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Attorney Ty Clevenger has filed a motion in federal court to hold the FBI in contempt for what he calls a “deliberate and willful defiance” of a court order mandating the release of key information related to murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.

The filing, made on behalf of Texas plaintiff Brian Huddleston, alleges the FBI has systematically concealed records from Rich’s personal and work laptops, obstructing transparency and ignoring clear directives from the court.

“This afternoon we asked the U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas to hold the FBI in contempt of court for systematically violating the court’s orders to produce records about Seth Rich,” said attorney Ty Clevenger on Tuesday.

“If there is nothing to hide, and Seth died in a “botched robbery,” then why has the FBI gone so far as to commit crimes in order to conceal the evidence? After all, the FBI already has admitted that there is a link between Seth’s work laptop and the 2016 “hack” of the DNC, purportedly by Russian intelligence agents.

“If Mueller and Durham told us the whole story about the Russia hoax, then why is the FBI still fighting so hard to hide the facts? The URL below links to our motion. It speaks for itself,” he concluded.

This afternoon we asked the U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas to hold the @FBI in contempt of court for systematically violating the court’s orders to produce records about Seth Rich. If there is nothing to hide, and Seth died in a “botched robbery,” then why has the FBI gone…

— Ty Clevenger (@Ty_Clevenger) April 8, 2025

According to the motion filed on April 8 in the Eastern District of Texas, the FBI failed to comply with Judge Amos Mazzant’s August 2024 order which required the agency to conduct a full “document-by-document review” of devices in its possession. Instead, the FBI is accused of providing incomplete and misleading Vaughn indexes — legally required inventories explaining why documents are withheld — that omitted key files, metadata, and even entire sets of records.

Worse, Clevenger argues, the FBI knowingly reasserted privacy exemptions for Seth Rich that Judge Mazzant had explicitly rejected in 2022.

These exemptions were rubber-stamped across every single record in an apparent effort to stonewall the court and the public from learning what really happened to Rich — whose 2016 murder remains unsolved and has long been the subject of intense scrutiny due to his alleged connections to leaked DNC emails published by WikiLeaks.

“The FBI’s defiance, obfuscations, and delays will continue unabated so long as its senior FBI personnel think they can get away with it,” Clevenger warns in the filing.

Among the most damning revelations is the agency’s refusal to confirm whether it actually reviewed Seth Rich’s physical work laptop — as ordered — or merely examined an image created by an “outside entity,” believed to be affiliated with the Democratic National Committee or its law firm, Perkins Coie.

Moreover, metadata — crucial digital fingerprints that could potentially show if Rich was the source of the 2016 WikiLeaks leaks — was neither produced nor accounted for. That’s despite a court order demanding its disclosure and repeated warnings from Clevenger that metadata could settle the issue once and for all.

The filing also reveals that while the FBI previously estimated there would be roughly 400,000 records on Rich’s personal laptop, it accounted for only 1,297. A technical expert supporting Huddleston noted that even a brand-new Windows laptop would have more than 100,000 files — meaning the FBI’s production was “laughably incomplete.”

In some cases, documents were bizarrely described as “Editorial Cartoons,” “Video Game Notes,” “Groupon Certificates,” and even a “Birthday Party Menu” — all flagged as law enforcement-sensitive or privacy-invading, despite dating years before Rich’s death.

This is not the first time the FBI has tried to bury the Seth Rich story. The agency initially denied having any records at all before being forced to admit otherwise. Now, Clevenger is demanding an evidentiary hearing, the appointment of a special master to oversee the review, and even contempt charges against top FBI FOIA official Michael Seidel and others who may have participated in the agency’s disobedience.

Clevenger has requested the court order the FBI to turn over all internal emails, chats, and notes related to its handling of the Seth Rich FOIA request, particularly any discussion surrounding compliance with the judge’s order. He’s also seeking full reimbursement of legal fees and costs.

Read the filing below:

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President Trump spoke to the National Republican Congressional Conference Dinner on Tuesday night in Washington, DC.

The 45th and 47th president spoke at length about his courageous policy agenda. He also emphasized the need to protect and strengthen the Republican majority in the 2026 midterms.

During his speech, President Trump stopped speaking and invited three Israelis, including two former hostages of the Hamas terror group, to come on stage.

The three hostages, including American Keith Siegel and Aviva Siegel, thanked Trump for their release from their Hamas tormentors.

