After four years of Joe Biden’s open-borders policy permitted countless violent immigrants to illegally invade American communities far and wide, President Donald Trump came into office with a clear mandate to remove as many of these criminal aliens as possible. But while the White House treats gang and cartel members like the terrorists so many Americans believe they are, CNN opted to highlight one such criminal in a segment the outlet seemed to hope would result in an anti-Trump soundbite. That wasn’t the result, though, and CNN received a heaping helping of backlash after the interview aired. As the New York Post reported: The reporter, who noted the segment was filmed in a secret Mexican hideout, then pressed the gangster on what he would say to Trump — with an unexpected response. “My respect. According to him, he’s looking out for his people.,” the cartel member replied. “But the problem is the consumers are in the United States If there weren’t any consumers we would stop.” The outlet was immediately ridiculed on social media with many accusing the reporter of trying to bait the gangbanger into giving a Trump-bashing answer. Here are some of the critical social media reactions: CNN: “What’s your message to Donald Trump?” Sinaloa Cartel Member: “My respect. According to him, he’s looking out for his people.” Not the answer the Communist News Network wanted. pic.twitter.com/lWgjORrIjE — Kim “Katie” USA (@KimKatieUSA) May 3, 2025 CNN is now sitting down with Cartels to ask how they feel about Trump’s policies and being labeled terrorists…? CNN is enemy of the People. pic.twitter.com/XA83pIcT9u — Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) May 5, 2025 CNN is now interviewing cartel members to ask how they feel about being labeled terrorists. You cannot make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/4RhsTMykJ3 — Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) May 4, 2025 The Daily Mail also covered some of the negative response: The online backlash was swift and brutal with those watching the exchange far from impressed with CNN’s line of questioning. ‘I feel like these kinds of journalists fetishize criminals. It strikes me as similar to the women who would throw themselves at Ted Bundy after he was arrested,’ wrote Mark Valorian. ‘This is absolutely evil,’ stated TS Nelson. ‘Interviewing cartel…the ppl that human traffik children, smuggle drugs into the US, rape, murder and rob ppl. Just when you think MSM can’t sink any lower the next day happens.’ ‘So CNN is concerned about hurting the cartel’s feelings? This isn’t the flex they think it is. It’s offensive to Americans,’ tweeted Patty Free. ‘That ‘journalist’ is an enabler. She’s enabling terrorists. She should be arrested,’ demanded one. ‘Well, we need to be respectful and not hurt the cartel members feelings,’ mocked another X user. ‘The point of labeling them as terrorists isn’t just to be able to go after them but to go after those, banks in particular, that do business with the cartels. The cartels are about to find out what happens when their money gets frozen and taken,’ explained one on X. Here’s a full clip of the interview:   What do you think?

President Donald Trump will be hosting a Russian-American ballerina at the White House on Monday, thanks to the efforts of the Trump administration, who was able to secure her release from a Russian prison. 

