Radio Show Hour 1 – 02/03/2025

[00:00:13] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. Sam Bushman live on your radio. Hard-hitting news that I refuse to use no doubt starts now. This, my fellow Americans, is the broadcast for February the 3rd in the year of our Lord, 2025.

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[00:01:09] Dr. Scott Bradley on the road and with me now, freedomsrisingsun.com. Check out his incredible collegiate series to preserve the nation and his weekly webinars. Sign up at freedomsrisingsun.com. And every Thursday, Q&As on the Constitution and more. Doctor, welcome to the broadcast from the road, sir. Well, thank you. Actually, I'm not left actually yet, but I'm going soon. Oh, okay. But here's, I just wanted to mention that I know you've always got a lot on your mind and on the plate and everything like that. Yeah. Come in.

[00:01:38] But today is a dark anniversary. It's a tragic day for America. 112th anniversary of the ratification of the 16th Amendment. I mean, this amendment has brought more tyranny upon this nation than probably anything else anybody everywhere or anywhere has ever done.

[00:02:02] I mean, we have brought into America, you know, jackbooted thugs that are coming into, it violates the Fourth Amendment, for example, in spades. They write their own law. They pursue and adjudicate their own agenda. And they have been thieving out of Americans' pockets since 1913. So I thought I'd mention that as we start because, honestly, I can't.

[00:02:32] Some of these dark days, I think we've got to be reminded, it's only 113 years ago. I mean, no, 112, excuse me, 112 years ago. And because it's 1913 they did this, so that's how I got the 113. But 112 years ago, this was ratified. And it has continued to snowball and expand, expand, expand the size of government.

[00:02:55] And since that date and the ratification of the 17th Amendment, which happened in 1913 also, we have our national debts have exploded. Every single aspect of liberty has been put at risk. So I thought I'd better mention that just in case somebody might not know how long this mess has been going on. Well, we've got to really understand, this is the day that we jettisoned indirect taxes.

[00:03:25] In other words, apportionment among the states and or tariffs to generate government revenue. And we basically said, let's tax the people directly. It didn't really create a new tax, but it kind of manipulated a current tax or kind of expanded congressional authority. And the sad part about it, as you're right, it was put together in 1913. But, you know, I don't think that it was ever even properly ratified, by the way. There's people that have done research on that, and that's number one.

[00:03:52] Number two, they never really rolled it out until the kind of the wartime World War II. And then they pushed it, and then it stuck. And so it's got kind of a long historical significance in terms of its violations of the Constitution. Then they said, hey, it's kind of a wartime tax. It'll be taken off after the war. It never was. I mean, so many lies and so much dishonesty and propaganda surrounds this. It's not even funny, doctor. No, it is not. In fact, it's, like I say, a tragic travesty.

[00:04:21] When Americans, see, Americans used to be free. And it's people, I don't think there's an American alive today, maybe there's one or two, that was born free. I just, from all of the things that have happened since 1913, we just have not, we don't even know what we've lost. In fact, you know, you might remember back in the day that I was doing my own little radio show.

[00:04:48] And on the ninth anniversary of 9-11, 2001. So it was 9-11, 2010. I did a three-hour monologue on the liberties we had lost in the nine years intervening. And, you know, I try to pay big attention to this kind of stuff. And I thought I was pretty well up to date. But in preparation for a three-hour monologue, I did a deep dive on the things that had happened since 9-11, 2001. It was astounding.

[00:05:18] In fact, I said on the air that, well, I couldn't prove it. I mean, empirically, you cannot prove some of these things. But using the scales that I was reviewing these things on, it was my opinion that we had fallen farther in those nine years than would have ever been expected in 90 years. Because of things like the USA Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Acts and the National Defense Authorization Acts.

[00:05:46] I mean, and the expansion of the FISA 702. All of those things, we don't have a Fourth Amendment in effect anymore. We do not have a Fourth Amendment. That sounds astonishing. But we completely wrote it out of existence. And then the audacity two years later for Orrin Hatch when he ran his final Senate campaign beginning in 2012, he said he was the principal author of the Patriot Act.

[00:06:15] An egregious violation of everything Americanist. And it just seems to be the screws get tighter and tighter all the time. So, yeah, we just let them slide. And people just forget and we're more interested in the upcoming Super Bowl than anything like that. Or the Grammy Awards. And that segues into your next piece, I'm sure. But the fact of the matter is, we as a people have become complete sheeple. We have lost our way. And we're in the weeds someplace.

[00:06:44] We don't even know where the pasture is anymore. I don't know, Sam. It's just disgusting to me. But I thought I'd mention it. Well, the bottom line is the federal income tax, ladies and gentlemen, is a political weapon wielded by Washington. The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution back in 1913 was a criminal act. Should have never been done.

