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President Donald Trump on Monday declared a vast list of pardons issued by Joe Biden on his way out the door of the White House to be "VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT."

It is because those pardons, to a long list of his own family members, prominently including son Hunter Biden who was convicted of gun charge felonies and pleaded guilty to a list of tax charges and was facing possible prison time, were "done by Autopen."

On the social media site Truth Social, Trump confirmed:

The "Pardons" that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!"

WND had reported only hours earlier how Trump brought attention again to the allegations that some of Biden's orders and pardons might not be worth anything due to his cognitive decline.

He then posted on Truth Social images of the most recent commanders in chief, with Biden's official portrait displaying an autopen signature device.

Trump had voiced his concerns during a speech at the U.S. Justice Department headquarters in Washington on Friday, Trump said:

"Crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with Russia and everything else he did, frankly, but he didn't know about it, and he, generally speaking, signed it with autopen. So how would he know? …

"Who's doing this? When my people come up … [and say], 'Sir, this is an executive order.' They explain it to me. And 90% of the time I sign it and 99% of the time, I say, 'Do it,' but they come up and I sign it, but you don't use autopen."

"No. 1, it's disrespectful to the office. No. 2, maybe it's not even valid, because, you know, who's getting him to sign? He had no idea what the hell he was doing. If he did, all of these bad things wouldn't be happening.

A Heritage Oversight Project report called into question the validity of Biden's actions, finding the vast majority of documents signed by Biden used the mechanical device, including the last-minute pardons of Biden family members, Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the members of the Jan. 6 Committee.

"We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency," reads a Heritage Oversight post on X.

"All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former president was dropping out of the race last year."

The controversy has led Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to urge Attorney General Pam Bondi to probe the matter.

"I am demanding the DOJ investigate whether President Biden's cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval," Bailey said.

Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump, the former co-chair of the Republican National Committee and current Fox News host, told journalist Benny Johnson that Biden's entire presidency was orchestrated, and that he wasn't aware of anything he was signing.

"It's all been fake," Lara Trump said. "The signatures were fake. The hype around Kamala Harris was fake. Joe Biden being OK, fake. His Oval Office, [Trump counsel] Alina Habba the other day, exposed … remember the set that we used to see him on? It's fake!"

"It's just all been orchestrated and planned. And we as Americans honestly are lucky that nothing worse happened to this country over the past four years. Who the hell was in charge? I don't know. That is terrifying to know they're just using autopens. Literally, Benny, anyone could have signed anything for Joe Biden."

"This is why nobody wants to be a part of this party, 'cause it's all phony, it's all smoke and mirrors, it's all fake. And people want authenticity. They can smell phony from a mile away."

She also brought up House Speaker Mike Johnson's recent revelation that Biden himself had no idea he had paused LNG exports to Europe.

In January, Johnson called Biden's ignorance of the matter the "scariest thing I've ever seen."

"It occurred to me he was not lying to me," Johnson noted. "He genuinely did not know what he had signed. I walked outta that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, 'We are in serious trouble.'"

Meanwhile, the New York Post reports: "A key aide to former President Joe Biden may have exceeded their authority by liberally using an autopen to sign official documents, according to two former White House sources, as President Trump's aides set up 'far more restrictive' rules governing the use of the mechanical device."

The Biden aide, who did not respond to requests for comment, would frequently make mention of what "the boss" wanted, the source said, but compatriots would have "no idea" if it was true because the internal culture was to not ask questions.

"I feared no one as much as I feared that [staffer]. To me, [the staffer] basically was the president," the person said. "No one ever questioned [the staffer]. Period."

"Everyone" was suspicious of this individual exceeding their authority when claiming to speak for the president, the source said. "But no one would actually say it."

"I think [the aide] was using the autopen as standard and past protocol," The Post's informant said.

"There is no clarity on who actually approved what – POTUS or [the aide]."

