President-elect Trump launched his own cryptocurrency Friday night and appeared to have made more than $50 billion on paper for himself and his companies as of Sunday morning. This is concerning, given that he is the president and backs crypto. How does someone legitimately make $50 billion in two days out of thin air? I’m […] The post President Trump Makes $50B Overnight With a Meme Crypto appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

  TikTok is back. ByteDance said it restored the US TikTok based on Donald Trump saying he would approve the 90-day ban on his first day in office. The AP reports: Trump said he planned to issue the order to give TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the popular […] The post TikTok Is Back appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

TikTok said on Sunday that it was restoring service after it briefly went offline on Saturday in response to a new U.S. law that forces its parent company, ByteDance, to be completely divested from TikTok or else be banned in the U.S. “In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” TikTok said in a statement. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.” TikTok claimed that the issue was about “the First Amendment” and “arbitrary censorship” when, in reality, it’s about the company harvesting the data of Americans that can be used to weaponize algorithms to impact how Americans think and behave in line with interests of communist China. The statement comes after Trump, who led the charge to ban TikTok during his first term in office, posted on social media that he was asking companies to let TikTok stay online. Trump said that he wants the United States to own 50% of TikTok and said that allowing China to still own the other half would not be a problem. CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT “I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security,” he said. “The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.” However, even if Trump issues an executive order on TikTok, there are certain conditions that must be met to allow for the 90-day extension, which include the president having to certify to Congress that: (A) a path to executing a qualified divestiture has been identified with respect to such application; (B) evidence of significant progress toward executing such qualified divestiture has been produced with respect to such application; and (C) there are in place the relevant binding legal agreements to enable execution of such qualified divestiture during the period of such extension. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed TikTok’s statement in a post on X. “Any company that hosts, distributes, services, or otherwise facilitates communist-controlled TikTok could face hundreds of billions of dollars of ruinous liability under the law, not just from DOJ, but also under securities law, shareholder lawsuits, and state AGs,” Cotton posted on X. “Think about it.”

President-elect Donald Trump said that he expects to travel to California to survey fire damage as part of his first week back in office. Trump told NBC News that he plans to visit Los Angeles to see where deadly fires have raged for over a week and consumed tens of thousands of acres. The incoming president said he was first planning to go last Friday, but wanted to wait until he was sworn in as president. “I will be, probably, at the end of the week,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday. “I was going to go, actually yesterday … but I thought it would be better if I went as president. It’s a little bit more appropriate, I suspect.” Two of the Los Angeles fires, the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, have yet to be fully contained. The Palisades Fire has burned some 23,713 acres and is only 52% contained while the Eaton Fire has burned 14,021 acres and is just 81% contained. At least 27 people are dead as a result of the fires while 31 people are still reportedly missing. Trump has been very critical of how top California Democrats, including Governor Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, have handled the fires. “One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground,” Trump posted on Truth Social on January 8. “It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!” CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT Trump also singled out a water policy implemented by Newsom he said was to blame for water shortages experienced by fire fighters. “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,” he said earlier this month. “He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!), but didn’t care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid. I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA! He is the blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes. A true disaster!” Trump added.

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi‘s (D-CA) daughter, Alexandria Pelosi, took a swipe at first lady Jill Biden in a burgeoning clash between two of the most powerful families in Democrat circles. In a recent interview, Jill Biden voiced displeasure with how Nancy Pelosi fueled a Democrat revolt against President Joe Biden during the 2024 election. Now, Alexandria Pelosi has sounded off with a not-so-subtle Shakespeare reference. “If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my husband’s legacy,” said Alexandra Pelosi, according to POLITICO‘s senior political columnist and politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin. “There aren’t that many people left in America who have something nice to say about Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi is one of them.” Martin’s report stressed that Alexandra Pelosi “made clear she was speaking only for herself,” but also noted the “deafening silence from the White House in response to a request for comment marks the culmination of the bitter feud between the president and onetime speaker, two of the age’s most prominent Democrats and the bookends of the party’s Obama-era high and Trump restoration low.” Although he won the Democratic Party’s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President Donald Trump under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President Kamala Harris, with Biden’s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats’ presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump. CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT During this time, CNN reported Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe ” — Pelosi emphasized that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” she said. Her remarks on MSNBC reportedly emboldened more Democrats to turn on Biden. The Washington Post published a report on Wednesday about its “exit interview” with Jill Biden in which the first lady was quoted mentioning how she was thinking “a lot” about relationships and took a dig at Nancy Pelosi. “We were friends for 50 years,” Jill Biden said. “It was disappointing.” As reported by Martin, Nancy Pelosi has received a wave of “messages, flowers and calls of concern from heads of state, colleagues in both parties and even royalty” since breaking her hip in Europe last month, but “it’s who she has not heard from that’s most remarkable, and that has infuriated Pelosi’s friends and family: Joe and Jill Biden.” Martin wrote that he was informed that Nancy Pelosi has tried multiple times to speak with Joe Biden, only to be turned down. “She’s been told they’re not over it, don’t make more overtures because he’s blaming her,” an insider told the columnist. Martin’s report also noted that “Biden did briefly chat with Pelosi, her husband, Paul, and daughter Christine at a White House holiday party last month. But that encounter only served to remind them of the rupture.”

