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President Donald Trump’s lengthy phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin results in a key step toward peace with Ukraine, while Israel resumes its war with Hamas. The Trump administration releases thousands of files on JFK’s assassination. And a stock market dip raises questions about the future of the American economy.
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<h2>A Tale of Two Ceasefires</h2>
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Topline: In a major diplomatic breakthrough, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to phase one of a ceasefire in Ukraine following a long phone call with President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, hostilities between Israel and Hamas resumed in Gaza after the end of a two-month truce.
The Best of Times: President Trump campaigned on a promise to bring the war in Ukraine to an end upon taking office, and we’ve now seen by far the most significant steps toward peace since the conflict began. The president and Putin talked for at least 90 minutes; by the end, they agreed to a limited ceasefire to end strikes on Ukrainian energy and infrastructure facilities for the next thirty days. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said &#8220;civilian infrastructure&#8221; was struck by Russian drones after the Trump-Putin phone call. Moscow has used waves of drones and missiles to target Ukrainian energy plants and refineries, knocking out power across the country and cutting electricity production in half. Ukraine has had similar success striking Russian oil refineries, threatening one of the country’s top industries.
The Trump administration insists that yesterday’s agreement was phase one of a broader “movement to peace,” which will begin immediately with further formal negotiations taking place in the Middle East. Going forward, the two sides will work on a broader maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, followed by a full ceasefire across both countries, as the penultimate step to a “permanent peace.” In the meantime, the Kremlin announced they would conduct a prisoner swap with the Ukrainians later today, with 175 prisoners being released from each side.
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The Worst of Times: On Tuesday, Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza, killing hundreds of Palestinians. Hamas claims the victims were mostly civilians, including children. Israel says they targeted terrorists. After the strikes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that it was “only the beginning” and that his country would continue pushing forward until Hamas has been destroyed and all of the hostages are brought home.
The two sides had been abiding by a ceasefire since January, which included promises from Hamas to free all of the remaining hostages in their possession. But in the last two months, the terror group released just 33 hostages — eight of whom were dead — while Israel released nearly 1,800 Palestinian prisoners, including a number of convicted terrorists. Netanyahu says Hamas failed to abide by the terms of the ceasefire and Israeli intelligence had proof they were regrouping and preparing new attacks on his nation.
“Hamas was actively recruiting, actively rearming, and planning its next attacks across the border,” Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, told Morning Wire. “Israel concluded that the whole situation was untenable, and while the last thing they wanted to do was to endanger the lives of these hostages further, because they&#8217;re all in desperate shape, there was no choice but to ratchet up a military pressure on Hamas in the hope that it&#8217;ll actually come to the table and strike a deal.”
<h2>JFK Files Released</h2>
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Topline: The Trump administration released tens of thousands of pages of documents on Tuesday related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
During his 2024 presidential campaign, President Trump pledged to release all classified documents on the Kennedy assassination, and late on Tuesday afternoon, the documents began to appear on the National Archives website. According to ABC News, DOJ attorneys were up all night sifting through documents, examining sensitive information, and making decisions on potential redactions. Trump said on Monday that about 80,000 pages of yet-to-be-released documents on the JFK assassination would be made public.
“We’ve got a tremendous amount of paper,” President Trump said in a statement on Monday. “You’ve got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything.”
No bombshells have turned up in the files yet – again, 80,000 pages is a lot to get through – there are handwritten notes, old typewritten reports, and some blurry pages. Daily Wire reporters have found some entertaining nuggets. One document appears to show that John F. Kennedy Jr., before he died in 1999, called then-Sen. Joe Biden a “traitor.” Another showed that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was tracking a set of safes – and knew their combinations – that were purchased for a Soviet embassy in Cuba. Another bit told of how Gary Underhill, a former U.S. Army captain in World War II, suspected a “small clique” in the CIA was behind JFK’s assassination. The document said he was afraid, and that six months later, he was found shot and pronounced dead by suicide.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard wrote in a post after the files were released, quote, “President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency… Promises made, promises kept.”
<h2>Market Volatility</h2>
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Topline: After a tumultuous month for stocks, and new Trump tariffs, the Fed will meet today to discuss rate changes.
Stock prices have declined significantly over the past month, a downturn many analysts attribute to the Trump administration’s aggressive tariff policies. As of market close on Tuesday:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The DOW Jones Industrial Average had <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/djia">declined</a> by 6.68% over the last month</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/comp">Nasdaq</a> was down 12.66%</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx?mod=search_symbol">S&amp;P 500</a> was down 8.40%</li>
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Some observers, like The Daily Wire’s own <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao3GqTFChnE">Ben Shapiro</a>, have cautioned that tariffs create instability and could cause an economic downturn, which could be politically disastrous for the Trump administration. Others, including members of the Trump administration, are more bullish on the long-term benefits of tariffs and believe that the negative effects on the American economy have been exaggerated in the press.
