Posts on Monday, October 13, 2025
When we argued that Joe Biden couldn't have possibly cut this deal, we had no idea how correct we had been.
To some surprise, Hamas actually and finally gave up its last remaining living hostages today. In doing so, they also parted with the last bit of leverage they have in order to come out of the war they launched two years ago with any sort of face-saving concessions. So why did they agree to this capitulation? Donald Trump left them no choice, having cut off every other diplomatic and military option, as the Wall Street Journal reports today:
Egypt and Qatar told Hayya the deal
Barack Obama has fallen yet again for a boy-faced Democrat hoping to "turn Texas blue." During a recent interview on Marc Maron's podcast, the failed former president touted James Talarico, the Texas state lawmaker running for U.S. Senate, as a "terrific, talented young man." Democrats haven't been this excited about a U.S. Senate candidate in Texas since Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, who lost his race in 2018 but also managed to impress Obama with his terrific talents.
Talarico won praise from Democrats earlier this year by going on Joe Rogan's podcast. He parlayed that appearance into a U.S. Senate campaign and fawning headlines, such as
Zohran Mamdani runs NYC ‘Gaza 5K’
raising money for UNRWA despite agency’s
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raising money for UNRWA despite agency’s
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Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani fundraised for an infamous United Nations relief agency with well-documented ties to Hamas over the weekend — drawing outrage from Republican North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Stefanik, who has said she’ll run in next year’s gubernatorial election, also tore into Gov. Kathy Hochul over her support for the Democratic mayoral nominee, Mamdani, as she denounced him as an “antisemite.” “On the eve of all the living hostages held by Hamas terrorists finally returning home, @KathyHochul endorsed Antisemite Communist NYC Mayor candidate is raising funds for an organization that participated in the October 7th terrorist attacks and brutally held hostages captive,” Stefanik raged on X. “Do not let
Something remarkable happened Monday morning on C-SPAN, and it captures exactly what President Trump has accomplished with his brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas. A lifelong Democrat from New York was moved to tears by Trump’s speech to the Knesset.
The caller, identifying himself as a conservative Democrat, phoned into C-SPAN and promptly broke down in tears live on air. He was overcome with emotion discussing Trump's historic speech and the peace agreement that brought the remaining Israeli hostages home after two years in captivity.
Trump stood before Israeli lawmakers and declared words that once seemed impossible.
In 2018, President Trump was riding high on a wave of winning. Republicans had never had it so good, but Democrat operatives plotted their comeback, flooding Republican-held Congressional districts where Hillary Clinton had won. Millions poured into Orange County, California, as Democrats sensed an opportunity to flip Congressional seats blue for the first time in decades, if not in history. Gavin Newsom, then the Lieutenant Governor, was campaigning for Governor, shoring up all the support he could for Democrats running for Congress across Orange County, including Katie Porter, a law professor from UC Irvine. A fat, squat character actress of a candidate, no one could imagine this hog winning anything.
A video of President Trump standing center stage to greet each of the world leaders who have travelled to Egypt to participate in the historic Mid East peace summit.
The summit to support the Israeli Hamas ceasefire is hosted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and President Trump. President Trump was requested to greet all of the leaders from around the world who travelled to Egypt to participate. WATCH:
The Algorithm That Rigged the Census:
How One Bureaucrat Stole the House and
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How One Bureaucrat Stole the House and
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The 2020 census was marketed as an “actual enumeration,” a neutral count of people for apportionment and funding. It was not. The same official who helped block a basic citizenship question in 2018, John M. Abowd, then the Census Bureau’s Chief Scientist, pushed through a new, opaque methodology in 2020 called differential privacy. The new system deliberately injected mathematical noise into every block count in America, turning the census from a headcount into a model with knobs. The knob that mattered most was a single parameter, epsilon, a secrecy shroud known only to a small inner circle.
The Democrat-led shutdown is nearing two weeks, and there's no end in sight. Despite a clear path to reopening the government, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his cohorts have chosen to filibuster a bipartisan clean constituting resolution that has been on the table since day one.
