[DS] Is Desperate & In Trouble,This Is The Biggest Sting Operation The World Has Ever Seen- Ep. 3620
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Economy
BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley has said he will be reintroducing a bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 16, 2025
If the Dems are actually concerned about insider trading, they should create a bill that bans Congress and high-ranking officials from trading in the stock market.
But they won’t do that.
They just want to accuse Trump of insider trading, but want to keep doing it themselves.
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) April 15, 2025
Bank of Canada Keeps Rates At 2.75% As Expected, Sees “Significant Recession” In All-Out Trade War
- The Bank of Canada kept rates steady at 2.75% as expected, with the central bank saying it would support economic growth while ensuring that inflation remains well anchored.
- Here are some more highlights from the decision:
- The major shift in direction of US trade policy and the unpredictability of tariffs have increased uncertainty, diminished prospects for economic growth, and raised inflation expectations. Pervasive uncertainty makes it unusually challenging to project GDP growth and inflation in Canada and globally.
- Major shifts in US trade policy have increased uncertainty and cut prospects for growth and raised inflation expectations.
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- “Our focus will be on assessing the downward pressure on inflation from a weaker economy and the upward pressure from higher costs We will support economic growth while ensuring inflation remains we
Source: zerohedge.com
- China dominates global supply chains for rare metals.
- US President Donald Trump ordered a probe that may result in tariffs on critical minerals, rare-earth metals and associated products such as smartphones, in an escalation of his dispute with global trade partners.
- Without naming any other countries, the order says that the United States is dependent on foreign sources that “are at risk of serious, sustained, and long-term supply chain shocks.”
- It states that this dependence “raises the potential for risks to national security, defense readiness, price stability, and economic prosperity and resilience.”
- The imports targeted include so-called critical minerals like cobalt, lithium and nickel, rare-earth elements, as well as products that partly require these resources, such as electric vehicles and batteries.
- The order states that critical minerals and their derivatives are essential for US military and energy infrastructure, noting their use in jet engines, missile guidance systems and advanced computing, among others.
- The Department of Commerce will have up to 180 days to deliver its report to Trump, the order says, adding that any recommendations for action should consider the imposition of tariffs.
Source: breitbart.com
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A 125% reciprocal tariff
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A 20% tariff to address the fentanyl crisis
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Section 301 tariffs on specific goods, ranging from 7.5% to 100% (e.g., electric vehicles face a 100% tariff from the Biden administration).
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China has signaled its willingness to engage in trade talks with the United States, but with specific conditions, as reported by Bloomberg on April 16, 2025. According to a person familiar with the Chinese government’s thinking, Beijing requires President Donald Trump’s administration to demonstrate “respect,” particularly by reining in disparaging remarks from cabinet members. Additionally, China wants the U.S. to appoint a designated point person with Trump’s authority to lead negotiations and prepare a potential deal for Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to sign. Other conditions include a more consistent U.S. stance and addressing China’s concerns regarding American sanctions and Taiwan. These preconditions reflect Beijing’s response to escalating trade tensions, including the U.S. imposing tariffs of up to 245% on Chinese imports and China’s retaliatory measures, such as 125% tariffs on U.S. goods and restrictions on rare earth exports.
Source: finance.yahoo.com
- China appointed a new top international trade negotiator on Wednesday amid tariff tensions with the U.S.
- The government said that Li Chenggang has been appointed to replace Wang Shouwen, who participated in the trade negotiations for the 2020 trade deal between the China and the U.S.
Source: newsmax.com
- The World Trade Organization (WTO) is calling the trade war unleashed by President Trump a “crisis” and is warning things could get worse if “the situation deteriorates.”
- WTO economists on Wednesday updated their projections for 2025, noting a “substantial downgrade” to the forecast for merchandise trade and a smaller reduction in their outlook for services trade.
- Much of the change was driven by new estimates for North America, which is now is projected to see a 12.6 percent decline in exports and 9.6 percent drop in imports this year.
- “Our simulations show that trade policy uncertainty has a significant dampening effect on trade flows, reducing exports and weakening economic activity,” Ralph Ossa, WTO chief economist, said in a statement. “Moreover, tariffs are a policy lever with wide-ranging, and often unintended consequences. In a world of growing trade tensions, a clear-eyed view of those trade-offs is more important than ever.”
Source: thehill.com
Trump: "This started with the World Trade Organization which was owned and paid for by China… I blame the people sitting at this desk… They allowed this to happen."
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) April 9, 2025
POLITICO: The IRS may face a mass exodus of up to 40% of its workforce due to buyout offers from the Trump administration and widespread layoffs, with approximately 22,000 employees already accepting Trump’s “deferred resignation” offer.