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A state lawmaker in Maine who expressed her opinion regarding a male student portraying himself as a girl and winning a girls' pole vault state championship, and was censured by leftists in the legislature for doing that, already has sued for that infringement of her constitutional rights.

It is state Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, who posted on Facebook about the issue of transgenderism in public schools and, as a result, was censured by the state House, on a 75-70 vote that deprived her of her right to speak in the legislature, even vote.

Her posting simply included photos of the male athlete from both a boys competition a couple years ago and the girls competition this year.

Her legal action is against Maine Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau, a Democrat, for the First Amendment speech violations as well as equal protection violations and the guarantee clause of Article IV of the Constitution, which protects the basic rights of political participation within state governments.

"I have the constitutional right to speak out, and my constituents have the right to full representation in the Maine House," Libby said in a statement shared with The Daily Signal. "Biological males have no place in girls sports. Our girls have every right, under federal law, to fair competition in sports. We will not let them be erased by the Democrat majority advancing a woke progressive agenda."

Now a report in the Federalist has revealed the judge likely to hear the case is a radical leftist activist.

All of the judges in Maine excused themselves from the case as apparently one of the male athlete's parents is a court employee, leaving Judge Melissa R. DuBose of Rhode Island the next in line to hear the case.

She is described in the report as "a far-left activist on LGBT and race issues and has spoken publicly about her ardent support — something well outside the norm for federal judges."

Libby, a Republican, has refused Democrat demands that she apologize for her opinions, even as the state policy that lets males say they are female and compete against girls is under federal investigation for apparent violations of civil rights law.

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A lawmaker in Texas has proposed a plan to rid public schools of the antics of "furries."

The subculture involves individuals adopting animal identities. They often dress in animal costumes and act like the animal they have chosen.

"I can't believe we have to do this, but we cannot allow these types of role-playing distractions to affect our students who are trying to learn or our teachers and administrators who are trying to teach," explained Rep. Stan Gerdes, R-Smithville, who has introduced the FURRIES Act (Forbidden Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education).

"We just have to keep this nonsense out of our schools. No distractions. No theatrics. Just education. While school mascots, theater performances, and dress-up days remain part of school spirit, this bill ensures that students and teachers can focus on academics – not on bizarre and unhealthy disruptions. Texas schools are for educating kids, not indulging in radical trends."

A report at the Center Square said the plan was being opposed by LGBTQ Nation which was claiming that "anti-transgender Republicans" are punishing "students who act like non-human animals in schools."

The Houston Chronicle, the report explained, had even charged that Gov. Greg Abbott had "resurrected debunked rumors that public schools were putting litter boxes in classrooms for students dressed as cats."

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Is the Statue of Liberty headed back to France?

A French member of the European Parliament, Raphael Glucksmann of the Socialists and Democrats group, believes the U.S. no longer represents the values that led France to offer Lady Liberty to America.

"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" Glucksmann said Sunday.

"We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home."

The comments caught the attention of Peter Doocy of Fox News, who asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday:

"There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does not think the U.S. represents the values of the Statue of Liberty anymore. They want the Statue of Liberty back. So is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France?"

Leavitt gave a firm reply, saying, "Absolutely not, and my advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.

"So they should be very grateful to our great country."

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A federal appeals court has dumped a district judge's decision to block, nationwide, President Donald Trump's efforts to limit tax money being spent on the racist "diversity, equity and inclusion" programs within the federal government.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted the block created by Judge Adam Abelson of Baltimore.

Trump had signed an order directing federal agencies to terminate "equity-related" grants or contracts and then followed up with an order requiring federal contractors to certify that they don't promote DEI programs, which often are based on race.

Abelson claimed Trump's pursuit of an ideology not based on race probably violated free speech rights.

The city of Baltimore and others had sued.

Now the 4th Circuit has reinstated Trump's orders to curb tax money being used on those programs. The ruling means that Trump's orders can be enforced while the lawsuit over them continues.

