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President Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing his nomination for the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina said he would not support the president’s nominee, Ed Martin, over his support for those arrested at the U.S. Capitol rioting on Jan. 6. Martin is the acting prosecutor for the District of Colombia, but he needs congressional approval to continue in the office.

‘Whether it’s 30 days or three years is debatable, but I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January 6.’

The president told reporters at the Oval Office on Thursday that he was pulling Martin’s nomination.

“He wasn’t getting the support,” said Trump. “I’m very disappointed in that. … I’m one person. I can only lift that little phone so many times in a day.”

Tillis told reporters that he objected to Martin’s defense of the Jan. 6 rioters and could not support his nomination.

“I met with Mr. Martin; he seems like a good man,” he said.

“Most of my concerns related to January 6, and he built a compelling case on some of the 15 or 12 prosecutions that were probably ‘heat of the moment’ bad decisions,” Tillis added. “But where we probably have a difference is I think anybody that breached the perimeter should have been in prison for some period of time. Whether it’s 30 days or three years is debatable, but I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January 6.”

He went on to say the location made a big difference for him as well.

“If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a U.S. attorney for any district except the district where January 6 happened, the protest happened, I’d probably support him,” Tillis said. “But not in this district.”

Critics of Tillis’ position argued that handing Democrats a victory on this position would open the floodgates to further stalling of the president’s agenda.

“Democrats view blocking Martin as their best shot to stall the entire Trump agenda,” wrote Blaze Media senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford. “If they win this round — especially before action begins on the tax and border reconciliation bill — they will exploit GOP hesitation and slow the administration’s rollout. It’s a savvy play, especially at a moment when Democrats and the left have few options.”

The president said that he would be nominating someone else for the position within the next two days.

“Hopefully we can bring him into, whether it’s DOJ or whatever, in some capacity,” Trump said to reporters about Martin.

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A Florida man already accused of forcing a teen girl into signing a “sex slave” contract now faces additional charges alleging that he tried to hire a hit man to kill her before she could testify against him.

According to the TCPalm, the teen contacted law enforcement to report being sexually assaulted on Aug. 17, 2021.

‘And then if the victim was … no longer here, he essentially gets sentenced to nothing.’

Officers with the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office arrested Andrew Mustapick 10 days later. He was charged with unlawful sex activity with certain minors.

The 17-year-old victim alleged that she was forced to sign a “sex slave” contract in exchange for gifts, including a car.

WPBF-TV reported that the victim told detectives that Mustapick wrote in the contract that the teenager “was to complete these sexual favors on Mondays and Fridays over the next five years.”

According to WFLX-TV, Mustapick purchased a car for the victim’s friend so the friend could drive the victim to his house.

Mustapick took back the 2017 Volkswagen after the girl did not “uphold her end of the contract,” according to Law & Crime. The vehicle had reportedly been registered in Mustapick’s name.

The victim reportedly recorded her last encounter with Mustapick, which she provided to investigators.

In late March 2025, Mustapick signed a plea of no contest to one count of sexual activity with a minor — a second-degree felony.

However, the Indian River Sheriff’s Office reportedly received a tip before Mustapick made a plea deal that he was attempting to hire a hit man to kill the teen to prevent her from testifying against him.

Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers said, “So, in March, we were notified of this. Thank you to the person who came forward. We’re not identifying them at this time. But we would not be here today if it weren’t for that person that came forward and let us know about this.”

According to police, Mustapick met with an undercover detective posing as a hit man for hire on May 1, 2025.

Mustapick allegedly told the undercover cop that he would offer $40,000 to convince the victim to refuse to testify and then offered another $50,000 to have her killed if she still decided to testify.

Flowers added, “His plan was to withdraw the plea deal. And then if the victim was … no longer here, he essentially gets sentenced to nothing.”

Police said Mustapick also was captured on video attempting to dispose of electronic devices, including a laptop and hard drive, by throwing them into the St. Sebastian River. The St. Lucie County Dive Team reportedly recovered the laptop and hard drive as evidence.

Authorities accused Mustapick of attempting to seek services to “use intimidation or physical force, or threaten” in order to prevent the victim from testifying or ensure the victim’s absence from a criminal proceeding.

Mustapick was detained at the Indian River County Jail on a $7 million bond.

“This guy is an absolute animal,” Sheriff Flowers said during a press conference. “Over eight months he’s going to spend in prison, he’s willing to have somebody bumped off.”

Mustapick is scheduled to appear in court on June 6.

You can watch the police bodycam video of Mustapick speaking to an undercover cop here.

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Yesterday, FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi announced “Operation Restore Justice,” which resulted in 205 arrests of alleged child sex predators and the rescue of 115 children — a huge win for justice and the Trump administration.

Patel’s message was spine-chilling in the best way: “If you harm our children, you will be given no sanctuary. There is no place we will not come to hunt you down; there is no place we will not look for you; and there is no cage we will not put you in should you do harm to our children.”

“Are you confident in that message?” Sara Gonzales asks founder of Predator Poachers Alex Rosen, whose literal job is leading sting operations to expose and confront alleged child predators.

“The DOJ, who works for us, has a lot to prove, but I think it’s in the right direction,” he says.

Sara is thankful that the Trump administration is at least taking the issue of pedophilia in this country seriously. She recalls how the Biden administration at one point was “taking people who were supposed to work on child sex crimes and putting them on January 6 [cases].”

Even though the Trump administration has already dramatically cleared the pathetically low bar set by the Biden administration, the truth is that sometimes more manpower is needed. That’s where Rosen’s group comes in, and most of the time, it’s smooth sailing.

“Local law enforcement is usually great to us,” says Rosen. However, sometimes, it’s his group that ends up being in the crosshairs.

In March, Rosen was arrested and hit with a felony harassment charge when he confronted a pedophile at a Steak ‘n Shake.

