Mike Benz: How The CIA Works Through National Endowment For Democracy
(Yes the Senate still wants to fund them, for obvious reasons, they are all traitors)
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Georges: “They Guise It That It’s Serving The Better Public Purpose.”
Georges On NJ Land Seizure That’s Uniting Voters. The left is doing worse things in President Trump's second term to derail the direction of America
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Bannon BLASTS Senator Thune: Predicts Late September Omnibus PACKED With Federal SpendingThe Senate Republicans are not allies of Trump, they always do sneaky things in the end.
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https://rumble.com/embed/v6up8uq/?pub=4
Antoni On 3% Growth: “GDP Report Is An Absolute Blockbuster, Completely Defies Expectations.”
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https://rumble.com/embed/v6up7wy/?pub=4
Donald Trump’s tariff blitz brings US levies to highest levels since 1930s
Washington has locked in tariffs on almost 45% of American imports
Aime Williams in Washington and Alan Smith, Jonathan Vincent and Emily Herbert in London
Donald Trump has pushed US tariffs on foreign goods to the highest level since before the second world war as he enacts his sweeping protectionist agenda. The wall of levies announced by the president since he took office again in January has takenthe country’s effective tariff level to an estimated 17.3 per cent, according to Yale University’s Budget Lab.
The figure, incorporating the latest deal agreed with the EU at the weekend, brings the total US levies close to the 20 per cent last seen during the widespread tariff increases in the years after the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act.
Trump’s time in office has been marked by tariff threats followed by climbdowns and reversals,but he has by this point made agreements that lock in high levies on almost 45 per cent of all US imports. That tariff wall threatens to trigger a reordering of global trade.“Trump has engineered a new era of US trade protectionism that will eventually reverberate through the entire global trading system,” said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy and economics at Cornell University.
The chaotic rollout of Trump’s trade policy has been marked by a series of U-turns, as well as exemptions for critical products and sectors, as countries rushed to negotiate with Washington. In April, Trump was forced to suspend the highest levels of his “reciprocal” tariffs after roiling global stock markets and triggering a sharp sell-off in US Treasuries.
Since starting his second term as president,he has struck limited deals or offered substantial carve-outs to countries covering 60 per cent of the US imports that had been subject to the reciprocal tariffs, blunting the full force of the highest levies he had threatened. This excludes imports from Mexico and Canada, which are affected by a separate tariff regime Trump said was aimed at tackling fentanyl trafficking and border security.
The deal with the EU is the largest in a series of rapid agreements hailed by Trump, although the deals with six countries plus Brusselsfall short of the president’s goal of 90 deals over his 90-day reciprocal pause. Alongside the bloc, Trump has offered reprieves to the UK, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and Vietnam.
Markets have reacted buoyantly to those deals, while world leaders hailed them: Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, called the EU’s agreement a “breakthrough” that delivered “certainty in uncertain times”. Yet they have left the countries concerned facing far steeper tariffs on their goods than before the start of Trump’s second term.
The US’s effective tariff rate of 17.3 per cent, according to the latest Yale estimate, is the highest since 1935, when the rate was 17.5 per cent. This number could rise further if Trump carries out his threat to impose the full reciprocal tariffs on countries that fail to strike a deal with him by August 1. Alan Wolff, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said the tariffs would cause “shifts of patterns in trade” as some companies move supply chains.
“The US, the world’s best market in Trump’s view, is now not as good as it was. Companies may look for other places to sell their goods, where their access has not been impaired.” Of the agreements Trump has reached, joint written statements or texts have only been produced for the deals with the UK and Indonesia, while some of the deals have featured differing accounts of the details between the two sides.
While Trump heralded the London talks as a “deal”,the two countries have made no progress resolving the fundamental economic and trade differences that existed before Trump started his trade war.
Investors have welcomed the spate of US tariff agreements, betting that the threat of a full-scale trade war has been averted. Stocks in the US, Europe and Japan have all touched record highs in recent days, capping a rapid comeback from April’s market rout. “It’s all just relief,” said Gerry Fowler, head of European equities strategy at UBS. “A deal is better than no deal.”
He said markets displayed relief at a reduction in risk for the first few days after a deal, “but then the market turns back to fundamentals”. In the case of the EU deal, “15 per cent will have a material impact on earnings, and there is going to be a tariff factor coming through in earnings revisions for the next six months”, Fowler said.