[00:07:09] And, you know, Donald Trump has a real opportunity today to abolish the IRS. He could just come out and say, listen, we're putting tariffs on everybody. Tariffs start Tuesday, midnight, or whatever you want to say, 12 a.m., whatever you want to call it, right when the morning starts. And so we've got short time to where there's going to be tariffs on China, tariffs on Mexico, tariffs on Canada. It's very convoluted. It relates to a lot of products. I applaud the tariffs, by the way.

[00:07:39] But unless you reduce the income tax or get rid of the income tax altogether in relation to you're punishing the American people as much as you're punishing our, quote, foreign adversaries in many cases. Or in this case, some of our, I don't know if you want to call them partners because they've been undermining us. And that's the problem. I don't want to call them adversaries in every way. But you look at this and you go, hey, I'm for abolishing the income tax. It's unconstitutional. Should have never been. Donald Trump putting tariffs in its place.

[00:08:09] I support that. But you can't add the tariffs, Sheriff. Or I'm sorry, Dr. Bradley, without decreasing the burden on the American people on another front. You can't have both. The people cannot afford it. I'm telling you right now, if we're not very careful, this is going to disrupt business. Now, don't misunderstand me, people. I'm a tariff guy. I support it. What I don't support is all the abuses that have been hung around the taxpayer's neck and then add tariffs to the mix.

[00:08:37] We have got, so Donald has an opportunity right now to abolish the income tax. Do you think he can do it? I mean, that's a brief answer, but your statements are all correct. Here's the issue. The duties that are allowed in the Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, and for the Congress to be able to do these kinds of things, they have the right to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Okay? So here's what has happened all the way along the road, though.

[00:09:06] We've got these tariffs. They've been misused. I mean, think about the abominable tariffs back in the 1820s and what they caused with the Civil War, so-called, to come on board. They were being used as a political weapon. And the northern financial power that was being exercised over the south was a great contributor to the so-called Civil War. And then beyond that, we could talk about the fairness of tariffs and all these kind of things. But here's the deal.

[00:09:34] You can't put a tariff on anything and not expect it to be passed on to the end user. So if you put a 50% tariff on anything and somebody in America buys it, do you think the importer and the reseller is going to say, Oh, I'm eating the cost of that. Don't you worry, baby. I got this. No. It gets passed on to Americans. So here we have that burden being placed upon Americans. And there's going to be a pretty broad spectrum of things that it's coming down on.

[00:10:02] Well, they say a third of all of our products come from Canada, Mexico, China. Okay. Well, here's the deal, guys. Well, that's a long story. We could talk about how we've cut our own throats and the Ronald Reagan, most favored nation stuff with China, for example, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But the fact is Trump put in the USMCA, United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, came in on Trump's watch.

[00:10:28] At the time of the midterm election, there were, quote-unquote, conservatives that were just rushing it through during the lame duck Congress because they had to have that on board. Mike Lee was one of the biggest proponents of that Utah senator. And that violated the United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, where Congress has power to regulate commerce.

[00:10:49] And it turned it over to an international unelected body of appointees from Canada, Mexico, and the United States that regulate our commerce between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. All of these things happen. By the way, Mike Lee was a big proponent of Marx's income tax because Marx wanted this graduated income tax. Well, if you have 10 steps or 4 steps, it's still a graduated income tax.

[00:11:15] This is a Marxist philosophy that was implemented beginning in 1913, as you said. But here's the deal. Right now, we've got this tax on our direct tax on the people. We're going to have another direct tax on the people, in essence, because of these tariffs, because we're getting our prices bumped up. And somebody's got to say something's got to give. Yeah, let's be clear about direct and indirect taxes, though. Tariffs are indirect taxes.

[00:11:44] Direct taxes put your name and your Social Security number and your birth date and make you swear into the penalty of perjury and all these kind of things. Where these tariffs, indirect taxes, no doubt it'll be passed along, and no doubt it'll be directly affecting your wallet. But indirect taxes, in my understanding, is that, hey, they don't need my name. They don't need my phone number. They don't need me to swear on the dotted line. They don't need any of those kind of things for an indirect tax. Now, I support the tariffs. What I don't support is keeping the current apparatus around our neck. We've got taxes.

[00:12:14] Some estimates are that we're taxed 60% already, Sheriff, Dr. Bradley. Well, whether it's 50%, 60%, tyranny has been put a rope. It's grievous to be born, right? But here's the deal. The thing with these indirect taxes, like let's say you put a 50% tax on a car made in China. In Mexico. Choose Mexico because that's where most of our cars are made. A great many of them are. There's no question. But let's say you put a 50% tax on the car or the components.

[00:12:43] You can say, no, I'm going to buy a car made in Detroit. See, you can choose how you're going to spend your money on these indirect taxes. And what it'll do, it'll probably diminish the sales of these international obtained vehicles and increase the other sales. But the fact is, if you do have a vehicle that you purchase from one of these highly tariffed countries, you're going to pay a price to do that.

