Nicholas Provenzo

I’m an attorney and a Marine veteran. I stand for reason, individual rights, and the rule of law.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

The cheating on his wife, the six business bankruptcies, the “grab them by the” you-know-what comment, the sneering at John McCain’s experience as a prisoner of war, accepting a plane from the Qataris, the praise for dictators, the ferocious attacks on allies, the threat to militarily annex Greenland, the quoting of Benito Mussolini, the gleeful social media posts after a famous critic got murdered — you name it, the average Trump fan can come up with an excuse for it, or insist it doesn’t really matter.

Donald Trump’s life is a moral Chernobyl, and yet there are people — Americans who think of themselves as Christians! — who see him as morally difficult to distinguish from Jesus. I am going to choose to believe that when Pastor Mark Burns and a group of religious leaders dedicated a 22-foot golden statue to President Donald Trump at the Trump National Doral Miami golf club, and then used its creation to sell a meme coin called $PATRIOT, they did so as an elaborate troll. Then again, they did not include a giant golden calf, nor Mooby.

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

And here I was told that Trump saves America from socialism.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

President Trump said he is considering taking a government stake in leading artificial intelligence companies.

Industry leaders will soon gather at the White House to discuss the idea, the president said. https://t.co/ukBvBQWCwM

[Gus Van Horn @gusvanhorn]

"Bernie voters are Trump voters...."

All but predicted by Ayn Rand decades ago...

"Replace Kennedy with Sanders and Wallace with Trump in the above passage, and you would not go far wrong."

https://t.co/Y6ePdZydOQ

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

Amen.

[Gus Van Horn @gusvanhorn]

"We simply want to live. There is zero room for concessions. As for Russia, they can be forced to stop killing us."

[Gus Van Horn @gusvanhorn]

"So what lesson is Beijing learning from all of this?"

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Bolton: Ukrainians are a moral example for the world.

A free people, largely abandoned, confronted one of the world’s largest armies and refused to give in. Congress should be unabashedly pro-Ukraine — it is a tragedy America is not doing more. 3X

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

[Gus Van Horn @gusvanhorn]

"How about, for once, you actually support the victim, which is Ukraine instead of terrorist Russian regime?"

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

Apparently, jawboning is only a threat when the opposing tribe does it.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

From many Republicans, I hear that the government had nothing to do with the cancellation of Colbert's program. Okay, good. "Just regular ol' business." But the FCC chairman brags about the cancellation. And the White House circulates ... this. What are we supposed to think?

[Gus Van Horn @gusvanhorn]

"[I]f the government can jail you for a meme by pretending not to understand obvious political commentary, your rights are only as secure as the good faith of the most authoritarian official in your town."

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

So much peacefulness.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

Yes, the Declaration of Independence is law--and yes, all men really are created equal with inalienable rights.

I explain in USA Today: https://t.co/y5AvJDVjKq

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

He used all caps and an exclamation point — rhetorical firepower usually reserved for election denial, cable-news grievances, and Rosie O’Donnell. So clearly this is a serious, disciplined act of statesmanship. WATCH OUT, IRAN!

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

Remember folks, if you think any of this is nuts, you have Trump Derangement Syndrome and you are the problem.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:

10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool

This man is clearly not well.

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

I agree with this analysis—and would add one point: We are not only watching Russia collapse, but also the collapse of America’s role as the leader of the free world.

[Denys Shtilierman @DenShtilierman]

The Telegraph published an article titled “Putin is down. This is the time to start kicking him.” It’s a very powerful piece that deserves a detailed analysis. The author is Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, former commander of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and commander of the UK’s Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment. This is a rare instance where a high-ranking Western military officer is directly telling the West: stop making concessions to Putin; it’s time to finish him off.

“For the first time in two decades, Russia could not muster a single tank in what is traditionally the Kremlin’s grand annual exhibition of military might – an event Putin himself describes as a warning to Russia’s enemies. What the world witnessed was not power, but weakness: a diminished parade, hollow symbolism, and a regime increasingly fearful of its own vulnerability.”

“With Ukrainian drones and missiles now capable of striking deep inside Russia, Putin clearly dared not risk displaying valuable military hardware at a known time and location. Instead, the regime relied heavily on massed marching formations, including North Korean troops, to create the illusion of scale and strength.”