The US currency remains nearly 10 per cent lower against a basket of rivals this year, despite a 0.8 per cent rebound on Monday.
https://archive.is/Ojm6U#selection-1891.0-5723.43
Gov Palacios of Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands DEAD After Calling For CCP Corruption Inv.
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Life of Secrets
Tina Brown Jul 29, 20251/2
Even if Ghislaine Maxwell did pull something out of her mental basket of deplorables and heaped sexual calumnies on leading Democrats and said that Trump didn’t write that birthday message to Epstein, why would anyone believe her? In a break from the usual DOJ protocol, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went himself to interview Ghislaine in Tallahassee, where she’s serving her 20-year sentence, but he is hardly well versed in her complex history of contortions and excuses or,as federal prosecutors put it, “her willingness to brazenly lie under oath.”
The reason why Ghislaine has never spilled what she knows before is that she has always pretended she doesn’t know anything. In a 2016 deposition for a defamation suit filed against her by the late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, Ghislaine said, “I never saw any inappropriate underage activity with Jeffrey, ever.” That deposition led to two perjury charges against Ghislaine that were dropped only after her conviction on five federal charges of sex trafficking, which she has always denied.
The more knowledge she shows now of illegal depravities she witnessed as Epstein’s wing woman, the more she reveals her own culpability and her own dishonesty in the past. Maxwell missed every opportunity to flip on Epstein, but, as Giuffre’s lawyer David Boies put it to me, Ghislaine “had skated by so long, she may have believed she was above the law.” Epstein’s inconvenient and mysterious death in his cell at the MCC in August 2019 achieved the worst possible outcome for Ghislaine. She became the stand-in for the most notorious pedophile in the world, and would pay not just her price, but his.
Monster Daddy
Darkness and fakery have followed Ghislaine all her life. American audiences are less aware than the Brits what an outsize figure her father, the press baron and publisher Robert Maxwell, was in London. With his bellowing voice, huge car-wash-brush eyebrows, and shock of inky black hair,he bestrode the UK social and political scene, bullying journalists, employees, and his family of nine children, whom he used to ritually humiliate, one after the next, at Sunday lunch.
He turned Oxfordshire into West Egg, hosting glittering parties with his French wife at his 51-room mansion Headington Hill Hall. Ghislaine, the youngest, was the vivacious star of the family and the toast of Balliol College at Oxford. Her father named his £15 million yacht “The Lady Ghislaine.” She was always on the mountainous Maxwell’s arm, at birthday parties for Elton John, football matches, and media salons, and was dispatched by him to New York when he bought the Daily News to sweeten his path as social ambassador.Pleasing him and winning his attention was Ghislaine’s abiding obsession.
In the course of writing The Palace Papers, my 2022 book on the royal family, I came across a shocking story in a memoir by Eleanor Berry, daughter of the then-Daily Telegraph owner Lord Hartwell.Berry tells how, at the age of ten, Ghislaine invited her to come upstairs and see her bedroom. Berry noticed an odd-shaped hairbrush, a strap, a slipper, and other implements laid out on the child’s dressing room table. Ghislaine proudly said,“This is what Daddy uses to beat me with. But he always allows me to choose which one I want.”This sadistic offering of power to the powerless—her father asking her, in essence, to procure herself for him— makes it more understandable how susceptible she would be to the twisted machinations of Jeffrey Epstein.
https://tinabrown.substack.com/p/ghislaine-maxwells-life-of-secrets
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Groomer and Charmer
It’s doubly ironic that Robert Maxwell’s death was as shrouded in mystery as Jeffrey Epstein’s. In 1991, Ghislaine’s Zeus-like father disappeared in the dead of night off the side of his yacht, into the waters off the Canary Islands, and was found floating stark naked the next day. Whether it was a suicide, an accident, or a murder has never been fully resolved. After his death,it was revealed he had stolen £460 million from the Mirror Group’s pension fund, robbing his own employees. Ghislaine, the pampered daddy’s girl, was now the offspring of a posthumous pariah, a fall from grace that forever traumatized her.Shortly after, she fled to New York to reinvent herselfas a fashionable Upper East Side socialite.
Ghislaine, like her father, was a pretender, desperate for recognition, and, in her childhood terrors, had absorbed his perversity. Her own affair with Epstein, when she first arrived in New York, was brief. She was never his physical type, to her anguish, but she built her indispensability in his life by finding him the teenage girls who were. With her charm and her connections, one could argue it was Ghislaine who industrialized Epstein’s hitherto amateurish predator MO.
