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WATCH: Trump participates on agriculture roundtable
Wisconsin event meant to address support for nation's farmers
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American leftists’ beloved Cuban propaganda agency sanctioned by Trump admin
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The Trump administration announced sanctions on Thursday against a Cuban agency that collaborates with American leftist groups. Financial transactions between anyone in the U.S. and the Cuban […]
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WATCH LIVE: President Trump Participates in Roundtable on American Agriculture in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin – 3 PM CT
President Trump will participate in a roundtable event on American agriculture in western Wisconsin this afternoon. The event in Chippewa Falls, part of Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, comes as Democrats target the congressional seat held by Rep. The post WATCH LIVE: President Trump Participates in Roundtable on American Agriculture in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin – 3 PM CT appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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'Poof, it's gone': The quiet way Republicans kill Trump's priorities without a vote
President Donald Trump has a reputation for bending Republicans to his will, but a political scientist said Friday there's a quiet trick Republicans use to kill his priorities — without ever casting a vote against him.In a New York Times conversation, Good Politics/Bad Politics writer Jonathan Bernstein laid out the strategy political scientist Matthew Glassman calls "negative agenda setting." If Republicans simply never bring something to a vote, it vanishes, and no one has to go on record opposing the president."As Trump's unpopularity among voters starts to really sink in, Senate Republicans seem to be more willing to go public," Bernstein said. "But there are still lots of things, from nominations to specific budget requests, that just disappear."Trump has repeatedly demanded the Senate nuke the filibuster to ram through his SAVE Act voter restrictions — and Senate leadership has simply refused to move on it. His proposed $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund was stripped down after Senate Republicans balked, and even outgoing senators have admitted colleagues are deliberately sitting on the sidelines to avoid a public fight.Bernstein argued that Trump makes it easy by not sweating the details. A more engaged president, he said, would fight for these items — or never propose doomed ones in the first place. Instead, they quietly die without a vote."If they never take an action on something, say a vote, poof, it’s gone," said John Guida, a Times Opinion editor.
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Watch live: Trump speaks on agriculture at Wisconsin roundtable
President Trump is participating in a roundtable on agriculture Friday afternoon in Wisconsin. The Trump administration has felt pressure from farmers over rising fertilizer costs associated with the war in Iran and restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a key shipping channel for the product and a fifth of the global oil…
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US shoots down Iranian drones launched toward Strait of Hormuz after Trump said ‘we’re straightening out a little unfinished business’
The US military shot down four Iranian drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening, US Central Command said — as President Trump told an audience in Wisconsin he had to hurry...
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Ex-FBI official says agents are abandoning Trump’s 'partisan idiots'
Former intelligence analyst and ex-FBI official Michael Feinberg said the spate of firings, dismissals and retirements in President Donald Trump’s second term is not so one-sided. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he believes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is “unnecessary and or too big,” and would “like to see it smaller”“I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said, about those who worked in the Joe Biden and Barack Obama administrations. But Feinberg said serious employees, those with intelligence and a hint of patriotism, are already a step ahead and likely leaving for their own reasons.“[I]n the intelligence community, bad leadership drives out good leadership because the people who take on those roles at the FBI, the CIA, … other places, they're principled, they're patriotic, they're idealistic. And when they see somebody come in taking a wrecking ball to the agency's ability to manifest and epitomize those qualities, they realize it's not somewhere they could work anymore,” Feinberg told MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace. “And all of a sudden you get a lot of lackeys. And as I said earlier, you get people who are not going to tell the president when he's wrong and the president's going to make bad decisions.”Wallace made a reference to a recent New York Times article reporting that Trump largely ignored his entire national security team and instead took trusted the claims of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the run up to Trump’s disastrous war in Iran, which has lifted gas and food prices and put Republicans’ hold on the House and Senate in jeopardy.“It's going to get worse,” Feinberg assured as more professionals evacuate federal rooms filling up with imbeciles.“The intelligence community … are Ph.D. holders. They are people who acutely understand social science research methods. They are people who speak multiple languages, who understand how to use cultural norms, to recruit somebody to want to work with the United States. There are more soft skills than hard skills … but the former is overwhelmingly more important and intelligent people, patriotic people, and they don't want to work for partisan idiots,” said Feinberg.“I don't know how to put it more straightforward than that,” Feinberg added. “And not only do they not want to do the work, they can't do it because people like Bill Pulte or Tulsi Gabbard or Kash Patel or John Ratcliffe don't want to let them.”Yeah,” agreed Wallace. “Yeah, it's about as blunt as that.” - YouTube youtu.be
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Trump gears up to fire intel community experts: WSJ
President Donald Trump knows that his nominee for director of national intelligence can't be confirmed by the Senate. An exclusive Wall Street Journal report revealed that Bill Pulte, who Trump nominated this week, has a reputation of "moves fast and breaks things," as one CNN reporter said on Tuesday. The expectation is that Pulte will take Trump's revenge campaign up a notch, deploying the entirety of the U.S. intelligence apparatus against the president's perceived enemies. The office of the DNI oversees 18 intelligence agencies from the CIA to the NSA and others. It was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the investigative commission found the intelligence departments weren't able to connect the dots between details each agency discovered. Trump told the Journal personally, that he believes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is “unnecessary and or too big.” “I’d like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said, about those who worked in the Joe Biden and Barack Obama administrations. The Journal asked Trump whether he wants Pulte to start firing people, and Trump said he wants him to “start the process.”Trump also added that "his eventual nominee to serve in the role permanently should continue that work."The comment appears to acknowledge that Pulte will not be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Indeed, many Republicans have indicated they're opposed to the nominee, but Pulte can serve as an "acting DNI" and implement all of the changes Trump wants before he appoints someone who could get confirmed. As an "acting" official, Pulte can serve for 210 days, or until the Senate votes to deny him. “Frankly, it might be good for him to shake it up before people come,” Trump said. “Because, if he [Pulte] reduced the size, in conjunction with me … and in conjunction with possibly the person coming in … he can do a lot of the hard work and we wouldn’t have to saddle somebody that goes in.”Trump said he is interviewing possible permanent candidates, two of whom he'll speak with on Friday. "One from business and one from the world of politics. Bill is not going to be there that long."Trump said he wants to see Pulte do what Education Secretary Linda McMahon has done in her department. “We’ve made the Department of Education much smaller, and likewise, this should be much smaller,” Trump told the Journal, referring to ODNI. “And this should maybe even be terminated, and we’ll make that decision.”Trump also mentioned that Pulte should feel free to release any classified documents that he wants. “I would say everything — he should look at everything and make a determination," Trump said. Even some of Trump's own advisors were shocked by his nomination of Pulte, who has no experience in intelligence, defense or even law enforcement. He's been Trump's director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. “We don’t need a weaponized DNI,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said, speaking to reporters this week.
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Trump: Reflecting Pool work wasn’t simply ‘paint job’
President Trump dismissed criticism of the recent Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations on Friday, rejecting claims the project amounted to merely a “paint job.” “The Great Reflecting Pool, that stretches between The Lincoln Memorial and The Washington Monument, just opened to ‘rave reviews’ but, maliciously or not, some say, like The Washington Post, it was…
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