[00:13:09] People just need to understand this is not an invisible tax that somebody else absorbs it. You will be absorbing it as you buy the vehicle or whatever it is. There's no question about that. Whether it's Mexican fruit or Mexican cars, it doesn't matter. If you put a tariff on the fruit, I don't know if he's done that. I haven't looked at the specifics of all of the different products that are going to be taxed. But, you know, the concept is what needs to be understood.

[00:13:39] And so Americans are going to fill this in the pocketbook, so to speak. But it's been going on for decades. Probably much of the adult lives of those that are listening because, you know, most everybody thought Reagan was the hero of the day in 1986 when he did so many stupid things like the most favored nation for China and the amnesty thing for the people who are here illegally

[00:14:08] and the big get-out-of-jail-for-free letter for all of the vax companies. Can you imagine? All of that happened on Reagan's watch in 1986. It's a pretty bad, I don't know, I think it's a bad report. Well, so here's the problem. Do you support tariffs? I support tariffs, not as weapons, but as a proper approach to the way we do our revenue stream. Amen.

[00:14:37] And so right now the problem is they're being weaponized, though. Businesses are scrambling because, hey, no one knew what the numbers would be. No one knew how serious Trump would be. Trump makes a lot of blustering statements, and you don't know really in the end of the day will it really materialize or what. He's showing it's for real. Businesses don't have time to scramble. I consult for many of them right now, by the way. They put in software and have all kinds of expense to do things to deal with the current landscape, and then they're forced to change on a dime. Now, don't get me wrong. I support tariffs.

[00:15:07] So I don't want to ever disparage the support of tariffs. But I want to clearly articulate when they're weaponized, it's a problem. And it doesn't matter what taxes we seem to be facing. They're weaponized. And the problem that I have, can the president just decide he's going to change the law? See, I have a problem with that executive order, doctor. Yeah, I agree with you. This is a congressional authority. Look at Article I, Section 8.

[00:15:34] But in addition, look at Federalist 45, where James Madison so eloquently stated that the principal origin of our revenue stream was to be through our duties and tariffs, our impost, that we bring on vehicles. Well, it wasn't vehicles in those days. Whatever we brought into the country. But the fact of the matter is, that was the intent of the founding fathers. And what's happened?

[00:16:00] Now, a lot of people, people that consider themselves to be very constitutional, very conservative, whatever term you want to use, they say, oh, well, we're way beyond being able to provide for our revenue stream with tariffs and imposts. The fact of the matter is, it's because 80% of what we spend money on is unconstitutional. We've gone way beyond that point. And that's been going on. I mean, Teddy Roosevelt was a great advocate of that. And Franklin Roosevelt was.

[00:16:29] And Dwight Eisenhower was. I mean, all the way down the line. Everybody that you can think of, except for maybe Calvin Kudlitz. I don't know. We'll talk about that someday, maybe. At any rate, that's kind of where we've been going. The three countries amount for more than a third of the products brought into the United States. Now, that's surprising me that it's not way higher than that. Supporting tens of millions of American jobs. See, that's part of the problem, too.

[00:17:00] You have got to know. You have got to think about what the repercussions of this are. Okay? Listen. All goods imported from Canada and Mexico will be at a 25% tariff. Except Canadian energy products, which will face a 10% tariff.

[00:17:32] You look at that and you go, hmm. We don't dare do the energy because we've been so stupid energy-wise for so long. We depend on Canada for tons of oil and stuff like that. A significant portion. So Donald Trump is strategically whittling out what he thinks he can have authority and power over. And move the needle for his agendas over. Now, don't get me wrong. I agree 100% that too many drugs are coming to this country and you've got to use some leverage to stop that. Okay?

[00:18:02] But I don't believe that tariffs ought to be the weaponized solution for that. Tariffs should be an indirect tax to level the playing field and create a proper role of limited government. Level the playing field. Honor contracts. And then get out of the way. And what we see here, in my opinion, is somebody violating the legislative branch with an executive order and putting tariffs that are weaponized with an agenda. And I'm telling you right now, you keep doing that and it will absolutely backfire, doctor. Well, indeed it will.

[00:18:32] And it's been known for a century and three quarters at least. And I go back, for example, the Brits use tariffs as weapons. The northern states used tariffs as weapons against the southern states. And we've mentioned that earlier going back in the 1820s. But a guy, a little French guy by the name of Frédéric Bastiat. If people haven't read some of his works, they are grossly in error and way behind the curve in terms of their wisdom.

[00:19:01] The little book, you could read it today. In fact, this is your assignment, people. Get a copy of Frédéric Bastiat's The Law. You could sit down and read it this afternoon without a problem. And he has grief. Two points. He loved the American founding fathers. Absolutely adored them. Almost worshipped them. He had such respect for them. Two things, though, he felt like this nation had not done correctly. It was published, by the way, in 1850.

[00:19:27] So he kind of put this in a context of what was going on in the states at the time. Two things. One was that we hadn't solved the slavery issue. He felt that was an egregious violation, and he was right. And the other one was our tariff issues. He felt that was an egregious violation, and he was right. Right now, we're entering, with some slight modifications, with Donald Trump at the helm in another egregious tariff war.

