{"id":21511,"date":"2025-04-16T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=21511"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:45:12","slug":"tax-day-turkey-shoot-on-gardner-goldsmiths-liberty-conspiracy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/tax-day-turkey-shoot-on-gardner-goldsmiths-liberty-conspiracy-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Day Turkey Shoot on Gardner Goldsmith&#8217;s Liberty Conspiracy Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v6s69b9-liberty-conspiracy-mind-meld-authorjournalist-james-bovard-on-trump-v-due-p.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp\"><strong>Gardner Goldsmith<\/strong><\/a> and I had fun thumping the feds on Tax Day.\u00a0 We bantered about where Trump is going &#8211; is he verging on &#8220;full Nixonian&#8221; on some of the crackdowns on foreign students, immigrants, and other targets?\u00a0 Here is Gard&#8217;s summary of the show: we &#8220;dig into the troubling Trump Admin. attacks on due process and free speech for people who have green cards or whom the Trump Administration accuses of speaking contrary to US &#8220;security interests&#8221;, and the information here offered (rooted in strong constitutional evidence) reveals a powerful threat to liberty. 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