President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to impose a 100% tariff on films made outside of the United States.
“Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing ‘candy from a baby.’ California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit! Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States,” the president shared in a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115287691323395767">post</a>.
This is not the first time Trump has promised a 100% tariff on films produced outside of the United States. In May, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-movie-industry-is-dying-puts-plan-in-place-to-save-it">said</a> he had authorized administration officials “to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.”
At the time, Trump said Hollywood was dying a “very fast death,” calling incentives from other countries to produce movies outside of the United States “a national security threat.” 
“Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated,” Trump said in May. “WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”
Shortly after his initial announcement, the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, issued an executive order aimed at reducing bureaucratic hurdles and facilitating easier filming in the city.
“We are going to fight now,” Bass said at the time, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weeks-after-trumps-film-tariff-l-a-mayor-issues-order-to-bring-productions-back-to-hollywood">reported</a>. “While we push for the tax credits to be passed in Sacramento, we need to do what we can today to impact building in Los Angeles.”
“The City is taking bold action to support our legacy industry,” she continued. “Keeping entertainment production in L.A. means keeping good-paying jobs in L.A., and that’s what we are fighting for.”

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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) appears to be doubling down on the incendiary rhetoric — and targeting President Donald Trump&#8217;s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — even as political violence ramps up, particularly against those on the Right.
Just over two weeks after a shooter — who inscribed the phrase &#8220;Hey fascist, catch!&#8221; on a bullet casing —assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, someone used Newsom&#8217;s official @GovPressOffice account to post, &#8220;STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!&#8221;
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STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1971779645617090967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Miller himself was among those who responded to the post, asking, &#8220;Why do you think they posted this?&#8221;
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Why do you think they posted this? <a href="https://t.co/crtyfyXn40">https://t.co/crtyfyXn40</a>
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Newsom&#8217;s press office doubled down, replying, &#8220;because you&#8217;re a fascist.&#8221;
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because you’re a fascist
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&#8220;He knows exactly what he&#8217;s doing,&#8221; Donald Trump Jr. posted, prompting a reply from the account: &#8220;yes, calling out your dad and his authoritarian stooges for being fascists.&#8221;
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yes, calling out your dad and his authoritarian stooges for being fascists.
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1972146161202221374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A number noted that Newsom — and many other Democrats — appeared to have little or no interest in taking any concrete steps toward dialing down the inflammatory rhetoric.
&#8220;They have 0 intention of &#8216;turning the temperature down&#8217; btw,&#8221; Riley Gaines added.
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They have 0 intention of &#8220;turning the temperature down&#8221; btw <a href="https://t.co/vx2Q7870KR">https://t.co/vx2Q7870KR</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1972440255665144074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It’s really a mystery why republicans are so skeptical that the left actually wants to &#8216;turn the temperature down&#8217;,&#8221; Meghan McCain posted.
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It’s really a mystery why republicans are so skeptical that the left actually wants to “turn the temperature down”. <a href="https://t.co/MG1H7oZK9N">https://t.co/MG1H7oZK9N</a>
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1972429240961585642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Others pointed to the words themselves, noting that the post adopted the sentiment behind inscribed bullet casings in not one, but two targeted killings.
&#8220;Why would the Press Office of a sitting Governor post rhetoric like what was scrawled on shell casings at the scene of two separate killings?&#8221; Fox News host Harris Faulkner wondered.
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Why would the Press Office of a sitting Governor post rhetoric like what was scrawled on shell casings at the scene of two separate killings? <a href="https://t.co/4HnZE3BEwQ">https://t.co/4HnZE3BEwQ</a>
— HARRISFAULKNER (@HARRISFAULKNER) <a href="https://twitter.com/HARRISFAULKNER/status/1972423160604844368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Gavin, this is very dangerous. Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop the violent rhetoric. It’s been two weeks since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, time to get your sh*t together before someone else gets k*lled,&#8221; Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NC) replied.
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Gavin, this is very dangerous. Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop the violent rhetoric.
It’s been two weeks since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, time to get your sh*t together before someone else gets k*lled.
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1972050492420489305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of &#8220;The Charlie Kirk Show,&#8221; said, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to stop this. Seriously.&#8221;
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You&#8217;ve got to stop this. Seriously.
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewKolvet/status/1972005443481620865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump on Saturday morning said he was authorizing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to &#8220;provide all necessary troops&#8221; to protect Portland and any U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities under attack by far-Left Antifa and other domestic terrorists.
Trump noted that the request came from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and that he&#8217;s authorizing &#8220;full force, if necessary.&#8221;
&#8220;At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,&#8221; the president posted to Truth Social.
&#8220;I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221;
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An ICE facility in Portland has become a <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/27/trump-send-troops-portland/#:~:text=The%20ICE%20facility%20in%20Portland,“professional%20agitators%20and%20anarchists.”">target</a> of violent leftist protesters, some of whom have been charged with assault. There have been violent clashes with authorities and federal agents have been injured. Moreover, earlier this month, protesters erected a guillotine outside the facility, which Secretary Noem called “unhinged behavior.”
Trump said earlier this week that what&#8217;s been going on in Portland is largely due to “professional agitators and anarchists.”
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NOW — Antifa militants roll out a guillotine outside the ICE facility in Portland.
A flag has been set on fire. Hundreds of protesters are holding the line, equipped with riot gear and shields. <a href="https://t.co/qwPOjWaV2a">pic.twitter.com/qwPOjWaV2a</a>
— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1962749598998634549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
This past week, a man shot indiscriminately into an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, killing one illegal immigrant and harming two others. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tragic-irony-federal-officials-say-dallas-shooter-wanted-to-kill-ice-agents-not-detainees?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Tragic+Irony%E2%80%99%3A+Federal+Officials+Say+Dallas+Shooter+Wanted+To+Kill+ICE+Agents%2C+Not+Detainees">According</a> to authorities, the suspect, who took his own life, intended to inflict &#8220;terror&#8221; on ICE agents.
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ICE agents have increasingly become targets of left-wing attacks and doxxing efforts. Assaults on agents have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reprehensible-assaults-on-ice-agents-skyrocket-up-830-over-last-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jumped 830%</a> compared to a year ago. Due to this threat, some agents have resorted to covering their faces when they make arrests.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, however, recently signed a law banning ICE agents from masking. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the new law “despicable” and “a flagrant attempt to endanger” federal officers.
Agency sources have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nice-try-gavin-newsom-cant-stop-ice-agents-from-wearing-masks-sources-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Daily Wire</a> that the new law isn’t going to stop them from masking. “Nice try by Newsom, but he knows it doesn’t apply to federal agents,” one source said. “He loves stirring the pot so that people find more ways to bring conflict to ICE.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-newsom-targets-federal-law-enforcement-california-sees-mob-style-robbery-spike?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=As+Newsom+Targets+Federal+Law+Enforcement%2C+California+Sees+Mob-Style+Robbery+Spike">As Newsom Targets Federal Law Enforcement, California Sees Mob-Style Robbery Spike</a>

