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President Donald Trump's announcement that he was ending trade negotiations with Canada over a new digital services tax imposed by America's northern neighbor has brought results: The suspension of that tax.
According to an announcement from the Department of Finance Canada, those negotiations had been underway.
"To support those negotiations, the minister of Finance and National Revenue, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, announced today that Canada would rescind the Digital Services Tax (DST) in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States," a government statement confirmed.
"Consistent with this action, Prime Minister Carney and President Trump have agreed that parties will resume negotiations with a view towards agreeing on a deal by July 21, 2025."
Canada's statement said, "The DST was announced in 2020 to address the fact that many large technology companies operating in Canada may not otherwise pay tax on revenues generated from Canadians. Canada's preference has always been a multilateral agreement related to digital services taxation. While Canada was working with international partners, including the United States, on a multilateral agreement that would replace national digital services taxes, the DST was enacted to address the aforementioned taxation gap."
"In our negotiations on a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the United States, Canada's new government will always be guided by the overall contribution of any possible agreement to the best interests of Canadian workers and businesses. Today's announcement will support a resumption of negotiations toward the July 21, 2025, timeline set out at this month's G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis," said Mark Carney, the prime minister.
WND had reported only days ago that Trump had halted those negotiations and said a new tariff for Canada would be imposed because of the DST.
"We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country," Trump said at the time on social media. "They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately."
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A woman has died of injuries she suffered in the terrorism in Boulder, Colorado, when an anti-Semite attacked a cadre of Jews walking for their Middle East cause with Molotov cocktails and a homemade flamethrower, and charges over that attack now have been upgraded.
A report at the Post-Millennial explained prosecutors in the leftist state now have added to the charges against suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45.
The additional charges followed the death of Karen Diamond, 82, who the Boulder County district attorney's office said, "died tragically as a result of the severe injuries that she suffered in the attack" that happened on June 1.
"Our office will fight for justice for all the victims, their loved ones, and the community," explained DA Michael Dougherty.
Soliman now faces two counts of first-degree murder, 52 counts of attempted first-degree murder, eight counts of first-degree assault, 18 counts of attempted first-degree assault, two counts of third-degree assault, two counts of using an incendiary device and 16 counts of attempted use of an incendiary.
He also faces one count of animal cruelty.
He could be, if convicted, sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Additionally, the federal government has delivered a 12-count indictment against him alleging federal hate law crimes and crimes of using fire in a felony.
Soliman reportedly targeted a "Run for Their Lives" demonstration over the group's advocacy for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
Court records allege he was carrying many Molotov cocktails and a backpack sprayer filled in flammable substance when he approached the marchers, then lobbed two of the explosives at them while yelling, "Free Palestine."
His manifesto, founder later, was where he called Israel a "cancer entity."
He was in the U.S. illegally at the time of the attack.
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There was a team of reporters back in 2018 who "reported" on the "politically timed" – and unsubstantiated – claims against then-Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, that he approached little girls, even kissed them.
Moore earlier had been twice elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and then was removed over his decision to acknowledge the Ten Commandments. He long had been a target for Democrats and other leftists who are anti-Christian, who feared such a presence in the U.S. Senate.
That team eventually was honored with a Pulitzer prize for its published hit pieces on Moore, who ended up not winning the election.
Now one of those team members is under arrest – in an irony too massive to miss: Child porn charges.
A report at Revolver News explains it is Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, who is accused of possessing child porn.
He is a journalist at the Washington Post and resident of the District of Columbia.
"The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Pirro thanks FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven J. Jensen and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department for their ongoing efforts in this investigation. On June 26, 2025, FBI agents executed a search warrant at LeGro's residence and seized several electronic devices. A review of LeGro's work laptop revealed a folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material," the report said.
FBI agents and members of a task force charged with investigating and bringing federal charges against suspects in the exploitation of children are investigating.
The report explained the background, "In 2018, the liberal media patted themselves on the back for taking down Roy Moore, a Republican Senate candidate from Alabama. The takedown followed the usual pattern. Moore was attacked over allegations from 40 years ago. Allegations that were unproven, disputed, and oh-so-perfectly politically timed. The Washington Post, naturally, led the charge. They published the hit piece, won their little gold trophy, and got their high-fives in the newsroom."
Those reports were based on statements from various individuals who made claims about Moore.
The publication's biography on LeGro reveals how he participated in the anti-Moore campaign, and has been promoted multiple times since.
