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This Is the Strongest Case for Trump’s Tariffs I’ve Heard Yet

Donald Trump’s tariff policies remain a lightning rod for debate. Democrats are sounding the alarm, warning of dire economic fallout and painting a picture of looming catastrophe.

Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, made one of the strongest, most effective cases yet for former President Donald Trump’s tariffs during the latest episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.” She broke down exactly why these tariffs are necessary, and by the end, she left Bill Maher flustered.

Ungar-Sargon’s explanation couldn’t have been clearer: manufacturing jobs and economic nationalism are crucial for the American middle class.

When the conversation turned to the economy of the 1970s, Ungar-Sargon wasted no time explaining why so many Americans look back on that era with nostalgia. “In the ‘70s, the largest share of our GDP was in the middle class,” she said. “And that was not separate from the fact that 25% of our economy was in manufacturing.”

Maher sought clarification, asking if that meant “most of what was produced came from the middle, and now it comes from the rich.”

“Now, the top 20% controls over 50% of the GDP,” Ungar-Sargon confirmed, highlighting how economic power has been funneled away from the working class. “That manufacturing is still being done; it’s just being done in other countries.”

Maher interjected, noting that the jobs have moved overseas for “wages we will not work for.”

This, of course, is true, but it also proved Ungar-Sargon’s point.

“Yes, that’s exactly right. You’re right, Bill,” Ungar-Sargon responded. “That’s what the tariffs are for. They are to make American workers more competitive in the global market.” She then challenged the defeatist attitude that has allowed China to dominate industries once vital to the American workforce. “Why are we accepting that there should be a race to the bottom? You know, China, what is its competitive advantage over us? It’s that it pays slave wages. Why should we accept that?”

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Trump Moves to Shut Down Voice of America, State Media Outlets

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that will dismantle Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and other US state media outlets. A press release from the White House said that the outlets have adopted an increasingly progressive agenda. 

On Friday, the President signed an executive order instructing “the non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” It continues, “And such entities shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law.”

The United States Agency for Global Media and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars were among the seven agencies facing closure. The US Agency for Global Media runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Free Asia. 

In a press release, the White House quoted long-time Voice of America staffer Dan Robinson who claimed the outlet had adopted a progressive bias. “I have monitored the agency’s bureaucracy along with many of its reporters and concluded that it has essentially become a hubris-filled rogue operation often reflecting a leftist bias aligned with partisan national media,” he said. “It has sought to avoid accountability for violations of journalistic standards and mismanagement.”

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Yemen: US Airstrikes Kill 31, Including Women and Children

A major round of US airstrikes that hit Yemen on Saturday killed at least 31 people, mostly women and children, Yemen’s Health Ministry said on Sunday.

Another 101 were wounded by the US bombing, and the Health Ministry said all the casualties were civilians, while the US is claiming it killed “multiple” leaders of Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah.

A total of 40 US airstrikes were reported to hit Yemen, primarily focusing on the northern Saada governorate. Strikes also hit the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the governorates of Taiz, Ibb, Dhamar, Al Bayda, Marib, and Hajjah. Targets that were reported hit included power stations, residential areas and homes, and Houthi military sites. The strikes marked the first time the US bombed Yemen under the new Trump administration.

President Trump announced the start of the bombing campaign on Saturday and said the Houthis must stop their attacks on shipping and US warships. However, Ansar Allah hasn’t targeted any ships in months since it ceased attacks once a ceasefire deal was reached in Gaza back in January.

Last week, the Houthis announced that the blockade on Israeli ships was coming back into effect in response to Israel cutting off all aid shipments in Gaza, a blatant violation of the ceasefire deal, but the group hasn’t launched any attacks since then. The Houthis did recently shoot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone that was flying over Yemen or near its coast.

“The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” President Trump said on Truth Social.

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The UFO Disclosure Hopes That Fizzled: How Momentum Under Trump Has Stalled For Now

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

For some time, relationships had been carefully cultivated with members of the new Trump administration.

Lue Elizondo, Former head of the Pentagon’s UAP investigation program, AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) had even made multiple appearances on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast

Key positions were filled by individuals who had previously advocated for greater transparency on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

Notably, the newly appointed Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, even appears in a documentary film exploring what is claimed to be the greatest cover-up of all time—one involving multiple groups of non-human intelligence.

Under the Trump administration, it had been expected that a key appointment would be made within the National Security Council to orchestrate the disclosure of UAP information.

For once, we were set to see the full muscle of the White House backing UAP transparency.

