The experts scoffed. Trump delivered.
Posted By: Mercedes44, 7/28/2025 3:13:26 PM
They warned that Wall Street would collapse. Instead, markets are hitting all-time highs. They forecast imminent recession. The probability has dropped to 18% and falling. They said no one would ever accept President Trump’s tariffs. The European Union just did; along with $750 billion in American energy purchases and $600 billion in pledged U.S.-bound investment. For years, the self-anointed class of global “experts”—from IMF bureaucrats to Brussels trade envoys to cable-news economists—insisted that President Trump’s worldview was outdated, his methods unsophisticated, his policies destined to fail. Instead, the transatlantic consensus is being restructured on his terms.
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French Prime Minister François Bayrou is criticizing the trade deal struck by President Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as an act of “submission” by the European Union (EU).
“It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, united to affirm their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,” Bayrou said in a post on social platform X early Monday. The agreement sets tariffs at 15 percent for European imports, including automobiles. That’s lower than the 30 percent tariff Trump had threatened to impose on the EU but higher than some European officials would have liked to see —
The Donald Trump-Russia collusion scandal that first broke in December 2016 and roared on until April 2019 has no parallel in our history — it’s not even close.
As president-elect and later as sitting president, Trump was accused by the country’s intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus of conspiring with a hostile power to subvert the 2016 election and sneak a crooked path to the White House.
Along the way, a damning Intelligence Community Assessment was issued, a major FBI investigation, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, targeted the president, and a special counsel, Robert Mueller, was granted a team of prosecutors and a budget of millions to bring the guilty to justice.
What to know about Israel’s claim that
UN has tons of food in Gaza that it won’t distribute 13 replies
UN has tons of food in Gaza that it won’t distribute 13 replies
Israel is blaming the UN for the lack of vital food deliveries to Gaza — as harrowing video captured hundreds of desperate Palestinians swarming aid trucks over the weekend.
Israel officials are hitting back at claims that they have delayed aid from coming into Gaza — sharing images of tons of aid piled up inside the Gaza Strip, which they said is just waiting to be delivered to hungry Palestinians.
Col. Abdullah Halabi, from the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), told reporters last week that around 1,000 truckloads of aid remain undelivered “due to a lack of cooperation from the international community and international organizations.”
How Far Will the Deep State Go?
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Once upon a time, there was a rock-ribbed conservative U.S. senator who tried mightily to get an über-conservative law passed but was met with great resistance by his liberal colleagues. This went on not for months, but for almost two years.
But he was so persistent and determined that those same resistant colleagues — and their lapdogs in the left-wing media — started to call him “bulldog” — even, at times, Senator Bulldog!
Then, one beautiful spring day, he was both astounded and delighted to learn that he had enough votes to pass his proposed law. The vote was to be taken shortly after the Senate came back from lunch.
The experts scoffed. Trump delivered.
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They warned that Wall Street would collapse. Instead, markets are hitting all-time highs.
They forecast imminent recession. The probability has dropped to 18% and falling.
They said no one would ever accept President Trump’s tariffs. The European Union just did; along with $750 billion in American energy purchases and $600 billion in pledged U.S.-bound investment.
For years, the self-anointed class of global “experts”—from IMF bureaucrats to Brussels trade envoys to cable-news economists—insisted that President Trump’s worldview was outdated, his methods unsophisticated, his policies destined to fail. Instead, the transatlantic consensus is being restructured on his terms.
Ghislaine Maxwell makes long-shot Supreme
Court bid to overturn sex trafficking conviction 3 replies
Court bid to overturn sex trafficking conviction 3 replies
Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell formally appealed to the Supreme Court Monday to toss out her 2021 federal sex trafficking conviction, arguing that their client is covered by a controversial 2007 plea agreement Epstein reached with South Florida prosecutors.
“Rather than grapple with the core principles of plea agreements, the government tries to distract by reciting a lurid and irrelevant account of Jeffrey Epstein’s misconduct,” Maxwell’s husband-and-wife legal team, David Oscar and Mona Markus, wrote in their petition.
“But this case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did.”
President Trump said Monday he will move up the deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop his invasion of Ukraine from its original 50 days — one day after telling The Post’s Miranda Devine “there’s no reason to wait that long.”
