Editor&#8217;s Note: On Friday, law enforcement authorities revealed what was inscribed on the bullets in the suspected assassin&#8217;s rifle. Contrary to a law enforcement bulletin reported by numerous outlets on Thursday, the inscriptions did not include any references to &#8220;transgender ideology.&#8221;
The inscriptions revealed on Friday, along with the identity of the captured suspect, were: &#8220;Hey Fascist! Catch&#8221;; the symbols &#8220;^&gt;VVV&#8221;; &#8220;If you read this you are gay LMAO&#8221;; and &#8220;Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao,&#8221; an apparent reference to an Italian folksong. The article below reads as it was originally published.
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Investigators found ammunition inside the .30 caliber bolt action rifle believed to have been used in the Charlie Kirk assassination, with government documents reported on by both <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/ammunition-in-kirk-shooting-engraved-with-transgender-antifascist-ideology-sources-pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b">The Wall Street Journal</a> and conservative commentator <a href="https://x.com/scrowder/status/1966118431511433267">Steven Crowder</a> saying that unused ammunition was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.&#8221;
The Department of Justice did not confirm the reports, telling The Daily Wire that the investigation is still ongoing, with investigators analyzing the suspected assassin&#8217;s rifle and the ammunition.
Crowder said that his team received an email from an Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms officer on Thursday morning with what appeared to be an internal law enforcement message. The Wall Street Journal also reported that it had reviewed an internal law enforcement bulletin that discussed transgender and antifascist ideology on ammunition.
&#8220;All cartridges have engraved wording on them expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology,&#8221; according to the email that Crowder posted on X. &#8220;An emergency trace has been submitted, and ATF SLC is working leads generated by the trace. The firearm and ammunition have been taken by the FBI for DNA analysis and fingerprint impressions.&#8221;
Kirk was answering an audience question on transgender mass shooters seconds before he was assassinated. It was reported last week that the Department of Justice is considering moves to ban guns for individuals who believe they are transgender.
The reported law enforcement message also stated that the rifle that was recovered is &#8220;an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle,&#8221; adding that it was &#8220;wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus.&#8221; A <a href="https://x.com/nypost/status/1966160408718274982">photo</a> of what officials believe to be the assassin&#8217;s rifle was published by The New York Post.
Parts of the reported law enforcement email line up with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-campus-event?contentProgram=Charlie%20Kirk%20Assassinated%20At%20Utah%20College%20Event%2C%20Dead%20at%2031&amp;contentType=Post&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">updates</a> provided by the Utah Department of Public Safety and FBI officials on Thursday morning.
Robert Bohls, the special agent in charge of the FBI&#8217;s Salt Lake City field office, said at a press conference that authorities believe they have recovered the suspected assassin&#8217;s &#8220;high-powered bolt-action rifle,&#8221; adding that the rifle was found &#8220;in a wooded area.&#8221;
Utah DPS Commissioner Beau Mason added that authorities have &#8220;good video footage&#8221; of the suspected assassin, but they are holding off on releasing the video footage as they &#8220;work through some technologies and ways to identify this individual.&#8221; The suspect is believed to have shot Kirk from a perch on the roof of an adjacent building to where the conservative commentator was speaking in a courtyard on campus. Authorities believe the suspect jumped off the roof and fled off campus and into a neighborhood after the assassination. Mason said the suspected assassin appeared to be &#8220;of college age.&#8221;
The FBI said on Wednesday night that two subjects who were detained and questioned in connection with the assassination were released after &#8220;law enforcement found no current ties to the shooting with either of these individuals.” FBI Director Kash Patel said earlier on Wednesday that the suspected assassin had been taken into custody. He later said, “The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement. Our investigation continues, and we will continue to release information in the interest of transparency.”

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Here’s What Was Inscribed On Ammo In Gun Authorities Say Was Used To Assassinate Charlie Kirk