[00:19:54] And, honestly, if we think we can put stuff on Canada and Mexico or China and not have blowback, we are going to get our American manufacturing that currently exports to other places. Whatever product it is, is going to get blowback with tariffs being placed on oranges from Florida, let's just say. There's Ron DeSantis' home state. If we ship oranges to Canada, I'll bet you we get a pretty big tariff.

[00:20:22] Now, that's not going to affect me too much. That's right. But it will affect you, though, because then farmers can't farm, and people can't grow oranges, and people can't sell orange juice. And I'm not saying that we should be selling, necessarily, all of our output to these foreign nations. I think we ought to quit importing orange juice and exporting orange juice, right? A lot of what we've done is on this altar that we've got to be a world that gets along and, you know, does things together. And, you know, it doesn't make any sense to export orange juice and then import orange juice.

[00:20:51] But let me tell you the biggest problem that I'm having with these tariffs. Let me be very clear. I support tariffs. I don't support the misuse of tariffs. And I believe they're being misused here, proof and putting. It should be Congress, not an executive order, that could change this law. That's number one. Number two, I don't believe these tariffs should happen this instantly. You would say, well, no, Donald's been warning about these for a while now, Sam. I know. But you never know when Donald's just bluffing. Or I'll give you an example.

[00:21:20] He put a freeze on all this money for a day. Then it changed. Okay. The more you continue to meddle in the affairs of your countrymen, the more you create havoc and distrust and confusion to where that alone costs billions of dollars. In efforts to comply, in concerns about how to plan. Okay. For example, I consult for companies. They have literally containers on the water right now. Well, they thought they'd get them in before the tariff. They even ordered a bunch more.

[00:21:50] Well, because the ports are slow and everything's slow and they couldn't get it done. So now they're going to have a rip and tear. They're not going to make any money on those products at all. Okay. So there you go. That's if they eat them. If they instantly raise their prices, they won't be able to compete with any of the other companies that may have more inventory or whatever. But here's what gets me the most about this doctor. And I know people are like, oh, how dare you go against Trump on this? I'm not against anybody.

[00:22:16] Let me tell you, I always stand for what's right every time to the best of my ability. Am I perfect at it? Of course not. But listen to me very carefully, and here's the proof that I find this absolutely, pardon the pun, off the rails. You know, when you talk tariffs and products, rails are pretty important, right? They say this. Mr. Trump issued the executive orders under a law called the, quote, International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

[00:22:45] The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, expanding the scope of a, quote, national emergency that he declared on his first day in office with respect to an influx of illegal aliens and illicit drugs. Now, I agree there's illicit drugs. I agree with all that.

[00:23:15] But I don't believe there's such a thing as emergency powers. I know they've created acts around this. But again, that to me is where Congress has gone rogue and criminal. What they've done is given the president the ability to make law, change law, do whatever he wants with law. And if anybody ever questions him, all he's got to say is, hey, man, it's an international economic emergency. Okay, Canada and Mexico have already signaled retaliation. Do we really need to expand a fight with these guys now?

[00:23:45] Are there better diplomatic ways to go about this rather than, so I predict a couple of things. I don't think the tariffs will last very long. I think it's a super bluff by the president, and I think that he will have to back off. But what he'll do is he'll come out of it with some agreement with somebody somewhere to save face. But this is disaster, not because it's tariffs, but it's how they're being implemented and used that is the problem.

[00:24:14] When we get back, we'll have Dr. Bradley speak about this, because this is one of my hottest topics that I have had for you on the radio. Look, at midnight tonight, they go into effect. Hang tight. You're listening to the one and only Think Tank. Call Liberty Roundtable Live on your radio.

[00:24:53] Across the land. You're listening to Liberty News Radio. News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Rich Thomason. Short-term pain for long-term gain. That's how President Trump is casting his newly imposed tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China. The tariffs will take effect tomorrow. Mr. Trump acknowledging Americans could pay more for products as a result. Wall Street opened sharply lower this morning on fears of an all-out trade war.

[00:25:23] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his first visit to Washington in several years. He'll meet tomorrow with President Trump at the White House. The fact that this would be President Trump's first meeting with a foreign leader since his inauguration is telling. I think it's a testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance. It's also a testimony to the strength of our personal friendship.

[00:25:46] Among other things, Prime Minister says they'll discuss victory over Hamas and achieving a release of all of the hostages being held by Hamas. Searchers have recovered the remains of most of the 67 people killed in the mid-air collision near Reagan National Airport. Today, crews start lifting wreckage of the plane from the Potomac River. This is D.C. Fire Chief John Donnelly. So far, 55 victims have been positively identified from this aircraft or from this accident.

[00:26:16] Colonel Francis Perra with the Army Corps of Engineers says there is a precise operation going on. And should any remains be found during our process, an automatic work stoppage happens, and we will definitely begin to begin the proper coordination with the appropriate authorities. Perra says the aircrafts will be loaded onto flatbed trucks and taken for further investigation. Ed Donoghue, Washington.

