the reason that Jeffrey Epstein got arrested. And recently it has been very negative just because Epstein files have been released, but they're not being released in context or chronology. And so that's the problem. The mainstream media has a news narrative that is so anti maga, anti America first, and anti Trump. So I am very concerned about mainstream media, and that's why most of my days I'm spending just talking to other people in the media and explaining what's really going on and standing up for maga, America first, and President Trump.

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And we need that to present the other side because so many people, unfortunately, are consuming that biased news. We need to present the truth, and we appreciate everything you're doing. Corrine, thanks for being with us here on the Ringside Politics program. All right, Corinne was talking about California. Let's share our first clip with you today. And that is what Nick Shirley is uncovering in California. Looks like voter fraud to me. Let's check out clip number one. We're just looking for these individuals as they're registered to vote here. John Thomas and Philip Thomas. Is Gloria here by chance? Because she's 100 years old and she voted last election. From here, I just want to make sure you're not 126 years old. I'm not. And do you think it's possible, like, illegal migrants could be voting? Do you know where the ballots might have gone like for 108 people that were registered here. When it comes to fraud, most people think about money. However, there is another potential massive fraud story taking place in America, one tied to the most consequential system in our country, which is our voting system. This has to do with everything about who runs the country and how elections are actually controlled. And if we don't have voter integrity, what even are we? And there's one state that is the breeding ground for potential voting fraud, and that is California. So fraud in California, California fraud in Minnesota that was uncovered. ICE was there doing their work. The best thing about what they did, in my opinion, was find missing children. It didn't get any coverage. Here's Tom Homan talking about it. Let's go to clip number two. In addition to taking public safety threats off the street, ICE here in this state have located 3,364 missing unaccompanied alien children, children that the last administration lost and weren't even looking for. That's because the leadership of President Trump, these children were located. And finally, another great independent journalist has taken on the climate change narrative and I think destroys it very eloquently. Let's check out what Whitney Webb had to say. Let's go to clip number three.

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Why don't they talk about planting trees? Why isn't Bill Gates, the largest, like, private landowner in the US now planting trees like CR if he's so worried about carbon dioxide, you know, he, he poo poos. The whole idea of planting trees as a way to combat climate change, it's just carbon markets and going to electric vehicles and all of this stuff. But electric vehicles necessitates mass mining, and a lot of that mining is in places that use child labor or it's going to be so environmentally destructive you totally destroy the developing world, which, you know, these people on the left supposedly want to protect. You're going to totally destroy the environment. But really what it's about is controlling how much energy people can use. And if you can control how much energy a household can use, you control their economic activity. You also control how many family, how big their family can get. It's fear, fear driven to get people to accept policies they otherwise wouldn't accept because they're told this cataclysmic event is just down the line. And trust us again is the conclusion of that. There's people that agree with the narrative about climate change and there's people that don't. And I'm not trying to really get in that stuff space. When I talk about this stuff, I'm trying to point out that the solutions are coming mostly from Wall Street. And then you have people like Larry Fink of BlackRock and Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney coming together and something like G fans saying, why don't we give Wall street direct control of the IMF and the World bank for climate change? You know, how can anyone on the left that's worried about climate change sign up on that?

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I mean, what a hoax, folks. We have been drained of resources. We've been forced to buy products we didn'. Hunt. Our choices have been limited, all to placate these, you know, masters of the universe who want to push this on us. It doesn't make sense environmentally or economically. And thank goodness President Trump is pushing back on it. And maybe we can end this hoax once and for all. A lot more to get to as we roll on. Keep it right here on Ringside Politics and Real America's Voice. Jeff Career with you will be right back. Welcome back, folks. So major Supreme Court decision yesterday concerning the use of tariffs by this administration. And before we introduce our special guest, want to read to you President Trump's post from this morning. He said, based on a thorough, detailed and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written and extraordinarily anti American decision on tariffs issued yesterday after many months of contemplation by the United States Supreme Court, please let this statement serve to represent that I, as president of the United States will be effective immediately raising the 10% worldwide tariffs on countries, many of which have been ripping the US off for decades without retribution until I came along to the fully allowed and legally tested 15% level. During the next short number of months, the Trump administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible tariffs which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of making America great again, greater than ever before. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. So that's the president's reaction to what the media is calling a striking blow to his bid to refashion global trade with sweeping tariffs as the Supreme Court struck down his use of emergency statute to execute this strategy, which is core to his economic agenda. Let's bring on a special guest to discuss this. Joe Bishop henchman. He is the executive vice president of the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. And Joe, welcome to the program, sir.