“The economy in the first quarter is doing better than the media is reporting,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business on &#8220;Mornings with Maria.&#8221; “We are seeing some good underlying data from credit card companies, from banks … the underlying economy is healthy.”
“When you look at what&#8217;s going on with tariffs, obviously, it&#8217;s creating a lot of uncertainty, which is causing a lot of fantastic stocks to pull back or sell off,” Mark Tepper, CEO of Strategic Wealth Partners, told Morning Wire. “That&#8217;s presenting good buying opportunities.”

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Morning Brief: A Tale Of Two Ceasefires, JFK Files Released, And Market Volatility

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> has made good on his pledge for transparency, going through with the release of secret documents related to the 1963 assassination of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-f-kennedy-jfk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John F. Kennedy</a>.
Roughly 80,000 pages of previously-classified records are being published with no redactions in compliance with an executive order signed by Trump, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said in a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2025/4055-pr-03-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> on Tuesday. Trump had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releasing-all-jfk-files-tomorrow-i-dont-believe-were-going-to-redact-anything" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the plan for disclosure on Monday while touring the Kennedy Center.
&#8220;President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency. Today, per his direction, previously redacted JFK Assassination Files are being released to the public with no redactions. Promises made, promises kept,&#8221; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a <a href="https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1902136765953032472" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X.
ODNI said the records will be available to access either <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online</a> starting on Tuesday or &#8220;via hard copy or on analog media formats, accessible to the American people&#8221; at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. &#8220;Records that are currently only available for in-person viewing are being digitized and will be uploaded to the&#8221; repository on the National Archives website in the &#8220;coming days,&#8221; the agency noted.
Gabbard will post updates to X and Trump&#8217;s Truth Social as the files are released, said ODNI, which added that the files will also be posted on the White House&#8217;s website.
ODNI said additional documents &#8220;withheld under court seal or for grand jury secrecy, and records subject to section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, must be unsealed before release.&#8221; It noted that the National Archives is &#8220;working with the Department of Justice to expedite the unsealing of these records. Grand juries from many years ago have already seen them, so most of this information is already out, but regardless of this, this information will be immediately released upon the direction of the Court.&#8221;
Kennedy was assassinated at the age of 46 on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Soon after, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and onetime defector to the Soviet Union, was arrested and charged with the killings of Kennedy and Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Although Oswald denied killing Kennedy and claimed he was a &#8220;patsy,&#8221; he was never tried — Oswald was shot dead at the age of 24 on national television at the Dallas Police headquarters by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
The Warren Commission, established in 1963 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, concluded that Oswald acted alone. However, doubts lingered and The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 was signed into law by former President George H.W. Bush. Multiple delays in document disclosures happened since that time, giving room for conspiracy theories about Kennedy&#8217;s death to remain nearly 60 years later.
Trump oversaw the release of some documents during his first term in office, but declined to go through with a full disclosure while <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-withholds-jfk-assassination-records-due-to-threats-to-us-national-security-interests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> &#8220;identifiable national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.&#8221; President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-delays-full-disclosure-of-secret-jfk-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also held off on making a full disclosure</a>. The National Archives <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in December</a> of 2022 that over 97% of the collection of about 5 million pages had been made available to the public.
In 2023, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pledges-to-release-all-jfk-assassination-files-if-re-elected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged</a> that he would release all the JFK assassination files if re-elected to the White House. After returning to office — in January —  Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an order to declassify the assassination files of JFK, his brother and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. RFK&#8217;s son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is now serving as Trump&#8217;s secretary of Health and Human Services.

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Trump Releases Roughly 80,000 Pages Of Secret JFK Assassination Files

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President Donald Trump said while touring the Kennedy Center on Monday that he is releasing all of the files related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy this week and that they will likely not be redacted.
Trump told reporters that the release will happen Tuesday afternoon and will include approximately 80,000 documents.
&#8220;While we&#8217;re here, I thought it would be appropriate, we are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;So people have been waiting for decades for this, and I&#8217;ve instructed my people that are responsible, lots of different people, put together by Tulsi Gabbard, and that&#8217;s going to be released tomorrow.&#8221;
&#8220;We have a tremendous amount of paper. You&#8217;ve got a lot of reading. I don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re going to redact anything. I said, just don&#8217;t redact. You can&#8217;t redact,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But we&#8217;re going to be releasing the JFK files, and that would be tomorrow.&#8221;
Trump suggested that he has not personally seen all the documents, but he has heard about them.
