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The Department of Commerce released the first GDP report of President Donald Trump’s second term on Wednesday, sending critics into a frenzy.

The legacy media’s coverage of the report reiterates the same claim: The economy “shrank.” But between the lines, the report paints a different, more promising picture.

On its face, the report shows that the economy contracted at a 0.3% rate in the first quarter as a result of the ongoing trade war and tariff uncertainty. Despite this, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Richard Clarida argued that this figure was “distorted” and predicted it would be revised upward.

‘It’s no surprise the leftovers of Biden’s economic disaster have been a drag on economic growth, but the underlying numbers tell the real story of the strong momentum President Trump is delivering.’

“Not really much of a surprise,” Clarida said. “I do think the Q1 numbers were probably distorted by that huge surge in imports to front-run the tariffs, and I think could be revised up slightly. So the final number may be closer to zero.”

“I do think probably that the Fed will probably try to look through this number because of those distortions. … Maybe the headline number is a bit misleading this time,” Clarida added.

As Clarida pointed out, these distortions are overshadowing key indicators that would suggest the economy is actually building momentum.

For example, consumer spending outpaced government spending by 3.2 percentage points, which has been the strongest figure since the Q2 report back in 2022. Consumer spending is a strong indicator of economic health that can lead to several positive outcomes like GDP growth, increasing demand, and job creation.

The report found that inflation has also halted, with the PCE price index showing zero increase in costs from February to March. This is a promising figure compared to the 0.3% increase in costs in January.

“It’s no surprise the leftovers of Biden’s economic disaster have been a drag on economic growth, but the underlying numbers tell the real story of the strong momentum President Trump is delivering,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Wednesday.

While the GDP has contracted overall, the core GDP grew a robust 3%, which the administration said “signals strong underlying economic momentum.” Gross domestic investment also soared 22% in the first quarter, which was the highest in four years.

“Robust core GDP, the highest gross domestic investment in four years, job growth, and trillions of dollars in new investments secured by President Trump are fueling an economic boom and setting the stage for unprecedented growth as President Trump ushers in the new golden age,” Leavitt said.

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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian who was recently arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a crackdown by the State Department on foreign nationals who organize or are part of protests on college campuses.

Mahdawi was arrested when he showed up to an appointment for his process to become a U.S. citizen. He is currently a green card holder.

“I am saying it clear and loud, to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” Mahdawi said outside a federal courthouse shortly after U.S. District Judge William Sessions III ordered his release, according to Politico.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made it clear that foreign students who want to go to American universities and cause disruptions will have their visa applications denied.

“Me standing here in front of you sends a clear message: We the people will hold the Constitution accountable for the principles that we believe in,” Mahdawi continued.

Mahdawi’s release does not mean the efforts to deport him are over. He is simply allowed to be free from custody as the case makes its way through the court system. Sessions determined that Mahdawi is not a public safety or flight risk.

Sessions, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, showed sympathy for Mahdawi because he experienced “great harm” while in detention.

“Even another day of detention is not to be tolerated,” Sessions said, going on to add that the Trump administration’s crackdown on disruptive foreign students is similar to McCarthyism during the 1950s.

“The wheel has come around again,” he said.

In response to Mahdawi’s release and his statements, Homeland Security’s Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said, “When you advocate for violence, glorify and support terrorists that relish the killing of Americans and harass Jews, that privilege should be revoked and you should not be in this country. We have the law, facts and commonsense on our side.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made it clear that foreign students who want to go to American universities and cause disruptions will have their visa applications denied.

“If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you’re coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we’re not going to give you a visa,” Rubio previously said about the issue.

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Predators in California who solicit sex from certain minors will not face felony charges now that state Democrats have eliminated that portion of a new bill.

Under current California law, anyone who solicits sex from someone at least 16 years old can be charged with a misdemeanor. Those who solicit sex from a child under 16 or a trafficking victim under 18 can be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of local prosecutors.

The law, amended last year to include the felony option, was considered a compromise after Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove proposed making any solicitation of a minor under 18 a felony.

Back in February, Democratic Assemblywoman Maggy Krell introduced AB 379, the Survivor Support and Demand Reduction Act, which, among other things, would have given prosecutors the option of slapping felony charges on any creep who solicits sex from a child under 18.

Krell spent decades prosecuting trafficking cases with the California Department of Justice and claimed she wants solicitors to be held accountable as well as prostitutes.

‘Solicitation statutes … have been used disproportionately against people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those experiencing poverty.’

She didn’t get her way.

Democrats on the Assembly Public Safety Committee refused to send the bill along for full consideration unless the felony option was eliminated from it. “I was told that [AB 379] was pulled and the only way I could get it back on the agenda is if parts of the bill would be blocked,” Krell claimed.

Krell called the decision “a disgrace.”

Grove went a step further. “It’s completely evil,” she declared.

Assemblyman Nick Shultz, the Democratic committee chairman, responded to questions about the decision mostly with vague political platitudes.

“My perspective as chair, there was a carefully crafted deal last year,” Schultz said. “We’re not saying no, but what we’re saying is if we’re going to be thoughtful policymakers, we really need to dive deep into this issue.”

Schultz also suggested that the felony option would be little more than “knee-jerk policy.” “It’s my job to make sure … we’re having good, substantive conversation and landing on a good spot,” he added to KCRA-TV.

Other opponents, including the ACLU of Southern California, claimed that the bill would land too many racial and sexual minorities behind bars.

“Anti-loitering and solicitation statutes, like the one at issue in AB 379, have been used disproportionately against people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those experiencing poverty, under the pretext of public safety,” the ACLU SoCal wrote in a letter late last month.

Notorious far-left state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco made a similar argument in 2021 when he proposed the Safer Streets for All Act, which decriminalized loitering for prostitution and which some lawmakers hope to countermand with AB 379.

“Sex workers are workers, and they deserve respect and safety,” Weiner said at the time. “We must work toward a future where people — especially the most marginalized — aren’t criminalized because of who they are and what they look like.”