Protesters at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., argued that Donald Trump presents a serious threat to women’s rights and American freedoms — but failed to provide concrete examples of how the president-elect will actually do that. The Daily Wire attended the Women’s March on Saturday morning in the nation’s capital, where thousands of anti-Trump and left-leaning protestors gathered to voice their opinions on a wide variety of topics: Trump himself, abortion, transgender issues, immigration, climate change, and more. “I marched in 2017,” one woman told The Daily Wire, holding a sign that read, “I can’t believe I have to do this shit twice.” “I’m mad about a lot of things, but this is really what it boils down to,” she said, pointing to her sign. The controversial 2017 protest reportedly drew a million protestors to Washington when Trump first took office, according to organizer estimates at the time. This year, the event drew a much smaller crowd, with multiple outlets estimating that “thousands” attended the Women’s March, rebranded the “People’s March,” to be more inclusive, as protestors explained to The Daily Wire. WATCH: Anti-Trump protestors at the Women’s March tell @realDailyWire they are VERY concerned about Donald Trump’s next administration…but when we asked for specifics, we didn’t learn too much more. pic.twitter.com/V6pbvJd8nR — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) January 19, 2025 “I identify myself as worshipping Jesus, and I’m all about the fact that Jesus gave us all brains and hearts so we can care for each other,” one anti-Trump grandmother told The Daily Wire, saying Trump was “chaotic” and attacked women. Asked what aspect of Trump most concerns her, she replied, holding a giant “Pussies Against the Patriarchy” sign above her head: “The hateful speech that he promotes. It disgusts me for my children and my grandchildren. It’s disheartening for me as a woman and a person in this country. We should be better than that.” The Daily Wire spoke with one female protestor who was elaborately dressed in what she described as a “vagina dress.” This protestor shared that she is bothered by the Women’s March rebranding to be the People’s March, saying: “It’s sort of a trend lately to eliminate the word woman.” Pressed to explain more, she suggested that she shouldn’t talk about the matter since the Women’s March crowd would be hostile to her words, but briefly said: “It’s important to say that word. Also lesbian. Not just LGBTQIA+.” WATCH:  Women’s Marcher wearing a “vagina dress” tells @MaryMargOlohan it’s “sort of a trend lately to eliminate the word woman.” “It’s important to say that word. Also lesbian. Not just LGBTQIA+.” pic.twitter.com/SE3IYGtHfW — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 18, 2025 Some protestors were handing out papers detailing efforts to combat Trump’s plans to stop the border crisis. “We’re here to defeat Donald Trump and his fascist movement,” one male protestor wearing a mask told the Daily Wire. “Donald Trump has stated that on day one he’s going to carry out mass deportations and to pardon January 6 rioters and especially, the Laken Riley bill is an immigrant bashing bill that has to be defeated now.” Asked if he knew about Laken Riley, a young woman brutally killed by an illegal immigrant, the man laughingly replied: “I didn’t retain it…” Pressed about whether he supports measures to protect the United States border from criminals, he replied: “That has been a really right-wing rhetoric, crimes happen everywhere in the world, and in any community, and to paint a picture that illegal immigrants are coming in to be terrorists and criminals, that’s just plain racist. We are for open borders, and for citizenship rights for all, with or without papers.” WATCH:  Women’s Marcher tells @realDailyWire: “The Laken Riley bill is an immigrant bashing bill that needs to be defeated now.” Then tells me he does not know who Laken Riley is. pic.twitter.com/4ZfL5wbXhj — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) January 18, 2025 The Daily Wire also spoke with a man who said he had traveled across the country to various events to “share the love of Christ” by carrying a cross through crowds. “I think people are broken,” he said, asked how he felt about the Women’s March. “And I think people are searching, and they’re wanting something more than what they have right now, and the only thing that can fill their heart is Christ.” A man carries a cross through the Women’s March “to share the love of Christ.” “I think people are broken. And I think people are searching, and they’re wanting something more than what they have right now, and the only thing that can fill their heart is Christ.” pic.twitter.com/bFOb9Rce9j — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 18, 2025 On Monday, Trump will be inaugurated in Washington and officially become the 47th President of the United States.

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