{"id":31581,"date":"2018-02-25T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T22:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31581"},"modified":"2018-02-25T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T22:17:37","slug":"we-cant-continue-to-run-the-world-ron-pauls-exclusive-interview-for-sputnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31581","title":{"rendered":"‘We Can’t Continue to Run the World’: Ron Paul’s EXCLUSIVE Interview for Sputnik"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Texas Congressman and leading libertarian thinker Dr. Ron Paul has shared his views on President Trump’s job as president after his first year in office, the situation in Syria and the renewed debate on gun control in the wake of the Florida school shooting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump’s Year in\u00a0Office<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sputnik: Donald Trump has been in\u00a0office for\u00a0over a year. What is your general assessment of\u00a0his job as\u00a0president?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron Paul:<\/strong> Mediocre; probably not worse than\u00a0the other options. But I don’t think presidents really have much control. I think the deep state \u2013 the people behind\u00a0the scenes and the shadow government, who control the monetary system, who control our foreign policy and the welfare state, and are connected to\u00a0the media and the military-industrial complex. \u2013 I don’t think the presidency is as\u00a0important as\u00a0it’s made out\u00a0to be. But everybody talks about\u00a0it; it’s a political thing, and they keep churning the issue and directing everybody to\u00a0ask ‘is Trump a good guy or a bad guy, and are we going to\u00a0impeach him or what’s going to\u00a0happen’, rather than [asking] what kind of\u00a0philosophy do we have: why do we have this philosophy of\u00a0welfare-warfare, spend money, run up\u00a0debt and let the central bank print all that money.<\/p>\n

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They don’t even talk about\u00a0it; the major parties, including Trump, they sign even more controls on\u00a0us when it comes to\u00a0FISA courts and spying on\u00a0us. In spite of\u00a0the fact that government officials like\u00a0the FBI and others actually spy on\u00a0our own president, he supports this; he passes and signs bills on\u00a0that. So that really raises questions about ‘does the president really have much to\u00a0say’, and I think he has much less to\u00a0say than\u00a0a lot of\u00a0people believe….click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘We Can’t Continue to Run the World’: Ron Paul’s EXCLUSIVE Interview for Sputnik Former Texas Congressman and leading libertarian thinker Dr. Ron Paul has shared his views on President Trump’s job as president after his first year in office, the situation in Syria and the renewed debate on gun control in the wake of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[692,9950,827],"class_list":["post-31581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-ron-paul","tag-sputnik","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31582,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31581\/revisions\/31582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}