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    Even Never Trumpers Are Warming Up to The Donald
    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. I’d like to talk a day about an irony. Maybe it’s something that’s a paradox. Have you noticed that there’s certain people who are coming…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Watchdog Asks Pentagon Chief Hegseth to Pull Security Clearance of Leftist Megadonor Reid Hoffman
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A watchdog group is asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revoke the security clearance of Reid Hoffman, a major Democratic donor who had ties to the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and bankrolled litigation against President Donald Trump.  Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, sent the…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Unacceptable’: Trump Spokeswoman Reaffirms War on DEI at FAA After Fatal Midair Collision
    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday pledged that the Trump administration will eliminate DEI practices at the Federal Aviation Administration in the wake of a midair collision Wednesday night that killed 67. Much of the briefing served to back up President Donald Trump’s implication the day before that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives…
    George Caldwell
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    ‘Far-Left Nonsense’: Iraq War Veteran Explains Impact of Trump’s Executive Order on Military DEI Initiatives
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An Iraq War veteran appeared Monday on Fox Business to talk about President Donald Trump’s executive order to stop woke practices within the U.S. armed forces. Trump plans to sign a trio of executive orders pertaining to the military, including one that will eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the U.S. Defense Department. Another will…
    Mariane Angela
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    New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Shows Changes Already in Motion
    THE CENTER SQUARE—Pete Hegseth, the newly-confirmed U.S. secretary of defense, says changes to the military are already in motion.  Hegseth told reporters outside the Pentagon Monday that President Donald Trump will soon authorize the reinstatement of military members who were discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, with backpay. He also hinted that military…
    Thérèse Boudreaux
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    Hegseth Confirmed as Defense Secretary
    President Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth was confirmed in a 51-50 vote as Vice President J.D. Vance broke a tie in the Senate Friday, ending one of the most contentious and vital confirmation battles of Trump’s early administration.  Vance’s tie-breaking vote to confirm a cabinet member was the second in American history after…
    George Caldwell
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    Sen. Tuberville Calls Out Biden’s Defense Secretary for Alleged Violations of Federal Law
    As Democratic senators attack Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth for alleged incompetence, Republicans are sounding the alarm on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s repeated disappearances for medical treatment, which were allegedly in violation of federal law. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., has been a vocal critic of Austin in recent days. On Friday, the Alabama senator called out…
    George Caldwell
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    GOP Culture War Fights Were Instrumental to Trump Win, Report Says
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Republicans’ embrace of the culture war was a massive part of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding win in 2024, according to an American Principles Project report released Tuesday. Republican messaging on transgender issues such as child sex changes, men in women’s sports, and taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners swayed voters by 1.3…
    Wallace White
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    Medal of Honor Recipient David Bellavia Comes to Pete Hegseth’s Defense
    Medal of Honor recipient David Bellavia stood up for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal Monday, arguing that his longtime friend has been the victim of a smear on the part of “grifting frauds.” In the weeks since President-elect Donald Trump announced Hegseth as his nominee, the legacy…
    George Caldwell
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    From Woke to Warfighting: How Pete Hegseth Can Fix the Pentagon
    Decades of social engineering have transformed America’s armed forces, prompting concerns about the Pentagon‘s warfighting capabilities and politicized culture. It’s the reason President-elect Donald Trump picked Pete Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense: to restore lethality as the military‘s primary focus. Fixing the Pentagon won’t be easy, but it’s imperative to restore America’s…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    More Islamist Terrorism Is Coming. We Are Woefully Unprepared.
    Al-Qaeda first attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 with a car bomb in the underground garage. Americans heard about the attack on the evening news and then went out to McDonald’s for a burger and fries.  It was like the 911 operator called us and we put them on hold. Less than 10 years later,…
    James Carafano
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    How FBI Is Conducting Investigation Into NOLA Terrorist Attack
    Authorities are slowly learning more about what motivated 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar to turn a truck into a weapon on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early Wednesday morning. The act of terror left 15 people dead and another 35 injured. The FBI says Jabbar acted alone and, despite being a military veteran, was inspired by ISIS….
    Virginia Allen
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    Suicides in Military Continue to Rise, the Mental Health Fight Is Far From Over
    According to the Department of Defense’s Annual Report on Suicide in the military, which outlines suicide trends among service members and their families, 523 service members died by suicide in 2023. This harrowing statistic marks the highest number of deaths since 2020. The report, released Nov. 14, recorded a striking 1,373 men and women actively…
    Matthew Lee | Sydney Hudson | Wilson Beaver
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    Trump’s WARNING to Terrorists: Daughter of Americans Held Hostage Reacts
    In one day, 117 of the people Iris Weinstein Haggai grew up with, including her parents, “vanished.” Among the 400 residents living in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one mile from the border of Gaza, one in every four were either killed or taken hostage during the terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.   Like so many in…
    Virginia Allen
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    House Dems Bemoan GOP Effort to Block Military Funding for Child ‘Sex Changes’
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—House Democrats are attacking the Republican Party’s move to stop the military from paying for child sex-change treatments in the National Defense Authorization Act. House Republicans negotiating the most recent iteration of the National Defense Authorization Act managed to include language that expressly prohibits the military from paying for “medical interventions for the treatment…
    Nick Pope
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    Heritage Foundation Ad Buy Backs Hegseth’s Bid for Defense Chief
    The Heritage Foundation launched an ad campaign on Friday promoting President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. On Nov. 21, The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America announced the launch of a $1 million campaign advocating for prompt Senate confirmation of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Of that, $50,000 will go toward bolstering…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pentagon Loses Track of $2.5 Trillion
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. The Pentagon has failed its seventh audit in a row, losing track of $2.5 trillion worth of assets. Where will Elon Musk possibly find $2 trillion of waste and fraud? Last week, the Pentagon once again failed its…
    Peter St. Onge
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    Congressman: Pete Hegseth Must Reform ‘Woke’ Military
    As Democrats deride President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, one congressman says Hegseth is just the man to turn the Biden-Harris administration’s “woke and weaponized” military into a “strong and focused” fighting force. Trump’s proposal to remove underperforming or politicized generals would actually depoliticize a Pentagon that once…
    Ben Johnson
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    Democrats Once Gave Trump’s New Border Czar an Award for Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens
    The gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair have begun. Trump-haters in newsrooms are sounding the alarm about the anticipated separation of families under “Operation Aurora,” the mass-deportation of illegal aliens that president-elect Donald Trump promises and which 58% of Americans support, according to an Oct. 16 Marquette University survey. “If Trump gets his way,…
    Deroy Murdock
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    UNFAIR? Reporter Presses White House Press Secretary About Previous Warnings of Trump Being a ‘Threat to Democracy’
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre snapped at Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich at the White House press briefing Thursday, accusing the reporter of twisting her words about President-elect Donald Trump. Heinrich contrasted the White House’s warnings that Trump is a “threat to democracy” and claims that he intends to strip Americans…
    Nicole Silverio
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