This is a video of French Senator Claude Malhuret posted on March 7 in which he discusses what is going on in the United States, and how Europe needs to react to it. Sen. Malhuret is a French physician and lawyer who has been in the French Senate since 2014. He is a center-right legislator. This video has been going viral and reflects what European countries think about the current state of affairs we are enduring here in the U.S. under Trump. The full video is about 8 minutes long.
It tells us much about what the rest of the world thinks of what the Trump regime is doing to the United States.
Here is an excerpt of the talk from the beginning of the video:
“Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States. Trump’s message is that there is no point in being his ally since he will not defend you, he will impose higher tariffs on you than on his enemies, and will threaten to seize your territories while supporting the dictatorships that invade you. The “king of the deal” is showing what the art of the deal is on his stomach. He thinks he will intimidate China by lying down in front of Putin. But [Chinese President] Xi Jinping, seeing such submissiveness, is probably accelerating preparations for the invasion of Taiwan. Never in history has a U.S. President capitulated to the enemy. Never has any one of them supported an aggressor against an ally, never trampled on the U.S. Constitution, issued so many illegal executive orders, dismissed judges who could have prevented him from doing so, dismissed the military senior staff in one fell swoop, weakened all checks and balances and taken control of social media. This is not an illiberal drift, it is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy.”
It’s well worth listening to the entire video.
The January 6 rioters and their leader are the terrorists. Khalil maybe a jerk and may be wrong, but that has nothing to do with his due process rights. He has a green card and the process to take it away is complicated and has it been followed. He has been held incommunicado and unable to talk to his lawyers, just like in Russia or China.
I heard they’re pulling out his fingernails.
Yes, and we know you get a real tingle thinking about it.
Wow! Just WOW! This is a speech that everyone should hear! (And read the English translation, of course.) I hope it’s also been translated into other languages so the entire free world has access to it. He’s so right!!
Thanks again, Anne.
Yesterday’s arrest and imprisonment of Mahmoud Khalil stands as a direct threat by this administration against the entire scope of civil rights of every American citizen. It must be resisted and defeated in the courts ASAP. It should result in the arrest and prosecution of the agents who detained Khalil as a demonstration of how seriously all of take the arrest of an American under false pretenses. This arrest also demonstrates the extent to which mass deportation is going to threaten each and every one of us.
Correction: fourth line down: ALL OF US SHOULD TAKE THE ARREST …AS A THREAT TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US — This is kidnapping and disappearing of someone who has rights that are enforceable in a court of law, but who was denied judicial process by this unlawful act. We cannot allow the Trump administration to get away with this.
It is a threat to the First Amendment, and even Conservative pundits like Ann Coulter agree. Equally, using deportation and imprisonment as tools for political revenge or leverage in the case of Ukrainian deportations are horrific.
Still, I will not shed a tear if Khalil is deported. He came to USA with an agenda by way of a student visa, though already holding a Bachelors Degree from a University in Beirut. Lots of adults further their studies, sure and some like Musk stay. Khalil never had any intention of returning to Syria. He took up work for UNRWA and became an activist. Seven UNRWA employees participated as members of Hamas in the October 7 murdering and raping spree. He also got married and a green card just prior to his student visa expiring. He has promoted river to the sea and death to Israel rallies and trespass/occupation in both his own Columbia and other colleges he is not even a student at. After negotiating with Columbia on behalf of the activists to end the occupation, he vowed to resume future occupations.
Deporting him on a State department loophole is sketchy to be sure, but so is his presence in the USA.
This free speech thingy is so messy.
No, not really. Congress shall make no law abridging free expression. Not messy at all. Until it’s convenient to call it messy. In this instance, it has nothing to do with this kids arrest. It isn’t a “what about” that you can dismiss.
I wonder how you’ll feel about the upcoming Supreme Court free speech case regarding the ban on “conversion therapy”.
I wonder how you will feel about the upcoming free speech case being heard by the Supreme Court challenging the “conversion therapy” ban in Colorado.
John, where is your evidence for all your claims? You are no better than the administration you critique. Working for the UN is not a crime, coming to the US because you met an American and want to study here is not a crime, not wanting to go back to a war-torn country is not a crime. The president or State Department has not backed up their claims that Khalil has ties to terrorism. You just sound Islamophobic.
They got married in November, 2023 after a 6 year long distance friendship. I guess the giddiness of the October 7 attack rekindled the romance.
If it was planned, he would have got a fiance visa. And what a show that make for 90-day fiance… studying, working, planning that wedding, distributing those Hamas flyers, negotiating with Columbia administration. Anyway, at least she didn’t marry her brother like Ilhan Omar did to get him into school. By the way, that claim has been confirmed by a relative. Somali, Palestinian good Muslim sisterhood one and all.
If you come in on a student visa, your have declared your intention to study and then go home. Not seek work, or get married to stay in America. Those require different visas and the vetting is different.
Regarding the green card, it took 18-26 months to process a marriage visa in 2023. Longer now, and even longer if you go with the 6 month fiance visa add on. I don’t know of shortcuts, but maybe they had a friend who has a friend, and what with UNRWA, the Biden/Harris administration they were able to make dreams come true.
Anyway, unlike Citizenship, residence visa and permit is a privelege and not a right. While you do have Constitutional protection, there are certain cases that can be used to deport without showing cause. A couple Senators took notice to the loss of funding to Columbia as well as …. ahem, the optics of the occupation. One was John Fetterman, an excellent choice for the next US Presidency. They don’t need the evidence that you and other Palestinians seem to desire.
And by the way Meghan, That movie, Minority Report was just science fiction. The immigration officers really can’t flag the immigration fraud before it actually occurs.
Thanks for schooling this immigrant on how the immigration system works. Is there anything else you want to mansplain to me?
UNRWA is the The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, isn’t it?
You think that is a bad thing, helping Palestinian refugees?
To Meghan: My mansplainin is: “endeavor to prosper”
To Seamus: I prefer to help Ukrainians who were invaded by Russians. Sometimes everyone needs help including myself. I have helped Pakistani’s when they needed help, and I have accepted medical help from Red Crescent when I needed help. I wouldn’t consider myself Islamophobic, if that is how it is spelled. I just don’t like people, including terrorists, who feel justified in breaking laws.
Also, if he came to the US with nefarious intentions and promoted terrorist ideologies, why was this not flagged during the green card application process? If the marriage was a sham (as you imply), just to cover his “agenda”, then why was this not detected during the background checks that are conducted when one applies for a green card?
You want to arrest and prosecute the agents who arrested Khalil?
Maybe that can happen after the FBI agents who harassed and ruined the lives of J6 protesters are prosecuted.
Highly unlikely in both cases.
You mean the insurrectionists, who tried* to overturn a lawful election by disrupting the Electoral College count?
*Luckily, they failed, even with far greater numbers and a Co-conspirator “President”.