Blog / Week in Review: April 12, 2026

Doug Lockwood

Sunday, April 12, 2026

 

Recap of this week in the revolution: Minnesota sues Trump regime and Republicans face challenges in midterms. Trump promises future pardons to staff while anonymous bets allow insiders to profit from Iran war. Trump delivers disgraceful Easter message and tries to hide it.

 

Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Recap of this week in the revolution: Minnesota sues Trump regime and Republicans face challenges in midterms. Trump promises future pardons to staff while anonymous bets allow insiders to profit from Iran war. Trump delivers disgraceful Easter message and tries to hide it.

The good...

Minnesota sues Trump regime for withholding evidence in shootings of Good, Pretti, and Sosa-Celis [Link]
Protests against ICE in Minnesota January 23, 2026

Protests against ICE in Minnesota January 23, 2026. Image by Lorie Shaull from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

When a federal officer is involved in a deadly shooting, a joint investigation between state law enforcement and the federal government is generally held to determine whether the action was justifiable. That's not happening with the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the non-fatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis during the ICE-stapo invasion of Minnesota this year.

Instead, the federal government is actively preventing the state from investigating the three incidents. Minnesota is suing the Trump regime for withholding evidence in these cases. Without access to evidence, Minnesota could conceivably still investigate the case, but it becomes much more difficult to overcome the barriers to state prosecution of federal agents.

In all three incidents, the government has claimed that the victims attacked federal agents and the shootings were justified. And in all three incidents, video footage of the events blatantly contradicts these claims.


Iran war likely to hurt Republican Party's performance in midterms [Link]
Republican vs Democrat

Image by Richard Duijnstee from Pixabay.

Donny 2-Dolls convinced millions of Americans to vote for him in 2024 by promising lower costs, exposure of government employees involved with Epstein's pedophile ring, and no more wars. A year and a half later, prices are soaring, particularly gas prices, the Epstein Files still haven't been released in full, and he has personally brought the country into a war-of-choice with Iran, the second war he's started this year.

The idea of a war with Iran was never popular with Trump's base, and it's growing even less popular as the war drags on despite Trump's promise that is would only last four or five weeks (That was six weeks ago).

Last week, Trump scheduled a prime-time address to the nation that many of his supporters believed would be an announcement that the war was over, but instead turned out to be just another market-manipulation trick by the regime, and offered no definitive timeline to end the war.

But the 2026 midterm elections are rapidly approaching, and the Republican lead in the House and Senate is facing serious challenges as Trump's popularity plummets. These unresolved issues—the economy, the Epstein Files, and the war in Iran—directly contrast with the stated values most Republicans profess, and they appear to running out of excuses for the regime's very un-Republican behavior.


The bad...

Trump promises presidential pardons to "everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval [Office]" at the end of his term [Link]
Trump signs mass pardon of all January 6 insurrectionists

January 20, 2025: Trump signs mass pardon of all January 6 insurrectionists.

Donny 2-Dolls has promised to issue mass pardons to his advisers and staff members before he leaves office. At just over a year in office, he has already issued 1,800 pardons, including 1,500 unconditional pardons to everyone charged during the January 6, 2021, insurrection he instigated. He pardoned Changpeng Zhao, who allowed his cryptocurrency exchange to be used for money laundering and pled guilty to the charges. Trump later claimed he didn't know who Zhao was. He also pardoned former congressman George Santos, who pled guilty to wire fraud and identity theft. Trump said that Santos "lied like hell...but he was 100% for Trump."

But those pardons were granted after the crimes took place. Now, Trump is promising to pardon his staff members before they commit a crime. The only reason to do so is to shield them from potential legal consequences of their future actions. That means he anticipates that his staff will engage in illegal activities, under his orders or on his behalf, and he doesn't want them to let the potential consequences of their actions affect their decisions. He's encouraging them to break the law for him.

Now, anyone foolish enough to believe that Donny 2-Dolls will actually protect them should probably look at what's happened to his supporters over the years. Even his most loyal bootlickers have inevitably been abandoned the moment they were no longer useful to him or his regime.