In his interview with KCRA-TV, Schultz likewise hinted that he opposed AB 379’s felony option on DEI-related grounds as well, claiming that any “solution” lawmakers find “needs to be equitable.”

Krell and other supporters of AB 379 were not nearly so careful about using politically correct terms regarding sexuality and gender when speaking about the issues the bill addresses.

“AB 379 creates a law that allows law enforcement to intervene when men are out on the prowl to buy victims for sex,” Krell asserted.

Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper, a Democrat former assemblyman and member of the California Black Caucus, slammed Wiener’s law as emboldening criminals and vice behaviors.

“With that, we’ve seen a statewide, dramatic explosion of juvenile prostitution. The buyers don’t care. So, to me, change the narrative. Make people afraid to go out and buy these young girls,” Cooper said.

Though the felony option has been nixed for now, Krell says she isn’t giving up. “I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and I’m not going to quit now.” She pledged to bring this part of this bill back every year until it passes.

“That’s what I’m going to do.”

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The U.S. housing market has been a rollercoaster since the pandemic. First, lockdowns and economic uncertainty slowed the market to a crawl, followed by record-low mortgage rates that spurred a buying frenzy. Limited inventory worsened by construction delays and supply chain issues then spiked prices, creating a fierce seller’s market with frequent bidding wars.

In 2021, Biden’s economic policies, later called “Bidenomics,” drove inflation through the roof and prompted the Federal Reserve to spike interest rates, which doubled monthly mortgage payments for a median-priced home and made home ownership impossible for a huge percentage of American families.

Although the market has cooled slightly, affordability issues, elevated prices, and limited inventory continue to put homeownership out of reach for many Americans.

But thankfully, President Trump, as he always does, has a plan to fix what’s been broken.

Matthew Peterson, Blaze News editor in chief and co-host of “Blaze News Tonight,” recently sat down with Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to discuss President Trump’s plans to restore the American dream of homeownership.

The FHFA is in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – two government-sponsored enterprises that keep the housing market running smoothly by making sure banks have money to lend.

“My view on [FHFA] is that we are here to restore the American dream,” says Pulte. “For the last four years under President Biden, there was a significant amount of inflation, and nobody could afford a home, and so what we’re really focused on is restoring the American dream of home ownership.”

However, what’s standing in the way of that goal is rampant fraud, waste, and abuse.

“There was a lot of fraud and a lot of waste and abuse that went on in 2008, and as a result, the government had to take over Fannie and Freddie, and so what we’re focused on is getting rid of the fraud, getting rid of the waste, getting rid of the abuse to make sure that these entities are stronger than ever before,” says Pulte.

To further these efforts, FHFA has instituted a “tip line” where anyone can report fraud and has terminated employees for “fraudulent or misleading activity.”

Another issue that’s been standing in the way of restoring the American dream of homeownership is DEI. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have “affordable housing mandates” that encourage lenders to provide more loans to low-income borrowers, minority groups, and underserved communities above others.

“Everybody should be treated equally and our policies need to do that, and so we terminated the DEI executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” says Pulte.

While it’s a long and complicated road to rooting out corruption and making homeownership more accessible again, Pulte is confident President Trump is the person to see it done.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be great American icons once again,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been facing backlash for weeks over his comments regarding the lack of agency many autistic children face, because parents of children who are “on the spectrum” believed he was talking about their own experience.

“Autism destroys families, and most importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. These are children who should not be suffering like this,” RFK Jr. said. “These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”

While those on the left have seen this as an opportunity to criticize the Trump administration, Matt McClowry, 1/4 Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs of “Normal World” are thrilled that RFK Jr. is taking action as promised.

“This is one of the most exciting things for me, the whole Donald Trump second term, putting all these great people in, ‘cause he was going to run for president, right, and people wanted him to get in,” Garrett says.

“I think this is a better position for him to be in because now he’s not distracted by all the other foreign policy and other things that the president has to do. He can do what he’s passionate about and what really needs to be done,” he continues, noting that RFK’s ban on food coloring was a huge step in the right direction as well.

“Get all that stuff out of here because we do have an autism problem,” he says. “Even if we find that it doesn’t have anything to do with causing autism, it’s just not healthy to add all these preservatives and food colorings and the stuff that we don’t need.”

McClowry finds it a little odd that the left, long the party of hippies and environmentalists, wants nothing to do with RFK’s cause unless it’s tearing it apart.

“It’s just strange for me to see Democrats coming out de facto on the side of all that stuff,” McClowry says, before referencing a post on X from Elizabeth Warren.

“I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight with you all the way,” Warren wrote.

“By this fight, she means kickbacks for drug companies,” McClowry comments, adding, “Speaking as a person with autism, I hold a job, I have a family, and I would erase my autism in a second if it were an option.”

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Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg is now facing a serious challenge for his position as many within the party are looking for ways to get rid of the gun control activist.

Semafor reports a candidate who failed to win a DNC leadership role earlier this year is now saying the DNC violated its own bylaws by not electing enough people with diverse backgrounds to be in top positions. The complaint was filed by Kalyn Free, a Native American attorney. The DNC’s credentials committee will meet virtually on May 12 to consider the challenge.

“By aggregating votes across ballots and failing to distinguish between gender categories in a meaningful way, the DNC’s process violated its own Charter and Bylaws, undermining both fairness and gender diversity,” said Free.

Hogg’s lawyers said the election “was conducted in compliance with the rules in place at the time,” and it is “inappropriate to try to revise those rules or decisions after the fact through a credentials challenge.”

That’s right: The DNC’s near-suicidal commitment to DEI might end up costing Hogg his job at the DNC.

A DNC spokesperson told Semafor, “While we are confident that the DNC Officer election was conducted fairly, transparently, and in alignment with the rules that were approved by the DNC Membership in advance of the election, the Party provides an opportunity for any other candidate or member to raise concerns for further discussion.”

It remains to be seen who will win out in the end, the establishment or the grassroots activists.

Hogg has been fighting for his position and attacking establishment Democrats ever since his organization, Leaders We Deserve, announced it will be spending $20 million to challenge House Democrats in deep-blue districts who the organization says are not doing enough to stand up to President Donald Trump. Hogg has said he will not primary Democrats in swing districts since he does want Democrats to take back the House, but that the party needs to do more to stop Trump’s actions.

