Trump Admin's THREAT Just Crossed A DANGEROUS Line

The Trump administration, allegedly, has threatened the actual Vatican. You know, the home base of the Catholic Church. And when the story about this threat leaked, the move wasn't to reflect. It was to go full mob boss and personally call a cardinal, demanding who talked to the press. This is a White House that'll post 73 confidential things on Truth Social before lunch. But when the guys in robes in Italy start spilling the beans, look out. They are going to find the leak no matter who it was. They're going to be looking for whoever squealed. And so back in January, to give you the background here, Pentagon official Elbridge Colby allegedly summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican's ambassador to the US, for what sources described as a bitter confrontational lecture, reportedly telling him that America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world, and that the Catholic Church better take its side. That's from multiple outlets, by the way, that are citing Vatican sources that called the meeting bullying, aggressive, and tense. And this meeting's existence was first disclosed by an outlet with real access to the MAGA world, not some liberal gotcha blog, which makes it a lot harder to wave off as fake news that's been invented by Trump's enemies. And this all came right after Pope Leo XIV publicly called Trump's threats toward Iran, specifically that threat to wipe out the entire civilization, truly unacceptable and possibly a violation of international law. So the US ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Birch, personally called Cardinal Pierre, demanding an apology and asked for help in figuring out who was lying about the meeting, after first calling the reporting grossly mischaracterized and an attack on the United States. A man whose whole damn job is staying friendly with the actual Pope spent his week playing VIA, that's Vatican Internal Affairs, hunting a leak about his own government threatening a global religious institution. Pope Hunters, VIA, starring Michael Chiklis, coming Sundays this fall to CBS, right after NCIS Eucharist. Anyway, this guy Birch put out a statement claiming that the Cardinal had emphatically denied the story, except the Cardinal never said that publicly. Neither did the Vatican. Birch made it up. Somebody get Barry Weiss on the phone. We need this show badly. But for you guys in the comments, what's crazier? That the Pentagon allegedly tried to strong arm the actual Catholic Church into picking a geopolitical side, or that they got caught, denied it, and then caught lying about that denial too? Drop what you think in the comments. Also, who would you pick to star in NCIS Eucharist? I'm thinking, I don't know, somebody like Carrie Ann Moss or Gillian Anderson, as a former nun who left the convent after asking one too many inconvenient questions. By the way, I originally was saying Jennifer Beals in this script, but I guess I was a little too on the nose because I just read that she is now joining Scott Kahn and LL Cool J in NCIS New York. I can't make this up. So funny. Anyway, the Pentagon's denial, it sounds pretty silly at this point because they called the confrontation substantive, respectful, and professional, which is what every workplace uses to describe a meeting where somebody definitely threw a paperweight and someone else is out there in the parking lot crying after the meeting. But think about this. Think about the pure ego of this administration threatening the papacy. It shows exactly how much this administration fears that an American in a pointy hat has more moral authority on the world stage than the president does. And the whole thing traces back to something Trump's own team has nicknamed, Jesus, this is a real thing, the Donro Doctrine, an edit to the Monroe Doctrine, but with Trump's name styled in like the Weird Al version. But they're using the Donro Doctrine not to just eat it, but instead to strong arm the head of a religion. And this is not the only friction point. Vice President Vance, the alleged couch lover and convert who once personally invited the Pope to be at America's 250th birthday party is separately and publicly sparring with the Pope's own theology on the just war doctrine over Iran. While this administration is still insisting that everything in Washington and the Vatican is warm and wonderful. So look, this is a sentence I never thought I'd have to say, but you cannot bully the Pope's diplomatic corps, get caught via a leak, lie about getting caught and then act shocked when that story leaks too. Subscribe and then let's see if we can get a pitch meeting with Barry Weiss for C-S-I-Holy-C starring Method Man as a former Swiss guard who doesn't want to play by the Vatican's rules.