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Love or hate his strategy, President Trump is getting exactly what he wants from his tariff push. On Sunday during his trip to Scotland, President Trump locked down a trade deal with the European Union which the haters told us couldn't be done. I think this headline from CNBC really says it all: And this: If Europe is balking that means the tariffs did their job and that Trump got exactly what he wanted from the trade deal, forcing the EU to give up some of their leverage. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday alongside Trump that...

At a meeting of dissidents and opposition people in Munich, from all sides of the spectrum, Reza Pahlavi was proclaimed as leader of their revolution. Yay! Now they actually have to depose the Ayatollahs and figure out what will replace them. Good luck. Transcript attached below video.

A segment on Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend featured an interview with Kathleen Borgueta, who had lost her job at USAID due to cutbacks by the Trump administration. Substitute host Maria Teresa Kumar called USAID "God's work." At the end of the segment, a deeply moved Jonathan Capehart told Borgueta: "I'm going to stop talking because I'm going to burst into tears."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the recent releases from his office and from the office of DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Within the interview Director Ratcliffe references the special counsel John Durham investigation, subsequent 306-page report, and then notes the 48-page classified appendix to the report. According to Ratcliffe he is in the process of declassifying and releasing the 48-page annex. Additionally, there are witness transcripts from Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper and possibly Andrew McCabe that could be released. Remember, James Comey refused to be interviewed by John Durham; however, Andrew McCabe...

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0 R*pes recorded: 2000: 🇬🇧 England & Wales: 8,593 🇩🇪 Germany: 8,133 🇫🇷 France: 7,500 🇵🇱 Poland: 2,399 2023: 🇬🇧 England & Wales: 68,109 🇩🇪 Germany: 39,029 🇫🇷 France: 42,400 🇵🇱 Poland: 1,127 Gee, it makes you wonder what’s so different about Poland compared to the other three countries, where the numbers have skyrocketed. What changed?

A brutal beating in downtown Cincinnati that left two white individuals injured is now under investigation by police authorities. As WLWT reported, footage of the attack shows the moment a group of individuals start smacking around a bald white guy at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Elm Street. This is near the Cincinnati Music Festival. Videos captured by citizens show what appears to be a young black man suckerpunching the older white gentleman from behind. Others then join in to pound on him and send him straight to the ground while hooting and hollering. The thugs then start...

Shocking footage has emerged online showing a deranged Islamist threatening to blow up a plane and threatening President Trump before passengers manage to save the day. On Sunday, an EasyJet flight to Glasgow, Scotland, from Luton, England, was diverted after a passenger threatened to blow up the plane. As TGP readers know, Trump is currently in Scotland for trade meetings and to play golf. In the footage, a man of apparent Middle Eastern descent is seen standing in the aisle calling for Trump’s death and announcing to the world he had a bomb. “I’m going to bomb the plane!” the...

Okay, this is a very big win. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen outlines some more details of the U.S-EU trade agreement. The parameters fall similar to the Japanese deal, without the banking aspect. The EU will face (and accept) a 15% tariff rate for most exports to the USA including autos, that’s huge, even with some zero-for-zero tariff sectors outlined. The primary motivating factor was to avoid the 35% tariff rate scheduled for August 1st and provide the EU corporations with certainty in their tariff rate as applied by the USA (15%). WATCH:This is almost full acquiescence to...

When co-host Eugene Daniels asked Conway whether President Trump would grant Jeffrey Epstein's helper Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon or clemency in return for the information she provided to Deputy AG Todd Blanche, Conway had an alliteration ready that's hard to imagine he coined on the spur of the moment. "He's thoroughly capable of doing it. He's a moral maggot who has absolutely no capacity for shame or empathy or remorse."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Law enforcement officials say a 55-year-old New York man reportedly used AI to help him build bombs that he planned to detonate in Manhattan. Michael Gann of Long Island, New York, is accused of building several homemade bombs with the help of AI, an endeavor he claims was “easier than buying gun powder,” according to court documents obtained by NBC News. The suspect, who was indicted by federal prosecutors on Tuesday, allegedly transported the bombs from Long Island to Manhattan, storing five of them and four shotgun shells on the roof of an apartment building in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. Court...

https://www.uniteforsmartpolicy.org/cusp-commentary/documentary-reveals-chinese-mafia-infiltration-of-americas-rural-communities A new documentary by Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson, released this month, reveals the “secret drug empire backed by China” that is disrupting American communities. The documentary, High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia’s Takeover of Rural America, was released on the Tucker Carlson network this July and follows Robinson’s years of reporting on the Chinese Mafia’s infiltration of rural Maine. With their purchase of hundreds of rural Maine houses, schools and churches, Chinese organized criminals are growing marijuana illegally and often producing it with illegal, toxic pesticides smuggled into the U.S. from China. The disturbing report may not be so...