The hostages thanked Trump for his work in bringing them home to their families. They claimed Trump has rescued 33 Jewish hostages since he entered office.

Keith Siegel: Thank you. Thank you very much. President Trump. I’m here, and I’m alive. President Trump, you saved my life.

You saved the life of 33 hostages that because of your efforts and you’re setting the hostage crisis at the high priority of what you are doing among all of the enormous issues and things that you’re dealing with since you came into your position as President of the United States.

You set the hostage crisis at the highest priority. Got 33 of us home alive. We all owe our lives to you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And please, Please continue your tremendous efforts and your tremendous actions and your tremendous accomplishments. Continue, and we will get with your help, all of the remaining 59 hostages still in Gaza, back home. Thank you.

MUST WATCH: 3 RECENTLY RELEASED HOSTAGES JOIN PRESIDENT TRUMP ON STAGE AT NRCC PRESIDENT’S DINNER

“WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF PRESIDENT @REALDONALDTRUMP!” pic.twitter.com/uny7ySZ2sM

— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) April 9, 2025

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On Tuesday, new court documents were released that reveal would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh was in talks to purchase a Stinger Missile to take out Trump here in the US.

A Stinger missile reportedly costs from $119,000 to $120,000.

A Stinger missile costs anywhere from $50,000 to $80,000 on the black market.

So, where did Ryan Routh get all of his funding?

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The Gateway Pundit reported that the court documents reveal that Routh was communicating with someone he “believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons.”

The Gateway Pundit questioned at the time, “It sounds like Routh was holding talks with a federal operative?”

And, Routh and his associate were talking about assassinating Trump in July 2024 in Pennsylvania!

Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Crooks shot Trump in the head before snipers shot him dead.

From the DOJ report, via Headline USA:

So, who was running Ryan Routh?

And why was he not arrested in July if he was plotting to kill the former president in Pennsylvania and was attempting to purchase an illegal Stinger missile?

Holy smokes!

NEW: The DOJ alleged in a late-Monday motion that would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh ATTEMPTED TO BUY A ROCKET LAUNCHER FROM A UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATE weeks before his Sept. 15 attempt.

“I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected,” Routh allegedly told his Ukrainian… pic.twitter.com/WiRuG2kDRg

— Headline USA (@HeadlineUSA) April 8, 2025

On Tuesday night, former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou answered these questions on Jesse Watters Primetime, and it was just as many of us suspected.

The feds were likely involved with Routh for many months. But they DID NOT stop him from planting himself in the bushes at a Trump Palm Beach course where he waited to kill the president.

The FBI needs to come clean.

Via Jesse Watters Primetime.

Jesse Watters: All right, John, let’s start with you. When Ruth thought he was talking to a Ukrainian arms dealer, the Justice Department says, What do you think that means?

John Kiriakou: That almost always means he was speaking with an FBI agent or with someone acting on behalf of the FBI. But the fact that he still got to the golf course in Florida, even though he was caught, the fact that he got there tells that someone was asleep at the switch.

Jesse Watters: If he was being monitored by the federal government, why would they let him get right to that hole with a rifle?

John Kiriakou: There’s absolutely no way to justify that. No way at all. If he was deemed to be an actual threat to the President, and clearly he was a threat, a long term ongoing threat, they should have scooped him up ages ago. It’s better to charge someone with conspiracy than to risk him actually carrying out an attack and assassinating the President of the United States.

Jesse Watters: Does the federal government usually lose track of crazy people who are trying to buy bazookas to kill the President?

John Kiriakou: I can only think of I… Harvey Oswald to tell you the truth, because this is never supposed to happen.

Why are we funding an organization that was working with the would-be assassin of President Trump.

The American public deserves more answers.

Watch the video below:

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President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariff package has officially gone into effect today, delivering a powerful blow to nations that have long exploited unfair trade practices at the expense of U.S. jobs.

Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025.  This decisive action aims to correct decades of unfair trade practices that have disadvantaged American workers and industries.

Trump said from the White House Rose Garden:

“For too long, other nations have taken advantage of our open markets while imposing barriers to our products. Those days are over.

American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen. We have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered, gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream. We had an American dream that you don’t hear so much about. You did four years ago, and you are now. But you don’t too often.

Now it’s our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt.

And it will all happen very quickly. With today’s action, we are finally going to be able to make America great again, greater than ever before or. Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base.

