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A Highland Park, Michigan, city councilman threw down in a big way during a public meeting Tuesday night, issuing four-letter words during a two-minute rant and daring his foes to “make me step down” following a drunk driving charge against him earlier this month.

Khursheed Ash-Shafii was arrested April 7 after refusing to take a breathalyzer test at the scene of a crash he was involved in, WJBK-TV reported, adding that officers suspected he had been drunk while driving.

‘I don’t give two s**ts if a person likes me or doesn’t like me.’

When police arrived, Ash-Shafii told officers he didn’t have vehicle insurance or registration, the station said, adding that bodycam video shows officers telling Ash-Shafii that if he refuses to take the breathalyzer test, a $200 civil infraction will result.

A police report notes that officers smelled alcohol before finding an open bottle of liquor in Ash-Shafii’s vehicle, WJBK said, and that he became aggressive toward police while being taken to a hospital. He later complied with officer’s orders and was taken to the Highland Park jail.

Ash-Shafii faces four charges: resisting an officer, obstructing police, operating while under the influence of alcohol, and driving with a suspended license, the station said.

During Tuesday’s council meeting, a resident criticized Ash-Shafii over an interview in which he defended calling police officers “white Nazis” during an incident separate from his drunk driving arrest.

“I feel as what Khursheed did was very impolite and rude, and I think he needs to apologize and step down,” the resident said, according to WXYZ-TV.

When it was Ash-Shafii’s turn to speak at the council meeting, he went on a rant.

“In case you don’t recognize who I am, in case you don’t see the rage behind the face that you’re looking at here, you want me to move? You want me to step down? Make me step down,” he began angrily with a voice that growled at times.

“I’m not here for a popularity contest,” he added. “I don’t give two s**ts if a person likes me or doesn’t like me.”

He continued, “Now granted, the news hasn’t been pretty. But anybody who can’t see this for the setup that it is, is a flipping idiot.”

Ash-Shafii added that “anybody who got a problem with me, tough. You want me to move, come move me. I’m sitting right here. And I’m gonna be here until my term is up or until the Lord calls me back, one of the two. So anybody that don’t like Khursheed Ash-Shafii, that’s just tough titties for you. Deal with it.”

He concluded by saying that “you know they didn’t do nothing but pour gasoline on an already enraged inferno. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and I love a good f**king fight. So pardon my language, and you all have a good evening.”

You can view video reports here and here showing Ash-Shafii’s arrest, as well as parts of his city council rant. You can watch his entire rant here.

Highland Park Mayor Glenda McDonald released the following statement to WXYZ:

“I do not condone the behavior demonstrated by Councilman Ash-Shafii. The language he used is unacceptable for any elected official and reflects a lack of professionalism and respect — both for the audience and for fellow members of the Council. There are always more constructive and appropriate ways to express disagreement or convey a point. Regarding his use of the word ‘revenge,’ I am unclear on who or what he was referring to. However, suggesting or threatening revenge in any context is entirely inappropriate for someone in public office.”

In regard to Ash-Shafii’s “white Nazis” statement, WXYZ said it was caught on police bodycam video during a March 10 argument with officers at the corner of Oakman Boulevard and Hamilton Avenue.

Police were in the area to ask a bar employee about a child found wandering nearby, WXYZ reported, adding that Ash-Shafii said he got a call to make sure citizens were treated fairly.

Last week, Ash-Shafii defended his “white Nazis” comment to WXYZ and said, “I stand by that statement.”

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Yale College announced on Wednesday that an anti-Israel student group would lose their rights as a registered student organization over “disturbing anti-Semitic” actions at a protest Tuesday evening.

The Yalies4Palestine group had met with college officials and had been warned about violating their conduct rules, but the protest led to officials taking action.

The investigation into the demonstration is ongoing and may result in additional penalties that include probation, suspension, and expulsion.

The protest at Beinecke Plaza lasted only about four hours, beginning at 8 p.m., and the Yalies4Palestine denied having any part of it, but a press release from the college cited social media posts taking credit for the demonstration.

“Repost! Share! Join the students!” read one post with video of students erecting tents, while another read, “HAPPENING NOW YALE STUDENTS RELAUNCH ENCAMPMENTS.” Another video showed protesters not allowing Jewish students to access college buildings.

Without official student group registration, the group won’t be able to reserve spaces at Yale, participate in the student activities bazaar, or request Yale funding.

“Because Yalies4Palestine has flagrantly violated the rules to which the Yale College Dean’s Office holds all registered student organizations, Yale College today notified Yalies4Palestine that the College is withdrawing its status as a registered student organization,” the statement reads.

The college went on to say that the investigation into the demonstration is ongoing and may result in additional penalties that include probation, suspension, and expulsion.

A statement from the Yalies4Palestine group accused the college of caving to demands from President Donald Trump.

“Several peer institutions including Harvard and Columbia had federal funding stripped from them by the Trump administration soon after suspending student organizations protesting the genocide in Gaza,” reads the statement. “Attacking students and alienating community members didn’t save Harvard or Columbia. It won’t save Yale.”

One report said about 100 people joined the protest that included only eight tents. The protesters chanted, “We are here, and we are staying all night!” until officials threatened them with disciplinary action.

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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump added to the mountain of executive orders he has issued in his second term, with orders on “commonplace” school discipline, artificial intelligence, and other policies.

The order on school discipline ended policies imposed in 2014 that “effectively required schools to discriminate on the basis of race by imposing discipline based on racial characteristics, rather than on objective behavior alone.”

‘Disciplinary decisions should be based solely on students’ behavior and actions.’

The order cited a 2018 report from the Federal Commission on School Safety that said schools merely covered up bad student behavior and kept students in class, putting all students at risk. The policies were rescinded that year but then implemented again in 2023, resulting in an increase in school violence and classroom disorder.

Trump’s order called on schools to discipline students based purely on their behavior, with no regard to racial disparities as a result of disciplinary action.

“President Trump is taking historic and commonsense action to boost school safety standards. Disciplinary decisions should be based solely on students’ behavior and actions,” said Linda McMahon, the U.S. education secretary.

Another order called for students to receive instruction in the utilization of artificial intelligence.