During its summer meeting, the DNC will consider a rule change that would prohibit DNC leadership from explicitly meddling in primaries. It has been reported that Hogg is willing to lose his vice chairmanship over his primary plan.

After posting a lengthy thread on X, Hogg has reposted many supporting messages from progressives who say he is doing the right thing.

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It remains to be seen who will win out in the end, the establishment or the grassroots activists.

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A group of high school girls in Oregon took a knee in protest of a male athlete who is consistently winning competitions as a female.

Sophia Carpenter said she and three other females forfeited a competition after learning they would be competing against a boy at the Therapeutic Associates Chehalem Classic.

The male, named “Liaa” Rose, won that competition with a jump of 4’10” that was enough to beat out the 18 girls he competed with.

However, Carpenter, who is ranked No. 5 in the state at her level, decided on the day of the competition that she knew what was transpiring was not right.

‘If we take a knee every time we compete against a boy, we won’t have many more chances left to compete.’

“I heard that a couple of girls were dropping out in protest. And I thought, oh, that’s interesting. I’m not the only one that thinks this way and knows this isn’t right,” the teen told OutKick. “And so my intention was still to take my first jump, and then I would consider dropping out. But I went and I talked to the first girl who had initially dropped out, and she told me that she had thought about it and knew that she had done the right thing that day.”

The sad reality soon kicked in for the girls, though, knowing that even if they forfeited the event, if they wanted to pursue the sport in college, they would not be able to sit out every competition.

“She said, ‘We’re gonna be competing with this individual at districts and at state and for a while yet. … So today, I know I can drop out, but in the future, I won’t be able to because we want to compete in college, and recruiters are looking at us in our marks.'”

Carpenter explained that she went through with the forfeit anyway.

“If we take a knee every time we compete against a boy, we won’t have many more chances left to compete and, like, put out marks. And so, I was really struck by her confidence, and I thought there’s power in numbers. And so I knew I wanted to join her. So I told my coach, and I ended up taking a knee also. And four of us ended up dropping out of the competition, and then the male athlete won.”

Blaze News previously reported on the athlete allegedly posing as a female, Zachary Rose, who now goes by “Liaa” (or sometimes “Lia”). The boy is a student from Ida B. Wells High School in Portland, Oregon.

Earlier in April, Rose won varsity high jump at the Portland Interscholastic League Varsity Relays with a personal record. The second-place height was achieved by three different girls, two of whom were from Rose’s high school.

Rose, while competing against boys in the junior varsity category in 2023, finished in last place in a competition of 11 boys. Rose appeared to have begun competing against girls in 2024.

Federal involvement

Carpenter’s mother noted that she wanted to “draw the U.S. [Department of Justice’s] attention to this issue so that they’ll come after Oregon the way that they’re going after Maine.”

The mother explained, “Because our governor, the Oregon Department of Education, the Oregon School Activities Association, are set on allowing this to happen. They aren’t going to change. And so we need national intervention.”

The federal department has already sent a letter to the Portland Public Schools District in reference to a different incident in the state, where a male athlete won a girls’ 400-meter varsity race.

“We will not allow the Portland Public Schools District or any other educational entity that receives federal funds to trample on the antidiscrimination protections that women and girls are guaranteed under law,” Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a press release.

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The House Oversight, Judiciary, and Administration Committees summoned ActBlue contractors to appear before Congress amid its investigation into Democrats’ fundraising platform, according to a Tuesday report.

Letters obtained by the New York Post revealed that the committees requested two employees of Sift, an AI fraud detection platform, testify about ActBlue’s allegedly relaxed fraud standards.

‘This continued targeting of ActBlue and our partners by MAGA Republicans needs to be seen for what it is: Donald Trump’s latest front in his campaign to stamp out all political, electoral and ideological opposition.’

The Sift employees reportedly worked with the fundraising platform and are aware of “critical” information about the “more lenient” criteria.

The Post quoted the letters written by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.). It noted that the letters were addressed to Sift’s director of customer success and senior customer success manager.

“The Committees are concerned that ActBlue has maintained poor anti-fraud practices that may have allowed bad actors to make fraudulent political donations, including from foreign sources,” it read.

The Sift employees were requested to participate in transcribed interviews with the House Judiciary panel by May 13, the Post reported.

A Sift spokesperson told the news outlet, “ActBlue is a safe and secure fundraising platform, trusted by donors for more than 20 years – that’s how we’ve become a vital part of American democracy.”

“This continued targeting of ActBlue and our partners by MAGA Republicans needs to be seen for what it is: Donald Trump’s latest front in his campaign to stamp out all political, electoral and ideological opposition,” the spokesperson claimed.

Congress has been probing ActBlue for years over its alleged lenient standards allowing potential foreign donations.

The three committees released a joint report earlier this month that revealed the platform’s “executives and staff are aware that both foreign and domestic fraudulent actors are exploiting the platform but do not take the threat seriously.”

“In fact, they attempted to hide the changes to avoid sparking discussions about fraud on the platform. For example, ActBlue’s training guide for new fraud-prevention employees instructed them to ‘look for reasons to accept contributions,’ rather than err on the side of flagging suspicious donations,” the committees claimed.

Last week, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing the Department of Justice to open an investigation into “unlawful ‘straw donor’ and foreign contributions in American elections.” The action cited the committees’ findings on ActBlue.

Amid the ongoing probes, at least seven of the fundraising giant’s top executives jumped ship in February.

Following the resignations, an ActBlue spokesperson told the New York Times, “Like many organizations, as we undergo some transition heading into this new election cycle, we are focused on ensuring we have a strong team in place.”

“We greatly appreciate the contributions of our incredible team members and remain deeply committed to the success of our organization and our mission to enable grass-roots supporters to make their voices heard,” the spokesperson stated.

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The Trump administration appears serious about ridding American drinking water of
per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals,” and penalizing polluters.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin
announced on Monday that his agency will be taking a suite of actions to address PFAS.