The president added that there will be no summaries released with the documents and that the public and the media will have to come up with their own conclusions.
&#8220;It&#8217;s approximately 80,000 pages,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So it&#8217;s a lot of stuff, and you&#8217;ll make your own determination.&#8221;
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Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who jumped into action to protect Jackie Kennedy immediately after President John F. Kennedy was struck by an assassin&#8217;s bullets, died at his home in Belvedere, California, on Friday. He was 93.
Hill&#8217;s death was announced by his publicist, Jennifer Robinson, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/clint-hill-dead.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The decorated Secret Service agent is known for jumping onto the back of the Kennedys&#8217; limousine moments after the president was shot in Dallas in 1963. In <a href="https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/assassination/jfk-assassination-remastered/2812768765001" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video footage</a> of the assassination, Hill — who was assigned to protect the first lady — is seen running toward the limo and jumping onto the back of the vehicle as Jackie reaches for his help. Hill pushed Jackie back into her seat, protecting her from potentially falling off the back of the limo.
Kennedy aide David F. Powers later told the Warren Commission, which was tasked with investigating the assassination, that &#8220;Special Agent Clinton Hill saved [Jackie&#8217;s] life.” Powers added that Jackie “probably would have fallen off the rear end of the car and would have been right in the path of the other cars proceeding in the motorcade.’’ In the limousine, Hill recalled hearing the first lady say, &#8220;My God! They have shot his head off!&#8221; Hill then turned to the Secret Service agents in the car behind them and gave them a thumbs down, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/02/24/clint-hill-secret-service-kennedy-dead/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
After JFK&#8217;s death, Hill continued working in the first lady&#8217;s security detail through the 1964 presidential election. Hill said that he became close friends with both President Kennedy and Jackie and was often invited to their social gatherings as a guest, not just as an agent on duty.
Hill retired from the Secret Service in 1975, but not before he became the assistant director in charge of all protective forces. Hill was also given the highest award given by the Treasury Department, which previously oversaw the Secret Service, 13 days after the JFK assassination for his “extraordinary courage and heroic effort in the face of maximum danger.”
In an op-ed for the Times in 2010, Hill wrote about the assassination that changed the trajectory of American history. According to Hill&#8217;s account, immediately after the first shot rang out, he turned to locate where the sound came from and then &#8220;scanned the presidential limousine and saw the president grab at his throat and lurch to the left.&#8221;
&#8220;I jumped off the running board and ran toward his car. I was so focused on getting to the president and Mrs. Kennedy to provide them cover that I didn’t hear the second shot,&#8221; Hill wrote. &#8220;I was just feet away when I heard and felt the effects of a third shot. It hit the president in the upper right rear of his head, and blood was everywhere. Once in the back seat, I threw myself on top of the president and first lady so that if another shot came, it would hit me instead.&#8221;
In an <a href="https://x.com/piersmorgan/status/1894132415171321881" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Piers Morgan on CNN in 2012, Hill said he&#8217;s &#8220;always felt a sense of guilt&#8221; for President Kennedy&#8217;s death on his watch.
&#8220;I was the only agent present that had an opportunity to do anything because of the way everything happened,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;When the shots came in from the right rear because I was on the left running board and my vision took me across the back of the president&#8217;s car, I saw the president grab at his throat and lunge to his left; I knew something was wrong. None of the other agents could do that because when they looked toward the shot, they looked away from the president&#8217;s car. So I was the only one who really had a chance, and that has [eaten] at me throughout the years.&#8221;
In 2021, Hill married journalist and author Lisa McCubbin with whom he collaborated on multiple books including &#8220;Five Days in November&#8221; and &#8220;My Travels With Mrs. Kennedy.&#8221; Hill is survived by his wife along with his two sons, Chris and Corey, whom he had with his first wife, Gwendolyn Brown. He is also survived by five grandchildren and two step-grandsons.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> announced on Tuesday the creation of a task force geared toward the investigation and declassification of covert government materials ranging from the assassinations of prominent figures in American history to the origins of COVID to UFOs.
Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) declared that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) will lead the &#8220;Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets&#8221; just weeks after President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an order to declassify the assassination files of former President John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
&#8220;For too long, the federal government has kept information of public interest classified and the American people are demanding greater transparency. This secrecy has sowed distrust in our institutions,&#8221; Comer said in a statement. &#8220;The Task Force will build on the Trump Administration’s efforts to declassify records of national importance and ensure Americans get the answers they deserve. Representative Luna is committed to shining a light on the truth and ending the era of secrecy. It’s time to let the sunlight in and finally provide answers the American public has long demanded.&#8221;
A press release said the task force has been authorized for six months pursuant to committee rules, and members would be announced at a later date. The Oversight Committee also revealed a battery of <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Task-Force-Letters.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letters</a> that Comer and Luna sent to leaders, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, seeking briefings in light of Trump&#8217;s order and noting they would then request to see relevant documents and make recommendations on the declassification process.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Signed</a> on January 23, Trump&#8217;s directive said the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General would have 15 days to &#8220;present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy&#8221; and 45 days to &#8220;review records related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of these records.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, Trump said: &#8220;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed.&#8221;
The House Oversight task force announcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-discovers-thousands-of-secret-jfk-assassination-records-after-trump-order-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed</a> a report by Axios on Monday that said the FBI found thousands of records that were never submitted to a review board overseeing the release of documents related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
Luna, who was first elected to the House in 2022, has been a key player in the bipartisan inquiry into unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly described as unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
&#8220;The federal government has been hiding information from Americans for decades. We have spent years seeking information on the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, Reverend King, and other government secrets without success,&#8221; Luna said. &#8220;It is time to give Americans the answers they deserve, which is why I am honored to lead this bipartisan task force that seeks truth and transparency. We will also investigate UAPs/USOs, the Epstein client list, COVID-19 origins, and the 9/11 files. We will work alongside President Trump and his cabinet members to deliver truth to the American people. From this moment forward, we will restore trust through transparency.&#8221;
During a press conference with Comer at the U.S. Capitol, Luna suggested the task force&#8217;s first area of focus will be on the John F. Kennedy assassination and then made a stunning assertion that cast doubt on Lee Harvey Oswald <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lee-harvey-oswald-tied-to-cia-before-jfk-assassination-investigator-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">being the lone gunman</a>.
&#8220;I can tell you, based on what I’ve been seeing so far, the initial hearing that was actually held here in Congress was actually faulty, and the single bullet theory — I believe there were two shooters and we should be finding more information as we are able to gain access into the SCIF before the files are actually released to the public,&#8221; Luna said.
Watch the full press conference below:
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The FBI has discovered thousands of records that were never submitted to a review board overseeing the release of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Axios reported that 2,400 records tied to the assassination were discovered by officials after President Donald Trump ordered that all records be released.
The records were supposed to have been transferred to the JFK Assassination Records Review Board and the National Archives in compliance with the 1992 JFK Records Act.
The still classified records are among 14,000 pages of documents that were uncovered during the review that was ordered by Trump.
&#8220;This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,&#8221; said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination. &#8220;The FBI is finally saying, &#8216;Let&#8217;s respond to the president&#8217;s order,&#8217; instead of keeping the secrecy going.&#8221;
Various U.S. intelligence agencies were requesting that some redactions be made to the records to protect sources and methods.
White House staffers that spoke with the publication said that Trump would &#8220;hit the roof&#8221; if there were any attempts to prevent the disclosure of the records.
When more JFK files were made public in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97% of the roughly 5 million pages were public, but around 3,000 documents remained classified and another 30,000 had redactions, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-files-to-be-released/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month. Trump has promised since his first term in office to make all of the files public. Questions have swirled for decades around President Kennedy’s assassination, which occurred in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
&#8220;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades,&#8221; Trump said as he signed an executive order forcing the release of the JFK files. &#8220;And everything will be revealed.&#8221;
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BREAKING: President Trump signs an Executive Order to declassify the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files<a href="https://t.co/X0GwLocBnS">pic.twitter.com/X0GwLocBnS</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1882531336965312695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

FBI Discovers Thousands Of Secret JFK Assassination Records After Trump Order: Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on X for the first time in nearly a month on Friday to thank President Donald Trump for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everything-will-be-revealed-trump-declassifies-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-jr-assassination-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declassifying</a> the files related to the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, and father, Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify the JFK and RFK files, along with the files on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. After signing the order, the president told his aide to give the pen he used to RFK Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary.
&#8220;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed,&#8221; Trump said.
In a post on Friday, Kennedy thanked Trump &#8220;for trusting American citizens and for taking the first step down the road towards reversing this disastrous trajectory&#8221; of government secrecy. He argued, &#8220;A government that withholds information is inherently fearful of its citizens’ ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;JFK warned that &#8216;The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy … We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it,'&#8221; Kennedy wrote.