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Be with you. Happy Saturday.

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Yeah, Happy Saturday. So my view, and I'm not an attorney, but my view is, you know, we elected this man. He won pretty overwhelmingly every swing state, electoral and popular vote. Central to his platform was tariffs. Central to his message that we voted for was to introduce tariffs to level the playing field to what he thought was, you know, make it fair again for American businesses. He saw these jobs in manufacturing and factories leaving our country. So we voted for that. He gets in, implements the policy, and now is told by the Supreme Court that he can't do it. Some would say this is judicial overreach. Some would say that the Democrats are constantly trying to do everything that they can to stop his agenda. Not just this decision, but seems like everything he does, they run to the courts to try to stop. What say you, Joe?

[C]

I'd say every president comes in wanting to implement a platform or a program, and generally what they'll do is they'll go to Congress and say, here's what I want to do. Here's the legislation I want. We all remember President Obama working for years to get Obamacare eventually through the Senate and passed. And we remember other presidents before that. George W. Bush with his tax cut, Bill Clinton with one that ended up being welfare reform, and then Ronald Reagan, of course, with his tax cuts and economic growth package. So all of these were not just, you know, proclaimed by the.

[A]

Well, I remember Barack Obama famously. Barack Obama famously said, all he needs is his pen and his phone. I mean, yeah, that's what Obama said.

[C]

And how far did that get him, too? He got struck down Supreme Court, too.

[A]

And Joe Biden said he's not going to really follow the Supreme Court decision. You know, when they struck down what he was doing on student loans, he basically said he's going to continue doing it.

[C]

And the Supreme Court stopped him, too. And I really like something the president said in his speech yesterday when he was talking about how he's now going to go towards the authorities that are in law and follow those. And he said, you know, maybe I should have done that in the first place. And I think that's a recognition that that's more lasting and it's more likely to be sustained.

[A]

And so you're saying that that's what

[C]

he started doing yesterday, and today the

[A]

policy is right, but the way he did it was wrong. Is that your point, Joe?

[C]

Yeah, and I think the Supreme Court said that in their. In their opinion, which is, you know, we're not here to decide the economics. We're not here to decide the public policy rationale. We're just here to decide what is the proper separation of powers between the President and between Congress. And, you know, Chief Justice Roberts, when he was confirmed, he said he always described his job as calling balls and strikes. And so that's what's going on here. Now we'll see how these other authorities last. Because unless he goes to Congress and says pass something new, which you can always do, and Senator Bernie Moreno yesterday said that's what he wants to happen. But like the one, the one President Trump has announced yesterday and today it's time limited to 150 days so he can do another round of across the board tariffs, but only for a limited period of time and then he's got to go to Congress or come up with something else.

[A]

So let's talk about the mechanisms in place. One of them is this International Emergency Economic Powers Act. That's what he tried to use. Correct. And am I correct in saying, Joe, that he's the first president in history to attempt to use that particular vehicle to impose tariffs?

[C]

Right. This is a law that we got from, it's a predecessor was from Woodrow Wilson in World War I, a way to blockade to basically seize the assets of German saboteurs and blockade trade with Germany. You know, nothing more temporary than a government law and it's. Or nothing more permanent than a temporary government law. It's still with us. It was changed a little bit in the 1970s and became the IEPA as you described, but never before been used in this way for far reaching tariffs. And that was very persuasive I think for the Springfield majority that so what, it's one thing if it's used a lot, but here it wasn't.

[A]

What was the vehicle that Brett Kavanaugh recommended the President use that could be a better vehicle for these tariffs?

