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Who Is Trump’s Nominee To Lead One Of The Most Powerful Institutions In America?

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President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is nominating Kevin Warsh to be the next Federal Reserve chairman, replacing Jerome Powell, whose term ends in May.

Warsh worked as an aide to former President George W. Bush, who later appointed him to the board of the Federal Reserve. The youngest ever Fed governor, Warsh served in that position from 2006 to 2011. He also previously worked as a mergers and acquisitions specialist at Morgan Stanley, and during his tenure as a Fed governor, served as a liaison between the central bank and Wall Street. He helped arrange the government’s bailout of insurance giant AIG.

The most important thing we need to know about Warsh’s background is where he stands on monetary policy, inflation, and interest rates. And, the fact that he was dead wrong about the housing market in the lead-up to the 2008/2009 Financial Crisis. . .

Roughly, the Fed hawks believe that keeping inflation low and prices stable is absolutely paramount to the U.S. economy. The Fed doves, on the other hand, are more loose with monetary policy, and believe that spurring economic and job growth by lowering interest rates and making money easier to borrow should take precedent over keeping inflation low. This dove policy is known as Quantitative Easing.

In the fallout from the 2008/2009 financial crisis, Warsh had sought to keep then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a dove par excellence, at arm’s length.

In November 2010, the Fed voted on Quantitative Easing 2 to buy large amounts of treasuries, lower long-term interest rates, and re-purchase mortgage-backed securities that went bust during the housing crisis. Of course, juicing the economy by creating money out of thin air runs the risk of high inflation. Warsh voted for QE2, yet days after he wrote in The Wall Street Journal that strategy should be “necessarily limited, circumscribed and subject to regular review.” (Read more from “Who Is Trump’s Nominee To Lead One Of The Most Powerful Institutions In America?” HERE)

DOJ Removes New Epstein Files That Mention Wild Trump Allegations, Including Rape; Justice Department Says Files Include ‘Untrue and Sensationalist Claims Against President Trump’

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By Mediaite. Among the latest Epstein files dump is a list of wild complaints made with the FBI that include wild allegations against President Donald Trump and others from uncorroborated tips. . .

It should be noted that these complaints are uncorroborated tips to the FBI, and the existence of those tips does not indicate eventual credibility. . .

Since their original publication, the complaints mentioning Trump have been removed from the DOJ website with a “page not found” message being given to people trying to search for them. The complaints, however, have been widely copied and shared on social media.

CNN’s Jake Tapper was among those who noted the DOJ pulling the files.

In a complaint made by a friend, the president was accused of forcing a 13-14-year-old to perform oral sex on him. (Read more from “DOJ Removes New Epstein Files That Mention Wild Trump Allegations, Including Rape” HERE)

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New Epstein Files Dump Includes Alleged Request From Elon Musk to Visit Jeffrey Epstein’s Infamous Island

By Mediaite. Friday’s release of 3.5 million additional documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes included an alleged request from Elon Musk to visit Epstein over the holidays in 2013. . .

A search of the documents for “Elon Musk” revealed multiple emails to and from [email protected], which was known to be Epstein’s private email address.

Elon Musk’s name appearing in the files does not necessarily indicate any wrongdoing.

In one email exchange on Dec. 14, 2013 with a subject line “Christmas and New Year’s,” Musk allegedly wrote, “Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?”

Epstein’s account answered several hours later, “I will send a heli for you. Sorry for all the typos..Sent from my iPhone.” (Read more from “ew Epstein Files Dump Includes Alleged Request From Elon Musk to Visit Jeffrey Epstein’s Infamous Island” HERE)

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Justice Department Says Files Include ‘Untrue and Sensationalist Claims Against President Trump’

By The Guardian. On Friday, as Trump’s justice department moved to comply, at least in part, with the law by releasing millions of files from the federal investigations into Epstein, it has released at least some unverified allegations against him from those files.

One of the documents getting the most attention online is an email from 2020 that includes uncorroborated tips about Trump’s own alleged involvement with Epstein’s victims that were made to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center.