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A forensic linguistic analysis conducted by three leading AI research systems unanimously concluded there was an “extremely low probability” that a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman was authored by President Donald Trump, citing “profound” and “pervasive” deviations from Trump’s documented writing patterns spanning four decades of public and private correspondence.
“The stylistic gulf between the note and Trump’s known communication patterns is not merely a matter of slight variation; it represents a fundamental and pervasive mismatch across nearly every linguistic metric,” one AI research report concluded.
The Wall Street Journal in July <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7">obtained</a> a supposedly Trump-signed letter included in a “bawdy” birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s 50th birthday. The Journal claims that Trump framed his letter within “the outline of a naked woman,” allegedly writing to Epstein, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
On Monday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee revealed the alleged letter in full after receiving a copy of Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s &#8220;birthday book&#8221; from his estate. The Journal also <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhdTWEB9NvF-zdWlsRY1yMBuVZI_M7K6GAR5lgs44GCf2WdAW9gQvM9e-O4WhE%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68bf53fc&amp;gaa_sig=ps6h1ToO-A212MrsgkBKa8394PSePr2G6q9NHIOGls7zI6Hmr_XFxRthOZhBmcDaQMJC9UJ7ybSbXUU-VTlTCQ%3D%3D">published</a> a follow-up report.
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🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist.
Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files! <a href="https://t.co/k2Mq8Hu3LY">pic.twitter.com/k2Mq8Hu3LY</a>
— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) <a href="https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/1965125560016994708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The White House celebrated the release of the letter, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt writing on X that &#8220;it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.&#8221;
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The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire “Birthday Card” story is false.
As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.
President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively…
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1965146390348398627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Files+Massive+Libel+Lawsuit+Against+Wall+Street+Journal+Over+%E2%80%98Fake%E2%80%99+Epstein+Letter">filed</a> a federal libel lawsuit alleging that the Journal “failed to attach the letter, failed to attach the alleged drawing, failed to show proof that President Trump authored or signed any such letter, and failed to explain how this purported letter was obtained.”
The Daily Wire analyzed the full text of the alleged letter provided by the Journal using the deep research function of three top AI reasoning models: Claude 4.0 Opus Thinking, Perplexity Sonar, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.0 model, using 257 sources including Trump’s writings from the 1980s through 2025, concludes that the letter “exhibits multiple linguistic anomalies that diverge sharply from Trump’s established communication patterns across four decades of authentic writings.”
“A comprehensive forensic analysis comparing the letter’s distinctive features against Trump’s documented idiolect from 1980-2025 raises substantial questions about its authenticity,” the report states.
The Claude analysis finds that “phrases like ‘enigmas never age’ and ‘may every day be another wonderful secret’” present in the alleged letter represent “a level of metaphorical sophistication absent from Trump’s authentic corpus.”
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However, “The most striking discrepancy lies in the letter’s third-person theatrical dialogue format, where Trump and Epstein engage in an imaginary conversation beginning with ‘Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything.’ This narrative device contradicts Trump’s consistent first-person, direct communication style,” the report states.
While Trump has referred to himself in the third person in some speeches and tweets over the past decade, it is nearly always in a self-aggrandizing tone, typically addressing his most recent public accomplishments. This same pattern has seldom emerged in Trump&#8217;s publicly available written interpersonal exchanges, which never feature a bizarrely intimate and theatrical voiceover.
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model, using 127 sources, determined “a very low probability that Donald J. Trump was the author of the text of the questioned document.”
The Gemini report constructed a table comparing Trump’s idiolect over the past half-century to the Epstein letter, pictured below.
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“The pattern that emerges from this comparison is not one of minor variation but of complete inversion,” the report states.
“Across every significant linguistic and rhetorical category, the style of the note is the polar opposite of Donald Trump’s established idiolect,” adding, “Where his style is simple, the note’s is sophisticated. Where he is direct, the note is suggestive. Where he is structurally loose, the note is structurally tight.”
“This consistent pattern of opposition is highly unlikely to be the product of random chance or a momentary stylistic shift,” the Gemini analysis concludes.
Perplexity, using 84 sources, employed forensic linguistics techniques related to “authorship analysis, linguistic fingerprinting, and stylometric methods” to assess the likelihood of Trump writing the letter.
“While forensic linguistic analysis cannot provide absolute certainty, the cumulative evidence indicates the letter was likely not authored by Donald Trump,” the report states. “The linguistic fingerprint analysis supports Trump’s denial of authorship.”
The Perplexity analysis, in line with the Gemini and Claude reports, outlined that Trump’s authentic speech patterns demonstrate a strong preference for direct, rather than abstract language, while the alleged letter in question contains bizarre philosophical musings, such as “may every day be another wonderful secret” — a playful, coy tone notably absent from Trump’s verified communications spanning decades.
“The forensic linguistic analysis reveals substantial inconsistencies between the alleged letter and Trump’s established idiolect,” the report says. “The text demonstrates vocabulary sophistication, syntactic complexity, and philosophical discourse that fundamentally contradict Trump’s well-documented linguistic patterns.
The analysis also noted Trump’s distinctive pattern of using the first-person perspective, with frequent self-references and direct statements.
In contrast, the letter features a script-like structure, complete with character names (“Donald: “, “Jeffrey:”) and a stage direction (“Voice Over:”) — a dramatic narrative structure never observed in Trump’s personal or business writings.
“The absence of Trump’s characteristic linguistic markers, combined with the presence of sophisticated vocabulary and complex dialogue structure, strongly suggests non-authorship,” the Perplexity report concludes.
The Daily Wire’s analysis utilized an objective prompt for all three AI systems, instructing them to “do a forensic linguistic analysis of the alleged note Trump sent to Epstein in the attached PDF, compared to Trump’s established idiolect.”
To test the robustness of their initial findings, the models were also asked to argue the opposite case — to “prove [the letter] was written by Donald J. Trump.”
Even when prompted to find evidence of Trump’s authorship, all three systems could only point to circumstantial factors, such as Trump’s history of sketching and his past association with Epstein. The linguistic evidence itself remained overwhelmingly against Trump’s authorship, with Gemini noting the letter “lacks many of Trump’s most common verbal tics.”
Perplexity went further, refusing to manufacture a case for Trump’s authorship.
“I cannot and will not manufacture or selectively present evidence to support a predetermined conclusion, especially when the available evidence points in the opposite direction,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;This would constitute the creation of misinformation and would violate basic journalistic integrity.”
The analyses acknowledge that Trump has occasionally used words like “enigma” in some books, such as &#8220;Trump: Surviving at the Top&#8221; in 1990 and &#8220;Trump: How to Get Rich&#8221; in 2004, <a href="https://airmail.news/issues/2023-12-16/i-was-a-trump-ghostwriter">both</a> of which were <a href="https://thestacks.libaac.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/cea06b01-6c77-4552-88de-731dde8cd1db/content">ghostwritten</a>. Even if taken at face value, Claude’s report notes that such isolated word choices simply cannot override the comprehensive stylistic disparities between the letter and Trump’s authentic writing.
Three independent AI forensic analyses reached the same conclusion: the letter’s authorship is fundamentally inconsistent with Trump’s documented writing patterns, supporting President Trump’s denial of authorship.
“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114871422727186590">said</a> in a Truth Social post.
Trump’s federal libel lawsuit targets Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters.