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[00:28:53] Please visit callforcivility.com for more details. Callforcivility.com. Mr. President. Senator from Kentucky. Reserving the right to object, I lived for four months in Asheville, worked at the VA hospital, still have fond feelings for Western North Carolina. But the thing is, is the reason why we won't do this in a responsible way is because the Senate voted to send all your money to Ukraine. I mean, they voted to send $200 billion to Ukraine. I've been all over the mountains of Appalachia when I ask people,

[00:29:19] would you rather that your senators take care of you here in Asheville or here in Pikeville, here in Appalachia, would you rather them send your money to Ukraine? I don't get anybody wanting to send a penny to Ukraine. Look, you can have all kinds of sympathy in the world for Ukraine, a hostility towards Russia being the aggressor nation, but we don't have the money. We're $2 trillion in the hole. Interest this year is going to be $1 trillion. And as far as passing this, I'm willing to let it pass today. He's going to object to passing his own bill today simply because it gets paid for.

[00:29:47] I'm willing to let the bill pass, but take some of the fluff and boondoggle subsidies from the Green New Deal and put it into here. The money's sitting here. We put it into here for disasters. We help Asheville today.

[00:30:13] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right, back with you live. Tonight we're talking about tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China to go into effect 12.01 a.m. Tuesday morning. Yeah, that's Eastern time, by the way, if you're wondering.

[00:30:40] The three countries account for more than a third of the products brought into the United States. Supporting tens of millions of American jobs. Mr. Trump issued the executive order under a law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Expanding the scope of a national emergency. Now the question is, do you think we have a national emergency? Well, Sam, yeah.

[00:31:09] It's a big problem, don't you know? Oh, we got problems with drugs in our country. We've got problems with illegals in our country. Yes, but Canada and Mexico have already signaled retaliation. Now, do I think that Canada and Mexico have enough retaliatory power to make a lot of difference? Probably not in many ways. But we can either diplomatically work with them or we can be opposed to them.

[00:31:35] Does a trade war right now make sense when inflation is absolutely out of control? Does a trade war make sense right now when we're trying to work on so many other problems? I don't think so. And this criminal act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Okay, I don't accept that we just do everything under emergency to where we can circumvent all the checks and balances in the Constitution.

[00:32:02] Well, people would say, well, Sam, Congress gave the president that power. Don't you know that, Sam? This is illegal. Hey, they passed that. No, when you pass criminal acts like the IRS 16th Amendment in the first place that's, by the way, never been properly ratified. And when you heap that political weapon, now we're using another political weapon. The Congress doesn't have authority to create an Emergency Powers Act and give the president more authority, especially their lawmaking, law-changing authority. That isn't a thing.

[00:32:32] Go read your Constitution. Dr. Bradley, am I articulating this right? I don't think anybody's going to bring this up the way I am. Well, you're right on. Let me make, let me first, about three points very quickly. Please. I'm going to call out the Bravo Sierra, first of all, and the Emergency Powers Anything.

[00:32:51] If there are no emergency powers found in the United States Constitution, you can bold that, underline it, put it in italicized, put it on a plaque, hang it on the wall, and look at it all day long. No emergency powers are delegated in the United States Constitution. It's not a thing, people. You cannot declare an emergency for a virus and mandate everybody get a death jab. You cannot do this with tariffs.

[00:33:21] You cannot declare an emergency because so many children are being killed in our schools by firearms and thereby take control of the Second Amendment. You cannot declare an emergency that says you cannot worship because there's a virus around. None of these things exist, and we have become absolutely ingrained with the stupidity that we allow this to happen. Okay, having said that, everything about any Emergency Powers Act is unconstitutional.

[00:33:51] Second thing, look at Article I of the United States Constitution. That is the job description of the legislature. Article II is the job description of the president. Article I says all legislative authority is held by the House and the Senate. Article II says the president has certain things that he does with approval, and nothing allows him to set tariffs.

[00:34:17] Number three, Article I, Section 8 in Clause 1 and in Clause 3 of that section, it says where Congress has power to regulate commerce of foreign nations, and Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, impoits, and excises. Okay, this is a congressional authority. The final point, perhaps, and I know time always slips through our fingers because there's a lot of backstory with all of these.

[00:34:45] John Locke, who is a principal mentor, if you will, of the American Founding Fathers, just a couple of sentences out of something he wrote in the two treaties of government. He said, The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands, for it being but a delegated power of the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. Second sentence out of this. And when the people have said, We will submit and be governed by laws made by such men,

[00:35:14] and in such forms nobody else can say other men shall make laws for them, nor can they be bound by any laws, but such as are enacted by those whom they have chosen and authorized to make laws for them. So Congress could not re-delegate an authority to make law or to create any kind of emergency power that didn't exist.