Back in October 2024, Predator Poachers had identified an alleged pedophile named Joshua Teague in Branson, Missouri. They turned him in to local law enforcement, but just 24 hours later, he was released with no charges. Three months later, Teague contacted Predator Poachers’ same decoy with explicit messages, including one about “molesting his 12-year-old sister,” prompting Rosen to confront him in person.

At Steak ‘n Shake, Teague’s place of employment, “I proceeded to read messages in a louder than usual voice, and I referred to him as a pedophile, and somehow I got a felony harassment charge,” he tells Sara, noting that the charge “wasn’t even against [Teague]; it was against somebody else in the store.”

“No threats were made; nothing untrue was said; and of course, I didn’t put hands on anybody … and they charged me with felony harassment,” he adds, calling his arrest “collateral” for pointing out the “incompetence” of local law enforcement.

Teague has thankfully been arrested and is currently being held without bond in the Taney County Jail in Branson, Missouri.

To hear more details of Rosen’s story, watch the episode above.

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President Trump thinks that allowing Russia to compete in the FIFA World Cup could work as an incentive to help bring peace with Ukraine.

Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino hosted the first meeting of the World Cup task force with the two fielding questions from reporters.

With the 2026 World Cup being hosted in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, each country will automatically be given a spot in the group stage.

However, apart from teams that do not qualify, Russia is banned from international soccer competitions in both Europe and the world. In fact, the Union of European Football Associations and FIFA have banned Russian teams at the club level from such international competitions, as well.

‘We hope that something happens and peace will happen so that Russia can be readmitted.’

At the press conference, Trump was asked about the possible participation of Russia in the next tournament, given its ban.

“I didn’t know that, is that right?” Trump said regarding the ban, as he turned toward Infantino.

“That is right. They are banned for the time being from playing,” the FIFA president replied.

Trump then joked, “He is the boss, I am not the boss on that.”

Infantino remarked, however, that he thought if peace could be achieved, perhaps Russia could be reinstated.

“We hope that something happens and peace will happen so that Russia can be readmitted,” the Swiss executive stated in a video posted to X.

Trump added that it was a “possible” scenario that “could be a good incentive” to get Russia closer to peace talks.

“‘We want to get them to stop. We want them to stop,” Trump continued. “Five thousand young people a week are being killed, it’s not even believable, the Russian soldiers and Ukrainian soldiers mostly, also people in towns.”

“Horrible things going on over there, we are going to get that war stopped,” Trump remarked.

Russia has been banned by most international sporting bodies over the war with Ukraine. Perhaps most notably, the recent 4 Nations Face-Off in hockey that featured Canada, Finland, the United States, and Sweden was a tournament that likely would have included Russia, which is widely considered the second-strongest nation in ice hockey after Canada.

Russia has also been banned from the Olympics and Paralympics, although athletes can compete under a neutral flag.

Governing bodies in volleyball, rowing, rugby, and more have levied sanctions against the country for sports.

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NBA Hall of Fame member Charles Barkley said the idea of men playing in women’s sports is no longer an argument worth having, as he cannot be convinced.

Never one to shy away from a loaded question, Barkley was asked by OutKick’s Dan Dakich about a recent study Nike is allegedly funding.

The study, according to Fox News, has been testing how much puberty blockers are needed for male adolescents in order to reduce athletic performance to a level where they could “fairly” compete against females.

The study first came to light during a New York Times piece in defense of Blaire Fleming, a male athlete who dominated women’s volleyball in the NCAA in 2024.

“Have you seen this thing?” Dakich asked Barkley.

“I have not, but I’m a make this very simple for you, Dan. Men should not play sports against women,” Barkley replied. “I’m not gonna get into all the bulls**t that’s going on out here in the world today.”

‘I’m never gonna think it’s all right for men to play sports against women.’

Barkley told Dakich on his show, “Don’t @ Me,” that while he has love for gay and transgender people and is against discrimination, “Men should not play sports against women. If anybody thinks that, I think they’re stupid.”

Barkley added that under no circumstances does he think it is appropriate for a male athlete to play against women. He continued, “If anybody have a problem with that, they gonna have to get over it, because I’m not gonna change. I’m not gonna change. I just think it’s wrong, period.”

Dakich concurred and lamented that in comparison to all the political positions and arguments that have taken place in recent history, this subject was not one worth fighting over. Barkley again agreed and said he didn’t even think the topic was controversial.

“I’m never gonna think it’s all right for men to play sports against women. I don’t even think that’s controversial. That’s the thing that’s funny. When you see these debates on television, like, yeah. Men shouldn’t play sports against women. I’m done. I don’t wanna hear you try to explain it to me. No. No. No. No. No, I don’t wanna hear it. I’m not gonna argue with you. Man shouldn’t play sports against women.”

Barkley has no issue with making political statements or remarks on social issues that others deem controversial.

Recently, he said that friend and fellow broadcaster Stephen A. Smith should not run for president for the Democrats, despite pushes from many in the media for him to do so.

Barkley has also criticized the city of San Francisco on numerous occasions for its mismanagement and inability to solve its homelessness problem.

On the topic of transgender women, or rather men, in women’s sports, Barkley concluded, “There’s a lot of s**t we can argue over. That ain’t one of them.”

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The Chinese Communist Party is operating an “extensive” espionage network at Stanford University, according to a new shocking report from the school’s independent newspaper.

The Stanford Review released the startling findings of a months-long investigation into Chinese spying at the research university. The paper’s conclusions were drawn from dozens of interviews with Stanford faculty members, students, and experts in technology and Chinese intelligence between July 2024 and April 2025.

‘They use carrots and sticks. If you turn over information, you may get a reward; if you don’t, there is a punishment.’

The extent of China’s espionage has remained vastly underreported at Stanford due to “transnational repression, $64 million in Chinese funding, and allegations of racial profiling,” the article noted.

The majority of those interviewed requested anonymity due to fear of retaliation from both the CCP and the university community, the Stanford Review stated.