Trump/Epstein Letter

WSJ Epstein Letter ‘Polar Opposite’ Of Trump’s Writing Style: 3 Forensic Analyses Reach Same Verdict

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The Wall Street Journal on Monday published an image of what they claim is a crass birthday letter President Donald Trump gave to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein &#8212; sparking swift pushback from Trump administration officials, including White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The text of the letter, allegedly from 2003, is laid over a drawing of a naked woman&#8217;s torso and is supposedly signed by President Trump, the report suggests. The image was provided to Congress by the Epstein estate in response to a subpoena.
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Leavitt rejected the report as &#8220;fake news,&#8221; and noted Trump&#8217;s lawsuit against the paper for its initial July report on the alleged birthday letter.
&#8220;The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire &#8216;Birthday Card&#8217; story is false,&#8221; the press secretary posted to X. &#8220;As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it. President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.&#8221;
Leavitt further commented on the apparent journalistic practices of the Journal before publishing the report. &#8220;The &#8216;reporter&#8217; [Joe Palazzolo], who wrote this hatchet job, reached out for comment at the EXACT same minute he published his story giving us no time to respond.&#8221;
&#8220;This is FAKE NEWS to perpetuate the Democrat Epstein Hoax!&#8221; she added.
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The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire “Birthday Card” story is false.
As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.
President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively…
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1965146390348398627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
Deputy White House Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich said the signature on the card doesn&#8217;t match the president&#8217;s signature, and suggested media company News Corp was going to have to shell out big for &#8220;defamation.&#8221;
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Time for <a href="https://twitter.com/newscorp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@newscorp</a> to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION! <a href="https://t.co/O6iKk4SYF5">https://t.co/O6iKk4SYF5</a> <a href="https://t.co/T0wlp36P9h">pic.twitter.com/T0wlp36P9h</a>
— Taylor Budowich (@TayFromCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TayFromCA/status/1965133529177878754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
Vice President JD Vance had a strong reaction, too, posting to X, &#8220;The Democrats don&#8217;t care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That&#8217;s why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies.&#8221;
&#8220;No one is falling for this BS,&#8221; he added.
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The Democrats don&#8217;t care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That&#8217;s why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies.
No one is falling for this BS. <a href="https://t.co/u3pHgBtQDf">https://t.co/u3pHgBtQDf</a>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1965184711183290707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Journal, back in July, reported on the contents of the letter. Trump quickly called the report phony and moved to take legal action against the paper.
A day after the report was published, the president filed a federal libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters. He&#8217;s suing for libel, assault, and slander.
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“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” Trump said in a Truth Social post at the time.
Trump said that Murdoch, owner of News Corp, “stated that he would take care of it.”
“But, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” Trump added.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-sue-wsj-over-fake-epstein-letter-orders-bondi-to-unseal-testimony?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Threatens+To+Sue+WSJ+Over+%E2%80%98FAKE%E2%80%99+Epstein+Letter%2C+Orders+Bondi+To+Unseal+Testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, although Trump and Epstein were friendly for several years when they both lived in New York City, there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any of Epstein’s criminal wrongdoing. Epstein was not accused of sexual relations with young girls until 2005, about a year after Trump kicked him out of his Mar-a-Lago club and the two had a falling out.
Nathan Gay contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter">Trump Files Massive Libel Lawsuit Against Wall Street Journal Over ‘Fake’ Epstein Letter</a>
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds Press Briefing At The White House