[00:35:39] By the way, St. George Tucker, in a one-sentence kind of epiphany, said, A delegated authority cannot be transferred to another to exercise. People every single step of this way, and we say, Oh, but we have to. Look, if we can whimper and whine and say, Well, we had to go to war with Iraq because Congress wasn't going to go to war. That's a lie.

[00:36:04] Or we had to take this authority to any kind of firearm that had multiple magazine sizes and had any kind of lug on the end of the bayonet or before the bayonet, whatever. You can't just arbitrarily, unilaterally, in any way. All right. Let me put it this way. There's a term the Founding Fathers understood very well. It's called pretended legislation.

[00:36:33] Don't you find that in your Declaration of Independence, Doctor? Roger that. All right. So if this pretended legislation by Congress to give the president the power in the first place, this pretended legislation allowed the income tax to become weaponized since 1913 in the first place. Okay. We've got to stop this clown show. Now, is there an emergency because of the border? Yes, I believe there is. Okay. Listen to me. I believe there is. It's an emergency. We've got people dying left and right.

[00:37:00] That fentanyl stuff, I mean, smaller than the head of a pin, can kill people. Okay. It's crazy. It's an emergency. I get it. So here's the question left. When there's an emergency, what do you do? First off, let me tell you what you don't do. You don't violate the Constitution at every turn and destroy the supreme law of the land over it. That's the last thing you should do. What should you do? You should, as president, make the case that we've got an emergency.

[00:37:27] And then you should work with Congress to deal with this in an appropriate way. And so if Congress got involved, then see, everyone has 435 members of the House. They've got two senators in their given states. How many ever congressmen based on your size? That's brilliant. Check and balance. Okay.

[00:37:55] That appropriately uses tariffs to wisely say. And what you do is you start out diplomatically and say, listen, we're going to put tariffs on these products from these countries. We are going to start small because we want them to know we're serious, but we don't want to create turmoil in the business world either. We want to give everybody a heads up. We want to be able to let everybody put in place software and whatever it takes to manage the current situation or to comply. We're going to.

[00:38:23] And you could do this right, doctor, very easily. Your thoughts? I come on the radio. Hey, Dr. Bradley, are you there? I'm here. I'm sorry. Go ahead, sir. I was. Okay. Yes. The what you're suggesting is absolutely a reasonable approach.

[00:38:49] And it is somewhat, shall we say, analogous to what happened with the Chesapeake affair and during the Jefferson administration with an act of war perpetrated upon the United States by England, British warship. And everybody's going, Tom, you got to take us to war. We got to bomb these guys. They've acted the dark ages. Whatever. We didn't have the Cape building in those days. But the fact of the matter is that Thomas Jefferson did not take us to war.

[00:39:19] Congress was not in session. And so what Jefferson did is he took appropriate defensive positions so he wouldn't have further violation of anything. Which I support that. And he presented it to Congress when they got back in the House and said, okay, guys, this is your role. You decide. Okay. And that's the appropriate way to handle this. Absolutely.

[00:39:43] But the fact of the matter is that today we think, I mean, everybody's hyperventilating in the corner. Breathe in a plastic bag for a while, guys, or a paper bag or something. See, if they really wanted to stop President Obama from creating the, quote, emergency, then they should have impeached him long ago for his criminal acts that are numerous, by the way. They even admitted they were there but didn't do anything about it. So I don't have a problem with tariffs. I love tariffs. I think they're great.

[00:40:10] I think they could be appropriately applied and literally do the purpose of government, which would be to create a level playing field, do their very best to make sure that contracts are honored, and then get out of the way of the free market. But right now they're being completely misused. And I hate to tell you that it's pretend legislation for executive orders in the first place. But when you then add insult to injury, it's pretend legislation to suggest that under the, quote, emergency powers act, we can do anything, doctor. It's bogus 100%. So I don't mean to go against Donald Trump on this.

[00:40:39] I'm not trying to attack anybody, but I am trying to help people understand there are ways to accomplish these tasks. Now you say, well, Sam, we just don't agree with your way. It isn't my way. I'm talking about the constitutional supreme law, the land way, doctor. This isn't Sam Bushman's opinion. This is the way the supreme law works. In recent days, we have had laws that are over 100 years old that were created, number one, unconstitutionally,

[00:41:05] like the Trading with the Enemies Act and the Espionage Act and so on. Those kinds of things come back to haunt us constantly, just like the Patriot Act will, just like 702 will on the FISA. All of these things are created in the hyperventilating time of emergency.

[00:41:25] And the Constitution does not allow any additional powers to be usurped or delegated or assumed or anything you want to put it under any circumstances. And there is a process that has to be followed. And that process, nobody's even thinking about nowadays. It doesn't even cross their minds. And look, there's hundreds of commentators in this country.

