Famed constitutional attorney and civil liberties advocate John Whitehead sounds off on Trump’s bizarre executive order signed April 28th
Leo Hohmann – Leo’s Newsletter May 8, 2025
The big news today is that Donald Trump has signed a trade deal with the United Kingdom.
Can you believe it? That was Trump’s “big announcement?” A trade deal with America’s ninth largest trading partner? Whoopee. I personally have never bought anything in any store that said “made in the UK” that I can remember.
Spare me. This is not news.
Those in the news business (they’re really professional propagandists) are also wanting us to have our eyes on the Vatican and who the next pope will be. Wow, an American liberal from Obama’s Chicago stomping grounds.
Here’s all you need to know about the new pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, from The Hill:
“The new pope is considered an ally of Francis, who made him the cardinal in charge of selecting and managing bishops around the world… Francis named Prevost in 2023 to be prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. The role involves recommending candidates for bishops to the pope and overseeing the commission that studies the Catholic church in Latin America, according to the Catholic News Service.”
This confirms that the new pope will be as liberal and antagonistic to biblical truth as the previous pope. End of story. It reminds me of the 1971 song by The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
The entire lyrics, written by Pete Townsend, are prophetic for our times, concluding with “Meet the new boss…Same as the old boss”
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So, what is the really big story we should be focused on this week if not the new pope and the latest Trumpism of the day? The one almost nobody is looking at? I’m looking at what the Trump administration is doing behind the scenes, behind all of the daily tweets, pressers and Truth Social posts, beyond all the comments about annexing Greenland and making Canada the 51st state, re-opening Alcatraz or jokes about him becoming the next pope. While taking up a copious amount of time and space on news outlets of the left and right, this frivolous chatter is carefully designed to keep us entertained and distracted.
Here’s what they don’t want you to know.
Last week, on April 28, President Trump signed a disturbing executive order which you can read at WhiteHouse.gov titled “Strengthening and Unleashing Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens.”
When I read it, my first thought was: I wonder what John Whitehead thinks of this document?
Over the last 45 years, there has been nobody as consistently in the government’s face, holding it accountable for violating Americans’ civil liberties than John Whitehead. He has litigated countless important cases, some of them all the way to the Supreme Court, and he’s also a prolific author, having written books such as Battlefield America, The Eric Blair Diaries, and A Government of Wolves.
So I called him and the legendary constitutional expert and founder of the Rutherford Institute granted me a 20-minute interview.
The rest of this article will be focused on what Whitehead told me.
When I asked him to share his initial thoughts as he had read Trump’s executive order, here’s what he said:
“The first thing that hit me was George Washington’s statement, do not have a large standing army on American soil. It began with Obama and some of the other presidents. We began arming of the Department of Homeland Security, and all of their agents with all their military equipment, the MRAP (armored vehicles), the grenade launchers and all the various things they have. The final stage would have to be blending the local police into that process and connecting them (with the feds). And that’s exactly what this order does.”
If it gets implemented, this executive order “is basically martial law to enforce the president’s so-called priorities,” Whitehead said.
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prevents presidents from using the American military for a domestic police force, and Whitehead believes that’s exactly where our country is heading with this executive order, combined with previous executive orders by past presidents.
The groundwork has already been laid and the Hegelian Dialectic set.
First, we had Joe Biden who opened up the borders, invited every type of violent criminal imaginable into the country, while collaborating with liberal prosecutors funded by George Soros.
Naturally, crime has spiked dramatically in and around major U.S. cities over the last five years.
Americans are begging for relief.
Along comes the next president, Trump, and he brings an answer to the problem that is as extreme as the original, opposite action by Biden.
Biden basically wanted no police. Trump wants to expand law enforcement and empower police in ways never seen previously in America. His executive order calls for investing in new prisons, and minimizing due process rights. Trump said in an interview with Kristen Welker of NBC News this past Sunday that he does not know who in America is eligible for the due process rights written in the 5th and 14th Amendments.
In his rhetoric, Trump routinely heroizes and idolizes tough militarized police tactics.