For nations that treat us badly, we will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, nonmonetary barriers and other forms of cheating. And because we are being very kind, we will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us. So the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. I could have done that. Yes. But it would have been tough for a lot of countries.

For decades, the United States slashed trade barriers on other countries, while those nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created outrageous non-monetary barriers to decimate our industries.

And in many cases, the non-monetary barriers were worse than the monetary ones. They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports, stole our intellectual property, imposed exorbitant taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair rules and technical standards, and created filthy pollution havens.

From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation. And the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been.

So wealthy, in fact, that in the 1880s they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collecting. We were collecting so much money so fast, we didn’t know what to do with it. Isn’t that a nice problem to have?

And my answer is very simple. If they complain, if you want your tariff rate to be zero, then you build your product right here in America. Because there is no tariff. If you build your plant, your product in America. And we’ve seen companies coming in like we’ve never seen before.”

On April 9, 2025, additional reciprocal tariffs are applied to countries with significant trade surpluses, calculated based on their trade practices and deficits with the U.S.

The rates were calculated using a formula: (Trade deficit ÷ Exports to the U.S.) × 0.5, which disproportionately affects nations with large trade surpluses relative to their exports.

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Below is the list of countries affected via X user @unusual_whales:

Reciprocal Tariff Level: 104%

• China (cumulative rate combining existing 20%, a 34% reciprocal tariff, and an additional 50% escalation in response to Chinese retaliation). This applies to most Chinese exports to the U.S.

