During a recent chat with Fox News’ Trace Gallagher, GAI Director of Research Seamus Bruner unpacked President Trump’s battle to drain the swamp, his showdowns with activist judges, and the JFK files.
Gallagher notes that Trump had 64 court-ordered injunctions during his first term that held up his policies and executive orders — the most of any president by a large margin.
Can Trump drain the swamp? Even after telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham he wouldn’t defy a court order?
“It’s another day, another lawfare attempt against Trump,” Bruner said. “He’s trying to drain the swamp, the swamps are fighting back. These district judges are out of control. They are forcing a constitutional crisis. It’s time for the Supreme Court to step in.”
Bruner continued: “And Donald Trump is exactly right not to take the bait. They want nothing more than to get their dictator narrative confirmed. But the real power move here for Donald Trump is to keep going, keep
exposing the corruption. Whether it’s at USAID — which they’re trying to force reinstatement of that — or deporting sex trafficking criminals back to Venezuela.”
Bruner also reacted to a recent appearance by Elon Musk on Hannity, in which Musk said people are trying to harm him and his companies for exposing the swamp’s corruption.
“Trump and Musk and DOGE have exposed the deep state grift machine,” Bruner said. “They are upending the business model of Washington, DC. And some of these district judges, by the way, have some, family members who are on the NGO grift circuit. So, of course, these district judges want to protect the system.”
Bruner also weighed in on the newly released JFK assassination files.
“I’ve been combing through these thousands and thousands of pages that Donald Trump released, a move no other president dared to take,” Bruner said. “So, good for Donald Trump. This is a huge win for transparency. And there are thousands, possibly millions of citizen journalist investigators combing through them as well, finding all kinds of clues of government secrecy and CIA misconduct.”
Bruner added: “A lot of people are saying it’s a nothing burger — there’s nothing in there. No conspiracy. Then why did the government hide it for so long? And it really raises the question of what documents got shredded. What documents got taken out, right? Burned? Otherwise, disappeared? Because it looks like from the documents I’ve seen, there are missing pages.”
Watch Bruner’s analysis above.
