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The Monroe Doctrine has shaped U.S. foreign policy for over two centuries.

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The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President's chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President's foreign policies through the State Department, which includes the Foreign Service, Civil Service and U.S. Agency for International Development.

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President Trump stops New York speech to comfort parents of 12-year-old killed by stray bullet:

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Jim Jordan blasts FBI Round River as 'operation to protect Joe Biden', obstruct Congress:

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Unmasking the Dual Justice System - Peter Navarro on China's Intrusions and the Weaponization of Government:

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White House report details ‘Great Transshipment Scam’ costing tens of billions in tariff evasion:

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President Trump stops New York speech to comfort parents of 12-year-old killed by stray bullet

The president was delivering a law and order speech at the Nassau County Police Academy when he mentioned Jacob Freytes, a boy who was killed by a stray bullet while sitting on his bike outside a bodega in the Bronx.

President Donald Trump stopped in the middle of his speech Friday to leave the stage and comfort a set of grieving parents, who lost their 12-year-old son last month to a stray bullet in New York City.

The president was delivering a law and order speech at the Nassau County Police Academy when he mentioned Jacob Freytes, a boy who was killed by a stray bullet while sitting on his bike outside a bodega in the Bronx.

After mentioning Freytes, Trump left the stage in an unscripted moment to meet his parents, who were teary-eyed in the audience.

"Two weeks ago, a 12-year-old boy named Jacob Freytes — You read about this one? — was tragically shot and killed by a stray bullet fired by a repeat offender in a gun battle," Trump said. "Jacob was the son of a loving mom and a retired New York City police detective, and they are incredible people, and I think I heard that they may be with us today."

After the president embraced the couple, Migdalia Martinez and Jesus Freytes, Trump vowed to get justice for their son.

"Incredible. Horrible story. What a horrible thing," Trump said. "But we're going after them. These are bad, sick people."

Freytes' death has spurred Republicans in the New York state legislature to introduce "Jacob's Law," which would impose stricter sentences on criminals whose reckless actions result in the death of a child, according to Fox News.

The New York Police Department said it has arrested 45-year-old William Ferrer, who faces multiple charges, including second-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty.

Ferrer has a criminal record dating back at least 25-years, and prior charges include drunk driving, drug possession, menacing and criminal contempt, according to the New York Post.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/president-trump-stops-new-york-speech-comfort-parents-12-year-old

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Jim Jordan blasts FBI Round River as 'operation to protect Joe Biden', obstruct Congress

House Judiciary Committee Chairman says defensive briefing FBI gave him in 2020 portraying Biden allegations as Russian disinformation was "BS."

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan tells Just the News the recently revealed FBI operation known as Round River was an effort to obstruct congressional investigators from getting to the truth about Democrat corruption and to interfere in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win. "It's ridiculous what happened, and it's just wrong," he declared.

"This wasn't an investigation that was being run by the FBI and the intel community. This was an operation, an operation, I think, to protect Joe Biden as he was running for president," Jordan said in a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News,

No Noise television show.

The powerful committee chairman and Ohio Republican was reacting to news reported Thursday morning that newly declassified documents show the FBI had 14 confidential informants reporting derogatory evidence on Biden during the 2020 election but embarked on an effort to dismiss that evidence of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company enriching his family as "Russian disinformation."

Dismissed evidence out of hand

One of the documents showed that Jordan was listed by the FBI and spy agencies as "a conduit" of Russian disinformation along with Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, as well as other prominent conservatives.

A 2025 U.S. intelligence community review of the Round River operation raised concerns that FBI analysts put politics over national security and didn't even bother to determine if the Ukraine allegations were true before dismissing them as Russian propaganda.

Jordan revealed he was given a defensive briefing in 2020 by the FBI suggesting the Biden allegations he was investigating were Russian disinformation and said he found it laughable.

"That was BS. That's what we were thinking," he said.

The bigger scheme: "Get us to be quiet"

Asked if he thought the briefing and Round River operation were an effort to obstruct Congress in its investigation of the Biden family, Jordan answered: "I do. I think they were trying to get us to be quiet."

"You can see it in the bigger scheme where it was the 51 former Intel officials who did that crazy letter saying the (Hunter Biden) laptop was Russian disinformation … when in fact they had it, and they knew it was already his laptop, and they knew it was authentic for goodness' sake," he noted.

"It was an operation to, I believe, continue this effort that we saw from the Wray FBI, and before that the Comey FBI, and others in the intel community to hurt President Trump and, in this case, help presidential candidate and then, you know, future President Biden," he added.

Jordan recently referred former CIA Director John Brennan for possible prosecution for lying to Congress in connection with the alleged Russia collusion and said he is confident that newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche will get to the bottom of wrongdoing and punish responsible people.

"I have been very impressed with Todd Blanche, the best Attorney General I've ever worked with," Jordan said. "I do believe he is committed to getting to the truth and holding people accountable.

