Economist Peter Navarro will be returning to the White House, with President-elect Donald J. Trump announcing the tariff and trade guru will serve as his Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing. After the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, Navarro became a prime target of the lawfare campaign waged by Congressional Democrats and the Biden government—ultimately serving four months in federal prison for contempt of Congress.
During President Trump’s first term in office, Navarro—a Harvard Ph.D. economist—served as the White House’s Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy and was one of the administration’s staunchest opponents of China. In addition, the University of California, Irvine professor emeritus is continuing to fight an appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction on constitutional grounds—with the case possibly heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The National Pulsereported in May that Trump said he absolutely would bring Navarro back to his second presidential administration.
“I am pleased to announce that Peter Navarro, a man who was treated horribly by the Deep State, or whatever else you would like to call it, will serve as my Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing. During my First Term, few were more effective or tenacious than Peter in enforcing my two sacred rules, Buy American, Hire American. He helped me renegotiate unfair Trade Deals like NAFTA and the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), and moved every one of my Tariff and Trade actions FAST,” President-elect Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump continued: “….The Senior Counselor position leverages Peter’s broad range of White House experience, while harnessing his extensive Policy analytic and Media skills. His mission will be to help successfully advance and communicate the Trump Manufacturing, Tariff, and Trade Agendas.”
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Economist Peter Navarro will be returning to the White House, with President-elect Donald J. Trump announcing the tariff and trade guru will serve as his Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing. After the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, Navarro became a prime target of the lawfare campaign waged by Congressional Democrats and the Biden government—ultimately serving four months in federal prison for contempt of Congress.
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House Republicans are urging an immediate inquiry by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) over reports of anti-Trump discrimination. According to reports, FEMA relief workers ignored the homes of Trump supporters in Florida and North Carolina.
Representative Sam Graves (R-MO), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, along with Representative Scott Perry (R-PA), addressed Inspector General Joseph Cuffari in a letter. They called for a thorough investigation into reports that fired FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington instructed workers to bypass residences displaying Trump campaign signs in Lake Placid, Florida. Concerns were raised that these actions might indicate a broader pattern within the agency.
In addition, lawmakers cited reports suggesting FEMA employees in North Carolina deliberately avoided neighborhoods marked with signs such as “Make America Great Again” and “Drain the Swamp.” The allegations describe instructions to abandon entire areas without notifying residents of hurricane aid if three or more such signs were present.
The House Committee emphasized their growing worry that this avoidance could be more extensive than initially reported, potentially leaving victims unaware of available federal assistance. FEMA Director Deanne Criswell, testifying on Capitol Hill last month, maintained that the incident in Florida was isolated and asserted that FEMA does not engage in any policies leading to systematic avoidance. However, during her testimony, Criswell agreed to request an investigation into the matter. Subsequently, she confirmed to the House Oversight Committee that she had sought a review from the Inspector General’s office.
Marn’i Washington has said she is being made a scapegoat, and that FEMA teams across Florida and North Carolina undertook similar avoidance actions.
House Republicans are urging an immediate inquiry by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Inspector General into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) over reports of anti-Trump discrimination. According to reports, FEMA relief workers ignored the homes of Trump supporters in Florida and North Carolina.
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court ruling that affirms the U.S. government’s authority to deport individuals in the country illegally. The ruling comes after a challenge from King County, Washington, prompted by an executive order issued in April 2019 by King County Executive Dow Constantine.
This order sought to halt the support of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) charter flights from King County International Airport near Seattle. Constantine’s directive aimed to prevent the transportation and deportation of ICE detainees at the local airport.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in February 2020, arguing that Constantine’s order unlawfully obstructed federal immigration enforcement. They contend it contravened the Supremacy Clause’s intergovernmental immunity doctrine and a World War II-era Instrument of Transfer agreement. This agreement allowed the federal government certain usage rights at the airport under the Surplus Property Act of 1944. The Trump administration sought a permanent injunction against the order, which the district court granted, asserting that the order unfairly discriminated against ICE contractors and breached the Instrument of Transfer.