Abelson had made his injunction valid nationwide, part of a trend of lower court judges assuming the authority of the executive branch and making decisions for the entire nation, a move over which the U.S. Supreme Court already has expressed alarm.

The appeals court said Abelson's ruling simply went too far.

The Department of Justice said the president simply was targeting DEI programs that violate federal civil rights laws.

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PALM BEACH, Florida – President Donald J. Trump on Sunday renewed attention on allegations some of Joe Biden's executive orders and pardons may not be valid due to his cognitive decline, as Trump posted on Truth Social images of the most recent commanders in chief, with Biden's official portrait displaying an autopen signature device.

On Friday during his address at the U.S. Justice Department headquarters in Washington, Trump voiced his concerns out loud about Biden's use of the autopen, saying:

"Crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with Russia and everything else he did, frankly, but he didn't know about it, and he, generally speaking, signed it with autopen. So how would he know? …

"Who's doing this? When my people come up … [and say], 'Sir, this is an executive order.' They explain it to me. And 90% of the time I sign it and 99% of the time, I say, 'Do it,' but they come up and I sign it, but you don't use autopen."

"No. 1, it's disrespectful to the office. No. 2, maybe it's not even valid, because, you know, who's getting him to sign? He had no idea what the hell he was doing. If he did, all of these bad things wouldn't be happening.

A Heritage Oversight Project report called into question the validity of Biden's actions, finding the vast majority of documents signed by Biden used the mechanical device, including the last-minute pardons of Biden family members, Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the members of the Jan. 6 Committee.

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The chief of the nation's Federal Bureau of Investigation warns criminals and wannabes that "swatting" "will not be tolerated."

Swatting is when someone calls police with a fake report that there's some sort of violence crime occurring at a specific address.

Police department SWAT teams show up, expecting to confront violent criminals. But in swatting cases, they find only innocent people who are unaware their addresses have been targeted by the criminals.

Kash Patel, FBI chief, said, "I want to address the alarming rise in 'Swatting' incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable. This isn't about politics—weaponizing law enforcement against ANY American is not only morally reprehensible but also endangers lives, including those of our officers. That will not be tolerated. We are fully committed to working with local law enforcement to crack down on these crimes. More updates to come."

The comments follow a long list of swatting attacks in recent days, including on conservative personalities Gunther Eaglement, Nick Soretor and Shawn Farash.

And it's just a week after Infowars journalist Jamie White was brutally murdered in Austin.

According to a report in Newsweek, radio show host Joe Pagliarulo and Infowars' Chase Geiser also have been targeted.

Eagle said on social media someone called in a "fake hostage situation," and Geiser shared on X he had been swatted for the second time in 12 hours.

And Catturd, a popular pro-Trump social media account with more than 3.4 million X followers, wrote Friday morning that he was "swatted again for the fourth time" at his home, reported the Gateway Pundit.

The Pundit also reported that independent journalist Breanna Morello has "discovered an important clue: the individuals swatting conservative influencers are sending pizza delivery orders to their homes before placing the distress call to 9-1-1. Specifically, the orders are coming from Domino's and Papa John's."

The report advised, "Unless you specifically ordered pizzas from those locations, do not eat the food and contact authorities immediately."

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WASHINGTON – For the hundreds of January 6 prisoners pardoned by President Donald Trump – surveilled, hunted down and terrorized by the FBI and designated as insurrectionists and criminals under the Biden administration, incarcerated for years in pretrial detention alongside murderers and terrorists, sentenced to decades in prison by federal judges for crimes that would normally amount to misdemeanor offenses if anything – many are not going "silently into the night" after being released.

In fact, many pardoned political prisoners are now working tirelessly to seek justice and expose to the American people exactly how the U.S. government operated as a criminal organization, conspiring to entrap good Americans at the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Upon his release from prison, Chris Quaglin, 39, who spent two of his four years in pretrial detention in solitary confinement, has nothing left.

