Trump Issues New Travel Ban, Launches Biden Probe, Silent On Musk’s Bill Attack

Amid a dust-up with ex-bestie and top donor Elon Musk, Donald Trump has lashed out at Joe Biden and foreign nationals, again

Bellowing “Kill the bill” online, the recently dethroned Musk has turned on Trump’s spiteful and spendthrift “Big Beautiful Bill,” so it’s no surprise the White House occupant tonight is suddenly looking to shift focus to old foils Biden and travel bans to take control of the narrative.

Just days after Trump reposted on social media that the man who beat him in 2020 was “executed” five years ago and replaced with “clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities,” POTUS late Wednesday inked an memo on “Reviewing Certain Presidential Actions” and shutting down travel to the USA from a dozen nations, including Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen and Burma.

Going after the cancer addled Biden and emphasizing tales of the 46^th president’s “serious cognitive decline,” Trump’s memorandum seeks  “an investigation into who ran the United States while President Biden was in office,” as an accompanying fact sheet says. All of which can be read as an attempt by Trump to potentially overturn vast swaths of his predecessor term, from pardons to executive orders and more.

“In recent months, it has become increasingly apparent that former President Biden’s aides abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority,” the memo to Attorney General Pam Bondi and other aides says with a straight face  “This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history.  The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts”

Flooding the media zone as he often does when under attack or politically damaged, Trump tossed rancid red meat at the MAGA base and nervous members of Congress with a travel band on 12 countries and “partially restrict and limit the entry of nationals” from seven other nations in the service of stopping terrorism and “other national security and public safety threats.”

 Reminiscent of the 2017 “Muslim Ban” of Trump’s first term, the nations fully banned for the “entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants” are Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.  There are a couple of extenuating circumstances on the bans like letting in people “whose entry serves U.S. national interests.” Whether this would include stopping the likes of Iranian It Was Just an Accident filmmaker and recent Palme d’Or winner Jafar Panahi from coming to America for awards like the Golden Globes and the Oscars is unclear The seven countries now under a partial ban are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.

Not unexpected based on statements and executive orders Trump made in the early days of his second term, the bans today come as a response by Trump to the horrific antisemitic Molotov cocktail attack this past weekend in Boulder, Colorado by immigrant Mohamed Soliman, White House sources spun to the media.That line is easily undermined by the fact Soliman, whose family has been rounded up by ICE and were set for deportation until a federal judge stepped in Wednesday, is Egyptian. The recepiant of American military sales and more, Egypt is not among the banned countries

In the chaos of the dust-up between DOGE pals Musk and Trump, a new book and new political affiliation by former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre  and the validity of government economic data, the breaking news of the new travel ban was ignored by the partisan Fox News and MSNBC, while CNN alone of the domestic cable newsers provided scant coverage. The BBC went more in depth on the ban, but no one turned to the Biden probe.

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