The student journalists’ inspiration behind the investigation stemmed from this “culture of silence and fear.”

“It is this pervasive silence that has compelled us to write. After interviewing multiple anonymous Stanford faculty, students, and China experts, we can confirm that the CCP is orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford. In short, ‘there are Chinese spies at Stanford,'” the paper read.

They concluded that China specifically targets Stanford because of its dominance in artificial intelligence, noting that China has declared its plan to surpass the U.S. in frontier technologies.

The former U.S. National Security Council’s Director for China, Matthew Turpin, explained the CCP’s influence at Stanford during a China Town Hall, the Stanford Review reported.

“The Chinese state incentivizes students to violate conflicts of commitment and interest, ensuring they bring back technology otherwise restricted by export controls,” Turpin stated.

China reportedly uses “non-traditional collection” methods, leveraging civilians outside the intelligence community to access sensitive information, such as details regarding innovations. An anonymous faculty member told the newspaper that these methods are used “extensively” to gain knowledge about AI and robotics at Stanford.

The investigation uncovered an instance where a Chinese national, who was likely a Chinese Ministry of State Security agent, falsely posed as a university student for years. He used his fake identity to target peers, including a student whom the newspaper described as “conducting sensitive research on China.”

Chinese students are required under China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law to share information with the CCP.

‘Stanford takes its commitment to national security with the utmost seriousness, and we are acutely aware of the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party to all research universities.’

“Many Chinese [nationals] have handlers; they [CCP] want to know everything that’s going on at Stanford. This is a very normal thing. They just relay the information they have,” a Chinese national told the Stanford Review.

A China expert explained to the newspaper that Chinese nationals respond to this intelligence-sharing mandate in one of three ways: providing as little information as possible, complying to maintain CCP-funded scholarships, or fully cooperating opportunistically to maximize data collection.

Approximately 15% of Chinese nationals attending U.S. schools receive scholarships from the Chinese Scholarship Council, which requires students to regularly submit “Situation Reports” to diplomatic missions, experts told the newspaper.

Furthermore, Chinese students are reportedly selected for CSC grants based on party loyalty tests and must sign loyalty pledges. Family members could face financial penalties for students who fail to comply, the Stanford Review reported.

Turpin told the newspaper, “The Chinese government spends a lot of time collecting data on its overseas students; it has a pretty good understanding of who is doing what and if someone is working in an area of interest [frontier technology]. If students have access to things the government would like access to, it is relatively easy to reach out to an individual. They use carrots and sticks. If you turn over information, you may get a reward; if you don’t, there is a punishment.”

The newspaper stated that Chinese students “are victims of their own government.”

University insiders told the Stanford Review that most espionage cases are never publicly revealed.

“Drawing on anonymous testimony from faculty, students, and China specialists, our investigation confirms that the CCP runs an extensive intelligence‑gathering network at Stanford,” the article read. “The existential question is straightforward: How should we respond? First and foremost, the status quo of branding those who discuss this issue as racist must end. We wrote this article not to advance a policy position but to highlight a silenced reality. Sound policy depends on evidence, not repression.”

The Stanford Review wrote in a post on X, “This article was written to present firsthand accounts of an issue that has been silenced due to widespread accusations of academic repression.”

Blaze News reached out to the Stanford Review for comment.

Stanford University did not respond to Blaze News’ inquiries about the alleged culture of fear on campus or the measures it takes to prevent espionage and protect Chinese students from CCP pressure to share information.

Instead, the university referred Blaze News to its previously released Wednesday statement:

Stanford takes its commitment to national security with the utmost seriousness, and we are acutely aware of the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party to all research universities. Stanford has rigorous policies and processes in place to ensure that research by its faculty and students is conducted in a manner that safeguards America’s interests. Stanford does not conduct classified or secret research. Stanford has a university-wide process for reporting threats to research security, and carefully assesses all reports. Stanford consults with federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to ensure our policies and procedures are rigorous and protect national security. We are looking into the reports in the Stanford Review article, and have reached out to federal law enforcement to consult on appropriate actions. It is also very important to distinguish between threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party, and Chinese and Chinese-American faculty and students who are at Stanford to learn and contribute to the generation of knowledge, and are valued members of our community.

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Former President Joe Biden stressed in an interview that he was not suffering from cognitive decline during his time in the Oval Office and that President Donald Trump’s campaign won based on sexism.

During an appearance on “The View,” Biden was asked why he thought former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential election and if he was surprised at the outcome.

Biden immediately said he was not surprised, but not because Harris was unfit for office. In fact, Biden stressed that Harris was “the most qualified” person at the time to be president.

Instead, Biden said the Trump campaign was sexist and indicated that Harris was unqualified due to her ethnicity.

“I wasn’t surprised because they went the route of, the sexist route, the whole route,” Biden stated. “I mean, ‘This is a woman. She’s this. She’s that.’ I mean, I’ve never seen quite as successful and a consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country, and a woman of mixed race.”

‘We’re left with a circumstance where we had a insurrection when I started.’

In another portion of the show that garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Biden was asked to address his cognitive decline that was apparent during his term, especially in the final year of his presidency. The 46th president was seen falling up stairs, falling off a bike, and frequently looking lost on stage after speeches.

“They are wrong. There’s nothing to sustain that, number one,” the former president claimed. Biden then pivoted to Trump’s apparent failures, and said what he inherited from Trump’s first term as president was substantially worse.

“Think of what, what we’re left with. We’re left with a circumstance where we had a insurrection when I started. Not since the Civil War [have] we had a circumstance where we were in a position that we — well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit — end up over a million people dying, a million people dying.”

After Biden said that even “basic issues” were problems with Trump, he began to trail off before his wife, Jill Biden, intervened.

“One of the things, I think, is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us, and they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day,” she claimed.

The former first lady then went into a highly promotional spiel about Biden’s first term, where she claimed Biden was frequently up all night working while she was in bed.