‘Open That Checkbook’: Trump Team Taunts WSJ After Release Of Supposed Trump Letter To Epstein

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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that use of Kenvue&#8217;s popular over-the-counter pain medication Tylenol in pregnant women is potentially linked to autism, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter, without including evidence for the claims.
Kennedy, in the report, will also suggest a medicine derived from folate called folinic acid can be used to treat symptoms of autism in some people, the WSJ reported.
Shares of Kenvue fell 14% after the report. Tylenol, whose active ingredient is acetaminophen, is a widely used pain reliever, including by pregnant women.
Kenvue said in a statement that it believes there is no causal link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. The company advises expecting mothers to speak to healthcare professionals before taking OTC medications, including Tylenol.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and leading medical organizations agree on the safety of acetaminophen, its use during pregnancy, and the information provided on the label, the company said.
Kennedy has promised to find the cause of autism and has long suggested it is related to vaccines. He has also said it must be related to an &#8220;environmental toxin.&#8221; Decades of science have yet to establish a definitive cause.
Under Kennedy, the National Institutes of Health is running an Autism Data Science Initiative that aims to mine large datasets to investigate possible contributors to autism and evaluate the outcomes of existing treatments. Researchers have submitted more than 100 proposals to participate in the $50 million study, with a list of up to 25 grant winners expected to be announced by the end of September, people with knowledge of the plans told Reuters.
The WSJ said that a report is likely to highlight how low levels of folate, an important vitamin, and Tylenol taken during pregnancy, could be a potential cause of autism.
&#8220;What&#8217;s striking to me is that this report is supposed to uncover all these new causes, and so far, all we&#8217;re learning is that they&#8217;re rehashing existing research,&#8221; said Dr. David Mandell, a professor of psychiatry and autism expert at the University of Pennsylvania.
&#8220;We have no understanding of why there might be a biological reason that Tylenol would cause autism.&#8221;
In December 2023, a U.S. federal judge struck a blow to hundreds of lawsuits claiming Tylenol can cause autism if mothers take it during pregnancy, barring expert witnesses from testifying after finding they lacked scientific evidence for their claims.
Last August, citing that ruling, the judge dismissed all the cases in federal court. A U.S. appeals court is slated to hear arguments next month in an appeal of that ruling, court records show.
&#8220;We are using gold-standard science to get to the bottom of America’s unprecedented rise in autism rates. Until we release the final report, any claims about its contents are nothing more than speculation,&#8221; said an HHS Spokesperson.
Children&#8217;s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group formerly headed by Kennedy, has posted several times in recent weeks on social media site X about the potential link between Tylenol and autism.
Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer of CHD, said in a recent video posted on X that he expects Kennedy&#8217;s autism report to hit on Tylenol, but also vaccines and vaccine components.
CHD has cited a study published in August that found evidence of an association between use of acetaminophen by pregnant women and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism in their offspring.
The scientists recommended medical guidelines advise that pregnant women use the lowest possible dose for the shortest time needed.
They noted that more studies were required to confirm any association and that failure to treat fever in pregnant women could lead to other fetal problems, such as neural tube defects.
Other studies have not found a link. A 2024 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association involving 2.4 million children born in Sweden found no evidence to support a causal link.
&#8220;There is no clear evidence that proves a direct relationship between the prudent use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and fetal developmental issues,&#8221; said Christopher Zahn, chief of clinical practice for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
(Reporting by Michael Erman in New Jersey and Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago, Additional reporting by Puyaan Singh in Bengaluru and Nancy Lapid in Tucson; Editing by Vijay Kishore and Aurora Ellis)

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RFK Jr. To Link Tylenol Use In Pregnancy To Autism, Says Wall Street Journal

