Trump Reveals When ‘Moderate Income’ Americans Can Expect To Get $2K Tariff Checks

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President Trump vowed to issue tariff dividends sometime before the 2026 midterms during an Oval Office event touting his administration’s work bringing the FIFA World Cup to the US.

“We’re gonna be issuing dividends later on, somewhere prior to — the middle of next year, a little bit later than that,” he said, noting it would include “Thousands of dollars, for individuals of moderate income.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent previously revealed that the proposed $2,000 tariff dividend checks for American citizens would be awarded, but noted that the idea was only “in discussion.” . . .

The remittance would require approval from Congress, where even the president’s own Republican allies have expressed skepticism and encouraged Trump to focus on decreasing the federal budget deficit instead.

“It’ll never pass. We have a $37 trillion debt,” Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio told reporters in July, according to Business Insider. (Read more from “Trump Reveals When ‘Moderate Income’ Americans Can Expect To Get $2K Tariff Checks” HERE)

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Ford CEO Laments He Can’t Fill 5,000 Mechanic Jobs Paying $120K Per Year: ‘We Are in Trouble in Our Country’

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Ford has been unable to fill some 5,000 openings for mechanics despite offering a salary of $120,000 a year — prompting the company’s chief executive to warn of a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople in the US.

“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said on an episode of the “Office Hours: Business Edition” podcast published earlier this week.

“We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.” . . .

The $120,000 pay is nearly twice the average annual American salary, according to the Social Security Administration.

It takes about five years to learn the skills needed to pull a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck — and the country isn’t training enough people to do it, Farley said. (Read more from “Ford CEO Laments He Can’t Fill 5,000 Mechanic Jobs Paying $120K Per Year: ‘We Are in Trouble in Our Country’” HERE)

Illegal Alien Terrorist Fugitive Found Driving Big Rig in Kansas After Biden Administration Gave Him Work Permit

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien, wanted in his native Uzbekistan on terrorism charges, found driving a semi-truck in Kansas after he had been given a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) in Pennsylvania. The Biden administration, ICE officials reveal, awarded the illegal alien a work permit in 2024.

On November 9, ICE agents arrested 31-year-old illegal alien Akhror Bozorov of Uzbekistan while he was working as a commercial truck driver.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation had issued Bozorov a CDL to drive a semi-truck after he was approved for a work permit by the Biden administration in January of last year.

Bozorov, who crossed the southern border in February 2023 and was released into the United States interior by the Biden administration, has had a warrant for his arrest in Uzbekistan since 2022.

According to Uzbek law enforcement officials, Bozorov is a member of a terrorist organization and has allegedly distributed terrorist propaganda — including calling for jihad and urging others to join the jihad movement. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Terrorist Fugitive Found Driving Big Rig in Kansas After Biden Administration Gave Him Work Permit” HERE)

Report: Man Who Attempted to Kill Trump Had Furry Obsession, Online ‘They/Them’ Profile

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New reporting reveals disturbing details about Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. The allegations raise serious questions about Crooks’ ideological shift, online life, and possible intelligence or security failures around his rise.

According to a New York Post investigation, Crooks once expressed pro-Trump views but dramatically flipped his ideology in 2020, becoming virulently anti-Trump. Over a span of months, he channeled extremist language, praised mass violence, and floated terror-style tactics — including bombs and assassination — against political figures.

One chilling online post read:

“IMO the only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks … sneak a bomb … track down any important people/politicians/military leaders … try to assassinate them.”

According to the Post’s source, Crooks was not a “lone actor” with no footprint — his online presence left a “digital trail” across multiple platforms: YouTube, Discord, Snapchat, Quora, and more. That trail reportedly includes extremist ideology, admiration for violence, and threats.

Adding a strange layer to the story, investigators trace Crooks’ online activity to two DeviantArt accounts, “epicmicrowave” and “theepicmicrowave,” where he used “they/them” pronouns. DeviantArt is a major hub for “furries” — people interested in anthropomorphized animal characters. According to the report, at least some of his artwork and commentary leaned sexual, featuring muscular male bodies and female heads.

Some commentators see parallels with Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was also reportedly involved in furry-related porn and subculture.

