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Sec. Marco Rubio Declares Himself the “Acting Director” of the Beleaguered USAID

Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has announced taking over the beleaguered United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as its “Acting Director.” 

USAID has earned a top spot as one of the worst agencies the Trump administration must address, angering Democrats and career bureaucrats. 

Sec. Rubio made the announcement while on a diplomatic trip to El Salvador. The Central American nation has agreed to take the most notorious U.S.-born criminals and illegal immigrants from other countries. Rubio accused USAID of refusing to coordinate its activities with U.S. Embassies abroad or the State Department, claiming it was independent and its employees “answer to no one.” 

“They are supposed to take direction from the State Department, policy direction. They do not. Not only do they not take policy direction, they’re completely uncooperative.”

Rubio added that the agency refuses to answer important questions about who receives funding, what the program does, and who its contractors are. Trump has accused USAID of massive fraud.

“They went totally crazy, what they were doing and the money they were giving to people that shouldn’t be getting it and to agencies and others that shouldn’t be getting it, it was a shame, so a tremendous fraud,” Trump said.

“We will no longer allow it,” Rubio asserted.

According to Rubio, USAID also carries programs that contradict U.S. foreign policy objectives in the host country and the region and designates itself as an international charitable organization. “I’m the Acting Director of USAID,” Rubio stated, adding that he delegated his functions to somebody else.

USAID’s woes started when Trump announced a funding cut for the agency that diverts taxpayers’ money to foreign governments for projects that are allegedly unaligned to the country’s national interests or foreign policy.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently disclosed some of USAID’s wasteful expenditures using our tax dollars. 

“If you take a look at the waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the past several years, these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on,” Sec. Leavitt stated.

“I don’t know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don’t want my dollars going toward this crap, and I know the American people don’t either, and that’s exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do.”

They included $1.5 million for DEI in Serbia, $70,000 for a DEI musical concert in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, and $32,000 for a transgender book in Peru. Other suspicious expenditures include $50 million to buy condoms for Gaza.

Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency also recently saved $228,730,692 after canceling 7 DEI contracts associated with the agency. Two of USAID’s top officials were also sent on administrative leave after denying DOGE employees access to unclassified documents stored in a building that ironically requires security clearances. 

Musk even threatened to involve the US Marshals Service if USAID continued to deny DOGE employees access to the unclassified documents. Shortly after the incident, acting DC attorney ED Martin wrote to Musk regarding allegations that DOGE employees have been threatened after their identities were disclosed to the media. 

Meanwhile, Musk says he totally agrees with Trump that USAID should be shut down. However, Rubio stated that some USAID functions will continue but in full compliance with the U.S. foreign policy and national interests.

Nonetheless, Musk is not so subtle about putting USAID to sleep. 

“Spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Musk posted on X.

Trump also agrees that USAID’s shutdown “should have been done a long time ago.” Interestingly, the agency’s website was taken offline, and its servers were allegedly carted away pending further investigation.

Meanwhile, Democrats continue to protest the USAID funding cut. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said burying USAID was unconstitutional, while Jamie Raskin said Elon Musk should not be the “fourth branch of government.”

Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who participated in USAID protests, said cutting funding would endanger “Americans around the world.”

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Hasta La Vista, Department of Education?

We Americans have a famously short memory; we “forget” news items that are barely two days old. Think you’re immune to that? Are you sure? Try this: do you remember that President Donald Trump suffered two assassination attempts in the summer of 2024? Sure, you might be saying, “of course I remember that,” but that question prompted you. In the immediate aftermath of the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, people online were widely remarking how it “felt” like the attempted murder had happened “a long time ago” when it had only been a few days. 

It seems likely that this is because the 24-hour media/news cycle—which itself is fairly recent, having only become “a thing” in the 1980s with the advent of cable news networks—runs so rapidly now that major events become “not news” in mere hours. We’re so pegged to what we see on our screens that it’s not out of bounds to question if our capacity for memory using our brains has been degraded. 