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Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli responded to a law passed in California that seeks to ban federal law enforcement agents — specifically Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — from wearing masks that cover their faces while they are working in California.
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), earlier in the week, touted his &#8220;first in the nation&#8221; law that he said would force ICE agents to &#8220;unmask&#8221; despite the exponential increase in threats and attacks on ICE agents in recent months.
&#8220;Enough! ICE, unmask! What are you afraid of?&#8221; Newsom asked at a press conference. &#8220;What are you afraid of?&#8221;
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The Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security begged to differ, saying in a statement on Monday that ICE agents would not be complying with Newsom&#8217;s law and citing the increased risks of threats against them and their families.
&#8220;To be clear: We will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban. At a time that ICE law enforcement faces a 1,000% increase in assaults and their family members are being doxxed and targeted, the sitting Governor of California signed unconstitutional legislation that strips law enforcement of protections in a disgusting, diabolical fundraising and PR stunt,&#8221; she said.
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To be clear: We will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban.
At a time that ICE law enforcement faces a 1,000% increase in assaults and their family members are being doxxed and targeted, the sitting Governor of California signed unconstitutional legislation… <a href="https://t.co/8Me4OOP8t8">pic.twitter.com/8Me4OOP8t8</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1970183948899696693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Essayli followed on Friday with a letter — addressed to federal law enforcement heads in the Central District of California — in which he stated that Newsom, as governor of California, did not have the authority to direct the actions of federal law enforcement agents, even if they were operating within his state.
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Governor Newsom is confused about his role under the U.S. Constitution. He oversees California, not federal agencies. He should review the Supremacy Clause.
California&#8217;s law to &#8220;unmask&#8221; federal agents is unconstitutional, as the state lacks jurisdiction to interfere with federal… <a href="https://t.co/9ZWlFRxHMi">pic.twitter.com/9ZWlFRxHMi</a>
— Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1971625330722119843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Governor Newsom is confused about his role under the U.S. Constitution. He oversees California, not federal agencies. He should review the Supremacy Clause. California&#8217;s law to &#8216;unmask&#8217; federal agents is unconstitutional, as the state lacks jurisdiction to interfere with federal law enforcement. I have directed federal agencies to disregard this state law and adhere to federal law and agency policies,&#8221; Essayli said.

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U.S. Attorney Sends Gavin Newsom A Strongly-Worded Reality Check Over Plan To 'Unmask' ICE