A British colonel bluntly states what we have seen ourselves: Putin fears Ukrainian drones so much that he canceled the display of equipment at his own celebration.

“Even Putin’s speech, usually a lengthy endurance test in which the dictator indulges in imperial nostalgia and Soviet-era rhetoric, was remarkably brief and muted. Gone was the swagger of a leader convinced of inevitable victory. In its place stood a man attempting to justify an increasingly costly and strategically catastrophic war. Putin insisted Russia was fighting a “just” war and described Ukraine as an “aggressive force” being armed by NATO.”

From “Kyiv in three days” to a “just war” against NATO. This is not the rhetoric of a victor.

Separately, the author mentions Russia’s hybrid war against the West:

“It is Russia, not the West, that has spent years conducting a sustained hybrid war against Europe and particularly the United Kingdom. The murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury remain chilling reminders of the Kremlin’s willingness to conduct state-sponsored attacks on British soil, alongside relentless cyber warfare, sabotage and espionage across Europe.”

This is an important point for Western readers — a reminder that Russia was waging war against them even before 2022. And it continues to do so everywhere to this day. Cut cables, blown-up warehouses, planes in NATO airspace — this is war, just without missiles for now.

“Today, the battlefield reality is moving increasingly in Ukraine’s favour. Ukrainian forces continue to make incremental but meaningful advances while Russia suffers appalling losses in both manpower and equipment.”

“At the same time, Ukraine has demonstrated an increasingly sophisticated ability to strike strategically important targets deep inside Russia, even without large-scale American military support. Critical infrastructure attacks are now placing growing pressure on the Russian economy and exposing the Kremlin’s inability to fully defend its own territory.”

This is a very valuable insight regarding the current state of the war. The British colonel openly acknowledges what we are achieving on our own. Without American aid, under international pressure, and under constant attack — Ukraine is still ramping up the pressure on Russia.

Separately, the author mentions the internal situation in Russia:

“All of this comes amid growing signs of unease inside Russia itself. Public criticism of the war, once almost unthinkable, is becoming more visible as ordinary Russians begin to question the price of Putin’s disastrous gamble in Ukraine. This criticism would be even more evident were it not for a recent crackdown on internet services in Russia and the silencing of many dissenting voices.”

But the most important point in the article is made in the conclusion, to which I can only give a standing ovation:

“What Saturday demonstrated beyond doubt is that Putin is wounded politically, militarily and psychologically. History teaches us that when a dangerous predator is weakened, that is precisely the moment to apply maximum pressure – not to offer concessions for the sake of expediency. The most effective time to kick a man is when he’s down.”

“The West must ensure that Volodymyr Zelensky is empowered to secure a just peace for the Ukrainian people, rather than allowing Putin an escape route simply to bring the fighting to a premature close.”

This is precisely the logic we have been repeating for four years in a row. Concessions to the aggressor do not end the war — they merely postpone it. Poland waited 45 years to gain its freedom after Yalta. The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria signed the Khasavyurt Accords — and then more than 20 percent of its population was massacred. Ukraine has no right to let such a fate befall its people.

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

@TimothySandefur One of my favorites as well.

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

I’m inclined to think that it’s Senator Sanders’ naked envy that is unacceptable.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The reality of American life today: Jeff Bezos, worth $290 billion, spent:

$10 million on the Met Gala
$120 million on a penthouse
$500 million on a yacht

Meanwhile, he‘s planning to throw 600,000 Amazon workers out on the streets and replace them with robots.

Unacceptable.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

In 1966, Robert Watts said if he were forced to carry a rifle, the first man he’d want “in his sights” was LBJ.

The Supreme Court said that was political hyperbole, not a true threat.

Now imagine if Watts had written it in seashells.

[Nicholas Provenzo @nprovenzo]

Zelenskyy has more courage in this little toe than JD Vance has in his entire body. It's disgusting that a worm like Vance is a heartbeat away from the presidency.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: If JD Vance is proud that he’s not helping Ukraine, it means he’s helping Russians.

Maybe Vice President believes that if United States stops helping Ukraine, it will bring peace closer. But that approach doesn’t work with Russia.

So, I'm not agree with JD Vance. Ukraine is not enemy. Russia is enemy, and will always be an adversary of United States.

That said, I'm certain that United States is great partner for Ukraine, and Ukrainians can also strengthen America. It’s a win-win situation. So why not choose to win?