[00:41:52] There's people with a whole lot more coverage than we've got and everything else. But who's bringing up what I'm bringing up? Is there anybody bringing it up, first of all, like we are? And number two, how correct is the application that I'm saying? I'm saying the president can go to Congress. He can, even if he says it's an emergency, maybe put some 5% tariffs or some small number and say, look, we're going to ratchet this up. We're turning this over to Congress to see where they want to put this thing. You know, I don't have a problem with that necessarily.

[00:42:21] I do agree that Joe Biden's created an emergency. He has. It's criminal. And he's done it. He should have been impeached over it. But when you say there's an emergency, fine, we can agree with that. There's a lot of emergencies. I think it's an emergency that my income tax comes every April 15th. You've got to get rid of that cursed thing. It's unconstitutional. It's immoral. It's pretend legislation. I mean, I can go on and on. It was never properly ratified. It's an emergency. Abolish the IRS today. Okay, but this is the problem.

[00:42:49] We don't go about it in the proper way. And therefore, what happens is even if Trump does this, hey, the next president will just overturn it with another executive order. And we'll just continue in this pretend legislation land as we destroy the country. We have got to come back to common sense. And I don't know anybody really articulating this from a constitutional perspective like we are, doctor. Nobody that I see. You know, you've mentioned pretend legislation probably two or three times in the last few minutes. And let me just take...

[00:43:18] It's vital to understand that principle, isn't it? It is. But this is what we went to war with England over. And we declared... I mean, this was a take-it-to-the-mat kind of thing. There were 27 offenses of the king that were in the Declaration of Independence. Number 13 is this one. Now, it has more in it than just pretend legislation because this applies to how we're modifying the Constitution. Listen to what the founders wrote.

[00:43:44] He, meaning the king, has combined with others, meaning all the rest of the damn legislators, to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and acknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. Okay, so this stuff that's going on is foreign to our Constitution. The nation went to war.

[00:44:13] Now, nobody's suggesting we start throwing Molotov cocktails and running down the street shooting windows out. But what I'm saying is this was serious stuff to the American founding fathers. That's why we have a written Constitution. And what was happening under the king in 1776 was that we were being subjected to stuff that was foreign to our Constitution. The United States Constitution is specific, exact, direct, written in plain English.

[00:44:43] All the words can be known. They can't change them or modify them. But that's the oath that they take to uphold that in that original format. And Americans just need to start understanding your legislature, your executive, all your little executive departments like the IRS and the BATFE and the OSHA and the NIOSH and the FDA. Name all the alphabet soups. Unconstitutional. Unconstitutional.

[00:45:13] If they're creating anything that's enforced upon Americans, it's a pretended legislation. All right. Anyway, enough of that, ladies and gentlemen. We've told you the income tax needed to be abolished. If there's one thing President Trump could do is he should have worked with Congress to, on this day, appropriately rolled out some tariffs, which I support, and at the same time reduced the burden on the American people. But what I see here is he created an executive order.

[00:45:37] He's using international emergency powers lies to peddle this thing as if he has authority and a right. And what he's going to do is cause problems with our north and south neighbors. He's going to create a situation where costs are going to go up for the American people. He's provided no relief on the other side of the coin. So I support tariffs, ladies and gentlemen. Please do not misunderstand me. I do not support the way they're being misused, and I do not support the pretend legislation that's governing them right now.

[00:46:05] And if people like me would have been on the radio back in 1913 pushing for the truth, we probably wouldn't be having the abusive, hostile 16th Amendment weaponized income tax today. And so we've got to stand on principle, folks. And that's why, look, I'm not here to attack President Trump. I think he does a lot of good. But I am here to say we cannot stoop to their level. We cannot violate our own laws and pretend that we're going to make things better because we're not.

[00:46:34] Anyway, final comment on that one, Dr. Bradley? Well, absolutely. And here's the deal. It's part of the First Amendment. This right to speech and press. Now, 1913, there wasn't commercial radio, so they couldn't do that. But they could talk about it. They could write about it. Today, we have instantaneous access. A couple of clicks of a mouse or a tune of a radio, you can get this stuff. Now, of course, they've been censoring everything. They've been sending to ground anything that they didn't agree with.

[00:47:03] But this is the whole concept, not the whole concept, but a large part, of the First Amendment where speech and press were there to warn of these threats to our liberty. And that's what's been tried to be stopped. I mean, when we were warning against the death jab and the COVID coward stuff and the con that was going on on us and all of that stuff completely, they deplatformed me immediately. 1,500 videos completely.

[00:47:33] And me. They literally kicked me off Twitter. I lost all my mojo. Then when I finally had to take down the quote-offending post even after Musk came back, hey, they battled me and everything else. I don't have a social media presence that's very big at all as a result of the abuse that I've taken. And there you have it. And then what happens is when I want to get on another platform, then they kind of come back and they go, well, how big is your media platform, Sam? How many subscribers do you have? Well, I've been abused and shadow banned so long that it's not very big at all, ladies and gentlemen. But there you have it.

