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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nHe now appears five times a week on NewsMax, but arguably has his greatest impact on his daily internet show \u2013 Judging Freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s on that show where he constantly blasts away at the military-industrial complex that is eating away our democracy from the inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s on that show where the Judge hosts discussions with a regular stable of guests \u2013 including Lawrence Wilkerson, John Mearsheimer, Max Blumenthal, Douglas MacGregor and Aaron Mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The show has attracted an enormous international audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how to compare it to Fox\u2019s audience, but its international reach is extraordinary,\u201d told the Capitol Hill Citizen<\/a><\/em> last month. \u201cI was recently in Moscow and was stopped by more people there than when I\u2019m walking in New York City. The show has become very popular internationally, primarily because we articulate a vision and a view of things and explain a history of things far different from what the mainstream media does.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese views \u2013 that Israel is committing genocide, that it\u2019s using starvation as a tool for genocide, that the war in Ukraine is none of America\u2019s business and the historical basis to understand it \u2013 these issues would never be articulated in the mainstream media,\u201d Judge Napolitano says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith my regular guests on the show \u2013 I\u2019ve been able to articulate this alternative view, which paints the picture of American depravity, and the viewers have flocked to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Judge Napolitano is part of a a libertarian anti-neocon center \u2013 people like George Galloway in the UK, the comedian Dave Smith \u2013 that whole group of commentators who were taken in by Trump\u2019s no more foreign wars rhetoric. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have known Trump personally since 1986. We interacted many times at Fox,” Napolitano said. “He interviewed me twice for the Supreme Court of the United States. So that will show you the level of interaction that we have had. I did not make Fox management happy when I criticized some of the things he did during his first term, and when I said that there was an articulable legal basis for both of his impeachments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have never voted for him. I haven\u2019t voted for a Republican since I voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984 because I don\u2019t trust big government. I\u2019m a Ron Paul type of guy. I would never condone the expenditure of a trillion dollars for the Defense Department to maintain 750 foreign military installations in 80 countries. No human being can name those countries. No human being could articulate the names or the basis for all of those military expenditures.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “So I have been harshly critical of Trump. I have criticized him at Newsmax for his executive orders, which have attempted to trash the Constitution by doing things that are nowhere authorized for the President.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd I have been harshly critical of him on Judging Freedom for funding the genocide in Gaza and for continuing the Biden policy in Ukraine, which he harshly criticized when he was a candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what he personally thinks of me anymore. We haven\u2019t communicated in a while, but I have not hesitated to be harshly critical of him, from his bizarre interpretation of the 14th Amendment to his dispatching of masked men to arrest people in the streets and incarcerate them without due process and deport them without hearings, to bombing Iran, to funding these wars \u2013 all of this behavior is not only contrary to what he promised, but is profoundly unconstitutional, and in my view is a step \u2013 many steps \u2013 toward authoritarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Didn\u2019t the MAGAverse take Trump at his word when he said during the campaign that he would end the Ukraine war with in 24 hours? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI did not take him at his word, because I know him,\u201d Napolitano told the Citizen.<\/em> \u201cThere is a gap in his brain between reality and fantasy. This idea he could end a war in 24 hours was a joke, but millions of Americans bought it. He doubled down on Biden\u2019s war \u2013 now it\u2019s Donald Trump\u2019s war. The flow of arms has continued at the same pace. And the flow of intel has continued. The CIA built twenty stations in Ukraine. If he pulled the CIA out of there, the Ukrainians would be helpless.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI never bought any of Trump\u2019s America first stuff, which a lot of Republicans did and which a lot of the MAGA crowd did. They are now deeply and profoundly disappointed. This has little to do with Jeffrey Epstein. It has to do with Trump having turned 180 degrees on no more foreign wars.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBombing Iran \u2013 a foreign war. Fighting in Ukraine \u2013 a foreign war. Funding Israeli slaughter in Gaza \u2013 a foreign war. This is hardly a man of peace. Benjamin Netanyahu nominates Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize \u2013 it\u2019s like a Seinfeld skit. You couldn\u2019t make up anything more absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the race for mayor of New York, the Judge throws a curve ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cZohran Mamdani is a progressive,\u201d Napolitano says. \u201cI\u2019m a libertarian. He wants to do things that I find anathema. But if I voted in New York, I might vote for him just because he said that the NYPD would arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot at JFK \u2013 and he would dispatch Netanyahu to the International Criminal Court in Brussels. That alone is enough to hold my nose and vote for the most left wing person ever to be a major candidate for mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [For the complete q\/a format Interview with Andrew Napolitano, get the 40-page print newspaper at capitolhillcitizen.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For 24 years, Judge Andrew Napolitano worked at Fox News. He appeared more than 14,000 times on the network \u2013 more than any other on air celebrity at Fox. He now appears five times a week on NewsMax, but arguably … Continue reading