“I’d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop. It’s the White House. Being president is not like a job — it’s a lifestyle. It’s a life that you live. You live it 24 hours a day.”

After the lengthy defense, President Biden seemed thoroughly impressed with his wife’s support and said, “That’s worth the invitation to come to the show.”

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President Donald Trump pulled his support for Janette Nesheiwat to become surgeon general days after the publication of an article accusing the former Fox News medical contributor of “falsely represent[ing] and obfuscat[ing] facts about her medical education, board certifications, and military service” — an article that activist Laura Loomer greatly amplified.

On Wednesday, the president announced that he was instead nominating Dr. Casey Means, a tech entrepreneur and Stanford-educated doctor who has long criticized the exploitative nature of the health care system.

“Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans.”

Trump added, “Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History.”

Trump’s decision was met with mixed responses from some of his allies and supporters.

While many in Trump’s broader coalition celebrated the president’s second pick, underscoring that Means was “an upgrade” from Nesheiwat, others cast doubt on her qualifications and past remarks.

Against

“It’s very strange,” wrote Nicole Shanahan, the host of Blaze Media’s “Back to the People” podcast and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in his 2024 presidential campaign.

“Doesn’t make any sense. I was promised that if I supported RFK Jr. in his Senate confirmation that neither of these siblings would be working under HHS or in an appointment (and that people much more qualified would be),” continued Shanahan. “I don’t know if RFK very clearly lied to me, or what is going on.”

In January, Shanahan threatened to primary senators if they tried to torpedo Kennedy’s nomination, telling Georgia Democratic Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff specifically that she was watching their votes and would make it her “personal mission” that they lose their seats if they voted “against the future health of America’s children.”

Shanahan, who did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for clarification, suggested further in her Wednesday post that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to be “reporting to someone regularly who is controlling his decisions (and it isn’t President Trump).”

Shanahan, a big proponent of the Make America Healthy Again movement, suggested further that “there is something very artificial and aggressive” about Means and her brother Calley Means, a White House health adviser and former food industry lobbyist — “almost like they were bred and raised Manchurian assets.”

Blaze News reached out to a spokeswoman for Means but did not receive a response by deadline. Politico was informed by an HHS spokesman that the agency would respond to requests for comment on Casey Means’ behalf and linked to Kennedy’s Thursday tweet, discussed later in this article.

‘She talks to trees and doesn’t even have an active medical license.’

Loomer appeared more critical of Trump’s second pick than she was of his first, firing off a barrage of denigrating posts aimed at Means, writing, “This is so embarrassing for the Trump administration.”

In addition to complaining that Means “doesn’t have a surgical residency, and isn’t a surgeon” — Politico indicated Means was trained at Stanford Medical School as a head and neck surgeon but dropped out of her surgical residency in the fifth year — Loomer seized upon one of Means’ newsletters as evidence of the doctor’s supposed engagement in “Witch Craft.”

The basis for Loomer’s allegation of sorcery was a newsletter wherein Means allegedly claimed she prayed to a photo of her ancestors at a meditation shrine in her house; “worked with a spiritual medium who helped [her] try to connect with [her] spirit guides”; “did full moon ceremonies with grounded, powerful women”; spoke to trees; and “did plant medicine experiences with trusted guides.”

“So basically the new Surgeon General is a total crack pot, a shroom consumer and she talks to trees and doesn’t even have an active medical license,” wrote Loomer, who bragged earlier about initiating the “MAHA breakup.” “Another failure by the ‘geniuses’ who work for President Trump on his non existent vetting team.”

For

Kennedy thanked Trump on Thursday for nominating Means, noting that the “Surgeon General is a symbol of moral authority who stands against the financial and institutional gravities that tend to corporatize medicine. Casey Means was born to hold this job.”

In a subsequent tweet, the HHS secretary characterized the attacks on Means as “absurd,” suggesting they “reveal just how far off course our healthcare conversations have veered, and how badly entrenched interests — including Big Food and its industry-funded social media gurus — are terrified of change.”

‘They understand the sacrifice of what she gave up to be allegiant to the truth.’

In addition to highlighting her academic achievements in the field of medicine and noting she “was a top performer in surgical residency,” Kennedy underscored that the “attacks that Casey is unqualified because she left the medical system completely miss the point of what we are trying to accomplish with MAHA.”

Whereas some critics suggested Means’ departure from the traditional medical system was disqualifying, the health secretary — who was himself an outsider where the medical establishment is concerned — said that made her the “perfect choice.”

“I have little doubt that these companies and their conflicted media outlets will continue to pay bloggers and other social media influencers to weaponize innuendo to slander and vilify Casey, the same way they try to defame me and President Trump,” added Kennedy.

Prior to Kennedy mounting his defense of Means, BlazeTV’s Liz Wheeler addressed the attacks on the doctor, then gave a rebuttal.

Without naming her outright, Wheeler hit back against two of Loomer’s top grievances — the status of Means’ medical license and her father’s authorship of a book premised on gender ideology.

“The inactive medical license is not a big deal,” wrote Wheeler. “It’s pretty common for MAHA providers to let their medical license lapse anyway, because when you advise things that aren’t within ‘standards of care’ you can be liable legally.”

Wheeler suggested that the book written by Means’ father, which deals with a kid’s so-called “gender identity,” was irrelevant, first, because Dr. Means “had nothing to do with the writing of the book,” second, because she has criticized transgenderism in the past, and third, because of the work’s limited impact.

After rebuffing Loomer’s top complaints, Wheeler emphasized that Means is an excellent communicator who has successfully “opened more people’s eyes” to the role that “Big Food & Big Pharma” have had in driving America’s chronic health epidemic — a doctor whose story “resonates with people because they understand the sacrifice of what she gave up to be allegiant to the truth.”

Wheeler thanked Trump for appointing Means, stressing that his appointment of disruptors “is what we voted for!”