President Donald Trump and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Monday that the 2027 NFL draft would be held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as the nation’s capital prepares for the Washington Commanders, formerly Redskins, to return to the district. The National Mall is home to iconic American monuments and memorials. Trump was joined by Goodell, D.C. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum for the announcement in the Oval Office. “The draft is a celebration of one of our country’s most cherished cultural institutions and the annual highlight for football fans everywhere,” Trump said. “Everyone in the world is going to be watching.” “Not only are these announcements great for the NFL, but they also advance the mission of making Washington D.C. safe and clean and beautiful,” the president added. .@POTUS: "Not only are these announcements great for the NFL, but they also advance the mission of making Washington D.C. safe and clean and beautiful. We're working very closely with the Mayor — and we've made a lot of improvements in the last few months… Crime is way down." pic.twitter.com/Yt0BUcG6v2 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 5, 2025 Goodell said that he believes the draft in D.C. will draw more than one million people over three days, adding, “The draft has become one of the great entertainment and sports events.” “It will not just be an event. It will be something that will show the world how far the nation’s capital has come and where it’s going,” the NFL commissioner said. For decades, the NFL draft was held at different venues in New York City, but beginning in 2015, the league allowed cities to bid on hosting the draft, an event that now draws hundreds of thousands of people. Last year, Detroit set the record with 775,000 people coming to the three-day event, generating more than $200 million for the city’s economy. The 2025 draft in Green Bay last month drew an estimated 600,000 fans. Professional football is making a comeback in the nation’s capital as the Commanders will return to playing within the district’s borders in 2030. The team is also led by Jayden Daniels, an exciting young quarterback who took Washington to the NFC championship game last season. The team appears poised to be a serious contender for years to come. Last week, the Commanders, alongside D.C. Mayor Bowser, announced the construction of new domed stadium in the district, built on the site of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, where the Redskins played for 36 seasons before moving to Prince George’s County, Maryland, in the late 1990s. Trump previously called the new stadium deal a “HUGE WIN for Washington, D.C., and for the Team’s incredible fan base.” “It will also boost Economic Development, create more Jobs and, hopefully, lead to less Crime in the area,” he added. “We are making Washington, D.C., GREAT AGAIN, one step at a time!”

On Sunday, President Donald Trump criticized how journalists have framed Mike Waltz’s transition from national security adviser to nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Several media outlets reported last week that Waltz, a former Republican congressman from Florida and Green Beret veteran, was ousted from his White House role after he took responsibility for the “Signalgate” controversy. However, when pressed by reporters aboard Air Force One during a flight from Florida to Washington, D.C., Trump rejected the notion that Waltz stepped down, let alone was forced out. “I just moved him. There was no resignation,” Trump said. “You people are so bad. You’re trying to make a big deal out of something that’s not.” In fact, the president insisted moments earlier, Waltz had been promoted. “I think it’s an upgrade,” Trump said. Trump dismissed the suggestion that appointing Waltz as his national security adviser was a mistake. “He was fine and, where he is, he’ll do a good job,” Trump said. Trump also shut down a reporter who asked what made him lose confidence in Waltz. “I didn’t lose confidence in him. Why did I lose confidence? He’s going to the United Nations — to me, I think it’s — personally, if I had to choose for myself … I’d rather have that job than the other,” Trump said. The “Signalgate” controversy began after The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported in late March that he had inadvertently gained access to a Signal group chat in which leading Trump administration officials discussed plans for airstrikes on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. In the ensuing fallout, Waltz took responsibility for the breach, which has been linked to the “automated suggestion” feature on his iPhone. But the Trump administration denied there was classified information in the conversation, and the president had stood by Waltz. On May 1, hours after a flurry of reports said Waltz was out as national security adviser, Trump delivered a surprise announcement in which he revealed that he was nominating Waltz to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a move that followed Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) being withdrawn as the original nominee. Unlike with his role as national security adviser, Waltz will have to go through a Senate confirmation process to be affirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Senate Democrats are predicting a “brutal” confirmation hearing, whenever one is scheduled. As Waltz prepares for his new role, Trump is already looking ahead to fill the vacancy left by Waltz’s departure from the national security adviser position. On Air Force One, the president told reporters that he aims to pick a new national security adviser in the next six months. When asked if he is considering White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Trump said Miller is “at the top of the totem pole” and “indirectly, already has that job.”

