PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s “Board of Peace” Just Became a Criminal Enterprise

Either the international organization Trump just launched and put himself atop is illegal under federal criminal law, or Trump isn’t planning to honor the result of the 2028 election if Democrats win.

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Introduction

When White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt gleefully announced yesterday, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the Charter for Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” had been signed and thus Mr. Trump was now “Chairman” of an official “international organization,” she set off a course of events that have sent her boss hurtling toward (more) federal crimes—and all the world toward a geopolitical crisis.

As of now, the Board of Peace and all things touching upon it should be treated as an active crime scene.

To hear American corporate media tell it—or, rather, not tell it—the opposite is true: because there’s nothing yet known about the supposed Board of Peace, nothing much can be said about it. There’s only one exception to that general rule, apparently, which is that corporate media has repeatedly referred to this new international organization, much as Proof has done in the first sentence of the report you’re now reading, as “his.”

Meaning, Donald Trump owns the Board of Peace—both the idea of it and the reality.

And that’s correct, not just rhetorically but by the terms of the entity’s own Charter.

It’s also evidence of a criminal conspiracy that’s set to widen with each passing day, and why corporate media in the United States must now start doing considerably more than merely spreading interesting trivia about the Board of Peace (like the fact that, despite being first conceived as part of Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Gaza, its Charter never mentions Gaza, though that’s true; or the fact that Trump intends for his Board to supplant the United Nations as the chief executor of all global political schemes, thereby making it a “New World Order” on Earth, though this is also true—and comes despite Trump, MAGAs, and MAGAism having insisted since 2015 that such an unified world government is exactly what they fear, as they have said it could effectively enslave humanity).

Proof is not going to go that far—but what we can say for certain that the Board of Peace, beyond being an apparent criminal enterprise (see infra), is likely one of the most dangerous entities on the planet now.

It is, in fact, the New Axis of Evil—one larger and more nefarious than the one GOP president George W. Bush identified, in the 2000s, as comprising Iraq, North Korea, and Iran, two out of three of which are nations America has gone to war with since.

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The New Axis of Evil

Whatever Trump may say about “international law” not being something he needs or cares about—he’s guided exclusively, he now says, by “my own mind,” dropping “the Bible” from the longer list of guideposts he provided back when he still needed the votes of American evangelicals—the truth is that international law does still exist, and it gives us all the framework we need now to determine who the most dangerous people on the planet are (and yes, as you might suppose, all of them are presently men).

It’s with this in mind that we can say that the Board of Peace largely comprises, it its head-of-state leadership cadre, war criminals and/or historically corrupt autocrats—men who would be put on trial in The Hague, and either executed or caged for life, if international law and the International Criminal Court held sway everywhere on Earth rather than only those places most convenient for Earth’s most powerful nations.

Of those heads-of-state who won’t be movers and shakers in the new “Board” but still “Members” of it, most would be charged, tried, convicted, and imprisoned within their own countries if those countries were able to hold their leaders to the same rule of law as every other citizen (a standard that the United States now can’t meet, either.)

As the readership of Proof of Collusion (2018), Proof of Conspiracy (2019), and Proof of Corruption (2020) will know—the three books, from Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, that together make up the New York Times-bestselling Proof Series—as Donald Trump ran for President of the United States for the first time he was making clear to certain nations hostile to the United States that if they would illegally assist him in becoming president, he’d deliver a good chunk of American foreign policy to them on a platter.

From this entreaty the leaders of these nations, all of them murderous autocrats who hate democracy, knew at least two things: (1) Trump also hated democracy and had no intention of being anything but a fellow autocrat if elected to the U.S. presidency, and (2) he was willing to betray his own homeland for personal gain by illegally bartering off its domestic and foreign policy if doing so would give him access to the key levers of power of Earth’s most powerful nation. This was of course something that even these men, the most corrupt and dangerous ones alive, had never seen before from any American, as Bribery isn’t just a felony but an impeachable offense enumerated in the United States Constitution—applying equally to one who takes a bribe or seeks one—so the idea that they’d be witnessing an American politician committing a criminal and impeachable offense in order to access the very position of power from which he could be impeached was…

…well, it was a first, at least for the United States.

