President Donald Trump was in attendance at UFC 314 on Saturday night in Miami at the Kaseya Center. As President Trump entered the arena, the crowd gave him a thunderous reception. UFC loves President Donald Trump. WATCH:
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Comedian and avowed leftist who adored Barack Obama, Bill Maher, used his HBO show to describe what it was like to meet with President Trump for dinner at the White House.
There is quite a bit of salty language in this segment that aired on HBO. Proceed accordingly. WATCH:
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A slight change of venue in Russia as President Trump envoy Steve Witkoff travels to St Petersburg for his third meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The talks come as President Trump’s other special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, is apparently starting to realize Vladimir Putin is not going to return the four Russian speaking regions in Ukraine east of the Dnipro river.
Regarding the recently released Russiagate files. Again, emphasizing that process matters, let me explain how and why we are being purposefully misled, even with Trump ‘allies’ in control of various govt agencies (silos).
Using the reference of the James Wolfe storyline, let me outline how process matters and how you can tell when the process is being used to coverup corrupt activity in Washington DC.
Former Senate Intelligence Community Security Chief, James Wolfe, leaked the Carter Page FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins. We know from the DOJ indictment of James Wolfe [SEE HERE], a very specific set of evidence and key dates that was assembled against him.
James Wolfe was nailed for lying to FBI investigators about his leaks to Ali Watkins on December 15, 2017. That is the date of the second interview with Wolfe. During the third interview a few days later, Wolfe was shown the evidence against him, and he admitted his lies. However, his indictment was not unsealed until June 7, 2018.
Key Dates: Busted for guilt December 15, 2017. Indicted June 7, 2018.
♦ The evidence against Wolfe included text messages between Senate Intel Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, and the lawyer for Oleg Deripaska, an attorney named Adam Waldman. The text messages were made public on Feb 8, 2018, [SOURCE] four months before Wolfe was indicted.
♦ The evidence against Wolfe included text messages between Wolfe and journalist Ali Watkins. Ms Watkins was notified of her phone records being seized by FBI investigators on February 13, 2018, [SOURCE] again four months before Wolfe was indicted.
Why was this evidence, all of which would have been useful at trial, purposefully released by the Mueller investigation who was in charge of everything related to Russiagate at the time.
Shortly after James Wolfe was indicted, the Title-1 FISA application he leaked was then released to the public under the auspices of a FOIA request. Wolfe indicted June 7, 2018, the FISA application released publicly July 21, 2018 [SOURCE].
After having his annual physical at Walter Reed hospital, President Trump delivers remarks to the assembled press pool aboard Air Force One.
President Trump notes he feels great and has a great heart and good soul. lol WATCH:
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Things are again not what they seem, but you have to stand back to understand the right questions.
People have asked about the recent release of the declassified FBI documents (a partial release) and what they mean. Having spent years deep in the research, here’s my take.
At first blush people may say there’s nothing really there that we didn’t already know. I would differ on that perspective because the process is telling us something very loudly, and the absence of material is shouting even louder.
Simple question: This stuff was declassified by President Trump and released by the FBI, correct? If so, then why isn’t the release simply uploaded to the FBI.Gov website. Why release it to congress and then leak it to John Solomon?
Read the underline. First things first. Explain to me exactly how these were “obtained.” Where did Solomon get them?
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If it’s all on the up-and-up, and if it is simply an outcome of declassified material, then why is sourcing for the documents clouded in some weird mystery. Shouldn’t we know the process? Those of you who remember the FISA application release, will know why this process issue is important.
Next, the information is given to the founding member of the “Tick Tock” club. John Solomon has singularly been responsible for more purposefully controlled information releases than any other ‘conservative’ media rep for the Intel Community. The Russiagate files coming from Solomon should be the first big “red flag” that causes pause.
Who game them to Solomon? And again, why not just upload them to a .gov website (DNI, FBI or even HPSCI).