Given that, it’s probably a heavy lift to ask even older readers to remember this: The federal Department of Education was only created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. Did you know that? Had you forgotten? It’s true. If you were born in 1950, you spent all your school years in a world that had never heard of a federal “department of education.” Somehow, you learned the three Rs, didn’t you? Somehow, American children managed to get an education without a building in D.C. directing how it was provided. 

This “forgetting” is probably part of why so many people have reacted negatively to Trump’s pondering whether to abolish the Dept. of Education. They think, incorrectly, that it’s a fundamental institution that has been there since the beginning of time. But not only is it fairly new, it’s made an absolute hash out of American public education. Mandate after mandate from D.C. has been handed down to local schools forcing them to let boys play on girls’ sports teams, reversing the purpose of Title IX. So called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) directives from Washington have forced local public schools to foist Marxist race-baiting on students, crowding out basic literacy and math skills. 

Well, the times they are a’changing. For now, there’s still a Department of Education. But thanks to a recent executive order from Trump, there is no more DEI. Here’s the Department alerting the public that it’s flushing this woke poison down the drain. 

Here’s an overview of the online reaction. 

“Dana” doesn’t seem to understand that states can take over what the federal government has kept to itself; she falsely believes that this means colleges will close. 

Most users are happy with the news. 

“Dominus” raises a good point. Will the exiled bureaucrats just find some other way to exercise their ugly craft?

Several X users have made. . . risqué jokes about their level of excitement around this development. The following is tame. 

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Illinois Democrats Allow Criminal Illegal Aliens to Change Names to Evade ICE Deportations

Democrats in Illinois are allowing illegal immigrants, including those who have committed horrific crimes, to change their names to avoid deportation and remain within the state. 

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who vowed to fight for illegal immigrants, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker are also blocking ICE agents from accessing prisons to detain some of the most vile illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes, including drug offenses, gang affiliation, prostitution, human trafficking, and child sex crimes.

The Trump administration has categorically stated that it was primarily focusing on national security threats and the most dangerous illegal immigrants. However, Democrats in Illinois are preventing those people from being deported. About 300 illegal aliens with ICE detainer requests are in Chicago. 

These are not the “farm produce pickers” that Democrats have been talking about, but people wanted for various crimes that the Trump administration wants out of the country.

Recently, the Illinois legislature passed HB 5164, allowing anybody who has resided in the state for three months to change their name. Previously, it required the name change applicant to have resided in the state for at least six months.

However, that is not the most concerning detail, as the law also allows even the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens to change their names. Both chambers approved the measure, which was sent to Gov. Pritzker’s desk for signing last week. 

While proponents of the law claim it would help victims of domestic abuse and, of course, transgender individuals to feel safer, it did not exempt criminal illegal aliens with a history of violent crimes.

“There are residents in our state who do not feel safe when they are an adoptee; they’re transgender; they’re an immigrant; they’re a survivor of domestic violence, survivor of sexual exploitation and human trafficking,” Democrat State Senator Ram Villivalam, the sponsor of the bill, said. 

“So they would like to change their name, and in doing so, we need to remove as many barriers as we can to ensure their health and safety.”

However, allowing illegal immigrants to change their names will effectively enable them to evade ICE raids, as the name change may not have propagated through all systems when the immigration officers descend on the correctional facilities.

“Is this creating a loophole for people who are here, who are criminals and part of things involved in the trafficking, involved in all of these nefarious activities that we’ve been reading about?” GOP State Senator Sue Rezin asked.

According to State Senator Andrew Chesney, the passage of the law allows “illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes” to “simply change their names, making it difficult for law enforcement or immigration officials to track them down.”

However, Democrats continue to pat themselves on the back by claiming that the law allows people who feel unsafe to feel more secure.