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Former FBI Director James Comey faces charges from a grand jury, the FBI releases more information on the Dallas anti-ICE gunman, and California smash-and-grab robberies are making a comeback.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">DOJ Comes For Comey</h2>
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Topline: A grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday on charges related to his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation. Comey is facing two charges of making false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
The alleged false statement originated from a congressional hearing held on September 30, 2020. According to the indictment, the moment that prosecutors zeroed in on took place during an exchange between Comey and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX):
<blockquote>CRUZ: On May 3rd, 2017, in this committee, Chairman Grassley asked you point blank, ‘Have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?’ You responded under oath, ‘Never.’ He then asked you, ‘Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton administration?’ You responded again under oath, ‘No.’ Now, as you know, Mr. McCabe, who works for you, has publicly and repeatedly stated that he leaked information to the Wall Street Journal and that you were directly aware of it and that you directly authorized it. Now, what Mr. McCabe is saying and what you testified to this committee cannot both be true. One or the other is false. Who&#8217;s telling the truth?
COMEY: I can only speak to my testimony. I stand by the testimony you summarized that I gave in May of 2017.</blockquote>
Comey is expected to surrender for arrest on Friday. He is the first former senior administration official to face charges related to the 2016 Russian collusion hoax, which Comey was on Capitol Hill to testify about for that September 2020 hearing.
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Why now? The statute of limitations for lying to Congress is five years. In a few days, Comey would have been out of reach for prosecutors for his 2020 testimony.
Comey’s reaction: The former FBI chief released a video statement Thursday night.
“My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I’m innocent, so let’s have a trial and keep the faith,” Comey said in part.
Trump’s reaction: After the indictment dropped, Trump wrote on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115267513846352215">Truth Social</a> that Comey is “One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to.” He added that Comey “is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation.” Early Friday morning, Trump took to his social media platform again, calling Comey a &#8220;bad cop.&#8221;
<h2 style="text-align: center;">More Details Emerge On ICE Facility Shooter</h2>
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Topline: We continue to learn more about the shooter who opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas on Wednesday morning.
The gunman: Joshua Jahn, 29, left a trail of notes behind that he hoped law enforcement would find after he shot and killed himself after the attack. Authorities said his plans were months in the making and that he spent the days leading up to the fatal shooting searching for videos of the Charlie Kirk assassination. He also left a note stating, “Yes, it was just me,” indicating that he acted alone.
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Authorities say Jahn wrote that he wanted to inflict “terror” on those federal agents and that he did not want to cause any harm to detainees. Still, ironically, he killed one detainee and critically injured two others.
The ICE agents: Federal officials said that the ICE agents were heroically helping to save the detainees who were shot. One ICE official, Marcos Charles, emphasized that the mainstream media and anti-ICE activists are sharing disinformation that encourages such acts of violence.
He also touched on the use of anti-ICE apps to expose agents’ locations, which Jahn used.
“ Anyone who creates or distributes these apps that is designed to spot track and locate ice officers are well aware of the dangers that they&#8217;re exposing to law enforcement. It&#8217;s a casting call to invite bad actors to attack law enforcement officers,” said Charles. He compared the apps to giving a hitman a target’s location.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">California Crime Wave</h2>
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Topline: A string of violent “smash-and-grab” robbery schemes in California is drawing renewed attention to the state’s crime issues. Meanwhile, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is ratcheting up language against federal law enforcement. 
One expert says California jewelry stores have been hit by at least 30 robberies of this kind since March. The robbers have racked up millions of dollars worth of merchandise, and often, the suspects involved are juveniles.
Carnage: In the past week, an armed gang of up to <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/wild-video-shows-huge-mob-storming-california-jewelry-store-in-1m-raid/">30 people</a> raided a jewelry store outside of San Francisco. They smashed cases with crowbars and pickaxes and stole around $1 million worth of goods. Due to new security measures after a 2023 robbery, the suspects were locked inside – but they used guns and shot their way out of the store.
Authorities have arrested seven suspects so far. They’re all from Oakland and range in age from 17 to 31. Law enforcement believes these are repeat offenders.
Another recent robbery hit a Bay Area shop called Kim Hung Jewelry. A car crashed through the store, and more than a dozen robbers smashed display cases and stole merchandise. The 88-year-old store owner was shoved to the ground, suffered a stroke, and was cut by broken glass. A family friend of the victim told <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/san-jose-california-robbery-88-year-old-man-assaulted-during-brazen-smash-grab-jewelry-heist-police-say-video/17780018/">ABC 7</a>, “He is OK; business is not OK. Everyone knows that situation right now. Every business is in danger.”
Newsom’s approach: While President Trump has emphasized the crime problems in some of these Democrat-run cities, Governor Newsom claims that California&#8217;s crime is under control and it’s not an issue. 
Partly in response to Trump, Newsom has focused on federal immigration authorities. On Tuesday night, Newsom generated criticism for how he <a href="https://x.com/BrendonLeslie/status/1970859241121685589">described</a> ICE agents during an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s left-wing late-night show: “I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask on, tried to grab me, I mean, by definition, you&#8217;re gonna push back. … These are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.”
Over the weekend, Newsom signed a law banning law enforcement, including federal ICE agents, from wearing masks during operations in California. They do this currently to protect their identities, as assaults on ICE agents have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reprehensible-assaults-on-ice-agents-skyrocket-up-830-over-last-year">jumped 830%</a> compared to a year ago.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the new law “despicable” and “a flagrant attempt to endanger” federal officers.