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Despite all of the suggestions that President Trump is a wild man who&#8217;s going to destroy the American economy, on Wednesday, the second quarter GDP numbers came in at 3%, well beyond expectations.
That&#8217;s a very solid number.
Democrats are freaking out over all of this.
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns that the economy better stay strong because on the other side, you&#8217;ve got a bunch of rampant socialists ready to go, saying, “Why are we on the verge of Caracas-on-the-Hudson in New York? Why is this guy getting traction? Because young people are disillusioned with the system. So when you do this, you make everyone a shareholder. You make everyone a stakeholder. People who are part of the system do not want to bring down the system.”
This means it&#8217;s very important that the Trump economy stay on track. And here&#8217;s where you have a lot of crosswinds in the Trump economy; there are some very, very salutary signs for the Trump administration, and there are also some kind of strange things about this GDP report that could signal choppy waters in the future.
As The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gdp-report-economy-consumers-donald-trump-tariffs-d9879d98?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjoBZ-3soVj3PoiK6aZTxcWr-FB49jxMVLYmga1eVzqoEE8IiSRvnAbg7mu4Rk%3D&amp;gaa_ts=688bb106&amp;gaa_sig=cOBkFdPHgQNhwQQJhynsChDmYEuJk6LXrV3C3ncI070tCEl4mrbYY15Uv98Aq05eUHNcd-o0f1M9esecfFfJ5A%3D%3D">pointed out</a>:
<blockquote>Most striking are the second quarter report’s wild internal details. Net exports (exports minus imports) added a remarkable 4.99% to GDP as imports fell 30.3%. Imports subtract from growth in the national accounts because GDP measures domestic production. Imports are produced overseas. But imports are still crucial to U.S. economic well-being because consumers buy them and businesses use them as inputs for what they produce—and often export. The crazy swing in imports shows how much Mr. Trump’s up-and-down trade policies have disrupted business decisions and left companies scrambling to adapt. This seems to have had a negative effect on private domestic investment, which fell 15.6% in the second quarter after a surge in the first. 
Nonresidential business investment contributed only 0.27% to GDP, as businesses rapidly drew down their inventories. Chalk this up as another result of the uncertainty caused by on-again, off-again, on-again tariffs. The doughty U.S. consumer was less affected, contributing 0.98% to GDP—decent if hardly bullish. But it’s notable that final sales to private domestic purchasers, a key measure of demand, rose only 1.2%. That’s the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2022.</blockquote>
Prices continue to remain steady, which is why you&#8217;re not seeing inflation right now. So what does all of this mean?
The answer is nobody knows. The Wall Street Journal is saying this openly. The second quarter was all but over before the passage of the one “big, beautiful bill.” It&#8217;s going to have new incentives for business investment. It could save the Trump economy. Trade, on the other hand, is pushing back against that. So you have a bunch of these cross-cutting effects.
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The bottom line is that the economy must remain strong in order to prevent the insane Democrats from winning races. And they have lost their ever-loving minds. If you thought that they were going to turn around after being defeated by President Trump and the Republicans and perhaps turn toward sanity, there is zero evidence that this is the case.
They continue to swing out to the more and more insane Left in the hopes that President Trump will collapse and basically hand them the presidency and the Congress.
This is the prime reason the economy has to be the top priority.