“I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10 to 12 days from today,” Trump told reporters at his Turnberry club in Scotland while meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump, 79, originally gave Putin 50 days from July 14 to bring the invasion of Russia’s western neighbor to a close and work out a peace agreement or face additional economic punishment.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said a “full military effort by Israel to take Gaza down, like we did in Tokyo and Berlin” is coming in “days and weeks.”Host Kristen Welker said, “President Trump said he told Prime Minister Netanyahu to quote finish the job this week. I know that you are in touch with President Trump, you’re in touch with Israeli officials. What are you anticipating in is going to happen next?”
Graham said, “Well, I talked to Cindy McCain last night. Here’s some good news for the people in Gaza, humanitarian quarters are now going to be open.
Did you hear the good news? Some top Democrats finally are finding the courage to slam Zohran Mamdani’s sickening embrace of antisemitism.
Sadly, the news comes with a catch: the big Dems doing the right thing are not from New York.
A reasonable conclusion is that the continuing silence from Gov. Hochul, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries means they are fine with the fact that their party’s nominee to be New York City’s next mayor is a bigot.
If ever there was an example of party loyalty being a vice and not a virtue, this is it. The silence is outrageous.
A "Republican study group" is looking at options for another One Big Beautiful Bill. The first OBBB was massive, wide-ranging, and, as we might expect, it passed through House and Senate by a narrow margin. But it's done now - so what might be in a second OBBB?At this point, we'd only be speculating as to what might be in a second OBBB (hopefully more defunding), but the winds would seem to be at the backs of the president and the GOP in Congress. The question is how much they can get done before the midterms.
That seems to be the operating assumption of the RSC.
Deflect, Distract, but Game’s Up!
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The great Satchel Paige once said, “Don’t look back -- something may be gaining on you.” Well, I think for Barack Obama and his cohort, something is gaining on them, and so, too, I believe it is happening now for those who engaged with Jeffrey Epstein in his illicit activities. Stuff kept hidden by the wrongdoers in the Obama and Biden administrations is coming to light, and you can expect they will amp up their deflection and distraction moves to keep the focus off what they did.
LA home linked to ‘TikTok cult’ pastor
seen in Netflix docuseries raided in sex-trafficking probe 3 replies
seen in Netflix docuseries raided in sex-trafficking probe 3 replies
Federal agents descended upon a California home connected to the “TikTok Cult” pastor who was the subject of a recent Netflix documentary series Friday — as part of an investigation into sex trafficking and other criminal claims.
Several people were detained after a Tujunga home partially owned by Pastor Robert Shinn was raided by agents from the FBI, IRS, US Postal Service and Department of Labor, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Officials served warrants related to allegations of sex trafficking, money laundering, mail fraud, tax evasion and COVID-19-related fraud, according to the outlet.
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French Prime Minister François Bayrou is criticizing the trade deal struck by President Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as an act of “submission” by the European Union (EU).
“It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, united to affirm their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,” Bayrou said in a post on social platform X early Monday. The agreement sets tariffs at 15 percent for European imports, including automobiles. That’s lower than the 30 percent tariff Trump had threatened to impose on the EU but higher than some European officials would have liked to see —
The political left will never recover from Trump Derangement Syndrome. President Donald Trump could put the economy on a perpetual growth path, stop World War III, bring permanent peace to the Middle East, resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict and in his spare time cure cancer and put a man on Mars, and the Democrats and progressives would still blindly hate him. Would the Republicans and conservatives who have battered and cursed him since 2015 continue to bitterly disapprove of him, as well?
Trump has had an extraordinary run so far. An AI analysis by Newsweek says the first six months of Trump’s second term “have been the most
The United Kingdom will recognize a Palestinian state if Israel does not agree to a ceasefire and move toward peace in Gaza by September, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned Tuesday.
Starmer made the announcement during a press conference on Tuesday, just a day after meeting with President Donald Trump in Scotland and discussing the Israel-Hamas war and the hunger crisis in Gaza.
"I can confirm that the U.K. will recognize the State of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, unless
CNN’s Erin Burnett is being skewered for reporting that the gunman who opened fire in a Midtown skyscraper — killing an NYPD cop and three others — was “possibly white” after viewing the initial security footage released immediately after Shane Tamura’s deadly rampage. In the photos first shared online, Tamura, 27, was captured in broad daylight walking into 345 Park Ave. with a Palmetto State Armory AR-15 rifle in his hand. Burnett said police knew the gunman had “sunglasses, mustache, male, possibly white” during a broadcast shortly after the shooting Monday evening.
NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdami
addresses Midtown mass shooting from Uganda compound 15 replies
addresses Midtown mass shooting from Uganda compound 15 replies
Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani addressed the mass shooting at a Park Avenue office building while at his family’s private compound in Uganda, where he is celebrating his wedding. “I’m heartbroken to learn of the horrific shooting in midtown and I am holding the victims, their families, and the NYPD officer in critical condition in my thoughts,” Mamdani wrote in a post to X. (Snip) Mamdani is in Uganda celebrating his nuptials at a heavily guarded private compound in the wealthy Buziga Hill area outside the capital city, Kampala. Police said four people were shot dead — including married
As President Donald Trump marks six months into his second term — celebrating triumphs like ending numerous wars, slashing job-killing regulations, making tax cuts permanent, and signing over 140 executive orders to revive America's energy independence and economy — one persistent swamp creature threatens to derail it all.
In the depths of the “Washington swamp,” few figures embody the betrayal of true conservative values like Senator Lindsey Graham. Once a vocal critic of Donald Trump, Graham flipped like a pancake after the MAGA-leader took over the Oval office — raising eyebrows and fueling theories that he's been “activated” by shadowy forces.
The Donald Trump-Russia collusion scandal that first broke in December 2016 and roared on until April 2019 has no parallel in our history — it’s not even close.
As president-elect and later as sitting president, Trump was accused by the country’s intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus of conspiring with a hostile power to subvert the 2016 election and sneak a crooked path to the White House.
Along the way, a damning Intelligence Community Assessment was issued, a major FBI investigation, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, targeted the president, and a special counsel, Robert Mueller, was granted a team of prosecutors and a budget of millions to bring the guilty to justice.
The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed repealing the federal government’s bedrock scientific declaration on the dangers of greenhouse gases — a move that would run afoul of decades of research and topple most of the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate regulations.
The rollback is the most audacious attempt yet by President Donald Trump to undo federal restrictions on fossil fuels. The so-called endangerment finding, which the Obama administration issued in 2009
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is a barrel of laughs. She’s feisty and doesn’t take any crap from the GOP. She’s perfectly willing to allow her detractors to view her as mentally ill. She’s ready to deliver haymakers—the problem is that her trainer is trash. The Atlantic did a lengthy profile piece on the Democratic congresswoman, some of which is run-of-the-mill Americana: she was educated privately, reportedly subjected to racism in college, got interested in the law because of those incidents, and went about building her profile by defending Black Lives Matter defendants. She had a brief stint in the Texas legislature before sharking her way up to Congress.
The gunman who killed four people before turning the gun on himself, identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, was trying to target the National Football League headquarters, NYC Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday. Investigators believe Tamura mistakenly took the wrong elevator, leading him to Rudin Management instead, Adams told NewsNation local affiliate WPIX. Tamura reportedly had a three-page suicide note inside his pocket, which claimed he had a brain injury from a contact sport and blamed the NFL. Tamura, who played high school football, reportedly wanted his brain studied after his death. An official motive has not yet been released.
What to know about Israel’s claim that
UN has tons of food in Gaza that it won’t distribute 13 replies
UN has tons of food in Gaza that it won’t distribute 13 replies
Israel is blaming the UN for the lack of vital food deliveries to Gaza — as harrowing video captured hundreds of desperate Palestinians swarming aid trucks over the weekend.
Israel officials are hitting back at claims that they have delayed aid from coming into Gaza — sharing images of tons of aid piled up inside the Gaza Strip, which they said is just waiting to be delivered to hungry Palestinians.
Col. Abdullah Halabi, from the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), told reporters last week that around 1,000 truckloads of aid remain undelivered “due to a lack of cooperation from the international community and international organizations.”
If you thought you’d seen theatrics in the United States Senate before, buckle up. Cory Booker, ever the drama king (queen?) from New Jersey, turned what should have been a routine discussion over a police funding bill into a one-man Broadway show, complete with finger-pointing at his own party and impassioned diatribes about the imminent descent of the country into authoritarian chaos. That’s right, one of the Senate’s most reliably emotional voices managed to deliver another performance that all but confirmed the absence of meaningful leadership and unity among Democrats.
Booker’s tirade began with a familiar refrain: