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Trump endorses Stephen A. Smith for president — but is it a trick?
While talking to Bill O’Reilly and Andrew Cuomo on “News Nation,” Stephen A. Smith received a presidential endorsement that no one was expecting.
President Donald Trump called into the show to endorse Smith as a 2028 presidential nominee.
“Stephen A. Smith may run for president, as you know,” O’Reilly told Trump over the phone. “Do you have any advice for Stephen A. if he launches the run?”
“No, Stephen A., he’s a good guy, he’s a smart guy, I love watching him, he’s got great entertainment skills, which is very important. People watch him. You know, a lot of these Democrats I watch, I say, ‘They have no chance.’ I’ve been pretty good at picking people and picking candidates, and I will tell you, I’d love to see him run,” Trump said to cheers from the studio audience.
“Boom,” Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” says. “Donald Trump has joined Stephen A. Smith’s campaign for the presidency in 2028. Doesn’t surprise me.”
“But it does surprise me that they’re paying the guy $20 million a year at ESPN and he doesn’t even have to pay attention to sports,” he continues, “He’s out campaigning for president.”
BlazeTV contributors Steve Kim and T.J. Moe are glad Trump is endorsing Smith.
“I’m with Donald Trump,” Kim says. “I hope he runs for president, please let it be. Please. In fact, let his running mate be Jazzy Jazz Ratchet. That’s a dream party ticket for me. So yes, I endorse the endorsement of Donald J. Trump.”
“I had the same thought,” Moe chimes in. “Trump’s baiting him into it. It’s no different than what I heard yesterday, Beto O’Rourke came out and said, ‘If the people of Texas want me to run for the Senate, I will run.’ And I’m like, ‘Yes, I will donate and contribute to your campaign because it will guarantee another conservative maintains Texas.’”
“That’s what I think Donald Trump’s doing here,” he adds.
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Media cries 'tragic' as student loan pause ends
For the first time in five years, federal student loan repayments resumed on May 5 — and the media is calling it “tragic” for borrowers.
“American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies,” U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said. “The Biden administration misled borrowers: The executive branch does not have the constitutional authority to wipe debt away, nor do the loan balances simply disappear.”
McMahon also noted that “hundreds of billions have already been transferred to taxpayers” and “for the sake of their own financial health and our nation’s economic outlook,” borrowers will now be forced to return to paying their student loans.
“We all know that this justification for a student loan pause is a drawn out relic that should not be around anymore. The problem is, when you’re trying to win a presidential election, it’s really difficult to say to people, ‘Hey, we’re going to start turning on your payments again.’ Joe Biden didn’t want to say that, so he didn’t say it,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” says.
“Now, the media treatment of this, of course, has been exactly what you’d expect. It has been the typical situation where they try to scare everyone and say that Donald Trump is mean,” he continues.
On ABC News’ the “Start Here Podcast,” Brad Mielke made the case against student loan borrowers repaying their loans.
“It’s important to note that student loan borrowers who couldn’t pay their debts typically don’t pay them not because they don’t want to, but it’s because they simply can’t. So this has been a hardship on them over the last five years, and now for the first, they’re going to have to repay the government in which the Department of Education says they willingly took these loans,” Mielke said on the podcast.
“I love the spin here,” Stu says. “They entered into loans that they agreed to go into, number one. Number two, they received the money and utilized that to get a college education.”
“It’s not a hardship when everyone’s telling you you don’t have to pay,” he adds.
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‘Maryland Man’ bodycam footage reveals potential criminal activity
Tennessee state law enforcement has released bodycam footage from a November 2022 traffic stop involving the left’s darling, illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
While the traffic stop report doesn’t mention anything about human trafficking, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Trisha McLaughlin believes otherwise.
“This is textbook human trafficking,” McLaughlin said in a segment on Fox News. “I’ll remind viewers that there were eight other individuals in this car that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving. They were driving allegedly from Texas to Maryland. That’s a three-day journey, not a single piece of luggage in that vehicle.”
“That screams of human trafficking,” she continued. “I also want to remind viewers that in 2019, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested. He was arrested with multiple other members of MS-13. He was decked out in MS-13 symbols — ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,’ which is MS-13’s logo and slogan.”