Which is why this author wrote a three-book, 2,500-page bestselling epic about it, confident that the United States Supreme Court would never issue a ruling saying that a President of the United States can’t be charged with a crime in almost any circumstance, and confident that the United States Congress wouldn’t let a man off the hook for impeachable offenses constituting a betrayal of his country simply due to his party affiliation.

I went 0-for-2 on those predictions, unfortunately, with the upshot being that the only way for the two non-executive branches of the U.S. federal government—the judicial and legislative—to legalize after-the-fact what Trump did to gain the presidency in 2016 was exactly the path for America and Americans those two branches chose.

That must have made Trump seem like a seer to those foreign madmen who, in 2016, regarded him as worth laying a long-shot bet on—but only with extreme caution over his odds of success (remembering here that even Trump thought he would lose).

All of which is to say that Donald Trump’s new “Board of Peace” is now led by the very band of vile international criminals the Proof Series put on its several covers:

1. Benjamin Netanyahu, war criminal from Israel

2. Vladimir Putin, war criminal from Russia

3. Mohammed bin-Salman, war criminal from Saudi Arabia

4. Mohammed bin Zayed, war criminal from the United Arab Emirates

5. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, war criminal from Egypt

6. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, corrupt dynastic ruler of Bahrain

These were the key members of the Red Sea Conspiracy, which worked in tandem to install Trump as president in 2016.

And their agreement, now, to join the international group that their onetime 2016 long-shot bet intends to use to form a New World Order is the culmination of years of their illegally interfering in American politics with the hopes of achieving just this result. The men above are pariahs in the United Nations—for all the power they still wield there—so alongside Trump (increasingly a global pariah himself) on the Board of Peace, they’ll work to destroy the United Nations until all that’s left internationally is a band on monsters running global affairs from gilded palaces they built on blood-soaked soil. Here’s the current membership status of the Board, in a single map:

The Proof books went beyond just these monsters, however, to discuss Trump’s many other corrupt arrangements with other murderous autocrats, all now also on the Board:

1. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, war criminal and Trump business partner from Türkiye

2. Aleksandr Lukashenko, war criminal from Belarus (vassal of Vladimir Putin)

3. Ilham Aliyev, corrupt autocrat and Trump business partner from Azerbaijan

4. Viktor Orbán, corrupt autocrat, antisemite, and Trump ally from Hungary

5. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, corrupt Qatari ruler and Trump business partner

The Proof Series focused at various points on all of these extremely dangerous men, then covered, too, Javier Milei—the far-right leader of Argentina, and a new ally of Trump through his former co-president Elon Musk—in a full-length book on Musk.

As the CBC reports, while these twelve men may serve as the backbone of Trump’s new scam, they have since been joined by other bad actors, specifically the leaders of Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Morocco, Mongolia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. Many of these leaders are autocrats or otherwise corrupt, but what’s more notable is that, within this second group of twelve men, we find four systemically corrupt former Soviet Republics that Trump has sought to do corrupt Trump Organization business with in the past, as well as one country with significant pro-Russian sentiment within it (Bulgaria), another that had to join on the likelihood that corrupt autocrat and Trump and Musk friend Narendra Modi (of India) would—that would be India’s sworn nuclear-state enemy, Pakistan—and two Asian nations that could well be destroyed by Trump’s tariffs, putting them at his mercy (Vietnam and Indonesia).

Only Kosovo, Morocco, Mongolia, and (especially) the kingdom of Jordan remain somewhat surprising entrants—though before long we’ll like learn more about what each is hoping to get from all this. Mongolia could of course be a stalking horse for China, as the latter is still determining how to respond to the idea of a Board of Peace run by the mercurial autocrat Trump; China is Mongolia’s main trading partner and it also has close economic ties to its northern neighbor Russia, which will likely be the second-most powerful entity in the organization of Trump himself.

Jordan has been a stalwart U.S. ally in the Middle East, but is also in a region that’s dominated by kings and dictators—so it knows one when it sees one. It may see where the United States is headed, and it surely wants to be on the right side of what’s ahead.