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Morning Brief: Comey Charged, ICE Shooter Investigated & California’s Crime Wave Intensifies

Morning Brief: Comey Charged, ICE Shooter Probed And California Crime Spree

Crime

James Comey

Morning Wire

While Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is ratcheting up language against federal law enforcement, a string of violent “smash-and-grab” robbery schemes in California are drawing renewed attention to the state’s crime issues. 
California is seeing another spike in mob-style robberies, which became commonplace during the COVID lockdown. Just this month, three alarming mob robberies hit jewelry stores in the Bay Area, racking up more than a million dollars in damages.
In fact, one expert says that there have been 30 violent mob-style robberies in the state since just March &#8212; and that&#8217;s only accounting for attacks on jewelry stores, specifically.
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This past week, for example, an armed gang of up to <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/wild-video-shows-huge-mob-storming-california-jewelry-store-in-1m-raid/">30 people</a> raided a jewelry store outside of San Francisco. They smashed cases with crowbars and pickaxes and stole around $1 million dollars worth of goods. Due to new security measures that had to be taken after a 2023 robbery, the suspects were locked inside – but they used guns and shot their way out of the store.
So far, authorities have arrested seven suspects; they’re all from Oakland and range in age from 17 to 31. Law enforcement believes these are repeat offenders.
Two similar robberies took place in just the past couple of weeks. One of the targets was a Bay Area shop called Kim Hung Jewelry. In that case, a car crashed through the store and more than a dozen masked robbers smashed display cases and stole merchandise. The 88-year-old store owner was shoved to the ground, suffered a stroke, and was cut by broken glass. 
&#8220;He is okay,&#8221; a family friend <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/san-jose-california-robbery-88-year-old-man-assaulted-during-brazen-smash-grab-jewelry-heist-police-say-video/17780018/">told</a> ABC 7 News. &#8220;Business is not okay. Everyone knows that situation right now. Every business is in danger.”
Scott Guginsky, VP of the Jewelers Security Alliance, spoke to ABC7 about this trend and said he&#8217;s “never seen this level of violence.”
&#8220;Since March, we&#8217;ve had 30 violent robberies in California targeting jewelry stores,&#8221; he <a href="https://abc7news.com/post/30-violent-mob-style-jewelry-store-robberies-california-march/17879612/">said</a>. &#8220;This is something I haven&#8217;t seen in my 30-plus years of investigating jewelry crime with the NYPD.”
President Donald Trump has become determined to lower crime rates, particularly in some Democrat-run cities, specifically cited Los Angeles and Oakland, where crime is a major issue. Just last month, U.S. News &amp; World Report <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/oakland-most-dangerous-places-us-list/3935868/">ranked</a> Oakland as the second <a href="https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/most-dangerous-places">most dangerous city</a> in the nation – only second to Memphis, another city targeted by Trump. The rankings are based on FBI crime rates, specifically murder and property crime for every 100,000 people.
Gov. Newsom, though, has <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/12/icymi-californias-homicide-violent-crime-rates-down-amid-trumps-continued-assault-on-states-nationwide/">pushed back</a> on this and claims California&#8217;s crime is under control and not an issue. Moreover, he&#8217;s focusing most of his attention on Trump&#8217;s efforts to battle crime and arrest people who are in the country illegally &#8212; including people from Newsom&#8217;s &#8220;sanctuary state.&#8221; 
On Tuesday night, Newsom generated much criticism for how he described U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s left-wing late-night show.
“Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing,&#8221; Newsom claimed. &#8220;No due process. No oversight, zero accountability happening in the United States of America today.&#8221;
&#8220;People ask, well, is &#8216;authoritarianism&#8217; you being hyperbolic? Bulls*** we&#8217;re being hyperbolic. If you&#8217;re a black and brown community, it&#8217;s here in this country,&#8221; the Democrat continued. &#8220;I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask on, tried to grab me, I mean, by definition, you&#8217;re gonna push back. … These are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.”
Newsom also, unsurprisingly, took aim at Trump, too. “We have 41 lawsuits against this son of a b****,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re pushing back, and we&#8217;re winning.”
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LAST NIGHT: Gavin Newsom said people need to push back on ICE agents because they’re the result of an authoritarian government
THIS MORNING: a sniper shot up an ICE facility <a href="https://t.co/SGUZgm9cD6">pic.twitter.com/SGUZgm9cD6</a>
— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrendonLeslie/status/1970859241121685589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Over the weekend, Newsom signed a law banning ICE agents from wearing masks while making arrests. Some agents currently mask to protect their identities, considering all the threats and violence against them. Assaults on ICE agents, for instance, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reprehensible-assaults-on-ice-agents-skyrocket-up-830-over-last-year">jumped 830%</a> compared to a year ago.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the new law “despicable” and “a flagrant attempt to endanger” federal officers.
Agency sources have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nice-try-gavin-newsom-cant-stop-ice-agents-from-wearing-masks-sources-say">told The Daily Wire</a> that the new law isn’t going to stop them from masking. “Nice try by Newsom, but he knows it doesn’t apply to federal agents,&#8221; one source said. &#8220;He loves stirring the pot so that people find more ways to bring conflict to ICE.”

