The U.S. would waive sanctions so that an investor group could buy up oil fields, refineries, and gas stations around the world that are owned by Lukoil, the Russian energy giant,” said McCarthy.

“The second reason for doing the diesel deal with Putin is, as ever, corruption,” said McCarthy, who is — again — a three-time Trump voter. “In early October, the New York Times reported that Trump is working on an even more execrable multibillion-dollar oil deal with Putin:

And Iran’s Houthi allies are pounding Saudi Arabia and upsetting Red Sea shipments. Meanwhile Trump has not ended “his imbecilic trade war with Canada, our ally and neighbor,” said McCarthy.

“Trump started against Iran without seeking congressional authorization or public buy-in” is back on the menu. Iran — which is Putin’s ally — has stepped up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, said McCarthy.

McCarthy said in making this deal Trump is trying to convince voters that he is “taking real steps to reduce the prices his unilaterally imposed policies have caused.” But that’s not going to work because prices will not decrease. In fact, they’ll probability go higher because the war

Putin is a war criminal, he added, who scoffs at Trumps pleas of peace after attacking Ukraine. And he “blithely persisted in his barbaric attacks on civilians, even as Trump announced the diesel deal.”

whose energy sector is in such disrepair it was importing diesel from South Korea this summer, is going to be our savior exporter,” said McCarthy.

Putting aside the more appalling aspects of this deal — a gift to Putin, requiring no concessions on his part — we are apparently supposed to believe that Russia,

The United States, after all, produces around 5 million barrels of diesel per day, yet consumes less than 4 million barrels per day. This excess makes the U.S. the “world’s top diesel exporter,” while Russia, in stark contrast, has “collapsed” as an exporter, said McCarthy.

“Trump’s atrocious oil deal with Vladimir Putin, his friend and America’s foe, is impeachable flim-flam,” said McCarthy. “It’s a fraud on the American people — a desperate, futile attempt to address Trump’s self-inflicted wound of high diesel prices.”

Conservative writer Andrew McCarthy voted for President Donald Trump three times, but he pulled no punches in blasting Trump’s “imbecilic” policies leading to his deal with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

So far, all Reyes has done to force Trump to comply is order the deputy director of National Park Service to retain all communications about the East Potomac Golf Course and make sure all relevant notes pertaining to Trump's attempted construction are preserved.

Trump's defiance of Reyes' court is hardly uncharacteristic. In various legal cases he has refused to follow court orders in states and municipalities like New Jersey (more than 50 times), Minnesota, Rhode Island, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

"Listening to the hearing with a retired Judge who characterized this as 'she’s really p - - - - off,'" Alene posted on X. "The question is, what is she prepared to do about it & ultimately, will SCOTUS back her."

Another critic of Trump, former United States Attorney Joyce Alene, expressed skepticism about whether Judge Ana C. Reyes will act as necessary to compel compliance from Trump.

"The Left is endlessly enraged that, after allowing DC to decay for decades, the Trump Administration is making it safe, clean and beautiful."

"I missed the part of the Constitutional Convention that put federal judges in charge of golf course maintenance," Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, posted on X on Monday.

President Donald Trump is continuing to destroy historic trees in order to build a private golf course — and one of his officials took to X to gloat about actions that the involved judge described as a "massive fire drill" for democracy.