And while they claim to be standing up for the little guy by pushing for an extension of temporary COVID-era Obamacare subsidies, there's a more insidious game afoot. Take a look at the following posts. What do you notice about them? [Tweets]
Keep in mind that Democrats have long proclaimed the filibuster to be a racist relic
Amid Historic Peace Deal, Kamala Harris
Chimes in to Remind Us What a Catastrophe
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Chimes in to Remind Us What a Catastrophe
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Regardless of political disagreements, sometimes one must give credit where due, which we've seen to some extent after news broke last Wednesday, when President Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had signed off on the first phase of a peace plan that, among other things, would bring home the remaining surviving hostages. (Snip) When former Vice President Kamala Harris was asked the question over the weekend about whether Trump deserved credit, however, she gave a word-salady answer through gritted teeth, never mentioning Trump directly and instead saying, "I commend the people who have been a part of this process. I commend the Qataris, the Egyptians, and the president."
For years, the Presidential Medal of Freedom has been awarded to celebrities and political allies. But on Tuesday, President Donald Trump will posthumously award Charlie Kirk the highest civilian honor, reviving the medal’s original intent of recognizing those who have made extraordinary contributions to the security, ideals, and freedoms of the country. (snip) Soon after Kirk’s assassination, Trump announced Kirk would posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (snip) The award is intended to honor “any person who has made an especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
Gabby Giffords gun control group, Giffords, claims the public is less safe now Publix Super Markets made clear its Florida stores will comply with Florida’s open carry law.
Open carry went into effect on September 25, 2025, and on October 9, 2025, Breitbart News reported that Publix confirmed its policies will be in compliance with the state’s new carry format.
On October 12, 2025, Giffords posted to X: (X) With open carry, Florida actually shores up its constitutional carry law, which previously allowed the unlicensed concealed carry of a handgun for self-defense while leaving open carry by the wayside. On April 3, 2023, Breitbart News noted that Florida
Something seemed off during Kamala Harris’s latest MSNBC appearance over the weekend. When asked whether she had spoken to Joe Biden after news broke that he would begin radiation treatments for prostate cancer, Kamala stumbled through a strangely awkward exchange. MSNBC’s Eugene Daniels gently tried to draw out a warm or reassuring response. Instead, what viewers got was a revealing moment that felt almost uncomfortable.
“Have you talked to him, um, about it?” Daniels asked.
“Yeah, no, I, I called him earlier,” Kamala said.
“How’s he doing?” Daniels followed up.
“I have not talked to him,” she admitted. “I just left him a message… after I heard the news.”
President Donald Trump went off script during his address to the Israeli Knesset, and everyone in the chamber went crazy when he called for a pardon for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Speaking to the Knesset on Monday, Trump reflected on the historic Gaza-Israel peace deal after the return of the final 20 hostages, before he veered off topic and made a suggestion that made those in the room applaud and cheer.
"Hey, I have an idea," Trump said. "Mr. President [Isaac Herzog], why don't you give him [Netanyahu, who Trump pointed to in the front row] a pardon?" And the hoots and hollers began.
British police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after the former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death at a prison in northern England, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offenses.
Emergency services were called to HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire on Saturday morning after Watkins, 48, was attacked with a knife. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A murder investigation is underway following the arrests of Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, West Yorkshire Police said in a statement.
Appearing separately during consecutive hearings at the court, both Dodsworth and Gedel spoke only to confirm their names and dates of birth,
More than two years after the Israel-Hamas war erupted following the terror group's brutal October 7, 2023, attack, President Trump declared that the “long and painful nightmare” for both Israelis and Palestinians “is finally over.”
Earlier in the day, Hamas released the last remaining 20 living hostages, though the group is reportedly slow walking the release of the 28 deceased hostages that were set to be returned Monday.
Still, the mood across Israel was jubilant—none more so than among the families who welcomed their loved ones back from Hamas captivity.
Many of the reunions went viral on social media.
In what universe is Christiane Amanpour living? Better, yes, is she on drugs? She might need to get tested after these mind-numbingly stupid remarks about the recent release of the Israeli hostages.