His son was 2 months old on April 7, 2021, when Chris walked outside his New Jersey home to an FBI SWAT team deploying flashbang grenades and hauling him off to jail for what turned out to be four years.

If not for Trump's pardon, he would still be serving a 12-year prison sentence.

As an electrician, Quaglin earned a good living. However, returning to the life he once knew after enduring hell on earth is not an option for him.

For the foreseeable future, Quaglin is on a mission to raise awareness about what goes on behind the cinderblock walls of correctional facilities nationwide and exposing how "the government unprecedentedly entrapped Americans on January 6" – and to ensure that it "never happens again."

Within days of walking out of the Wisconsin prison FCI Oxford as a free man, and with just a truck and an American flag to his name, Quaglin joined forces with Veterans for Trump and the Stop Hate Awareness Program, an organization that led forensic investigations of the Capitol riot to launch the J6 Freedom Tour.

"I am so hell-bent on prison reform. I can't just go back to work and be an electrician," Quaglin told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview. "This has been going on for 50 years. January 6 just exposed it. J6ers have a voice that other inmates don't have. This is not just a January 6 problem."

The "persecution for wrongthink" has taken a mental and physical toll on him, the pardoned Quaglin explained.

"I absolutely have PTSD," he confided. "There's always something hanging over you. I feel nervous. I feel upset. I am upset at the government. I'm upset at what they did to me for four years," he told WND. "I have night terrors, nightmares. I don't sleep anymore. I maybe get four or five hours of sleep. That's it. I can forget about getting eight hours. And there's a lot of demons running around my head."

"This sort of government overreach – this persecution of Americans," he said, "can never be done again. We are demanding prison reform because what they're doing in these prisons is absolutely disgusting, and it's un-American."

"People don't understand that the Capitol building was stormed twice after January 6 by all the pro-Hamas protesters. They all got $50 fines. As a first-time offender, I got 12 years in prison. It's absolutely insane. The goal of this tour is to usher in prison reform across the country, actually doing something about it, and showcase to the world how J6 was the biggest setup in American history."

Quaglin kicked off the tour with a trip to Northern Neck Regional Jail, the Warsaw, Virginia, correctional facility notorious for beating prisoners unconscious, where he almost starved to death.

In a speech to the NNJR board, Quaglin recounted his harrowing experience at the jail – being denied soap, water and proper medical care, getting punished for lawyer calls and being locked down in solitary confinement 24/7 for nearly the entire year he was incarcerated there.

"From rats and mice to roaches and food, to guards beating on inmates, to a superintendent and a captain who think they make up their own rules and there are no such things as prisoner rights or human rights," he told the board Feb. 14, "I have been treated like a guinea pig by medical personnel who don't know what they're doing."

By the time Quaglin was transferred from NNRJ to the Washington, D.C. Central Detention Facility, widely referred to in recent years as the "D.C. gulag," he was skin and bones and hadn't seen sunlight or eaten a real meal for months.

Days following his speech at NNRJ, a bill mandating that sheriffs investigate abuse among correctional officers in Virginia and hold the government employees accountable for subjecting inmates to torture, was expedited by the state lawmakers to Gov. Glenn Youngkin's desk.

Under §53.1-116.2:1 of HB 2105, sheriffs and jail superintendents must "designate local law-enforcement agency to investigate acts of violence occurring within local correctional facilities."

"The legislation is awaiting signature from the governor as we speak. HB 2105 states, in a nutshell, if there's any abuses that happen inside of the jail, whether it's inmate-on-inmate or staff-on-inmate, the sheriffs must investigate," Quaglin said. "After I gave that speech, the bill immediately got put in front of the House and Senate of Virginia on hyper drive."

Shockingly, according to Quaglin, multiple times daily inmates are nearly beaten to death by guards at Northern Neck.