In Virginia Giuffre’s unpublished memoir, Billionaire’s Playboy Club, which was submitted as evidence in her lawsuit against Ghislaine,she tells how she first met Ghislaine when she was working as a 16-year-old locker room girl at Mar-a-Lago in the summer of 2000. Giuffre recalls that she was reading a primer about massage therapy when she was approached by a tall, poised woman with a cut-glass English accent, who mentioned she knew a rich guy who was looking for a traveling masseuse. The career opportunity turned out to be more than a back rub. The depraved complicity between Epstein and Ghislaine was immediately clear to Giuffre when she joined them at his Palm Beach mansion.She alleges that Epstein and Ghislaine laughed together as Ghislaine removed Giuffre’s bra and “love-heart” panties. Ghislaine, she says, demonstrated how Epstein liked to have his nipples pinched, and instructed her to straddle him “until he finished.” He apparently approved of Virginia’s performance. “She’s a keeper,” Giuffre says he told Ghislaine after they showered, according to Giuffre’s attorney Brad Edwards.
In the 2016 deposition, when asked about her alleged role in procuring girls for Epstein’s sexual pleasure,Ghislaine retorted, “I totally resent and find it disgusting you use the word recruit.”The late investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein, who often socialized with Maxwell, told me how, one evening in the aughts, he saw her recruiting style in action. At a dinner with friends at Elio’s restaurant in Manhattan, a twittering party of lissome teenage models was hanging out at the bar.Halfway through dinner, Ghislaine disappeared. “Where did she go?” Ed Epstein asked another guest at the table. “She’s getting their phone numbers,” the guest said. “For Jeffrey.”
Caged Animal
Ghislaine and Epstein parted ways around 2009, but Ghislaine seemed to know her past would catch up with her. In 2010, at a dinner in New Orleans, The Daily Beast’s then west coast editor Gabé Doppelt found herself seated next to Ghislaine. Doppelt asked her what it was like to “be [Ghislaine] right now.” According to Doppelt, Ghislaine picked up a pat of butter, rolled it into a ball, and proceeded to squash it flat with her fist. “Like that,” she replied, with agonized ferocity.
https://tinabrown.substack.com/p/ghislaine-maxwells-life-of-secrets
This is nauseating even reading this.
U.S. sanctions Brazilian judge targeted by Trump over Bolsonaro case
Published Wed, Jul 30 20251:23 PM EDTU Dan Mangan@_DanMangan
Key Points
• The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
• De Moraes has been a target of criticism by President Donald Trump for his handling of legal cases involving former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
• Trump’s social media company, Trump Media, sued de Moraes earlier this year.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has been a target of criticism by President Donald Trump for his handling of legal cases involving former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
The sanctions come five months after Trump’s social media company, Trump Media, sued de Moraes for over an order by the justice to the video hosting company Rumble to suspend the accounts of a “well-known politically outspoken user” of Rumble, whose services Trump Media uses.
They also come two days before Trump has said he will impose tariffs of 50% on imports from Brazil, which Trump says are partly in retaliation for the ongoing criminal prosecution of Bolsonaro, an ally of his.
De Moraes last year drew the ire of mega-billionaire Elon Musk, who at the time was a close ally over Trump, by blocking Musk’s X social media platform nationwide in Brazil for failing to comply with orders banning some user accounts and to remove certain content.
“Alexandre de Moraes has taken it upon himself to be judge and jury in an unlawful witch hunt against U.S. and Brazilian citizens and companies,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a statement Wednesday announcing the sanctions, which would block any property de Moraes might have in the United States.
“De Moraes is responsible for an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights, and politicized prosecutions — including against former President Jair Bolsonaro,” Bessent said.
“Today’s action makes clear that Treasury will continue to hold accountable those who threaten U.S. interests and the freedoms of our citizens.”
The Washington Post on July 17 reported that Eduardo Bolsonaro, a son of Bolsonaro, was “working closely with the White House to impose sanctions on” de Moraes. Eduardo Bolsonaro is a federal congressman in Brazil.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/trump-brazil-judge-sanctions-bolsonaro.html
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WASHINGTON —Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes (de Moraes), who has used his position to authorize arbitrary pre-trial detentions and suppress freedom of expression.
“Alexandre de Moraes has taken it upon himself to be judge and jury in an unlawful witch hunt against U.S. and Brazilian citizens and companies,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “De Moraes is responsible for an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights, and politicized prosecutions—including against former President Jair Bolsonaro. Today’s action makes clear that Treasury will continue to hold accountable those who threaten U.S. interests and the freedoms of our citizens.”