“We’ve done so many cases over the years on how to hold police accountable for their crimes. Under this executive order, it would be very difficult to hold anyone accountable in a police uniform …so this (executive order) will allow police to do anything they want to do basically if the community allows it to happen.”
What if you disagree with a police officer who gives an unreasonable and unconstitutional order? Can you question him?
Well, the new executive order indicates you had better not risk it. Those who do can be slapped with “enhanced sentences” for committing “crimes against law enforcement officers.” Such crimes are left undefined.
“Originally, police were there to protect the people against criminals but also against invasions from federal authorities, but basically that’s all gone now,” Whitehead said.
He sees an ongoing “blending” of federal law enforcement with the state and local police forces, a concept heavily fortified by Trump’s April 28 executive order.
“It’s been moving in that direction but this thing finalizes it. I’ve talked with plenty of police chiefs over the years and they’ve been working really closely with the FBI, having them occupy spaces in their offices and stuff. There’s this idea that they have to get ready for an immediate crackdown,” he said. “Homeland Security is working with the local police and instructing them. Again, it’s a form of martial law.”
Whitehead points to a 5-minute video put out by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2016 titled “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexities.”
The video has been used for training at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations University. It predicts that by 2030 the population is not going to be able to sustain itself economically and everything is going to implode.
All that stands between the coming criminal chaos and the good people in major U.S. cities, the video suggests, is the U.S. Army.
Whitehead said it’s to the point where the American citizenry “has a very short window to push back on this. And the 10th amendment allows for this.”
The problem he sees, however, is how easily people are indoctrinated by President Trump.
“He starts off by saying how great and heroic the police are. I understand that and I’ve worked with (good cops) so much over the years, but there are also some with mental health problems and some are on drugs…. He refers to the police as the greatest of heroes. The actual heroes are the American people who pay the bills and often end up on the wrong side of these kind of operations.”
The EO also allows for more surveillance. Advanced AI-powered technology will allow cops to “predict” where the next crime will be committed and by whom. Throw in the Real ID, a biometric national ID card that Trump’s administration is pushing every state to comply with, and you have the makings for a future dictatorship already in place.
“Basically, it will all be algorithms and they can swoop in, knock your door down, and arrest you based on what they think you might do. It’s basically martial law implemented from Washington, DC. And the Trump administration is acting like the police are going to be the saviors.”
Trump has previously stated that he wants to give immunity to police and this executive order appears to do exactly that, stating in Section 3 that it will: “Strengthen and expand legal protections for law enforcement officers.”
Police already enjoy what’s called “qualified immunity” so exactly what Trump is offering them in expanded protections is unclear.
“The point is, he’s saying basically the police are going to be the gods ruling over us now. And they have an amazing amount of equipment and technology to do it,” Whitehead said. “The Democrats and Republicans both are deeply committed to this type of thing. They’re afraid to push back.”
“If you read over the founding fathers, they were very clear,” he added. “What kinds of rights do we have? When police come in what are they able to do to you?
“I’ve had an opportunity to know a number of really good police who’ve had training in the academy. They say it’s so militarized now. We’re dealing with a military police. It was never supposed to be like that in America. This is not Russia or China. They’re not supposed to be able to drag us off the streets and stuff like that. That’s definitely in our future. They may think you’re mentally insane, and now that may be just because you went on the internet and said something like ‘cops stink’ or ‘cops are stupid.’ And then they put you in a mental institution and you can’t contact anyone. We’ve had some of those cases. It’s very difficult what we’re seeing.
“Once people get used to seeing this, which they tend to do, the tanks coming down the street. At that point, there isn’t any hope, in my opinion.”
He said the bottom line for Americans can be boiled down to one question:
“Do we have rights or do we have privileges? That’s the important point.”
He believes that until we the people start to honestly look into that question, the tide will not turn in favor of freedom.
“I’ve argued for several decades now that before any public official takes office, they should have to take a test on the Constitution. And Trump, when he was talking about the Declaration of Independence, he made no sense. I was like, where in the world did he get that information from?”
Whitehead said the Declaration of Independence clearly states that we, the people, have sovereign rights, granted by our Creator.