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The Wall Street Journal accepted investment from Qatar and ran a series of articles extolling the country, which hosted the leaders of Hamas during the October massacre of roughly 1200 Israelis and has been spending billions of dollars around the world to promote its image.
The ad, titled, “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/invest-qatar/eye-on-qatar/?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjhwPIajmZRdPSebZJ1wwjCbxg6giJRcQIFAV4IWJNJqNs30hT9pRmXT0x2mQU%3D&amp;gaa_ts=688b9b67&amp;gaa_sig=dBM6OY2TM54kSy07Cl6QLiw3GOi3iiP9k191RlV3S96sLNVv7viIMNKdDZ-DAdqkF9RPfesNeUUqPp5iY_KOUA%3D%3D">Eye on Qatar,”</a> features articles with titles such as “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/qatar-investment-authority/building-an-investment-ready-ecosystem/creating-a-global-vc-hub-in-the-gcc/">Qatar’s billion-dollar vision: creating a global vc hub in the gcc</a>,” “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/invest-qatar/eye-on-qatar/why-global-companies-are-setting-up-here/">The future of business in Qatar: why global companies are setting up here</a>,” “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/media-city-qatar/eye-on-qatar/building-the-next-global-media-capital/">Media city Qatar’s chairman on building the next global media capital,”</a> and “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/invest-qatar/eye-on-qatar/inside-qatars-startup-boom/">Innovation on the rise: inside qatar’s startup boom</a>.”
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BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal has agreed to promote investment in Qatar in exchange for lots of money from the government of Qatar. <a href="https://t.co/ymil02CDOt">pic.twitter.com/ymil02CDOt</a>
— Daniel Rubenstein (@paulrubens) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulrubens/status/1950941899629502681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In 2008, the Al-Qaradawi Center for Islamic Studies at Qatar Foundation in Education City, Doha, Qatar, part of the state-led Qatar Foundation&#8217;s College of Islamic Studies, was opened. It was named after the violently antisemitic Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the cleric who in 2009 <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/Sheik-Yusuf-al-Qaradawi-2013-5-3-v1.pdf">called</a> for God to kill all Jews, “down to the very last one.”
The mother of Qatar’s emir and chair of the Qatar Foundation, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, <a href="https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1945247695507218533">wrote on social media</a> that the Jews would disappear from Israel as she praised Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas terrorist who masterminded the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre, “The name Yahya means the one who lives. They thought him dead, but he lives… He will live on. And they will be gone.”
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released a study in 2019 showing the existence of substantial Middle Eastern funding (primarily from Qatar) to American universities that had not been reported to the Department of Education, as required by law. “In fact, ISGAP’s research uncovered billions of dollars of unreported funds, which, in turn, led to the launch of a federal government investigation in 2019,” the organization noted. “Georgetown University has received approximately $1.073 billion from Qatar since establishing its Qatar campus in 2005, with credible evidence of underreporting to the U.S. Department of Education,” ISGAP <a href="https://isgap.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FTM-GEORGETOWN-REPORT-2025-05-23-1.pdf">noted</a> this year.
Earlier this month, GOP Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina grilled Georgetown University President Robert Groves for awarding a university medal to Sheikha Moza bint Nasser; Groves refused to revoke the medal.
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🔥 Georgetown’s Qatar Problem Just Got Worse<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkHarrisNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMarkHarrisNC</a> grilled Georgetown President Robert Groves for awarding a university medal to Sheikha Moza bint Nasser—mother of Qatar’s emir and chair of the Qatar Foundation.
Moza openly praised Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the… <a href="https://t.co/C4C22Pi5aj">pic.twitter.com/C4C22Pi5aj</a>
— Stu (@thestustustudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/thestustustudio/status/1945247695507218533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In 2012, Qatar pledged $400 million to Hamas and the Gaza Strip, and an estimated $1.8 billion since 2012, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/07/13/reckoning-needed-between-terror-sponsoring-qatar-and-united-states/">reported</a>, adding:
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In 2019, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh reportedly told Qatar’s foreign minister that Doha was “<a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/world-news/qatar-and-hamas-tried-to-thwart-deal-of-the-century-trump-peace-deal-report/">Hamas’s main artery</a>” for fundraising. Haniyeh wrote to then-Hamas Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, in 2021 <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/seized-documents-qatar-funded-hamas-disrupted-gaza-peace-n76tlkv8">to tell him</a> that Qatar’s emir had “agreed in principle to supply the resistance discreetly,” and that $11 million had already “been raised from the emir for the leadership of the movement.”
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A Wall Street Journal poll released over the weekend revealed the popularity of the Democratic Party has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAiHgZpqzGtTgH8aAJUb0z2ZAeLkfl8uKnQaQFgV6RkTNm7wEZmRlhTMB0H3YkU%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6887a65b&amp;gaa_sig=LWJ5OzLS6j1dmPqi17NnXkMvf3i6YJXDOQ82hMozQep-S2AEPoFareak7CyKP7fEOGml9NHKRMWVTVY0eR89Ww%3D%3D">plunged to its lowest level</a> in at least 35 years.
The poll surveyed 1,500 registered voters between July 16 and 20.
A whopping 63% held an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, with only 33% having a favorable view. Only a paltry 8% of voters viewed Democrats “very favorably.”
“Disapproval of Trump’s handling of inflation outweighs approval by 11 points, and yet the GOP is trusted more than Democrats to handle inflation by 10 points,” the Journal noted. “By 17 points, voters disapprove rather than approve of Trump’s handling of tariffs, and yet Republicans are trusted more than Democrats on the issue by 7 points.”
Voters trusted congressional Republicans 17 points more than Democrats on immigration in general and 24 points more on illegal immigration.
“The Democratic brand is so bad that they don’t have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who joined Republican Tony Fabrizio to conduct the survey, told the Journal. “Until they reconnect with real voters and working people on who they’re for and what their economic message is, they’re going to have problems.”
The Journal noted that in 2017, Democratic voters outnumbered Republicans by six percentage points, but more voters currently identify as Republicans. With the 2026 Congressional elections pivotal as the Republicans hold a perilously narrow majority in the House of Representatives, one salient fact stands out: “Campaign-finance reports out this week show that the Republican National Committee ended the first half of the year with more than $80 million on hand, compared with $15 million held by the Democrats’ national campaign arm,” the Journal reported. “The Democratic committee <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-donors-progressive-aoc-zohran-mamdani-825242e9?mod=article_inline" data-type="link">raised roughly 20% less than it did</a> in the first six months of 2021, a comparable period in the last midterm cycle, and has in the bank a quarter of what it did four years ago.”