Morocco has been treated very well by Trump, to the point that fewer than half of all Moroccans have any sort of “negative” view of him (see polling data here). Moreover, as The Arab Weekly notes (emphasis supplied),

[In April 2025], United States President Donald Trump reaffirmed Washington’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara and reiterated support for the Moroccan autonomy initiative, describing it as the only basis for a just and lasting solution to the dispute.

The message underscores the historic decision made in 2020 when Trump, during a phone call with King Mohammed VI, announced a presidential proclamation, immediately effective and bearing clear legal and political weight, recognizing, for the first time in U.S. history, Morocco’s full sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara region.

So, there’s that.

As for Kosovo, in September 2020 Trump oversaw the signing of the Kosovo and Serbia Economic Normalization Agreements, so good feeling from that nation toward Trump is somewhat to be expected.

But again, all this only skims the surface of why certain relatively minor foreign actors are playing along with Donald Trump on “his” Board of Peace. The important thing to recall is that the true powers on the Board, to the extent there will or can be any such besides Trump, will be the twelve men closest to him—in some cases literally closest—with respect to business partnerships, political plots, and a contempt for democracy.

But the Board can have only one Chairman, and it’s Trump. And that’s the problem.

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The Board of Peace Is a Criminal Enterprise, Part I

The text of the Charter of the so-called “Board of Peace” has just been released, now that Trump has signed it (see the image atop this report).

Not only is the new entity for all intents and purposes a kingdom ruled by its Chairman—who’s designated explicitly in the Charter as “Donald J. Trump”—but Trump has crafted the by-laws of the group in such a way as to make himself a sort of “forever king” of the Board of Peace unless he (i) voluntarily resigns from that role, which of course he would never do, or (ii) he’s “incapacitated,” a determination to be made only by the unanimous vote of an “Executive Board” he alone appoints. So obviously that situation will never occur, either, and even if it did (e.g., in the case of Trump being inarguably deceased), all that would happen is that a third clause, (iii), would kick in, which is that a “designated successor” only Trump can appoint would take his place as Chairman.

In other words, no one but Trump has any control over the Board of Peace, period.

And he has more or less sole power to decide who is (or remains) a member of the Board, assuming no member state should choose to “self-deport” from the group.

Here are the relevant parts of the Charter, which really must be read to be believed:

• Article 2.1: “Membership in the Board of Peace is limited to States invited to participate by the Chairman…”

• Article 2.2(c): “Each Member State shall serve a term of no more than three years from this Charter’s entry into force, subject to renewal by the Chairman.”

• Article 2.3: “Membership shall terminate upon…. (iii) a removal decision by the Chairman, subject to a veto by a two-thirds majority of Member States.” {NB: The invitations Trump is sending out for the Board are being engineered to ensure that no such two-thirds veto could likely ever be attained, as two-thirds of this particular group wouldn’t soon find themselves in a position of being willing to anger Trump.}

• Article 3.1(c): “The Board of Peace shall convene voting meetings [annually and] at such additional times and locations as the Chairman deems appropriate.”

• Article 3.1(e): “Decisions shall be made by a majority of the Member States present and voting, subject to the approval of the Chairman.” {NB: Yes, you read that right—Trump can veto anything he wants at any time, and also gets to tie-break any votes he allows to go forward, though of course that power is effectively redundant given that this Article also technically makes the entire “veto” process of the Board a nullity.}

• Article 3.1(g): “Member States may elect to be represented by an alternate high-ranking official at all meetings, subject to approval by the Chairman.” {NB: That’s right, you’re not hallucinating—Trump does indeed get to personally decide who even gets to be in the room at every meeting, so no matter who you may be, whether king or dictator or autocrat, Donald Trump fundamentally gets to choose your agent, not you.}

• Article 3.1(h): “The Chairman may issue invitations to relevant regional economic integration organizations to participate in the proceedings of the Board of Peace under such terms and conditions as he deems appropriate.” {NB: No one else has this power, either, which is critical given that the sort of organizations Trump is able to invite into roles of power inside the Board are the also, not so coincidentally, the sort of organizations he is empowered to take money from; see infra.}

• Article 3.2(a): “Donald J. Trump shall serve as inaugural Chairman of the Board of Peace, and he shall separately serve as inaugural representative of the United States of America.”

