Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, Daniel McAdams, returns to The Kyle Anzalone Show to discuss the latest developments from Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East.

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The great Misty Winston makes her first appearance on The Kyle Anzalone Show to discuss Donald Trump’s foreign policy and support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

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Federal judge orders Trump administration to release Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE lockup. Ozturk, who had a valid student visa from Turkey, was only guilty of writing an op-ed.  Secretary of State Marco Rubio vilified her and Department of Homeland Security officials claimed Ozturk had other sweeping offenses, including that she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.” But the feds could provide no evidence after locking her up for six weeks.  Federal judge William Sessions III declared today, “That literally is the case. There has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than the Op-Ed,”

Sessions also declared: ” “Her continued detention cannot stand,” stating that keeping her locked up “potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of people in this country who are not citizens.”

This case is another huge unforced error by Trump team. What if their primary goalto chill the speech of millions of students and others?

Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk’s attorney, declared, “When did speaking up against oppression become a crime? When did speaking up against genocide become something to be imprisoned for?”

Jessie Rossman, another attorney for Ozturk, commented, “For 45 days, Rümeysa has been detained in Louisiana — over 1300 miles from her friends, her community, and her lawyers. During that time, she has suffered regular and escalating asthma attacks. And at the same time, the government has failed to produce any justification for her detention.”

I first wrote about the Ozturk case on March 31 – “First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers.” On April 16, I followed up with “Foreign Student Persecution Imperils Any American Who Advocates for Freedom.” Mises Institute’s Ryan McMaken and I discussed the Ozturk case on a Radio Rothbard podcast entitled: “Why Did Trump Arrest a Student for Writing an Op-ed?”

But this farce isn’t over yet. As Politico noted, “Sessions’ order, while expressing severe doubts about the constitutionality of Ozturk’s detention and deportation, only applies to her immediate confinement. Efforts by the Trump administration to deport Ozturk will continue in immigration court.”

How much longer will the Trump Ozturk Follies continue?

*** I have been at a business conference all week that has consumed my attention. ***

The IG Report (May 2025) appended below reveals many shortfalls in the Gaza pier disaster from 2024. Trillions spent on so many toys and then we they receive the items and systems from the lowest bidder, the US Army can’t even be bothered to appoint responsible leadership, conduct the necessary training and bother to rehearse the utility of these Rube Goldberg contraptions.

The pier was only operational for about 20 days and cost about $230 million.

While there were no deaths or known direct attacks on the pier, the Pentagon had said three U.S. troops suffered non-combat injuries in support of the pier in May 2024, with one medically evacuated in critical condition. The new report by the Pentagon Inspector General said that the number was actually 62.

While embarrassing and revealing at the same time, it is yet another cog in the giant Pentagon machine that generates calvacades of calamities on a daily basis as almost a middle finger to the hundred of billions drained from living taxpayers and their unborn children burdened with the avalanche flow of deficit and debt incursion that characterizes the imperial American enterprise.

While DOD had run 11 JLOTS exercises in the decade prior to the Gaza operation, the 84-page report found, neither the Army nor the Navy JLOTS packages met service standards for mission readiness, including equipment mission-capable rates. The actual readiness rates and unit manning shortages are redacted in the report, but it does note that the lack of resourcing had clear consequences.

https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/06/2003704499/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2025-091_FINAL.PDF

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