After all, that had been the plan from day one of the modern disclosure effort, but under a President Hillary Clinton. 

But she lost. And so too, was her promise to “open the files as much as we can.”

The man who currently occupies the White House – who triumphed over Clinton – President Trump, has himself acknowledged receiving briefings on UAP.

When asked by podcaster Lex Fridman whether he would push the Pentagon to release more UAP footage, President Trump responded enthusiastically: “Oh yeah sure I’ll do that, I would do that, I’d love to do that, I have to do that.”

So far, there has been no public effort to release such footage, in contrast to the declassification of records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—campaign promises Trump pursued through executive orders.

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Major US Attacks in Northern Yemen as Trump Vows ‘Overwhelming Lethal Force’

US airstrikes are reportedly hitting the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa today, with President Trump promising “overwhelming lethal force” against the Houthi movement in northern Yemen unless they stop all attacks on international shipping.

Trump said that he had decided to launch “decisive and powerful military action” against the “Houthi terrorists,” accusing them of piracy against Americans. He also condemned former President Joe Biden for being “pathetically weak” and said no American commercial ship had gone through the Suez Canal in over a year.

Like many of the important US declarations of war these days, President Trump’s announcement came via a post on his social media application Truth Social, and was punctuated with all caps screeds railing about hell raining down on Yemen “like nothing you have ever seen before!”

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Trump Declares War on Fake News: Says Media’s Biased Coverage is ‘ILLEGALLY’ Swaying Judges Rulings and ‘MUST BE STOPPED’

President Donald Trump has fired a blistering warning shot at the mainstream media, declaring CNN, MSNBC (or, as he calls them, MSDNC), and other leftist outlets as “corrupt” and “illegal” for their blatant propaganda designed to manipulate public perception and, even worse, sway judicial rulings.

For years, the mainstream media has colluded with the radical left to paint a distorted reality where Trump is the villain and their corrupt Democrat allies are the heroes. Viewers who rely on cable news across the globe are being fed this manipulated reality, and the consequences are dangerous.

Speaking in a rare address at the Department of Justice, Trump did not hold back, laying out the case against the so-called “news” networks that operate more like the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party than actual journalism.

“I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they’re really corrupt, and they’re illegal. What they do is—it’s legal,” Trump said, leaving no room for interpretation.

“It makes no difference how big a victory I had. I can have the biggest victory in history. It makes no difference what a failure the other side has—these people are going to go after me…

He went further, declaring that the media’s deliberate distortion of the truth is swaying judicial rulings, making fair trials impossible in America.

“These networks and these newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative, and it has to stop. It has to be illegal.

“It’s influencing judges, and it’s really changing the law. And it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal. And they do it in total coordination with each other,” Trump said.

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Trump pledges to end the use of aborted baby tissues in federal investigation.

The Trump administration is about to take a monumental step in defending life and scientific ethics by banning the use of fetal tissues from abortions in research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

This decision, driven by Trump’s nominee to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, and backed by key figures such as Senator Josh Hawley and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., marks a milestone in the pro-life movement and the search for ethical alternatives in science.

During a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Trump’s NIH nominee, Jay Bhattacharya, explicitly promised to ban the use of fetal tissues from abortions in research funded by the institution.

When Senator Josh Hawley asked him if he supported Kennedy’s attempt to reinstate a policy from Trump’s first administration that severely restricted such investigation, Bhattacharya responded affirmatively, emphasizing that viable ethical alternatives exist.

@DrJBhattacharya promised that NO aborted fetal tissue will be used in NIH-funded research.

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Trump Admin Demolishing Biden’s Illegal Alien Processing Centers

The Trump administration has launched its demolition of the previous administration’s processing centers for facilitating the illegal alien invasion of our country.

The Biden-Harris centers for processing illegal aliens are set to tumble down as the Trump border crackdown continues, per Breitbart on March 14. This could save the American taxpayer millions of dollars every single month. No longer will the Border Patrol function as a welcoming committee instead of law enforcement, thanks to Trump and his border czar Tom Homan.

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief celebrated the continuing securing of our border. “Due to the unprecedented drop in apprehensions of illegal aliens as a result of President Trump’s leadership, CBP is reducing the number of temporary, soft-sided processing facilities where illegal aliens have been held in specific locations along the southwest border,” stated Pete R. Flores, the acting CBP commissioner. 

