➡ Gerald Celente discusses the Trump administration’s argument that the Constitution doesn’t ban general warrants, which allow searches without specific cause or location. This is seen as a threat to the Fourth Amendment, which protects against such searches. The issue arose in a bank robbery case where general warrants were used to search all cell phones in the area. Celente also criticizes the government’s actions in foreign conflicts and the impact of rising oil prices on the economy.
➡ The text discusses the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Iran, with the speaker criticizing President Trump’s misleading statements about the war’s progress and the state of Iran. The speaker also mentions the lack of transparency from the Pentagon and Israel about the war’s impact. The speaker expresses concern about the potential escalation of the conflict and criticizes the media for not challenging the government’s narrative.

Hello everybody, this is Gerald Celente, and it’s Wednesday, April 29th, 2026, and we have with us the man of men, one of a kind, nobody like him, comes to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and each week he talks about it, every day he talks about it on his show, Judging Freedom, and basically how we have lost our rights. And Judge, you have a new article coming out, and it’s in the Trans Journal, the Trump Surveillance State. I mean, just think of that name, the Trump Surveillance State. The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers, and effects.

It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. And then you go on to say, last week, for the first time in modern era, the Trump administration argued to the Supreme Court of the United States that the Constitution did not outlaw general warrants. Well, I never heard this argument in the modern era. General warrants are what the British used to break down the doors of colonial homes. They were issued by a secret court in London that weren’t based on probable cause of crime.

They didn’t describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized. They merely said to the bearer, search wherever you want, seize whatever you find. It was the revulsion at this practice, which led to the revolution. And it was the revulsion of this practice that led to the Fourth Amendment specifically to outlaw this behavior. This week, two days ago, the Trump Department of Justice argued to the Supreme Court that general warrants were not outlawed and that if you fail to tell your service provider that you don’t want your cell phone to tell the service provider where you are, then a general warrant is sufficient to send to the service provider to find out who you are.

All of this comes in the context of a bank robbery. There’s no question that the defendant was guilty. The issue is, can the courts issue general warrants to look for all the cell phones in the area of the bank that was robbed without probable cause of crime, without identifying the person to be seized or the thing to be searched? We’ll see where it goes. Sounds like the chief justice is against this, but it’s hard to tell from oral argument, but it’s a very, very serious and profound challenge to the right to privacy with which most Americans are probably not even aware.

You go right, you say. Now, in one week on Capitol Hill, the right to privacy is facing its gravest challenges since pre-colonial days. And again, you call it Department of Justice. What justice? It’s a clown show. They’re little lying little bastards, and I can’t say the other word, who just do anything that El Presidente wants him to do. Week after week after week, you’re writing about how we’re losing our rights. Whether it’s the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, you name the amendment, there are no amendments. Hey, remember this one, Judge? When you came out against genocide that Israel’s committing, you’re an anti-Semite? You can come to all those universities.

Everybody forgot all that? Yeah, yeah. Every week you’re writing about this, and you go on to say, you know, what’s going on. There are at least two reasons that no one should believe what the feds have said, and you say the first is the feds lie. In 2023, they assessed content of the data thousands of times without warrants. The second reason is that Madison and the Fourth Amendment ratifiers did not believe the government would restrain itself, hence the specificity of requirements. There’s no question about the history. There’s no question about the language.

There’s no question about the underlying values, and there’s no question about the way the Fourth Amendment is supposed to work. Until now, this administration under this president, who was victimized by this nonsense when he was a private citizen, nevertheless has taken the position that they can get a judge to issue a blanket search warrant without specifying what’s to be searched. If the government can get away with this, then the Fourth Amendment is meaningless, and we’re back to general warrants. Remember, when they got general warrants, there was no probable cause requirement.

The requirement was governmental need. Well, that’s a ridiculous and meaningless requirement, because whatever the government wants, it will claim it needs. That’s why Madison inserted probable cause of crime as the linchpin for a search warrant. So if this case goes the wrong way, if they affirm the conviction, expect a knock on the door, everyone, with a piece of paper that says we can search where we want and see whatever we find, and right now we’re in your house. Judge, how about the ice stuff that you wrote about when they were going to people’s houses? Correct.

Breaking down doors to drag people out of their homes. I’ll tell you this, a couple of very courageous Minneapolis prosecutors have actually indicted federal agents. Now, the state rarely, rarely, indicts federal agents, but these people have been indicted, and we don’t know their names, but they’ll be forced to return to Minneapolis to stand trial for what they did. In the case of dragging an elderly gentleman in his underwear, out of his bed, out of his house in the middle of January, those guys were indicted by the state of Minnesota. You say Justice Scalia recognized that the Fourth Amendment protects more than pings and loot.

He knew it protects beliefs, thoughts, sensations, and emotions. When he famously wrote that, quote, there is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of few in order to protect the privacy of us all. So shortly after he wrote that, which is in a case called Colorado versus Beltine, a kid is sitting in his apartment in Denver, and a bullet comes through the floor. Through the floor. He calls the police, and the police, of course, realize that the guy downstairs is drunk and is firing a weapon in his apartment, and they arrest him.

While they’re interrogating the kid who called the police, they’re walking around his apartment looking at it, and they see beautiful, expensive stereo equipment. They pick it up. They write down the serial number. They put it in their computer. It turns out the stereo equipment was stolen. They indict this kid, the kid who called about the bullet coming through his floor. They indict him for possession of stolen property. He’s convicted all the way up through the Colorado system. It comes to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court reverses it. When I was interrogating Justice Scalia about this case, before 2500 people at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, when I was a professor at Brooklyn Law School, he told me that this is his favorite line in all the opinions he has written.

The Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to preserve the privacy of us all. I hope that the present court feels the same way. It’s so sad. Again, week after week, we’ve been doing this for years. It’s one element of the Constitution after another that’s been stolen from us. Hey, look at the war. I’m sorry. It’s not a war. It’s a conflict. That’s what the media calls it. That’s what Trump calls it, a conflict. Tell that to the families of 175 little girls that were incinerated on day one by Hegseth’s bombs, an incineration for which the United States has yet to apologize or recognize its responsibility.

That school was targeted before the bombs were dropped. They dropped two bombs, one to open up an opening in the ceiling and another to go in and start a conflagration. A hundred and seventy five little girls were roasted alive thanks to Pete Hegseth and his military planners. And they want to claim that’s not a war. Well, look at the thousands of people they’ve killed in Tehran. How about, you know, look at, and remember, everybody keep going to work and paying your taxes so they could take your money and send it to Israel so they could keep slaughtering people in Gaza.

Every day they’re killing people in Lebanon. They’ve displaced over a million people in Lebanon. And I forgot, Trump says there’s a ceasefire. They just killed five Lebanese yesterday, day after day, they’re killing them and stealing our tax money to do it. And this war, you know, Trump said today, just before he went on the air, you ready? Trump says, quote, Iran better get smart soon. Oil prices, judge. Brent crude, I think thinks $116 a barrel now. Wow. We’re 118. I’m not sure. Wow. You know what it was at the beginning of the year? $60 a barrel.

Wow. The gas in northwest New Jersey, the regular was about $4. The super was $4.80. And for people who think, well, I don’t use, I don’t use diesel. I don’t care if it goes up. Yes, you do. Because so much of the food that you eat is transported by a truck that uses diesel and those costs are going to be passed on to you. Thank you, Donald Trump. The average price according to AAA is $4.20 a gallon nationwide. Go back to Trump’s bullshit speech, his State of the Union address, State of No Union, four days before he bombs Iran.

Hey, because of me, the price of gas in most states, $2.30. Well, are you happy you elected me? All right. All right. $2. He was lying. It was $2.92, but he lies all the time. This Iran war, I’m very, there’s not going to be, Iran is not going to back down on the demands that they’re making. One of them is that Israel withdraws from Lebanon and stops slaughtering the people. So I believe this war is going to keep going on. What do you think, judge? Well, Professor Marandi believes the same. He was part of the negotiating team that went to Islamabad and the leadership of the Iranian government believes the same.

But he also told me that the American allies and bases in the Gulf and Israel should really beware because this next round of response will be far more severe than the first. Karen Kwiatkowski, Colonel Kwiatkowski was on with me yesterday, says more Americans have been killed and injured than the Pentagon has announced and far more damage was done to American bases and American military equipment than the Pentagon has announced. And of course, far more damage than to Israel. The Israelis don’t release anything unless it makes them look good. Well, I think they don’t know what they’re talking about because Trump said on March 2nd, we’re ahead of the schedule by a lot.

He went on to say that March 3rd, that there’s no longer have air protection. March 4th, he said, we’re doing well on the war front, to put it mildly. Some said on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I say about 15. So they don’t know what they’re talking about. Trump said they already won this thing. And one thing after another, if Iran doesn’t stop the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States 20 times harder than they have been thus far.

Well, that was March 9th. So they don’t know what they’re talking about. Trump says a whole different story over here. He told CBS News on March 9th, the war is very complete, nothing left in a military sense. Wow. They don’t believe anything he says for the reasons you’ve just articulated. He exaggerates, he contradicts himself, he makes things up. On March 11th, you never like to say too early, you won. We won. You ready? In the first hour, it was over. How the hell can he get away with this crap? Day after day after day, lie after lie after lie.

Where is the outrage? Who can get away with this? If you and I do these kinds of things, oh my God, will we be condemned? Yeah. There is no outrage, just like there’s no anti-war movement. The media is in bed with the White House. Well, they’re prostitutes. They’re media whores that get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government war masters. That’s what’s going on. Judge, who do you got coming up on judging freedom? Well, I just finished with Professor Miranda and that’s posted. At one o’clock, I have Pepe Escobar from China and at three o’clock, the great Phil Giraldi.

What articles he writes, boy. I told Phil on air that the reason I call him the great Phil Giraldi is because I lost a bet to Gerald Celente and the payback was referred to Phil the way you truly feel, which is the great. Now he’s one of a kind. We publish his articles as we do yours. Israeli war planes strike southern Lebanon despite ceasefire, one after another, and he gets away with his lies about a ceasefire. So going back to this war, the word is that the United States keeps saying this as they keep building up the military, building it up along with Israel so they could attack Iran.

So that’s what we see happening. And we’re very concerned about this. Judge, thank you so much. No, Trump claims Iran has told us, has told us it is in state of collapse. That’s what he said yesterday. Well, listen, he, if he believes his own propaganda, he’s even dangerous than we, more dangerous than we thought. Ouster Crook says he’s confabulating, meaning he’s making things up, repeats it so many times in his own mind that he actually believes it’s true. And the people around him know it’s untrue, but they’re afraid of his volcanic personality, so they’re afraid to contradict him.

What a sad state of affairs. They are cowards, yes. Judge, thanks so much for being on. Everybody go to judging freedom. I mean, there’s nothing like it anywhere, anyplace, the people that he has on, one of a kind. Thanks so much, Judge. Thank you, Gerald. All the best, my dear friend. [tr:trw].

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