“The basic idea of this executive order is to ensure that we properly train the workforce of the future by ensuring that school children, young Americans, are adequately trained in AI tools, so that they can be competitive in the economy years from now into the future, as AI becomes a bigger and bigger deal,” said White House staff secretary Will Scharf.

Another order aimed to cut out diversity, equity, and inclusion policies from college accreditation and return to focusing on merit and performance.

Other orders will provide aid to historically black colleges and universities, as well as highlight a law about disclosures on foreign gifts.

“The Department will work with the Initiative and HBCUs to expand partnerships and share best practices for institutions to become hubs of opportunity and economic engines for local industries and employers,” McMahon said.

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In a late-night order, the Supreme Court on Saturday blocked the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal aliens. The administration had relied on the law to expedite removals of some of the most dangerous individuals in the country, including alleged MS-13 gang members.

This wasn’t a final ruling on the statute, but it froze current deportation efforts and signaled a likely loss for the White House. Once again, Donald Trump faces betrayal from the very justices he appointed — only Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. The president now finds himself at odds with a politically driven judiciary that seems to believe unelected lawyers, not the commander in chief, should run the executive branch.

The implication is clear. If Biden can import millions without due process, but Trump can’t deport them without it, then the system has no future.

Mass deportations remain essential if the United States hopes to remain a functioning nation. But the legal system isn’t the only obstacle. Mass democracy — often hailed as a bulwark against tyranny — turns out to be remarkably easy to rig.

When the ruling classes can’t depend on the current electorate to keep them in power, they simply replace it. Democrats understand that new immigrants overwhelmingly support the party that promises wealth redistribution — from the established population to the newly arrived.

Illegal immigrants may not vote immediately, but many will gain amnesty or eventually naturalize. Their children will all receive birthright citizenship. That’s the plan: long-term voter replacement to eliminate serious opposition in national elections.

The crisis at the southern border never threatened Democrats. They designed it. It wasn’t a policy failure. It was an electoral strategy.

And the Supreme Court saw no urgency in stopping a border policy designed to rig American elections for generations.

The Biden administration ran a cell phone app that fast-tracked illegal entry. It didn’t just leave the southern border wide open — it flew planeloads of Haitian migrants directly into the United States and dumped them in small Midwestern towns, where they overwhelmed local infrastructure. At no point did Chief Justice John Roberts step in, despite the administration’s blatant disregard for federal law and its constitutional duty to protect citizens.

When government officials at every level violated core constitutional rights during the pandemic — freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and more — the Supreme Court barely stirred. When federal intelligence agencies colluded with social media platforms to censor Americans and manipulate the outcome of a presidential election, the justices stayed silent. No emergency orders. No late-night rulings.

Even when January 6 defendants were charged under a statute that clearly didn’t apply to them, the court dragged its feet for years before taking up the case.

But when MS-13 gang members faced deportation under a long-standing federal statute, the Supreme Court sprang into action — issuing a midnight order to protect their due process rights.

Different rules for different people. And we’re all supposed to pretend not to notice.

The situation has become so absurd — so transparently political — that Justice Alito called it out in a blistering dissent, highlighting the irony of denying due process in an emergency order supposedly aimed at protecting due process:

In sum, literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order. I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.

The absurdity doesn’t end with the timing. Millions of illegal immigrants already lived in the U.S. before Biden took office. Since then, more than six million (at least) have entered illegally — an estimate even generous analysts won’t dispute.

Now consider the implications: If each of those six million requires a full court hearing before deportation, Trump could devote every waking moment of his presidency to the task and still fall short of removing even that cohort.

The implication is clear. If Biden can import millions without due process, but Trump can’t deport them without it, then the system has no future. Democrats get to flood the electorate with a new dependent voting class during their terms, while Republican presidents get bogged down in endless legal entanglements trying to undo the damage.

Every Republican president becomes a man with a bucket, bailing water from a cruise ship with a hole the size of Mexico.

The left keeps warning that Trump’s battles with the courts risk plunging us into a constitutional crisis. But that crisis began tens of millions of illegal immigrants ago.

Federal judges have already blocked Trump administration efforts to reform the military, reduce spending, and rein in foreign aid. They act as though they — not the president — command the executive branch. Now, the Supreme Court has taken the absurd position that the due process rights of illegal alien gang members matter more than the rights of American citizens.

A government that fails to secure its borders or remove those who violate them abandons its most basic responsibility. No country that tolerates mass illegal presence can long remain a country at all — certainly not for long.

The judiciary isn’t defending the rule of law. It’s eroding it — obstructing legitimate executive action, undermining democratic accountability, and weakening national sovereignty.

The Trump administration has ambitious and vital goals: restoring American industry through tariffs, ending the globalist drift in foreign policy, removing progressive rot from universities, and dismantling the administrative state.

But none of it will matter without mass deportations.

Tens of millions of people live in the United States in defiance of our laws. They must be expelled. The only question is how far the courts will go to damage their own credibility trying to stop it.

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Professional football Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst Shannon Sharpe is facing a $50 million civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault, battery, and emotional abuse. The plaintiff, referred to as “Jane Doe” in court documents, alleges that during their two-year “rocky consensual relationship,” Sharpe raped her twice, recorded sexual encounters without consent, and threatened her.

In an audio clip released to the media by the plaintiff’s attorney, a woman says, “Don’t manipulate me,” to which Sharpe responds, “Oh, Lord have mercy, if you say that word one more time, I’m going to f*****g choke the s**t out of you when I see you.” The woman then sheepishly replies, “I don’t want to be choked.”

Sharpe has vehemently denied the allegations, alleging that the clip was intentionally edited to misrepresent a consensual interaction.

In a recent public statement, he called the lawsuit “a shakedown,” identified the plaintiff as OnlyFans model Gabriella “Gabbi” Zuniga, and claimed that it was “all being orchestrated by Tony Buzbee,” Gabbi’s attorney.

“Tony Buzbee targets black men, and I believe he’s going to release a 30-second clip of a sex tape that tries to make me look guilty and play in to every stereotype you could possibly imagine,” Sharpe said.