Well-timed online bets point to war profiteering using insider knowledge about Iran war [Link]

At least 50 new anonymous accounts were created on Polymarket this Wednesday, and these accounts placed substantial bets on what was then considered unlikely: A ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Just a few minutes later, Donny 2-Dolls announced that a ceasefire agreement had been reached.

Similar bets have been made in the past just before the United States made surprising announcements, such as the invasion of Venezuela leading to the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro or the initial strikes against Iran that started the current war. The timing of these bets is clear evidence that they are being placed by individuals with insider knowledge about upcoming events.

Polymarket is one of several online gambling sites where users can anonymously place bets on just about anything they want, from weather patterns to world-changing geopolitical events. These sites naturally draw insider trading by people who have non-public information about a situation who can place bets on events that seem highly unlikely just moments before they actually happen.

Polymarket has become an illicit market to sell and exploit national security secrets unlike any in history, and by extension a potential honeypot for foreign intelligence services watching for those same suspicious bets and wagers.


The ugly...

Trump mocks NATO, the Supreme Court, foreign leaders, and Somalian immigrants after which Paula White likens him to Jesus [Link]
Trump's disgraceful Easter message, April 1, 2026

Trump's disgraceful Easter message, April 1, 2026.

The White House posted a video recorded during an Easter lunch on April 1, 2026. They quickly deleted their post, but apparently they never learned that once you post something on the Internet, it is there forever.

In the hour-long video, Donny 2-Dolls drifts aimlessly from topic to topic, spewing insults and criticisms throughout the speech. He insults our NATO allies collectively, insults French President Emmanuel Macron, calls his own judicial appointees "stupid people," insults Somalian immigrants to the United States, reiterates claims that have repeatedly been proven to be false insulting U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar and Olympic boxer Imane Khalif. He admitted that he loves anyone who is nice to him even if they are "bad people." He has claimed that church attendance has doubled in the past five years, though most credible sites show the opposite is true.

After about 50 minutes of insults, lies, and rambling, Trump's "spiritual adviser," Paula White, took the stage and claimed that Trump had much in common with Jesus, which is about the most ridiculous comparison ever made in human history.


Keeping you informed...

This week in the Iran war
Operation Epstein Fury

Modification of an image by StockSnap from Pixabay.

  • Iran claims U.S. bombarded its own aircraft and personnel to "prevent embarrassment" for the president
  • Trump lashes out at allies for not assisting in the war he started without consulting them
  • Trump regime strong-arms businesses into suppressing satellite imagery of the Middle East
  • Trump vows to strike energy infrastructure Tuesday if Strait of Hormuz is not open
  • Trump threatens to end the entire Iranian civilization
  • Trump claims Iranian citizens want him to keep bombing them
  • Trump threatens to jail journalist who broke story of downed airman
  • U.S. and Iran agree to two-week ceasefire, Israel immediately violates it
  • Status of ceasefire between U.S. and Iran uncertain if it exists at all, both sides blame the other
  • Trump expected to attempt to leave NATO
  • Suspicious bets on ceasefire placed just before Trump's announcement under investigation
  • Negotiations between U.S. and Iran begin in Pakistan

TACO agrees to a ceasefire with Iran the day after threatening total annihilation of the Iranian civilization [Link]
Chicken TACO Trump

Image by Tobi from Pixabay.

On Easter Sunday, Donny 2-Dolls posted an expletive-laden demand for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, threatened to destroy their civilian infrastructure, and mocked their religion. Two days later, he posted this message: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." The next day, he announced that Iran had presented a workable plan and agreed to a 14-day ceasefire.

After the U.S. and Iran agreed to the ceasefire, Israel resumed its attacks against Lebanon. Iran saw this as a violation of the ceasefire terms, leaving the status of the agreement uncertain.


Sounds of the revolution...

Trump, Iran & The $200 Oil Barrel—A Satirical Comedy Song
John D. Cundle [Link]

Not Your House
The Midnight Republic [Link]

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On the lighter side...



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