“You can’t take them away, they’re there. He actually says (in this executive order) that the only people who have rights are in the government, and they’re able to dictate and tell us what to do. We’re supposed to say heil Hitler and move on.”
Whitehead, who has practiced law and fought for liberty for more than 45 years, isn’t ready to move on, or give up.
“I’m telling you it’s one of the most dangerous periods I’ve ever seen in this country. I’ve tried to warn people—the police community have the equipment to blast some communities away,” he said.
“I think his administration is going to move forward on it. And the police chiefs are, when you see them…there’s this idea that they’re a special class. They are supposed to be our servants. We the people are the government…They put out these executive orders and it’s the type of thing you would see in another country, not in America.”
The order talks about “protecting innocent citizens,” but who is that?
“It’s going to be the people with money, the people in government, the people who line up” and do what they’re told, Whitehead said.
So then, what is the answer?
“I encourage local communities to get together and start to say we’re not going to put up with this,” he said. But don’t count on your local politicians to help organize the pushback.
“I see so many local politicians who are ready to go along with whatever the federal government says and especially what this president says,” he said. “These types of executive orders make the Constitution look like a worthless piece of paper. And why is that? Because the American people, I talk to a lot of people, school kids, average adults, even lawyers, and they aren’t educated about our Constitution.”
“If he (Trump) was a good president, he would make sure the public schools are teaching the Constitution. Because countries that have done these sorts of things in the past, as you know, have headed into doom.”
In his final analysis about Trump’s April 28 executive order, Whitehead said:
“There are some people who are not going to like this when it gets implemented and they’re going to be in trouble. This is going to be overwhelming when AI and all this technology is given to police; the Department of Homeland Security has already done threat assessments on homes across America, so they’re already doing that creepy stuff that George Orwell warned about in 1984.”
The cabal of cardinals that those all the other popes chose another one that was the same. Why is anyone surprised? Only people who “vote” think things will change when the gatekeeper changes.
You don’t buy UK products in your shops for the same reason you buy USA products, other than very expensive American food brands. UK exports are made up primarily of weapon systems (15% of F35 is made in UK), Jet Engines (the best), Expensive cars (Jaguar, Landrover, Rolls Royce, Bentley), Racing cars and a very big chunk are consultancy services. All big acquisitions, project finance deals etc are managed by firms in London. So you don’t buy any of this in Walmart.
Rixon banned Nico X
i dont think he is an under cover agent
I had to leave australia after a scandal
i came to the UK i worked for Robert Maxwell then Rupert Murdoch
my job was to befriend whistleblowers then expose them and make a case
to destroy them, Kevin Field Chris Cooper Chris Spivey Nick Kollerstrom and others
were all acted against, i was told dont touch the Tap blog, inferring ” it was ours”
after this i worked as a fake psycic and went on date sites and borrowed money from lonely women, i found jesus and i repented
what i am saying is i dont believe Nico X is guilty but that idiot guy who stirs the pot
carl jones is some sort of a nut or agent, i dont believe he is mentally challenged but its some sort of moving the narrative away, he should deffo be banned
Okay, I gave up. Donald Hitler has broken more US federal laws in his first 100 days than any other Presidents 4 year term.
The next thing, Pope Francis picked this guy to be the picker of cardinals. Francis was no angle, he was a CIA murderer, and as for woke carrying on, I don’t think so. Just because Pope Leo said negative things about DH, and Vance, doesn’t mean it will continue. He’s in the top job, he will now do as he’s told to do.
Leo Hoh goes on about Canada becoming the 51st state, well, Nazi UK just became a US state, or maybe somewhere between a US state, and a failed state with Governor Starmer handing the keys to the Feds.
“Britain also agreed to prevent cheap Chinese steel and pharmaceuticals being routed through the UK to America as part of an agreement on what the White House called ‘security of supply”.
Does anyone know what this means? China has categorically stated that any country which enters into a trade deal that damages Chinese trade, will be treated accordingly.
For a start, this bankrupt shit hole doesn’t have the resources to know what enters the UK. They don’t search every container, but what is does mean, is that UK intel will be working for US intel, to hinder Chinese trade.