“We are tackling PFAS from all of EPA’s program offices, advancing research and testing, stopping PFAS from getting into drinking water systems, holding polluters accountable, and providing certainty for passive receivers,” Zeldin said in a statement. “This is just a start of the work we will do on PFAS to ensure Americans have the cleanest air, land, and water.”

PFAS is a group of roughly
15,000 synthetic chemicals that have been in consumer products since the 1940s. The EPA noted on its website that PFAS “can be present in our water, soil, air, and food as well as in materials found in our homes or workplaces.”

A
2015 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that PFAS were found in the blood of approximately 97% of Americans. A 2023 study released from the U.S. Geological Survey indicated PFAS were found in at least 45% of the country’s tap water.

Citing the current peer-reviewed scientific literature, the EPA
indicated that exposure to PFAS could lead to:

decreased fertility and increased high blood pressure in pregnant women;
developmental delays in children, “including low birth weight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, or behavioral changes”;
increased risk of cancers such as prostate, kidney, and testicular cancers;
hormonal destabilization; and
increased cholesterol levels.

According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Science, studies have also found possible links between PFAS and diminished immune systems, increased risk of childhood obesity, and increased risk of Type 2 diabetes in women.

The EPA has now committed to “strengthening the science, fulfilling statutory obligations and enhancing communication, and building partnerships.”

‘It’s encouraging to see the support of the Trump EPA to express their concerns about PFAS.’

The agency will apparently take 21 actions to address PFAS contamination, such as:

support investigations into violations;
use Safe Drinking Water Act authority to probe and remedy immediate endangerment;
enforce the Clean Water Act and Toxic Substances Control Act limitations
on PFAS use and release to prevent further contamination;

advance remediation and cleanup efforts where drinking water supplies are contaminated;
work with states to assess risks from PFAS contamination;
beef up the development of testing methods to improve detection of PFAS;
implement a PFAS testing strategy under the Toxic Substances Control Act;
launch additional efforts on air-related PFAS data collection and measurement techniques;
develop effluent limitations guidelines for PFAS manufacturers with discharge reductions in mind; and
designate an internal PFAS czar to “better align and managed PFAS efforts across agency programs.”

John Rumpler, clean water director and senior attorney at the Environment America Research and Policy Center,
expressed optimism Monday about the agency’s proposed actions.

“Some of the initiatives announced by EPA could begin to advance Administrator Lee Zeldin’s stated objective: ‘to ensure Americans have the cleanest air, land, and water,'” stated Rumpler. “These include setting at least some limits on how much PFAS certain industries can release into our waterways, and using our nation’s toxic substances law to restrict the use of these chemicals — hopefully in the strong manner that several states have already done.”

“On face value, it’s encouraging to see the support of the Trump EPA to express their concerns about PFAS,” Linda Birnbaum, an American toxicologist who formerly served as director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
told Inside Climate News. “The question is always, what are the devils in the details.”

Environmental and health experts are not the only ones cautiously hopeful about the EPA’s next steps.

The American Chemistry Council, an industry trade association for chemical companies, said in a statement
obtained by Chemical and Engineering News, “While we need to learn more about the details of EPA’s announcement, we have consistently advocated for a comprehensive approach to managing PFAS, including for the designation of a point person to coordinate across differing programs and agencies.”

“We support strong, science-based regulations for PFAS chemistries that take into account the differences between them, continue to allow for the many products that they enable, and drive domestic manufacturing,” added the ACC.

Although the EPA now appears to be largely picking up where the first Trump administration left off with its 2019 PFAS action plan — which called for improving methods and tools for managing PFAS risk, as well as greater enforcement — some notable efforts on this front were made by the Biden administration.

The agency established national, legally enforceable limits last year on PFAS in public drinking water in April 2024. The final EPA rule gave public water systems three years to complete initial monitoring for PFAS contamination. Those who discovered PFAS at levels in excess of federal standards were afforded another five years to reduce the amount.

Despite having years to comply with the April 2024 rule, water utilities and chemical producers filed suit, claiming the government was exceeding its authority in trying to remove dangerous chemicals from municipal water systems.

The New York Times reported that the Trump administration faces a May 12 deadline to decide whether it wants to mount a legal defense of the water standards.

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Phil Robertson, beloved patriarch of Duck Commander and the Robertson family, is a symbol of rugged tradition. Decked out in camouflage, preaching a faith-centered, back-to-basics lifestyle, he’s the antithesis of modern trendiness.

That’s why his 79th birthday request left his son Jase in stitches.

“It was the most shocking thing I’ve ever heard come out of my dad’s mouth,” he laughs.

On April 24, Phil, now living in a care facility as he battles Alzheimer’s disease, welcomed Jase for a visit. “Your birthday’s coming up, Dad,” Jase said. “What do you want me to get you?”

Phil’s answer? “You heard of this company called Nike?”

Jase, retelling the story on the “Unashamed” podcast, can’t hold back his laughter.

“You can’t make this up!” he cackles. “He said, ‘I think I want some of those Air Jordan tenny shoes'” — specifically “high-tops” in “orange and white.”

“I just really think if I had a pair of those I’d be all right,” Phil added.

“10 minutes later he’s like, ‘You going to get me them shoes?'” says Jase.

A few days later, after returning from a trip to Nashville, Jase visited his dad, who immediately asked, “Where’s my shoes?”

“I’ve never seen him wear a pair of tennis shoes in my life,” he laughs. “Sometimes the bucket list, you just start digging around in there and you come out with a pair of high-top Air Jordans.”

To hear Jase tell the hilarious story of his dad, who’s spent a lifetime dodging modern trends, wishing for a pair of Air Jordans, watch the episode above.

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We are now 101 days into President Donald Trump’s second administration. The pace has been relentless. No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has reshaped the federal government so fundamentally. The days of tinkering around the edges are over. The long-overdue conservative revolution has finally begun.

Cementing these gains will require discipline and focus. The next 100 days will be critical.

The clock is ticking.

The president faces major battles in Congress. But the more immediate fight lies within the executive branch itself. And beyond that loom the courts.