What’s fueling even more concern: why Crooks slipped under the radar. A former senior FBI agent, Rod Swanson, said Crooks may have already caught the bureau’s attention.

“If they investigated that kid there’s a record of it … but some leader made that this was not a threat … or they ‘did something else,’” Swanson told the Post.

Swanson’s remark hints that Crooks’ online extremism might not have been entirely secret — or that agencies misjudged its seriousness.

Angelina Jolie ‘Consumed by Guilt’ Over Bodyguard Being ‘Kidnapped’ by Ukraine Army and Forced Into War — ‘She Thinks It’s All Her Fault’

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Angelina Jolie is “devastated and guilt-ridden” after her Ukrainian bodyguard was detained by the army and conscripted into military service during her humanitarian visit to the war-torn country.

Sources close to the Hollywood star, 50, say she believes her presence may have inadvertently triggered the incident – with one insider calling it “a nightmare she can’t stop replaying.”

Jolie was traveling through southern Ukraine on November 5 as part of a UNICEF mission when her security escort, 33-year-old Dmytro Pyshchikov, was stopped at a military checkpoint in Pivdennoukrainsk.

Guards discovered he had no valid exemption from service and ordered him to the local Territorial Recruitment Center in Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region – the department overseeing enlistment for the ongoing defense against Russian forces.

His family has not heard from him since. (Read more from “Angelina Jolie ‘Consumed by Guilt’ Over Bodyguard Being ‘Kidnapped’ by Ukraine Army and Forced Into War — ‘She Thinks It’s All Her Fault’” HERE)

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Congressman, 71, Blames Elon For Looking at Dirty Pictures on Plane

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Rep. Brad Sherman blamed Elon Musk’s X algorithm for serving him saucy pictures amid a potential scandal involving him scrolling through softcore pornography in public.

The 71-year-old California Democrat was photographed looking at pictures of lingerie-clad girls on his tablet while on a flight. The pictures of Sherman were posted to X by the Dear White Staffers account, an account made of a “group of Capitol Hill staffers working to expose poor working conditions.” The images were later reposted by Donald Trump Jr.

As the images circulated on social media, John Bresnahan of Punchbowl News secured an interview with Rep. Sherman, who claimed the photos were served to him by X’s algorithm.

“This was on Twitter. These pictures came up on ‘For You.’ I must’ve looked at more than 1,000 posts,” Sherman said.

X’s “For You” tab is an algorithmically driven feed that shows users a mix of old and new tweets from a variety of accounts, including ones they don’t follow. According to Social Bee, the content served in a user’s “For You” tab is determined by a variety of factors. (Read more from “Congressman, 71, Blames Elon For Looking at Dirty Pictures on Plane” HERE)

‘Called Me A Traitor’: MTG Holds Trump’s Feet To The Fire Over Epstein Files, Honoring ‘Terrorist’

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Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that President Donald Trump calling her a “traitor” was “hurtful,” a sentiment she reflected on the president over the Jeffrey Epstein files and recently meeting with the Syrian president.

Greene tore into Trump over what she dubbed his administration’s “shocking” handling of the Epstein files on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.” This was her first interview since Trump announced he would not be supporting his longtime stalwart for reelection in Georgia’s Republican primary. The congresswoman, who clarified during the interview she still supports Trump, is one of four House Republicans to support a discharge petition to release files related to the deceased sex trafficker Epstein. In recent weeks, she also publicly spoke out about her break with the administration on their handling of the matter.

Greene told Bash the “most hurtful” thing Trump said to her “is he called me a traitor.”

“Which is absolutely untrue … and that is so extremely wrong. And those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger,” Greene said.

“I stood with President Trump when virtually no one else did,” she added. “Campaigned all over the country. Spent millions of my own dollars helping him get elected.”

“I do support him and his administration, and I support them in delivering the campaign promises we made to the American people. His remarks, of course, have been hurtful,” Greene said. “However, I have something in my heart that I think is incredibly important for our country, and that is to end the toxic fighting in politics. And this has been going on for years, and it has divided our country, split up friends and families, neighbors, and it’s not solving our problems.” (Read more from “‘Called Me A Traitor’: MTG Holds Trump’s Feet To The Fire Over Epstein Files, Honoring ‘Terrorist’” HERE)

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Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Bomb Threat

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A United Airlines flight on its way to Chicago was forced to make an emergency landing in Missouri Sunday after a passenger said there was a bomb in his wife’s luggage, according to reports and authorities.