"It happens all the time and falls under the radar. Countless times, I've seen guards beat inmates after they were handcuffed," he said. "I've seen someone who was handcuffed and shackled kicked in the back. He fell forward, bit a metal window ledge. Every single one of his teeth was shattered.

"The guards specifically targeted me because I documented every illegal thing they did by filing grievances. I have 4,000 pages of daily notes that explain everything that happened over a four-year period. The worst part was not eating for weeks at a time. I have Celiac disease; I need a special diet. At one point, while I was incarcerated in that jail, we had about 300 people call up the sheriff's office saying, 'This guy is going to die in Northern Neck.' The sheriffs turned around and said, 'This isn't our jurisdiction.'

"This bill makes it their jurisdiction and holds the prison responsible. Now, a guard who beats inmates can get arrested themselves. The point of this is to hold these guards responsible, and not just give them free rein."

Quaglin intends to make 150 stops on the Freedom Tour over the next six months to educate the public about what January 6ers were subjected to and pressure lawmakers to institute prison reform, as he did in Northern Neck, Va.

"We are going to be going cross country because the prison system must change in America. We are better than what we do here in this country in the prison system. We have more incarcerations than anywhere else in the world. We have to save our country," he said. "We have meetings with the local Republican clubs and next we are steamrolling into college campuses."

Quaglin was among protesters who demonstrated on the restricted grounds on the Capitol during the first breach on Jan. 6, 2021, when police began indiscriminately shooting demonstrators in the face with rubber bullets and throwing flashbang grenades into the crowd.

As Quaglin confronted the cops for using excessive force against the moderately peaceful crowd, Landon Copeland, a known member of Antifa, is seen in footage repeatedly shoving Quaglin into the police line.

Quaglin was convicted of 12 felonies and two misdemeanors related to his actions at the Capitol riot.
The battle for his freedom has destroyed his family and his life.

"I walked outside to my work truck, and I heard a flash bang go off behind me. Three FBI agents ran up my sidewalk. A fourth FBI agent was beelining from across the street with a firearm pointed at my head. His finger was on the trigger, and if he had pulled it, it would have been game over. That was the last time I saw my wife and son.

"Then I laid on the ground in the middle of the street. They had barricaded my whole block with multiple vehicles, and it was absolutely insane. I mean, I'm an electrician from New Jersey with no criminal record.

"They told me they were outside my house since midnight the day before. I told them, they could have just knocked on my door and said, 'Hey, you got to come with me."

Hours after he was arrested, FBI Special Agent Benjamin Fulps made clear to Quaglin during interrogation that the Justice Department was willing to mitigate his prison sentence and potentially drop all of the charges if he agreed to cooperate and corroborate the government's conspiracy narratives about the riot.

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"You're not the only person [we're] arresting today. We are arresting more people, Thursday, Friday, over the weekend, you're like number 350," agent Fulp told him. "A lot of those people are talking and giving us information, which will be used to arrest other people. I tell you that so that you know that this is kind of a time-sensitive proposal that I'm offering you right now.

"So, I'm here to kind of throw you that raft right now to help you from drowning … because I don't want you to go away for 40 years and not see your [child] grow up and, of course, your wife."

Quaglin refused to cooperate.

"Eventually my son is going to be old enough to hear about all of this. I wasn't going to teach my son that it's OK to lie if you get in trouble. I wouldn't take another man away from his family."

A day before his trial began, Quaglin received divorce papers from his wife. She has since issued a restraining order against him. After doling out approximately $200,000 in attorneys for his criminal case, he must now muster up thousands of dollars more to cover impending legal fees in a custody battle.

"Again, I lost everything. So, I don't have a house. I don't have a family right now. I'm going through custody battles. I have to start completely over at 39 years old."

The most important thing to Chris Quaglin right now is getting his story out. "We can do some good," he told WND. "Democrats have been talking about fixing the prison system for decades. It's time we actually do something about it. Just wait, the j6ers' arrest will be the best thing to happen for jail reform in the past 50 years."