The document, which was briefly inaccessible after it was posted, has been described as “incriminating Trump” by some critics, but the justice department provided a statement to the Guardian calling these uncorroborated tips “fake”.

Here is the justice department statement to the Guardian:

This production may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos, as everything that was sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production that is responsive to the Act. Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.

(Read more from “Justice Department Says Files Include ‘Untrue and Sensationalist Claims Against President Trump’” HERE)

Trump Warns Iran: Make Nuclear Deal or Face ‘Far Worse’ Attack as ‘Massive Armada’ Nears — ‘Time Is Running Out’

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President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that “a massive armada” led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is moving toward Iran and that the regime’s “time is running out” to make a nuclear deal — or face a U.S. strike far worse than the one carried out last summer.

Writing on Truth Social, Trump said the armada is “moving quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose,” describing it as a larger fleet than the force previously sent to Venezuela and one “ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary.”

Trump urged Tehran to “come to the table” and negotiate a deal, warning that time is “truly of the essence,” and making clear that failure to do so would bring severe consequences.

The warning explicitly referenced past military action. Trump said Iran ignored an earlier demand to make a deal, which was followed by “Operation Midnight Hammer,” adding that “the next attack will be far worse.”

Operation Midnight Hammer refers to the June 22, 2025 U.S. strikes at the end of the 12-day war, when B-2 bombers dropped 12 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators — bunker-buster bombs — on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, while a U.S. submarine fired 30 Tomahawk missiles at the Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites. (Read more from “Trump Warns Iran: Make Nuclear Deal or Face ‘Far Worse’ Attack as ‘Massive Armada’ Nears — ‘Time Is Running Out’” HERE)

Trump ‘Amazed’ Gavin Newsom’s Running for President — and Issues Withering Two-Word Putdown

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President Trump is stunned that Gov. Gavin Newsom is considering running for the White House, noting how badly the Golden State is being run under the “incompetent” Democrat’s leadership.

“I’m amazed Gavin wants to run for office,” Trump told The California Post Friday in an Oval Office interview after his administration sued California over sanctuary policies, accused the state of fraud and clawed back federal funding. . .

“People love the dream of California, but they hate what’s happening to them,” Trump said.

The state needs “proper leadership,” he said, arguing they are not getting it with their current governor.

“Gavin’s incompetent,” he said. (Read more from “Trump ‘Amazed’ Gavin Newsom’s Running for President — and Issues Withering Two-Word Putdown” HERE)

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Trump Says Administration Is ‘Reviewing Everything’ About Fatal Shooting of Alex Pretti, Says Fed Agents Will Leave Minneapolis ‘At Some Point’

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President Trump said his administration is reviewing the fatal shooting of an armed ICU nurse who was protesting ICE in Minneapolis before Border Patrol agents shot him dead in the street.

“We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal in a five-minute phone call Sunday night, without providing his own ruling on whether the actions of the officer who shot the anti-ICE protester were justified.

“I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it,” Trump added during the call. “But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either.”

The slain protester, 37-year-old Alex Pretti, was carrying a loaded pistol during the fatal confrontation with federal agents. He had a concealed carry permit, according to Minnesota officials.

Trump called Pretti’s gun — a Sig Sauer P320 9mm pistol — a “very dangerous gun, a dangerous and unpredictable gun. It’s a gun that goes off when people don’t know it.” (Read more from “Trump Says Administration Is ‘Reviewing Everything’ About Fatal Shooting of Alex Pretti, Says Fed Agents Will Leave Minneapolis ‘At Some Point’” HERE)

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Trump Reveals Secret ‘Discombobulator’ Weapon Was Crucial to Venezuelan Raid, Capture of Maduro

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President Trump told The Post that a secret new weapon he calls “The Discombobulator” was essential to the daring US raid that captured Venezuela’s drug-dealing dictator Nicolas Maduro.

Trump boasted that the mysterious weapon “made [enemy] equipment not work” when US helicopters swooped into Caracas on Jan. 3 to arrest Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on federal drug and weapons charges — without losing a single American life.

“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said during an exclusive interview in the Oval Office.