I suspect the intention here, the motive of the process, is to focus on the politics of the release, NOT the illegal nature of the conduct that is contained within the evidence the release outlines. They want the public focused on the “politics” not the “illegal surveillance” and unlawful conduct that underpins Russiagate.
President Trump holds a cabinet meeting and invites the press to attend and ask questions.
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In order to pass DC approvals for confirmation, Gabbard had to join the ‘FISA is awesome’ club. Now, she aligns her DNI silo with the foolishness of the Sean Hannity ‘tick-tock’ club. Sorry, but we’ve seen this performance so many times it is now blood boiling to watch them try and repeat it.
DNI Gabbard claims she is creating a new “transparency task force” to analyze information for potential declassification and public release. However, the task force will now have to “dig” until they have every document discovered, before they can release it, because releasing information as it is discovered is against the operational mission of the people who control the silo process. But she swears, if you wait for it, it will come. “Trust the plan.”
Oh, it’s so complicated.
Oh, it’s so big and hard to do.
Oh, the evidence is so hard to find.
This is the same nonsense story from Bill Barr, John Durham, Michael Horowitz and the other previous members of the Sean Hannity ‘tick-tock club,’ including John Solomon (controlled releases) and other “conservatively aligned” tradecraft media. Barr is now Bondi, Wray is now Kash, Durham is now Bongino, the audience is the same. It’s nonsense.
The rapid change in Ursula von der Leyen now starts to make sense. According to a press release [SEE HERE] from European Big Pharma, they recently had a meeting with the EU Komisar and threatened to leave Europe if the trade system is not renegotiated quickly.
President Trump is on the cusp of announcing a big change in tariffs against foreign pharmaceutical companies in an effort to get the manufacturing of medicines brought back to the USA. Details are soon to surface.
In a proactive move, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), went to the European Commission (EC) yesterday to hold talks with von der Leyen, calling for radical change and holding the threat of an exodus to the U.S. over the EC president’s head.
PRESS RELEASE – Today, CEOs of the research-based pharmaceutical industry issued a stark warning to President von der Leyen that unless Europe delivers rapid, radical policy change then pharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing is increasingly likely to be directed towards the US.
A survey of EFPIA member companies conducted last week – to which 18 international large and medium-sized innovative companies responded – identified as much as 85% of capital expenditure investments (approximately €50.6 billion) and as much as 50% of R&D expenditure (approximately €52.6 billion) potentially at risk. This is out of a current combined total of €164.8 billion in investments planned for the period 2025-2029 in the EU-27 territory. Over the next three months, companies that responded estimate that a total of €16.5 billion i.e. 10% of the total investment plans is at risk.
REMINDER: The de minimis loophole comes from back in the 1930s. The idea back then was, say you went on a vacation to Paris, you shouldn’t have to file customs paperwork or pay taxes if you decided to ship some little Eiffel Tower statues to your friends back home.
Congress in 2015 then raised the de minimis threshold from $200 to $800. However, the e-commerce world exploded, and Chinese companies began using the de minimis loophole to ship cheap goods (ex. Temu and Shein) into the USA direct to consumers without paying any customs duty.
On April 2nd, as part of the global trade reset and tariff structure, President Trump revoked authorization for Chinese goods to transfer to the USA using the de minimis rule. The de minimis exemption was cancelled for all products coming out of China. The rule change only targeted China and Chinese shippers. No one else. [XO HERE]
Yesterday, as part of the modification to Executive Order #14257, President Trump has increased the baseline tariff for product mailed from China [de minimis tariff] from 30 90 percent to 120%.
Mailed products from China now face a 120% tariff. Additionally, minimum tariff amounts increased from $75 to $100 effective May 1st, and from $150 to $2oo effective June 1st. [See Section #4]
Example: If you order a $20 shirt from China effective June 1st, you will pay $220. $20 for the shirt, and $200 minimum tariff.
There is no way Chinese E-Commerce can survive this level of tariff/duty fees.