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Catherine Austin Fitts: ‘The battle in Washington is not being fought over left and right but over who gets to manage and profit from the (beast) system’

Fitts is always good for a clear-eyed dose of reality, what's at stake for our children and grandchildren, and where to focus our efforts in the battle for freedom.

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Leo Hohmann
Jun 10, 2026
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Donald Trump is “not our friend,” warns noted financial analyst and freedom advocate Catherine Austin Fitts.

This should be obvious to everyone by now but it’s amazing to me how many conservatives, especially conservative Christians, remain in deception regarding the true state of our country and the people who are driving it off a cliff, whether economically through reckless spending, technologically through AI surveillance and the loss of freedom, or militarily through endless foreign wars.

But the power of the words coming from someone like Fitts, whose resume includes stints on the inside of the federal government, cannot easily be dismissed. She served as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the first Bush administration and then as an investment banker after leaving government. She now operates the Solari network and is founder of the Solari Report.

Fitts is all over the internet, appearing on many podcasts, and yet her message goes larg…

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