Weekly Patriots Roundup: Deep State Preps For Trump Foreign Policy

It's an open secret in Washington, D.C., that the government really isn't run by anyone who's elected to office, such as a congressman and even the president -- it's run by a permanent political class that seeks to enrich itself at the expense of the American people. It's an open secret in Washington, D.C., that the government really isn't run by anyone who's elected to office, such as a congressman and even the president -- it's run by a permanent political class that seeks to enrich itself at the expense of the American people. In a [new enterprise report]( from the Daily Caller, we take a look at how the foreign policy establishment is trying to make sure that Donald Trump would be unable to reign in reckless Ukraine spending. In This Week’s Patriots Newsletter - Real Big News: Deep State scared of Trump's foreign policy - Hot Off The Press: White House hides Biden's age - For The Record: Newsmax misleads GOP senator Everything we do is made possible by our faithful subscribers. If you love reading the Daily Caller, [please consider joining us today.]( [JOIN US!]( REAL BIG NEWS Deep State Working Behind The Scenes To Hamstring Potential Second Trump Term The Daily Caller's Henry Rodgers [breaks down]( how the Deep State is quietly working to gum up President Donald Trump's foreign policy vision, should he retake the White House in November: As President Joe Biden signed legislation Wednesday to send billions of dollars more in aid to Ukraine, officials from Brussels to Washington are working to hamstring former President Donald Trump from taking a different route should he win back the White House. With [Congress granting]( Biden additional "draw down" authority to send weapons to Kyiv, and NATO allies in Europe seeking to take the power to send aid away from the White House, multiple Senate Republicans, strategists and former Trump officials told the Daily Caller efforts to "Trump-proof" foreign aid are misguided and futile. "There are things that they're setting in motion here that are going to make it very difficult for Trump to, if he's elected president, to undo this, to extricate us, from these arrangements," Utah Sen. [Mike Lee]( said. "I mean, look there are a thousand things you can do with government contracting that can make it either easier or harder for a subsequent administration to take a different approach." "The fact is that the strategy isn't working. There is no strategy," Fred Fleitz, the vice chair of America First Policy Institute's Center for American Security said. "And Trump understands that. And it's just not fair for these Democrats to say, well, we're going to Trump-proof NATO. We're going to Trump proof aid for Ukraine." A growing constituency in the Republican Party has endorsed halting further aid to Ukraine until progress is made on stemming the tide of illegal immigration in the U.S. While Trump has not expressed blanket opposition to more aid for Ukraine, some of his strongest allies at the Capitol are the biggest proponents of putting America's border first. In early April, Politico [reported]( that the "U.S. and other Western countries are considering transferring to NATO a U.S.-led multinational group that coordinates the shipment of weapons to Ukraine, one of several new proposals that could help maintain the flow of arms to Kyiv under a second Donald Trump presidency." The group was created at the beginning of the war by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley with a goal "to coordinate Western support for Kyiv's defenses." Several Democrats in the Senate [told]( Politico in February that they need to take new steps to protect NATO from a potential second Trump term. Conservatives pushed back on these efforts, and characterizations of Trump as anti-NATO, in conversations with the Caller. "We're seeing fear mongering by President Trump's political opponents. And I think a lot of it has to go to the fact that they are absolutely standing with President Biden's policy on Ukraine. That has no strategy. Trump has said, I want to stop the killing. He hasn't said he wants to cut off Ukraine," Fleitz said. "Now, I read in the article that there's some members of Congress who want to prevent Trump from pulling out of NATO. Trump doesn't plan to pull out of NATO. As far as I know. He hasn't said that," Fleitz continued. "But what he has said is that he wants to hold NATO members accountable for their treaty obligations, to spend 2% of the GDP on defense. And Trump is not the only president to call for that. He's just the only president who's been serious about it." HOT OFF THE PRESS Hidin' Biden: President Joe Biden has [apparently been changing up his walking routine out]( to Marine One and is now being escorted by aides to help abate any concerns about his age. Several of the president's aides have expressed concerns that when Biden walks alone to Marine One on the South Lawn it draws attention to his age, as the 81-year-old has been scrutinized for his "halting and stiff gait," the sources said. To minimize "videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone," the president has frequently been accompanied by aides who suggested the change after Biden expressed he wanted a less formal solution, a White House official reportedly said. Campus Protests Sweep Country: Anti-Israel protests have erupted on college campuses across the country, most notably at Columbia University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Emory University, where the head of the philosophy department was [arrested](. Videos have also emerged of state police clashing with protesters and making scores of arrests. Update To Bogus Trump Trial: Former President Donald Trump's lawyer [sought to cast doubt]( on arguments at the core of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case just minutes into cross-examining the prosecution's first witness. Defense attorney Emil Bove questioned former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker about the tabloid's business practices, pointing out that purchasing stories to keep them from getting out, as he did for Trump, is not unusual for what has been described as the publication's "checkbook journalism." TRENDING What's your take on this? [Click here]( and scroll down to leave a comment! FOR THE RECORD Newsmax Scandal: The Daily Caller's Henry Rodger [posted a bombshell media scoop]( earlier this week: Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee accused Newsmax of editing out part of a segment of his Tuesday interview related to the Ukraine aid vote, which was actually the set topic for the interview, according to text messages obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller. The obtained text messages show that a booker reached out to Lee's staffer to get the senator on Eric Bolling's show Monday night to discuss the recently passed foreign aid bill, which Lee has strongly opposed. In the texts, Lee's staffer specifically said that the senator would be willing to do the interview if the topic was specifically about the funding bill, to which the Newsmax booker responded in full agreement. State Media Spins Crime: Numerous media outlets across the country have been running headlines suggesting that crime is declining. However, two of the federal government's methods of measuring crime tell two different stories, complicating recent claims from the media and President Joe Biden that crime is declining. [Read more here](. 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