&#8220;The 60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation employed by Intel officials to obscure and suppress troubling facts about JFK’s assassination has provided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises — the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and COVID — that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military/Medical Industrial Complex and pushed us further down the road toward totalitarianism,&#8221; he added.
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JFK warned that “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy … We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers… <a href="https://t.co/cM0lxiycA7">https://t.co/cM0lxiycA7</a>
&mdash; Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1882848590563065858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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According to Trump&#8217;s order, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Attorney General will have 15 days to come up with a plan for the release of the JFK files and 45 days to plan for the release of the RFK and MLK files. The Senate still has to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to serve as DNI and Pam Bondi to serve as AG.
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“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay,” Trump’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declassification-of-records-concerning-the-assassinations-of-president-john-f-kenned/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> states.
The family of MLK also released a <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/king-family-responds-trump-ordering-files-assassination-declassified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> after Trump signed the order and asked for &#8220;the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.&#8221;
&#8220;For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years,&#8221; the King family said.

RFK Jr.

RFK Jr. Thanks Trump For Declassifying JFK Files, Blasts ’60-Year Strategy Of Lies And Secrecy’

RFK Jr. Thanks Trump For Declassifying JFK Files

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> signed an order on Thursday to declassify the assassination files of former President John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
As he signed the order, Trump said, &#8220;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed.&#8221; The president then instructed his aide to give the pen he signed the order with to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary and the son of RFK and nephew of JFK.
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BREAKING: President Trump signs an Executive Order to declassify the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files<a href="https://t.co/X0GwLocBnS">pic.twitter.com/X0GwLocBnS</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1882531336965312695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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When more JFK files were made public in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97% of the roughly 5 million pages were public, but around 3,000 documents remained classified and another 30,000 had redactions, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-files-to-be-released/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Trump has promised since his first term in office to make all of the files public. Questions have swirled for decades around President Kennedy&#8217;s assassination, which occurred in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
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&#8220;More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declassification-of-records-concerning-the-assassinations-of-president-john-f-kenned/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> states.
All records relating to JFK&#8217;s assassination were to be made public by 2017 as specified by the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, but Trump &#8220;accepted proposed redactions from executive departments and agencies (agencies) in 2017 and 2018&#8221; while ordering &#8220;the continued re-evaluation of those remaining redactions.&#8221; Former President Joe Biden then allowed agencies to take additional time to review the files and withhold information from the public.
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&#8220;I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s order continues. &#8220;And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest.&#8221;
Per the order, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General will have 15 days to &#8220;present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy&#8221; and 45 days to &#8220;review records related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of these records.&#8221;

‘Everything Will Be Revealed’: Trump Declassifies JFK, RFK, And MLK Jr. Assassination Files

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy and mother of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died on Thursday after suffering a stroke a week ago. She was 96 years old.
Former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) announced his grandmother&#8217;s passing in a post on X, saying, &#8220;It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week.&#8221;
&#8220;Along with a lifetime&#8217;s work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind nine children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren, along with numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love her dearly,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;She was a devout Catholic and a daily communicant, and we are comforted in knowing she is reunited with the love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy; her children David and Michael; her daughter-in-law Mary; her grandchildren Maeve and Saoirse; and her great-grandchildren Gideon and Josie. Please keep her in your hearts and prayers.&#8221;
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It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week. Along with a lifetime&#39;s work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind…
&mdash; Joe Kennedy III (@joekennedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/joekennedy/status/1844396302886424963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cheryl Hines, Kennedy Jr&#8217;s wife, shared a tribute and a photo remembering her mother-in-law: &#8220;It has been my great honor to have shared laughter and love with Ethel. Her charisma, wisdom and strength will live on with me in every memory of her. Bobby and I spent many warm nights in Hyannis Port having dinner with her and hearing stories from her extraordinary life. She always made me laugh. She was never too serious except when she needed to be. She dressed to nines with bare feet. She will be missed. My love is with the family.&#8221;
