Attorney General Pam Bondi makes her 76th appearance on Fox News to discuss the deportation of MS13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.
The Democrats and left-wing media allies are furious that Garcia has been deported despite two judges previously issuing a deportation order. Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who has been returned to the nation of his citizenship. WATCH:
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been a key strategic ally for the Trump administration in support of the deportation and repatriation of hundreds of criminal aliens and gang members from the region.
Beginning in 2012, supported by President Obama, thousands of criminal gang members from south and central America flooded into the USA. In 2017, President Trump began to secure the border; however, in 2021 Joe Biden made the entry of alien gang members even easier. In 2025, President Trump is utilizing President Bukele and his maximum detention centers in El Salvador to reverse the flow and remove the gangs.
President Bukele has initiated major criminal justice reform in the nation of El Salvador, liberating millions of people who were terrorized by the criminal element. Today President Trump thanked Bukele for his partnership in the White House and held an open press assembly. WATCH:
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White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appears on Fox Business to discuss President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, semiconductor imports, the administration working on new trade deals and the impact of the global trade reset on China.
Happy warrior Kevin Hassett notes numerous countries are ready to sign new deals with the USA and there will likely be some group announcements very soon. WATCH:
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Hassett also answered questions outside the White House to the media pool.
Three months ago, I was in Vietnam reviewing just how expansive the positioning of Chinese investment was in the concurrent communist nation. The short version is Beijing’s footprint in Vietnam was already huge.
As an outcome of the 2018 tariffs against China, which coincided with a President Trump visit to southeast Asia, multiple companies shifted manufacturing operations from China to Vietnam.
Beijing saw the move and slowly increased their own strategic footprint.
In the subsequent years as COVID-19 took attention from all other matters, and with Trump removed from the equation in 2020, China increased the scale of their investment and the outcomes in 2025 are very visible.
China even built this massive Disney type village in Phu Quõc (it’s nearly empty).
The people who live in Vietnam do not have money, they are a very poor nation. The baseline poverty level, in combination with their communist regime politics, essentially eliminates their consumer power to purchase western goods and makes trade agreements between the U.S and Vietnam somewhat moot. However, as a proxy manufacturing nation Vietnam is a valuable resource for China.
Essentially what can be seen in Vietnam is how Beijing spends money there for influence. The U.S footprint is negligible in comparison to the visible influence of China.
Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping is in Vietnam right now making trade deals with the allied communist government. At this point with so much Beijing influence money already in place, China can request very strategic terms.
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In addition to Howard Lutnick, Peter Navarro and Kevin Hassett explaining the nuances of Section 232 tariff exemptions, White House Senior Policy Advisor, Stephen Miller, appears on Fox News to deliver the same message.
Steel, Aluminum, Automobiles, Pharmaceuticals and components for semiconductor manufacturing all fall under the Section 232 “National Security” tariff umbrella. Meaning, the products within each of those sectors of manufacturing are handled ¹differently from all other tariffs as executed. WATCH:
[¹NOTE: This approach could present a problem in future lawsuits, because the administration is now beginning to define what is classified as a ‘national security’ product. Lawfare operatives will likely say in court that all other tariff sectors (not 232) are controlled by congress, not the President; at least that will be their predictable argument. The administration will counter by arguing all other sector tariffs are directed in response to the Fentanyl crisis, which is again described as a “national security” threat.]
President Trump released the following statement on Truth Social:
NOBODY is getting “off the hook” for the unfair Trade Balances, and Non-Monetary Tariff Barriers, that other Countries have used against us, especially not China which, by far, treats us the worst! There was no Tariff “exception” announced on Friday.
Last week President Donald Trump underwent a physical and mental examination at Walter Reed medical hospital. The White House has released the results of the exam. [SOURCE HERE]
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You can watch Jake Tapper’s brow grow increasingly furrowed in real time as White House Economic Council Director, Kevin Hassett, smiles through the narratives and talks clearly about what is happening with President Trump’s tariff agenda.
This is a REALLY good interview. Kevin “quokka” Hassett just keeps outlining clear examples of what regional tariffs are happening and why there are distinctions. The interviewer Jake Tapper keeps trying to throw confusion at Hassett, who smiles and explains the reason why Tapper’s framework is silly. WATCH:
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appears on ABC This Week, to explain and clarify the purpose of the recently announced tariff exceptions.
According to the explanation, there are two “sector specific” tariffs in Semiconductors and Pharmaceuticals that will be announced in the next few months. The recently announced “exemptions” are products that will be included in the sector specific tariffs that are also identified as “non-negotiable” tariffs.
Semiconductor items, automobiles, steel and aluminum as well as pharmaceutical products will fall under categories or ‘sectors’ of products that will be non-negotiable in all trade agreements for the tariff levy applied. Any nation who enters negotiations for new Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) will not be permitted to negotiate trade on semiconductor products, automobiles, steel, aluminum and medications. WATCH:
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