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Make America Great Tariffs are Destroying My Company

The president is not being entirely honest when he boasts about the money flowing into America thanks to his tariffs. Tariffs don’t bring in money from other countries. They take it away from U.S. businesses that import goods and pay the duties. Tariffs are assessed as part of the Customs entry process and are not, as White House propaganda might lead you to think, charged back to foreign exporters.

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Congress Lost a Forever Threat and the Anger is Just Starting

Last night President Trump took decisive action to address another forever threat especially popular among Democrats. After he took out Iranian nuclear facilities with an unannounced bunker buster attack, lawmakers who sat on their hands preferring appeasement to ending this threat demanded they be allowed to make any decision about military action.

Pro-Palestinian Radical Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who was censured in November 2023 for her antisemitic, anti-Israel remarks, spared Iran and instead attacked Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu.

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Jeffries Demands More Protection, but It’s Not For Us

While Jeffries demands more security for federal lawmakers from Speaker Johnson after the weekend attacks in Minnesota, we’re still waiting to hear his plans to help Trump protect us from the criminal illegal murderers, rapists, child molesters, terror suspects, and other foreign trash Democrats welcomed to America with open arms. It’s going to be a long wait.

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Accountability is a Government Scam, Not Justice

After years of investigating and some would argue incontrovertible evidence of influence peddling there was no accountability or justice to be had from Comer’s Oversight Committee “Biden Crime Family” probe. This was partisan politics as usual before the committee moved on to investigating the new scandal, the Biden incapacity cover-up. If you think for a moment that this will have a different result, you are the victim of a government scam.

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Democrats Promised a Trump Fourth Reich. Here it Comes.

Now Democrats are storming federal facilities under the apparent delusion that unlike Trump, they are not subject to our laws. How far can they bend our society’s guardrails to force a response they can propagandize as a Trump Fourth Reich? When you have no regard for American lives stolen by criminal illegal immigrants you welcomed across our border, nothing is off limits.

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