The CNN International host had the temerity to say that the Israeli prisoners were treated better than Gazans since they were pawns in a negotiation. Seriously, lady, these people were starved, raped, tortured, and some of them murdered. What the hell is that statement? [Video]
Hamas hates Israelis. They hate Jews. They want to destroy them, and somehow, they’re treated as if they’re on extended stay at the Ritz-Carlton. Terrorists don’t reason, you boob.
After its Teletubby Offensive at ICE HQ
Fizzles, Portland Antifa Goes for Full
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Fizzles, Portland Antifa Goes for Full
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Despite Antifa's Teletubby media offensive, multiple Antifa militants and at least one Antifa assault victim were arrested on Saturday night outside the Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) HQ in Portland, Ore. By Sunday, however, the next leftist psy-op had been deployed against ICE. Operation Full Frontal Rudity, as I call it, was in full effect on Sunday afternoon. This is an operation where naked males and females mount their bicycles to give the drug-addled "homeless" people slumped over like human tacos, parents with children, and retirees a show that nobody wanted to see —
Anti-ICE Terrorists Ground Portland Trauma
Helicopters After Threatening to Play
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Helicopters After Threatening to Play
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Can you call Antifa domestic terrorists yet, Portland?
Life-saving Life Flight medical helicopters were grounded in Portland on Saturday night due to terrorists shining green lasers into the eyes of pilots going to Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital, which is in the same vicinity as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in southwest Portland.
Antifa agents provocateur announced what they called "A Laser Tag Party" at 9 p.m. Saturday to ground federal helicopters seen in the area. What these nitwits also did was stop emergency trauma center helicopters from landing on top of Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU).
Antony Blinken, Joe Biden’s former Secretary of State, tried to claim that the Biden administration deserved credit for the Israel-Hamas peace agreement, arguing that Donald Trump’s success wouldn’t have been possible without the groundwork that Biden’s team supposedly laid. That’s pure fantasy. Hamas surrendered because Trump backed it into a corner with decisive pressure, not because Biden’s diplomats pulled off some behind-the-scenes miracle.
Hamas surrendered its last living hostages, giving up the only leverage it had left in this mess they started two years ago. This wasn't some breakthrough negotiation. It was a complete capitulation,
President Trump’s ongoing efforts to bring peace between Israel and the terrorist Hamas group in Gaza appeared to bear fruit last week with a deal to cease hostilities and to release remaining hostages and prisoners. But will American voters back Trump’s bold plan? The answer is a resounding yes, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
After months of talks and arm-twisting, Trump was able to broker a tenuous deal that might serve as a pattern for future peace deals in the region.
Knowing the outline of the deal as first presented, I&I/TIPP asked voters: “Do you support or oppose the Trump peace plan for Gaza,
The government of Israel is smartly leveraging all of their political will and praise to build influence with President Trump as he becomes the fulcrum, the Solomon of sorts, for the future of Gaza and all that follows.
On the other side of this precarious balance, comes the expectations of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and the entire Mideast region.
Only President Donald Trump is big enough for this moment of consequence.(snipe)
Only U.S. President Donald Trump is significant enough to bear the responsibility and pressure of this moment. It is a remarkable testimony to a lifetime of steps that has brought him to this moment.
China holds a monopolistic level of control on the industrial processing of rare earth minerals. The minerals themselves are not rare; it’s the processing of them into refined elements used in industrial electronic component manufacturing that gives China power.
The U.S. and China hold a current trade agreement saying, essentially, we will remain steady with the baseline tariffs in exchange for Beijing maintaining a consistent policy on the export of processed rare earth magnets and minerals. The announcement of export controls by Beijing violated the terms of that trade agreement, and President Trump responded by announcing an additional retaliatory tariff of 100%, effective November 1st.
More than 30 children rescued in trafficking
crackdown across Texas as expert dispels
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crackdown across Texas as expert dispels
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Federal and local authorities rescued more than 30 missing children and uncovered multiple trafficking operations targeting vulnerable youth during a coordinated crackdown across Texas.