The legislature

Congress will be the main battleground over the next 100 days. The House and Senate must secure the president’s legislative agenda — and that agenda hinges entirely on the budget reconciliation bill.

Taxes, border security, deportation capacity, defense, energy — all of it is packed into the budget. Executive orders and existing funds can only take the administration so far. Customs and Border Protection urgently needs more detention space and more beds. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does too.

Making the president’s first-term tax cuts permanent remains critical. The administration’s aggressive moves to realign global trade could trigger the necessary deflation our economy desperately needs. Americans will need tax relief to weather that adjustment. Small businesses also need clarity now, not in a last-minute Christmas Eve deal, to plan for 2026 and beyond.

The clock is ticking. The sooner the tax cuts become law, the sooner the country can reap their full economic rewards. And that’s before tackling newer campaign promises, like “no tax on tips” — or codifying major parts of the Department of Government Efficiency’s achievements.

Next up: the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), we’re looking at you. Democrats have spent years turning the courts into a blunt instrument against this White House. Meanwhile, the GOP-run committee has done little more than issue sternly worded press releases.

Enough. Subpoenas should be flooding out. Start dragging these judges into public hearings. Make them answer for the lawless overreach they’ve embraced. Oversight isn’t optional — it’s long overdue.

Then we have the matter of nominations. The Senate cleared the first batch but left 30 critical appointments languishing on the floor — all out of committee, all ready for a vote. These aren’t ceremonial posts. They include key roles like assistant secretary of defense and ambassador to the United Kingdom.

The Senate’s response? Shrug and punt until August. That’s absurd. The administration can’t function with half a bench. The country can’t wait for lawmakers to finish their summer travel plans.

More on this slow-rolling disaster in Friday’s Beltway Brief.

The executive

The president needs more men. Hiring has slowed, with blame to spread around. It’s excellent to be thorough — and essential to keep the sort of people who sabotaged Trump 45 out of positions of power — but there is a limiting factor to Twitter inquisitions. Personal recommendations from good people should go a lot farther, and with them, bygones ought to be bygones.

Plenty of groups have their hands in this effort — from the DOGE to the Presidential Personnel Office to the departments themselves. Current staff members are doing excellent work, but many are putting in seven-day weeks and risking burnout. That pace isn’t sustainable.

Personnel remains policy. The president’s ambitious agenda requires a fully staffed government to carry it out.

A foreign policy breakthrough would help consolidate early gains. Trump’s renewed negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this past weekend offer a promising sign. The president’s hardball approach may finally be forcing reality into a war that desperately needs it. An end to the conflict — and a path to peace — would mark a defining victory.

Then there’s the trade war. Trump’s first hundred days showed a clear willingness to break stale conventions in pursuit of fairer global trade. But both the policy framework and long-term goals still need definition.

Stabilizing the tariff regime and isolating China in a way that’s sustainable for the U.S. economy must rise to the top of the to-do list. And the messaging matters. Americans need to understand the “why” behind these moves — and the costs of failing to act.

If the White House has any chance of retaining control of this narrative, it will need to explain both the costs and the goals of these moves — and do so quickly. Again, the clock is ticking.

The judiciary

Much hinges on the courts. Chief Justice John Roberts has been unexpectedly wobbly on executive power — a place many court-watchers expected him to come in strong. Court-watchers had hoped for a decisive ruling against the abuse of nationwide injunctions — far-flung judges issuing sweeping orders on federal policy at the request of a handful of plaintiffs. That reckoning still hasn’t come, and it may never.

Right now, a battle is unfolding between an increasingly activist judiciary and a White House determined to govern. Democrats and their allies on the bench claim the Constitution grants federal judges the supreme power in American government — an interpretation that flatly rejects the vision of the Founders.

Roberts has long tried to preserve the court’s reputation by keeping its actual power restrained. But he’s now playing a dangerous game. This White House has signaled it will push back hard, and at some point, it may start ignoring the worst judicial overreaches altogether. In a government of coequal branches, both authority and respect must flow both ways.

But don’t forget birthright citizenship! That fight comes before the court in just two weeks, on May 15, and the eventual decision could reshape American immigration policy for decades to come.

And that’s only the beginning. From retooling the economy to advancing global peace, the ambitions of Trump’s second term remain immense. But early wins won’t hold without follow-through. The shock-and-awe phase is over. Securing those gains demands sustained focus and political courage.

Make no mistake: The long-promised conservative revolution has begun. Now comes the harder part — seeing it through.

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The same day that Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ Democratic administration issued guidance directing state employees not to immediately cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan allegedly helped a previously deported illegal alien facing three misdemeanor counts of battery get away from ICE.

To the chagrin of Democratic lawmakers and fellow travelers in the judiciary, Dugan was arrested and charged with two federal criminal offenses: obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the U.S. and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.

‘A judge shall avoid impropriety.’

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin issued an order Tuesday relieving Dugan of her duties.

“This court is charged in the Wisconsin Constitution with exercising superintending and administrative authority over the courts of this state,” said the Badger State’s high court. “In the exercise of that constitutional authority and in order to uphold the public’s confidence in the courts of this state during the pendency of the criminal proceeding against Judge Dugan, we conclude, on our motion, that it is in the public interest that she be temporarily relieved of her official duties.”

Dugan — who appears to have flouted the Wisconsin Code of Judicial Conduct, particularly its requirement that “a judge shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all of the judge’s activities” — is now barred from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge in the state until further order from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

According to the criminal complaint against Dugan, members of the Milwaukee ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Task Force traveled to the Milwaukee County Courthouse on April 18, 2025, with a warrant to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal alien from Mexico who was previously deported in 2013.

ICE was aware that Flores-Ruiz was scheduled to attend a hearing in his criminal case overseen by Dugan.

After presenting their identification to courthouse security, ICE agents — accompanied by both FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration agents — were allowed to proceed to the hallway outside Dugan’s courtroom where they spoke with the courtroom deputy and agreed that Flores-Ruiz’s arrest would take place after the illegal alien’s court appearance.