Reciprocal Tariff Level: 50–59%

• Lesotho – 50

Reciprocal Tariff Level: 40–49%

• Cambodia – 49

• Laos – 48

• Madagascar – 47

• Vietnam – 46

• Myanmar – 44

• Sri Lanka – 44

• Falkland Islands – 41

• Syria – 41

• Mauritius – 40

Reciprocal Tariff Level: 30–39%

• Iraq – 39

• Guyana – 38

• Bangladesh – 37

• Botswana – 37

• Liechtenstein – 37

• Serbia – 37

• Thailand – 36

• Bosnia and Herzegovina – 35

• North Macedonia – 33

• Angola – 32

• Fiji – 32

• Indonesia – 32

• Taiwan – 32

• Libya – 31

• Moldova – 31

• Switzerland – 31

• Algeria – 30

• Nauru – 30

• South Africa – 30

Reciprocal Tariff Level: 20–29%

• Pakistan – 29

• Tunisia – 28

• Kazakhstan – 27

• India – 26

• South Korea – 25

• Brunei – 24

• Japan – 24

• Malaysia – 24

• Vanuatu – 22

• Côte d’Ivoire – 21

• Namibia – 21

• European Union (27 countries) – 20

• Jordan – 20

• Nicaragua – 18

• Zimbabwe – 18

• Israel – 17

• Malawi – 17

• Philippines – 17

• Zambia – 17

• Mozambique – 16

• Norway – 15

• Venezuela – 15

• Nigeria – 14

• Chad – 13

• Equatorial Guinea – 13

• Cameroon – 11

• Democratic Republic of the Congo – 11

10% baseline tariff

Africa

• Benin – 10

• Burundi – 10

• Cabo Verde – 10

• Central African Republic – 10

• Comoros – 10

• Djibouti – 10

• Egypt – 10

• Eritrea – 10

• Eswatini – 10

• Ethiopia – 10

• Gabon – 10

• Gambia – 10

• Ghana – 10

• Guinea – 10

• Guinea-Bissau – 10

• Kenya – 10

• Liberia – 10

• Mali – 10

• Mauritania – 10

• Mayotte – 10

• Morocco – 10

• Niger – 10

• Réunion – 10

• Rwanda – 10

• São Tomé and Príncipe – 10

• Senegal – 10

• Sierra Leone – 10

• South Sudan – 10

• Sudan – 10

• Tanzania – 10

• Togo – 10

• Uganda – 10

North America & Central America

• Anguilla – 10

• Antigua and Barbuda – 10

• Bahamas – 10

• Barbados – 10

• Belize – 10

• Bermuda – 10

• Cayman Islands – 10

• Costa Rica – 10

• Dominica – 10

• Dominican Republic – 10

• El Salvador – 10

• Grenada – 10

• Guatemala – 10

• Haiti – 10

• Honduras – 10

• Jamaica – 10

• Martinique – 10

• Montserrat – 10

• Panama – 10

• Saint Kitts and Nevis – 10

• Saint Lucia – 10

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon – 10

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – 10

• Trinidad and Tobago – 10

• Turks and Caicos Islands – 10

South America

• Argentina – 10

• Bolivia – 10

• Brazil – 10

• Chile – 10

• Colombia – 10

• Ecuador – 10

• French Guiana – 10

• Paraguay – 10

• Peru – 10

• Suriname – 10

• Uruguay – 10

Asia

• Afghanistan – 10

• Armenia – 10

• Azerbaijan – 10

• Bahrain – 10

• Bhutan – 10

• Georgia – 10

• Iran – 10

• Kuwait – 10

• Kyrgyzstan – 10

• Lebanon – 10

• Maldives – 10

• Mongolia – 10

• Nepal – 10

• Oman – 10

• Qatar – 10

• Saudi Arabia – 10

• Singapore – 10

• Tajikistan – 10

• Timor-Leste – 10

• Turkey – 10

• Turkmenistan – 10

• United Arab Emirates – 10

• Uzbekistan – 10

• Yemen – 10

Europe

• Albania – 10

• Andorra – 10

• Gibraltar – 10

• Iceland – 10

• Kosovo – 10

• Monaco – 10

• Montenegro – 10

• San Marino – 10

• United Kingdom – 10

Oceania

• Australia – 10

• Christmas Island – 10

• Cocos (Keeling) Islands – 10

• Cook Islands – 10

• Kiribati – 10

• Marshall Islands – 10

• Micronesia – 10

• New Zealand – 10

• Norfolk Island – 10

• Papua New Guinea – 10

• Samoa – 10

• Solomon Islands – 10

• Tokelau – 10

• Tonga – 10

• Tuvalu – 10

Other / Territories

• British Indian Ocean Territory – 10

• French Polynesia – 10

• Heard and McDonald Islands – 10

• Saint Helena – 10

• Svalbard and Jan Mayen – 10

• Sint Maarten – 10

• Curaçao – 10

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Reagan-era economist Art Laffer recently appeared on the FOX Business Network and praised Trump’s tariff plan. Laffer broke it down, even including what he sees as the apparent exit plan, describing it as a ‘win-win strategy.’

Laffer’s view is quite a change from the hair-on-fire approach to this topic embraced by the vast majority of the media. He even suggests that this will be better for other countries in the long run.

Of course, the biggest beneficiary will be the United States.

From the FOX Business Network:

Economist says Trump’s tariffs are a ‘win-win strategy’ to negotiate trade deals

Former Reagan economic advisor Art Laffer said Tuesday on “Varney & Co” that both the world and U.S. would see benefit from President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the trade negotiations that arise out of them…

“The win-win strategy is Trump is just phenomenal at negotiating,” Laffer said Tuesday, adding that he agreed with President Donald Trump that foreign countries getting hit with the president’s latest levies “have far higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers and quotas than we do.”

“But what he’s done now is he’s gotten them in a position where they’re going to lose their access to the U.S. market if they don’t redress these types of inequities that they’ve done,” the former Reagan economic advisor continued. “And Trump is a master negotiator, and I’m watching these people calling into Trump — this is exactly what he does beautifully and wonderfully — and I believe he can negotiate freer trade deals, get those tariffs way, way down, much lower than they are now, by primarily those people lowering their tariffs and us keeping ours low or even going lower, and it’ll be a win, win.”

Watch the whole thing below:

Former Reagan Economic Advisor, Art Laffer, lays out his WIN-WIN Exit Strategy for Trump on Tariffs:

“I believe he can negotiate freer trade deals, get those tariffs way way down, much lower than they are now. By primarily those [countries] lowering their tariffs and us… pic.twitter.com/3TgjgO1Cdf

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 8, 2025

Democrats and even some RINOs continue to shriek about this but of course, offer no alternative solutions. Trump is doing exactly what he promised in the campaign. He is putting America first.

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Student activists who are obsessed with their hatred of Israel have become an annoying problem at schools across the country.

At the University of Colorado-Boulder, people have clearly had enough. When a small group of these dopes decided to invade a classroom, they got more than they bargained for and were dragged out by their keffiyehs.

No one has any patience for this foolishness anymore. The video below could represent a turning point.

The College Fix reported:

A trio of pro-Hamas student activists recently barged into a University of Colorado Boulder classroom and were promptly hauled back out by their keffiyehs.