[C]

Yeah, there's the Trade act of 1974, there's the Trade Expansion act of 1962. All of these give very specific powers to the President to enact trade policies, usually temporarily, usually after a trade investigation. This is what, what President Trump did in his first term, what President Biden did, really, every president since the 1960s have used these mechanisms. And it's important to remember that the tariffs that were struck down yesterday, these are the Canada and Mexico and across the, across the world tariffs. It actually didn't affect most of the China tariff because those were done under these mechanisms.

[A]

And also tariffs on items such as vehicles aren't affected by this ruling. Correct?

[C]

Yeah. So in the announcement yesterday, although, you know, the President described them as across the board tariffs, there was a long list of exceptions and exclusions that are included with them, including vehicles, electronics, a lot of other things. And that's one of the important things to remember with engaging in tariff policy is that it is full of Swiss cheese exemptions, unfortunately based a lot on what's on who's politically connected with the administration and imposing them. And that's an important thing to remember if extend past this administration.

[A]

I mean, to me it's a way for the President to be able to exact concessions sometimes from country. He uses it as a negotiating tool and I think he's been able to use that effectively to bring some countries to the table and sign agreements that maybe otherwise would not have been signed. I think you would agree with me maybe Joe, that in the past we've been taken advantage of by some of these other countries. We haven't exactly been on a level playing field as far as the tariffs. And that's one of the motivating factors for what the President has been trying to do. Maybe in the end this will all work out better. Go ahead.

[C]

I'm a national taxpayers union. We're an anti tariff group. But I'm the first to admit that the President has been able to. I look at the India example where he got India to stop buying Russian oil by threatening tariffs. And I mean I can't even deny that that was successful in that. Justice Kavanaugh on his dissent mentioned some of that work. However, you can always go to Congress and get that power and get those authorities for a long time, for many decades, Congress would give, it's called trade negotiate a trade negotiating authority to the President to basically look, go, come up with a deal and then come back to the Senate and we will vote on it. Up or down. No filibuster. Asked for that. I bet Congress would give it to him.

[A]

Yeah, we're up against it but, but we know how dysfunctional Congress is. It's very hard to get them to pass anything. He did get the one big beautiful bill and you know, he might be successful getting other important legislation. I've been very critical of Congress because I haven't seen Congress doing much of anything. But with that we're going to have to leave the conversation. Love to have you back on. Joe, thank you for your insight into what is probably the biggest story of the week. All right, our next guest is a friend of the program, frequently with us. She wears a lot of hats. Let's see, she's president of the Anti globalist International Women's Rights Without Frontiers, co founder of the Sovereignty Coalition and getting ready to head over to Europe and address the European Parliament. Our friend Reggie Littlejohn is with us. Hey Reggie. How are you? Welcome.

[B]

Very well.

[E]

Thank you so much. It's great to be back, Jeff.

[A]

So you're going to be addressing the Parliament on a very important issue of digital IDs. We've already gone through the hassle of real IDs here in this country, which I oppose, I certainly oppose any kind of digital id. Europe seems to be further to the left than America and barreling toward this much faster. You're trying to tell them to put on the brakes, right?

[E]

Yeah. This is an extremely important and almost kind of surprising event because as you said, Europe is considerably to the left of the United States. And I'm just extremely grateful that the European Parliament wants to bring up the issue of digital IDs, and I'm going to be keynoting it. So I'm one of five keynotes. But you know, it's, it's, it's an extremely important issue that most people do not know about because as you say, Europe is far ahead of us in implementing these things. This is something that is very dear to my heart because, as you know, I originally started, my original organization was opposing forced abortion in China. And having done that for many years, I was very concerned to see the World Health Organization pushing out Chinese style totalitarianism during COVID and the World Health Organization adopting the China model of vaccine passports. So I opposed that. And they've stopped calling them vaccine passports. Now they're just called digital health IDs. But it's the exact same thing. Any mandatory, interoperable digital ID can serve as the platform for the China social credit system. And that's how I got involved because I'm very aware of Chinese totalitarianism and the China social credit system. And I'm doing everything I can to sound the alarm so it doesn't come to the West.

[A]

Reggie, this is such an important issue. I'm worried about the United States adopting this social credit system here in this country. It seems like we're moving in that direction every day.