“As people continue to feel the hate, feel the discrimination, get targeted, we need to continue to take these steps to make sure they feel healthy and safe,” said Villivalam.

The name change petitioners were also slapped with a lenient maximum fee of $25. The court can also waive the charge “for good cause shown,” allowing the law to be abused.

It also exempts the petitioners from publicly disclosing the name change, meaning most people would not know about it. It also allows name changers to exclude their home addresses, making them totally untraceable.

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Obama and Hillary Clinton’s Top Aide Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s former senior aide has been sentenced to over a decade in prison for child sexual abuse. Rahamim Shy, 47, was arrested in the United Kingdom while traveling from New York to Bedford, England, in February 2024 to meet a nine-year-old girl and commit horrific sexual crimes on a minor, the BBC reported.

For around a month, Shy spoke to a woman called “Debbie,” who claimed to be the 9-year-old’s grandmother. However, she was an undercover police officer working for the protection of minors from sexual exploitation.

According to the Crown Prosecution Service that prosecuted the case, the senior Democratic adviser planned to “commit unspeakable acts against a child for his own sexual gratification.”

Through messaging apps, the Democrat detailed the disturbing acts he was planning to commit on the minor. He also said that nine years was a “tad late,” suggesting that he was more interested in much younger children. Nevertheless, he felt honored to be the 9-year-old’s “first” sexual encounter.

Police also searched his luggage and found toys and condoms, which they said proved he was serious about committing the described horrific acts on a child. Shy’s phone also contained child sex materials, which proved he was sexually obsessed with children.

“Rahamim Shy is a predator who was fully prepared to commit unspeakable acts against a child for his own sexual gratification,” said Lorraine Telford, a Child Protection Services (CPS) officer, who testified during the prosecution.

Telford added that based on Shy’s online conversations, the American had fully demonstrated his sole intention of traveling to commit rape on vulnerable children.

However, his defense argued that he was exempt from prosecution because the crime occurred while he was in the United States, away from the jurisdiction of English courts. 

However, the prosecution demonstrated that English courts had the jurisdiction to try cases that would have resulted in crimes in England, the actual existence of the child notwithstanding.

Shy was subsequently found guilty of arranging to commit a child sex offense, specifically rape and being in the possession of child porn. He was sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison.

Shy is hardly the first Democrat to be busted on child sexual abuse. Recently, an anti-Trump gay activist and Democratic National Convention (DNC) delegate, Matthew Inman, was arrested after planning to meet and commit horrific sexual acts on a nine-year-old boy.

Like Shy, Inman had been communicating with an undercover officer who pretended to be the child’s father. The gay activist and DNC delegate expressed his intention of sexually abusing the minor and sent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to the undercover officer.

Unlike Shy, who is likely to serve half of his 11.5-year prison sentence, Inman stares directly at the prospect of serving anywhere between half a decade and two decades in a federal prison.

Nonetheless, the punishment for child sexual abuse remains lenient enough to allow predators to complete their sentences and leave prison in time to commit more sexual crimes against children.

President Trump had proposed imposing the death penalty on child molesters, while only a handful of states, like Florida, have the law on their books. 

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Whitmer’s Michigan Ranks Among The Worst States For Unemployment Rate Change

If nothing else, Michigan can claim it’s not the worst state in the republic. A new analysis of the state’s unemployment situation ranked Michigan among the states with the worst changes in their unemployment rates. According to a new review from the personal finance site WalletHub, the Wolverine State ranked No. 48, ahead of only Kentucky, Nevada and South Carolina. Nationally, South Dakota, Connecticut, and New Hampshire are ranked as the states with the best unemployment rate changes.

WalletHub compared all 50 states and the District of Columbia to understand how unemployment rates are changing nationwide. It used six key metrics and compared unemployment rate statistics from December 2024, the latest available data, to key dates in 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024. “Michigan’s No. 48 ranking in unemployment indicates some ongoing struggles in the state’s job market,” WalletHub writer and analyst Chip Lupo told The Midwesterner via email.