Today’s action is being taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which builds upon and implements theGlobal Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and targets perpetrators of serious human rights abuse around the world. Today’s action follows theU.S. Department of State’s revocation of de Moraes’s visa and those of his immediate family members on July 18, 2025, for their complicity in aiding and abetting de Moraes’ unlawful censorship campaign against U.S. persons on U.S. soil.
DE MORAES’ ABUSIVE JUDICIAL OVERREACH=
De Moraes was appointed to the STF in 2017. Since that time, de Moraes has become one of Brazil’s most powerful individuals, wielding immense authority through his oversight of expansive STF investigations. De Moraes has investigated, prosecuted, and suppressed those who have engaged in speech that is protected under the U.S. Constitution, repeatedly subjecting victims to long preventive detentions without bringing charges. Through his actions as an STF justice, de Moraes has undermined Brazilians’ and Americans’ rights to freedom of expression. In one notable instance, de Moraes arbitrarily detained a journalist for over a year in retaliation for exercising freedom of expression.
De Moraes has targeted opposition politicians, including former President Jair Bolsonaro; journalists; newspapers; U.S. social media platforms; and other U.S. and international companies. U.S.-based journalists and U.S. citizens have not been spared from de Moraes’ extraterritorial overreach. De Moraes has imposed preventive detention on and issued a series of preventive arrest warrants against journalists and social media users, some of whom are based in the United States. He has also directly issued orders to U.S. social media companies to block or remove hundreds of accounts, often those of his critics and other critics of the Brazilian government, including U.S. persons. De Moraes has frozen assets and revoked passports of his critics; banned accounts from social media; and directed Brazil’s federal police to raid his critics’ homes, seize their belongings, and ensure their preventive detention.
De Moraes is being sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 13818 for being a foreign person who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse.
GLOBAL MAGNITSKY
Building upon the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, E.O. 13818 was issued on December 20, 2017, in recognition that the prevalence of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, had reached such scope and gravity as to threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets.The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuses or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuseby these same persons.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0211
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SANCTIONS IMPLICATIONS
As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the designated or blocked person described above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked. Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt, OFAC’s regulations generally prohibit all transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of blocked persons.
Violations of U.S. sanctions may result in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties on U.S. and foreign persons. OFAC may impose civil penalties for sanctions violations on a strict liability basis. OFAC’s Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines provide more information regarding OFAC’s enforcement of U.S. economic sanctions. In addition, financial institutions and other persons may risk exposure to sanctions for engaging in certain transactions or activities involving designated or otherwise blocked persons.
The prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any designated or blocked person, or the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
The power and integrity of OFAC sanctions derive not only from OFAC’s ability to designate and add persons to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List), but also from its willingness to remove persons from the SDN List consistent with the law.The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish, but to bring about a positive change in behavior.
For information concerning the process for seeking removal from an OFAC list, including the SDN List, or to submit a request, please refer to OFAC’s guidance on Filing a Petition for Removal from an OFAC List.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0211
The ultimate Fuck Around and Find Out, to this dictatorHe thought he could insult our President, people and country.
Senate confirms Emil Bove to Third Circuit, as Dems fail to thwart Trump pickTwo Republicans voted against Bove, but it wasn't enough to tank his nomination.
By Hailey Fuchs07/29/2025 09:12 PM EDT1/2
Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, has been confirmed to a lifetime seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals — the culmination of a tumultuous campaign from his detractors that ultimately fractured his support among the Senate GOP.
The Senate voted 50-49 to confirm Bove, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska defecting from the rest of their party to join all Democrats in opposing.
Bove was plagued by reports of whistleblowers alleging that he recommended the administration ignore court orders that would disrupt Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda. His nomination became a flashpoint battle for Democrats, who argued the current principal associate deputy attorney general had made clear he valued fealty to the president over the law and was therefore unfit for the federal bench.
“Look at his record: Emil Bove has shown time and time again his disrespect for the very office he seeks to hold,” said Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), pointing to the whistleblower’s allegations, during a recent speech on the Senate floor. “I don’t know of another case I have seen in my 14 years in the Senate where someone so unqualified for the bench is before us.”
Booker was among Bove’s chief antagonists, with New Jersey being among the states from where the newly-confirmed judge would hear appeals — along with Delaware, Pennsylvania and the Virgin Islands.
Trump has long taken pride in his selections for the federal judiciary, of which there were hundreds during his first term, and he has also indicated he expects from his judges, in turn, a degree of loyalty. That pressure has only become more acute during Trump’s second term, as he has taken to targeting federal judges who have presented obstacles to his administration’s agenda.
