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    WATCH: Trump Hits South African President With Receipts

    LIVE on “The Tony Kinnett Cast” at 7 p.m. EDT: President Donald Trump delivers an incredibly potent diplomatic punch to the racially discriminatory government of South Africa, ending the age of America’s bootlicking on the world stage. Democrats and legacy media intensify their infighting, with Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios trying…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Trump’s Approach to Foreign Policy Draws Criticism, But Delivers Results

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. President Donald Trump just wrapped up a very successful tour of the Middle East Gulf states…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Admin Sanctions Mexican Cartel Members

    The Trump administration is targeting two high-level Mexican cartel members with sanctions, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday, in a move angel mom Anne Fundner calls a “very strong message.”  “These criminal organizations are, let’s make no mistake about it, they are foreign terrorist organizations,” Fundner says of the criminal drug cartels. “They’re involved in human trafficking, arms trafficking, [and]…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Shows South African President Receipts of Genocide

    President Donald Trump showed South Africa’s president a damning video montage of threats against white people in his country after Cyril Ramaphosa asserted that there was no genocide against white farmers there. During Ramaphosa’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, a reporter asked what it would take for Trump to believe there…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    House Freedom Caucus Presses for Budget Agreement With Trump, Johnson

    Don’t count on the budget reconciliation bill passing the House today. That appeared to be the message from leading House Freedom Caucus members, who said they were working on a deal with the White House and House GOP leadership. “We are greatly encouraged by the progress that’s been made in the last 24 hours,” said…
    George Caldwell
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    Republican Governor Undercuts Trump’s Anti-DEI Efforts

    Rooting out discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion programs should be a top Republican priority. But it’s not for Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo. Last month, the Department of Education asked states and school districts to certify that they don’t discriminate based on race. It specifically highlighted DEI programs that favor one race over another as impermissible….
    Victor Joecks
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    Mainstream Republicans Hope for Unity on Budget Bill After Trump Visit to Capitol

    After President Donald Trump’s Tuesday meeting with the House GOP Conference, moderate Republicans are hoping that his stern command to unify will bring holdouts into line to vote for the budget reconciliation bill. “Listen, the president spoke in a very strong way about the need to quit screwing around and pass this bill. And that…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Now Says Biden Was ‘Not for Open Borders,’ Blames ‘Thugs’ in His Administration

    For years, President Donald Trump has bashed his successor and predecessor, President Joe Biden, for his handling of the southern border, but on Tuesday, Trump said Biden “was not for open borders.”   Biden “never talked about open borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes can flow into our country at will,” Trump…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Announces ‘Golden Dome’ Missile-Defense System

    The U.S. will build a “Golden Dome” to guard against missile attacks, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.   “In the campaign, I promised the American people I would build a cutting-edge missile-defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “That is what we are…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Reins in Bureaucrats’ Criminal Code

    In 2020, boat crewmen John Moore and Tanner Mansell found what they thought was an illegal fishing line off the Florida coast. Believing it the work of poachers, they cut the line, freed several entangled sharks, and called the authorities. In response, the authorities charged and convicted them of felony theft of government property. Moore…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Here’s What Trump Told House Republicans Behind Closed Doors

    President Donald Trump met with the entire House Republican Conference on Tuesday and delivered a strong message—namely, that the time for negotiations on the budget reconciliation bill is over. A number of House Republicans leaving the meeting said that Trump cautioned fiscal hawks against pushing for major reductions in Medicaid and cautioned blue state Republicans…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump’s Tariff Strategy Can Work but America Still Needs Deeper Economic Reform

    President Donald Trump’s tariff diplomacy has been a shock treatment to the global economic order, intended as a kind of radiation and chemotherapy to kill the cancer that created the Rust Belt. But overdoing the treatment can kill the patient instead, without removing the carcinogens in the economy. Fortunately, the administration’s negotiators have called a truce, and…
    EJ Antoni
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    What Trump Should Do With Qatar Plane

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s this controversy about the 747 airplane that Qatar gave to President Donald Trump. And there’s…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘Revenge Porn’: Trump Signs Bill Criminalizing Online Sexual Exploitation

    President Donald Trump signed legislation backed by his wife aimed at protecting young people from “revenge porn.” “Big thing, very important, so horrible it takes place,” the president said at the Monday bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden. “This would be the first-ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit, imagery posted without subjects’…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court Allows Trump to Proceed With Plans to Remove Deportation Protections for Venezuelan Illegal Aliens

    The Supreme Court will allow, for now, the Trump administration to proceed with plans to strip temporary legal protected status from thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela living in the U.S.  The court’s decision allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to cancel Temporary Protected Status for illegal aliens who entered the U.S….
    Virginia Allen
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    Here’s Why House Conservatives Want to Meet With Trump to Hash Out ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

    Fiscal conservatives hope to meet with President Donald Trump before Wednesday to continue negotiations on the “big, beautiful bill,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told The Daily Signal. Reps. Norman, Chip Roy, Andrew Clyde, and Josh Brecheen voted “no” on the reconciliation package Friday, but they changed their votes to “present” on Sunday night. The Daily…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Republican Lawmakers Look to Codify Trump Policy to End Leftist Lawfare

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—When courts issue wrongful injunctions, taxpayers are often left paying for the damage done to their own government. But Reps. Derek Schmidt, R-Kan., and Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., are introducing a bill on Monday that aims to shift that burden from taxpayers to the plaintiffs seeking these injunctions, forcing the courts to…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump Names Bishop Who Banned Pelosi From Communion to Commission

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump on Thursday named San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to serve on the advisory board of the newly-created Religious Liberty Commission. Cordileone made headlines in 2022 after denying then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Holy Communion due to her public support and promotion of abortion. The commission was created via executive order on May 1 in order to…
    Jaryn Crouson
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    Trump Bashes Supreme Court Following Order Further Blocking Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegal Gang Members

    The Supreme Court has extended its block on the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien gang members from Venezuela.   “The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our country illegally, are not…
    Virginia Allen
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    Comey Calls for Hit on Trump. Hit With Derision and a Secret Service Investigation.  

    The Secret Service will be visiting James Comey after the former FBI director posted a picture of shells laid out on the beach reading “86 47” … which translates to “Murder Trump.” “86” is a slang term for “murder,” while 47 refers to the 47th president.  Comey captioned his Instagram post, “Cool shell formation on…
    Al Perrotta
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