"Federal agents found a folder with eleven child porn videos. LeGro was so panicked, he even tried destroying the hard drives right as agents arrived," the report said.
"During the execution of the search warrant agents observed what appeared to be fractured pieces of a hard drive in the hallway outside the room where LeGro's work laptop was found," authorities explained.
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It's only days old, but the Supreme Court ruling that Tennessee is allowed to ban body-mutilating chemical treatments and surgeries on children already is having an impact.
On at least four other states with similar prohibitions.
Just last week, the high court affirmed a state law that bans the infliction of transgender procedures on minors. The 6-3 ruling revealed a pointedly leftist trio on the court demanding the agenda of chemically and surgically altering children to accommodate what almost always is a temporary gender dysphoria.
The majority opinion, supported by the conservative members of the court, was written by Chief Justice John Roberts. The ruling found the Tennessee law does not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
It was in orders issued on Monday that the court wiped out other lower court rulings that essentially promoted the transgender ideologies, the scientific impossibility that men can become women or vice versa, as being male or female is embedded down to the DNA level and does not change.
The Washington Examiner explained the cases now are being sent back down to lower courts for reconsideration in light of the ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti.
The orders on Monday involved rulings that previously blocked similar state-level bans on transgender treatments in North Carolina, West Virginia, Idaho and Oklahoma.
"The move means each case must now be reheard under the legal standard articulated in the Skrmetti ruling, which found no violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause in a ban on medical treatments for minors who identify as transgender," the report explained.
Further, the justices declined to take up a separate case from Kentucky where families were trying to challenge a similar state law.
The appeals courts now assigned the responsibility of changing the outcomes on those cases include the 4th Circuit, 9th Circuit and 10th Circuit.
"Monday's actions come as the justices continue to weigh whether to take up additional cases, including challenges to school sports participation rules in Arizona, Idaho, and West Virginia that restrict biological boys from competing on girls sports teams," the report said.
WND reported on the Tennessee case that there are up to 20 other states with similar disputes developing.
The case revolved around the fact, according to the court, the "growing number of states restricting sex transition treatments for minors by enacting the Prohibition on Medical Procedures Performed on Minors Related to Sexual Identity."
In Tennessee, SB1 "prohibits healthcare providers from prescribing, administering, or dispensing puberty blockers or hormones to any minor for the purpose of (1) enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's biological sex, or (2) treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's biological sex and asserted identity."
"At the same time, SB1 permits a healthcare provider to administer puberty blockers or hormones to treat a minor's congenital defect, precocious puberty, disease, or physical injury," the court noted.
Three "transgender minors," their parents, and a doctor challenged the law under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
A trial judge halted the law but the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed it to take effect, as the law "did not trigger heightened scrutiny and satisfied rational basis review."
The ruling said SB1 "is not subject to heightened scrutiny because it does not classify on any bases that warrant heightened review."
The law's classifications are based on age and medical condition.
"Classifications based on age or medical use are subject to only rational basis review," the court explained.
The court said, "Tennessee determined that administering puberty blockers or hormones to minors to treat gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, or gender incongruence carries risks, including irreversible sterility, increased risk of disease and illness, and adverse psychological consequences. The legislature found that minors lack the maturity to fully understand these consequences, that many individuals have expressed regret for undergoing such treatments as minors, and that the full effects of such treatments may not yet be known. At the same time, the State noted evidence that discordance between sex and gender can be resolved through less invasive approaches. SB1's age- and diagnosis-based classifications are rationally related to these findings and the State's objective of protecting minors' health and welfare."
"In today's historic Supreme Court win, the common sense of Tennessee voters prevailed over judicial activism," said Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. "A bipartisan supermajority of Tennessee's elected representatives carefully considered the evidence and voted to protect kids from irreversible decisions they cannot yet fully understand. I commend the Tennessee legislature and Governor Lee for their courage in passing this legislation and supporting our litigation despite withering opposition from the Biden administration, LGBT special interest groups, social justice activists, the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, and even Hollywood.
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President Donald Trump, who is famous for calling out "fake news" among national reporters, has just dropped a verbal bomb on Dan Alexander of Forbes Magazine, calling him an "untalented writer" whose publication "continues to hang around like a bad disease."
In post on Truth Social Monday, Trump said: "Not that it really matters, but a terribly untalented writer for badly failing Forbes Magazine, Dan Alexander, who probably can't get a meaningful job in the business, has written so inaccurately about me that it is ridiculous.