But that’s not all. According to McLaughlin, Abrego Garcia allegedly had “drugs and rolls of cash on him” and in the past was accused by his wife of detaining and abusing her, as well as psychologically abusing her and her children.
“How is this the story that Democrats are willing to fight for? How is this the one thing that has captivated all of their attention in all of these media headlines right now?” Jill Savage asks independent journalist Breanna Morello.
“It’s pretty strange because one would think this would not be the person they’re putting on a pedestal when it comes to this immigration topic. Obviously, they’re trying to win over their voter base so that they feel a little bit more passionate about this argument because many people are on the fence, or they’re swinging with President Trump these days,” Morello tells Savage and Matthew Peterson.
“We’ve seen it based on the polls when it comes to immigration,” she continues, “And I just think it’s so crazy that they’re picking this person to go out there and throw their whole support behind. It makes me wonder, did they actually understand what he was doing or what he was accused of in the past? Or did they just find one person, think that they could win over the American people with him, and didn’t do any research?”
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'The Circus' creator: 'I got to pull back the curtain' on Charlie Kirk
Mark McKinnon, political strategist to George W. Bush and John McCain and creator of “The Circus” on Showtime, was caught off guard in the last election.
McKinnon, who admits he was a “radical lefty in college,” was shocked to see just how strong the conservative presence within Gen Z was — and how these conservatives used platforms like TikTok to spread their message.
“Suddenly on TikTok this guy named Charlie Kirk started popping up everywhere,” McKinnon tells James Poulos of “Zero Hour,” noting that he “had a very conventional notion and wisdom about Gen Z and how they were, how they acted, and how they’re likely to act in that election.”
And that conventional wisdom was wrong.
“And then I saw these TikToks of Charlie Kirk showing up on these college campuses with mostly young men — but not all young men — but lots of them in red hats, and it got my attention,” he continues.
That’s when McKinnon decided to go to a Charlie Kirk rally in Atlanta, Georgia.
“It was fascinating. It was really interesting, and it really opened my mind about what was happening with that cohort, for one thing. But also Kirk himself,” he says, “was very diplomatic and very cordial to me and invited me in.”
“I got to pull back the curtain and saw the whole operation and how it worked, and you know, his model is really interesting because he invited these crowds just all through social media,” he continues, noting that you couldn’t walk through the plaza the rally was held in because it “was so packed.”
Not only was it packed, but Kirk made sure to answer “every single question that was asked.”
Kirk even chose questions from clear leftists over those who were wearing red hats, despite being non-confrontational.
“Charlie’s a fascinating case,” Poulos comments. “Coming out of that kind of Ben Shapiro moment where it was like, ‘Click to watch the libtards get destroyed with facts and logic,’ you know, Charlie went in a slightly different direction.”
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The deadly trucker crisis — and why mass migration is to blame
Mass immigration has had a profound impact on many industries in America, and one of them is the trucking industry — which the Trump administration is tackling with an executive order.
According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the executive order “will be an order directing the Department of Transportation to include English literacy tests for our truckers.”
“This is a big problem in the trucking community, that unless you’re in that community, you might not know. But there’s a lot of communication problems between truckers on the road with federal officials and local officials as well, which obviously is a public safety risk,” Leavitt explained in a recent press conference.
“So we’re going to ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our economy, are all able to speak English,” she continued.
Gord Magill, trucker and author of “End of the Road,” has warned that it’s not just benign communication issues occurring — but that they can and have turned deadly.
“We have all these extra drivers on the roads who do not speak English, and that’s sort of a problem given that the language of the road is English. All your highway signs are in English, all your weather reports are in English, all of your enforcement officers are in English,” Magill tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”
“What happened is that the accident statistics for trucks started to increase, so you started seeing more collisions and more people involved in fatal collisions,” Magill continues, noting that it all began after Biden’s “trucking action plan.”
“There was a COVID demand spike, which is why Biden did this trucking action plan, and then that dissipated, and we’ve been in what’s called a freight recession basically for the last three years, and American legacy trucking companies, mom and pops, medium-sized carriers, have been going out of business left, right, and center,” he explains.