Flores added, “CBP no longer has a need for them as illegal aliens are being quickly removed. The U.S. Border Patrol has full capability to manage the detention of apprehended aliens in its permanent facilities. Manpower and other resources dedicated to temporary processing facilities will be redirected toward other priorities and will speed CBP’s progress in gaining operational control over the southwest border.”

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Did the Behavioral Health Industry have Insider Knowledge About the Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler, PA?

AbleChild has been closely following the FBI investigation into the parents of Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old dead suspect in the attempted assassination of President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. Despite no lawsuits or legal actions filed against the Crooks family, the parents have retained Quinn Logue, a high-profile Pittsburgh law firm, raising questions about their involvement and prompting President Trump to call for deeper scrutiny. The FBI is investigating whether Matthew and Mary Crooks had prior knowledge of their son’s plans. How is that going?

AbleChild sees troubling parallels between this case and past mass shootings, including the Sandy Hook, Newtown, Connecticut killings in 2012. In Sandy Hook, AbleChild was asked by a local mother to investigate whether Adam Lanza was on psychiatric drugs. Despite suing Connecticut’s Chief Medical Examiner for Lanza’s mental health and toxicology records, AbleChild was unable to obtain the release due to financial limitations. The mental health records have never been fully released. The investigation revealed disturbing patterns: Dr. Paul Fox, one of Lanza’s psychiatrists, fled to New Zealand shortly after surrendering his medical license in the U.S. amid allegations of sexual misconduct with a teenage patient. AbleChild has long raised concerns that the behavioral health industry may have helped Fox leave the country to avoid scrutiny. He continued practicing psychiatry in New Zealand until media exposure forced him to resign and return to the U.S., where he was later arrested by Homeland Security for sexual assault. AbleChild played a vital role in pushing for his arrest.

These patterns—missing toxicology reports, autopsy delays, corrupted crime scenes, and lack of evidence transparency—are eerily similar to the Butler investigation. Such failures allow major players in the behavioral health and psychiatric drug industry to avoid accountability while shifting blame elsewhere. These industries often exploit tragedies to demand more funding or push agendas like restricting gun rights. President Trump should really take a closer look at the upcoming spending bill and the shocking amount of money allocated to the behavioral health industry despite their failed mental health outcomes. They just might be key players in the assassination attempt to kill him.

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Trump Department of Education Launches Investigations into 45 Universities for Race-Based Exclusionary Practices and 7 for Race-Based Segregation

The Trump administration is about to unleash a massive crackdown against the widespread discrimination whites and Asians are enduring on America’s college campuses.

This morning, the Department of Education opened Title VI investigations into 45 universities for allegedly engaging in race-exclusionary programs in their graduate programs and seven colleges for race-based segregation and using impermissible scholarships.

This makes 52 schools that are trying to return to the dark days when America was separated on the basis of skin color.

Below is the list of colleges engaging in race-exclusionary practices. Note the huge number of state colleges on this list.

  1. Arizona State University-Main Campus
  2. Boise State University
  3. Cal Poly Humboldt
  4. California State University – San Bernardino
  5. Carnegie Mellon University
  6. Clemson University
  7. Cornell University
  8. Duke University
  9. Emory University
  10. George Mason University
  11. Georgetown University
  12. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  13. Montana State University-Bozeman
  14. New York University (NYU)
  15. Rice University
  16. Rutgers University
  17. The Ohio State University-Main Campus
  18. Towson University
  19. Tulane University
  20. University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
  21. University of California – Berkeley
  22. University of Chicago
  23. University of Cincinnati – Main Campus
  24. University of Colorado
  25. University of Delaware
  26. University of Kansas
  27. University of Kentucky
  28. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  29. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  30. University of Nebraska at Omaha
  31. University of New Mexico – Main Campus
  32. University of North Dakota – Main Campus
  33. University of North Texas – Denton
  34. University of Notre Dame
  35. University of Nevada – Las Vegas
  36. University of Oregon
  37. University of Rhode Island
  38. University of Utah
  39. University of Washington-Seattle
  40. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  41. University of Wyoming
  42. Vanderbilt University
  43. Washington State University
  44. Washington University in St. Louis
  45. Yale University

Here are the seven schools under investigation for allegedly using impermissible race-based scholarships and race-based segregation. The University of Alabama and the University of Minnesota are the most prominent names.

  1. Grand Valley State University
  2. Ithaca College
  3. New England College of Optometry
  4. University of Alabama
  5. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  6. University of South Florida
  7. University of Tulsa School of Medicine

Do you see your college on either list?

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