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As Newsom Targets Federal Law Enforcement, California Sees Mob-Style Robbery Spike

Oakland

Robbery

On Wednesday morning, a sniper killed an ICE detainee and wounded several others in a shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
Bullets found near the shooter&#8217;s body were reportedly engraved with anti-ICE messages.
Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1970877754221498599">wrote on X</a>, “While the investigation is ongoing, the initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack. These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off.”
The number one clue that the shooter had a left-wing perspective is that the shooting happened at an ICE facility. This is not the first act of violence at an ICE facility in recent months. In August, there was an ICE facility that was attacked in Yakima, Washington. In July, there were ten suspects who were charged for their July 4 attack in Texas, in which, according to ICE, nearly a dozen violent assailants equipped with tactical gear and weapons attacked a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prairie Line detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.
There was an attack on ICE officers in Los Angeles that prompted federal intervention by the Trump administration.
This is nothing new, and pretending that it is something new is ridiculous. As acting ICE director Todd Lyons <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/ice-acting-director-says-assaults-on-agents-up-1000-as-dallas-facility-targeted-in-shooting-never-seen-anything-like-this/">said</a>, “I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this in my law enforcement career. I&#8217;ve never seen threats on law enforcement, specifically ICE, increase the way it is. You know, we&#8217;re up over 1,000% assaults on officers right now. And really just a lot of the talk that&#8217;s out there, a lot of the rhetoric, is just the violence directed towards law enforcement officers just trying to do their job. And we just keep it seeing an increase step by step.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the shooting was an attempted assassination of ICE officers. It was his belief that the ICE detainees were hit accidentally, that the sniper was not trying to hit the detainees, but was trying to fire at law enforcement.
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Meanwhile, NPR host Maria Hinojosa <a href="https://x.com/TimJGraham/status/1970964318981169286">compared ICE</a> to the Nazis, saying, “Black and Latino unity and the city of Chicago will only grow thanks to Donald Trump and his Republican Party. So that is something that he and his Republican Party has feared, that unity of black and brown people coming together. Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and we do not like outsiders coming to tell us how to run our city. &#8230; I posted, actually, right after that first day on the ground in Chicago; I posted about the fact that there are little Anne Franks, right? &#8230; little girls and boys who are afraid to come out of their homes.”
This sort of rhetoric could very likely lead to violence, because when you say that Anne Frank is hiding, that makes ICE the Nazis.
Last week, Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared ICE to slave patrols.
When you keep saying that ICE agents are Nazis, that ICE agents are slave patrols, people might get the idea that maybe you should do violence to members of ICE. That’s not a huge leap.
I&#8217;m not saying Jasmine Crockett is responsible for somebody shooting an ICE agent, any more than I&#8217;m saying that Barack Obama&#8217;s anti-police rhetoric led to the shooting of Dallas police officers.
But — if you keep ratcheting up the temperature, if you keep treating people in law enforcement as though they are enemies of the people, as though they are doing the bidding of dark Nazi gods or something of that ilk, people at the fringes are going to do acts of violence.
The night before the shooting happened, Gavin Newsom was on Stephen Colbert&#8217;s terrible show, which is still on the air like a zombie, walking beyond its own brain death.
Gavin Newsom <a href="https://x.com/BrendonLeslie/status/1970859241121685589">proceeded to suggest</a> that people need to push back on ICE agents, saying:
<blockquote>That&#8217;s happening in the United States of America. Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars. People disappearing. No due process, no oversight. Zero accountability happening in the United States of America today. People ask, “Well, is it authoritarianism? You&#8217;re being hyperbolic.’”
Bulls*** we&#8217;re being hyperbolic. If you&#8217;re a black and brown community, it&#8217;s here in this country. I&#8217;m deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation&#8217;s first bill, to address the issue of masking, also to require you have simple identification. &#8230; I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask on, tried to grab me, I mean, by definition, you&#8217;re going to push back. And so these are not just authoritarian tendencies. These are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.</blockquote>
If you keep saying these sorts of things over and over and over again, it should not be a gigantic shock when people commit acts of violence.
The Left has increasingly been committing acts of violence because the rhetoric is so unhinged. 
One of the major problems in the country right now, as polling data shows, is that Americans believe that their neighbors are their enemies. Much of that is self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating. If your neighbor says you are their enemy and then you respond, “If he thinks I&#8217;m his enemy, then he&#8217;s my enemy,” you end up with a cycle of partisan polarization that is unbridgeable. 
Once it becomes unbridgeable, you are effectuating higher levels of hatred and violence. That is a real scenario in the United States.
It&#8217;s not equally positioned. For my entire lifetime, the political Left in this country has basically treated the Right as though the Right were some form of Nazi offshoot.
If you look at the polling data, you will see that things didn&#8217;t shift for Republicans starting to react to that attitude until roughly 2013-14. Thus, for a solid decade and a half, from the time George W. Bush became president, there was a move by the Left to demonize Republicans as the “Other,” as though there was something wrong with them. Democrats didn&#8217;t just think that their neighbors were wrong; they thought they were morally bad, while Republicans tended to think that their neighbors were wrong, but not morally bad.
All of that started to shift around the second term of Barack Obama.
Now both sides think the other side is morally bad, and it&#8217;s pushing both parties out to fringe rhetoric — but the Left has been there for a long time. It&#8217;s systemically integrated into their worldviews.
This is why I&#8217;ve been talking about the permission structures for violence that are generating violence, generating things like the assassination of my friend Charlie Kirk.
When you&#8217;re creating permission structures, when you create a mental model whereby speech is violence, that people who oppose you are actually actors of deep, malicious evil who must be destroyed at any cost, you’re going to get higher levels of violence, which will generate a reaction on the other side.
And that could tear this country, the greatest nation ever created, apart.

ICE Continues To Detain Immigrants At New York City Courthouse

The Predictable Consequences Of Anti-ICE Propaganda

Ben Shapiro

Chicago

Democrats

Deportations

Illegal Immigation

Leftists

Opinion

Texas

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is calling on Democrats to end their demonization of law enforcement in the wake of a deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas.
Twenty-nine-year-old Joshua John <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-injured-one-killed-in-shooting-at-dallas-ice-detention-center?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=At+Least+Two+Dead%2C+One+Wounded+In+Targeted+Attack+On+Dallas+ICE+Facility">opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas</a> on Wednesday morning, killing two illegal immigrant detainees and injuring another, according to the Dallas Police Department. Authorities found &#8220;rounds&#8221; that contained messages that are &#8220;anti-ICE&#8221; near the shooter.
&#8220;This is despicable!&#8221; said Trump, who highlighted that the shooter wrote &#8220;anti-ICE&#8221; on his shell casings. &#8220;The Brave Men and Women of ICE are just trying to do their jobs, and remove the &#8216;WORST of the WORST&#8217; Criminals out of our Country, but they are facing an unprecedented increase in threats, violence, and attacks by Deranged Radical Leftists.&#8221;
The violence is directly correlated to the rhetoric of the Left, the president said.
&#8220;This violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to &#8216;Nazis,'&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115261106680507707">argued</a>. &#8220;The continuing violence from Radical Left Terrorists, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, must be stopped. ICE Officers, and other Brave Members of Law Enforcement, are under grave threat.&#8221;
Trump noted that he just declared ANTIFA a terrorist organization, and he promised that he will be signing an executive order this week to &#8220;dismantle these Domestic Terrorism Networks.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_976553" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-out-democrats-for-demonizing-law-enforcement-after-deadly-ice-shooting/multiple-people-shot-at-ice-facility-in-dallas-shooter-dead-from-self-inflicted-wound" rel="attachment wp-att-976553"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-976553" class="wp-image-976553 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2236768950.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="538" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2236768950.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2236768950-300x158.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2236768950-768x404.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>DALLAS, TEXAS &#8211; SEPTEMBER 24: Dallas Police investigate the scene at 1120 Empire Central Place where a shooter opened fire on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, September 24, 2025, in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Stewart F. House/Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!&#8221; the president wrote. &#8220;The Trump Administration is fully committed to backing Law Enforcement, Strong Borders, securing our Homeland, deporting Violent Illegal Criminals, and fully rooting out the Left Wing Domestic Terrorism that is terrorizing our Country.&#8221;
Vice President JD Vance similarly lit into liberal media on Wednesday over the attack, highlighting NBC News specifically for falsely reporting that immigration enforcement detained a 5-year-old autistic girl &#8220;in order to get to that girl&#8217;s father.&#8221; The outlet ultimately was forced to issue a correction, stating, &#8220;An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents in the video.&#8221;
“It turned out that story was a complete fabrication, it was a complete dishonest lie,&#8221; Vance said in remarks made in North Carolina. &#8220;But when you go around and lie about our law enforcement and you tell them that they’re mistreating five-year-old girls, what do you think is gonna happen?”
He also called out California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has repeatedly encouraged resistance to ICE and condemned immigration enforcement as Trump&#8217;s &#8220;private domestic army&#8221; only hours before the tragic shooting took place, saying that the “ICE issue is alarming beyond words.”
“People ask, ‘Well, is it authoritarianism [or are] you being hyperbolic?’&#8221; Newsom said. &#8220;Bullshit, we’re being hyperbolic. If you’re a black or brown community, it’s here in this country… These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.&#8221;
“Here’s what happens when Democrats, like Gavin Newsom did, say that these people are part of an authoritarian government,” Vance continued. “When the left-wing media lies about what they’re doing, when they lie about who they’re arresting, when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they’re doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.”
“You don’t have to agree with my immigration policies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You don’t have to agree with Donald Trump’s immigration policies. But your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell, and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.”

Trump Departs New York After Attending UNGA

Trump Calls Out Democrats For ‘Demonizing Law Enforcement’ After Deadly ICE Shooting

Trump Calls On Democrats To 'STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE' Following Deadly Shooting

J.D. Vance

California Governor Gavin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-tough-guy-newsom-threatens-gop-were-gonna-punch-these-sons-of-bitces-in-the-mouth">Newsom</a> on Saturday signed a law banning Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing masks while making arrests, a move that’s already garnered pushback from ICE and Republican officials.
The “No Secret Police Act” forces ICE agents to show their faces as they make arrests on the streets of California. It comes as President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort continues across the country and as ICE agents carrying out the historic campaign face a 1,000% increase in assaults.
Agency sources, however, told The Daily Wire that the new law won’t stop them from masking their faces. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli confirmed Monday on “Fox &amp; Friends” that California “does not and cannot have jurisdiction” over the federal agents.
“Nice try by Newsom, but he knows it doesn’t apply to federal agents. He loves stirring the pot so that people find more ways to bring conflict to ICE,” said one ICE source.
Incidents of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/organized-mob-anti-ice-protesters-are-sharing-law-enforcement-movements-via-two-way-radios">doxxing</a> have increased as activist groups have set up online databases to reveal photos of federal agents and publicize their names and locations.
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“The impact of these policies all across this city, our state, and nation are terrifying. It’s like a dystopian sci-fi movie, unmarked cars, people in masks, people quite literally disappearing, no due process, no rights in a democracy where we have rights, immigrants have rights, and we have the right to stand up and push back,” Newsom said at a press conference Saturday.
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“This is to inflame the public.”<a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USAttyEssayli</a> slams California Gov. Newsom’s bill barring law enforcement, including ICE, from wearing masks on the job. <a href="https://t.co/EoIKvtD5ay">pic.twitter.com/EoIKvtD5ay</a>
— FOX &amp; Friends (@foxandfriends) <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/1970096107947692373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Over the summer, rioters attempted to impede ICE operations in Los Angeles by blocking major highways, setting cars ablaze, and hurling concrete blocks at the feds. In response to the chaos erupting in the streets, Trump deployed 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines.
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Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the new law “despicable” and “a flagrant attempt to endanger” federal officers.
“Sanctuary politicians’ rhetoric comparing ICE to ‘secret police’ — likening them to the Gestapo — is diabolical,” McLaughlin said.
“While our federal law enforcement officers are being assaulted by rioters and having rocks and Molotov cocktails thrown at them, a sanctuary politician is trying to outlaw officers wearing masks to protect themselves from being doxxed and targeted by known and suspected terrorist sympathizers,” she said. “Not only is ICE law enforcement facing a more than 1,000 percent increase in assaults, but we’ve also seen thugs launch websites to reveal officers’ identity. We will prosecute those who dox our agents to the fullest extent of the law.”
“The men and women at CBP, ICE, and all of our federal law enforcement agencies put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens to protect and defend the lives of American citizens. Make no mistake, this type of rhetoric is contributing to the surge in assaults of officers through their repeated vilification and demonization,” she added.