VIDEOThe BEST way to sightsee in Lisbon is on top of a double deck tour bus. You will have a panaromaic view of the city which makes for easy video recording and still camera shots. Also, as you can see, the streets of Lisbon are very narrow which makes it tough for most Americans to navigate while worrying about scratching or causing even worse damage to their rental cars. The weather on the day we toured Lisbon atop the tour bus was absolutely perfect with nary a cloud in the sky. At any time you want to get off the...

On Sunday morning ay 7:10 a.m., EasyJet flight EZY609 took off from London Luton Airport, bound for Glasgow, while President Donald Trump was in the midst of a visit to Scotland. The flight, however, was a trifle more of an adventure than anyone ever wants flights to be. In mid-flight, a man stood up and started shouting. This being 2025, he was caught on video as he screamed: “Stop the plane. Find the bomb on the plane. Death to America. Death to Trump. Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar.” Another passenger recounted: “He literally came out of the toilet shouting...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Mornings with Maria on the Fox Business Channel to tout the stimulating effect Trump's economic policies are having on business investment, saying "the tariff is bringing back manufacturing to the US and the tax reforms in the One Big, Beautiful Bill are encouraging businesses to invest more. By allowing businesses to fully deduct costs for improved facilities and machinery rather than requiring them to be amortized over a longer period efficiency and productivity can be implemented more quickly. The way that countries get rich is through long-term investments that improve productivity." "Another important step...

From Reims to the Rio Grande, history repeats—but in Trump’s America, the border holds, and the ghosts of appeasement find no sanctuary.There is never a dull moment in the second, more cheerful reign of Donald Trump. I am writing from London, but was in France last week, picking my way through various battlefields and cemeteries in and around Verdun, Bastogne (think “Easy Company” and “Battle of the Bulge”), and Reims. Well-informed readers will know, as I did not, that “Reims” is not pronounced as its letters might suggest but rather as a nasalized “Reince.” I have always associated the place...

Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said she might push for the state to redraw its congressional map years ahead of schedule to offset potential gains by Republicans in Texas, despite such an action being illegal. Redistricting, which typically occurs every 10 years, sees states redraw their congressional lines based on population trends. Both parties usually employ a process known as “gerrymandering,” meaning they draw the districts in a specific way to gain more seats. Texas announced it was thinking about redrawing its lines early, which could net them up to five more seats in the House. This sparked...

It is not surprising that leading neocon/warmonger and former National Security Advisor John Bolton would rally around his Deep State allies and trash Trump as DNI Tulsi Gabbard turns the screws on those who manufactured the Russia Hoax. .... Snip.... Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry revealed last night that Bolton had a classified memo in his possession that showed how former CIA Director John Brennan helped manufacture intelligence linking Trump to Vladimir Putin. Still, he never briefed Trump on the matter. Guess what he did instead? He stuck it in a National Security Council safe because he supposedly believed...

Amazon Prime making a TV show blasting Convention of States probably wasn’t on your bingo card. But, alas, here we are. The show is called Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War, and it’s a sensationalized polemic about an evangelical organization that apparently “radicalized” Christian youth, which takes an unexpected turn into “exposing” the COS grassroots who want to “rewrite the Constitution.” According to the series’ description, “Teen Mania captivated a generation of fervent evangelical Millennial kids with adrenaline-fueled, ecstatic religious experiences through ‘Acquire the Fire’ rallies. But beneath the glittering surface lurked sadistic boot camps, staged martyrdom drills, and...

A flurry of mainstream media reports, from Bloomberg, The Guardian, Financial Times, and CNN, among other outlets, claim that climate change is causing rising food prices “worldwide,” based on a single new study. This is false. Bad weather has always impacted crop production, and there is no actual evidence that extreme weather is increasing. Globalization of media coverage is simply making it easier to hear about bad weather elsewhere in the world, meanwhile crop production and yields globally continue to set records – a fact the same media outlets largely ignore. Focusing on the coverage by Bloomberg, in an article...

For the first time since the war began, there are credible concerns of hunger in Gaza. The main indicator, as expressed both by Gazans and economists, is the price of food in the enclave, a variable that can at least be used to calculate supply and demand and therefore offers a general picture of the overall trend. And that trend suggests that a future hunger crisis might be on the horizon if nothing changes. The caveat—and it’s a big one—is that there is enough food in Gaza. Testimony of Gazans and videos of fat, ogreish Hamasniks stuffing their maws have...