He went on to allege that the sex tape was actually “10 minutes” and that the encounter took place “at her invitation.” He accused Gabbi of coordinating “a deliberate setup” and Buzbee of editing the video to “manipulate the media,” promising to meet their lawsuit with a defamation countersuit.

Jason Whitlock and “Fearless” guest Shemeka Michelle dive into the scandal.

Jason believes that Sharpe’s public persona is a significant factor in this controversy. He puts two and two together: If the phone call was consensual, as Sharpe insists it was, then the choking threat must have meant he was playing a character, as he often does on television.

“A lot of times, a character takes on a life of its own that’s out of control and will get the real person in a lot of trouble,” says Jason.

“It’s not the first time I’ve heard a woman — a young woman — claim [she was] choked by Shannon Sharpe,” he adds, noting that he used to work with Sharpe at Fox Sports a few years ago.

But that doesn’t mean he’s on team Gabbi necessarily. Tony Buzbee’s lawsuit record does include the names of several high-profile black men, including Jay-Z, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Deshaun Watson.

But Jason doesn’t assume Buzbee is just “out to get black men.” What he’s actually after is “doing the bidding of women,” he says.

Shemeka agrees, acknowledging that it’s true that women engage in these relationships with celebrities for the explicit purpose of getting rich.

“I am going to be one of these people to wait to see what information comes out,” she says, noting that if the full context of the phone call between Gabbi and Sharpe is released, it could very well prove that the exchange was part of a role-playing game.

Even if that’s true, Jason thinks Sharpe should know better.

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation and see the footage of Sharpe’s public statement, watch the clip above.

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Police bodycam video shows a Florida man offering cops alcohol during a miles-long car chase that ends with the suspect being tasered and charged with DUI, according to law enforcement officials.

Around 3 p.m. Saturday, employees at the Spring Lake Market reported that a man had stolen several items, including alcoholic beverages. Police later identified the suspect as 39-year-old Richard Christopher Smith of Miami.

‘You guys had fun, though, right?’

Deputies with the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the crime scene to reportedly find a man driving a black minivan in circles around the store. However, the suspect sped off when police arrived.

The sheriff’s office released bodycam video showing a man slowly driving a black minivan near a police officer.

The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office noted that Smith was holding a can of Ketel One vodka spritz out the window of the minivan as he drove by a deputy attempting to pull him over.

Smith is heard in the bodycam footage telling the officer, “I was just going to give you a drink, that’s it.”

The sheriff’s office said in a statement, “We don’t know if he was expecting us to just say ‘Cheers!’ and let him go, or what.”

“After his toast, Smith attempted to ram two patrol vehicles in the midst of getting all four tires flattened by spike strips,” police stated.

The police bodycam footage shows the spike strips deflating the tires and hindering the vehicle from driving at a high rate of speed.

The police pursuit reportedly ended several miles away in the parking lot of a business at the Sebring Airport.

Bodycam video shows the minivan stopped and its front smashed by an unmarked police SUV.

As Smith exits the minivan, officers have their guns drawn and order the suspect to get on the ground. The suspect does not adhere to the commands and casually walks around as he smokes a cigarette.

As the shoeless Smith continues to advance toward a deputy, the officer tases the suspect, who violently falls headfirst on the pavement.

Smith is seen on police bodycam video asking what he’s being arrested for, after which the deputy responds, “A lot of stupid s**t, right now.”

The bodycam footage shows blood pouring from Smith’s head as he asks the arresting officers, “You guys had fun, though, right?” The officers do not appear to be entertained by the suspect’s query.

The sheriff’s office remarked in regard to the incident, “Strange things happen all the time when you’re in law enforcement. This one, however, might make the books.”

“We would be very interested to hear from anyone else who has been offered a vodka spritzer by their suspect in the middle of a vehicle pursuit,” police added. “Or that the same suspect calmly tried to walk away from a crash, puffing on a cigarette, despite being surrounded by deputies.”

According to jail records, Smith faces a litany of charges, including battery on a law enforcement officer, two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, driving under the influence, refusal to submit to a DUI test, and petty theft.

Smith’s bond was set at $120,000.

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On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding.

Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson and President of the Claremont Institute Ryan Williams don’t believe the occasion could have come at a better time.

“It’s a happy coincidence,” Williams tells Peterson, “because in many ways, what we’ve been calling for for a long time is a second American Revolution. Bloodless, of course, but institutionally, which is to say, to finally get a handle on the large bureaucracy that has been governing all aspects of our lives.”

While America does need those with expertise in government, Williams explains that we should “be controlled by constitutional officers” rather than “bureaucrats who can never be fired.”

However, most on the left — and some on the right — don’t see it that way.

“They think all efforts to reform it or defund it or start firing more bureaucrats, this is somehow all illegitimate,” Williams tells Peterson. “And I think it’ll be our job to tell people to connect the founding and constitutionalism to that project, and to illustrate to people that it’s really a way to return control over their government to them, and really to return prosperity and flourishing to America.”

And the two do not see the president failing in his goal to reform the government and make America a better place, as this is Trump’s second chance at accomplishing his goals — which Peterson calls “Trump 2.0.”

“The big difference is he has a loyal team for the most part. Trump 1.0, he had to rely on the establishment apparatus in many instances,” Williams says. “He had a bunch of principals around him who thought it was their God-given job to control him and prevent him from somehow destroying America, which was ridiculous.”

“I think it’s almost providential that he lost in 2020,” he continues, adding, “They had time to really think about this, and draft up more plans, and you really have almost a new presidential term rather than a second term, which are notoriously deflating and deflated as they’re kind of lame ducks out of the gate.”

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was lambasted by critics online for a strange question she asked during arguments over parents rejecting controversial books in public schools.

The lawsuit accused the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland of violating the religious rights of parents with students in the school district. They objected to books that included transgender and gay characters being taught to their children.

‘I’m struggling to see how it burdens a parent’s religious exercise if the school teaches something that the parents disagrees with.’

The parents, which included Muslim and Christian Orthodox adherents, asked for an opt-out for their children from any exposure to the left-wing content, but they were denied by the district.

Attorneys for the parents argued that the school district was “compelling instruction designed to indoctrinate petitioners’ children against their religious beliefs.”