United Flight 380 from Dallas to Chicago landed in St. Louis on Sunday morning due to a potential security concern, a United Airlines spokesperson said in a statement to The Post.

The plane was diverted to St. Louis Lambert International Airport around 8:40 a.m. after a man said there was a bomb in a piece of his wife’s luggage, sources told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The allegedly unwieldy man was arrested, the outlet said.

His identity or whether he has been charged is not immediately clear.

All 119 passengers were promptly evacuated and waited on the concourse upon landing, the airport’s director, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, told the outlet. (Read more from “Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Bomb Threat” HERE)

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Trump Reverses Course on Epstein Files: Supports Release After Previously Calling It a ‘Democrat Hoax’

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In a dramatic turnaround, President Donald Trump on Sunday called for House Republicans to support the full release of Jeffrey Epstein documents — a marked shift from his prior stance labeling the battle a left-wing “hoax.”

The surprise reversal came as the House neared a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bipartisan effort led by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Trump wrote on Truth Social: “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide.”

He doubled down, blaming his earlier criticism on what he called “Radical Left Lunatics” trying to distract from the Republican Party’s “great success.” But he also confirmed he wants a criminal-style investigation: he said he will ask the Department of Justice and the FBI to probe Epstein’s ties to major Democratic figures — including Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, and J.P. Morgan Chase — while notably leaving out any Republican names from his target list.

Newly Released Emails Raise Troubling Allegations

Trump’s shift follows a fresh eruption of documents from the House Oversight Committee, which on Wednesday released over 20,000 pages from Epstein’s estate. These files include damning statements in Epstein’s own emails, once shared with House Democrats, that appear to tie Trump more deeply to conversations about Epstein’s underage victims.

According to Factually, a fact-checking site, analysts reviewed the House Oversight Committee materials and estimated that Trump is mentioned in more than 1,600 of the 2,324 email threads in that batch.

In one 2011 exchange between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein writes:

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump … [Redacted] spent hours at my house with him … he has never once been mentioned. … im 75 % there.”

— Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwel

In a separate 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein states:

“Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

In a separate 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein states:

“Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

Trump’s reversal has raised eyebrows from both sides of the aisle. Critics say his change of heart comes only after the newly released documents make his past denials harder to sustain publicly.

The timing may also have political motives. Earlier in November, Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in secured the final signature needed to force a House floor vote on the Transparency Act — meaning Trump risks being on the wrong side of a formal congressional majority.

Nevertheless, Trump and his allies are pushing back. The White House dismissed the newly released emails as a politically driven leak, insisting the president has nothing to hide.

In a statement, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt argued that Democrats are “selectively leaking emails” to create bad-faith narratives, adding that Trump already distanced himself from Epstein years ago — and even kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago for inappropriate behavior.

With a House vote imminent and the pressure mounting, all eyes now turn to how many Republicans will side with Trump — or break from him. As he calls for renewed investigations into Epstein’s connections with powerful figures, his reversal draws fresh attention to exactly what kind of relationship he once had with the disgraced financier.

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MTG: Trump Calling Me a Traitor Puts ‘My Life in Danger’

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Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said President Donald Trump calling her a traitor put her life in danger.

Host Dana Bash, “As you just heard, and I know you saw, the president says he’s withdrawing support for you, encouraging primary challengers. You were one of his biggest supporters. What do you think happened here?”

Taylor Greene said, “I stood with President Trump when virtually no one else did, campaigned all over the country, spent millions of my own dollars helping him get elected. And I think that’s incredibly important. And I do support him and his administration. I support them in delivering the campaign promises we made to the American people. His remarks, of course, have been hurtful. However, I have something in my heart that I think is incredibly important for our country, and that is to end the toxic fighting in politics. This has been going on for years, and it has divided our country, split up friends and families, neighbors and it’s not solving our problems.” (Read more from “MTG: Trump Calling Me a Traitor Puts ‘My Life in Danger’” HERE)