• Article 3.2(b): “The Chairman shall have exclusive authority to create, modify, or dissolve subsidiary entities as necessary or appropriate to fulfill the Board of Peace’s mission.”

• Article 3.3: “The Chairman shall at all times designate a successor for the role of Chairman. Replacement of the Chairman may occur only following voluntary resignation or as a result of incapacity, as determined by a unanimous vote of the Executive Board, at which time the Chairman’s designated successor shall immediately assume the position of the Chairman and all associated duties and authorities of the Chairman.”

• Article 3.4: “The Chairman may establish subcommittees as necessary or appropriate and shall set the mandate, structure, and governance rules for each such subcommittee.”

• Article 4.1(a): “The Executive Board shall be selected by the Chairman…”

• Article 4.1(b): “Members of the Executive Board shall serve two-year terms, subject to removal by the Chairman and renewable at his discretion.”

• Article 4.1(c): “The Executive Board shall be led by a Chief Executive nominated by the Chairman…”

• Article 4.1(e): “Decisions of the Executive Board shall go into effect immediately…. subject to veto by the Chairman at any time thereafter.” {NB: In other words, there is no Executive Board, practically speaking; Trump is the Executive Board.}

• Article 5.1: “Funding for the expenses of the Board of Peace shall be through voluntary funding from Member States, other States, organizations, or other sources.” {NB: This is one of the few thoroughly corrupt clauses in the Charter that does not mention Trump, but only because it doesn’t have to. What it says, instead, is that you can launder any bribes to Trump by paying into a group he wholly controls, the Executive Board, and that he is free to shake down for money anyone on Earth, from nations to organizations to “other sources” not named. Trump made sure no limit was put on his Bribery, Extortion, and Money Laundering racket’s money flow, which he solely controls.}

If you’re thinking now that this reads like the Charter of a some grimy new family company Donald Trump might seek to run, you’re getting it just fine—provided you also understand that the “family” in question here is effectively a global mafia, and by “runs” what we mean is that Trump is this organized crime family’s undisputed don.

It would be simpler, however, to say that Trump has created an international fiefdom and made himself its Lord. The powers described above are dictatorial, with the lone exception being a veto process he can rig in either of two ways: (i) by being in the position to decide who to bring into the organization in the first place (and who to throw out of it, more importantly, as he can ax anyone who countermands him), or (ii) via the clause that says he can veto any decision the Board makes, which technically includes any and every part of the veto process itself—for instance, the decision to hold a veto vote or even the veto vote itself. So it’s virtually impossible, and maybe even impossible, for the veto clause to be invoked if Trump doesn’t want it to be.

Put even more bluntly, this is a legally “unconscionable” one-way option contract that no world leader would be stupid enough to sign—let alone pay Trump $1 billion (and eventually more) for the privilege of signing—unless they’d clearly been given a signal that signatories to the group will quickly get rich off all the nations that don’t sign.

That is, the Board of Peace being an organized crime operation is a feature, not a bug.

But let’s get down to the brass tacks of why it’s illegal in the United States in particular.

The Board of Peace Is a Criminal Enterprise, Part II

The problem here is that, under federal criminal law, the Chairman of the Board of Peace can’t be any American citizen other than the President of the United States.

Or, at the outside, an explicit designee of the President of the United States.

Why?

Because the job constitutes negotiating American foreign policy with foreign nationals, which no American civilian can legally do without a specific prior authorization from the current presidential administration. Anyone who engages in such negotiations outside such prior authorization is in criminal violation of the Logan Act.

{NB: I’m putting aside here, for a moment, that the Board of Peace is also illegal for a U.S. president to be the Chairman of, as the terms of the Charter implicitly authorize the Board to be used as a vehicle for Bribery, Extortion, and Money Laundering—all of which are impeachable offenses as well as crimes that definitionally lie outside a president’s core presidential duties even under the 2024 Supreme Court decision Trump v. United States. While in theory a president could be Chairman without committing crimes or impeachable offenses, the Chairman will oversee tens of billions of dollars coming into America from all over the world and going into accounts only he has any control over—not Congress, not the taxpayers, not the federal courts, not anyone but him. The legal sinkholes there are endless.}

While the Board of Peace’s Charter allows the Chairman to designate a successor, that doesn’t solve the above problem because Trump is obligated to choose a successor now.