I’m not convinced that anyone in the UK Nazi one party regime, knows what they’ve done.
Germany to declare national emergency on immigration
Story by James Rothwell •
Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, is set to declare a “national emergency” on migration so that he can use a loophole in EU rules to return asylum seekers.
Mr Merz intends to trigger Article 72 of the EU treaties, which, in theory, allows member states to suspend asylum regulations if they pose a threat or a nuisance to the German people
so why cant we do this ?.
All that stuff about the constitution reminds me of people in britain going on about the magna carta. He’s either thick or just another jew doing the jew dance. Look how he does the “I know lots of decent cops” dance. The constitution, like the magna carta, is irrelevant. Everything belongs to the jew. Everything. You can’t use pieces of paper to fight back.
Things We Do That Make Ourselves Feel Worse
Story by Susan Jones •
When you’re feeling down, you should try to lift yourself up again — but not all of us do that.
In fact, a lot of us are guilty of wallowing, and even doing things that actually end up making us feel worse about ourselves. Here are some of the worst
Watching Tony Blair videos
slamming our willies in the door
wearing Kier Starmer badges
Reading the twatmaster carl jones
From
https://www.rt.com/russia/617127-russia-against-nazism-russophobia-anti-semitism-putin/
“Russia will continue to stand against Nazism, Russophobia, and anti-Semitism – Putin”
LOL. Putin finally comes over to the trump parade. Not that everyone didn’t already know of course.
Keir Starmer faces huge Labour rebellion as 40 MPs issue warning
Story by Katie Harris •Sir Keir Starmer is facing the biggest rebellion of his premiership over his policies Around 40 Labour MPs have written to the Prime Minister telling him that supporting israeli terrorism, importing in millions of migrants and giving them ” positive discrimination ” over our people is wrong
attacks on the sick and vulnerable motorists and farmers, with plans to slash the benefits bill are “impossible to support”
Starmers racism and spending millions of our money on the ukraine
while our folk queue at food banks, is evil.
The letter warns that the proposals have “caused a huge amount of anxiety and concern among disabled people and their families”. It says: “The planned cuts of more than £7 billion represent the biggest attack on the welfare state since George Osborne ushered in the years of austerity and over three million of our poorest and most disadvantaged will be affected, the situation now is that many folk eat or heat
they eat or heat their homes, while migrants swan about in luxury hotels
It was on the News the other day that the Labour Government stated that (illegal?) immigrants won’t be allowed to stay in the UK unless they can learn to speak the English language to A Level standards! LOL!!! Many of the UK population can’t speak, write or read English to A Level standards, including, perhaps, some politicians from what I’ve seen!😃😊👍
The Jesuits have had the USA in their cross hairs, since it was founded. Study history to see how their malevolence works. The end game has been reached, as they have taken over institutions, government, miltary, and have infiltrated protestant churches……. in case you thought they were unbreachable. Daniel and Jesus foretold the future re Rome’s final empire. So few Bible readers miss the elephant in the room. Now the Fordham educated President, has a fellow RC in the big seat……how very cosy, before the vice tightens, as Revelation prophecies come to fruition.
It’s a BIG club and we (humanity) aint in it!!!!
My mother was confronted by a Catholic in a heated exchange. She was told she would burn in Hell for not accepting Catholicism. Her response was quite clear: ” I would rather burn in Hell than become a Catholic”. Clear enough? Who cares what the Pope has to say.
The new Pope in not being a Jesuit and, therefore, not being so “political”, my view is that he will not be as controversial as his predecessor, whose woke and New World Order direction was so patently and painfully obvious to any Christian seeking the truth and God in their lives. Francis was a socialist who used his office in true Marxist fashion to help usher in the hallowed nation-deconstructing, “open-society” UN New World Order while appearing to approve, in a most Jesuitical and pragmatic manner, the most evil and rotten means imaginable to achieve those goals. If not, then that political roost of connivers in the Vatican who have departed from the true faith, and of whom Francis was their champion, most certainly turned a blind eye eye to all of the massive deceptions, all of which were hatched in the USA in order to usher in that same NWO.