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My mother in law, Ethel Kennedy, Bobby&#39;s mother, passed this morning. It has been my great honor to have shared laughter and love with Ethel. Her charisma, wisdom and strength will live on with me in every memory of her. Bobby and I spent many warm nights in Hyannis Port having… <a href="https://t.co/j7faAcU1Bm">pic.twitter.com/j7faAcU1Bm</a>
&mdash; Cheryl Hines (@CherylHines) <a href="https://twitter.com/CherylHines/status/1844427957332238617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Maria Shriver remembered her aunt in a touching tribute with several photos, saying, &#8220;My aunt, Ethel Kennedy passed this morning. What a life she led. What a huge family she created and leaves behind. I’m so glad I was able to laugh with her this summer, to share memories with her. She was a devoted sister-in-law to my mother, a one of a kind aunt to me and my cousins.&#8221;
&#8220;She was fearless, funny, smart, incredible athlete, patriot, madly in love with my Uncle Bobby, and devoted to making our country better in every way,&#8221; Shriver continued. &#8220;She was a woman of deep faith. When it got tough, and there were a lot of tough times, she dug in. She relied on her faith like my own mother. They were a pair of strong, determined women. What lives, what examples. It’s impossible to put her life in a caption. I love you, Ethel. Godspeed, and to all my cousins, I send my love to you on this day and on all days.&#8221;
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My aunt, Ethel Kennedy passed this morning. What a life she led. What a huge family she created and leaves behind. I’m so glad I was able to laugh with her this summer, to share memories with her. She was a devoted sister-in-law to my mother, a one of a kind aunt to me and my… <a href="https://t.co/u5ruoc4vye">pic.twitter.com/u5ruoc4vye</a>
&mdash; Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) <a href="https://twitter.com/mariashriver/status/1844415739198882258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://x.com/TimMeadsUSA/status/1844411295392800953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> on social media, The New York Times wasted no time in using the Kennedy matriarch&#8217;s obituary to take potshots at RFK Jr. over his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race and endorse Trump.
Paragraphs three and four read as follows:
<blockquote>Her death came a little more than six weeks after her third eldest child, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ended his long-shot independent presidential campaign and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump in his bid for re-election.
Mr. Kennedy’s decision to support the Republican nominee and his earlier choice to challenge Mr. Trump’s Democratic rivals, initially President Biden and then Vice President Kamala Harris, caused a painful breach in the Kennedy family, compelling some of his many siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews — heirs to a staunchly Democratic lineage — to speak out in dismay and anger and originally endorse the president, a friend of the family, over Mr. Kennedy.</blockquote>
Kennedy <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/politics/ethel-kennedy-dies/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be remembered</a> for her work to champion many of the same environmental and human rights-related causes her late husband valued, beginning with the founding of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a non-profit organization. Former President Barack Obama presented Ethel Kennedy with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation&#8217;s highest civilian honor, in 2014.

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Before it became a content <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7VvmY_VDQo" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DH7VvmY_VDQo&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724514983498000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3KrQ2tnnhIiw1c05xguc5p">farm</a> full of AI generated clickbait, Sports Illustrated was at one point a serious publication where major political figures discussed issues of national importance.
That was the case in December of 1960, when Sports Illustrated featured an article from John F. Kennedy, who was the president-elect at the time. The article was entitled &#8220;<a href="https://tomnikkola.com/soft-american/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tomnikkola.com/soft-american/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724514983498000&amp;usg=AOvVaw19ziOfPEJ3u7XhIj0zmnpI">The Soft American</a>,&#8221; and it addressed the crisis in masculinity that America was experiencing in the postwar period, as men took office jobs and adjusted to suburban life. In the article, Kennedy called on men to maintain their physical and mental fitness because the strength of the country depended on it. As Kennedy put it, &#8220;The knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.” It was a sentiment you’re unlikely to hear from politicians these days, expressed with an eloquence and maturity of thought and speech that you’re even less likely to hear.
But it was a theme that Kennedy hit often. It&#8217;s one of the reasons he was elected. For Democrats in the 1960s, masculinity was a virtue worthy of reinforcing and protecting as much as possible. Going &#8220;soft,&#8221; as Kennedy put it, was tempting. It was the natural way forward for a lot of people. But it would ultimately doom the country.
This wasn&#8217;t a particularly controversial point back then, or at any other point in world history. But in the 1960s, Democrats were the political party that most successfully communicated that message to Americans.
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Six decades later, amid another genuine masculinity crisis — as evidenced by plummeting sperm counts, a rash of men who say they&#8217;re really women, declining rates of marriage and so on — Democrats are taking a very different approach. They&#8217;ve realized that emasculated men are easier to control. Weaker men are much less likely to resist wealth confiscation, gun confiscation and other indignities.  And because the modern Democrat Party cares about control more than anything else, they&#8217;re not taking JFK&#8217;s approach. Instead, they&#8217;re doing everything they can to make the masculinity crisis even worse.
Specifically, Democrats are now pushing a new plan to &#8220;revamp&#8221; and &#8220;update&#8221; the entire concept of masculinity for the modern age. This is being achieved through their two new mascots of modern masculinity — their geldings that they’ve been trotting around as a positive example for all men to follow — Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff.