In plenty of ways, Bove fits the mold of Trump judicial nominees. But Bove’s allegiance to Trump goes deeper than those of Trump’s previous judicial picks. Before joining the DOJ as a top agency official, Bove represented Trump in criminal probes around the retention of classified documents and efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
The cases were ultimately dismissed after Trump’s 2024 electoral victory, and not long after, some of his onetime attorneys, including Bove, joined the upper ranks of his administration. Todd Blanche, who worked with Bove on those cases, is now deputy attorney general.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in a brief interview last week he had urged his Democratic colleagues to make the case, as a party on the Senate floor, to the American people that Bove was unfit for the lifetime appointment due to his record and his loyalty to Trump.
“Essentially, it’s loyalty to Donald Trump … despite all of these utterly sickening failing[s],” Blumenthal said.
Democrats devoted significant time and resources to fighting the Bove nomination, from floor speeches to remarks at their weekly press conference led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
They pointed to Bove’s role in the dismissal of federal corruption charges against Eric Adams — a move that prompted questions over whether the Democratic mayor of New York City had engaged in a quid pro quo to have the case dropped in exchange for cooperating with federal immigration enforcement officials at the Rikers jail facility. Democrats also decried Bove’s role in the dismissal of prosecutors who worked on cases in the Biden administration tied to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Judiciary Committee Democrats also staged a protest, walking out of the committee markup to advance the Bove nomination when committee chair Chuck Grassley said he would pause proceedings rather than allow members of the minority party to continue airing their grievances. At one point, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) shouted that the committee had devolved into a “kangaroo court.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/senate-confirms-emil-bove-to-third-circuit-as-dems-fail-to-thwart-trump-pick-00482965
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Three whistleblowers also came forward over the course of Bove’s confirmation process to lodge allegations against the nominee. Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department official who worked with Bove, detailed Bove’s recommendation to defy the immigration court orders. Democrats sought to hold a hearing where Reuveni could testify under oath. Grassley declined the request, and doubled down on the Senate floor Tuesday against insinuations that he was shirking his responsibility to thoroughly vet Bove’s credentials.
“No one can say that I don’t take whistleblower complaints seriously, or that I don’t investigate allegations in good faith,” said Grassley, the 91-year-old co-founder of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus. “I’ve always said that my door is open to whistleblowers, and my efforts regarding the Bove nomination show this is true.”
A second whistleblower, represented by the nonprofit group Whistleblower Aid, claimed to support the complaint, while Grassley’s staff met with attorneys for a third whistleblower Monday. Democrats said this was further proof that Bove’s nomination should be reconsidered — but Grassley countered that Democrats had mishandled the whistleblower’s allegations and questioned the late timing, given a final vote on Bove was poised to take place in the coming days.
“My message to the three whistleblowers is this: just because I may disagree with the conclusions in a whistleblower disclosure, it doesn’t mean that I don’t support a whistleblower’s right to come forward,” Grassley said Tuesday.
Democrats’ case against Bove resonated with Collins, who has split with Trump on a number of nominees more than seven months into the president’s second term.
“We have to have judges who will adhere to the rule of law and the Constitution and do so regardless of what their personal views may be,” she said in a statement. “Mr. Bove’s political profile and some of the actions he has taken in his leadership roles at the Department of Justice cause me to conclude he would not serve as an impartial jurist.”
But Democrats ultimately couldn’t peel off the two other Republicans necessary to thwart Bove’s confirmation. Republicans could have lost up to three senators in and still confirmed the nominee with Vice President JD Vance as the tiebreaking vote. Among the other potential defectors, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), member of the Judiciary panel, had effectively sunk the confirmation chances for Trump’s previous U.S. attorney nominee for the District of Columbia. But in the case of Bove, Tillis said he was hesitant to place weight in the anonymous complaints.
Senate Judiciary ranking member Dick Durbin said he was not surprised by Bove’s inevitable confirmation. He pointed to the fact that Attorney General Pam Bondi made an appearance in person at his confirmation hearing — an unusual move for a judicial nominee that underscored the pressure Republicans were under to endorse Trump’s pick.
Still, he decried the lack of Republican interest in getting to the bottom of the allegations against Bove: “They can’t answer the basic question: why wouldn’t you allow a whistleblower under oath to tell their story as to what he did and lied about before our committee?” Durbin said of his Republican colleagues.