Article 3.3 says (emphasis supplied), “The Chairman shall at all times designate a successor for the role of Chairman.”

So Trump has a named Board of Peace successor right now, and U.S. corporate media hasn’t even asked who it is. Which one can immediately realize is a problem if you simply take a moment to play out the implications of such a key designation (again, remembering here that no one can be Chairman who isn’t President of the United States or his/her designee):

1. If Trump refuses to designate a successor, (a) he is in violation of the Charter in its very first day, and (b) it suggests he has no intention of ever being anything but the Chairman for the rest of his natural life, which means (see supra) that Trump anticipates that he’ll be President of the United States for the rest of his natural life (i.e., an illegal dictator).

2. If there is, instead, a free and fair 2028 presidential election and Trump approves of the winner, he could designate that person to follow him as Chairman starting on January 20, 2029, whether or not that requires him to un-designate his current selection (keeping in mind that whoever Trump designates as his Board of Peace successor now is essentially who he’s endorsing now to be President of the United States in 2029, a decision he’s not prepared to make and an endorsement that’d be exponentially more inappropriate and monarchical than the recommendation Joe Biden made that Kamala Harris be the Democratic Party nominee in 2024, which suggestion MAGA Republicans online shrieked for months about being “anti-democratic”). Note: This is the only future pathway that is not criminal.

3. Because Donald Trump knows no future Democratic presidential candidate or nominee or president would agree to continue the Board of Peace—let alone be Trump’s designee (as no Democrat would ever concede Trump has the power to designate anyone in this way)—for Democrats have no interest in being involved in a Board of Peace, there’s no chance Trump will select a Democrat now or ever, meaning that even if a 2028 presidential election were to be held and a Democrat were to win it, Trump would not designate a Democrat as Chairman, as that would end the Board of Peace… even as him not designating the incoming Democratic president as Chairman would make it illegal for anyone else to serve in that role, thus destroying his Board anyway.

So the only way for a “Board of Peace” that Trump intends to see rival the United Nations to be a permanent global institution that survives would be for him to do one of the following things:

1. Never leave the presidency until his natural death (at which point he could care less what happens to the world or the Board of Peace); or

2. designate as successor whoever he has decided the 2028 Republican presidential nominee is going to be and then (a) ensure they’re the GOP nominee whether MAGA voters like it or not (i.e. rig the primaries) and (b) insist that his designee won the 2028 presidential election whether they did or not (meaning that Trump at least must plan for an illegal self-coup in advance); or

3. be willing to change his designated successor if someone wins the Republican primaries he doesn’t want to see win it, though this would still require him to declare that person the winner of a general election whether they won it or not; or

4. attempt to remain Chairman in his post-presidency and thereby violate the Logan Act (and likely get charged with various financial crimes, as noted above); or

5. transfer the Chairmanship of the Board of Peace to a foreign national—like Putin—after his presidency ends, which would open him to charges of not just Bribery but also Acting As An Unregistered Foreign Agent, for given the truly awesome powers he has granted himself through the Charter of the Board of Peace, gifting that title to a non-American would be dramatically wounding his nation and give a massive geopolitical benefit (without any return for America at all) to a corrupt foreign power. {NB: Indeed—and just to bring this home—any hostile and/or corrupt foreign national Donald Trump might give the Chairmanship to would immediately be empowered to kick America out of the entire organization forthwith, per the Charter.}

In short, while of course the Board of Peace is a scam and a grift that has nothing to do with bringing peace to any part in the world—including Gaza, the supposed reason for its existence—it appears to be of historical significance for a different reason: Donald Trump has just revealed to the American people that he’s either a foreign agent, plans to continue to act as President of the United States even if he somehow leaves the office, will refuse to honor the results of the 2028 presidential election if he doesn’t approve of them, or plans to cancel the 2028 presidential election altogether.