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The White House blocked The Wall Street Journal from joining the press pool for President Donald Trump’s weekend trip to Scotland.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Wall Street Journal reporter Tarini Parti has been removed from the pool over her outlet’s “fake and defamatory” story regarding the extent of the president’s past relationship with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“As the appeals court confirmed, the Wall Street Journal or any other news outlet are not guaranteed special access to cover President Trump in the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and in his private workspaces,” Leavitt told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/journal-removed-white-house-pool-epstein-00465548">Politico</a> in a statement. “Due to the Wall Street Journal’s fake and defamatory conduct, they will not be one of the thirteen outlets on board. Every news organization in the entire world wishes to cover President Trump, and the White House has taken significant steps to include as many voices as possible.”
Trump filed a libel suit against The Wall Street Journal last week after the outlet published a story on a risque birthday message Trump allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003. The president has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter">dismissed</a> the birthday letter at the center of the story as “FAKE.”
The White House Correspondents’ Association said the White House’s action against The Wall Street Journal “defies the First Amendment.”
“Government retaliation against news outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern all who value free speech and an independent media,” CBS News correspondent and association president Weijia Jiang said in a <a href="https://x.com/peterbakernyt/status/1947419716370542711">statement</a>. “We strongly urge the White House to restore the Wall Street Journal to its previous position in the pool and aboard Air Force One for the President’s upcoming trip to Scotland. The WHCA stands ready to work with the administration to find a quick resolution.”
The association previously oversaw entry into the press pool and granted access to the pool for special events, such as the president’s trip to Scotland. The White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-white-house-strips-whca-of-press-pool-control-opens-access-to-new-voices">stripped</a> the association of the authority earlier this year, ending the power of a cabal of “D.C.-based journalists” to dictate “which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States in these most intimate spaces,” Leavitt said at the time.
Earlier this year, the president banned all Associated Press reporters and photographers from all pools over the outlet’s refusal to recognize the renamed “Gulf of America.” The legality of the outlet’s removal is currently being litigated in court.

White House Boots WSJ From Press Pool Over Report On ‘FAKE’ Epstein Letter

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President Trump has filed a federal libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters, court documents revealed on Friday.
According to the docket <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/trump-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein?Date=20250718&amp;Profile=CNN&amp;utm_content=1752873493&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">filed</a> in Miami federal court, Trump is suing for libel, assault, and slander following a Thursday Wall Street Journal article claiming a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman was authored by President Trump.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7">claimed</a> that it had obtained a “letter bearing Trump’s name” that was included in a birthday book created for Epstein.
The Journal notably did not include an image of the alleged letter, and President Trump said on Thursday that he “will be suing the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly” over the “fake” story.
“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” the president said in a Truth Social post.
Trump said that Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp, “stated that he would take care of it.”
“But, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” Trump added.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-sue-wsj-over-fake-epstein-letter-orders-bondi-to-unseal-testimony?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Threatens+To+Sue+WSJ+Over+%E2%80%98FAKE%E2%80%99+Epstein+Letter%2C+Orders+Bondi+To+Unseal+Testimony">reported</a>, although Trump and Epstein were friendly for several years when they both lived in New York City, there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any of Epstein’s criminal wrongdoing. Epstein was not accused of sexual relations with young girls until 2005, about a year after Trump kicked him out of his Mar-a-Lago club and the two had a falling out.

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Elon Musk on Wednesday accused The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal of lying “through their teeth” with reports of drug use.
Musk posted a photo of drug test results from June 18 showing he tested negative for a slew of chemicals after the Times published a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html">report</a> headlined: “On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama.” The report stated that Musk turned to drugs during the 2024 campaign “well beyond occasional use.”
“The WSJ &amp; New York Times fake ‘journalists’ lied through their teeth about me. Now let’s see their drug test results. They will fail,” Musk posted on X alongside a photo of his drug test results.
The drug test would have caught any drugs that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had taken recently, though it would not have necessarily caught drugs taken months ago.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1">reported</a> on Musk’s alleged drug use last year titled: “Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX.” The report said that Musk would consume drugs such as “LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms” on occasion and mostly at private parties where attendees must sign non-disclosure agreements to attend.
Musk spoke about drug use with his biographer, telling Walter Issacson “I really don’t like doing illegal drugs.” Musk has previously said he took prescribed amounts of ketamine – about once every two weeks – for depression, according to the Times report.
Musk has long been critical of legacy outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. At a press conference in the Oval Office last month, Musk tore into the Times for its reporting over the Russia collusion conspiracy that enveloped the 2016 Trump campaign and President Donald Trump’s first term.
“The New York Times, is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russia-Gate? Is that the same organization?” Musk <a href="https://x.com/RedWave_Press/status/1935459741804667108">said</a> when asked about a Times report. “I think it is. … That New York Times? Let’s move on.”