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) April 16, 2025
‘Depression’ Narrative Bust: Atlanta Fed ‘Adjusts’ Away GDP Plunge Forecast
- One month ago the world was stunned when the Atlanta Fed GDPNow forecast slashed US GDP Q1 estimates to down almost 4%.
- This sparked every leftist, establishment talking-head to leap to their feet and decry Trump’s policies as heralding the next Great Depression.
There was just a little problem…
As we detailed immediately after The Atlanta Fed’s report hit, it’s not the economy, it’s gold stupid!!!
… we subsequently learned that the plunge in GDP was the direct result of a spike in imports, which subtract from GDP.
As it turns out, and as Goldman economist Manuel Abecasis explained this morning, most of the widening in the trade deficit since November was driven by higher gold imports.
That’s right: the same spike in gold that indicates something is (perhaps terminally) broken with the financial system as we have now seen a record scramble for physical gold, also just happens to be slamming the US economy!
- And sure enough, having ‘adjusted‘ for the massive surge in gold imports, The Atlanta Fed quietly revised their forecast for Q1 GDP to just a 0.1% decline…
So, no economic collapse. No financial hellscape. No ‘next great depression’?
And just like that, the hue and cry from the academics, politicians, and talking-heads is gone… like Keyser Soze.
Political/Rights
Kyle Rittenhouse:
-Shot rioters to save his life
-$2 million bond, not reduced
-86 days in pre-trail detentionKarmelo Anthony:
-Brought a knife to a track meet
-Got insulted, kiIIed someone
-Bond is reduced to $200k
-12 days in pretrial jail
-Buys new house pic.twitter.com/CvvSTvwilb— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 15, 2025
Karmelo Anthony renting $900K home in gated community with family, bought new car after release on bond in Austin Metcalf murder case: report https://t.co/d52Cz7Gvhk pic.twitter.com/enFFoaompl
— New York Post (@nypost) April 16, 2025
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom is suing the Trump Admin over tariffs. He claims the tariffs are “unlawful” and are “wreaking chaos.”
Newsom just asked for a $2.8 billion bailout for Medicaid for illegals and California is facing a homeless crisis.
Meanwhile this is what he’s focusing… pic.twitter.com/81jkQLt752
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 16, 2025
on and spending tax dollars on…
Obama created Sanctuary Cities to violate Federal immigration laws.
Now he calls for universities to violate Federal Civil Rights laws.
Americans must reject Obama’s far left attacks on the rule of law.
Follow the law! https://t.co/ttRNYBFM6S
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) April 15, 2025
- students and so-called “future leaders.” Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn’t take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT. Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place. Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
- A man who helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu has been revealed to be listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official.The Daily Caller News Foundation reported that Boston International Media Consulting founder Gary Yu assisted in raising over $300,000 for Wu with the help of the New England Chinese American Alliance, a civic association of which Yu serves as co-chairman.Yu, whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang, is listed as an official with an agency of the United Front Work Department (UFWD), a Chinese Community Party influence and intelligence service, per the outlet.The House Select Committee on the Chinese Community Party described united front work as “a unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the PRC and to gain access to advanced foreign technology.
And they lied about it to us the entire time.https://t.co/ima3eul1vC
— ~~datahazard~~ (@fentasyl) April 15, 2025
Federal immigration law overrides state law under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Democrat Governors JB Pritzker, Tim Walz, & Kathy Hochul seek to shield illegal aliens from lawful immigration enforcement.
Time for them to appear before Congress. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/2XzCDjOlW5
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) April 14, 2025
Important to remember SCOTUS has vacated his two restraining orders Boasberg now claims were defied and the basis of his contempt finding.
And this 100% contradicts what Boasberg said in the April 3 hearing as to how the case got to him: pic.twitter.com/YRLJk417zS
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 16, 2025
If he doesn't get his way and Trump DOJ prosecutes those Boasberg claims are guilty of contempt, he will appoint his own prosecutor. LMAOOOOO
Is this enough to impeach @HouseGOP ? pic.twitter.com/iVbqZyVZJP
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 16, 2025
Who will exercise this prosecutorial power? Is that Executive power? Who has that? Judges? pic.twitter.com/NSIE9Q7TIS
— Adam Mortara (@AdamMortara) April 16, 2025
America has two political parties:
One for illegals. And one for Americans. https://t.co/olhE2F9Ju7
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 16, 2025
- By convincing Americans illegal aliens are indistinguishable from citizens, the left is hoping to delegitimize any attempt to enforce our immigration laws while making Americans feel morally conflicted about their right to do so.
.@StephenM: “Senator @ChrisVanHollen seems to be under the very confused impression that this MS-13 terrorist is his constituent. He is President @nayibbukele’s constituent… He is not a “Maryland man” — he is not a Maryland anything. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador with… pic.twitter.com/VW7bZ7l9lM
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 16, 2025
a deportation order from the United States.”