King County, a self-declared “sanctuary county,” appealed the decision. Constantine’s legal team argued in favor of the county’s approach to “inclusivity” and opposition to discrimination.
However, the appellate court, led by Judge Daniel Bress, with concurrence from Judges Michael Hawkins and Richard Clifton, deemed Constantine’s arguments to be ideological. The court maintained that the order violated the Supremacy Clause and the Instrument of Transfer. It underscored that the federal government sustained concrete injuries due to increased ICE operational costs and potential future risks from the order.
The ruling further determined that Constantine’s order breached the intergovernmental immunity doctrine by unfairly targeting federal operations, thereby restricting the government’s conduct of deportations.
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court ruling that affirms the U.S. government's authority to deport individuals in the country illegally. The ruling comes after a challenge from King County, Washington, prompted by an executive order issued in April 2019 by King County Executive Dow Constantine.
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The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, joined Stephen K. Bannon on War Room to discuss the nomination of Kash Patel as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday. Kassam stressed the need for Trump’s appointees to adopt Patel’s mindset in taking on the Deep State and government bureaucrats, who will seek to undermine the President-elect’s America First agenda.
GLOBALIST RESISTANCE.
Kassam explained that Trump’s move to appoint outsiders like Patel and Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth—who oppose the longstanding globalist networks in the United States and Europe—is a direct threat to a system that has essentially laundered money through countries like Ukraine and Iraq, enriching politicians and the defense industry.
However, The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief warned that establishment and globalist-aligned lawmakers in the U.S. Senate will not approve Trump’s nominees without a fight. “I think you were right when you talked about the blood in the water that came after the Gaetz stuff,” Kassam noted, speaking with Bannon. He continued: “They got a big W with that.”
Kassam contends that the blocking of former Congressman Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) animation as U.S. Attorney General exposes that the likes of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow are the same ideologically. “They don’t want MAGA; they don’t want America to be great again,” he told Bannon, adding: “They oppose everything, like, it’s threaded into them. It’s woven into their spirits, that they actually oppose that stuff.”
Bannon noted that the U.S. political establishment controls the system, “…so the last thing they want is anti-system players, correct?”
KASH PATEL.
Addressing both the Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth nominations, Kassam argued that President-elect Trump’s supporters need to start pressing their Senators to support them right now. “I think people need to light up the Senators right now and say, ‘If you dare, if you dare, we’re just not going to have it,'” he argued.
“Kash is just brilliant. I mean, he is just a brilliant person. He’s a brilliant mind, he’s a brilliant man,” The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief said regarding Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI. “And the most important thing about Kash that I don’t think people realize, yeah, he’s great in front of the camera, but he is a hard worker. Like, he puts his shoulder [to the wheel]… he actually gets down and dirty into the documents, he understands these things instinctively. It is almost savant-like.”
“The FBI, under Kash Patel, needs to be investigating exactly how America got involved in Ukraine. What kickbacks there were, who they went to,” Kassam said. “There aren’t a whole lot of people like Kash, not just in American politics, but in the world. You’ve got your Darren Beatties, you’ve got your Kash Patels, your Natalie Winters, these are people who look at a document, and they instinctively understand where to go and how the dots get connected. So you can never, ever allow them to stop that confirmation.”
Kassam concluded: “I need fewer new Ambassadors to the Court of Saint James, I need fewer Never Trump appointments. I need more Kash Patels. That’s what I need. I don’t need one Kash Patel, by the way. Every single one of these people should be a Kash Patel of their department.”
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“I need fewer new Ambassadors to the Court of Saint James, I need fewer Never-Trump appointments, I need more Kash Patels. That’s what I need. I don’t need one Kash Patel, by the way. Every single one of these people should be a Kash Patel of their department.” — @RaheemKassampic.twitter.com/rkWuLbVCJ6
The National Pulse's Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, joined Stephen K. Bannon on War Room to discuss the nomination of Kash Patel as President-elect Donald J. Trump's Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday. Kassam stressed the need for Trump's appointees to adopt Patel's mindset in taking on the Deep State and government bureaucrats, who will seek to undermine the President-elect's America First agenda.