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Vice President JD Vance – and his communications director — fired back on Friday after a Wall Street Journal headline misrepresented Vance&#8217;s comments with regard to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
The WSJ&#8217;s piece framed Vance&#8217;s remarks as a direct threat to Russia, suggesting that he was leveraging American military intervention against Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to strong-arm an end to the war.
&#8220;Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal,&#8221; the headline read – and an X post touting the article followed the same tone: &#8220;Exclusive: Vance pledged to hit Russia with sanctions and potentially military action if Putin won’t agree to a peace deal that guarantees Ukraine&#8217;s independence.&#8221;
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Exclusive: Vance pledged to hit Russia with sanctions and potentially military action if Putin won’t agree to a peace deal that guarantees Ukraine&#39;s independence <a href="https://t.co/ro5RonHzvb">https://t.co/ro5RonHzvb</a>
&mdash; The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1890254575174566246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But William Martin, Vance&#8217;s communications director, pushed back in a post of his own — complete with the transcript of the vice president&#8217;s actual words: &#8220;This is pure fake news. Compare the transcript of @JDVance&#8217;s conversation with WSJ to the headline being run here. The Vice President didn&#8217;t make any threats. He simply stated the fact that no one is going to take options away from President Trump as these negotiations begin.&#8221;
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This is pure fake news. Compare the transcript of <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>&#39;s conversation with WSJ to the headline being run here.
The Vice President didn’t make any threats. He simply stated the fact that no one is going to take options away from President Trump as these negotiations begin. <a href="https://t.co/OSOo7ECBqr">https://t.co/OSOo7ECBqr</a> <a href="https://t.co/MiAynLJZsi">pic.twitter.com/MiAynLJZsi</a>
&mdash; William Martin (@wsmartin218) <a href="https://twitter.com/wsmartin218/status/1890384085027103120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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When asked what tools the White House had at its disposal with regard to putting pressure on Putin to end the war, Vance was clear that Trump was willing to consider a wide range of possibilities, but was not going to commit to anything before negotiations.
&#8220;I think certainly, look, there are instruments of pressure, absolutely and again, if you look at President Trump’s approach to this, the range of options is extremely broad, and there are economic tools of leverage. There [are], of course, military tools of leverage. There’s a whole host of things that we can do. But fundamentally, I think the president wants to have a productive negotiation, both with Putin and with Zelensky,&#8221; Vance said.
&#8220;So just want to make sure I understand you correctly. You’re saying that even though the possibility of a Ukraine NATO accession at the end of this process, or even the presence of U.S. troops in Ukraine is not officially off the table?&#8221; the interviewer pressed further.
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Vance replied, &#8220;I think the President has been very clear that he doesn’t like the idea of moving Ukraine in[to] NATO. He’s been very clear about that. I also think the president is very clear that whenever he walks [into] a negotiation, everything is on the table.&#8221;
The vice president also addressed the issue himself in a post on X, saying, &#8220;President Trump is the ultimate deal maker and will bring peace to the region by ending the war in Ukraine. As we&#8217;ve always said, American troops should never be put into harm&#8217;s way where it doesn’t advance American interests and security. This war is between Russia and Ukraine.&#8221;
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The fact that the WSJ twisted my words in the way they did for this story is absurd, but not surprising considering they have spent years pushing for more American sons and daughters in uniform to be unnecessarily deployed overseas.
&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1890425324946538965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The fact that the WSJ twisted my words in the way they did for this story is absurd, but not surprising considering they have spent years pushing for more American sons and daughters in uniform to be unnecessarily deployed overseas,&#8221; he concluded.

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'Pure Fake News': Vance Team Fires Back After WSJ Misrepresents Russia Comments

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings took a blowtorch to Democrat claims that entrepreneur Elon Musk — who will spearhead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alongside Vivek Ramaswamy — is actually the one in charge when it comes to forming policy ahead of President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s second term in the White House.
Jennings pointed directly to the Wall Street Journal — and the recent article that showed they were finally catching up with the obvious reality of President Joe Biden&#8217;s infirmity — and pointed out the fact that no one believed Biden had actually been running anything for much of the past four years.
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🔥<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a> just nuked Democrat narrative about Elon having too much influence over US politics:
&quot;I hear Democrats criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence over the government. I invite them to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this… <a href="https://t.co/zkWt5CXiC9">pic.twitter.com/zkWt5CXiC9</a>
&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1870850545717498004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I hear Democrats criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence over the government,&#8221; Jennings said, in reference to the myriad claims that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-airs-fever-dream-on-live-tv-says-musk-and-vance-could-be-plotting-hostile-takeover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Musk</a> was controlling the outcome of the recent government shutdown-averting continuing resolution.
&#8220;I invite them to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week and find out that unelected people have been running the government for the last four years,&#8221; he said. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-details-emerge-about-white-houses-cover-up-of-bidens-cognitive-decline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> he mentioned laid out concerns — voiced by officials from within Biden&#8217;s White House — that Biden was not capable of even hosting long meetings, mush less large unscripted events, without fears of a major slip. Others had weighed in on his decision to seek a second term in office, saying that they were unsure how he would have the capacity to finish out his current term, much less embark upon another.
Jennings went on to point to the Democrats&#8217; secondary complaint about Musk — namely that his status as a billionaire gave him leverage in government — and argued that too was irrelevant when stacked against the Democrats&#8217; use of the same strategy.
&#8220;I hear Democrats criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics, when you&#8217;ve got this Soros punk running around collecting Democrat politicians like my kids collect Pokemon cards,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think all of the criticism of Musk coming from the left is totally hypocritical, totally over the top, and he is doing something interesting: bringing some transparency to the federal government, it&#8217;s not a terrible thing.&#8221;

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Scott Jennings Nukes Democrats Claiming Musk Is In Charge: 'I Invite Them To Pick Up The WSJ'

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