“They’re not interested.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/senate-confirms-emil-bove-to-third-circuit-as-dems-fail-to-thwart-trump-pick-00482965
The economy still disappoints the Dems, they want worse, how dare Trump accelerate the payroll and hiring
Private company hiring bounced back with a 104,000 increase in July, ADP says
Published Wed, Jul 30 20258:15 AM EDT
Jeff Cox@jeff.cox.7528@JeffCoxCNBCcom
Key Points
• Private payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 104,000 for the month, reversing a loss of 23,000 in June and topping the Dow Jones forecast for an increase of 64,000.
• Wages rose at a 4.4% annual pace for the month, about in line with recent trends.
Private company hiring bounced back with a 104,000 increase in July, ADP says
Hiring at private companies rebounded at a stronger-than-expected pace in July, indicating the labor market is holding its ground, ADP reported Wednesday.
Payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 104,000 for the month, reversing a loss of 23,000 in June and topping the Dow Jones forecast from economists for an increase of 64,000. The June number was revised up from an initially reported loss of 33,000.
Though the pace of hiring is well off where it stood last year, the June total was the best since March and consistent with a slowing but still fairly vibrant jobs picture.
“Our hiring and pay data are broadly indicative of a healthy economy,” ADP’s chief economist, Nela Richardson, said. “Employers have grown more optimistic that consumers, the backbone of the economy, will remain resilient.”
The report follows months of concerns that President Donald Trump’s tariffs would hold back economic growth and stymie consumer spending. However, sentiment surveys show confidence returning even with some apprehension about consumer spending and the impact that the duties will have on U.S. businesses and inflation.
Leisure and hospitality, seen as a proxy for consumer demand, led sectors with 46,000 new hires. Other areas showing solid growth included financial activities (28,000), trade, transportation and utilities (18,000), and construction (15,000). Medium and large businesses added 46,000 each, while companies with fewer than 50 employees contributed just 12,000.
On the downside, education and health services showed a loss of 38,000.
Wages rose at a 4.4% annual pace for the month, about in line with recent trends.
The ADP report serves as a precursor to the nonfarm payrolls count that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release Friday, but the two often differ, sometimes dramatically. The BLS report in June showed private payrolls growth of 74,000, and 147,000 including government jobs.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expect the economy added 100,000 jobs in July, with the unemployment rate expected to nudge higher to 4.2%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/private-company-hiring-bounced-back-with-a-104000-increase-in-july-adp-says-.html
‘Ya Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Cheers Strong Economic Growth at Breitbart Policy Event
Sean Moran 30 Jul 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reacted to the substantial economic growth America experienced under President Donald Trump at a Breitbart News policy event,saying “ya ain’t seen nothing yet.”
Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle interviewed Secretary Bessent as the Commerce Department found economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, grew by three percent during the second quarter of 2025, exceeding expectations.
Bessent has said that economic growth has long been coming as many have worried about the potential economic effects of Trump’s tariff policies, which began on April 2, which the president has referred to as “Liberation Day.”
Treasury Secretary Bessent told Boyle, “I was trying to explain to people who people who panicked on April 2nd, we’re doing peace deals, trade deals, tax deals, they are all coming together. And, a lot of it is just confidence and momentum coming back. I was never concerned about what was going to happen, there was a lot of disinformation, lot of ‘whataboutism,’ what if we had this in place, what if tariffs do this, what if that.”
The president has urged Americans not to be a “PANCICAN,” or worry about the potential turbulence that may come with trying to enact trade deals and reshore American industry. He wrote on April 7, “The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!”
Bessent added the Big Beautiful Bill will continue to add “confidence” to America’s economy.
He said, “When you think of the One Big Beautiful, the permanence of that is the confidence it is going to build. I think it was Al Joelson after he saw the first talking movie said ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet.'”==
Bessent continued, “I think we’re just going to accelerate third, fourth quarter, andI think we can go back to the ’90s, where we had this very strong, non-inflationary growth for a decade, because, right now, we’re also seeing about one percent of GDP in AI spending by the hyper scalers.”
He added, saying in his “dream world,” increased artificial intelligence (AI) spending would increase to create an AI productivity boom and “we can have something like the ’90s.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/30/ya-aint-seen-nothing-yet-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-cheers-strong-economic-growth-at-breitbart-policy-event/
WATCH: Matt Boyle Interviews Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
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https://rumble.com/embed/v6up8vm/?pub=4
“U.S. Intel Knew Hillary Clinton Approved The Fake Russia Hoax.”Solomon Previews Annex Report Drop
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