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Exit polls show that one of the Democrats’ strongest demographics over the last three presidential elections has been unmarried women. While Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris all carried women overall in 2016, 2020, and 2024, they did not carry all categories of women—married women broke for President-elect Donald J. Trump by five points in November, up from a four-point advantage in 2020 and a two-point deficit in 2016.
However, without the influence of a husband, women have broken decisively for Democratic candidates. Vice President Harris did not carry unmarried women as strongly as Clinton, at +31 points, or Biden, at +31 points, but her lead was still decisive, at +23 points, according to RealClearPolling.
Single status also seems to have a political impact on men, but it is less pronounced: bachelors were tied in the Trump-Harris election contest, breaking for Biden by seven points in 2020 and for Clinton by just two points in 2016. Meanwhile, married men broke for Trump by 22 points in 2024, 11 points in 2020, and 19 points in 2016.
Overall, men broke for Trump by 12 points, and women broke for Harris by eight points this past election, for a “gender gap” of 20 points.
CHILDLESS CAT LADIES.
In 2021, President-elect Trump’s future running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, warned of the impact of childless singletons on American politics, saying, “We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, be it via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies, who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too… You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]—the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
Notably, Vice President Harris suggested in a sex-focused podcast in October that she did not have children of her own because she did not want to be “humble.”
Vance defended the comments on the 2024 campaign trail, telling Megyn Kelly: “The substance of what I said, Megyn. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-children. The simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.”
The stark difference in the voting habits of married and unmarried women strongly suggests Vice President-elect Vance is correct.
Exit polls show that one of the Democrats' strongest demographics over the last three presidential elections has been unmarried women. While Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris all carried women overall in 2016, 2020, and 2024, they did not carry all categories of women—married women broke for President-elect Donald J. Trump by five points in November, up from a four-point advantage in 2020 and a two-point deficit in 2016.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump says he will block the sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel, a move backed by both Republican and several Democratic Party lawmakers in Congress. Instead, Trump says he wants to impose tariffs to rebuild the United States’ domestic steel industry, making it more competitive in international markets. Vice President Kamala Harris had signaled more openness to allowing the foreign takeover of U.S. Steel should she have won the White House.
“I am totally against the once great and powerful U.S. Steel being bought by a foreign company, in this case Nippon Steel of Japan. Through a series of Tax Incentives and Tariffs, we will make U.S. Steel Strong and Great Again, and it will happen FAST!” President-elect Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. He added: “As President, I will block this deal from happening. Buyer Beware!!!”
The sale of U.S. Steel to the Japanese-owned Nippon Steel is a critical issue for many Americans, especially those in the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump, speaking with members of the Teamsters Union, promised he would “block it instantaneously.”
“We saved the steel industry. Now, U.S. Steel is being bought by Japan. So terrible,” he said.
On Capitol Hill, the opposition to the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel has become a bipartisan fight. Both of Pennsylvania’s Senators in the next Congress, John Fetterman (D-PA) and Dave McCormick (R-PA), have voiced their opposition to the takeover. Both will likely be key votes in backing Trump’s tariff and trade plans as well.
President-elect Donald J. Trump says he will block the sale of U.S. Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel, a move backed by both Republican and several Democratic Party lawmakers in Congress. Instead, Trump says he wants to impose tariffs to rebuild the United States' domestic steel industry, making it more competitive in international markets. Vice President Kamala Harris had signaled more openness to allowing the foreign takeover of U.S. Steel should she have won the White House.
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The Canadian government is indicating it will pursue tougher border enforcement to help crack down on illegal immigration drug trafficking across their border with the United States. The move comes after President-elect Donald J. Trump threatened late last month to enact a 25 percent tariff on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico unless they cooperate with his efforts to secure America’s southern and northern borders.