Donald Trump Jr., Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk, U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drugs Martin Makary, and others in the MAGA ecosystem have similarly expressed their delight with Trump’s second pick.

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A historic moment was made even more so when the new pope was revealed to be from the U.S. for the first time in the millennial history of the Catholic church.

U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost was chosen by the conclave of cardinals on Thursday and appeared to the faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. He chose the name Leo and became Pope Leo XIV.

His first words were, ‘Peace be with you all.’

Leo is 69 years old and was born in Chicago, Illinois. He spent much of his career ministering in Peru. He was ordained at age 27 and is an alumnus of Villanova University in Pennsylvania.

His first words were, “Peace be with you all.”

He spoke in Italian and then switched to Spanish during his first address in Rome to tens of thousands of the faithful. He is a member of the Order of St. Augustine, a church father from the fourth century.

The 133 cardinals met at Vatican City after mourning the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88 years in April.

President Donald Trump responded positively to the announcement.

“Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope,” he said on social media. “It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!”

It is estimated that 1.4 billion people adhere to the Catholic faith. About 20% of Americans identify as Catholic.

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A Southern California mother shared disturbing cellphone video of an alleged bully beating up her crying 10-year-old daughter and pulling her by her hair to a school restroom floor as other girls cheered the physical attack.

What’s more, the mother told KTTV-TV that the alleged bullying began against all three of her daughters after her husband died of a heart attack three years ago.

‘How did it get this bad where the school didn’t know anything about it, when I went to them multiple times about my daughters being bullied?’

“Ever since my husband passed, they’ve been getting bullied, telling them, ‘Oh, your dad died, hahaha.’ It’s so funny for them,” Beatriz Hernandez told the station.

The station said Hernandez also showed KTTV a December 2023 report filed with Inglewood Unified School Police noting bullying against her daughters. The report said in one incident that one of her daughters was forced to eat hot chili peppers, and during another incident, milk and water were thrown at her daughters while they were walking with their grandmother, the station noted.

In regard to the cellphone video of the physical attack, KTTV said it occurred April 30 in a restroom at Woodworth-Monroe Academy in Inglewood at the end of the school day.

The attack happened after Hernandez’ 10-year-old daughter ran into the restroom while her two siblings and their grandmother waited outside the school to head home, the station said, adding that other girls were waiting for her.

“My daughter was being dragged. She was literally being dragged,” Hernandez told KTTV. “Even though it’s another little girl, it’s still bad. How did it get this bad where the school didn’t know anything about it, when I went to them multiple times about my daughters being bullied?”

Believe it or not, her 10-year-old daughter was suspended after the April 30 incident for being “involved in a fight,” the station reported.

KTTV said school officials didn’t disclose if the other girls received punishments, but the district released a statement saying it’s investigating the April 30 incident.

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Emily Ruby, with Greenberg & Ruby, a firm that handles legal cases dealing with school bullying, says she is seeing younger and younger children involved in bullying incidents, where there seems to be a sense that nothing will happen to them.

She is also seeing that in more cases, it’s putting the videos on social media that’s behind the incidents.

But California law is stronger than the rest of the country, thanks partially to Seth’s law which in 2012 required public schools to update their anti-bullying policies and programs, with a focus on protecting students who are bullied.

Hernandez told KTTV she’s tired of going to school police and has filed a report with Inglewood Police.

You can view a video report here about the incident, which includes clips of the restroom attack and an interview with Hernandez.

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Depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicide are rampant these days, especially among youth. Studies have shown time and time again that these issues are largely due to social isolation, thanks to society’s addiction to social media that keeps us glued to our screens instead of engaging with others in person.

Thank goodness Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a solution to the “loneliness epidemic” he’s played a key role in creating: AI friends!

What could go wrong?

In a recent podcast interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Zuckerberg said, “The average American has, I think, it’s fewer than three friends … and the average person has demand for meaningfully more. … There are all these things that are better about kind of physical connections when you can have them, but the reality is that people just don’t have the connection, and they feel more alone.”

AI friends, he argued, could fill that gap.

Glenn Beck’s response? “Get behind me, Satan!”

“From the people who brought you ‘Kill yourself because you’ve been on Facebook too much’ brings you new AI friends,” he mocks.

Co-host Stu Burguiere cites a study that assessed how much social interaction dropped between 2003 and 2023 in each age group. “Every single group has massive drops. … Ages 15-to-24-year-olds, 35% down,” he says.

Zuckerberg’s suggestion to cure this epidemic, however, is to essentially imbibe more of the same poison that landed us in this predicament in the first place.

Is he really that stupid?

Glenn says no. He’s not stupid; he’s disguising his ill intentions by wrapping them in a “beautiful, shiny package” of false concern for others’ loneliness.

“Let me be crystal clear — AI cannot, must not, and will never be your friend,” he warns, “and if you buy into that fantasy, you’re opening a door to a world of manipulation, isolation, and control that make some of the darkest days of history look pretty tame.”

To hear Glenn’s predictions about the damage AI friends will do to the human psyche and spirit, watch the clip above.

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The papal conclave, which began Wednesday, has attracted unusual interest from a mainstream media normally not given to dwelling on matters of faith.

In both their reflections on the late Pope Francis and their speculations on the next supreme pontiff, the stream of articles coming out of the reputed mouthpieces of American progressivism has been a mix of regret at the passing of a noble ally and trepidation at the prospect of a less friendly pope going forward.

Benedict XVI was painted as an inflexible and cruel man, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. (He literally wrote an encyclical titled “God is Love.”)

To give just a few examples, New York magazine published a piece asking, “Will Christianity Make a Turn to the Right Post-Francis?” while the Atlantic examined “Progressive Christianity’s Bleak Future.”

What is the reason for this media meltdown? Is the American media genuinely saddened by the passing of the late Holy Father and fearful for the spiritual welfare of his flock in America?