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Within hours of the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to resume sweeps in Los Angeles, California, several prominent Democrats across the city and the state issued statements complaining about the ruling.
Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin shared a few of their comments — from Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — in a post on X.
&#8220;Reactions to SCOTUS allowing immigration sweeps to restart in LA: Mayor Bass: &#8216;Today&#8217;s ruling is not only dangerous, it&#8217;s un-American.&#8217; Gov. Newsom: &#8216;Trump&#8217;s hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA.&#8217; ACLU: &#8216;Outrageous.'&#8221;
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Reactions to SCOTUS allowing immigration sweeps to restart in LA:
Mayor Bass: &#8220;Today&#8217;s ruling is not only dangerous, it&#8217;s un-American&#8221;.
Gov. Newsom: &#8220;Trump&#8217;s hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA&#8221;.
ACLU: &#8220;Outrageous&#8221;
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1965132720113418548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Newsom&#8217;s full statement went a bit further, claiming that the Trump administration planned to hunt down anyone who looked Latino: &#8220;Every person is now a target.&#8221;
&#8220;@realDonaldTrump&#8217;s hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA. His administration is targeting Latinos — and anyone who doesn’t look or sound like @StephenM&#8217;s idea of an American — to deliberately harm our families and economy.&#8221;
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Trump&#8217;s private police force now has a green light to come after your family.
Every person is now a target.
California will continue to do all we can fight these abhorrent attacks on Californians.
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&#8220;Trump&#8217;s private police force now has a green light to come after your family. Every person is now a target. California will continue to do all we can fight these abhorrent attacks on Californians,&#8221; Newsom continued.
&#8220;I want the entire nation to hear me when I say this isn’t just an attack on the people of LA, this is an attack on every person in every city in this country. Today’s ruling is not only dangerous – it’s un-American and threatens the fabric of personal freedom in the U.S.,&#8221; Mayor Bass said.
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I want the entire nation to hear me when I say this isn’t just an attack on the people of LA, this is an attack on every person in every city in this country.
Today’s ruling is not only dangerous – it’s un-American and threatens the fabric of personal freedom in the U.S. <a href="https://t.co/mFU4ZCh93L">https://t.co/mFU4ZCh93L</a>
— Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorOfLA/status/1965129986307936354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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At the nation&#8217;s highest court, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor registered her complaint as well, sounding quite a bit like the elected Democrats who object to federal immigration agents being permitted to enforce federal immigration laws.
&#8220;Instead of allowing the District Court to consider these troubling allegations in the normal course, a majority of this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court’s order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,&#8221; Sotomayor protested. &#8220;We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.&#8221;
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Sotomayor dissent on SCOTUS decision on ICE raids in LA: “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I…
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1965094959817572823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump posted edited and AI-generated videos on Truth Social Wednesday night, mocking Democrats such as California Governor Gavin Newsom, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and California Senator Adam Schiff.
Trump also posted two videos celebrating Cracker Barrel&#8217;s decision to forego changing its logo after backlash from customers and a phone call with the president. Trump&#8217;s social media blast began just after 10:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, when he posted a short clip of Sen. Schiff speaking on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; The video of Schiff, whom Trump calls &#8220;Pencil Neck,&#8221; was edited to make the senator&#8217;s neck extremely long.
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Around 15 minutes later, Trump posted a video of himself dancing while a CNN host talks about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-panic-even-nyt-says-democrats-face-voter-registration-crisis">massive losses</a> for Democrats and gains for Republicans with voter registration.
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At 9:20 p.m., the president posted a video showing a pole vaulter with his head superimposed, soaring over a banner featuring the new Cracker Barrel logo. In the video, poll vaulter Trump rips down the new logo to reveal a banner with the traditional &#8220;Uncle Herschel&#8221; Cracker Barrel imagery. Trump also posted a video that had been going around X last week, showing the president dancing to &#8220;Y.M.C.A.&#8221; with Uncle Herschel.
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Trump then ripped into Democrats with multiple posts, including an AI-generated video showing Governor Pritzker sumo wrestling with former New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie, set to the &#8220;Chariots of Fire&#8221; theme in the background. Trump and Pritzker have traded barbs over the past week as the president mulls deploying the National Guard to Chicago to address the city&#8217;s violent crime. Trump&#8217;s son, Eric, posted a <a href="https://x.com/EricTrump/status/1963091795472240874">video</a> on X earlier this week that showed him stepping onto the dohyō against a sumo wrestler.
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The president also went after Governor Newsom. In one video, Newsom&#8217;s head is superimposed on a man who&#8217;s slapping and kicking a punching bag with Trump&#8217;s image on it. The AI-image of Newsom lets out girlish yelps that wouldn&#8217;t be out of place at a Jonas Brothers reunion tour as he serves up dainty palm-slaps.
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Another clip mocking Newsom shows the governor saying that he received &#8220;Trump 2028&#8221; hats in the mail. The video was edited to place one of the hats on Newsom&#8217;s head.
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Trump often rages against Democrats, the legacy media, and sometimes fellow Republicans on Truth Social, but Wednesday night was especially active — even for the president. The meme dump attacking Democrats comes as the party attempts to paint Trump as an authoritarian dictator who is seeking to grab more power by using the military to crack down on crime in big cities.
Newsom&#8217;s press office X account, which has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-newsom-is-embracing-a-new-social-media-strategy-as-2028-rumors-swirl-trump-parodies">focused</a> on posting memes and rants mocking Trump in recent weeks, posted a picture of an overweight Trump shortly after the president&#8217;s meme rampage on Wednesday night.
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Some on the Left have questioned Trump&#8217;s health after he was diagnosed with a condition that causes swelling in his legs. The president has also been pictured with bruising on his hand. Some people even speculated over the weekend that Trump had died or was suffering from a severe illness.
On Wednesday, Trump <a href="https://abc7.com/post/president-donald-trump-addresses-health-rumors-days-public-events/17729308/">responded</a> to the rumors, saying that he was &#8220;very active over the weekend.&#8221;

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A federal judge on Tuesday said that President Donald Trump broke the law by deploying the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles County amid violent protests targeting immigration enforcement operations. 
Judge Charles Breyer, the younger brother of former liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70496361/176/newsom-v-trump/">issued</a> a ruling that Trump was using the military to enforce domestic law in violation of federal law. The Trump administration had argued that the deployment of about 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to Los Angeles was only to protect federal property and personnel. 
“Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws,” wrote Breyer, a Clinton-appointed judge. “The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles.”
The specific law that Breyer said Trump violated was the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the use of the military to enforce domestic law. 
Breyer’s order, which takes effect in 10 days, blocks Trump from using the approximately 300 National Guard troops left in Los Angeles from “engaging in arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control, crowd control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting as informants, unless and until Defendants satisfy the requirements of a valid constitutional or statutory exception.”
The case came to Breyer after California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom sued Trump.
“DONALD TRUMP LOSES AGAIN,” Newsom posted on X. “The courts agree — his militarization of our streets and use of the military against US citizens is ILLEGAL.”
Responding to the ruling, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said that Breyer’s decision was misleading and that the National Guard would not be leaving Los Angeles. 
“The military will remain in Los Angeles,” he <a href="https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1962891988291957185">wrote</a> on X. “This is a false narrative and a misleading injunction. The military has never engaged in direct law enforcement operations here in LA. They protect our federal employees our properties so our federal agents can safely enforce federal laws in the face of the thugs being unleashed and encouraged by state and local politicians.”
A previous decision from Breyer blocking Trump from taking control of the National Guard from Newsom was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-scores-big-win-against-newsom-in-california-national-guard-clash">overturned</a> by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court agreed with the Trump administration that the National Guard was only being used to protect federal property and personnel.

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