Hello, everybody. This is Gerald Celente, and it’s Wednesday, May 14th. And once again, we are very honored and privileged to have with us a man of men who only speaks of things that they don’t talk about, facts, and how they’re packing us by getting rid of all these facts that used to be what was called American freedom, whether it’s robbing us of our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and locking you up for anything they want, and you can’t stop you from doing it, even if it’s right or wrong, good or bad.

Judge, thanks for being here. You have an article coming out tomorrow. What if freedom is suspended? In all due respect, what do you mean, what if? The already if has happened. Well, the what if refers to a threat by the President’s chief advisor, Matthew Miller, that we, by which he must mean the President and himself, are considering suspending habeas corpus. Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase for the right of every human being to be brought before a judge and a human being confined by the government and have the charges explained and justified and the evidence laid out.

Without habeas corpus, there would be arrests without trial, as there were during the Civil War when Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. Habeas corpus is guaranteed in the Constitution. The courts have ruled that only Congress can suspend it, and Congress can only suspend it in cases of rebellion or invasion, whereupon George W. Bush, your favorite modern president, I speak sarcastically with tongue firmly in cheek, attempted to suspend habeas corpus after 9-11, and the court said only Congress can do it, whereupon our favorite senator, again tongue firmly in cheek, Lindsey Graham, offered and ushered through legislation of a congressional suspension of habeas corpus, whereupon the court said, well, we’re not in an invasion or rebellion.

In fact, the federal courts in lower Manhattan, a couple of blocks from the World Trade Towers, were open the day after 9-11. So the courts interpret this literally, because it’s a natural, fundamental human right. Only Congress can do it, and only when there’s an invasion or rebellion. Congress did it in the South during the Civil War. Unfortunately, they also did it in the North, where there was no rebellion or invasion, and that was invalidated by the courts. But think what the government would do and could do if they could arrest without trial.

This would become like Franz Kafka’s mythical place in the trial. This would be worse than the horrors of the Soviet Union in the 30s and the 50s. We wouldn’t have any semblance of a democracy. We’d be a monarchy where the president was the monarch. And this guy Miller is saying that that’s what should happen. He said, and to the press’s credit, they pressed him on it, this is what we, again, he must mean the president and himself. Trump is a clip of Trump on Air Force One, it’s about two weeks old, praising Miller to the skies as his chief advisor on everything.

Miller is probably going to replace Mike Waltz as the National Security Advisor, which is the all-around go-to person. The National Security Advisor’s office is right outside the Oval Office. But for Miller to say something like this, Miller, who is a lawyer, knowing what the law and the history is, as I’ve just attempted to describe it, and I’ll give you another instance, and to say we must mean that he has put this idea, and Trump said, the one suspension of habeas corpus that was upheld by the courts was the reprehensible, despicable arrest by FDR of Japanese Americans and Italian Americans during World War II, saying he feared an invasion or rebellion, and the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, upheld it.

That Supreme Court decision is actually two, the lead one is called Korematsu. The Korematsu decision has since been condemned by subsequent Supreme Courts, condemned by subsequent presidents, Ronald Reagan, and condemned by Congress, which offered compensation to everybody still living, 40 years later in 1980, who had endured living in these concentration camps in the middle of the Utah desert. Yeah, it’s so sad, you know. The level of inhumanity, it just goes on and on. Like I said, what’s your favorite war? You like the Peloponnesian war? No, maybe you like the 100-year war.

I had a conversation yesterday on air with Colonel McGregor, and I said, throughout the post-World War II era, what has the United States done more? Peaceful, charitable work or violent military work? He said, Judge, it’s not even a close call. Violent military work. That’s what the government tries to hide, but that’s what the government stands for. No declaration of war since December 8, 1941. Dozens of wars started by presidents fought by the military or fought by the CIA, like Obama’s war against Libya, since 1941. That just keeps going on. Well, did we declare war against Yemen? No.

We spent a billion dollars, lost three fighter jets. They fell off the aircraft carrier into the ocean. That’s almost inconceivable. So Trump said to Hegseth, you know, it’s over with. I’m tired of this. And then Trump said they capitulated. Nobody capitulated. We capitulated. But we shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Don’t forget, Trump said he was going to annihilate them, remember? Correct. Trump also said he’d end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. Trump also said he’ll bring peace to Gaza. Of course, this idea of peace to Gaza is Trump Tower Gaza, I guess.

Well, talking about Trump Tower Gaza, you know, Trump now is in the Middle East, and big deals are being made over there. One of them is that the Saudis are going to invest $600 billion in America over four years. That’s chump change, but okay, they’re doing something. But how much of that dough is going into the military-industrial complex? Probably all of it. How much are they investing in Trump Tower Riyadh or whatever his bill is, his boys are building over there? Yeah, they’re building it all again, one after another. Qatar, United Arab Emirates, investments all over.