The Daily Camera reports after entering the “Designing for Defense” class last week, one of the activists went to the front of the room and prepared to read a statement, whereupon a man who appeared to be the instructor said “No, you may not.”

He then grabbed the statement and said “Get out.”

Soon after, a video from the Buffs 4 Palestine Instagram page shows two men, one of whom “appeared to be [neither] an employee or student,” according to the Camera, dragging the activists from the room.

“Two students were violently assaulted by a CU Boulder professor for interrupting a Designing for Defense class, a course that directly collaborates with the U.S. military to develop weapons and surveillance tools while the Israeli regime carries out a U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza,” a Buffs 4 Palestine statement reads.

“Their action was not only justified, it was morally necessary. ”

The group demanded the class be “shut down,” that CU divest from Israel and “all arms manufacturers,” cease cooperation with ICE, and issue a public condemnation of the “assault” against the activists.

Watch the video below:

Student protestors get dragged out by their keffiyehs after disrupting a class at the University of Colorado Boulder: pic.twitter.com/qOI3jT4MOT

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 5, 2025

If more people refuse to put up with this madness, we will see it end sooner than later.

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Conservative talk radio legend Mark Levin recently discussed the Islamic, Sharia Law compliant city being planned near Dallas in Texas and cited this report from the Gateway Pundit.

In the report, a retired police lieutenant describes his findings after looking into the matter and raises some major concerns. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has also spoken out about this and is investigating.

The entire concept of this planned community is un-American. We do not need or want countries to be formed within our country.

Mark’s show notes even mention the story in the episode description:

Understanding the Risks of Sharia Law in America

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, Iran’s regime has a history of deceit and terrorism, including killing Americans and targeting leaders like President Trump. A single nuclear warhead could devastate a city, and it’s naive to think Iran wouldn’t attack the U.S. despite geographic distance. The goal isn’t to start a war with Iran but to prevent nuclear annihilation.

Accepting Iran’s pursuit of nukes contradicts American values, as they aim to destroy the West. Trump insists Iran must be prevented from acquiring nuclear weapons, recognizing their terrorist nature and potential to deploy them.

Also, a retired police lieutenant, Douglas Deaton, has revealed disturbing details about a planned Sharia-compliant “Islamic mega-city” near Dallas, Texas, called EPIC City, sparking investigations by Texas officials. Gov Greg Abbott has responded by directing state agencies and the Texas Rangers to investigate allegations of illegal activities, emphasizing that Sharia law is not permitted in Texas. Such a city must never exist in the U.S., American law must be followed without exception, not Sharia law.

The clip below is cued to start at the 21:20 mark, so just press play:

As Mark says in the clip, he is planning to continue following this story as it develops. So will the Gateway Pundit, and big thanks to Mr. Levin for sharing it.

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After decades of global economic exploitation from our trade partners, President Trump is putting the American worker first.

The Gateway Pundit reported,

President Donald Trump isn’t playing games with Communist China anymore.

Trump is set to unleash a devastating 104% tariff on Communist China this Wednesday after Beijing ignored his “12 o’clock” deadline to lift its retaliatory tariffs.

According to Fox Business, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dropped the bombshell earlier today, confirming that the tariffs kicked in at noon ET. Why? Because China’s commie overlords refused to back down from their own retaliatory duties on American goods.

According to FOX Business Network’s Edward Lawrence, the White House made the move swiftly and decisively.

“White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says 104% additional tariffs went into effect at noon eastern time because China has not removed its retaliation,” Lawrence reported. “The 104% additional tariff will be collected starting tomorrow, April 9th.”

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is throwing a full-blown tantrum, vowing to “fight to the end” after President Donald Trump delivered a righteous ultimatum: retract your outrageous 34% retaliatory tariff on American goods by April 8, or face a devastating 50% tariff wall from the United States starting April 9.

This is the kind of bold leadership America’s forgotten workers have been crying out for—and the CCP can’t handle it.

Last week, President Trump took a sledgehammer to decades of Chinese economic exploitation, slapping a 34% tariff on their imports to level the playing field against Beijing’s suffocating 67% trade barriers.

In typical CCP fashion, instead of negotiating in good faith, China resorted to propaganda, whining about “unilateral bullying” while conveniently ignoring its decades of economic warfare, including slave labor, forced technology transfers, and currency manipulation.

President Trump is not messing around. He is serious about standing up for the American worker. We will no longer be taken advantage of so that foreign countries can make themselves rich off our backs.