“While the unemployment rate of 5.0% isn’t the highest, it reflects a 3.2% increase from November 2024 and a 21.6% rise compared to December 2023,” Lupo added. “These numbers point to persistent challenges in Michigan’s economy, suggesting that the state is still dealing with significant employment issues despite overall economic growth. Factors like inflation and shifts in the job market likely play a role in this trend.” Michigan’s jobless numbers are among the worst in the country, and state labor officials conceded that after three consecutive years of jobless rate declines, the state’s annual average unemployment rate rose during 2024.

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Meta Employees Restock Men’s Bathrooms with Tampons in “Subtle Rebellion”

Transgender Meta employees are silently protesting Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms by bringing theirs from home and restocking the company’s supplies. 

Shortly after Trump’s victory, Zuckerberg announced various policy changes, including the restoration of freedom of speech, allowing users to freely discuss gender identity issues without violating the platform’s “Hateful Conduct” policy. 

The company also embarked on a process to realign its operations in accordance with the new ideological outlook. Part of that involved removing tampons from the men’s bathrooms, a decision that angered transgender male employees, that is, women who identify as men.

According to the New York Times, those employees started bringing their own tampons and restocking men’s bathrooms with the female sanitary products. “Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices,” the NYT reported, describing their return as a “quiet rebellion that Silicon Valley workers have staged as they grapple with the rightward shift of their bosses.”

Additionally, another group started circulating a petition to return female sanitary products to male bathrooms. However, Meta’s vice president of workplace services dashed their hopes by stating that the company had no intention of revisiting the issue.

It remains unclear if Meta removed female sanitary products from women’s bathrooms. If not, the female employees who identify as men are at liberty to access them without restrictions. This differs greatly from men identifying as women trying to access female bathrooms. In fact, women who identify as men but still need tampons should avoid men’s bathrooms for their safety. 

Meta may be at a loss on whether or how to remove the restocked tampons in male bathrooms without risking a lawsuit. However, it could impose a policy prohibiting employees from refilling the company’s supplies with personal products as a safety measure.

With many tech companies reducing their workforce, Meta might not fear losing a few employees who do not feel welcome or adequately accommodated. The company has already slashed its workforce by a third and still plans to fire more in the coming months.

Subsequently, Meta should consider having fewer employees who aggressively impose their personal ideology on everybody to avoid potential frivolous lawsuits. Doing so would also enhance a conducive teamwork environment where other employees do not have to walk on eggshells.

Nonetheless, the employees’ “subtle resistance” contrasts sharply with their vocal pro-liberal outbursts that marked Trump’s first term in office. With the hiring frenzy over, tech companies have reasserted their control and are not shy of shedding employees involved in active activism against the companies’ interests.

For example, Google fired 28 employees who opposed the company’s contract with the Israeli government. Nine employees were also arrested for trespassing in the company’s two offices, marking the end of an era where pro-Left employees called the shorts.

Tech companies have also embraced Trump in his second term, in what the Times called “a major departure for a tech industry that has typically leaned left and liberal.” Nonetheless, the impacts of their pro-liberal policies over the last decade will take years to fully undo.

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Buttigieg is Back to Referee Trump’s Response to D.C. Plane Crash, Oh Boy!

Liberals are immune to irony. There’s no other explanation. Take former Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. On January 29, an American Airlines regional flight collided with a military blackhawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.. Tragically, both craft plunged into the Potomac river, and there were no survivors. According to the most recent reports, 67 total people are dead. 

Freshly out of a job, Buttigieg seems to still be working for the ousted Biden administration. He’s on social media blasting President Donald Trump for his response to the aviation accident.

The irony is palatable; Buttigieg is incompetent, always was incompetent, and has no business at all criticizing the Trump administration’s response to the recent plane crash. Parachuted by Biden into the role of Transportation Secretary with no experience behind him but being the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg could not be relied on to even show up to major disasters involving the nation’s transport infrastructure. 