While most court watchers agreed that the court appeared to be sympathetic to the parents’ demands, one liberal justice appeared to be critical of the argument in favor of parental rights. Jackson simply said that parents had the option to pull their children out of school if they didn’t like the curriculum.

“I guess I’m struggling to see how it burdens a parent’s religious exercise if the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with,” she added. “You have a choice. You don’t have to send your kid to that school. You can put them in another situation. You can homeschool them. How is it a burden on the parent if they have the option to send their kid elsewhere?”

Video of her comments went viral on social media, where many disagreed with the position.

“You’re forced through your tax dollars to fund education you fundamentally disagree with for everyone else’s children and now incur the costs of educating your children on top of that instead of being granted a quite simple accommodation. Wow. Just wow,” read one popular post.

“I shouldn’t have to invoke a religious exemption for simply wanting to protect my child’s innocence while they’re still in preschool or grade school,” said another user.

“I’m sure she did NOT mean for the Parents to put their kids in ‘another situation’ and stop paying their school taxes,” said another.

Other snippets from the hearing led many to suspect that the court would rule on the side of parents asking for an opt-out.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett opined that the books didn’t merely assert the existence of LGBTQ people but included advocacy on the part of the LGBTQ agenda.

“It’s not just exposure to the idea, right?” she said. “It’s saying this is the right view of the world. This is how we think about things. This is how you should think about things. This is like 2 plus 2 is 4.”

The ruling is due by the end of June.

Here’s the video of Brown’s comments:

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Trump Tower in New York City had to be closed to visitors on Wednesday after a man who is believed to be a member of a climate extremist group vandalized part of the lobby.

Shortly after noon, a young man walked into the public lobby of the building, strode over to the seal of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, and proceeded to tag it with the letters “USA” in green spray paint, video from Freedom News TV showed.

The young man then knelt down beneath his apparent act of vandalism, eyes closed, soaking in the attention from the crowd gathered around with their cell phones in hand. He then pulled out a small banner with the message “Game Over” emblazoned on it and held it up for all to see.

Security agents quickly descended upon the individual, placing him in handcuffs and ordering him to leave. As they escorted him out of the building, the man robotically cried out, “This is your country. This is your country. This is our country.

“This is our planet,” he continued. “You cannot ruin it without comment. They are ruining the planet for profit.”

‘All American political parties are equally complicit in inaction which has brought us to this point. Switching to blue is not the solution.’

While agents were busy detaining the young man, an older man wearing a backpack quickly stepped forward and apparently attempted to protect the spray painter from law enforcement. “Don’t touch him!” the older man repeatedly barked.

The older man then demanded to know the name, badge number, and police department of the officer placing the younger man in handcuffs. The officer eventually appeared to tell the older man he was with NYPD, but his other remarks are unintelligible on the video.

Officers then cleared the area, claiming that it had to be shut down. Some tourists were not pleased.

“I was standing in line to take a picture. It’s ridiculous,” Jeff from Missouri told amNewYork. “There is a lot of division in this country, a lot of whining — it is what it is.”

One person can be heard on the video calling the spray painter a “f**king piece of s**t.”

James Byrne, a U.S. Secret Service spokesperson, confirmed the incident in a statement. “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of an incident involving a person spray-painting graffiti inside the public lobby of Trump Tower in New York City,” Byrne said. “There are no disruptions to protective operations. We thank the NYPD for their immediate response and unwavering partnership.”

Trump is not believed to have been at Trump Tower at the time.

AmNewYork reported that the individual responsible for the vandalism is a member of the extremist group Extinction Rebellion NYC. The outlet also shared a statement from him:

I did this because I am an American. It is my duty to stand up for my country, and my Earth, when a government becomes destructive of our right to life. Donald Trump and the regime of private interests he works for — who donate equally to each party — are destructive of your inalienable right to life. All American political parties are equally complicit in inaction which has brought us to this point. Switching to blue is not the solution. Kamala Harris’ climate platform was fracked gas, much deadlier than regular. Decades of inaction have brought about the current climate catastrophe.

The outlet did not provide the name of the suspect or make any mention of the elderly man who attempted to run interference for him.

The detained individual reportedly claimed that he used removable chalk in the attack on Trump’s seal. The New York Post, citing sources in law enforcement, claimed that he had previously been nabbed for criminal trespass at Columbia University.

AmNewYork further indicated that Extinction Rebellion had engaged in a series of events of dubious legality to mark Earth Day. Among them included acts of vandalism on a Tesla dealership and a disruption of a performance by the New York City Ballet.

Blaze News reached out to a representative of the group, who plans to host a training session “to learn how XR NYC is confronting the breakdown of democracy and the destruction fueled by Big Oil” on Wednesday evening. Our message was not returned.

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A Florida woman was caught impersonating a federal immigration officer in an attempt to kidnap her ex-boyfriend’s wife, according to police.

Police arrested 52-year-old Latrance Battle on charges of robbery by sudden snatching, kidnapping, and impersonating a law enforcement officer.

The alleged victim was ‘in fear’ because she is in the process of becoming a legal United States resident.

According to Law & Crime, the alleged victim told investigators that the incident began while she was at her job at the Days Inn in Panama City, Florida.

On April 10, the alleged victim said she was confronted by a woman who was reportedly wearing a white face mask, sunglasses, a black jacket, pants, a hat, and an ICE shirt.

The affidavit said the woman — later identified as Battle — held a business card that read “Sheriff’s Office.” Battle was holding a walkie-talkie that she used for fake conversations with other agents, according to court documents.

Police believe Battle was impersonating an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to kidnap the alleged victim, who was allegedly the wife of Battle’s ex-boyfriend.

The Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, “Latrance instructed the victim that she had to go with her. Due to being in fear, the victim got in the vehicle and went willingly with Latrance.”

The alleged victim was “in fear” because she is in the process of becoming a legal United States resident.

While driving in a car, Battle “forcefully snatched” the alleged victim’s phone as she was attempting to contact her lawyer and husband, according to court documents.

Battle allegedly told her ex-boyfriend’s wife that she was being taken to a sheriff’s office and that she could have a phone call once they arrived at the sheriff’s office.

Court documents revealed that Battle “kept talking bad about [the victim’s] husband and how [the victim] now has to suffer the consequences of her husband’s actions.”