“I would love to,” the president added, before confirming its use in the stealth operation.

“They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.”

Trump commented on the weapon when asked about reports this week that the Biden administration purchased a pulsed energy weapon suspected of being the type that caused “Havana Syndrome.” (Read more from “Trump Reveals Secret ‘Discombobulator’ Weapon Was Crucial to Venezuelan Raid, Capture of Maduro” HERE)

Trump Tells Europe To Put Its Big Boy Pants On

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Every year, world leaders and world leader wannabes gather in Davos to congratulate themselves on their commitment to globalization, or shutting down coal plants, or anti-racism, or whatever.

The Davos summit is the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), a think tank founded by Klaus Schwab. Davos claims it is “committed to improving the state of the world.” Certainly, European WEF members would like to think they’re improving the state of the world — even as they plunge their native countries into crisis.

President Donald Trump has interrupted the self-indulgent theatrics with typical Trump panache.

The Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent, Byron York, summarized Trump’s message to Europe in four points.

In the first place, “Trump told Europe: You’re killing yourself with mass migration. Stop.” Migration remains a top issue for European leaders and voters, with countries competing to take less migrants than their neighbors.

In the second place, Trump told the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), “You’ve got to spend more on your own defense.” (Read more from “Trump Tells Europe To Put Its Big Boy Pants On” HERE)

‘It Was Terrible Judgment’: Famous Singer Says He Regrets Vile Comment About Trump

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Tenacious D’s Kyle Gass expressed deep regret after joking about the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at a concert in 2024.

He admitted to causing a “shitstorm” after making an ill-timed comment on stage soon after a bullet grazed Trump and left him bloodied.

On July 14, 2024, Tenacious D, the comedy rock group Gass co-founded with Jack Black, performed at the ICC Sydney Theatre. It also happened to be Gass’ birthday.

Gass said he had heard the news of the attempted assassination, but he admitted the reality of the situation didn’t sink in, according to an interview with Rolling Stone published Wednesday.

A cake was brought to the stage during the concert and when asked to make a wish, Gass said, “Don’t miss Trump next time!”

“It was a very low moment for me,” Gass admitted.

(Read more from “‘It Was Terrible Judgment’: Famous Singer Says He Regrets Vile Comment About Trump” HERE)

Trump Says a ‘Massive’ Armada Is Heading Toward Iran

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President Trump said Thursday that the US has an “armada” headed toward Iran — but that “maybe we won’t have to use it” — as he remained coy about his intentions after authorities slaughtered protesters this month.

“We have a lot of ships going that direction just in case. We have a big flotilla going in that direction. And we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

On Tuesday, the USS Abraham Lincoln, which had been in the South China Sea in recent days, was spotted making its way to the region, according to ship-tracking data.

The aircraft carrier and three accompanying destroyers were all confirmed to be heading west, a US Navy official told the Associated Press.

The USS George H.W. Bush is also at sea in the Atlantic Ocean – bound for Europe – after departing from Virginia’s Naval Station Norfolk last week.

The aircraft carrier is conducting “live-fire exercises” and other training activities, per a post on the ship’s official Facebook page. (Read more from “Trump Says a ‘Massive’ Armada Is Heading Toward Iran” HERE)

Study: Murders in U.S. Plummeted During First Year of Trump’s Second Term

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A study conducted by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) shows that murders in the U.S. plummeted during 2025, the first year of President Trump’s second term.

According to the study, “The rate of reported homicides was 21% lower in 2025 than in 2024 in the 35 study cities providing data for that crime.” In raw numbers, this means approximately 922 fewer homicides in 2025 versus 2024.

The CCJ believe that FBI data, which will be released later this year, may show 2025 had “the lowest…[homicide] rate ever recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900.”

The researchers behind the study also looked at violent crime and found “violent crime overall in 2025 was at or below levels in 2019.”

The CCJ suggests the lower numbers are “likely the result of a complex tangle of broad social and technological changes and direct policy interventions.” (Read more from “Study: Murders in U.S. Plummeted During First Year of Trump’s Second Term” HERE)

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