The complaint claims that upon learning from an attorney of ICE’s presence, Dugan “became visibly angry, commented that the situation was ‘absurd,’ left the bench, and entered chambers,” while Flores-Ruiz was seated in the gallery of the courtroom.

Dugan and another judge allegedly confronted the immigration agents in the hallway and debated whether they had the appropriate warrant. After disputing the validity of their administrative warrant, Dugan allegedly demanded — across multiple interactions — that the federal agents go speak with the chief judge.

While the second judge led the arrest team away to the chief judge’s office, Dugan allegedly looked around the hallway for additional agents, returned to her courtroom, told Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer something to the effect of “come with me,” then “forcefully direct[ed]” the duo out the jury door, which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse. Dugan then apparently returned and conducted other hearings on the morning’s docket.

‘Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law.’

The incident was apparently witnessed by multiple people.

Despite Dugan’s alleged obstruction, federal agents were able to apprehend Flores-Ruiz outside the courthouse.

Following Dugan’s arrest on April 25, Attorney General Pam Bondi noted, “No one is above the law.”

The judge’s next court appearance is scheduled for May 15. If convicted, Dugan could land up to six years in prison.

Dugan’s attorney, former United States Attorney Steven Biskupic, said she will “defend herself vigorously and looks forward to being exonerated,” reported ABC News.

“Judge Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge,” stated Biskupic.

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A 54-year-old male is accused of fatally stabbing a 25-year-old woman last week, Chicago police said, adding that Willie Holmes was charged with first-degree murder.

Holmes was arrested just after 1:00 p.m. Thursday in the 300 block of North Central Avenue, police said, adding that he was identified as the offender who stabbed the victim minutes earlier.

Prosecutors said the stab wound punctured the victim’s aorta, the Daily Herald reported, and that she recently had given birth.

Prosecutors said 25-year-old Emily Carlson was sitting on the outside exit steps at the Central Avenue Green Line station when Holmes reportedly walked past and spat on her, the Daily Herald reported.

Carlson’s boyfriend confronted Holmes, prosecutors told the paper, after which Holmes pulled out a knife with a locking blade and chased after the boyfriend.

Authorities said the boyfriend used a bicycle to shield himself from Holmes, the Daily Herald said, adding that Holmes soon turned his attention back to Carlson.

Court documents indicate Carlson attempted to flee, but Holmes plunged the knife into her back, the paper added.

The Daily Herald noted that Holmes tried to run away, but several unarmed witnesses gave chase and cornered him in a convenience store until officers arrived.

Carlson was transported to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead around 7 p.m. following unsuccessful surgeries, the paper said.

Prosecutors said the stab wound punctured the victim’s aorta, the Daily Herald reported, and that she recently had given birth.

The paper, citing records, said police recovered the knife at the convenience store and took evidence from Holmes that showed Carlson’s blood was present.

The attack and chase both were captured on surveillance cameras, the Daily Herald said, adding that court records indicate multiple witnesses identified Holmes as the attacker.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Holmes has a lengthy arrest record “including drug charges, battery, traffic violations, and shoplifting mostly in the 1990s and early 2000s.”

The Sun-Times said Holmes was scheduled for a Saturday detention hearing, but the case was continued because he couldn’t appear due to being hospitalized.

Holmes was denied pretrial release at a Sunday detention hearing, the Daily Herald said, citing officials with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

Holmes was due in court Tuesday for a status hearing, the Daily Herald added.

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Elliston Berry was 14 years old when a classmate used an AI editing app to turn her social media photo into a deepfake nude. He circulated the fake image on Snapchat. The next day, similar deepfake images of eight more girls spread among classmates.

The victims’ parents filed a Title IX complaint. Authorities charged the student who created the images with a class A misdemeanor. Still, the deepfake nudes stayed online. Berry’s mother appealed to Snapchat for more than eight months to remove the images. Only after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) personally contacted the company did Snapchat finally take the pictures down.

The Take It Down Act would make it illegal to knowingly publish ‘nonconsensual intimate imagery’ depicting real, identifiable people on social media or other online platforms.

As AI becomes cheaper and more accessible, anyone can create exploitative digital content — and anyone can become a victim. In 2023, one in three deepfake tools allowed users to produce AI-generated pornography. With just one clear photo, anyone could create a 60-second pornographic video in under 25 minutes for free.

The explosion of deepfake pornography should surprise no one. Pornography accounted for 98% of all online deepfake videos in 2023. Women made up 99% of the victims.

Even though AI-generated images are fake, the consequences are real — humiliation, exploitation, and shattered reputations. Without strong laws, explicit deepfakes can haunt victims forever, circulating online, jeopardizing careers, and inflicting lifelong damage.

First lady Melania Trump has made tackling this crisis an early priority — and she’s right. In the digital age, technological advancement must come with stronger protections for kids and families online. AI’s power to innovate also carries a power to destroy. To curb its abuse, the first lady has championed the Take It Down Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Cruz and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

The bill would make it illegal to knowingly publish “nonconsensual intimate imagery” depicting real, identifiable people on social media or other online platforms. Crucially, it would also require websites to remove such images within 48 hours of receiving notice from a victim.

The Take It Down Act marks an essential first step in building federal protections for kids online. Pornography already peddles addiction in the guise of pleasure. AI-generated pornography, created without the subject’s knowledge or consent, takes the exploitation even further. Deepfake porn spreads like wildfire. One in eight teenagers ages 13 to 17 know someone who has been victimized by fake nudes.

The bill also holds AI porn creators accountable. Victims would finally gain the legal means to demand removal of deepfake images from social media and pornography sites alike.

Forty-nine states and Washington, D.C., ban the nonconsensual distribution of real intimate images, often called “revenge porn.” As AI technology advanced, 20 states also passed laws targeting the distribution of deepfake pornographic images.

State laws help, but they cannot fully protect Americans in a borderless digital world. AI-generated pornography demands a federal solution. The Take It Down Act would guarantee justice for victims no matter where they live — and force websites to comply with the 48-hour removal rule.