A useful tool

Certainly not. The reason for the minor hysteria among the legacy outlets is quite simple. The Francis pontificate gave the media a useful tool with which to attack and isolate American conservatives. Pope Francis was less focused on doctrinal matters than he was on pastoral concerns; it was relatively easier for the media to twist the pope’s words when he spoke about the environment and social inequality.

For example, Pope Francis published four encyclicals. Two of them, “Fratelli Tutti” and “Laudato Si,” received a plethora of coverage, while the other two, “Lumen Fidei” and “Dilexit Nos,” received no attention to speak of. Guess which two addressed more secular issues and which were concerned with theological topics.

Due to a number of factors, it is quite likely that the next pope will be far more conservative than Francis — more in line with his two immediate predecessors, Benedict XVI and John Paul II.

A change of attack

The writers of America’s legacy outlets are aware of this, and they are preparing to change their angle of attack. It is very likely that they will treat Francis’ successor the same way they treated his predecessor.

During the pontificate of Benedict XVI (2005-2013), there was no barrage of media articles trying to convince Americans that the pope was actually a signatory (in spirit) of the DNC platform and that conservatives were bad Christians for not following suit.

Rather, Benedict was labeled as a regressive, out-of-touch traditionalist who didn’t care about the spiritual welfare of his flock. He was painted as an inflexible and cruel man, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. (He literally wrote an encyclical titled “God is Love.”) If the next pope is anything like Benedict, we can be assured the media will go right back to these calumnious attacks.

Behind the lies

The question must be asked, why do the media do this? Why do they lie about the popes again and again? It is an important question to answer in order to purge any thought from our minds that these people may be acting with a single shred of genuine religious conviction. To understand why they lie, you have to understand the sort of people they are.

A very useful example for understanding the media lies is the writer James Carroll, who has written about both Benedict and Francis for outlets such as the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and Politico. Carroll was a constant critic of Benedict and wrote articles attacking his “moral weakness” and “disastrous influence.”

When Francis assumed the office, on the other hand, Carroll took to the pages of the New Yorker to praise him as a long-awaited liberal reformer. He contrasted Francis’ seeming openness to progressive ideas with Benedict’s cold-hearted traditionalism.

However, as time went on and Francis did not live up to his progressive ideas, Carroll began decrying the pope’s failure to address patriarchy and gender inequality. By 2018, he stated that he had lost faith in Francis, but was happy to keep contrasting him with Benedict in order to divide Catholics.

Carroll is a prime example of why members of the secular media (even those “raised Catholic”) should never be trusted when they comment on the Church. In Carroll’s case, we are dealing with a former priest who abandoned his ministry after only five years and has spent the majority of his career since then calling the Church evil and oppressive for not conforming to his progressive ideals.

No greater love

Carroll is most famous for his 2019 Atlantic article titled “Abolish the Priesthood.” In other words, there will never be a pope liberal enough for him, and the Church will never be progressive enough to make him happy. In this, too, he is typical of the mainstream media. Do not think for a second that there is even the slightest shred of genuine religious concern in these people.

The purpose of the legacy media in this country is to attack American conservatives. The people who write for these outlets are secular progressives who have liberal globalism as their highest moral ideal. They are not religious in any real sense because to them religion is merely a social construction subordinate to their political goals.

They cannot conceive of true religion as a habit of justice whereby we render to God His due for the same reason they cannot conceive of God as anything other than a vague set of social principles: nothing is more sacred to them than political liberalism.

This lack of any purpose beyond politics explains their hatred of conservatives. They cannot understand genuine religious conviction. They do not believe, and so they assume that nobody else does. They cannot act in good faith, and so they assume that nobody does. When politics is everything, the pope is just one more thing to politicize.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Wednesday six indictments and arrests in Frio County involving judges and other elected officials.

The individuals are accused of “election crimes related to a vote harvesting scheme.”

‘Targeting these vulnerable voters to sway an election or secure a political position is a direct attack on the principles of our democracy.’

The arrests included Frio County Judge Rochelle Camacho, former Frio County Elections Administrator Carlos Segura, Pearsall City Council member Ramiro Trevino, Pearsall City Council member Racheal Garza, Pearsall ISD Trustee Adriann Ramirez, and alleged vote harvester Rosa Rodriguez.

A grand jury returned true bills for vote harvesting charges against all of the suspects. Camacho faces three counts, Segura one count, Trevino one count, Garza one count, Ramirez three counts, and Rodriguez two counts.

Five of those indicted have ties to Democratic candidates, the New York Times reported.

The alleged vote harvesters were arrested on May 2, except Camacho. Paxton’s office noted that she would be “processed at a later date.”

“In August 2024, Attorney General Paxton’s Criminal Investigation Division executed multiple search warrants in Frio, Atascosa, and Bexar Counties as part of a multi-year election integrity investigation into credible allegations of vote harvesting,” a press release from Paxton’s office read. “On May 1, 2025, Frio County District Attorney Audrey Louis and the Election Integrity Unit of the Office of the Attorney General presented a criminal vote harvesting case to a grand jury in Frio County.”

Paxton’s office previously explained that the search warrants were in connection to vote harvesting during the 2022 elections.

The League of United Latin American Citizens had accused the attorney general’s office of conducting raids against Latino citizens, confiscating cell phones, computers, and documents.

The indictments alleged that most of the officials provided monetary compensation “in exchange for vote harvesting services,” the Times reported.

Paxton stated, “The people of Texas deserve fair and honest elections, not backroom deals and political insiders rigging the system. Elected officials who think they can cheat to stay in power will be held accountable. No one is above the law.”

He vowed to continue working with Louis to protect election integrity.

Louis noted that all of the charges are third-degree felonies. The suspects could face two to 10 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

“Violating the privacy or voting rights of our elderly or disabled community members will be met with zero tolerance,” Louis said. “Targeting these vulnerable voters to sway an election or secure a political position is a direct attack on the principles of our democracy. We are committed to protecting every citizen’s right to vote freely, fairly, and without intimidation.”