“We got, I think, a mutual understanding of what they’re concerned about in terms of border security,” said Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety. LeBlanc accompanied Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week on a trip to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the two leaders discussed greater cooperation on border security. He emphasized: “All of their concerns are shared by Canadians and by the government of Canada.”
LeBlanc continued: “We talked about the security posture currently at the border that we believe to be effective, and we also discussed additional measures and visible measures that we’re going to put in place over the coming weeks.”
The Trudeau government in Canada staunchly backed open borders policies until Trump’s landslide election victory over Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris in early November. After Trump’s election and tariff threat, Trudeau pivoted his position, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announcing they will beef up border enforcement and bring on more staff to deal with illegal immigrants.
While much of the U.S. corporate media focus has been on the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border with Mexico, the northernborder has seen its fair share of encounters with those trying to enter the U.S. unlawfully.
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The Canadian government is indicating it will pursue tougher border enforcement to help crack down on illegal immigration drug trafficking across their border with the United States. The move comes after President-elect Donald J. Trump threatened late last month to enact a 25 percent tariff on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico unless they cooperate with his efforts to secure America's southern and northern borders.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump is naming Kashyap “Kash” Patel as his Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Patel, a frequent guest on Stephen K. Bannon‘s War Room, will replace the outgoing FBI chief Christopher Wray, who is widely viewed as opposed to Trump’s America First agenda.
“I am proud to announce that Kashyap “Kash” Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and “America First” fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, announcing the appointment Saturday evening. He continued: “He played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution. Kash did an incredible job during my First Term, where he served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense, Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council.”
“Kash has also tried over 60 jury trials. This FBI will end the growing crime epidemic in America, dismantle the migrant criminal gangs, and stop the evil scourge of human and drug trafficking across the Border. Kash will work under our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI,” the President-elect concluded.
Earlier this month, The National Pulse reported that senior FBI officials were working to block Patel’s potential appointment to the head of the bureau. These officials fear that Patel could root out those who cooperated with the Biden government corrupt lawfare campaign against Trump and his allies, as well as hold those in the agency responsible for spying on and harassing American citizens.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is naming Kashyap “Kash” Patel as his Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Patel, a frequent guest on Stephen K. Bannon's War Room, will replace the outgoing FBI chief Christopher Wray, who is widely viewed as opposed to Trump's America First agenda.
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British intelligence chief Richard Moore is claiming the withdrawal of lethal military aid from Ukraine would threaten security for the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union. The head of MI6 made the remarks during an address earlier this week in Paris. Moore is believed to be one of two under consideration by the Labour government’s Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, to serve as ambassador to the United States.
Moore’s statement appears to be connected to a significant push among NATO members to escalate the conflict in Ukraine before U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office in January. Trump has pledged to negotiate a swift end to the bloodshed, which has spurred the Biden government to authorize Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia with Western missiles. In addition, weapons manufacturers appear disinclined toward ending the conflict that has seen a ramp-up in armament production.
The MI6 chief cautioned that allowing Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to assert control over Ukraine could jeopardize transatlantic security, positing that Russia would seek further expansion beyond Ukrainian borders. However, Putin himself has not indicated any larger regional ambitions in the Baltic or Central Europe.
Moore also tried to link potential Russian success to broader geopolitics, suggesting it would embolden nations such as China, North Korea, and Iran. He stressed that the long-term costs of disengaging from Ukraine would surpass current expenditure, posing significant security threats. President-elect Trump has voiced concerns over the financial implications of supporting Ukraine and aims to end the conflict.
Strangely, Moore has pronouns in his X (formerly Twitter) bio, identifying as “he/him.”
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British intelligence chief Richard Moore is claiming the withdrawal of lethal military aid from Ukraine would threaten security for the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union. The head of MI6 made the remarks during an address earlier this week in Paris. Moore is believed to be one of two under consideration by the Labour government's Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, to serve as ambassador to the United States.