"I do think it's important to hold people accountable and to dig in all this, and I trust that Todd Blanche is going to," he added.

A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI created a list of more than six dozen prominent organizations, Americans or foreigners who became figures in the Biden family Ukraine scandal and the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

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"Targets" and "Conduits"

The spreadsheet neatly divided figures along political lines, with Democrats like the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama and George Soros listed as victimized “targets” of Russian disinformation and conservatives like Fox News, One America News, filmmaker Michael Caputo and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as “conduits” for disinformation.

The FBI also labeled two of President Donald Trump’s first-term Cabinet secretaries, Pompeo and Barr, as well as Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham and House GOP committee chairmen Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan as “conduits” even while they all investigated whether the allegations of corruption against the Biden family were true.

You can read the spreadsheet below:

Defensive Briefing Spreadsheet.pdf - https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2026-08/Defensive%20Briefing%20Spreadsheet.pdf

The designations were part of a secret counterintelligence operation codenamed “Round River” that was launched during the 2020 election by a task force of FBI analysts claiming to be fighting “malign foreign influence” in the 2020 election, according to an administration official.

The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), based in FBI headquarters, concurred with each of the assessments in the spreadsheet with a “no objection” designation, the documents state.

Many of the Americans were identified as potential candidates for defensive briefings, though the spreadsheets and documents found so far do not identify how many Americans ultimately were given such briefings.

In some ways, the Round River operation is a mirror opposite of the Russia collusion probe known as Crossfire Hurricane in which the FBI pursued unsubstantiated allegations spread by Democrats that Trump and his allies conspired with Vladimir Putin to hijack the 2016 election. In Round River, FBI analysts sought to dismiss significant evidence in the bureau's possession, including Hunter Biden's own laptop, pointing to possible corruption by the Bidens.

Documents released by the White House earlier this month exposed an investigation in 2017 codenamed “Oxferd Comma” alleging the newly elected president Trump may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey even though the bureau’s own evidence overwhelmingly showed at the time there was no collusion with the Kremlin.

Remarkably, the effort to portray the Bidens' scandals as Russian disinformation came even though confidential human sources working for the FBI and other agencies began reporting a steady stream of concerns starting in 2015 that Ukraine was possibly targeting the future first family for influence, the memos show. The FBI has identified at least 14 informants who were providing derogatory information on the Bidens, according to an FBI letter made public Wednesday.

In that letter to the White House Government Transparency Task Force, FBI Director Kash Patel said the Foreign Influence Task Force was terminated on his watch and its activities are now under investigation.

Operation Round River a political tool, not a national security issue

He said he shared concerns cited in a 2025 Director of National Intelligence memo declassified on Wednesday that Round River was used as a political tool to neutralize an alleged corruption narrative about Biden, the Democrats' 2020 presidential nominee, rather than to address true national security threats.

“While our internal review of the FITF is not yet complete, we are investigating whether the FITF used information learned from the Round River assessment to undermine or influence ongoing investigations by only focusing on the subset of CHS’s (Confidential Human Sources) involving the Bidens,” Patel wrote, according to the letter reviewed by Just the News.

“We remain concerned that defensive briefings to Congress may have been overly focused on just Biden and Ukraine rather than the balanced picture of all foreign threats,” he added.

Patel said the bureau is “firmly committed to identifying, investigating and holding accountable all abuses” that occurred during the Round River operation and to ensure “that future counterintelligence operations remain focused exclusively on legitimate foreign threats and are never used to advance political narratives."

Editor's Note: John Solomon is on leave as Editor-in-Chief of Just the News while working as the chairman of the White House Government Transparency Task Force as an unpaid special government employee. His name appeared in the spreadsheet released Wednesday as a potential "conduit" of Russian disinformation

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/satjim-jordan-blasts-fbi-round-river-operation-protect-joe-biden

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Unmasking the Dual Justice System - Peter Navarro on China's Intrusions and the Weaponization of Government

In this episode of John Solomon Reports, host John Solomon tackles the pressing issues surrounding the ongoing threat from China and the implications of recent government actions. Solomon discusses the alarming revelations from the White House Government Transparency Task Force, highlighting a massive marriage fraud scheme aimed at securing birthright citizenship for Chinese nationals. This scheme, alongside the broader underestimation of the China threat, illustrates the urgent need for accountability and reform within the U.S. political system.

Joining Solomon is Dr. Peter Navarro, who shares his experiences and insights on the weaponization of government and the manufacturing renaissance efforts he is championing alongside former President Trump. Navarro's perspective sheds light on the importance of addressing these issues as America navigates a pivotal moment in its history.

The episode also features Dr. Peter McCullough, who discusses the censorship he faced as a prominent voice during the pandemic and the revelations about Anthony Fauci's actions. Together, they explore how public health can be improved moving forward in light of recent findings.