"Many others also, the media is mostly Fake News, but Forbes doesn't even try to get things right. I haven't spoken to these SleazeBags in years, they don't want the facts, and they're so inaccurate (purposely!) about everything.
"I would have thought Forbes would be DEAD by now, but it continues to hang around like a bad disease. Isn't it owned by a hostile nation?
"Anyway, that's what happens when you have bad reporters with evil intentions. Eventually the publication dies. I've happily seen it over, and over, again!"
While the president didn't specify what reports prompted his opinion, Alexander's most recent postings this month on X and Forbes may provide a clue, as the writer claimed to have "the scoop on the backroom dealing."
"The Trump family touts its 'all in' commitment to crypto," Alexander said on X.
"Behind the scenes, however, their company has reduced its stake in one of their primary crypto ventures. I have the scoop on the backroom dealing … ."
Alexander links to his story where he states: "One of Donald Trump's companies reduced its stake in World Liberty Financial, a key crypto venture for the president, from 60% to 40% at some point in the last 11 days, according to an analysis of fine print on World Liberty's website. The change, which came with zero fanfare, is the latest indication that the president—or someone working on his behalf—continues conducting backroom deals while he serves in office."
Another post by Alexander states: "Donald Trump lied about the square footage of his properties for years. His underlings now have to figure out how big they actually are."
His report begins: "Donald Trump spent so many years lying about the square footage of his properties that his own company did not even seem sure of their true size. Under oversight from a court-appointed monitor, the Trump Organization recently tried to sort it all out."
Meanwhile, as WorldNetDaily reported, Trump on Sunday floated the idea of getting journalists to identify the leaker of a Defense Intelligence Agency report on recent U.S. military strikes on Iran.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel, Trump told anchor Maria Bartiromo: "They should be prosecuted."
"Who specifically?" asked Bartiromo.
"The people that leaked it," replied Trump.
"We can find out. If they want to, they could find out easily. You go up and tell the reporter, 'National security, who gave it [to you]?'
"You have to do that, and I suspect we'll be doing things like that," Trump continued.
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The suspected sniper believed to have intentionally set a blaze in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Sunday to ambush firefighters and police, killing at least two, is now identified as 20-year-old Wess Roley.
"We do believe that the suspect started the fire, and we do believe that it was an ambush and it was intentional," Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris told reporters. "These firefighters did not have a chance."
Ironically, there are indications Roley himself sought to be a firefighter.
"His grandfather, Dale Roley, told NBC News that 'something must have snapped' for his grandson to have committed such violence, particularly against firefighters," the network reported.
"He actually really respected law enforcement," Dale Roley said. "He loved firefighters. It didn't make sense that he was shooting firefighters. Maybe he got rejected or something."
The grandfather speculated that Wess Roley's height of 5-foot-8 may have hindered him from becoming a firefighter.
"I know he had been in contact to get a job with a fire department," Dale Roley said. "He wanted to be part of a team that he sort of idolized."
He said his grandson attended high school in Phoenix, Arizona, where his mother lives, and lived with him in Oklahoma for several months before moving to Idaho last summer to be closer to his father, according to NBC.
He used descriptors for Wess including "nervous," "high strung" and "kind of a loner," but said those were "normal issues for kids these days."
Dale Roley also said Wess had recently lost his phone, making his life more of a mystery.
"We didn't know where he was working," he noted. "He did have a lot of heart."
"I feel real terrible for those killed," he added.
Bruce Mattare, chairman of the Kootenai County board of county commissioners, said: "I cannot fathom why anyone would commit such a heinous act."
"This kind of senseless violence is unheard of here."
CNN reported: "Court documents show that Roley had a tumultuous family life growing up. His mother filed for divorce in September 2015, when her son was 10 years old, and wrote in court documents that her husband had threatened her, pushed her to the ground, and 'punched several holes in the walls.'
"He threatened to sit outside my house with a sniper rifle or burn my house down," she wrote.
"A judge granted a protective order preventing Roley's father from having contact with his wife or son, but later amended the order to remove the son after his father wrote in a court filing that 'I am not a danger to my son or anyone else' and that his wife 'did not tell the truth in her statement.'
"The divorce was granted in November 2015, and Roley's mother was designated as his 'primary residential parent.'"
On social media, there are numerous posts about Wess Roley, with some saying he "appears to be a young man transitioning," while others say his parents, being MAGA supporters of Donald Trump, "groomed" him to be violent.