 

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President Trump on Tuesday did the honors of planting a “MAGAnolia” sapling and descendant of the 200-year-old “Jackson Magnolia” tree on the White House Lawn to replace the original historic White House fixture. 

The White House shared photos and video of the President digging the hole and planting the new tree, which they dubbed the “new MAGAnolia sapling.”

President Trump plants a new descendant sapling of the historic “Jackson Magnolia.” The White House remains committed to the stewardship and preservation of its historic grounds.

“We have a beautiful tree now in the White House.” – @POTUS pic.twitter.com/0wA8ShWye2

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 8, 2025

WATCH:

Per USA Today:

The White House has planted a new sapling to replace an ancient magnolia named for President Andrew Jackson.

The nation’s seventh president brought the seeds of a southern magnolia tree from his home near Nashville, Tennessee, to the White House lawn in the early 1800s, according to the National Park Service.

The tree, part of a group of magnolias near the South Portico, was determined to be a safety threat, according to a team of experts. They included master arborists, the National Park Service, the White House Grounds Superintendent, the White House Executive Residence, the Offices of the President and the First Lady, and the Secret Service.

Jackson, whose nickname was Old Hickory was inspired by his tough-as-a-tree demeanor, planted the tree in memory of his wife, Rachel, who died before he took office in 1829, according to the park service.

After the event, the White House commemorated the moment on X with pure gold, commenting, “President Donald J. Trump planted a new MAGAnolia sapling at the White House.” It is unclear at this time if the term “MAGAnolia” will play into any official renaming of the tree.

President Donald J. Trump planted a new MAGAnolia sapling at the White House — a direct descendant of the historic “Jackson Magnolia.” pic.twitter.com/aSJn8Zo4pp

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 8, 2025

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has helped preside over the most secure border in American history during her short time in office. She has also shown that she is willing to personally assist our brave law enforcement agents on their missions to help secure America and keep her wits despite possible safety risks.

As The New York Post reported, Noem led roughly 100 federal agents on an early morning raid Tuesday in Phoenix, Arizona. The agents came from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The mission was a success as three illegals were snatched up on multiple charges, including weapons, drug offenses, and money laundering.

Noem often takes part in these types of raids to bring exposure to the incredible work performed by our federal agents as they remove dangerous individuals from the United States. But today was more eventful than usual when one of the illegals nabbed tried to attack her using his tiny legs.

Jose Escobar-Robles had been detained by authorities for illegally funneling money to Mexico to financially assist cartels involved in drug smuggling and human trafficking. Noem went up to him as he was sitting handcuffed in the back of a police car.

“Do you understand the charges against you?” Noem asked Escobar-Robles.

After the illegal gave an unintelligible response, Noem informed him that he would be prosecuted for his alleged crimes.

“You don’t commit crimes in our country,” she added. Upon hearing this, Escobar-Robles lifted leg and attempted to kick her multiple times.

An unfazed Noem easily dodged his falling attacks and delivered this sassy response: “Yeah, yeah. You’re scaring me with your crocs.”

WATCH:

This illegal was so mad he was getting arrested, so he tried blocking us and hiding with his CROC.

DHS Secretary Noem: “You’re not scaring me with your crocs”

https://t.co/OGe4eRvfQ7 pic.twitter.com/ooGR5uVyNt

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 8, 2025

Noem then asked the illegal if he had any family as the illegal continued to kick at her. Finally, he threw in the towel and begged to be taken away.

“Let’s go. Let’s go,” he whimpered.

“Ah, we’ll go, we’ll go,” Noem replied. “You’re gonna go. You’re gonna go home. And you’re gonna get prosecuted.”

EXCLUSIVE: We’re riding along with @Sec_Noem on an ICE raid this AM in Phoenix.

Watch as she tells this illegal alien cartel money launderer trying to kick her with his croc that he’s done here. pic.twitter.com/XMF3GF8MQ1

— Jennie Taer ️ (@JennieSTaer) April 8, 2025

In a New York Post interview, Noem praised the level of cooperation she has seen with federal enforcement agencies and said that deportations will be picking up.

“The effort of cooperation we have between agencies is getting turned onto steroids. We have this being multiplied across the country exponentially, now anyone who’s in this country illegally that’s committing crimes and has broken our laws will face consequences,” Noem said.

“We’ll be sweeping them up faster than we ever have before.”

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