The effort, centered in San Antonio, led to arrests, felony warrants and several new investigations under a joint mission known as “Operation Lightning Bug.”
Teams from the US Marshals Service (USMS) out of San Antonio, Del Rio, Midland, and Pecos joined forces with San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit, Special Victims Unit, Street Crimes Unit and covert operatives.
Here’s how the game works. In Trump’s first administration, radical federal judges just issued rulings blocking government actions. As the second term admin has been more aggressive about pursuing Supreme Court interventions, federal district judges are issuing frivolous rulings intended to barrage SCOTUS with a constant need to intervene. And that’s followed by complaints to the media that the Supreme Court is seizing too much power and undermining the judiciary.
After spending Sunday morning whining on talk shows about the Schumer Shutdown and faking concern for the welfare of federal workers, top Democrats are scheduled to head to California for a retreat at the ritzy Hotel Yountville in the Napa Valley. The retreat, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, is hosted by DSCC Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). Back on October 3, Gillibrand told the Washington Examiner that the event was still planned despite the shutdown, but that those plans could change if the shutdown dragged on. But on Friday, October 10, Punchbowl reported that the retreat was still on and that Gillibrand would attend.
Former Obama administration official Rosie Rios, who chairs the taxpayer-funded America250 commission overseeing next year's semiquincentennial celebration, tapped to help organize the festivities a left-wing nonprofit which has been the driving force behind efforts to remove Christopher Columbus memorials and cancel the federal holiday honoring the famed explorer. The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) has also spearheaded efforts to rename the Washington Redskins football team and successfully lobbied then-president Joe Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement leader who murdered two FBI agents in 1975. Rios, whom Biden appointed to lead America250 in 2022, selected NCAI and four other "nonpartisan" groups last year
After a joint operation by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) found “mass patterns” of marriage and other immigration fraud in Minneapolis, the agency’s director says denaturalization and prosecutions are on the table. Operation Twin Shield, which was conducted by USCIS in coordination with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, flagged over 1,000 cases suspected of involving “fraud or ineligibility indicators,” the agency shared in an after-action announcement. The agency reviewed applications for immigration benefits, including marriage and family-based petitions, employment authorizations, and certain parole-related requests, the agency said. Of the cases reviewed, the agency found "evidence of fraud, non-compliance, or
Joe Biden's post-presidency has been rough, to put it mildly.
Nearly nine months after Donald Trump reclaimed the White House, Biden is holed up in Wilmington, Delaware, grappling with a reality that must feel like political exile. He's dealing not just with the sting of losing power, but also the inability to sell access and enrich his family. Though he won’t admit to the latter.
The irony couldn’t be thicker. After years of attacking Trump and using the Justice Department in a desperate bid to put his successor behind bars, Biden now finds himself being told by his own advisers to stay quiet and act like a traditional ex-president.
Why are so many Democrats fond of wishing death on their opponents? That’s a question raised by two astonishing developments early this month. On Oct. 3, National Review’s Audrey Fahlberg revealed texts Jay Jones had sent, perhaps mistakenly, to Virginia state Del. Carrie Coyner, bemoaning the cordial remarks then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, was delivering after the death of a Democrat.
“If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, “I will go to their funerals to p– on their graves. Send them out awash in something.” Prompted, he goes on. “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot.
Israeli hostages released live updates:
All living Israeli hostages are freed
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All living Israeli hostages are freed
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Hamas terrorists have started to free the last remaining hostages in Gaza Monday morning, following a historic peace deal brokered by President Trump.
The freed individuals had spent over 730 days in captivity after they were among a group of 250 kidnapped from southern Israel and dragged into Gaza during Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7, 2023 invasion. An elated mother of one of the freed Israeli hostages was able to video chat with her son for the first time since he was taken captive by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
"You’re coming home! You’re all coming home!" Einav Zangauker was seen telling her 25-year-old son,
Saleh al-Jafarawi, a popular Palestinian influencer who documented the war in Gaza, but also celebrated the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, was killed on Monday in clashes between Hamas and other Palestinian factions, according to reports.