[00:48:02] All right, I want to get this final story in because I think it directly relates to a lot of this. Alicia Keys was at the, what do they call those things, the Grammys last night or whatever else, when it was a clown show. She delivered a cringy, more than woke speech at the Grammys. She says, DEI is not a threat, it's a gift. Sandra McDonald of thegatewaypundit.com. Now, I want to play this really quick because it's just interesting how she delivers it.

[00:48:31] And we'll talk about it. So this is for all the ladies that know the magic that they bring to the room. This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices. We've seen on this stage talented, hardworking people from different backgrounds with different points of view, and it changes the game.

[00:48:59] DEI is not a threat, it's a gift. And the more voices, the more powerful the sound. So this is for all. All right, I support her point that, hey, people can have their own opinions. That's fine. What we're talking about is government backing certain opinions at the expense of other opinions, pulling the lever of government in the favor of the few at the expense of the many.

[00:49:29] That's the problem with DEI, ladies and gentlemen. And this idea that we're going to use government to decide, you know, who gets the benefit is a problem. Well, DEI directly relates to the plane crash, the helicopter crash that happened last week. Headline from WND.com says, what are they hiding? Why? Female helicopter pilots, entire social media scrubbed before they released her name. Why?

[00:49:59] Okay. Before the Army released her name, they scrubbed her and her family's social media entirely. They deleted Rebecca Robach, is that how you say it? Or Lobach. Social media accounts before releasing her name. Why? It wasn't to grieve. Why? It's not just Rebecca's social media accounts that were scrubbed.

[00:50:27] Both her sisters and her parents were scrubbed as well. Anyway, they had all kinds of accounts that are completely gone. And you got to ask why. What are they hiding? What's going on? Well, it turns out some were saying she was a lesbian and hired for DEI purposes. I don't know. I don't know enough of the story yet. I was hesitant on this because I didn't want to jump into conspiracy land. We didn't have any information.

[00:50:54] The fact that they withheld details about why this crash happened for so long and the fact that they withheld the pilot's name for so long, they say they did it in respect for the family. The family asked them to withhold it. That's not really true because you had everybody scrubbing media accounts over the last several days before they released her name. Dr. Bradley, you know, the DEI idea. Why would they do that? What are we covering up here? Well, we just simply don't know. But here's the issue.

[00:51:22] It's a it's a signal that they're what do they have to hide and why are they hiding it? It's kind of like as Trump puts out the Kennedy King Kennedy assassination things. I'd like them. I don't see any of them. It's just I don't either. But but here's the deal. Why have they been so many decades that they've been hiding things? Well, there's something hidden. And I still don't think we're going to get, by the way, the whole truth on this kind of stuff.

[00:51:47] But on this particular female helicopter pilot stuff, I think what it is is it says stay tuned because in today's world, it's going to be mighty darn hard for them to completely scrub everything. Somebody kept an image, kept a an email, kept a something. And actually, her sexual preference probably has nothing to do with her helicoptering skills.

[00:52:16] But if someone was put in a job because of some DEI kind of thing that had less than stellar helicopter flying skills or somehow got a pass or something like that, that's where the fuel on this fire. Well, and that's where the rub here is with this, because the question becomes, hey, the two could be completely separate. But when Trump says DEI caused this, then he's getting all kinds of criticized. Now they're dragging DEI into the middle of this.

[00:52:46] And, you know, to me, I don't know where this really ends up. But I will say this, Karen Levitt or Caroline Levitt, basically the press secretary for President Trump. I think she's a wonderful person doing a phenomenal job. She doubles down on the DEI Trump claim defense, which I think directly relates to this. It's very interesting to watch what's happening with this, people. And I'm just telling you right now, there's more to this than meets the eye. Hopefully more will come out.

[00:53:16] I don't know if the crash was caused by DEI. I don't know what the tape show. I will say this. They knew ahead of time and scrubbed all the accounts. Donald knew ahead of time and blamed it on DEI. Where this all goes, I don't know. But I find that interesting that every time we turn around, even when I say, hold on, we don't know the truth on something. Give it a break. Let's just see. Let's be patient. We find out there's scandal everywhere. Why would they do this?

[00:53:44] And even if it was a DEI hire, why would they show their hand so quickly and double down do that? Just pointing to that issue. I don't really understand it. I just know we'll keep an eye on the ball and I wanted to warn you about it. Man, Dr. Bradley, the time flies when you're having fun, huh? But I don't see anybody telling the truth on this pretend legislation stuff or on this reality of, hey, I'm for terrorists, but I'm against the way this is going down. I'll tell you that right now.

[00:54:16] All right, Dr. Bradley, thanks so much for being alongside with the ride. Dr. Scott Bradley, ladies and gentlemen, to preserve the nation is his collegiate series found at freedomsrisingsun.com. You can also check out his weekly webinars. Sign up at freedomsrisingsun.com. I'm Sam Bushman. We're syndicated by the Loving Liberty Radio Network. Spread the word. Show the love. Lovingliberty.net. And God save the Republic of the United States of America.