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Popular talk-show host also reveals 'shock' at Trump tariffs

Popular talk show host Tucker Carlson has revealed that even though he knew President Donald Trump, his proposals for tariffs on the world jolted him, and he's also talked about the details of his departure from Fox News.

He now has his own company and his interviews with a wide range of personalities, posted on social media, are incredibly popular.

He was interviewed by the Daily Signal, which has posted two videos on YouTube.

In the first, Carlson commented on the tariffs, which Trump has used to try to bring the world's trade into balance for the United States, which long has allowed other countries access to its markets while paying often steep prices for having its products in other markets.

Carlson said Trump is wanting to negotiate those charges.

"I mean, the question is: Who needs the other more? Does the U.S. need China more or China need the U.S.? I can't answer that," Carlson explained to the Daily Signal.

Trump's tariffs went into effect earlier this month, and then the president granted a 90-day pause for most nations while negotiations were under way. The White House has said 75 nations had approached the U.S. about making deals, and some of those agreements could be announced soon.

At the same time, Trump raised tariffs on Chinese products to 125%, which the Communist regime promptly matched for U.S goods.

"The deal has been for the past 30 years: We'll buy your underpriced consumer goods; you buy our overpriced debt. And you know, in some ways that's worked great. In other ways, it hasn't worked at all," Carlson said.

He said the initial tariff announcement from Trump was a "shock."

But he confirmed there needs to be at least some "disengagement" from China.

"You have to be able to build a jet engine exclusively in the United States and not rely on supply chains 10,000 miles long or on countries that are hostile to you. I mean, that's crazy. It's just basic stuff. And we have the resources to do that," he said.

"I got fired from Fox for saying things they didn't like. … That's all right, you know. It's not my company. I wasn't one of those people like, 'You can't fire me.' It's like, of course you can fire me!"

He said his working relationship with the network was that its officials couldn't give him instructions, and he was getting good ratings.

"'If you don't like what I say, you can take me off the air, but you're not going to control my show, just fire me.' … And that seemed like that had always been our deal," he said.

He said he could have retired at that point, to pursue his passions for trout fishing, bird hunting and carpentry, but he loves "talking to people. I like learning – that sounds like B.S., but it's actually fully sincere. And I love that more than I love money … ."

After 30 years in cable news, Carlson said: "I liked everyone I worked for, including the people who fired me."

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President Donald Trump has fought to protect girls and women in their sporting events, as leftists try to flood the competitions with boys and men who say they are female.

One state has refused to go along with the president's executive orders, and now is facing an escalated fight because of the agenda demanded by its governor, Janet Mills, a Democrat who publicly defied the president, threatening that she would see him in court.

Earlier, a variety of federal funding programs for the state were blocked by the president, and now the Washington Stand reports the Trump administration has taken legal action to cut off K-12 funding for the state.

It's over the state's promotion of transgender agenda points, in which boys and men are allowed in sports created for females.

The report explained, "The Department of Education announced last Friday that it had initiated an administrative proceeding to terminate all K-12 funding to the Maine Department of Education, 'including formula and discretionary grants,' over Title IX violations by allowing males who identify as female to compete against and change in front of girls."

The federal government is considering legal action by the Department of Justice against state actors.

"The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state's leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their students' safety, privacy, and dignity," said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor

The situation right now is that the Department of Education has ruled the state is failing to comply with federal government orders.

State officials have doubled down, refusing to resolve the fight.

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U.S. attorney says state officials have ordered police not to help federal officials

A new report at RedState reveals that the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey has ordered an investigation into New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and his attorney general, Matt Platkin.

They are suspected of "obstructing" federal immigration enforcement.

"I am unfortunately going to announce on your show tonight, Sean, and I want it to be a warning for everybody that I have instructed my office today to open an investigation into Governor Murphy, to open an investigation into Attorney General Platkin, who has also instructed the state police not to assist any of our federal … agencies that are under my direction," Alina Habba confirmed.

Habba's announcement came during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

The trigger for her announcement was an order by the state officials that their state officers "are not permitted to enforce civil immigration enforcement and enforcing administrative warrants issued by federal immigration authorities without a court order."

The report noted, "The order in question advises state police not to contact ICE—not even via phone—if they see a legitimate warrant for deportation. This is contrary to federal immigration enforcement laws."

Habba said the state's agenda will need to be changed.

"[Attorney General] Pam Bondi has made it clear, and so has our president, that we are to take all criminal — violent criminals and criminals – out of this country and to completely enforce federal law," Habba explained.

Those who try to prevent the enforcement of federal law "will be charged in the state of New Jersey for obstruction, for concealment, and I will come after them hard."

Murphy has established a reputation for adhering to federal law.

"Earlier this year, Governor Murphy made a wild admission of sorts in an interview with the progressive grassroots organization Blue Wave New Jersey, claiming that he harbored an illegal immigrant in his home," the report said. "He taunted federal officials by saying 'good luck' in trying to come get her."