This new ideal man — personified by Emhoff and Walz — is a bumbling cornball. He&#8217;s an obedient lackey who does not challenge anyone or anything, least of all the woman who he happily subordinates himself to. It is certainly no coincidence that the Left’s paragons of masculinity are men who play second fiddle to women. This might sound like one of those forbidden &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; that&#8217;s definitely not happening. But pretty much the entire corporate media has admitted it&#8217;s happening. Here&#8217;s CNN for example, explaining that Democrats are intentionally trying to appeal to men who are not, &#8220;testosterone laden&#8221;:
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“They are doing so in trying to put forward male figures—Tim Walz being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night—who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, gun-toting kind of guy.&quot;
CNN is calling Walz and Emhoff girly men!<a href="https://t.co/0lM751nDfX">pic.twitter.com/0lM751nDfX</a>
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1826705163840881074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When CNN comes out and states that the Democrats&#8217; vice presidential nominee and the vice president&#8217;s husband both have low testosterone — you know this is a message that the party pre-approved. At any other point in American history, this would&#8217;ve been seen as insulting and condescending, and rightfully so. But Democrats no longer believe it&#8217;s remotely insulting or condescending to publicly state, as explicitly as possible, that someone is an effeminate, low-testosterone wimp. That&#8217;s because they want to encourage that behavior as much as possible. That&#8217;s why CNN isn&#8217;t the only media outlet doing this.
The New York Times, for example, recently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/arts/television/tim-walz-dnc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/arts/television/tim-walz-dnc.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724514983498000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3x7wqEudqqR6PSX143BOoi">reported</a> from the DNC that Tim Walz&#8217;s prime-time debut, &#8220;offered football analogies and an alternative to Trumpian masculinity.&#8221; The paper stated that &#8220;Mr. Walz contributed an idea of masculinity that contrasted with Donald Trump’s performative, pro-wrestling-influenced machismo.&#8221; According to the Times, &#8220;Not all coaches are men, but there are few pop-culture archetypes more male-coded. There’s the coach as paternalistic strongman — the my-way-or-the-highway leader whom you obey or you’re off the team. There’s the coach as icon — the Vince Lombardis and Tom Landrys whom fans hold equal to political leaders, or greater. But there’s also the coach as nurturer, mentor, character builder, surrogate father. &#8230; Wednesday’s production cast the Democrats as the party of both football and Oprah, balancing the ticket with a little inspirational, male-weepie sports drama.&#8221;
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Yes, they wrote that Tim Walz adds &#8220;male-weepie drama&#8221; to the ticket, and we&#8217;re supposed to think that&#8217;s somehow &#8220;inspirational.&#8221; In fact, we&#8217;re supposed to think that a weepy male is so inspirational that it makes Tim Walz the &#8220;surrogate father&#8221; of America. Who needs your own father when you have a phony, manipulative politician who&#8217;s willing to cry a little on stage as he lies about every possible detail in his biography? Why not have Tim Walz raise your children? That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re saying. (And by the way, Tim Walz signed a law allowing Minnesota to effectively raise your children if he or she identifies as &#8220;trans&#8221; and flees to the state. So this isn&#8217;t really even a rhetorical question.)