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A war is developing over local judges across the country, who are assigned to handle cases in their own districts, suddenly deciding they are able to make decisions reserved for the executive branch, in fact, President Donald Trump.

They do this through taking a local case, one often that has been presented to them by plaintiffs who know the judge's political agenda and like it, and issuing injunctions that cover the entire nation, not just their district.

Now there's a warning the Democrats may not like the results of the fight they are pursuing. It's through a series of appeals by the administration of President Donald Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court, where there's now a majority that is considered on the conservative side of the political spectrum.

One of those, Justice Samuel Alito, noted in an earlier case that it was frustrating for those local judges to be able to control the federal government and its actions.

"Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars?" he challenged when the court allowed that order to stand.

Trump had suspended those payments through USAID because of the massive questions about the political and ideological agenda being pushed by the agency with tax dollars, programs that, in fact, often worked against the priorities of the United States.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt offered a very simple solution available to those judges.

Her comments came after a Clinton-aligned judge ordered the Trump administration to re-hire thousands of federal employees who had been dismissed under Trump's cost- and fraud-cutting programs.

"A single judge is attempting to unconstitutionally seize the power of hiring and firing from the Executive Branch," she said. "The president has the authority to exercise the power of the entire executive branch – singular district court judges cannot abuse the power of the entire judiciary to thwart the president's agenda."

She turned to mockery: "If a federal district court judge would like executive powers, they can try and run for president themselves."

The Washington Examiner reported the judges ruling against Trump's agenda so far have been in "strategically chosen courts."

And Trump has gone to the Supreme Court, challenging lower courts' decisions on his birthright citizenship issue and other issues.

"Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the start of the current administration," acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris explained, among the more than 100 lawsuits against Trump's agenda already.

One of the latest flareups happened when a judge in California, William Alsup, picked by Bill Clinton, "issued a sweeping order requiring six federal agencies to reinstate immediately thousands of probationary employees fired by the administration last month."

The report noted five years ago, Justice Neil Gorsuch warned nationwide injunctions create an "asymmetric" legal battlefield in which any policy can be halted by one judge, even if others would uphold it.

In fact, judges, such as Adam B. Abelson, have gone so far as to expand their authority to rule on all of Trump's cleanup plans for the corrupt DEI practices across all agencies.

One case already before the court offers the chance for the Supreme Court to undermine the political activism by district judges.

The report explained, "The case centers on a Texas judge, Amos Mazzant, an appointee of former President Barack Obama who ruled that a federal law requiring businesses to disclose ownership information was unconstitutional. But Mazzant went further — he issued a nationwide injunction preventing the government from enforcing the law at all."

The end result, ultimately, could be for "trial judges to issue more targeted orders that apply solely to the plaintiffs involved," the report said.

"When a single judge can grant a nationwide preliminary injunction, it makes it easier for parties to identify the very few outlier judges who do rule more predictably," an expert explained.

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President Donald Trump talked about his goal of getting rid of America's income tax structure when he was a candidate.

He's repeated that desire multiple times in the White House, including making suggestions that taxing foreign corporations that do business in America, such as shipping companies, could generate significant revenue.

Now an analyst has explained how Trump's goal would put the goal of many Americans, to buy and own a home, much closer.

It is Marc Guberti for GOBankingRates who has written at Nasdaq.com about Trump's idea, explaining, "His objective of eliminating income taxes will have a significant impact on Americans and the global economy."

"The government will have to offset income taxes with another revenue source, and Trump seems committed to using tariffs. While tariffs increase the prices of products and services, consumers could have more flexibility with this tax. While necessities still have to be purchased, consumers can reduce their taxes by making fewer non-essential purchases. A tax system built on tariffs can offer more flexibility than income taxes and help savvy home buyers grow their savings," he said.

He said one obvious result would be that Americans would have greater take-home pay.