The office’s investigation remains ongoing.

Segura told the Times that the charges against him are “ridiculous.” He noted that his lawyer advised him not to discuss the indictment further.

Camacho, Trevino, Garza, Ramirez, and Rodriguez did not respond to a request for comment from the San Antonio Express-News.

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White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Thursday, indicating that the conclave of cardinals had chosen a new pope.

Pope Francis passed away on April 21, leading to the gathering of cardinals at the Vatican in Rome. After debating the candidates, multiple votes of the 133 cardinals are made until one candidate garners 89 votes.

The new pope will appear from the basilica to the large crowd.

“Habemus papam!” will be pronounced from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, a phrase that is Latin for “We have a pope!”

The new pope will appear from the basilica before the large crowd assembled at the Vatican to lead them in prayer. He will also choose a name to be called as the leader of the Catholic Church.

Scenes from the Vatican show the crowds jubilantly celebrating. Some are waving flags, while others yell, “Viva il papa!” and “Hallelujah!”

Francis died at the age of 88 and was the first pope from Latin America, but many criticized him for what they saw as a left-leaning focus in his pronouncements. The cardinals convened after nine days of mourning following the funeral for Francis.

Ten of the cardinals eligible to be pope are from the United States.

Some expected a longer period of voting, but the cardinals appeared to quickly choose a successor to Francis.

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House Democrats unanimously voted against a resolution renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Thursday.

The resolution passed the House mostly along party lines in a 211-206 vote, with 211 Republicans voting in favor of the renaming while one Republican and 205 Democrats voted against it. Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska was the only GOP member to side with the Democrats.

‘We’re done honoring a country that’s sponsored the invasion of our southern border.’

The GOP-led bill would simply require all federal agencies to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s executive order to appropriately update all maps and documents with the name Gulf of America.

“Democrats are FURIOUS that we want to permanently rename the Gulf of America, but they had no problem renaming military bases and tearing down statues of Lincoln and Washington,” Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the lead sponsor of the bill, said in a statement. “They don’t hate the name… They just hate America.”

“We’re done honoring a country that’s sponsored the invasion of our southern border,” Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia said in a statement. “America First.”

Although the bill would technically codify one of Trump’s executive orders, Bacon said that the resolution “just seems juvenile.”

“We’re the United States of America. We’re not Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany or Napoleon France,” Bacon said. “We’re better than this. It just sounds like a sophomore thing to do.”

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After Pope Francis’ passing, the conclave to elect the Catholic Church’s next pope is now underway. This begs the question, will the next pope be “conservative” and orthodox — or will he follow in Francis’ footsteps and embrace leftist and globalist ideas?

LifeSiteNews co-founder and CEO John-Henry Westen has an idea, and he notes that we will be finding out very soon.

Westen explains that the “word on the street” is that a new pope should be expected by day three of the conclave.

“I don’t know anything about this,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” admits, “but it doesn’t look like there’s any real conservative that has a chance of getting in.”

“That’s an interesting question, because in the Church, of course, we don’t talk much about conservative, it’s more about orthodoxy, those who actually follow the Catholic faith and then those who don’t. And on those who do, there are a number,” Westen tells Glenn.

However, many of the cardinals who will be voting in the conclave were appointed by Pope Francis — who also reportedly increased the numbers of cardinals from 120 to 133.

“The rule book, called ‘Universi Dominici Gregis’ was put out by John Paul II and amended by Benedict,” Westen explains, “It said it should be a limit of 120. The thing is, if you check with a canonist though, the pope has the right to change that.”

“The other thing is this, there’s now 133 cardinals who are voting, 108 were named by Francis. That’s 81% more,” Westen continues. “So if you want to talk about a stacked deck, sure.”

“The only difficulty with that kind of very political calculus is this: Can you find enough guys who sign up to that kind of extreme left-wing, non-Catholic type of deal, and the answer is no. So you’ve got a bunch of cardinals that he named that aren’t going to be following in his footsteps,” he says.

“So what you have is a bunch of guys that really nobody knows, and they’re going to take what’s coming as it comes and have to deal with the aftereffects of the last 12 years, which has been a disaster for the Church from almost anyone’s perspective,” he adds.

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The University of Washington stated it has suspended and banned 21 students who were allegedly part of this week’s takeover and vandalism of the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building in an effort to force the college to end its partnership with Boeing.

“Thirty-four individuals were arrested and are subject to criminal prosecution and university disciplinary processes. The 21 students who were arrested have been suspended and banned from all UW campuses. Non-student participants will be banned from the UW’s Seattle campus,” UW said.

‘Whether something meets the definition of domestic terrorism — I don’t know exactly what that definition is — but this is obviously a serious situation.’

The punishments come after the Trump administration’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism had initiated a review of federal grants and contracts at UW. While anti-Israel and anti-U.S. protesters on college campuses had greater freedom to carry out their attacks with little consequences under the Biden-Harris administration, that appears to be at an end under President Donald Trump. UW pledged that the school’s personnel will “cooperate with the Task Force’s review and are confident that an evaluation will find we are in compliance with federal civil rights laws.”

“The University of Washington condemns anti-Semitism, harassment, and discrimination. Throughout the May 5th incident, the UW was in contact with campus and Seattle Jewish community leaders. We value these partnerships and understand their deep concern. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle issued a public statement noting the University’s swift response and clear denunciation of anti-Semitism,” UW added.

Fires were started, and much of the engineering equipment inside the building was damaged or destroyed, costing over $1 million in damages. Militants alleged to be Antifa further prevented first responders from putting out the fires and stopped law enforcement officers who responded from entering the building. Once additional officers arrived, they were able to force their way in and remove the occupiers.

As for local leadership, there has been a lack of forceful condemnation from either Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell (D) or Washington Governor Bob Ferguson (D).