The following excerpt is from Andrew Klavan’s Amazon best-selling book, The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, which you can order now. REJOICE EVERMORE! So Scripture commands us. But how can you rejoice in a world of so much darkness? At a time like twilight when darkness gathers, ready to fall? The comforting bromides of belief can seem pat and complacent in the shadow of very present wickedness. Everything happens for a reason. There must be evil so there can be free will. God is in charge and will make things right in the end. No doubt. And it is some comfort too. But here we are today, and faith in the things unseen, and hope in the far-off country of our salvation don’t have the tangible immediacy of our suffering and distress. More than this, and deeper. From our first cry to our last one, life is little more than letting go, a long goodbye. The pain, the grief, the traumas physical and emotional that scar our minds: sorrow is so woven into the very fabric of material existence that to turn our faces from it is to turn away from life itself. In the face of our mourning mortality, even Jesus wept. In part 1, I write about the three murders and the works of art that reveal the nature of their evil. In part 2, I reflect on creative practices of truth and beauty that allow one to confront this evil with love and, through love, with joy. By joy, of course, I don’t mean smiley-faced complacency or quietism. I’m talking about preserving the gusto of living, even when you are living honestly, which means acknowledging grief and pain. The first murder is the 1834 killing of the French con man Jean-François Chardon and his mother by the violent but elegant and eloquent thief Pierre François Lacenaire. This murder was the beginning of a startling century-long dance between art and reality. Lacenaire’s philosophical musings inspired the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky to create the classic novel Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky’s work predicted and inspired the atheistic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche, in turn, inspired the famous American murderers of the 1920s, Leopold and Loeb. They then became the subjects of any number of books and movies, including Alfred Hitchcock’s innovative film, Rope. Throughout this bizarre and deadly story cycle, the theme in play is the death of Christian faith and the attempt to rewrite and rise above the Christian moral order—an attempt still being made today. Next, I deal—as delicately as I can—with the monstrous crimes committed in the American Midwest of the 1950s by the psychopath Ed Gein. Gein murdered women and wore their bodies as costumes. These grotesque horrors inspired the novel Psycho by Robert Bloch, which was the basis of the Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name, now regarded as one of the greatest works of American cinema. Psycho gave birth to an entire genre, the slasher film, which includes everything from disastrous trash and reprehensible torture porn to serious-minded horror like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and ultimately the insightful novel and Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs, also based on the Gein murders. The theme of this cycle is, of course, the confusion of sexual identity, but it is also the role of psychiatric theory in creating and confronting that confusion. The last murder I write about is the first: the killing of Abel by Cain. The theme here is the failure of theodicy, the inability to accept the goodness of a God who presides over a world full of so much cruelty and injustice. I can’t write about the works of art inspired by Cain’s actions, because in some sense all art is inspired by his actions. He is the first man born after the fall, and all history flows out of him. This is Cain’s kingdom; we’re just living in it. Instead, I trace Cain’s continued presence throughout the Old and New Testaments because I believe the Bible contains, in microcosm, all history and all art. The second part of the book is more personal. I don’t hold myself up as a role model of anything. I am not a pastor or a theologian. You should get your religious rule book from a better source. But because each inner life is different, each act of spiritual creation is unique. Whether a rainbow looks the same to me as it does to you, it is always only our own. In light of this, I’ve chosen to write three brief reflections on practices that have deepened my relationship with Jesus Christ. My reason for this is that in Christ, I find I experience both the cross and the resurrection—that is, a heightened awareness of evil, injustice, and suffering accompanied by a seemingly absurd increase in serenity and joy. The first of these reflections is on the ritual of communion—my answer to Lacenaire and to the intellectual collapse of the Christian moral order. The second is a reflection on the atheistic psychotherapy that miraculously restored me to sanity in my youth and freed me to accept the grace of God. This is my answer to Ed Gein and, through him, the misbegotten nature of today’s therapeutic culture and the gender confusion that has arisen along with it. The closing chapter is on art and beauty, and how it suggests to me a theodicy no mere philosophy can provide, a faithful response to suffering. This is my answer to Cain. INTRODUCTION To sum it up then: My subject is murder and the imagination. My premise is that murder is evil. My belief is that God is love, and love is the source of joy. If, then, I enter the literature of darkness, I do it with a sure and certain faith in the reality of light, not light in a future heaven but light in this world of sin and suffering, not light in the world to come but light in this world of present darkness, including the darkness of murder. Light. Love. Joy. Beauty. Here. Now. In the kingdom of Cain. ORDER ON AMAZON TODAY ORDER SIGNED COPIES TODAY

Alcatraz is, above all, a signal to criminals and San Francisco lefties alike: this is not Joe Biden's America

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