Remember the massive train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in February of 2023? A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed. Thirty-eight cars went off the tracks, and some of them contained toxic chemicals. Making matters worse, authorities burned some of them off, leading to a huge plume of toxic smoke that forced local residents to evacuate. Despite the media’s lack of coverage on the details at the time, locals started posting videos showing thousands of dead fish floating in contaminated rivers after the accident. Years later, the state’s natural resources department admitted that at least 38,000 wild animals were killed by the toxic cloud. 

Where was Transportation Secretary Pete? Nowhere to be found for weeks after the disaster. People on the ground were furious and didn’t buy his excuse that he waited to visit until after the most important responders had done their work. Overall, his tenure as Transportation Secretary got mixed reviews, with some praising what he did with the budget he had, while other commentators pointed to numerous transportation disasters—train derailments, near-misses at airports with planes nearly colliding—on his watch.

Ex-Vice President Mike Pence took aim at Buttigieg taking two months’ of “paternity leave” from his job in the middle of crises after Buttigieg and his male partner adopted newborn twins. “When Pete’s two children were born, he took two months’ maternity leave whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways,” ABC News reported Pence saying. 

However history may eventually view his tenure, the American people don’t seem to think very highly of Buttigieg or his Monday morning quarterbacking over Trump’s response to the Jan. 29 plane crash. Here’s a sampling of reaction on X/Twitter. Be warned: they’re not being kind or politically correct about it. 

Tee-hee:

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Gretchen Whitmer Eliminates “Burdensome” Work Requirements For Public Assistance

Michigan is ditching work requirements for able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid under legislation signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week. The legislation, approved along party lines during Democrats’ lame duck session last year, repeals a requirement for able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid under the Healthy Michigan Plan to complete 20 hours of “workforce engagement” per week, effective April 2.

“The repeal of the burdensome work requirements provision is a win for Michiganders who cannot afford commercial health insurance,” bill sponsor Rep. Julie Rogers, D-Kalamazoo, said in a statement cited by the news outlet. “Medicaid is health care, period, and was never intended to be a jobs program.”

Republicans adopted the work requirement in 2018, but it was halted by a federal court within months. A federal judge ruled the requirement unlawful in 2020, despite exemptions for single parents taking care of children, pregnant mothers, people with disabilities, and others caring for young children or who have a medical condition. Beyond actual work, beneficiaries were able to fulfill the requirement with education, training, unpaid internships, substance use disorder treatment, and community service, as well.

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Chaos Erupts as Dem Mayor Jumps Into Heated Boardroom Brawl

A township board meeting in Thornton Township erupted into chaos Tuesday night when Mayor and Supervisor Tiffany Henyard became involved in a physical altercation following a heated exchange between her boyfriend and a local activist.

The confrontation began during the public comment session when activist Jedidiah Brown, speaking at the microphone, directed harsh criticism at Henyard, calling her a “half-a–ed mayor” and accusing her of “sleeping her way to the top” while praising newly appointed trustee Stephanie Wiedeman.

“You gone, bitch,” Brown said, according to CBS News.

Seated in the back of the meeting room, Henyard’s boyfriend, Kamal Woods, confronted Brown after the comments.

The two exchanged punches, and the altercation quickly escalated as other allies of Henyard joined in.

Video footage captured Henyard leaving her seat at the front of the room and moving directly into the fight.

It remains unclear whether she was attempting to break up the altercation or actively participating in it.

“I have never seen a politician jump in and fight like that—it was scary and horrible. It is an embarrassment,” eyewitness Meghan Dudek told NBC Chicago.

Security personnel inside the building attempted to separate the individuals involved, but the brawl escalated with participants throwing punches, kicking each other, and even jumping on tables.

At one point, Henyard was thrown to the ground and lost a shoe amid the commotion.