Jafarawi’s death was cheered by many Israelis, who saw him as a Hamas propagandist, though many pro-Palestinian activists mourned him — including the wife of New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.
Rama Duwaji shared an Instagram story about “beloved Jafarawi, with four broken heart emojis.
New York City’s 81st annual Columbus Day Parade on Monday was canceled due to the governor’s state of emergency order and inclement weather spurring floods across the tri-state area.
The Columbus Citizens Foundation, which organizes the parade through Manhattan, announced the cancellation late Sunday evening, just over 12 hours ahead of its scheduled start time.
The parade won’t be rescheduled, the group added.
“Due to the Governor’s declaration of a State of Emergency this evening in response to the dangerous weather conditions brought on by the Nor’easter, including high winds, heavy rain and flooding in surrounding areas, we must cancel the 81st Annual Columbus Day Parade-
In Federalist No. 51, James Madison famously wrote that “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” He believed that members of each branch would jealously protect their own institutions from the other branches.
Of course, Madison never met Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). Goldman is an example of how the wrong type of ambition can destroy Congress if it becomes widespread among members.
This week, both Republican and Democratic members raised alarm over the disclosure that Special Counsel Jack Smith tracked the telephone calls by members of both houses of Congress.
Outgoing NJ Gov. Phil Murphy was not in New Jersey when a state of emergency was declared Saturday night, leaving Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way — now serving as acting governor — to make the declaration in his stead.
“In preparation for this storm, I am issuing a State of Emergency for all 21 counties out of an abundance of caution, authorizing our state’s emergency services personnel to activate as necessary,” Acting Governor Way announced in a statement Saturday.
The term-limited Democrat, who is known for taking frequent vacations, often to his luxe Italian villa,
Ever since President Donald Trump brokered the historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, the left has followed a predictable script—either praising the outcome while refusing to credit Trump or scrambling to hand the credit to someone else entirely. That’s exactly what Joe Biden’s former Secretary of State Antony Blinken is now trying to do. The deal, which involves releasing the remaining hostages and requires Israel to pull back to a predetermined line inside Gaza, aims to create a buffer zone to disarm Hamas. In his self-congratulatory thread on X, Blinken actually tries to spin the Trump-brokered ceasefire as “building on” what Biden supposedly achieved.
The mullahs in Tehran are in a blind panic. Haunted by the spectre of another nationwide uprising, the Iranian regime is rushing through one of the most repressive pieces of legislation in its history. Dressed up as the “Countering Intelligence Service Infiltration” bill, this so-called “anti-infiltration” law is nothing more than a charter for mass intimidation, a desperate attempt to choke the last remaining freedoms of Iran’s embattled people. First unveiled in July, the bill is being railroaded through parliament at breakneck speed. The regime’s tame media outlets, like Khabar Online, have described it as a safeguard against foreign espionage.
There is a lot of rejoicing in America, Israel, and among normal people around the world about the peace deal in Gaza, but the Palestinian terrorist-huggers are heartbroken. And, of course, they should be. This isn’t really a peace deal. This is an utter capitulation, a total surrender by the losers of Hamas who have completely and utterly failed. They started a war and got their asses kicked, yet again. Their fight from the sewers, where they hid behind women and children, was not an example of brave resistance as they steadfastly endured victimhood.
President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has earned no shortage of condemnation from progressive governors across the country. So it may be surprising that many blue-state leaders are quietly rolling back health coverage for people without legal status. Over the past few months, Democratic governors in California, Minnesota, and Illinois have all arrived at the same conclusion: It’s not practical to offer taxpayer-funded health insurance to undocumented immigrants.
In addition to being wildly expensive, such open-ended largesse jeopardizes health care access for vulnerable U.S. citizens who need the safety net most — single mothers, pregnant women, the elderly, and the disabled.
President Trump absolutely lit up Biden’s worthless Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a gaggle aboard Air Force One on Sunday.