Battle allegedly drove the pair to the Bridge Plaza apartment complex in Panama City Beach, Florida.

According to the affidavit, Battle allegedly “instructed [the victim] to get out of the car and go to room 108.”

While Battle was reportedly distracted, the alleged victim took the opportunity to flee her captor and pleaded for help from a man nearby.

The man purportedly allowed the alleged victim to stay inside his apartment until police arrived at the crime scene.

While she waited for law enforcement, the alleged victim called her husband, and he noted that the would-be ICE agent “sounded like his ex-girlfriend.”

Deputies with the Bay County Sheriff’s Office found the alleged victim “shaking” with apparent fear in the apartment, according to a probable cause arrest.

Law enforcement said Battle was attempting to flee to Alabama, but officers apprehended her before she crossed state lines. Police bodycam video shows Battle initially not cooperating with deputies as she refused to open her car door when instructed by officers.

The husband had an injunction against Battle “for issues they have had in the past,” according to the affidavit. In one incident roughly two years ago, Battle “showed up to his place of business and attacked him.”

An ICE spokesperson told Newsweek, “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents are highly trained and dedicated professionals who are sworn to uphold the law, protect the American people, and support U.S. national security interests.”

“ICE strongly condemns the impersonation of its officers or agents,” the spokesperson added. “This action is not only dangerous, but illegal. Imposters can be arrested for and charged with a criminal offense both at the state and federal level (under 18 USC 912).”

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A left-wing podcaster exploded in anger against Democrat Rahm Emanuel for daring to admit that bathroom access to transgender people was not a major issue that should be a focus for Democrats.

Emanuel, who was chief of staff in the Obama administration, was being interviewed on the “I’ve Had It” podcast by host Jennifer Welch when he offered a familiar criticism of the Democratic Party.

‘We gotta f**king fight! They’re the gender-obsessed weirdos, not us. We’re the ones who fight for Social Security.’

Emanuel opined that Democrats lost the election by focusing on the “bathroom issue” rather than on “kitchen table” and “family room” issues. Welch immediately blew up at him in defense of the transgender agenda.

“That is such bulls**t! That is total bulls**t! That is buying in to the right-wing media narrative, and I’m so sick of Democrats like you selling out and saying this. You know who talks about trans people more than anybody? MAGA!” Welch shouted.

“MAGA is the most genital-obsessed political party I have ever seen. Kamala Harris talked about home ownership. She talked about kitchen table issues. Trump’s over there droning on about Hannibal Lecter. Are you kidding me?” she continued.

“This is where the Democrats lose, because we’re playing the game with the rulebook — they’ve ripped the rulebook up and are cramming it down everybody’s throat. And Democrats are upset because [former President] Joe Biden pardoned his son?” she yelled. “We gotta f**king fight! They’re the gender-obsessed weirdos, not us. We’re the ones who fight for Social Security. We fight for Medicare. And yeah, we’re not going to bully trans people. We’re not going to f**king do it. If you want to do it, fine.”

She went on to accuse Emanuel of allowing “some MAGA moron” to define the issues that progressives will fight.

Video of the hysterics was widely circulated on social media.

Emanuel is also considering a presidential campaign after the devastating failure of the Democrats in the 2024 elections. Welch is an interior designer who lives in Oklahoma and introduced her husband as America’s “head metrosexual in charge.”

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U.S. district court judges have done their apparent best to hamstring the second Trump administration just as they had the first.

Between Jan. 20 and March 27, the Congressional Research Service indicated there were at least 17 cases of nationwide injunctions — 11 more than were issued during the entire presidency of George W. Bush and two shy of the total issued during Barack Obama’s tenure. At this rate, the courts are on course to beat their previous record of 64 nationwide injunctions under the first Trump administration.

There has been no indication in recent weeks that the judiciary will exercise some self-restraint — certainly not from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where a Reagan judge decided on Tuesday to reverse the Trump administration’s shuttering of Voice of America and termination of over 1,000 potentially antagonistic journalists and employees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that the administration’s stated effort to “ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda” were “arbitrary and capricious.”

‘It has essentially become a hubris-filled rogue operation.’

“Not only is there an absence of ‘reasoned analysis’ from the defendants,” wrote Lamberth, “there is an absence of any analysis whatsoever.”

The judge overseeing Widakuswara v. Lake added, “The defendants are likely in direct violation of numerous federal laws,” including the VOA’s congressionally established charter in the International Broadcasting Act.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 14 aimed at reducing various “unnecessary” elements of the federal bureaucracy “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” Among the entities targeted was the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which supervises Voice of America, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and a handful of other state-funded outfits including Radio Free Europe.

In a corresponding publication, the White House quoted Dan Robinson, a 34-year veteran of VOA, who stated last year:

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. It has sought to avoid accountability for violations of journalistic standards and mismanagement.

The White House also shared links to articles criticizing the state media outfit; a 2022 lawsuit claiming VOA has “been infiltrated by anti-American, pro-Islamic state interests”; and perceived evidence of VOA’s bias, including an article downplaying the validity of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

‘The defendants had no method or approach towards shutting down USAGM.’

Pursuant to the president’s executive order, approximately over 1,000 VOA journalists and other employees were placed on administrative leave, and funding was suspended to VOA’s sister networks, including Radio Free Asia.

Kari Lake, senior adviser for the USAGM, noted days later that VOA was “unsalvageable.”

“Let’s reduce this to the bare minimum and start fresh,” tweeted Lake.

Lamberth was evidently of a different mind.

“The defendants had no method or approach towards shutting down USAGM that this Court can discern,” he wrote in his Tuesday ruling. “They took immediate and drastic action to slash USAGM, without considering its statutorily or constitutionally required functions as required by the plain language of the EO, and without regard to the harm inflicted on employees, contractors, journalists, and media consumers around the world.”

‘It’s for our own national security.’

“It is hard to fathom a more straightforward display of arbitrary and capricious actions than the Defendants’ actions here,” added the judge.

Lamberth ordered the administration to “take all necessary steps to return USAGM employees and contractors to their status” prior to Trump’s March 14 EO; to restore VOA programming; and to restore fiscal year 2025 grants to Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. He also demanded that the administration provide him with monthly status reports “apprising the Court of the status of the defendants’ compliance with this Order.”