The fake-science global-warming fraud was turned into the no-science climate-change fraud once it was determined that the earth was actually cooling due to a cooling period from the sun, and the factual scientific evidence has been clear for decades that manmade emissions had no real effect on the natural cycles – unless they were deliberately being distorted and exaggerated with the mainly US-based gigantic weather-war technologies, such as HAARP and with dropping tons of crap (the contents of which we are still not allowed to know) on mainly populated areas through their chemtrails.
Francis, knowing about the fakery, or at least having the means to know of that fakery as everyone else on the planet, most certainly turned a blind eye to it, and clearly used his office to support the hoax, instead of being a disciple of the TRUTH both for salvation and actual human flourishing.
Francis also used his office to support the Covid plandemic, knowing it was another US operation serving the NWO cause “to slow down all of our systems and give the planet a rest” as Klaus Schwab of the WEF chimed in with his nonsense in 2020. As was determined on this site, and many others through an open analysis of the facts, the purpose of that massive crime against humanity (in actually releasing a bioweapon flu virus in populated areas and killing a few million people as a basis for their fearmongering) was to lock us down and cancel our basic rights, in order to jab everyone they could with their “experimental” mRNA substances, including different experimental nano particles in the various batches. Not only did every government of every nation on the planet in following that US lead cancel all INFORMED CONSENT rights in order to comply with the NWO Covid-cabal diktats, but in the West the actual cheap and formerly widely-available medical cures for the virus were universally suppressed in totalitarian lock-step fashion by every one of our governments. The so-called “vaccines” were never “necessary” not only because less-than 1% of the population was at risk to any serious Covid-flu symptoms, but because they also knew from their prior experiments with the mRNA crap that the harms outweighed any possible benefit from them.
Jesus would have to say that Francis and the Vatican wrongly used their powers and authority, “IN MY CHURCH”, to make it a moral and Christian duty to take the jabs, when they knew or ought to have known:
– that they were totally “unnecessary” based on the actual threat, were being imposed by governments unilaterally cancelling all informed-consent rights,
– that they were “experimental” and put the people at risk disproportionate to any benefits,
– that the authorities in our nations were systematically suppressing the non-experimental, safe and effective known cures, in order to push the mRNA “spike-protein” producing inoculations obviously for other reasons than to make anyone “safe”.
Why did Benedict XVI step down from the papacy in 2013 to make way for Francis?
Benedict had become cool to many of the changes he had help initiate in the Church in the 1960’s and was trying to bring the fold back to more genuine spiritual pursuits. If our governments, knew about the various US deep-state-backed “operations” to help usher in the hallowed New World Order, such as things like the global-warming, climate-change scam, and the plans to mount a “Coronavirus pandemic, which they did and as early as 2010, then the Vatican which knows even more, would have been aware of the plans. Yet, the Vatican like the Rockefeller Foundation, was a principal backer of the NWO UN Agendas and the movement to deconstruct nation states, have open borders, eradicate wars, not by converting individual souls to Christ, but instead with a more secular and totalitarian, “mass man” solution, with a one-world centralized government, if not under God, then at least under that secular cabal presently running things.
Pragmatic Francis came to the throne in place of Benedict in 2013 and a year and a half later, on September 15, 2015, he was given the central place in “opening” UN Agenda 2030 (the 1st 17 goals of Agenda 21) at the UN in NYC (which I doubt Benedict wanted by then to have anything to do with). By 2020, slotted into leading positions in the world, there were a number of very compromised, liberal “Catholics”, such as Biden, Trudeau, Macron etc., all of whom were avid UN NWO advocates and WEF disciples.
The new Pope is an Augustinian, and although one who steered a middle-of-the-road course in the Vatical over the last decade, the Augustinian order has a history of not being “pragmatic” like the Jesuits, and in following St. Augustine our prayers as Catholics ought to be that he will not succumb to the evil principle that “the ends justify the means”, as is clearly the case for the totalitarian mindset of the ruling cabal of our fallen world.
Ellis Taylor:
It’s not either-or.