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Adam Schiff, formerly a California congressman and now a U.S. senator, long has been one of the attack dogs the Democrats have sicced on President Donald Trump.

He was integral to the failed impeach-and-remove campaigns during Trump's first term. He claimed repeatedly and publicly that he had seen evidence of the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia, quite an accomplishment as a special counsel determined there wasn't any.

And his attacks on Trump have surged again during the president's second term.

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Ever since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, he's been cracking down on the open borders scenario demanded by Joe Biden.

And he's been encouraging those who are in the U.S. illegally to simply go back.

Voluntarily.

And some of them are.

A new report reveals that about 5,000 illegals have left the United States on their own.

The Trump administration had been urging that action, pointing out that illegals actually could be fined up to $998 for every day they stay in the country illegally.

The administration even reworked Biden's' CBP One app that facilitated illegals' entries into the United States into CBP Home, encouraging them to self-deport.

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Dancing burning cyber trucks spotted at anti-Musk demonstration

Making the rounds on social media is video highlighting a new costume worn by some protests of Tesla and its founder, Elon Musk.

The footage shows people dancing in burning cyber truck costumes, made mostly of cardboard, apparently honoring the "virtue" of those who have set Tesla vehicles on fire across the nation in recent weeks.

Verbiage accompanying the video notes, "This Is The Reason Why Nobody Will Ever Take The Democrat Party Serious Again."

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Gruesomely insists on promoting abortion because live births are 'more expensive'

A prominent lawmaker in the leftist state of Colorado has turned gruesome in her demands that the state promote abortion: She's insisting that the killing of unborn children is better for the state because births are "more expensive."

It is Julie McCluskie, a Colorado Democrat and extremist on abortion, who said, "Births will not occur because abortions happened instead. A birth is more expensive than an abortion. … The savings comes in Medicaid births that will not occur."

She is the speaker of the Colorado House, and continued, "Savings from averted births outweigh the cost of covering reproductive health care for all Coloradans."

A report at the Gateway Pundit took McCluskie to task, explaining the Democrat "has gone so far in supporting abortion, she's reducing the decision to murder babies to a cost-benefit analysis."

McCluskie was promoting her own bill, and agenda, in an attempt to demand that taxpayers cover "abortion care services" in Medicaid and the Child Health Plan Plus. That scheme essentially involves abortion corporations routinely getting huge checks from taxpayers.

Her agenda also demands that public employee insurance plans cover killing the unborn.

The report explained, "She reduced pregnancy and life to a price tag, concluding that those children should just die because it's cheaper. … She was essentially saying that expectant mothers should kill their children rather than give birth, because it would be cheaper for the government."

In fact, McCluskie claimed, "This bill will actually decrease costs for our Healthcare Policy and Financing Department, our Medicaid expenditures in both this year and out years, as the savings from averted births outweigh the cost of covering reproductive health care for all Coloradans."

The Gateway Pundit pointed out, "Anyone who looks at children and childbirth in such cold, calculating terms has truly gone down an evil path."

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched fiercely into the Atlantic on Wednesday for continuing to claim war plans were mistakenly shared on Signal with the magazine's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.

"So, let's me get this straight," Hegseth posted on X.

"The Atlantic released the so-called 'war plans' and those 'plans' include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information.

"Those are some really sh*tty war plans.

"This only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an 'attack plan' (as he now calls it). Not even close.

"As I type this, my team and I are traveling the INDOPACOM region, meeting with Commanders (the guys who make REAL 'war plans') and talking to troops.

"We will continue to do our job, while the media does what it does best: peddle hoaxes."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also jumped into the fray Wednesday, saying: "The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT 'war plans.'

"This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin."

Anna Bross, senior vice president for communications at the Atlantic, released a statement from the publication Wednesday, indicating:

"Attempts to disparage and discredit The Atlantic, our editor, and our reporting follow an obvious playbook by elected officials and others in power who are hostile to journalists and the First Amendment rights of all Americans. Our journalists are continuing to fearlessly and independently report the truth in the public interest."

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'Brittany had one condition for them'

A married Indiana teacher is facing dozens of charges after allegedly asking three underage boys to "gangbang" her while wearing a mask from the horror film "Scream."

Prosecutors in Martinsville, Indiana, say five more victims are accusing former Morgan County teacher Brittany Fortinberry of sexual abuse, with some of the boys as young as 13 when the alleged group sex took place.

The new allegations come after the 31-year-old former instructor was originally charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy and sending explicit messages, pictures and videos to other children at Eminence High School in Martinsville.

The Daily Mail reports: "The boy told Detective Williams that Fortinberry, 'would always make him food and would buy him anything he wanted' including 'vapes, weed, and THC carts (cartridges)', according to his affidavit.

"He made claims about several instances where Fortinberry allegedly plied him and friends with mushroom pills before encouraging them to touch her sexually.

"'Brittany would peer pressure them if they didn't want to take the shrooms,' the affidavit reads. 'Brittany would grab their arm she would say, "just let it happen."'

