Bruce LeVell: Restoring Small Businesses

The New American

Bruce LeVell: Restoring Small Businesses

April 28, 2024 • Veronika Kyrylenko

In this interview with The New American, Bruce LeVell, former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and former Small Business Administration Advocate for the White House, discusses the role and significance of small businesses in the American economy. He talks about the differences in approaches to this vital sector between the Trump and Biden administrations.

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Dr. Ron Paul Talks Trade, Money, Grover Cleveland, and Taxes

August 23, 2024 • Christian Gomez, Ron Paul

The New American’s Christian Gomez interviews former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul about free trade, gold and silver as money, the presidency of Grover Cleveland, and taxes.

Nixon’s Youngest Lawyer Reflects on Watergate 50 Years Later: “It Ended Up a Coup,”

August 8, 2024 • Andrew Muller

Richard Nixon, America’s 37th President, resigned his office on August 9, 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Considering the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 2024, Geoff Shepard, a Nixon White House official and the youngest lawyer to serve on Nixon’s Watergate defense team, reflected on the rise and fall of the president in an intimate exclusive interview with Andrew Muller for The New American magazine. Shepard, who also personally transcribed the Nixon tapes and ran the White House document room, said the legal attacks against Nixon and his people “ended up a coup.” “I didn’t have a front-row seat,” reflected Shepard, the author of The Real Watergate Scandal. “I was on the stage during the unfolding of the crisis.” Despite many of his colleagues being indicted, prosecuted, and imprisoned, Shepard is the only member of the White House staff to have a letter of clearance from the special prosecutor. After leaving D.C. to pursue a career as a lawyer in the insurance industry, Shepard discovered in 2003 that all the records of the Watergate special prosecution force are held by the National Archives. Receiving credentials to view the documents, Shepard discovered what he called a “secret cabal of all senior officials, of all three branches of government, who were secretly meeting and secretly coordinating their attacks on the Nixon administration.” The specially recruited group of 100 federal characters, including 60 lawyers, were so eager to “get Nixon’s and his people” that they “cheated,” Shepard shared. Shepard’s research also uncovered written memoranda that prove at least ten separate illegal secret meetings with federal prosecutors and Judge John Sirica, who presided over the Watergate coverup and burglary trial. The federal prosecutors also met secretly with Judge Gerhard Gesell, who presided over the White House Special Investigations Unit, sometimes referred to as the Plumbers, trial. Ultimately, the story of Nixon has broad applications for America’s current political landscape, argued Shepard, comparing the lawfare waged against Nixon to that of former President Donald J. Trump. While Watergate and its calamities are in the past, the lessons learned might help direct America to safer waters in 2024.

Idaho Can Save U.S. From Deadly Dependency on China for Strategic Minerals: Mining Expert

June 17, 2024 • Bill Jasper, Darr Moon

Geological engineer and mining expert Darr Moon delivered a sobering message to the Idaho State Republican Convention in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho on June 13. Decades of environmental regulatory overkill, lawfare, and media demonization of mining have chased the mining industry out of the United States and locked up our abundant mineral resources that are necessary for a sustainable economy and national defense. America, which was previously the world leader in mining and metallurgy and which developed the technologies and techniques used all over the world, has now become dangerously dependent on China, Russia, and other adversaries. “We will not continue as a modern, industrialized society, let alone a superpower if this dangerous trend is not reversed – and soon,” he told The New American. Most Americans are unaware that we are 100 percent dependent on foreign countries, principally China, for example, for gallium, indium, mica, graphite, scandium, tantalum, manganese, strontium, and yttrium. And 95 percent dependent for rare earths, titanium, and bismuth. Our computers, cell phones, televisions, medical and scientific instruments –- virtually everything electronic -- depends on these essential materials. “A Stealth F-35 fighter jet requires 920 pounds of rare earth elements (REEs) and an Arleigh Burke class destroyer requires 5,200 pounds” he noted. We are also severely dependent on foreign copper, zinc, cobalt, silver, antimony, tungsten, magnesium, vanadium, potash, chromium, and aluminum. The good news, Moon said, is that there is no excuse for this dependence, since the western states of the U.S. are abundantly blessed with vast treasures of these vitally needed resources. “Idaho, the ‘Gem State,’ is particularly blessed with many of these elements in rich concentrations,” he noted. The problem, he notes, is that the federal government has locked up these resources under various environmental pretexts. The solution to this problem is to remove the federal government’s political stranglehold on our minerals and our mining, processing, and refining. “Trump proved that it could be done with oil and gas, converting us from energy dependency to energy independence and energy exporting. The same must be done with regard to our situation with strategic minerals,” Moon said.