[E]

Yeah, so this is the thing. You know, President Trump, you know, has not instituted a digital ID, but these real IDs which you say you oppose and which I also oppose could be become digital IDs.

[F]

It's.

[E]

The real ID is not yet biometric in most states, but it's biometric ready. So the, and, and also these digital driver's licenses. It doesn't matter what, what it is, if it's a driver's license, if it's, you know, a health ID or a real ID or whatever it is, if it's mandatory. And if it's interoperable, then what it can do is it you can put all of the other, all the other aspects of your life that are currently siloed like, you know, it can attach your, your medical records, your criminal history, your Internet search history, your Internet spending history, your banking history, everything to this ID and come up with a score about how compliant of a, of a citizen you are. And depending on who's in power, if somebody in the left is in power, people on the right are going to be in trouble, somebody in the right is in power, the people on the left are going to be in trouble.

[A]

And basically, it's an attack on our freedom. It can be used to tell us what we can, can and cannot do. We need independence. We need to be able to act as free Americans and be able to do what we want to do without the government controlling us, monitoring us, and telling us what we can and cannot do. That's where this thing is headed, right, Reggie?

[E]

Well, and the way that they tell you what you can and cannot do is shutting you out from the various things that are attached to this id. So this ID is attached to your social media accounts. One of the things they could do easily is just shut you out of your social media account, which happened to me during COVID but then more seriously

[A]

happened to me too, Reggie. It happened to me too. Yes. Did it? Yeah.

[E]

I posted something saying. I posted something saying six month old babies should not be required to get the COVID jab. And I was kicked off of Twitter X and Facebook immediately. It took me years to get back. I was just silenced. Okay, so that was just the low level, the next level and is that they can actually just shut you off from your credit cards and your bank accounts. And there are few things that are more paralyzing than that. And then in China, the final level is they'll just disappear you, which, you know, I hope that that doesn't ever come to this country, but there's no guarantee of it, so.

[A]

Well, listen, we only have a minute. You're courageous for what you're doing. Your stand is the right one. We appreciate you and we support you. I know you on one of your sites, you have a survey or some kind of information you want to share with our viewers.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Go to antiglobalist.net, antiglobalistone word.net and there you can sign a petition against digital IDs, please. We need your support to do that, Reggie.

[A]

Best of luck on your travels. Have a great time. There And I know you're going to be incredibly successful in convincing these folks that we do not need digital IDs here or there and it needs to be stopped. So that's Reggie Little John, thank you so much. Lots more to get to as we roll on right here on Real America's Voice on the Brinks that politics program. We'll be back. We report the news to you up front. Ringside Politics Politics with the flight Ringside Politics now the system make crystal clear with your host, Jeff Crew Air. Our final guest today is someone who has a very interesting background. He was an intelligence advisor to Prince Albert of Monaco and he helped create this intelligence service from scratch, which he did after Albert's father had passed away and Albert ascended to the throne. He's written about it. The book is Spymaster of Monte Carlo. And very pleased to bring on the author of that book, Robert Ehrringer, who's with us here in the Ringside Politics program. And Robert, welcome. How are you?

[F]

I'm very well, thanks. How are you, Jeff? Thank you for having me.

[A]

Well, we know one scoundrel has been arrested and could be going to jail. Who knows? Prince Andrew, former Prince Andrew in the UK what about Prince Albert? There's some pretty nasty allegations about his behavior. What kind of guy is he, Robert?

[F]

I group him the same way where I put Andrew. And I think there's a good reason why Andrew was the person he was most in contact with of the British royal family because they had a close bond. And so I've always assumed that they've had similar interests. And in fact, after I stopped doing intelligence for Prince Albert that ended around the end of 2007, it came to my attention that he'd, he'd actually been accused of raping a young woman who later signed an affidavit about that and fully detailed it, something that I wrote about just yesterday on my my own substack platform.

[A]

So do you believe these allegations are true? What kind of character is Prince Albert? Is he a man of integrity or is he a person who could be engaged in criminal activity?