Lamberth’s ruling contained echoes from Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York, who issued a temporary restraining order barring the USAGM from canning staff last month.

The Obama judge blasted the Trump administration for “taking a sledgehammer to an agency that has been statutorily authorized and funded by Congress.”

Patsy Widakuswara, VOA’s White House bureau chief and one of the plaintiffs in the suit, said of Lamberth’s Tuesday order, “My colleagues and I are grateful for this ruling. But we know that this is just a small step forward, as the government is likely to appeal.”

“This is not just about our jobs and journalistic freedom — it’s for our own national security,” continued Widakuswara. “Because every day that VOA is not broadcasting, is a day we cede the global information space and allow adversaries to fill it with disinformation and anti-American propaganda.”

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A Southern California school board voted to keep girls’ sports for females only despite claims from attendees that such a move would be discriminatory.

The Redlands Unified school board voted 3-2 in favor of a new resolution, although it is unclear how close it would align with President Trump’s executive order to keep men out of women’s sports and locker rooms.

The San Bernardino County district saw Board President Michelle Rendler and board members Candy Olson and Jeanette Wilson vote in support of the new resolution on “fairness in girls’ sports,” while trustees Melissa Ayala-Quintero and Patty Holohan voted against it.

According to Redlands Daily Facts, Olson provided the only comment from a board member, saying, “I am just so grateful that this insanity had not entered into society when I was growing up.”

Olson added that she would do everything in her power to push for fairness and privacy in girls’ spaces.

With over 200 in attendance, the board took comments from almost 100 speakers over the span of about three hours, leading late into the evening.

One father declared the exact opposite of biological reality when he said, “Let’s start with some facts: Sex is not binary.”

A mother said the resolution targets transgender students and would lead to “witch hunts,” and she specifically cited the boxers who were accused of being males in female categories at the 2024 Olympics. However, at least one of the boxers has been confirmed by three different sources to be a man.

Other crowd members reportedly held orange papers in the air to represent the idea of denouncing hate speech.

‘Redlands should not and cannot stand for this form of discrimination.’

Trisha Keeling, leader of the local activist group Together for Redlands, said the meeting and the proposal was evidence of the “continued waste” of the “district’s resources and time.” As there are currently no transgender athletes in Redlands, the activist said the resolution was creating a problem where one did not exist.

Still, Keeling said, “Redlands should not and cannot stand for this form of discrimination.”

Other potential policies were on the docket for teachers in the county as well, including the barring of all but American flags, as well as an effort to streamline the removal of obscene books.

Redlands Teachers Association President Stephen Caperton said he was “disheartened” to see these policies brought up since they were still in negotiation with the district, although they were not voted on. Caperton said the policies do not affect education and the board should not be looking to take away resources from students.

Redlands Unified is not the first school board in the region to have adopted a resolution to protect girls’ sports. Other boards such as Temecula and Chino Valley reportedly held similar votes in March and April.

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The editor of Christianity Today apologized for a controversial article during Holy Week that undermined the biblical account of the crucifixion.

The article theorized that Romans soldiers might have affixed Jesus Christ to the cross not with nails but with rope. The suggestion was vehemently opposed by Christians online who pointed out that the theory would go against biblical inerrancy.

‘In my eagerness to explore the historical context of Christ’s death, I missed that, and I’m sorry.’

The article was based on a paper by Bible scholar Jeffrey P. Arroyo García published in an academic journal. The theory depends on the account in the Gospel of John being written in the late first century, and more importantly, being falsified.

After outrage from many corners of Christendom, news editor Daniel Silliman apologized and explained what led to the article.

“Like so many Christians, I spent a lot of time before Easter thinking about the Crucifixion: how it must have felt for Jesus to die that way, how God chose this particular device of Roman terror to accomplish our salvation, and how it worked practically to kill someone on a cross,” wrote Silliman.

He went on to admit that he missed the importance of the account from the Gospel of John.

“My article implicitly called into question the inerrancy of Scripture. In my eagerness to explore the historical context of Christ’s death, I missed that, and I’m sorry,” Silliman concluded.

The article was also updated with a correction that linked to the apology.

“This article has been revised to clarify that Scripture, including the Gospel of John, indicates that Jesus was crucified with nails and that Christianity Today, along with Christian scholars and theologians throughout church history, affirms that account,” the correction stated.

Some praised Silliman for admitting the error and publishing an apology.

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The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that it plans to work with the food industry to remove eight artificial dyes from America’s food supply.

A press release from the department unveiled a plan to “phase out” all petroleum-based synthetic dyes by the end of 2026.

‘We are exploring every tool in the toolbox to make sure this gets done very quickly.’

HHS called the move “a significant milestone” for the Trump administration in its goal to “Make America Healthy Again.”

The department press release listed six actions the Food and Drug Administration is taking to remove the artificial dyes, starting by creating a timeline for the food industry to switch from “petrochemical-based dyes to natural alternatives.”

It noted that Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B would be banned within the coming months. Another six synthetic dyes — FD&C Green No. 3, FD&C Red No. 40, FD&C Yellow No. 5, FD&C Yellow No. 6, FD&C Blue No. 1, and FD&C Blue No. 2 — will also be phased out by the end of next year.

The FDA plans to authorize four natural alternatives and “accelerat[e] the review and approval of others,” including calcium phosphate, Galdieria extract blue, gardenia blue, and butterfly pea flower extract.

HHS and the National Institutes of Health will partner to research the impact of food additives on children.

“In partnership with the NIH Nutrition Regulatory Science and Research Program, the FDA will enhance nutrition and food-related research to better inform regulatory decisions,” HHS stated.

The department stated that it will also request food companies to eliminate FD&C Red No. 3 sooner than its previously imposed 2027-2028 deadline.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is leading the charge for the Trump administration to address the nation’s chronic disease epidemic, stated, “For too long, some food producers have been feeding Americans petroleum-based chemicals without their knowledge or consent.”

