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Mexico Blinks Over Trump's Tariff Threat
Thomas Gallatin
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Tuesday Top News Executive Summary
Media Editors: MEDAL OF HONOR: “The White House announced on Monday that former Army Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient for the war in Iraq for his heroism during the second battle of Fallujah in November 2004. … President Trump will present the award to Bellavia at a White House ceremony on June 25.” (ABC News)
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DEMOCRAT SHOW TRIAL: “Watergate figure John Dean, who served as White House counsel for Richard Nixon, drew parallels Monday between the scandal that led to his conviction and toppled his former boss and special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian government ties to the campaign of President Donald Trump,” The Daily Signal reports. “Dean joined former Justice Department lawyers for a House Judiciary Committee hearing in what Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said was the ‘first in a series’ examining the Mueller report.”
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MUELLER INFO COMING: “After weeks of negotiation, the Department of Justice has agreed to turn over to lawmakers key documentary evidence collected by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the House Judiciary Committee announced Monday,” National Review reports. “The DOJ’s newfound willingness to furnish the documents appears to be the product of an agreement between the Trump administration and Judiciary Committee chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, who announced Monday that he will not hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt, as he had previously threatened to do.”
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ATTACKED AGAIN: “Masterpiece Cakeshop is again under fire, now the subject of a third discrimination lawsuit alleging that owner Jack Phillips ‘discriminated’ against a customer by refusing to make a cake for an unspecified event.” (The Daily Wire)
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IN GOD WE STILL TRUST: “The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a legal dispute targeting the inscription of ‘In God We Trust’ on coins and currency from the Department of Treasury,” reports the (Washington Examiner. The challenge was brought by perennial anti-Christian atheist Michael Newdow, who also famously sued to have “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as to purge “So help me God” from presidential inauguration oaths.
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SILENCE ON SUPPRESSORS: “The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to federal restrictions on gun suppressors, muzzle attachments that muffle the sound of a gunshot, leaving in place a law that requires such devices be registered.” (National Review)
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AMASH BREAKS WITH FREEDOM CAUCUS: “Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash announced Monday evening he was leaving the influential conservative House Freedom Caucus, just weeks after he attracted the ire of his colleagues by arguing in Twitter posts that President Trump had committed impeachable offenses.” (Fox News)
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ASSANGE EXTRADITION: “The Justice Department has delivered to officials in the United Kingdom a formal extradition request for Julian Assange, making further U.S. charges against the WikiLeaks founder unlikely.” (The Washington Post)
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CIA INFORMANT: “Kim Jong Nam, the slain half brother of North Korea’s leader, was a Central Intelligence Agency source who met on several occasions with agency operatives,” says The Wall Street Journal. “Mr. Kim, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed in Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia in February 2017, when two women smeared his face with the nerve agent VX.”
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POLICY: The wrong fight over fighters: understanding the F-15X purchase (American Enterprise Institute)
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HUMOR: Sanders vows to bypass snowballing hyperinflation phase of socialism, go directly to brutal government crackdown on public gatherings protesting food shortages (IMAO)
~The Patriot Post
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Kevin McAleenan -vs- Brett Baier –
Trump Cuts Gordian Knot With Mexico
by sundance.
ISIS plotted to send westerners
to US through Mexico border
by Hollie McKay
{ foxnews.com } ~ A chilling confession from a captured ISIS fighter has shed light on how the terrorist group intended to exploit the vulnerabilities of the U.S. border with Mexico... using English speakers and westerners to take advantage of smuggling routes and target financial institutions. Seized ISIS fighter Abu Henricki, a Canadian citizen with dual citizenship with Trinidad, last month said that he was sought out by the violent insurgency’s leadership to attack the U.S. from a route starting in Central America, according to a study by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and published in Homeland Security Today. “ISIS has organized plots in Europe with returnees so it seems entirely plausible that they wanted to send guys out to attack. The issue that makes a North American attack harder is the travel is more difficult from Syria,” Anne Speckhard, who co-conducted the study as the director of ICSVE and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, told Fox News. “So the idea that they would instead use people who were not known to their own governments as having joined ISIS might make it possible for them to board airplanes.” Henricki allegedly traveled to Syria with the intention of serving as an ISIS fighter, but was later told he could not take on soldier duties due to a chronic illness. At the end of 2016, he claimed to have been “invited” by the ISIS intelligence wing – known as the emni – to join other Trinidadians and launch financial attacks on the U.S. The attacks were described to Henricki as designed to “cripple the U.S. economy,” and he was said to have been informed that he would be issued false identification and passports and would be maneuvered from Puerto Rico to Mexico and then to the United States. “The plan came from someone from the New Jersey state of America. I was going to take the boat from Puerto Rico into Mexico. He was going to smuggle me in,” the ISIS cadre continued. He further elaborated that he believed the scheme was aimed at New York financial targets... https://www.foxnews.com/world/isis-plot-westerners-mexico-border .
US Attorney Durham ‘Very Dialed In” on scumbag/liar-nObama FISA Court Scandal – Will Handle Prosecution of Any Criminal Action
by Jim Hoft.
National Border Patrol Council Predicts a
‘Totally Uncontrolled Border’ If Congress
Doesn’t Act
by Madison Summers.
Almost even with loose lips liar-Biden:
dinky-Warren surges in Iowa poll
by Jon Brown.
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Mexico Blinks Over Trump's Tariff Threat
Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump’s threat to raise tariffs against all Mexican imports if that government doesn’t act to stop the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S. border appears to be working. On Thursday, Mexican officials offered a big concession, promising to immediately deploy 6,000 National Guard troops to Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. Furthermore, Mexico froze the bank accounts of 26 individuals for allegedly participating “in migrant smuggling and the organization of illegal migrant caravans.” Still, no deal has yet been reached and tariff start date of Monday the 10th remains.
Mexico also reportedly agreed to significantly overhaul asylum protocols so as to require applicants to take permanent refuge in the first safe country in which they arrive. Should this asylum overhaul go into effect it would, in theory, stem the flow of migrant caravans through Mexico. Any migrant requesting asylum in the U.S. whose country of origin was south of Mexico would be sent to the closest country of refuge adjacent to their homeland.
Vice President Mike Pence noted the progress, stating, “There has been movement on [Mexico’s] part. It’s been encouraging. The discussions are going to continue in the days ahead.” However, Pence made it clear that Trump has the final say.
As the border crisis only intensifies, May saw more than 132,000 migrants detained after illegally crossing the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is overwhelmed, overworked, undermanned, and bursting at the seams with migrant detainees. With Democrats unwilling to act in any manner to help end the crisis — instead passing an amnesty bill in the House this week — Trump is left to wield one of the few effective tools he has to deal with the problem: tariffs.
While many Republicans and conservatives are rightly concerned over the economic impact of Trump’s tariffs, one question few seem willing to address or even acknowledge is the greater and arguably longer-term economic impact upon the American worker that illegal immigration creates. Clearly, the free market is the best system — so long as everyone is playing by the same rules. Illegal immigration undercuts these rules, cheating American workers and taxpayers. Rectifying such problems is never easy or painless.
Trump’s nationalism is not negative but virtuous in that he recognizes that his primary job is to protect and promote the welfare of Americans above all other nations. This is not an “us against them” message as the Leftmedia fallaciously claims. Rather it is more the attitude of a father prioritizing the needs of his own children over those of others. It is what any nation should expect and demand from its leaders. Democrats object because theirs is a commitment to globalism over nationalism.
~The Patriot Post
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