"His mom told cops that her son claimed that, 'Brittany would put the shrooms on a peanut butter sandwich so they couldn't taste them.'

"The boy claimed there was once occasion where Fortinberry picked him and two friends up and took them to the mall, before calling their parents to ask if they could spend the night.

"Once there, the then 13-year-old alleged Fortinberry ordered him and his two friends to have group sex with her, despite the youngsters all being underage.
"'Brittany had one condition for them to have the gangbang with her and that was that they had to wear a Scream mask to f**k her,' the affidavit states. …

"The latest alleged victim claims Fortinberry picked him and two friends up from the mall and took them back to her home where they engaged in a 'gangbang'. The boy, who was 13 at the time, claims Fortinberry's husband Nicholas was aware of the alleged abuse."

WTHR reports Nicholas Fortinberry has been charged with intimidation and failure to report, and prosecutors have filed to increase Brittany's bond from $20,000 to $150,000.

The Metropolitan School District of Martinsville confirmed Fortinberry was hired as a substitute teacher Oct. 24, 2023, before resigning on Jan. 9, 2024.

The district issued a statement indicating:

"The Metropolitan School District of Martinsville was notified of serious allegations against a former employee. The District is fully cooperating with law enforcement and remains committed to ensuring a safe learning environment for all of the MSD of Martinsville students.

"This former employee was hired as a substitute teacher on October 24, 2023, obtained a State-issued Emergency License, and resigned from the MSD of Martinsville on January 9, 2024; the resignation was not related to sexual misconduct allegations.

"During the individual's employment period with the MSD of Martinsville, there were no identified reports of sexual misconduct to the administration or the anonymous tip line. We want to assure families that the MSD of Martinsville conducts a full criminal background check for all new employees, as part of the standard hiring procedures. The background check report indicated no criminal activity for this former employee.
"The safety of the MSD of Martinsville students is our number one priority. As such, the District encourages students and parents to report concerns through the STOPit anonymous reporting system for the MSD of Martinsville. Thank you for your attention to this communication."

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'The government should not have a hold on the economy in such a way that it can truly distort entire markets'

When Joe Biden and other Democrats in his political party worked on the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, they often talked about its global warming ideology, its social agenda points, its tax law updates.

But not how it would reduce inflation, because, as even left-leaning CBS found, "The Inflation Reduction Act is aimed at tackling a host of problems, from climate change to catching tax cheats, but there's one issue it may not solve: reducing inflation."

Biden himself, confessed, the law has "nothing to do with inflation."

A report from the Heartland Foundation found, "The Inflation Reduction Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, 2022, but the contents of the legislation are contradictory to its stated purpose."

That study found the point of Biden's law, adopted with support only from Democrats, was "the creation of an enormous renewable energy slush fund, paid for by deficit spending."

That means it sets up the government to borrow money to give away to the Democrats' compatriots who run green energy companies and foundations.

The initial estimates were for those green agenda actions to cost some $369 billion, estimates that almost immediately were boosted to $1.8 billion.

Now a report at Just the News documents a warning from the Cato Institute that if left unchanged, the IRA could demand from American taxpayers almost $5 trillion.

Actually, the warning is that it will cost $4.67 trillion, 12 times the original claimed costs.

Cato also warns that the "subsidies are undermining innovation and driving investments toward subsidy farming rather than satisfying consumer demand," the report said.

"The government should not have a hold on the economy in such a way that it can truly distort entire markets, and that's what the Inflation Reduction Act is," explained Cato's Joshua Loucks.

The study recommends that the law be fully repealed, or if not, have significant limitations placed on its green subsidies, limits which now are nonexistent.

Loucks said the assessment was based partly on the fact that there have been wildly divergent estimates for the bill's costs, from the CBO's original $369 billion on up.

"We decided to go on our own fact-finding endeavor here, and that's what resulted in this paper," Loucks said.

Biden's scheme provides tax credits for production of energy, or tax credits for investing in green ideologies.

It's set up so that there's really no end date to all the cash handouts.

They estimated that over the next 10 years, the IRA could cost taxpayers up to $1.97 trillion, and by 2050, up to $4.67 trillion.

It also notes that the real problem is that Biden left the law open so that tax credits are "stackable," meaning a company could cash in on its operations in multiple ways.

"The options for entrepreneurs are unlimited, which is part of the problem in terms of the incentive structure that this law builds. I think it takes the entrepreneurial spirit, the entrepreneurial spirit of Americans, and essentially turns them towards chasing subsidies instead of satisfying consumer demand," an author of the Cato report explained.

The study also found that most of the subsidies will end up in the bank accounts of large corporations and the entirety is structured so that there are companies "that exist for the sake of taking in these subsidies," the report said.

The study found not only does the plan not address inflation, it doesn't really address "climate in any meaningful way."
"It just funnels money to special interest groups and does nothing to really address how we're going to transform our economy in a way that is equitable and beneficial for all Americans," Loucks said.