We are grateful that the first lady has fought for this cause and that the Senate has acted. Now the House must follow. With President Trump’s signature, this critical protection for victims of digital exploitation can finally become law.

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Actions speak louder than words. Put your money where your mouth is. I’ll believe it when I see it. A few common phrases that describe one idea: It doesn’t matter what you say if you don’t act accordingly — a concept that Texas state officials do not seem to understand.

Texas claims to be a bastion of liberty in the United States. Texas also claims to be unabashedly pro-gun — a state where people are free to exercise their right to keep and bear arms. But the state’s actions show those claims are just words.

Texas talks about being pro-gun. But by its actions, Texas doesn’t care about gun rights.

In reality, Texas has several laws that prohibit individuals from carrying arms in certain locations. The most notable of these laws is a ban on carry in locations that derive 51% or more of their proceeds from the sale of alcohol. While some might immediately react that it seems like a good thing to keep guns out of bars, they miss the actual effect and application of the law.

First, the law applies to any and all businesses that derive 51% or more of their proceeds from the sale of alcohol — not just bars. This includes several other venues and restaurants within the state — places where people take their families and have a right to be able to protect them.

Second, this law prohibits everyone from carrying in those locations, even if you are not drinking at all. Texas has a different law that already makes it illegal to carry a firearm while drinking alcohol.

Want to visit a business that happens to sell more alcohol than food and make the conscious decision not to drink so that you can protect yourself, your loved ones, and your community? Too bad — Texas doesn’t care. Worse, Texas is broadcasting to every criminal that peaceable people will be unarmed in these places.

This blanket ban isn’t just ridiculous; it is unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms in public. Clearly, no historical basis exists to let Texas authorities ban peaceable people from bearing their arms in these locations.

The most interesting part? Texas agrees.

Recently, the Firearms Policy Coalition and some of its members filed a lawsuit against Texas challenging this and a couple of its other carry bans. In what seemed like a positive development, Texas responded to the lawsuit by agreeing that it can’t ban bearing arms in these locations.

But actions speak louder than words.

In a recent turn of events, Texas filed a brief to kick the case out of court. Why? Standing. Texas claims that the plaintiffs lack the right to challenge the law. The kicker? Texas still goes on to admit that the law is unconstitutional.

Gun rights litigators are very familiar with this tactic to get a case dismissed. When a government knows it will lose on the merits, it will invoke standing to keep its law on the books. We see it all the time in California, New York, New Jersey, and other anti-gun states. But Texas? That’s a new one.

These legal gymnastics are astounding from a state that claims to be pro-gun. Texas admits that what it is doing is unconstitutional — that it is unlawfully restricting the rights of peaceable Texans — but it simply doesn’t want to give the court the opportunity to make that decision and strike these laws down. It’s actively and knowingly fighting to keep unconstitutional laws on the books.

Texas boasts about freedom. Texas talks about being pro-gun. But by its actions, Texas doesn’t care about gun rights. By its actions, Texas cares about stopping gun rights advocates from succeeding in court. Texas wants to eliminate a case that challenges laws it admits are unconstitutional.

It brings to mind another common phrase: With “friends” like these, who needs enemies?

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President Donald Trump recently called out Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for being “low-IQ” — and now she’s taken it upon herself to challenge the president to compare the results of their IQ tests.

“When you are literally supposed to be the leader of the free world, and you’re worried about a rising sophomore in the House,” Crockett told Jimmy Kimmel, talking about Donald Trump, on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“He also called you low-IQ; I’m sure you’re aware of that. Would you be willing to take an IQ test publicly, head to head, against the president of the United States?” Kimmel asks.

“Absolutely,” she responded to cheers, before confirming to Kimmel that she still believes Marjorie Taylor Greene is the “dumbest person in Congress.”

Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” doesn’t believe Crockett is dumb herself, but rather is playing dumb.

“Here’s the thing with Jasmine Crockett,” Gonzales says. “We’ve played videos of her before, where as she was running, the first time she was running for Congress, she was a completely different person. She was well spoken, she seemed to have a brain, whereas now, she doesn’t.”

“Part of it is like, how much of this is an act, and how much of it is real?” she continues, adding, “Before you get upset, I’m not saying she would win in an IQ test versus President Trump. I’m not saying that.”

“In terms of intelligence, you can tell that she can speak in a way that is not indicative of a genuinely low IQ,” BlazeTV contributor John Doyle comments. “She’s probably in that danger zone where it’s like somewhere between a 110 to 125 IQ, where you’re smart enough to realize that you’re smart, but you also hate people who are smarter than you.”

“We call these ‘midwits’ online,” he adds.

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Easter is about the indignity of the cross being defeated by the only one who didn’t deserve to be on it so that we may be free to live forever in the Spirit. It was fitting, then, that in the shadow of Easter Sunday last week, full-throated indignity entered the U.S. Supreme Court to be challenged because people of faith have heard the call of their Lord to take up their own cross and follow.

A fan of the “Steve Deace Show,” Bryan Persak, informed me that his brother, Chris, is one of the plaintiffs in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The case involves parents from the Montgomery County, Maryland, school system fighting the porn-addicted educators who are cramming LGBT propaganda into their pupils’ hearts and minds.

You simply have no idea what God might ask you to do. But you must be ready to answer.

The court heard the case last Tuesday. Chris said that taking a stand came at a cost — threats against his kids and family — but he and his wife, Melissa, knew something needed to be done on behalf of the countless Montgomery County parents who feel helpless in the face of the evil they were being compelled not only to accept but to celebrate.

“By Tuesday, the nerves were gone and the Holy Spirit was with us,” Chris said. “There was an unbelievable peace and calmness. There are core things at stake for parents from many different backgrounds that are paramount. If we keep fighting about this, we aren’t going to have a country.”

Bryan stressed that with Muslim parents also plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the case displays true diversity — unifying around the common goal of rooting out the degrading sexualization of our children — in contrast to the woke version of diversity that demands its perversions be worshipped at every turn.

“Montgomery County found a way to unite parents whose religions have been at war for thousands of years,” he today. A ruling on the case is expected in June or July.