So here’s my take with Trump over there, and he’s not going to meet with Netanyahu. I believed at first that Trump was just doing the Iranian deal as a smokescreen, and they were going to continue to do what they can to destroy Iran. But now that he’s in Saudi Arabia and making all these deals, I think they’re going to back off on support for Israel at some point. Well, we are beginning to see that already, Gerald. The United States negotiated directly with Hamas, Netanyahu furious. Mike Huckabee, that uber-Zionist American ambassador to Israel, who two weeks ago said he wouldn’t even talk to anybody representing the Palestinians, was forced to go on air and say we’re going to bring aid in and we don’t care if the Israelis agree or not.

Steve Whitcoff is negotiating with the Iranians to allow a certain level of enrichment. The American B-52s have been sent back home to San Diego and the president’s in the Middle East and won’t go to Israel. I think that’s pretty telling. And the White House leaked that Trump can’t stand Netanyahu because he feels he’s being used or manipulated by him. Well, again, you know, it’s about money. And you have his son doing all this development over there. His son-in-law got a $2 billion deal with Saudi Arabia setting up his gig, Jared Kushner. And from what I read so far, they’re going to be buying some Boeing planes and so far about $147 billion for the military-industrial complex.

So it’s all about the bottom line. He only got a couple of hundred million from Sheldon Adelson’s family. So they’re getting millions. On the military-industrial complex, and I’m going to ask this question of Phil Giraldi, excuse me, this afternoon, but I’ve asked it of all my people this week, why the hell do we need a Defense Department budget of $1 trillion? Yeah. And they’ve all said the same thing. We could cut it in half, and it would be too much. $1 trillion. And that little Trump who says he’s a man of peace is a man of wasting money and borrowing like there’s no tomorrow because of his exuberant love for all things military, which he personally disdained, but which he now has commander-in-chief loves.

Well, again, look what’s going on in Europe. Look how there, matter of fact, there was an article in the Financial Times two days ago about Germany, about how Germany played the role of being so economically stable, and now they’re borrowing a trillion dollars to build up their defense and also, of course, to put some money into rebuilding the infrastructure. And Germany’s been in recession for two years, and they’re entering into a third-year recession. They’re borrowing a trillion dollars to build up their military to fight those Russians along with the Nordic states and one after another.

They’re all building up their military as their economies are going down. So you can see where this is all leading. So Jeff Sachs says that Frederick Mertz, the new chancellor of Germany, with respect to peace and prosperity, is the most dangerous German chancellor since Hitler. That’s quite a statement. Well, I agree. You look at the statements coming out of his, from him and the clowns that are in his office about the threat of Russia. I mean, these are the Germans that killed, what, about 25 million of them in World War II, Operation Barbarossa.

Oh, and they have to watch out for the Russians? These are the ones that did the slaughter and now they’re saying we have to protect ourselves against them? With the same domino theory that you and I grew up with when the Vietnam War was going on. Right, right. Oh, God, remember that? If we don’t defeat the North Vietnamese, the communists will take over all of Asia. I mean, that was a theory propounded by LBJ and his people and for a while by Nixon and his people and it was farcical and now it’s propounded most loudly by Donald Tusk, Tusk, I’m not sure how you pronounce it, it was the president of Poland, but also by Prime Minister Stormer, President Macron and Chancellor Mertz.

The domino theory. Joe Biden, with all of his mental problems, propounded the domino theory many times. Putin wants all of Ukraine. Trump agrees with that. After Putin takes Ukraine, Putin wants the rest of Western Europe. I don’t think Trump agrees with that. But when Trump said Putin wants all of Ukraine, where Putin has expressly renounced it, couldn’t afford it, and the last thing he would want is to govern a country where the governors will be shot by guerrilla warfare for generations. Nevertheless, they still think Putin wants all of Ukraine, or at least that’s what they’re saying.

I think Trump is intentionally lying knowing that Putin will eventually get Crimea and the four oblasts and he’ll say, see, I saved the rest of Ukraine. I think you’re 100% right. There’s no way in the world that Russia is going to give back Crimea. Right. They had a vote, about 86% of the people went out to vote, and 97% of them said to leave Ukraine and go with the Russian Federation. And that was a vote that was also monitored by that international organization that said it was totally legitimate. And people had no idea of how Ukraine was killed, what, over 15,000 people in the Donbas region.

Correct. Which is mostly Russian and in Ukraine. And so they’re not going to give back to 20% of the land that they’ve gotten. I don’t see it happening. Correct. Correct. And I don’t see Zelensky agreeing to that. If Zelensky goes to Istanbul later this week and meets with Putin and Trump, it would be rather remarkable if that happens, but it could happen. Yeah. And Zelensky agrees to the no NATO, you can keep Crimea, you can keep the parts of the four oblasts that you already control. He better fly to his home in Paris or Miami because if he goes back to Kiev, they’ll be having a funeral for him in a couple of days.