Thank you for sharing. She also filed for a protective order against Garcia in 2020: https://t.co/22TOvROGSy
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 16, 2025
contradictory to her positive comments about him now. First scooped by @MrAndyNgo
President Trump just signed an order to stop illegal immigrants from obtaining benefits under the Social Security Act and prioritize enforcement actions.
Here is the text:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of…
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 15, 2025
BREAKING: President Trump is soon to announce a self-deportation plan where the federal government will provide assistance to those illegals who want to cooperate and leave 🔥🔥
“We're going to give them a stipend … and a plane ticket." pic.twitter.com/TjL3N626kv
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 15, 2025
🚨 @SecretaryBurgum transfers administrative jurisdiction over nearly 110,000 acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the U.S. Army over the next 3 years:
"We're up against a real enemy here. We need to make sure the border is secure." pic.twitter.com/1J4RVqvojF
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 16, 2025
Troops to Border.
Clown Black Ops.
Private funds.
Raised how?
Troops @ Border does what?
Impact?
To who?
D’s involved.
MS_13/Illegals road block.
Sex traffic road block.
Children road block.
Drugs road block.
Guns road block.
China/Russia pass-through-intel-pull road block.Big money TERMINATE.
The WALL means more than you know.
The FIGHT for the WALL is for so much more.
Q
DOGE
Twice as many credit cards are issued and active than the total number of government employees! Crazy. https://t.co/6Zfr3fyHM8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2025
- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has forced out its second-in-command, Deputy Director Marvin Richardson, and replaced him with career government agent Robert Cekada.
- Richardson, a 35-year veteran of the agency, was reportedly given a choice: resign or be removed. According to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters, Richardson submitted his resignation late Wednesday after pressure mounted from top brass within the Trump administration.
- Stepping into the role is Robert Cekada, who has been with the ATF since 2005.
- Cekada’s appointment has drawn immediate scrutiny from conservatives, who question whether his extensive background in regulatory enforcement signals a more aggressive approach to targeting lawful gun owners.
- Cekada’s appointment comes after U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll was tapped as the new acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), replacing FBI Director Kash Patel.
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
War/Peace
- The European Liberal-Globalist media is slowly and painfully awakening to the reality of US President Donald J. Trump’s new approach toward Ukraine policy.
- The last time Kiev’s embattled leader backtracked on a previously agreed Mineral Deal, we heard Trump warn that ‘he was going to have big, big problems’.
- And it seems that it’s already started, as reports arise that he has passed on a $50 billion deal with Kiev – funded with with EU money.
- Among many other priorities, Ukraine urgently needs new air defense systems.
- BILD reported (translated from the German):
JUST IN:
Dan Caldwell @dandcaldwell, one of the top advisors for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth, was escorted out of the Pentagon today after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense.
You’ll recall, Dan Caldwell was… pic.twitter.com/vBKLf0HJBs
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 15, 2025
listed as the point of contact for the DOD in
’s SignalGate chat. He has since locked down his X account.
- Secretary Pete Hegseth has placed Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick on administrative leave. This action follows an ongoing investigation into unauthorized disclosures of sensitive military information.
- Selnick, an Air Force veteran and former senior adviser to Concerned Veterans for America, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday, according to Politico.
- Politico reported:
The leaks under investigation include military operational plans for the Panama canal, a second carrier headed to the Red Sea, Elon Musk’s controversial visit to the Pentagon and pausing the collection of intelligence to Ukraine, the other official said.
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
The man in question is Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg.
Medical/False Flags
NEW – WHO members agreed to the draft text of the "Pandemic Accord" treaty. WHO chief Tedros says, "multilateralism is alive and well." pic.twitter.com/ctK8pkSnfj
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 16, 2025
RFK Jr says within 2-3 weeks they will be announcing a series of new studies that will identify the environmental toxins causing autism 💥
LFG. Make America Healthy Again!!! pic.twitter.com/o4ay3vwZX4
— Patri0tsareinContr0l (@Patri0tContr0l) April 16, 2025
Anonymous ID: 91a1c7 No. 342919
.@AGPamBondi announces a civil lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education over thei dangerous and malicious refusal to protect women and girls in sports and other private spaces.
"We have exhausted every other remedy." pic.twitter.com/GxYqu0RFVW
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) April 16, 2025
MORE – The verdict: The legal definition of a woman is based on the biological sex at birth, nothing else.
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 16, 2025
[DS] Agenda
The Marxist psycho who torched the governor’s mansion in PA did it to save Palestine and out of spite for the governor’s Jewish faith.