“But this number of insource drivers remains the same, and more and more of them are getting in accidents. Like the statistics show an increase year-over-year since 2016 since this loophole was opened and has been going higher since 2021,” he adds.
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DHS, DOGE Work Together To Track Down Election Fraudsters
The woman behind the ‘bloodbath’ at the DOJ: Harmeet Dhillon sets the record straight
According to the left, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon is responsible for a “bloodbath” in the Department of Justice. The ACLU has claimed her record consists of restricting voting rights, transgender rights, and abortion access.
Worse yet, the NAACP calls her a “grave threat to democracy.”
Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Podcast” couldn’t like her more, saying, “She’s the woman who will wrestle back that one piece of the DOJ from the clutches of wokeness and that has the deep state quaking in its boots.”
And considering her stance on the issues the federal government uplifted and protected under Biden, the deep state certainly should be “quaking in its boots.”
“We don’t want people in the federal government who feel like it’s their pet project to go persecute police departments based on statistical evidence, or persecute people praying outside abortion facilities instead of doing violence. That’s not the job here. The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology,” Dhillon tells Glenn.
Dhillon’s been on the job for a little over two weeks, and she’s already put multiple pieces of her plan into play.
“The president signed an executive order targeting anti-Christian bias in federal agencies, and that tallies with some of our civil rights agenda, which is to protect the rights of people of faith throughout the United States, whether they’re in federal agencies or not,” Dhillon tells Glenn.
“We’re aso going after the notorious anti-Semitic violence and discrimination happening throughout the United States, but specifically on American college campuses. The most elite campuses in the United States are the places where the most egregious violations are occurring,” she continues.
Under the Biden administration, elderly and young Americans were also arrested and persecuted for the “crime” of praying outside abortion facilities under the FACE Act, which Dhillon is also taking a hammer to.
“One of the first things that was done under the new administration was to dismiss multiple cases in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio,” she explains. “We are not going to be pursuing these FACE Act cases other than an extraordinary circumstance involving death, serious bodily harm, or extreme property damage. And none of the recent cases have any of those fact patterns.”
However, pro-life facilities that involve prenatal care have been violently attacked in the last few years.
“We will aggressively go after them,” Dhillon says. “There were more than 200 incidents in the last few years of those kinds of facilities where people were counseled about their choices, about adoption, about keeping the baby.”
“Those facilities have been violently attacked by activists with no action by law enforcement, federal or state. We will be going after those cases because every woman has a right to go into those facilities and get fair, open, and even, in some cases, religious-inflected advice about their choices with respect to the baby that they are growing in their body,” she adds.
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No peace for Republicans? Democrat fans flames for Summer of Love 2.0
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who is unsurprisingly a Democrat, called for mass protests against President Donald Trump during a speech in New Hampshire this week.
Pritzker complained in his speech that the president and the individuals "he has elevated" are "an affront to every value this country was founded upon."
"Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption — but I am now," he said, adding, "These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box. They must feel in their bones … that we will relegate their portraits to the museum halls reserved for tyrants and traitors."
Blaze Media D.C. correspondent Christopher Bedford isn’t shocked, but he is more than a little disturbed.
“You have folks like Governor Pritzker over in Illinois, who’s just a wild man. I mean, it’s kind of insane to see somebody that wealthy attacking Trump for being wealthy, when he’s a governor himself,” Bedford tells Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight.”
“But that’s the way he operates. And he’s out there now saying, ‘We need to have resistance 2.0. There can be no peace for Republicans. They must be investigated. They must be harassed in the streets. They must be impeached,’” he continues.
“I think what we’re starting to see is Democrat frustrations bubbling over, but I don’t see any appetite for it in the streets. I just don’t. It doesn’t seem like the summer of riots that they’ve had in the past,” he adds.
However, that could change.
“As one reporter I was talking to earlier today said, ‘Seems like the United States is always one particularly grizzly police shooting away from that sort of thing changing,’” Bedford says, adding, “but right now those Democrats who are trying to just relive and run a sequel, it’s going straight to home video. It’s not even coming to theaters.”