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    Trump Hails Second Month of Rebound as Economy Adds 4.8 Million Jobs

    President Donald Trump is touting the “spectacular” addition of 4.8 million new jobs in June and a drop in the unemployment rate to 11% as the economy continued to recover from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.  “This is not just luck, what is happening,” Trump told reporters Thursday morning in the White House briefing…
    Fred Lucas
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    Prospects for Freedom in Venezuela Are High Under Trump

    According to media reports, President Donald Trump recently stated he would consider meeting with the illegitimate leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. Specifically, the president stated: “I always say, you lose very little with meetings. But at this moment, I’ve turned [the Maduro regime’s request to meet] down.” In the same interview, he also expressed concerns…
    Ana Quintana
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    What These 6 Black Leaders Told Trump He Needs to Do

    A half-dozen black leaders and influencers met with President Donald Trump and other administration officials Wednesday to discuss issues of concern to the black community.  Trump held the meeting as issues critical to African Americans came to the forefront in unrest after George Floyd’s May 25 death in police custody in Minneapolis.  “You go down the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Applies More ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran

    The Trump administration’s lead official on Iran policy is underscoring its determination to relentlessly prosecute a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, which he says has yielded “excellent results.” In a Heritage Foundation webinar Tuesday, special envoy Brian Hook criticized the “Marxist-theocratic regime” in Tehran for acting as the “principal driver of instability” in the Middle…
    James Phillips
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    A Loss for Anti-Trump Media Forces: Michael Pack Confirmed as Agency for Global Media Head

    After a delay of two years, on Thursday the U.S. Senate confirmed Michael Pack as the new chief executive officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America. About time! Pack’s confirmation follows a period of unconscionable delay, strategizing, and obstructionism by Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He…
    Helle Dale
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    Trump Touts ‘Rocket Ship’ Recovery Amid Surprise Job Rebound

    President Donald Trump touted a nascent economic comeback Friday, as a resurgence of 2.5 million jobs were added in May, marking what could be a turnaround from the economic hemorrhaging caused by the COVID-19 shutdown. “We’ve been talking about a ‘V.’ This is far better than a ‘V.’ This is a rocket ship,” Trump said…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Administration Shows Support for Female High School Track Athletes Involved in Transgender Case

    Chelsea Mitchell finally beat her foes on the track—but now she’s ready to beat them where it counts: in court. The runner, one of the three Connecticut girls suing to stop biological boys from competing in their races, got some good news on that front last week, when a letter from the Department of Education…
    Tony Perkins
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    Trump: ‘Angry Mob’ Must Not Drown Out ‘Righteous Cries of Peaceful Protesters’

    President Donald Trump announced the deployment of the military to help quell the violent riots in Washington, D.C., and said he would send federal troops to states to restore order if governors didn’t act.  “What happened in this city last night was a total disgrace,” Trump announced Monday evening in the Rose Garden, referring to…
    Fred Lucas
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    Twitter Uses Fact-Checking as a Weapon Against Trump

    Fact-checking sounds innocuous enough. After all, as the late Senate Democrat Patrick Moynihan reportedly once said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” But Twitter just showed that fact-checking can also be weaponized, used in a way that promotes one side’s ideology over another. The tech giant, which has been…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Donald Trump Is Right to Dump the Open Skies Treaty

    To the horror of some arms-control advocates, the Trump administration recently announced its long-considered decision to withdraw from the 1992 Treaty on Open Skies (OST). Despite the expected outcry, it’s fully justified in doing so. For years, Russia has been blatantly violating the 34-nation confidence- and security-building treaty, which came into force in 2002, and allows unarmed…
    Peter Brookes
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    Sen. Lindsey Graham Demands ‘Unmasking’ Records on Trump, Members of His Family and Campaign

    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham requested records Tuesday of Obama administration officials who made so-called unmasking requests for information on President Donald Trump, as well as members of his family and campaign. Graham’s request, submitted to Attorney General William Barr and Richard Grenell, the acting director of national intelligence, is a follow-up to the…
    Chuck Ross
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    ‘Emoluments’ Suits Against Trump Look Bound for Supreme Court

    A group of foreign dignitaries walk into a hotel bar. They buy drinks, have dinner, and stay the night. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. Seriously: Do these bland acts violate the Constitution? According to a group of restaurateurs, 215 members of Congress, and the governments of the District of Columbia and…
    Zack Smith
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    Trump, Countering Fauci, Says He Wants Schools Reopened

    President Donald Trump called Wednesday for America’s schools to reopen, seeming to express disapproval of Senate testimony the day before in which a top public health adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, cautiously warned against reopening schools too early during the COVID-19 pandemic.  “He wants to play all sides of the equation,” Trump said of Fauci in…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Says He Might Bring ‘Exonerated’ Michael Flynn Back Into Administration

    President Donald Trump said Thursday he was open to bringing his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, back into the administration, amid new information casting a shadow of impropriety over the FBI’s case against the retired lieutenant general.  “I would certainly consider it. Yeah, I would,” Trump said at a White House press conference Thursday….
    Fred Lucas
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    New Judges Biggest Accomplishment of Trump’s Presidency, Sean Spicer Says

    Two special guests are featured on today’s Daily Signal Podcast. Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary for the Trump administration, and Diamond and Silk, who host a livestream video blog, join the podcast in two pre-recorded interviews. We also cover these stories: An additional 4.4 million people filed for unemployment last week, bringing the…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Trump, Advisers Look to Specifics of Reopening Economy in Phases

    The states of Georgia and Tennessee reportedly are taking steps to restart their economies after the coronavirus shutdown, and South Carolina has plans to do the same. The White House guidelines issued last week, however, call for any state to enter the first phase of reopening only after 14 days of decline in the spread…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Set to Lay Out Plan for Reopening America

    President Donald Trump intends to announce guidelines Thursday for states to “reopen” as the nation makes progress against the coronavirus pandemic. “The data suggests that nationwide we have passed the peak on new [COVID-19] cases. Hopefully, that will continue,” Trump said Wednesday evening in the Rose Garden at the White House. “These encouraging developments have…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Derangement Syndrome Becomes a Threat to Public Health

    Trump derangement syndrome—a well-documented illness that predominantly afflicts coastal elites and congressional Democrats—has turned into a political pandemic. It is the reflexive refusal to agree with any position that President Donald Trump takes, regardless of merit. In a time of national emergency, this contagion is particularly dangerous. Take hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, two drugs that doctors…
    Rep. Ted Budd
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    Conservatives Call on Trump to Establish Free Trade Agreement With Taiwan

    Conservative leaders are asking President Donald Trump to establish a free trade agreement with Taiwan that they say would bolster America’s interests.  Calling Taiwan “a model trade partner,” the conservative leaders write in a letter addressed to the president, “The idea of a U.S.-Taiwan free trade agreement has been blocked for decades by Washington’s concern…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Trump Critical of IG Report on Hospitals

    Hospitals have lacked testing for the coronavirus, and were running low on supplies such as face masks, food, and toilet paper, according to a government audit issued Monday.  The report by Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Inspector General Ann Maxwell surveyed 323 hospital staffs across the United States during the week of March…
    Fred Lucas
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