<p><span class="citation-332 citation-end-332">Newly declassified documents from the Durham report suggest Hillary Clinton’s campaign approved the Russia-collusion narrative to distract from her email scandal</span>. <span class="citation-331 citation-end-331">President Trump’s trade deadline arrives, hitting countries like India, Brazil, and Canada with steep new tariffs while South Korea secures a last-minute deal</span>. <span class="citation-330 citation-end-330">A Daily Wire exclusive reveals that Massachusetts police are being trained to view the parental rights group Moms for Liberty as a &#8220;hate group,&#8221; based on SPLC designations</span>.</p>
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<h2><b>Russiagate Points to Hillary Clinton</b></h2>
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<p><b><span class="citation-329">Topline:</span></b><span class="citation-329 citation-end-329"> Newly declassified documents from the Durham report, released by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Thursday, suggest the Obama-era FBI ignored intelligence that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign approved a plan to tie Donald Trump to Russia to distract from her email server scandal</span>.</p>
<p><span class="citation-328 citation-end-328">The declassified annex shows the Obama administration received intelligence in 2016 that Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to smear her rival Donald Trump by linking him to Russia</span>. <span class="citation-327 citation-end-327">The goal was reportedly to derail the FBI’s investigation into her unauthorized use of a private email server</span>. <span class="citation-326 citation-end-326">The plan allegedly involved Clinton’s campaign, the DNC, and the firm Fusion GPS hiring former British spy Christopher Steele to create the narrative</span>.</p>
<p><span class="citation-325 citation-end-325">According to the documents, high-ranking Obama officials were made aware of the Clinton plan</span>. <span class="citation-324 citation-end-324">CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama, Vice President Biden, DNI James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comey on the matter in a White House meeting on August 3, 2016</span>. <span class="citation-323 citation-end-323">The CIA later sent an investigative referral to the FBI about the &#8220;purported Clinton campaign plan.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span class="citation-322 citation-end-322">In a heavily redacted section, the annex reveals that the CIA prepared a written assessment in 2017 and &#8220;did not assess &#8230; the &#8230; memoranda &#8230; to be the product of Russian fabrications.&#8221;</span> <span class="citation-321 citation-end-321">In other words, the agency found the intelligence regarding the Clinton plan to be credible</span>. <span class="citation-320 citation-end-320">CIA Director John Ratcliffe said that he has made criminal referrals to the Department of Justice</span>. <span class="citation-319 citation-end-319">In a statement, Senator Grassley called the affair &#8220;one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.&#8221;</span></p>
<h2><b>Trump’s Tariff Deadline Arrives</b></h2>
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<p><b><span class="citation-318">Topline: </span></b>The White House updated its tariff plan on Thursday evening, hours before President Trump’s deadline for new trade agreements was set to kick in.</p>
<p>The new <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/further-modifying-the-reciprocal-tariff-rates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> pushes the implementation of tariffs on most countries back a week from August 1 to August 7 to give Customs and Border Patrol officials time to adjust to the new levies leveled at dozens of countries. The new plan also reveals a host of tariff rates that are set to kick in.</p>
<p><span class="citation-316 citation-end-316">India will now be hit with a 25% tariff, plus an additional secondary tariff for continuing to buy Russian oil</span>. <span class="citation-315 citation-end-315">&#8220;I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care,&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social</span>. <span class="citation-314 citation-end-314">The move prompted Indian state refiners to pause all purchases of Russian oil</span>.</p>
<p><span class="citation-313 citation-end-313">Earlier this week, Brazil was hit with sanctions and a 50% tariff, the largest of all, due to its large trade deficit and what Trump calls the political persecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro</span>. Trump&#8217;s new plan hits Brazil with a 10% so-called reciprocal tariff, which appears to be in addition to the 50% tariff that the president previously announced.</p>
<p><span class="citation-312 citation-end-312">Canada, America’s second-largest trading partner, now faces a 35% tariff that took effect at midnight on August 1</span>. <span class="citation-311 citation-end-311">The president linked the failure to secure a deal with Canada&#8217;s recent announcement that it would back a Palestinian state</span>.</p>
<p>There were also several deals made as Trump&#8217;s August 1 deadline approached. <span class="citation-310 citation-end-310">The U.S. finalized a major agreement with South Korea, which includes a 15% tariff on Korean imports in exchange for a $350 billion investment in American businesses and the purchase of an additional $100 billion in natural gas</span>. <span class="citation-309 citation-end-309">A deal was also reached with Pakistan</span>.</p>
<p><span class="citation-308 citation-end-308">Mexico was granted an extension as negotiations continue, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/us-china-trade-00481958">said</a> earlier this week that an August 12 extension for trade talks with China was likely</span>.</p>
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<h2><b>Massachusetts Police Trained That ‘Moms for Liberty’ Is a Hate Group</b></h2>
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<p><b><span class="citation-307">Topline:</span></b><span class="citation-307 citation-end-307"> A Daily Wire exclusive reveals that police training materials in Massachusetts list the conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty as a &#8220;hate group,&#8221; citing the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center as a source</span>.</p>
<p><span class="citation-306 citation-end-306">Moms for Liberty obtained the training materials from the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee through a Freedom of Information request</span>. <span class="citation-305 citation-end-305">The documents list the parental rights group in a section on hate groups alongside neo-Nazi organizations and &#8220;Antifa</span>.&#8221; <span class="citation-304 citation-end-304">The training cites the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has labeled Moms for Liberty an &#8220;anti-government extremist&#8221; group, as its source</span>.</p>
<p><span class="citation-303 citation-end-303">&#8220;It&#8217;s crazy that we are in a time when Moms for Liberty is listed in this training &#8230; with neo-Nazi groups, with Antifa,&#8221; Tina Descovich, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, told Morning Wire</span>. <span class="citation-302 citation-end-302">&#8220;Moms for Liberty is here to show up at school board meetings &#8230; Antifa is burning down whole cities. &#8230; These two are not equivalent.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span class="citation-301 citation-end-301">The training materials claim that Moms for Liberty uses &#8220;parents rights as a vehicle to attack public education and make schools less welcoming for minority and LGBTQ students.&#8221;</span> <span class="citation-300 citation-end-300">The training links to biased PBS articles attacking the group, while simultaneously linking to an article that describes the violent extremist group &#8220;Antifa&#8221; as a &#8220;relatively small&#8221; threat</span>. <span class="citation-299 citation-end-299">Descovich noted that despite the official training, local police officers often approach her members to quietly offer their support</span>.</p>
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