“It should have never come to blows, and Tiffany should have never got involved,” another eyewitness, Gerald Williams, told NBC Chicago.

Following the altercation, Brown took to Facebook, claiming the fight was a “preplanned set up” and alleging that Henyard and her allies had previously insulted him.

“Let’s be clear here, I was fighting them all,” Brown wrote.

“Kamal grabbed my jacket in beginning which is why my head was down but I powered through and was over him. I still popped every single one of them including Tiffany who hit me first before being picked up like a toddler and having to fight security in the back room by elevator.”

The fight broke out during an already tense meeting where Henyard’s boyfriend, Kamal Woods, was a key focus of discussion.

Woods, along with William Moore, oversees the township’s at-risk youth program.

The board voted to place both men on paid administrative leave while launching an independent investigation and forensic audit into the handling of grant money and township funds for the youth program and outreach department, NBC Chicago reported.

Henyard denounced the move as “political retaliation” and threatened legal action in response.

It is unclear if anyone was injured in the altercation.

Brown was removed from the premises by police, but no arrests were made, according to ABC 7 Chicago.

Following the incident, police ordered everyone out of the building, and the meeting was never formally adjourned.

Henyard’s attorney is reportedly preparing a statement, according to the outlet.

The brawl occurred just days after Henyard was found in contempt of court for allegedly delaying liquor license approvals for months.

St. Patrick’s, a three-story restaurant, filed a lawsuit in August accusing Henyard of refusing to sign liquor licenses that had already been approved by the village board.

Under the threat of contempt, she ultimately signed two of the three licenses last week, but only after showing up 30 minutes late to her court appearance.

Henyard, who refers to herself as the “super mayor,” recently lost the Democratic nomination for Thornton Township supervisor.

She has vowed to fight back, claiming “voter suppression” was involved in her defeat.

The South Holland Police Department and Thornton Township’s office have not yet commented on the incident.

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Longtime CNN Reporter Admits He “Screwed Up” by Trusting Fauci

Former CNN editor-at-large, Chris Cillizza, admitted he made significant mistakes in assessing Anthony Fauci’s credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cillizza acknowledged he was wrong, dismissing President Donald Trump and others who questioned Fauci’s narrative.

The reporter even confessed that his trust in Fauci’s and Trump’s bias led him to overlook alternative perspectives.

“If this was a debate between Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci on the origins of a pandemic-level virus, I was going to go with the guy who spent his entire career studying this stuff, not the reality TV-star-turned-president,” Cillizza wrote.

As evidence supports the lab-leak theory, something which Trump and many conservatives said from the beginning, Cillizza admitted he was wrong.

“The lesson: Be skeptical — of experts or anyone else — when dealing with a rapidly developing and changing situation where no one has the ability to see a 360-degree view,” he added.

Fauci is quickly becoming less credible in the mainstream due to his shifting guidance, missteps, and inconsistencies in his messaging.

President Trump revoked Fauci’s federal security detail last week, justifying the s decision by saying that former officials should not rely indefinitely on government-funded security

This came days after Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Fauci and others.

Cillizza then went on to criticize himself for clouding his judgment.

“My belief at the time was that Trump was just making it up. Like, he wanted to blame China for the virus. And it having leaked from an infectious disease lab — whether accidentally or intentionally — made that case much easier to make,” he admitted.

“Do I think that’s what happened?” he asked.

“That Trump knew — like, really knew — way back then that Covid had come from a lab? Or was he just saying stuff — and that stuff wound up being proven correct in the long run? Honestly, I am not sure we will ever know.”

“It never entered my mind that, as president, it was possible that Trump had been privy to information not publicly available on the virus,” Cillizza wrote.

Cillizza concluded: “Just because Trump talks out of his ass a fair amount doesn’t mean everything he says is him talking out of his ass. Don’t disqualify the possibility of Trump telling the truth solely because he is a decidedly inconsistent messenger when it comes to truth.”

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