[F]

Well, I know for sure that he is complicit in the corruption that continues to go on in Monaco. And I also believe that he's fully capable of being involved in the same kind of deviant sexual behavior that Andrew now stands accused of. I had a sense of it working for him. It wasn't my job to spy on him, of course, but I was in contact with many different people at the palace and many of his closest friends. And the picture that I put together of him.

[A]

Yeah, we lost Robert, unfortunately. Hopefully we can get him back. But, yeah, that is a fascinating story. So the. The book is Spymaster of Monte Carlo and Robert Ehringer we've been listening to, and I think we have him back now. Robert, welcome back.

[F]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you lost me, but I was answering your question about Prince Albert and his character. Would you like me to start over again with that?

[A]

No, we heard some of that. So basically you're saying he could very well be doing the same sort of things that Prince Andrew was when you were in that position in Monte Carlo. Lots of threats, lots of intelligence threats to Monaco.

[F]

Well, the reason Albert brought me in to start with was, well, actually twofold, was at that time there was a Russian surge into the French Riviera, and Albert was very concerned that Russian organized crime would come to Monaco, as it eventually did. And my role was to figure out what they were hoping to do, what their aims were, and to prevent that from happening. I did my part and I managed to demonstrate to Albert that it was a real concern, it was a real threat. But what happened was, even though he started off in 2002, June 2002, when he retained me to be concerned about these things and wanting to do something about it, by about 2007, he kind of lost interest in it. He lost the plot, dropped the bowl and decided to pay more attention to his corrupt courtesans of the palace and corrupt ministers in Monaco's government, and then carried on in a way which has put him in all kinds of jams more recently.

[A]

And I'm sure a lot of that is outlined in the book Spymaster of Monte Carlo. It's one that I look forward to reading. And certainly it seems like there's a lot that connects these elites, their behavior, they feel like they can get away with anything. And now a lot of that is being exposed. Robert Ehringer, thank you, sir. Appreciate it very much. All right, folks, what we do on this program, we share with you some of the memes of the week that our great viewers provide. Let's get to it. Mick in Texas has one that he shared with us. I like this one. How to become a Democrat. Remove your brain. How to become a Republican. Remove your spine. How to become a patriot. Fight for your country. Never give up. Never give in. All right, Mick, that's a good one. Next one is from Gail in Covington. And yeah, this. This is AOC on the world stage, which is a good transition. Thank you, Gail. To Robert in Virginia for his aoc. I don't always speak my mind, but when I do, I sound like a blankety blank idiot. Yes. Thank you, Robert and Virginia. All right, if you've got a meme of the week, email [e-mail] and our great team in Denver, our Rev team has put together their own meme of the week. Let's check it out. Must destroy America yet? Not on my watch. And we have our viewer video clip of the week. This one was submitted by Susan K. In California. Let's check it out.

[B]

Nobody is illegal on stolen land. Let them in. Let them in. Let them in. Let them in. Let them in. Who in the hell is ringing my doorbell at 2pm on a Wednesday?

[A]

Good afternoon, miss. You've been supporting open immigration and we were hoping we could house Abdul and his beautiful family here for a while.

[B]

Not here.

[A]

That means leave white liberals. Oh my goodness. If you've got a viewer video clip meme, I'd love to get your nominations. Email [e-mail] don't forget the web poll that we're [e-mail] want to get your view on what we need to do in Iran? We'll keep that up for another day or so and join me on Rev Ambassadors. Love for you to join the Ringside Politics group and friend me on there. I'm going to be spending more time on there in the days ahead. It's a great resource for the Rev family. So we certainly would love for you to join us over there at Rev Ambassadors. All right, big thank you to our great team in Denver for their hard work. Thank you for joining us. Check us out during the week. We're going to be on Ringside Politics on the radio on WGSO. That's WGSO.com at 7 to 9 in the morning, 6 to 7 in the evening. Love to have everyone on board. And don't forget, we'll be back here next Saturday for another edition of Ringside Politics on Real America's Voice. Thoughts? Comments? Ideas? Suggestions? Email [e-mail] have a great week, everyone, and we'll look forward to seeing you next Saturday for another edition of Ring side right here on Real America's Voice. This is an iHeart podcast.

[B]

Guaranteed Human.