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Federal authorities have announced a stunning law enforcement that involves health-care fraud, hundreds of people and nearly $15 billion in tax money allegedly stolen from taxpayers.
The Department of Justice announced it has charges looming against 324 people, including nearly 100 physicians and other medical professionals in all 50 states, who allegedly scammed some $14.6 billion out of the government's health-care programs.
A report at the Washington Examiner noted it was what the DOJ described as "the largest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history."
Charges include a wide range of criminal offenses, including opioid trafficking, telemedicine fraud, transnational identity theft and more
"Of the total charged, 77 defendants were prosecuted by state attorneys general, while the remaining 247 face federal charges. Authorities said they seized over $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets," the report noted,
The takedown "delivers justice to criminal actors who prey upon our most vulnerable citizens and steal from hardworking American taxpayers," explained Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The action is a huge advance from Joe Biden's administration, which developed cases against 193 defendants involving alleged fraud of about $2.75 billion over the whole of the last year.
"These criminals didn't just steal someone else's money — they stole from you," said Matthew Galeotti of the DOJ's Criminal Division. "This is not healthcare. It is a staggering breach of trust."
Dan Bongino, deputy director fo the FBI, said: "Results matter. Talk is cheap. And this is not even the beginning of the beginning. If you're stealing from the public, or violating your oath to serve, then we're coming for you too."
Among the schemes:
A transnational crime ring that turned in billing of $10.6 billion in fraudulent claims to Medicare, using stolen identities of U.S. residents.
A Middle East-based billing company that allegedly defrauded Medicare of $650 million, targeting Native American and homeless patients for addiction scams.
And, cases alleging nurses stole drugs from dying patients.
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A rock performer appearing at the United Kingdom's big Glastonbury music festival led the crowd in a "Death to the IDF" chant, advocating violence against Israel, and promptly discovered while his speech may be free, it is not without consequences.
Reports reveal that the rocker now has not only been banned from entry into the United States, he's apparently lost his agent, too.
Social media reports have revealed the consequences for a performer named Bob Vylan, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, 34.
The Daily Mail revealed Robinson-Foster provided the crowd with the chant, then led the radicals who were waving Palestine flags and calling for the deaths of Israeli soldiers.
British police have begun investigating Robinson-Foster as well as drummer "Bobbie Vylan."
They were to appear in Spokane, Washington, in October, but the report confirmed the U.S. Department of State has intervened and canceled permission for them to enter to America.
"The State Department has revoked the U.S. visas for the members of the Bob Vylan band in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants," according to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.
"Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country."
"Republican Senator Ted Cruz also shared a video of Bob Vylan leading 'free Palestine' and 'death to the IDF' chants at Glastonbury on X, condemning it as 'sick," the report said.
The performance was live-streamed on the BBC iPlayer but that abruptly removed.
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Leftists on the U.S. Supreme Court are taking their fear of parents who teach children their own religious faith "to a ludicrous level," according to commentary following last week's decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor.
In that case, the 6-3 majority simply said that schools are not allowed to force their own religious beliefs onto young children, through mandatory lessons and a ban on opt-outs, because that infringes on the religious rights of the parents.
The case came out of Montgomery County, Maryland, where school officials adopted that mandatory LGBT indoctrination for children as young as three years old. Originally, schools offered an opt-out for parents who didn't want the school's religious ideologies taught to their children, but the school district, faced with a flood of such demands from parents, soon decided to force all children into the lessons.
A commentary at Federalist notes what the dissenters, Sonio Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Jackson, who famously established her place in history by telling her Senate confirmation hearing she was unable to define "woman," hypothesized.
"The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, sided with the parents, saying, 'A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses 'a very real threat of undermining' the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill … And a government cannot condition the benefit of free public education on parents' acceptance of such instruction.'"
But, the commentary noted, "That is not how the three leftists see it. In fact, they see parents — especially religious ones — as roadblocks to education."
Sotomayor wrote that schools offer children of all faiths and backgrounds an education "to practice living in our multicultural society."
"That experience is critical to our nation's civic vitality. Yet it will become a mere memory if children must be insulated from exposure to ideas and concepts that may conflict with their parents' religious beliefs," she claimed.
The Federalist explained, "Sotomayor spins this irrational fear to a ludicrous level, imaging a world where religious parents will object to every imaginable lesson, opting their kids out of this and that, until the only option is for schools to teach what parents want their kids to learn."
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley also expressed concern about the extremism of Sotomayor.