“These poisonous compounds offer no nutritional benefit and pose real, measurable dangers to our children’s health and development,” he continued. “That era is coming to an end. We’re restoring gold-standard science, applying common sense, and beginning to earn back the public’s trust. And we’re doing it by working with industry to get these toxic dyes out of the foods our families eat every day.”

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary also commented on the HHS’ announcement.

“Today, the FDA is asking food companies to substitute petrochemical dyes with natural ingredients for American children as they already do in Europe and Canada,” Makary said. “We have a new epidemic of childhood diabetes, obesity, depression, and ADHD. Given the growing concerns of doctors and parents about the potential role of petroleum-based food dyes, we should not be taking risks and do everything possible to safeguard the health of our children.”

Makary suggested that companies using petroleum-based red dyes try switching to watermelon juice, and those combining artificial red dyes with yellow to make orange should test carrot juice.

Kennedy stated that HHS has no formal agreement with companies to eliminate the dyes but noted an “understanding” with big names in the food industry.

Makary explained that the FDA and HHS would “start in a friendly way and see if we can do this without any statutory or regulatory changes.”

“But we are exploring every tool in the toolbox to make sure this gets done very quickly,” he added.

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Earth Day is one of the climate alarmists’ favorite days to shove their propaganda down Americans’ throats — but this year, the Washington Post was one of the few media outlets to put a positive spin on Earth’s impending doom.

“This Earth Day, there are some reasons to be hopeful about the climate,” reads the cheery headline.

“It’s not all doom: Innovators are reimagining how we power our lives, nature is pulling off surprising comebacks, cities are cleaning their air, and nations are opening their wallets,” the article explains.

“Obviously, spending money is the main way you can help the climate. It always is. If you ever want to help a climate organization, giving them cash is always the best thing you can do,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” comments.

However, there is some bad news.

“Donald Trump, right? Because you have the good news of the climate there, but you can’t just take it like that. You got to understand that Donald Trump is doing everything he can to ruin the environment for you,” Stu explains, before pulling up another article from the Guardian.

“Tariffs will raise prices, but the climate crisis is the real inflation risk,” this headline reads.

The article goes on to claim that the “Trump administration has recently declared a war on climate change research inside the federal government and the wider U.S. research community, as well as doubling down on carbon-based business models.”

“But wishing the problem away won’t make it disappear. The real drivers of future inflation are not just tariffs, but the climate crisis and states backing off their decarbonization efforts,” the article goes on.

“The state is so effective at everything that it does,” Stu mocks. “If they honestly try to decarbon or to add more carbon to the atmosphere, they probably would fail spectacularly and actually wind up getting rid of a bunch of it. So maybe they should just try reversing their goals.”

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The U.K. is expected to give approval for solar geoengineering experiments to block sunlight in an effort to curb climate change despite uncertainty and alarming risks, according to multiple reports.

The Telegraph reported that geoengineering experiments conducted outside aimed at combating climate change are set to be carried out by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency and will be announced in the coming weeks.

The experiments are said to be one of the most expensive solar geoengineering projects in history.

In February 2021, the U.K. government announced the creation of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, a self-described “independent research body to fund high-risk, high-reward scientific research.” The agency will be led by “prominent, world-leading scientists who will be given the freedom to identify and fund transformational science and technology.”

The U.K. government said ARIA will “help to cement the U.K.’s position as a global science superpower, while shaping the country’s efforts to build back better through innovation.”

The U.K. government promised roughly $1 billion in funding for the “most inspiring inventors to turn their transformational ideas into new technologies, discoveries, products, and services — helping to maintain the U.K.’s position as a global science superpower.”

British tech news site UKTN previously reported, “It takes its inspiration from DARPA, the U.S. government research and development agency that has played a pivotal role in developing technologies such as GPS, drones, and weather satellites.”

ARIA officially launched in January 2023.

The experiments will include solar geoengineering, where particles are injected into the air to deflect some of the sun’s radiation back into space with the goal of reducing Earth’s surface temperature.

Professor Mark Symes, the program director for ARIA, said the looming threat of climate change was a strong reason to research the controversial solar geoengineering.

“One of the missing pieces in this debate was physical data from the real world,” Symes told the Telegraph. “Models can only tell us so much.“

Symes guaranteed, “Everything we do is going to be safe by design.”

“We have strong requirements around the length of time experiments can run for and their reversibility, and we won’t be funding the release of any toxic substances to the environment,” Symes stressed.

The research would include “small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches.”

Symes noted that the agency would be making it clear when any outdoor experiments might be taking place.

‘The risks are so immense.’

The Guardian reported that possible experiments could include blocking sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface by “launching clouds of reflective particles into the atmosphere or using seawater sprays to make clouds brighter.”

The New York Times reported in September 2024 that the experiments could include “injecting aerosols, such as sulfur dioxide, into the stratosphere or shooting sea-salt aerosols into low-lying marine clouds to reflect more sunlight away from the Earth.”

Dr. Sebastian Eastham, a senior lecturer in sustainable aviation at Imperial College London, told the Telegraph, “Every time you fly, sulphur, which is naturally present in jet fuel, is emitted into the lowermost stratosphere, causing a small cooling effect.”

“Similarly, aircraft contrails cause accidental cirrus cloud modification, but in this case accidentally causing, rather than preventing or thinning, cirrus clouds,” Eastham explained. “This points to the fact that it’s theoretically possible [to cool the planet] with current-day technology, but there are many practical questions that would need to be answered before they could be done at scale.”

The experiments are said to be one of the most expensive solar geoengineering projects in history.

According to the New York Times, ARIA will be awarded approximately $75 million for researchers to “examine ideas for artificially cooling the planet — including outdoor experiments to determine whether any of those ideas could actually work.”

As Blaze News reported in November 2024, billionaire Bill Gates is also delving into solar geoengineering in an attempt to block the sun.

However, solar geoengineering projects to alter the climate have been heavily scrutinized because of possible negative side effects and unintended consequences that could arise from real-world experiments.

A study released in December 2024 found that solar geoengineering experiments could cause more pollution and damage the ozone layer, which would cause an increase in mortality from skin cancers.

Columbia University’s Climate School noted in April 2024, “Studies show that stratospheric aerosol injection could weaken the stratospheric ozone layer, alter precipitation patterns, and affect agriculture, ecosystem services, marine life, and air quality. Moreover, the impacts and risks would vary by how and where it is deployed, the climate, ecosystems, and the population.”