Finally, Solomon introduces military veteran Mike Bouchard, a congressional candidate from a key battleground state, who shares his common-sense approach to politics and the growing movement around his candidacy.

https://justthenews.com/podcasts/john-solomon-reports/unmasking-dual-justice-system-peter-navarro-chinas-intrusions-and

>>24937208

White House report details ‘Great Transshipment Scam’ costing tens of billions in tariff evasion

The report concludes that the scale of potential evasion is economically significant and establishes a framework for ongoing assessment of the integrity of the U.S. tariff system.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ More than 40 lower-tariff jurisdictions are being used as pass-throughs to avoid lawful tarriffs.

After the imposition of tariffs on nations with severe trade imbalances with the U.S., the Trump administration is moving aggressively to close loopholes that allow foreign exporters to undercut American workers, manufacturers and taxpayers through illegal transshipment.

"Transshipment is driven by tariff arbitrage: When a product from one country faces a higher U.S. tariff than it would from another country, the difference becomes a profit opportunity, and even a business model in its own right," Peter Navarro, Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, wrote about the scheme.

A White House report released Thursday and authored by Navarro describes the widespread practice in which goods from higher-tariff countries, primarily China, are routed through more than 40 lower-tariff jurisdictions to evade U.S. duties, resulting in annual economic losses measured in the tens of billions of dollars,

The document, titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” states that exporters take advantage of differences in U.S. tariff rates across countries by engaging in relabeling, repackaging, re-invoicing, minor processing or false country-of-origin claims. “Illegal transshipment may involve relabeling, repackaging, re-invoicing, minor processing, false country-of-origin claims, or other actions intended to secure tariff treatment that would not apply if the goods’ true economic origin were declared,” the report says.

Scale and historical context: As much as $303 billion

According to Navarro, who also serves as Assistant to the President, the practice intensified after the imposition of Section 301 tariffs on China in 2018.

Direct U.S. imports from China declined in subsequent years, while the combined share of imports from identified transshipment-risk countries rose. The report notes that not all of the shift reflects illegal activity; some stems from legitimate production and investment changes. However, the timing and magnitude support further scrutiny of rerouting.

The report identifies more than 40 countries linked to elevated risk. These range from major trading partners with diversified industries to smaller jurisdictions offering free-zone rules, bonded warehouses or preferential market access.

The network includes both production-side operations, such as light assembly and finishing, and logistics-side activities, including warehousing and documentation changes.

Five estimates of the annual volume of potential illegal transshipment or related trade transfer range from approximately $40 billion to $303 billion, depending on the methodology used. The White House Council of Economic Advisers places the figure between $34.2 billion and $89.6 billion, with a midpoint of $60 billion. A central estimate of about $75 billion comes from private-sector analysis of product-level and shipment data. The Department of Commerce cites a broader $109 billion trade-transfer benchmark and about $67 billion through leading hubs in 2025.

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Economic impacts: 450,000 jobs displaced, $150 billion in reduced annual GDP, and as much as $26 billion in associated federal revenue losses

Applying illustrative tariff differentials of 25, 35 and 45 percent, the report calculates annual tariff-revenue losses ranging from roughly $10 billion in the narrowest case to more than $100 billion in the broadest. Central estimates place the losses in the tens of billions of dollars.

Under a central case of $75 billion in annual illegal transshipment, the report estimates approximately 450,000 jobs displaced, $113 billion to $150 billion in reduced annual gross domestic product, and $19 billion to $26 billion in associated federal revenue losses. These are model-based illustrations rather than direct observations. Effects are concentrated in manufacturing sectors including electrical equipment, integrated circuits, plastics and motor components, with corresponding pressure on specific U.S. industrial regions.

“Every dollar lost to this Great Transshipment Scam is a dollar stolen from American workers, manufacturers, and taxpayers,” the report states.

The Trump Administration's response

The Trump administration has incorporated anti-transshipment measures into its Agreements on Reciprocal Trade, which include provisions allowing rules of origin to prevent benefits from accruing substantially to third countries. In 2026, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14411, strengthening customs enforcement through requirements on importer accountability, bonding, ownership disclosure, penalties and trade transparency.

The report also outlines an AI-enabled “Detective Border” system for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It would integrate shipment data, routing histories, product classifications, ownership relationships, production-capacity indicators, anomaly detection and computer vision to help distinguish legitimate nearshoring from pass-through trade and to target high-risk shipments for interdiction and duty collection.

Why tariffs in the first place

In the modern era, the U.S. has run persistent trade deficits since 1976, with the goods deficit hitting a record $1.2 trillion in 2024.

After China’s WTO entry in 2001, the bilateral goods deficit exploded, reaching hundreds of billions annually and linked by the Economic Policy Institute to 3.4 million lost U.S. jobs (mostly manufacturing) through 2015.

Even as the China gap narrowed somewhat, deficits shifted to Mexico, Vietnam, and others, sustaining overall losses, factory closures, and eroded industrial capacity amid claims of currency practices and subsidies.

These imbalances left the U.S. as a net debtor while trading partners accumulated surpluses.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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