CJ is a clever agent disguising himself as entertaining clown.
He is given entrance because he is so amusing, and meanwhile he liberates his poisonous payload.
His method of indoctrinating readers is “rote learning” , that is, the same monotonous repetition we all were subject to in school in order to learn and internalize something.
He is probably also a Jew, having a “good day” with the readers, f_cking up their minds and amusing himself with it…
The American people have had it too good for too long, this has made them complacent, indifferent, lazy. I fear for my country.
Thanks for posting “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by the Who, a fave band of mine (along with Pink Floyd and a few others), and yes, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss” is as true a lyric as ever performed in the classic rock genre. And anyone thnking the new pope would be NOT the same as the old pope is delusional as, since Vatican II, the Roman Catholic church has gone off the Christ-centered rails completely (which was one reason the corrupt Vatican had to support the murder of the last-for-all-time decent pope, John Paul I. His murder (in the book by David Yallop, “In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I”) led to my leaving the Catholic church for good. But the Church of Rome since the Renaissance era has been corrupted for good (in the Micheal Hoffman book “The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome”)
I liked Pope John the XXIII he had a good honest face and didn’t look like a shirt lifter…
The ‘who’ members probably supported obama & the ‘woke’/blm’ agenda- if any of them are still alive.
@Hauntess. Afew weeks ago Sage of quay on Odysee had a few episodes about Beatles and their connection to Tavistock. Supposedly also Who and Stones had connections to Tavistock. The deaths of McCartney, Jones, Bonham and Moon was probaly ritual sacrifices.
All the WHO members are crypto jews. …..and they’ve got the noses to prove it!!.
How this is not common knowledge is a mystery….??.
Infact the MAJORITY of popstars are jewstars……those that are not are often associated with jews (Sting and Trudi Stylerstein,Human League-stein etc.The Eurythmics female was married to an Israeli.
That FAT sheila who hit the big time was Married to a Jew and is now married to a Black with a huge cock.That Red haired glorified Tube singer (perhaps the most overhyped popstar in the world etc etc)
So the gigantic nosed Townshend is DEFINITELY a crypto jew.
Didn’t Pete Townsend of The Who get outed as a paedo? I always hated him and saw in my mind’s eye sorrow and rage dripping from his nose
The pope? F*ck that guy. As somethinghappeninghere stated in his comment above, I agree that the last decent pope was John Paul I…who was then murdered for it in another Jew-coup. Of course when talking about the papacy, we’re talking about some costumed clown running a giant mechanism of control and fear, so f*ck ’em all really, especially since they perverted and degraded the New Testament by packaging it with the Book of Bullshit Old Festerment way back when.
As for Zion Don the Con Chump, executive orders if trying to be applied to the citizenry rather than just the stooges in the feral, er federal, “government” are absurdly unconstitutional, of course, but that isn’t going to stop many of the po-lice from foaming at the mouth over new vicious toys and partnerships with wildly treasonous feral, er federal, agencies.
“There’s this idea that they have to get ready for an immediate crackdown, Homeland Security is working with the local police and instructing them. Again, it’s a form of martial law.” Agents of treachery and treason, which are what far too many clowns with the FBI, Homeland, ATF, DEA, and IRS are should be gutted…literally in many cases… But the local yokel po-lice departments fall right into line because Uncle Shlomo dangles barrels of “grant” money to them if they play along and be the vanguard for Satan’s legions.
They spoke of right-minded people being declared mentally insane and put in asylums, but there really aren’t any asylums left and, more significantly, our cuntries have been turned into open air prisons with more batshit crazy people running amok than ever, with the criminally insane calling the shots and finding bloviating, deeply compromised retards like Zion Don Chump to con a bunch of other dangerously stupid dumb-f*cks to rally behind their own demise.
The thing is, Chump actually has enough of the population behind him completely supportive of some of his rhetoric, and could actually be an agent for sweeping transformational change if he really wanted to. But that would mean Shlomo, Shmuley, and the Tribe form Way Down Under would release some of the videos of Don the Con in VERY compromising situations and that lowlife gangster can’t have that.