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Former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus is believed to be attempting to wriggle her way back into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s next administration in January. While Ortagus held a communications role at the top U.S. diplomatic agency from 2019 until 2021 under Trump, colleagues at State and other departments viewed her as less than aligned with Trump’s America First foreign policy.
FAILED CONGRESSIONAL BID.
Following the 2020 election, Ortagus’s true colors were revealed, especially after she was blocked in 2022 from running for Congress in Tennessee after the state legislature passed a law requiring candidates to live in the district they wish to represent. She was largely backed by the Republican Party establishment, with fundraisers hosted by a who’s who of anti-Trump donors.
Having failed to even make the ballot in the Tennessee congressional race, Ortagus—who previously served within the entrenched, neoconservative foreign policy establishment at USAID and the Treasury Department under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama—ramped up her appearances on corporate media, especially Fox News, where she routinely attacked Trump.
ANTI-AMERICA FIRST.
In May of 2023, just as the Republican presidential primary was kicking off in earnest, Ortagus slammed Trump’s major foreign policy speech. During an appearance on Fox Business, she told host Charles Payne that she hadn’t “drank the juice yet.” Orgatus smeared the now President-elect, stating: “Where I fundamentally disagree with [Trump’s] foreign policy, where I think it is very Rand Paul-esque, is the seeds of isolationism. In his gut, he does not think that America should be a ‘policeman of the world.'”
Despite Orgatus’s insistence that Trump’s America First foreign policy views are ‘isolationist,’ the American people have resoundingly agreed with Trump—sending him back to the White House with a landslide 2024 election victory.
BACKED POMPEO, PENCE, & HALEY.
Even more concerning is Ortagus’s decision to back several of Trump’s opponents during the 2024 Republican presidential primary. The former State Department spokeswoman was an early backer of her former boss and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as he considered a presidential run. Notably, Pompeo legitimized the Biden Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawfare campaign against Trump when the President-elect was indicted by special counsel Jack Smith for allegedly mishandling classified documents.
However, after Pompeo abandoned his nascent presidential bid, Ortagus would go on to back the likes of neoconservatives Mike Pence and Nikki Haley against President Trump.
ORIGINAL NEVER TRUMPER.
While Orgatus’s most recent anti-Trump statements and actions are concerning to many inside the Trump transition, her comments in 2016 are as equally troubling. Ortagus falsely claimed that Trump made fun of disabled people and likened his temperament to a “middle school pubescent boy.” She also described the future President as “disgusting.”
Concerns are also being raised regarding Ortagus’s relationship with Samantha Vinograd, an aggressive anti-Trump activist and political operative. Vinograd has routinely compared Trump to Hitler, accused him of espousing “white nationalist” talking points, and perpetuated the Democrat-pushed Russa collusion hoax.
DEEP STATE FLUNKEY.
Even during her short tenure in the first Trump administration, Ortagus was viewed as being too aligned with Deep State actors, especially employees at the State Department. In one incident, Ortagus and others in then-Secretary of State Pompeo’s inner circle allowed anti-Trump employees to express their opposition to the President of the United States on their personal social media accounts—something that in any other administration would be considered taboo at the least.
Another point of contention is Ortagus’s consulting firm, Polaris National Security, which is widely believed to be backed by anti-Trump, Deep State billionaire Paul Singer. In 2016, it was Singer who is suspected—at least in part—of funding the debunked Steele Dossier, which helped kick off the Democratic Party’s Russia collusion hoax attacks against Trump.
In the final days of the first Trump administration, Ortagus’s mercenary, pro-Deep State attitude may have gotten the best of her. The former State Department spokeswoman pledged to support the Biden government in an email to staff that was viewed by many as an attempt to retain her job after the 2020 election.
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Former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus is believed to be attempting to wriggle her way back into President-elect Donald J. Trump's next administration in January. While Ortagus held a communications role at the top U.S. diplomatic agency from 2019 until 2021 under Trump, colleagues at State and other departments viewed her as less than aligned with Trump's America First foreign policy.
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