All of these possibilities are terrifying—yet there don’t seem to be any others in view.

And incredibly, there’s a sense in which the most terrifying of these possibilities is the one in which Trump leaves the presidency voluntarily.

Why?

Because Trump has made clear that his reason for his creating the Board of Peace was to create a rival to the United Nations that—and this is key; this is the whole ballgame—can do whatever it wants very quickly, with little debate and with no one to stop it.

In other words, the Board is the New World Order, the “one world government,” that Trump supporters long said they opposed, presumably with exactly the same crossed fingers as they had when they told the rest of America, for years, that they oppose Big Government and all forms of tyranny. (It turns out that as long as they’re the ones brutalizing others, anything goes, and—as many of us always said—they never had any principles.)

If Trump leaves the presidency but is allowed, contrary to the Logan Act, to continue running the Board of Peace, he’ll be more powerful than the President of the United States in many respects, at least in terms of setting the geopolitical agenda for the planet, if not in terms of controlling a discrete military. The best we can say of the Board of Peace, in fact, is that it’s a long-term plot to undermine the American government by establishing a base of international power outside the United States that only Trump and his named successors (almost certainly members of his family or trusted lackeys) can control.

It’s a way, that is, to create a “forever presidency” without a self-coup.

(That said, this author and many others fear Trump will indeed enact a 2028 self-coup.)

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Conclusion

If America had a functional corporate media right now—which it doesn’t—all of these questions would already have been asked, even before the signing of the Charter, and would already have received sensible answers. If not, we would’ve had a raft of reports declaring the Board of Peace a danger to world peace, and to the U.S. in particular, in just the way this Proof report has now positioned it.

Instead, what’s more likely to happen is that few of the questions that desperately need to be asked will be asked… and none of them will be answered.

That in itself should be taken as evidence that Trump plans to end our democracy soon—or at best will only allow a designated Republican to succeed him.

What other conclusion can be drawn here? The various paths for the so-called Board of Peace are clear, as are all the other actions Trump has recently taken that he knows Democrats will dismantle the second they’re in power: his rule of Venezuela, his useless overpriced East Wing “ballroom,” his planned annexation of some portion of Greenland, his punishing yet arbitrary international tariffs, the “Trump Card,” the “Gold Card,” his “TrumpRx” healthcare scheme… in fact, if you take even a moment to think about it you’ll see that, a “Big Beautiful Bill” that was largely aimed at giving him a domestic army to execute a 2028 self-coup excepted, nothing Trump has done as president in his second term will outlast the term unless (i) he cancels the 2028 election, (ii) he rigs the 2028 election, (iii) he refuses to honor the results of the 2028 election and uses his new army (and the United States Armed Forces as well) to resist any peaceful transition to a Democratic POTUS, or (iv) he declares himself dictator-for-life without any pretense of elections eventually returning to American soil.

This isn’t comparable to the usual contested work of a presidency—executive orders that can later be withdrawn by political successors, or bills that could be repealed by critics in Congress—as what Trump is doing is engaging in big property crimes and property acquisitions, from his ballroom to his Triumphal Arch and Statute Garden, from new courses of rule in Venezuela and Greenland and possibly Panama, that he knows will disappear in his lifetime and while he’s watching if he doesn’t hold onto power illegally. And does anyone really believe he’ll allow such a public shaming to happen?

In a best-case scenario, this new “Board of Peace” is a plot to criminally but without over violence destroy legitimate U.S. federal government power in the world—giving it all to the Trump Family and/or their designees, instead—and at worst it’s an active crime scene that’s telegraphing to all of us, years in advance, that our democracy has been targeted for extinction at a date certain in the future.

This state of affairs is madness—a degree of madness beyond even what we’re living through right now.

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Coda

As this report went to press, Trump posted the below message on Truth Social. Note that (a) he pretends the “Board” has made a decision that we now know only he can or could’ve made—and solus, requiring no input from anyone—(b) he’s already slipping (i.e., letting his thin mask of propriety down) by calling it the “Board of Leaders” and not the “Board of Peace,” as of course its aim is power accrual, not peace.

Remember that the Board is only hours old, and already he’s abusing it contemptibly, as expected.

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