The Independent ran a similar <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tim-walz-dnc-harris-speech-vice-president-trump-b2600129.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tim-walz-dnc-harris-speech-vice-president-trump-b2600129.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724514983498000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0EP6UbVG8VaitgogrDonpC">headline</a> pushing Tim Walz as the symbol of masculinity, which is how you know this is all coordinated: &#8220;Tim Walz is clearly a midwest ‘man’s man’. But he’s the antidote to toxic Maga masculinity.&#8221; The Independent wrote, &#8220;The image of a high school football coach is often one of a whistle-clutching neanderthal. &#8230; Walz and the Harris campaign are making a point of highlighting the ways that the Minnesota governor has sought to break that cultural mold – like when the then-football coach took the initiative to sponsor a gay-straight alliance at the school where he worked.&#8221;
Yes, because nothing says &#8220;masculinity&#8221; like a grown man who, for some reason, helped to organize a gay club at his school so that he could talk with children about their sexuality — all before he eventually put tampons in the men&#8217;s bathroom. That&#8217;s what masculinity means to Democrats in 2024. It means that you&#8217;re willing to advance Left-wing politics at every available opportunity. It has nothing to do with your character, or your physical attributes or any of that. As long as you&#8217;re a loyal servant of the party, that makes you &#8220;masculine.&#8221;
For a white guy like Tim Walz, playing the role of a loyal foot soldier means that he has to be willing to be mocked, openly, for his skin color. So Tim Walz has happily played along with that. As I&#8217;ve discussed before, he appeared for this scripted moment with Kamala Harris, in which she mocks him for being white and he nods submissively. Watch:
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Listen, I’m just not much of a spice guy. <a href="https://t.co/u9yadJBMh2">pic.twitter.com/u9yadJBMh2</a>
&mdash; Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1824215589662998607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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At the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum, Inez Stepman summed up what we&#8217;re seeing here as well as anyone. She <a href="https://x.com/InezFeltscher/status/1826657669442404789" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;The Tim Walz packaging is meant to present a &#8216;welcoming&#8217; invitation to white men as part of the rainbow coalition: join the DNC, and become merely a joke, not a villain.&#8221; As Stepman put it, Walz is playing the &#8220;bumbling, useless, non-threatening white dad in your typical corporate commercial,&#8221; which is &#8220;the only non-oppressor role for white men available in that worldview. &#8230; Same reason it’s white *dudes* for Harris and not white *men* &#8211; the latter too dignified, too threatening, there must be an air of degradation and court jester to the thing.&#8221;
This is what Democrats are now presenting as &#8220;what it means to be a man.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a top Democrat in the Michigan state senate to explain:
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Dems have the right message w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tim_Walz</a> on what it means to be a man: joyful, family-focused, fun AND a hunter, veteran, and coach working arm-in-arm with a competent woman. Not the toxic hyper-masculinity that denigrates women on display in the GOP. (shoutout <a href="https://twitter.com/dudes4harris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dudes4harris</a>) <a href="https://t.co/HNCbyjoUEc">pic.twitter.com/HNCbyjoUEc</a>
&mdash; Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) <a href="https://twitter.com/MalloryMcMorrow/status/1821925519220453570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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No one on the Right, anywhere, has stated that being a man means you don&#8217;t care about your family. Nobody — at least no conservative — has ever suggested that real men don’t love their daughters. In fact we have always said exactly the opposite. We have always said that the first thing a real man does is protect and care for his family. That has been our message all along. It’s the Left that condemned such ideas as paternalistic and patriarchal. Also, needless to say, no one on the Right has stated that men can&#8217;t be happy, or that men can&#8217;t be veterans, or that men can&#8217;t &#8220;love football.” Nothing she&#8217;s saying there makes any sense; it&#8217;s a complete strawman. She&#8217;s lying because she wants viewers to go along with her framing, which is that Tim Walz is the definition of &#8220;what it means to be a man.&#8221; That is what the highest levels of the Democrat Party have told their lieutenants to push, so that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing.
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But if you&#8217;re not buying the Tim Walz pitch, there&#8217;s always Doug Emhoff, who was just forced to admit (many years after the fact) that he cheated on his first wife by having an affair with the nanny. He also refused to say what happened to his child after he got the nanny pregnant — stating only that he went through &#8220;tough times,&#8221; because everything is always about him. This is apparently another paragon of masculinity, according to Politico. They <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/21/doug-emhoff-dnc-speech-kamala-harris-00175319" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>: &#8220;Meet Doug Emhoff: Dad-in-Chief. The second gentleman’s words aimed to humanize Harris as not just a policymaker, but a successful woman who balances her career and family. &#8230; The White House might be getting a wife guy as the country’s first-ever &#8216;first gentleman.'&#8221;
Yes, Doug Emhoff is a &#8220;Dad-in-chief.&#8221; He&#8217;s a real &#8220;wife guy,&#8221; for cheating on his wife and lying about it for years. Time Magazine agrees. They reported on what they called &#8220;The Doug Emhoff model of masculinity.&#8221; They <a href="https://time.com/7013458/doug-emhoff-dnc-speech-masculinity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, after Emhoff&#8217;s speech at the DNC, that: &#8220;It was a relief to have an alternative model of manliness to admire and aspire to than the one often projected on the culture.&#8221;
These media organizations, like the Democrat Party that controls them, know exactly what they&#8217;re doing here. They know that Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz are not presenting an &#8220;alternative model of manliness&#8221; at all. They are in fact projecting the exact opposite of &#8220;manliness&#8221; because they want to destroy the concept of manliness entirely. They are projecting cowardice and submissiveness because cowardly and submissive men are their core constituency. That&#8217;s why, in the span of just 60 years, the so-called &#8220;Soft American&#8221; has gone from the bane of Democrat Party, to their model for America.

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