It was her comments that were "the most striking in its apocalyptic take on allowing parents to remove their children from these classes. Despite the fact that various opt-outs have been allowed for parents, this one is deemed a threat to the very essence of public education."
He noted the aggressively anti-Christian school agenda: "The children are required to read or listen to stories like 'Prince & Knight' about two male knights who marry each other, and 'Love Violet' about two young girls falling in love. Another, 'Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope,' discusses a biological girl who begins a transition to being a boy. Teachers were informed that this was mandatory reading, which must be assigned, and that families would not be allowed to opt out. The guidelines for teachers made clear that students had to be corrected if they expressed errant or opposing views of gender. If a child questions how someone born a boy could become a girl, teachers were encouraged to correct the child and declare, 'That comment is hurtful!'"
He said, "Teachers were specifically told to '[d]isrupt' thinking or values opposing transgender views."
TS the fight over the opt-outs developed.
But he said the "most overwrought" reaction was from the three extremists on the bench.
"There 'will be chaos for this nation's public schools' and both education and children will 'suffer' if parents are allowed to opt their children out of these lessons," he noted the leftists claimed.
"She also worried about the 'chilling effect' of the ruling, which would make schools more hesitant to offer such classes in the future."
The trio demanded that "the damage to America's public education system will be profound" and the decision supporting parents' constitutional rights "threatens the very essence of public education."
He noted the attitude was simply reflecting what other officials have claimed:
"State Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Wis.) once insisted: 'If parents want to 'have a say' in their child's education, they should homeschool or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.' Iowa school board member Rachel Wall said: 'The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community.'"
The effect of the ideology is evident, he said.
"Our public schools are imploding. Some are lowering standards to achieve 'equity' and graduating students without proficiency skills. Families are objecting to the priority given to political and social agendas to make their kids better people when they lack math, science, and other skills needed to compete in an increasingly competitive marketplace. … Schools are facing rising debt and severe declines in enrollment, yet unions in states like Illinois are demanding even more staff increases and larger expenditures."
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Just hours after voting no on advancing President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" bill and the president's vow to have him primaried, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., announced he will not seek reelection.
"In Washington over the last few years, it's become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species," Tillis said.
"Democrats recently lost two such leaders who were dedicated to making the Senate more of a functional and productive legislative body. They got things done. But they were shunned after they courageously refused to cave to their party bosses to nuke the filibuster for the sake of political expediency. They ultimately retired and their presence in the Senate chamber has been sorely missed every day since.
"It underscores the greatest form of hypocrisy in American politics. When people see independent thinking on the other side, they cheer. But when those very same people see independent thinking coming from their side, they scorn, ostracize, and even censure them.
"Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who really don't give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail. After they get elected, they don't bother to do the hard work to research the policies they seek to implement and understand the consequences those policies could have on that young adult living in a trailer park, struggling to make ends meet.
"As many of my colleagues have noticed over the last year, and at times even joked about, I haven't exactly been excited about running for another term."
Tillis was verbally scorched by President Trump after voting against the tax-reducing bill which advanced late Saturday in the Senate.
In several messages targeting the senator on Truth Social, Trump indicated: "Thom Tillis has hurt the great people of North Carolina. Even on the catastrophic flooding, nothing was done to help until I took office. Then a MIRACLE took place! Tillis is a talker and complainer, NOT A DOER! He's even worse than Rand 'Fauci' Paul!
"Numerous people have come forward wanting to run in the Primary against 'Senator Thom' Tillis. I will be meeting with them over the coming weeks, looking for someone who will properly represent the Great People of North Carolina and, so importantly, the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Trump also praised other Republican senators for their work advancing the bill.
"Tonight we saw a GREAT VICTORY in the Senate with the 'GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,'" Trump said," but, it wouldn't have happened without the Fantastic Work of Senator Rick Scott, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ron Johnson, and Senator Cynthia Lummis. They, along with all of the other Republican Patriots who voted for the Bill, are people who truly love our Country!
"As President of the USA, I am proud of them all, and look forward to working with them to GROW OUR ECONOMY, REDUCE WASTEFUL SPENDING, SECURE OUR BORDER, FIGHT FOR OUR MILITARY/VETS, ENSURE THAT OUR MEDICAID SYSTEM HELPS THOSE WHO TRULY NEED IT, PROTECT OUR SECOND AMENDMENT, AND SO MUCH MORE. GOD BLESS AMERICA &, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"