So I see these wars keep ramping up from what they’re doing, the money that they’re spending. Yes. And I think Israel is going… Go ahead. We’re talking before about Netanyahu. Netanyahu, knowing that he’s going to be losing, he’s going to do everything he can to win. Netanyahu is one of the most hated people on the planet, except by the government of the United States, which he controls. One of my intelligence people, I don’t want to say who, said that on Air Force One as it landed in Riyadh yesterday, two Mossad agents got out.

Two Mossad agents traveling with the President of the United States. Now, where is their loyalty? Who do they work for? Oh, my God. You know, a lot of this is a show we don’t really know. Trump, of course, says one thing, does another thing, but look at the tariff deal. 145% tariffs on China down to 30%, which, by the way, is still pretty high. It’s not that cheap. He just keeps backtracking on everything that he says. And the instability is what drives the market crazy. You know this better than I. This is your field.

I honestly think, Gerald, I hate to say this. I don’t think he understands Economics 101. I don’t think he understands the basic entry-level course that we all took as freshmen or sophomores in college about how the economy works. Well, look at this. He is putting so many small businesses out of business. Let’s say you’re a wine importer. Maybe you import two or three million dollars worth of wine. You sell it for three or four million. Maybe a 500,000 profit a year. Small of businessmen. You’re gone. Who’s going to buy your wine that used to cost $100 and now is $175? The Americans won’t buy it.

You’re cooked. Sell your inventory and close up shop. And again, they’re borrowing more money to increase the debt level as well. So it’s just one terrible thing after another in terms of the economic reality. But look at the markets. They bounce back from their lows. Yes, they’re from their 25 lows. They’re back up. Right. How do you account for that? Is it irrational exuberance? Or is it a gambler’s game playing the gambling game? You know, I don’t know. You know, it’s a wild card. And that’s one of our top trends for 2025.

Trump the card and the wild card. Right. They keep playing it. There’s one of them and the wild card’s the other one. I’ve never seen anything like this before. You don’t know what’s going to be played. Well, Pete Rose will be in the Hall of Fame. Trying to say something to make the two of us smile because it’s such gloom and doom. Although I know the audience and I love your audience and I’m privileged that you exposed me to them. I know they appreciate what we say, no matter how downtrodden it is. They want to know what’s going on and why it’s happening, which is the reason you do the Trends Journal and I do Judging Freedom.

Yeah, and judging freedom, the people that the judge has on, you’re not going to want to miss. Who do you have coming up, Judge? I have the great Phil Giraldi tonight. I also have Scott Horton of antiwar.com and I have Professor Glenn Deason. I don’t know if you’ve ever met or followed him. He’s University of South Norway. His English is perfect. He monitors what these crazy elites like Starmer, Macron, van der Leyen, and Mertz, he monitors what they’re doing for us. He’s 110% in our camp, even though he’s Swedish, on minimal government maximum into the individual liberty and peace.

And he’s excellent. I have him on once a week. Yeah, I was on with him. Oh, good. Well, then you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And again, you know, the people that you have on are terrific and I think we’re in wild times. But again, going back to Trump, what he does, it’s all going to be about the bottom line. It’s about money. And his kids are all involved in it. Look at Bitcoin. We said it when he got elected in the Trends Journal. This stuff is going to keep going up because the crypto club gave him so much money for his inauguration and his campaign.

And his kids are involved in it. The prices are going to go up. And you’re looking at Bitcoin, as we’re speaking, what is it, $104,000? Yeah, at some point it’ll collapse. I mean, it’s a bubble, obviously. It’s an unnatural, unusual, unjustified accumulation of wealth based on admiration for one person. Yes, sir. Yes, but the thing is, they’re going to make up anything they want. Like, for example, they’re going to say, we’re getting rid of that dirty cash we’re going to digital trash. This way they know every penny you spend, what you spent in our way is spent, and they get their tax money.

And they’re going to try it. They’re going to go digital. And they’ll do that by treasury regulation. They won’t do it by legislation because they’d never get Congress to vote for it. They can get Congress to do anything they will find the way. It’s a clown show. Well, the only thing members of Congress fear is losing their cushy jobs. That’s it. That’s it. Judge, thanks for being on today. Thank you for all that you do. Again, there’s no one that knows about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and other issues like habeas corpus, of course, which is involved with that.

Then Judge Andrew Napolitano and go to judging freedom. You got to see the people that he has on. They’re terrific. Thank you, Judge. Thank you, Gerald. God love you, my friend. [tr:trw].

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