Trump departed the White House en route to the Middle East after he secured a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
Hamas is releasing the 20 living hostages, and Israel will withdraw to an agreed-upon line, thanks to President Trump’s courage and diplomacy.
Meanwhile, Antony Blinken is giving Joe Biden credit for President Trump’s historic ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Vice President JD Vance appeared on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday, where he schooled the far-left host before Stephanopoulos abruptly ended the interview.
Vance called him out for continuing to push hoaxes despite losing credibility with the American people, and ABC pulled the plug on the interview.
“Here’s, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program, and why you’re losing credibility, because you’re talking for now five minutes with the Vice President of the United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I’ve read about, but I don’t even know the video that you’re talking about.
NYT 'Analyst' Flies Wingman for Hamas,
Warns Terrorist Group Faces 'Big Risk'
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Warns Terrorist Group Faces 'Big Risk'
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As much of the world continues to applaud the historic ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump and his administration between Israel and Hamas, a Tel Aviv-based analyst at The New York Times has, shall I say, a "slightly" different take.
Yep, Adam Rasgon, writing for the self-proclaimed purveyor of "all the news that's fit to print" believes that the terrorist group —which committed horrific atrocities inside Israel on October 7, 2023, slaughtering roughly 1,200 innocent people, and taking some 250 more hostage — is taking a "big risk" by releasing its remaining 48 hostages, more than half of whom are presumed to be dead.
China vows to stand firm against Trump’s
tariff threat. He urges Beijing to be
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tariff threat. He urges Beijing to be
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China signaled on Sunday that it would not back down in the face of a 100% tariff threat from President Donald Trump and urged the United States to resolve differences through negotiations instead of threats. Trump responded by taking a less confrontational approach without retreating from his demands, while his vice president seemed to warn Beijing not to react aggressively.
“China’s stance is consistent,” the Commerce Ministry said in a statement posted online. “We do not want a tariff war but we are not afraid of one.”
It was China’s first official comment on Trump’s threat to jack up the tax on imports from China by Nov. 1
Hillary Clinton heaped some rare praise on her former arch-enemy Donald Trump for his handling of the Gaza peace deal in a recent interview.
“I really commend President Trump and his administration,” Clinton told CBS News 24/7 Friday.
“As well as Arab leaders in the region, for making the commitment to the 20-point plan and seeing a path forward for what’s often called the day after,” she added. Clinton’s comments came just a day after Hamas agreed to Trump’s peace plan in a stunning move that is expected to end the two year war that’s ravaged the Gaza Strip.
Last April, Paul Krugman wrote the following about the reciprocal tariffs President Trump had just announced: “This is a much bigger shock to the economy than the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930.” Krugman trotted out that trite analogy not because he really believed Trump’s tariffs were comparable to Smoot-Hawley, but because he knew his Substack subscribers would vaguely recall reading about the latter in high school and feel intelligent. Six months later it’s blindingly obvious that Trump was right about the tariffs and Krugman’s portentous predictions were utterly moronic.
JERUSALEM/CAIRO - Hamas handed over some of its last surviving Israeli hostages on Monday, a key step in ending two years of devastating conflict in Gaza as part of a ceasefire deal pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump, who landed in Israel to address the parliament.
With hundreds of cheering people gathered in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, Israel's military said it had received the first seven of 20 surviving hostages after their transfer out of Gaza by the Red Cross. "I am so excited. I am full of happiness. It's hard to imagine how I feel this moment. I didn't sleep all night," said Viki Cohen, mother of hostage Nimrod Cohen,
When I wrote on Saturday that the foreign policy establishment is in utter shambles, I'm not sure I expected them to respond with such utter shamelessness. Yet, here we are, with former Secretary of State Antony Blinken giving Joseph Robinette Biden credit for the recently negotiated Gaza peace deal.
No, I'm not kidding, and that's not even the worst of it. (Snip) Clearly, this was a major victory for the Trump administration, which threw aside the conventional wisdom of the foreign policy "experts" and paved its own path. Yet, according to Blinken, they were simply following Biden's plan.