Bryan, who has also fought mask mandates in his own children’s school district, said he and his brother had good Christian parents who raised them to stand in the gap. Their mother, Michele, “raised heck” with politicians when he was stationed in Iraq and she discovered her son and his fellow soldiers didn’t have armor for their Humvees to protect them from IEDs.

Their father, Warren, when asked for advice about the wickedness being perpetrated by Montgomery County school officials, didn’t tell his son to play it safe. Instead, he insisted that “there are some hills worth dying on, that are worth the consequences.”

Well done, good and faithful servants! You raised actual men — a rare breed these days. Bryan admits, however, even that wasn’t enough to help him see his place in the world after coming back from war “mad at God.”

“I could have died four different times, and I don’t think I dealt with all that correctly,” Bryan told me. “Then I had my first child in 2017, and in 2020, I clearly saw the evil consuming the world with COVID and the trans stuff. I had to fight it, but I knew I couldn’t fight it by myself. It took me back to my faith. God told me that He sent me to be a soldier.”

Whether your calling is to be a soldier or something else, the big lesson from the Persaks’ story is this: “God told me” is the only certain place to start when figuring out your life mission. Yes, that’s going to mean having to get uncomfortable at times, like Bryan and Chris’ sister, Kathleen, who donated part of her liver two years ago to help an ailing family friend. You simply have no idea what God might ask you to do.

But you must be ready to answer.

In the name of Isaiah 8, Bryan said his family “has all stepped up when called” and that he hopes he is “teaching [his] children the same.” So those with ears to hear, let them hear:

You are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it. It is the Lord of armies whom you are to regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, and He shall be your dread. Then He will become a sanctuary.

Amen.

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President Donald Trump mocked a “radical left lunatic” protester who interrupted his rally in Michigan to celebrate the first 100 days of his second term in office.

The president was speaking at a rally at the Macomb Community College when the protester was escorted out of the rally. At least two protesters/disrupters were ejected from the speech.

‘And she now has to go home to her mother, who’s a big Trump fan! Her mother’s watching!’

Trump ridiculed the protester as she was escorted out of the arena.

“What’s her problem over there? What’s her problem? Is that a radical left lunatic?” he asked as his audience cheered.

“He’s just a child! All right, get him out. I’m sorry. I’m sorry, ma’am — I thought it was a guy!” he joked.

“Thank you. And she now has to go home to her mother, who’s a big Trump fan! Her mother’s watching!” he joked to loud applause. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I said he, and it’s a she! I’m sorry.”

Video of his comical response to the protester was widely circulated on social media.

While the president is touting some of his accomplishments, Trump’s agenda has hit many stumbling blocks on the road to his 100th day in office. Dozens of lawsuits have stymied the expansive intent of his executive orders.

Some of his popularity has dropped over the accusations of overreach in relation to his immigration enforcement policies, as well as the across-the-board tariffs he imposed. One promise he has fulfilled completely is the shutdown of the U.S. border with Mexico.

Signs at the event read “The Golden Age” and “100 Days of Greatness.”

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A 35-year-old was arrested for an arson attack on a Tesla dealership in Mesa on Monday morning, according to Arizona police.

Police were called to the dealership near Southern Avenue and Sossaman Road on Monday at about 2 a.m. over a report of an explosion. They found a Tesla Cybertruck on fire near a building of the dealership.

‘If you engage in domestic terrorism, this Department of Justice will find you, follow the facts, and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. No negotiating.’

Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire and stop it from spreading to the building. Investigators found vandalism that read, “THEIF,” on one of the buildings.

Police said they were able to obtain nearby surveillance video showing a man on a bicycle near the dealership at about the time of the attack.

During the investigation, police said that they noticed a suspicious van near the corner of Southern and Rowan and then witnessed a man ride up to the van on a bicycle and open a door. He was identified as Ian Moses.

Moses was charged with arson on a structure and property and was booked into jail.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi released a statement about the arrest.

“Today we are pleased to announce federal charges against a Tesla attacker arrested in Arizona,” she wrote on social media. “If you engage in domestic terrorism, this Department of Justice will find you, follow the facts, and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. No negotiating.”

No injuries were reported at the Mesa incident.

President Donald Trump has promised to prosecute vandalism and other acts of violence against Tesla vehicles and buildings as domestic terrorism, and Bondi has followed through on that threat.

The attacks on Tesla had led to a precipitous fall in the company’s value and forced billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to lessen his attention to the Department of Government Efficiency in order to focus on his companies.

Scenes from the dealership as well as the surveillance video of the bicyclist can be viewed on the news video from KNXV-TV on YouTube.

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A Wisconsin man who drove in the wrong direction toward the vice presidential motorcade in October was able to avoid jail time and only received probation as a punishment.

Wayne Wacker pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of negligent operation of a motor vehicle and disorderly conduct after he was arrested for driving onto Interstate 94 after leaving a bar. The motorcade for former Vice President Kamala Harris was driving in the normal direction at the time, which was just weeks before Election Day.

The motorcade was traveling down the interstate highway after Harris had left a campaign event in Brookfield.

The 55-year-old said he left a bar in Walker’s Point in Milwaukee and somehow ended up driving the wrong way, but he claimed he didn’t know Harris was visiting the city at the time.

The man was sentenced to a year in prison, but the sentence was stayed so he would be allowed to avoid prison if he successfully completed probation and other court requirements.

He was also fined $500.

Wacker had initially been charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety, a felony that could have put him behind bars for 10 years and earned him a fine of $25,000.

The motorcade was traveling down the interstate highway after Harris had left a campaign event in Brookfield.

Wacker was pulled over by a Milwaukee County sheriff’s deputy after his car narrowly missed the motorcade.

Prosecutors said he had been driving at “close to highway speeds.” Wacker was a Milwaukee Public Schools teacher and appears to be still employed there, according to his LinkedIn profile.

His attorney had unsuccessfully argued in court that the charge should have been dropped because Wacker was too drunk to recognize that he was putting others at risk, a requirement of the charge.

Video of the man driving the wrong way can be viewed on a news report from WISN-TV on YouTube.

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