When asked by KOMO-TV about the chaotic event, Ferguson was at first “reluctant to enter the debate” but said he believed the protesters will be held accountable.

“Whether something meets the definition of domestic terrorism — I don’t know exactly what that definition is — but this is obviously a serious situation,” Ferguson continued, adding that the federal task force probe is not unusual since the federal government is “investigating just about everybody these days.”

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Months after the Trump administration
announced that “only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad,” Republican lawmakers in Idaho and Utah passed restrictions on which flags could be flown at state government buildings and at schools.

While the laws prohibit virtually all nonofficial flags, irrespective of political persuasion and significance, leftists raged over their potential inability to continue hoisting sex- and race-themed flags over American soil, flaunting the success of their cultural imperialism.

Democratic mayors in Boise and Salt Lake City have apparently found a way to continue flying non-straight activists’ colors without having to continue
directly violating the law: adopt the LGBT flags as official city emblems or incorporate their elements into official flags.

‘Clear waste of time and taxpayer resources.’

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall
proposed adopting three new city flags “in addition to the traditional Sego Lily Flag, on Tuesday to most accurately reflect the values of the City and its residents.”

Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office

According to Mendenhall’s office, the first flag would represent the city’s transvestite population “and a commitment to seeing and celebrating their lives”; the second would represent the city’s non-straight residents “and broader acceptance of this community”; and the third would represent the “history of Juneteenth and the City’s Black and African American residents.”

“Our City flags are powerful symbols representing Salt Lake City’s values,” said Mendenhall. “I want all Salt Lakers to look up at these flags and be reminded that we value diversity, equity and inclusion — leaving no doubt that we are united as a city and people, moving forward together.”

Salt Lake City council unanimously approved the designs on Tuesday evening,
reported the Associated Press.

Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz (R) characterized the devious workaround as a “clear waste of time and taxpayer resources.”

‘You’re a bunch of fricking commies breaking the law.’

“This law is about keeping government spaces neutral and welcoming to all,” said Schultz. “Salt Lake City should focus on real issues, not political theatrics.”

Blaze News
previously reported that the Boise City Council put making the Progress Pride flag an official city flag to a vote Tuesday evening, one week after Boise Mayor Lauren McLean suggested to state Attorney General Raul Labrador that the flag ban was “legally defective and unenforceable as written.”

The council ultimately voted 5 to 1.

According to Boise State Public Radio, one opponent of the measure yelled, “You’re a bunch of fricking commies breaking the law,” adding, “You think gay people are the only people who are entitled to anything?”

The lone vote against the resolution came from Council Member Luci Willits, who emphasized that her role as an elected official was to follow the law and suggested that the “legislature will come in, and it will slap a huge fine on the city of Boise, and Boise will have to pay it.”

“That will limit what we can spend on things that we have control over, like police and fire and libraries and parks and all the things that make Boise what it is today,” added Willits.

“Removing the flag now after years of flying it proudly would not be a neutral act,” said Council Member Meredith Stead. “It would signal a retreat from values we’ve long upheld and send a disheartening message to those who have found affirmation and belonging through its presence at city hall.”

Mendenhall and McLean apparently spoke Tuesday morning to discuss their respective plots to undermine their states’ legislatures and fly the activist colors.

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The University of Washington was overrun by militant Antifa members protesting in favor of Hamas and Gaza — and the scene was eerily reminiscent of 2020’s unforgettable Summer of Love riots.

“They were lighting fires. They were attacking police,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments, noting that the fires were “rather large.” Video also shows the Antifa members running off the campus security guards, who were in vehicles, with shields made out of garbage cans.

“Chasing away the security service with garbage cans. How embarrassing is that? What is the point of you guys? You’re scared off by a little garbage can shield?” Gonzales asks, shocked.

“When you got time to do all that stuff, you don’t got s**t else to do, and I think this is why we need to start addressing this welfare statism. And I talked about this in 2020 during the Summer of Love. These are bored people. First-world problems,” Eric July, founder of Rippaverse Comics, chimes in.

“These are people that have nothing else to do, and therefore, they just cause issues and cause all sorts of trouble. That’s all there is to it,” he continues. “All it does is remind me that I think these issues that plague America could just so easily be addressed; they just don’t, and I think we know why. I think there’s no real incentive, especially politically.”

“The Bottom Line” host Jaco Booyens believes these Antifa members are responding to a “lack of consequence” and an identity crisis.

“It is a gigantic class in American society at the moment that has no identity, and definitely not a Christ identity,” Booyens says. “So you can co-opt them to do anything.”

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President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday, on the 80-year anniversary of Victory Day, marking the first trade deal of his second term.

This trade deal comes just a month after the administration first implemented tariffs on dozens of foreign countries aimed at renegotiating trade deals that are more advantageous to America.

Both Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that while the groundwork for the trade deal has been laid out, some of the details are still being finalized.

“With this deal, the U.K. joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade,” Trump said. “The deal includes billions of dollars of increased market access for American exports, especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol, and virtually all products produced by our great farmers.”

“In addition, the U.K. will reduce or eliminate numerous non-tariff barriers that unfairly discriminated against American products,” Trump added. “This is now turning out, I think, really, to be a great deal for both countries.”

Trump also noted that the U.K. was previously “a little closed” toward the United States, saying the trade deal will now reopen and even expedite trade between the two countries.

“They’ll also be fast-tracking American goods through their customs process so our exports go to a very, very quick form of approval, and there won’t be any red tape,” Trump said. “Things are going to move very quickly both ways.”

“Furthermore, in a historic step, the deal includes plans that will bring the United Kingdom into the economic security alignment with the United States,” Trump said. “That’s the first of its kind. So we have a big economic security blanket.”

Both Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that while the groundwork for the trade deal has been laid out, some of the details are still being finalized.

“We can finish ironing out some of the details,” Starmer said over the phone during Trump’s press conference.

“The final details are being written up in the coming weeks,” Trump added.

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