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Thank you guys Keep moving Thank you Bye guys Bye Bye And as I noted Donald Trump been ranting like a lunatic all morning He been making social media posts attacking and defaming Alex Preti, who was murdered by his border patrol Gestapo. He's also been making social media posts attacking Jerome Powell. He writes Jerome Too Late Powell again refused to cut interest rates, even though he has absolutely no reason to keep them so high. He is hurting our country and its national security. He goes on to rant and rave like a lunatic in that social media post for a longer paragraph. No need to read it. It's just the rantings and ravings of an insane person. Also, we're learning that the Trump regime has been holding more secret meetings with separatist fringe groups in Canada to try to convince Alberta to secede from Canada and potentially become part of the United States. Again, this is Donald Trump's attack on Canada, which he continues to refer to as the 51st state. He refers to Prime Minister Carney now as Governor Carney. Donald Trump is absolutely jealous that Prime Minister Carney has been able to unite a lot of the world and make great deals with China and Europe and elsewhere while Donald Trump has now isolated the United States. Also, you have a senior DOJ official, Ed Martin, posting photos with Sidney Powell, one of Trump's top conspiracy theorists who denied the results of the 2020 election. This follows Donald Trump's FBI Gestapo raiding the Fulton County election offices and warehouses that have all of the ballots stored from 2020. and the Trump FBI raided it, took all of the 2020 ballots, and now the people in Fulton County say that the Trump regime is likely going to tamper with it, and they can no longer actually say that there is a proper chain of custody anymore, given that the Trump regime lies, steals, cheats, commits crimes, tampers with things, and manipulates things. So the Trump regime sent Tom Homan into Minnesota to replace Greg Bovino. Greg Bovino was the former leader of the Border Patrol Gestapo. And so Bovino was removed and demoted and who knows what he's doing now. But Tom Homan was moved in. Tom Homan, of course, is the border czar, as he's called. He's the guy who allegedly took money in a kava bag as a quid pro quo, which was investigated by the FBI. But then Trump's FBI I look the other way and Homan refuses to speak about what happened with money being handed to him in a kava bag. But anyway, Homan, who's really no better at all than Bovino. I mean, they're both horrible human beings who have engaged in horrific atrocities against humanity and crimes against humanity. In my opinion, Homan shows up in Minnesota today and in Minneapolis. He gives his first speech and he says he basically blames the people who criticized ICE's invasion for the reason that people died. People were murdered by Donald Trump's ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo. 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You need to be there for a child nonstop, especially when they need you, especially at that age that Barone is. He's an incredible young man. We are very proud of him. Second year in Stern School of Business. She also talks about that her representatives are in contact with Vladimir Putin right now. And this, as we know, Donald Trump is displaying Vladimir Putin's photo with Trump in the Oval Office very prominently. Here's what Melania says there. Let's play it. In Russia, you sent Vladimir Putin a note. Did he get back to you? Tell me about that. He did. He did. He wrote a letter back to me. Um, my representative is in contact with them and we are still working, uh, reuniting more children. I hope soon we will have a great success again It great to energy secretary Chris right This is part of the new Trump propaganda push this morning They saying as a result of Donald Trump bringing back coal and getting rid of solar and wind energy, hundreds of lives were saved in the winter storm. Hundreds of people would have died, he said, if Biden was in office. But we saved your life by bringing back coal. That's the propaganda the regime is spewing this morning. Let's play this clip right here. Yeah, not just the storm, but the cold temperatures, Dana. They drive up demand for electricity to often the annual peak. And I will tell you, coal and President Trump's effort to keep coal plants open in the last few days has likely saved hundreds of American lives. We had a much smaller cold front during the Biden administration. We lost over 200 American lives because power went down, heating went out. The Trump administration, we've saved 17 gigawatts of coal plants to keep them open. Natural gas, coal, and nuclear, in that order, have been the key workhorses to keep the lights on at these peak demand times. Now we're also learning more about Donald Trump's shady oil dealings with Venezuela, because all of this is a grift to enrich Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that Trump officials who were awarded Venezuela oil sales contracts have done that with firms tied to bribery. Two trading houses with a history of bribery and corruption won the $500 million deals. Court records show they were previously hunted down by the U.S. Department of Justice. But that does not seem to matter to the current regime. Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with Trump this month to sell Venezuelan oil and then put the money in a Qatari bank account were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere. A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump's 2024 election campaign. Isn't that what this is all about, folks? At the end of the day, Donald Trump enriching himself through this utter grift. And then finally, the United States moving closer to war with Iran. 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