When the FBI visited Deep Stater John Bolton early Friday morning, a line from The Godfather crept into my mind: “Today I settle all family business.” Surely I wasn’t the only one who hoped cable news would soon be reporting similar raids at the homes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Comey, Jim Clapper, Susan Rice, and all the other co-conspirators responsible for the Russia Collusion Hoax, the Ukraine impeachment, the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up, and all the fraudulently predicated criminal investigations into President Trump and his associates.
Alas, Bolton was the only fish dumped out of his sanctuary bowl for the time being. Still, with the farcical half-a-billion-dollar civil fraud judgment against Trump recently overturned and the Supreme Court slowly but surely ruling in his favor on a host of executive orders intended to streamline the federal government, I feel as if we’re getting closer to a time when a great deal of “family business” will be settled swiftly.
That thought sparked another thought: President Trump’s entire governing philosophy has a lot in common with some of the better wisdom from the Godfather movies. Consider some of these jewels from Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
(1) “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”
Does it drive you nuts that Trump seems to quickly forgive people who wrong him? He lets left-wing “journalists” interview him. He gave Hillary Clinton a pass for illegally transferring highly classified government documents to a private and unsecured computer server. He even considered Mitt Romney — a “man” who repeatedly stabbed him in the back — for the position of secretary of State!
At the same time, though, Trump has no problem rumbling with those he brings near. After all, he made Bolton his chief national security adviser before firing the warmonger a year later. Trump likes having his adversaries where he can see them. That reminds me of something Sonny Corleone once said: “You gotta get ’em close like this, and badda-bing, you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.”
(2) “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
Most of the celebrity economists on television hate tariffs because they primarily benefit American workers and Main Street businesses, while threatening the bottom line of multinational corporations and Wall Street investment firms. For years, the pundits have said that Trump’s tariffs would destroy both the economy and relations with allies. What Trump and his economic policy team have known all along, though, is that no nation on the planet can afford to be closed off from the American market.
American consumers are the wealth-creating engine for the entire world. When Trump insists that other nations treat America fairly, he does so while holding a giant stick.
(3) “Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again.”
Notice to all Democrat-run “sanctuary cities”: Your days of aiding and abetting illegal aliens, harboring criminals, and putting the American people in danger are over. How many times have we heard Democrats describe foreign nationals who broke into our country more favorably than they describe American citizens? How often have we seen Democrats fighting tooth and nail to keep foreign robbers, rapists, and murderers in the United States?
President Trump is absolutely committed to removing invaders from Democrat “sanctuaries” and preventing future harm to Americans. He will assume control over criminal enforcement operations in Democrat-run cities if he must. The era of taking sides against the family has come to an end.
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