In February 2023, the United Nations Environment Program released a report regarding the potential risks and impacts of solar radiation modification, including nefarious motives by a rogue state.

UNEP’s Chief Scientist Andrea Hinwood stated, “A range of concerns about SRM were raised in the report and included the scenario that if SRM were to be unilaterally deployed by a rogue state or non-state actor, like a private company, it could introduce a series of new complex geo-political or security threats.”

Lili Fuhr, from the Center for International Environmental Law, told CNN in 2023, “Just because we’re desperate doesn’t suddenly make solar geoengineering a good idea, because the risks are so immense.”

Last month, the Florida Senate passed a bill prohibiting geoengineering and weather modification activities.

Blaze Media recently conducted a deep dive into cloud seeding and weather manipulation, which you can read here.

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Three federal prosecutors with the Southern District of New York resigned in protest on Tuesday. Celia Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach, and Derek Wikstrom quit after accusing the Trump administration’s Department of Justice of pressuring them to admit “wrongdoing” in the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), who pleaded not guilty.

The three prosecutors had been placed on administrative leave after Trump’s DOJ requested the case’s dismissal.

‘Any suggestion to the contrary by anybody, especially former federal prosecutors, is wrong and disingenuous.’

According to an email obtained by the New York Times, the prosecutors claimed that DOJ Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that to be reinstated, they “must express regret and admit some wrongdoing by the office in connection with the refusal to move to dismiss the case.”

They wrote, “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none.”

The prosecutors claimed that the DOJ under the Trump administration “has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington.”

“There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons,” the prosecutors continued. “We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs.”

“We resign,” they declared.

Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the SDNY, took over the same day the prosecutors resigned.

Since Trump’s DOJ pushed for the dismissal of the case against Adams in February, five SDNY prosecutors have resigned, including the lead prosecutor assigned to the case.

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho dropped the case with prejudice on April 2.

“To be clear, the Court again emphasizes that it does not express any opinion as to the merits of the case or whether the prosecution of Mayor Adams ‘should’ move forward,” he wrote.

“The Court notes only that it has no authority to require that it continue,” Ho continued. “Ultimately, because the decision to discontinue a prosecution belongs primarily to a political branch of government, it is the public’s judgment, and not this Court’s, that truly matters.”

However, he claimed the DOJ’s request to dismiss the case “smacks of a bargain” between Adams and the Trump administration. Both parties have denied the allegations.

Blanche stated that there “was nothing ‘illegal’ or ‘unethical'” about the DOJ’s decision to drop the “flawed” case.

“Any suggestion to the contrary by anybody, especially former federal prosecutors, is wrong and disingenuous,” he contended.

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The Trump administration has wasted no time completely revamping the COVID-19 narrative — and has now made it official on the White House website.

The website now has a COVID-19 section, which goes into great detail explaining “misinformation” related to the virus.

“Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions,” the website reads.

“When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to ‘outright censorship—coercing and colluding with the world’s largest social media companies to censor all COVID-19-related dissent,’” it continues.

The website also highlights that Anthony Fauci was given a full and unconditional pardon by former President Biden.

“It is so refreshing to see this White House,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

“I’m glad we all trusted the plan,” BlazeTV contributor John Doyle chimes in. “We were so angry when everyone started to realize what a sham this was, we were angry with Trump for promoting it, but I will say, I think that we get a little hindsight bias and forget how freaked out even Republicans, like older Republicans, were about COVID.”

“I would just say, their entire argument was ‘trust the experts.’ So if that’s their argument, then again, it’s Anthony Fauci’s fault, because Donald Trump was trusting the expert that they placed in front of him and said, ‘This is the guy,’” Gonzales says.

“So Donald Trump wasn’t in there in a lab with little droppers trying to figure things out; he was trusting the people that he was supposed to be able to trust,” she adds.

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President Donald Trump said it seemed like good policy to hand out money to new mothers as an incentive to increase U.S. birth rates.

Trump endorsed the idea at the White House on Tuesday when he told the New York Post he liked the idea of a cash incentive to get more Americans to have children.

“Sounds like a good idea to me,” the president reportedly said.

The sum of $5,000 would be given to new mothers, with 30% of Fulbright educational grants given to applicants who are married or have children.

Another proposed program, according to the Post, would involve education surrounding menstrual cycles and ovulation so women can better determine the best time for them to conceive.

Pundits have often pointed to Hungary’s reward system as a way to increase birthrates; the European country touts tax deductions and credits for each child a family has.

According to a government website, a family’s first child allows for a credit equivalent to around $185 USD, while a second child earns a credit of around $370, and a third child credit is worth $610. Tax deductions are also provided per child.

At the same time, mothers with four children or more are exempt from income tax.

‘A $5,000 baby bonus is wasteful and won’t make a dent, especially among middle to upper class families.’

However, Hungary’s birth rates have not seen a huge resurgence despite the country expanding its offers for new families. Hungary offered no-interest loans of around $33,000 to its citizens, which would be forgiven if the family has three children.

As of 2022, Hungary’s live births per 1,000 people was just 9.3, according to Macrotrends, falling short of the United States’ rate of 11 per 1,000.

U.S. birth rates first dropped drastically in the 1970s before increasing until 1990, when the rate was 16.7 per 1,000 people.

Commentator Maggie Anders, who has spoken extensively on the topic, reacted to the story about $5,000 for new mothers and cited statistics that showed the national average cost of raising a child annually is $23,000. This totaled $414,000 from birth to 18 years old, rendering $5,000 negligible in that journey, she claimed.

“A $5,000 baby bonus is wasteful and won’t make a dent, especially among middle to upper class families,” she wrote on X. “Obviously, the cost of raising a child depends on a number of factors, but it does not negate the point that housing, daycare, food costs are all very expensive. $5,000 doesn’t begin to cover it,” the commentator continued. “A ‘that’d be nice’ isn’t good policy. It’s wealth redistribution with unclear goals.”

Comedian Mark Normand also reacted to the news story on X, and in a since-deleted remark commented, “Elon Musk just became a trillionaire!”

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