Police say they have video of him scaling the security fence surrounding the residence, using a hammer to break windows and climbing inside to… pic.twitter.com/Qxa2jWspIE
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 16, 2025
Good chance that a lot of this money originates as US “foreign aid” that then makes its way back here via intermediaries
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2025
President Trump’s Plan
- criminal referral of Letitia James from the U.S. Federal Housing FHFA Constitution Center to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. A criminal referral (also known as a referral for prosecution) is a formal request or recommendation made by an individual, a government agency or legislative body asking la prosecutorial authority (like the Department of Justice) to investigate and potentially prosecute an individual for alleged criminal conduct.
- The criminal referral of Letitia James was authored by William J. Pulte, Director of U.S. Federal Housing FHFA. In the referral, Pulte cites facts from the Sam Antar’s Letitia Files article Revealed: NY Attorney General Letitia James Declares Virginia Home Her ‘Principal Residence’, alleging that James had “falsified records” to get home loans for a property in Virginia that she claimed was her “principal residence” in 2023 – while still serving as a New York state prosecutor.
- That occurred in late August 2023, weeks before James began her civil fraud trial against Donald Trump for overinflating the values of many of its properties, which culminated in a $454 million judgment.
- “Ms. James was the sitting Attorney General of New York and is required by law to have her primary residence in the state of New York – even though her mortgage applications list her intent to have the Norfolk, VA, property as her primary home,” the letter stated.
- “It appears Ms. James’ property and mortgage-related misrepresentations may have continued to her recent 2023 Norfolk, VA property purchase in order to secure a lower interest rate and more favorable loan terms.”
- “A January 26, 2001 certificate of occupancy lists this property as having five units. On February 14, 2001, Ms. Letitia James purchased this five-family dwelling. Ms. James secured a conforming loan through the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Form 3033. Conforming loans are only available on 4 unit or less structures. Spanning the last two decades, Ms. James has consistently misrepresented the same property as only having four units in both building permit applications and numerous mortgage documents and applications”.
- Pulte continued in the letter, “Ms. James may have listed the Brooklyn, NY property as four units instead of five units in order to meet the conforming loan requirements, and thus receive better interest rates. Ms. James also appears to have used this same falsification in order to receive mortgage assistance through HAMP.”
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
New York AG Letitia James being prosecuted for lying about her assets to get a mortgage after prosecuting Trump for lying about his assets to get a bank loan would be too perfect. They always accuse you of what they actually did.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 16, 2025
Letitia James is about to be indicted for mortgage fraud.
We can now be absolutely certain of four things:
1. She will say that the incorrect information in her mortgage applications were trivial administrative errors that she made only because she was so distracted by her…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 16, 2025
- noble, devout, nation-saving quest for impartial justice against Evil Orangeman.
- 2. She will claim that the indictment is motivated solely by racism. She will invoke Saint George Floyd and take on Jasmine Crockett’s affected accent.
- 3. She will claim that the real criminal is Donald Trump, and she is merely a victim of trying to do the right thing as she spoke truth to power.
- 4. She will be lionized by the media as a heroic figure who combines the best attributes of Nelson Mandela, Joan of Arc, Sir Thomas More, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Harley Quinn into a single mythic champion of justice. Book it.
- CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten dismantled the narrative that a large portion of President Donald Trump’s 2024 voters “regret” their decision.
- Enten, on “CNN News Central,” referenced a University of Massachusetts Amherst/YouGov poll published Monday that found only 2% of Trump voters “regret” their choice “and would vote differently” if given the opportunity to do so. The analyst said that based on this poll, if the 2024 election were held again, Trump would likely still beat former Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I hear all these stories, all these articles, ‘All the Trump voters, they regret what they did back in 2024.’ I’m here to tell you, ‘Uh uh.’ Very few of them regret what they did back in 2024.
Source: dailycaller.com
"Should Congress enact a law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in national elections?"
DEMOCRATS ONLY-
Yes: 50%
No: 37%
Not Sure: 13%CC: @SenSchumer @LeaderJohnThune @SpeakerJohnson @RepJeffries https://t.co/nTOblUrDoD
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) April 15, 2025
Its already illegal to vote as a non-citizen. The issue is that enforcement is voluntary.
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in large-scale operations involving multiple suspects, such as organized crime, trafficking rings, or terrorist networks. Authorities often wait until they’ve gathered sufficient evidence against all targets to execute coordinated arrests, raids, or takedowns.
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Ensures that all key players are apprehended at once, minimizing the risk of suspects fleeing, destroying evidence, or warning others. This often involves multiple agencies and synchronized actions across locations.
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Example: In a drug cartel sting, law enforcement might monitor activities for months, then conduct simultaneous raids to arrest all members and seize evidence in one sweep.