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Trump: The Toughest President on China in U.S. History

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The consensus among America’s intelligence and defense establishments is that China represents the most comprehensive threat to U.S. economic and national security interests. The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment from the U.S. Intelligence Community identifies China as presenting “the most comprehensive and robust military threat to U.S.” forces, while the FBI has declared that “the counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States.”

The Defense Intelligence Agency’s 2025 assessment flags China as “the long-term pacing challenge,” noting its military modernization, expanding defense budget, and assertive foreign policy as contributing to elevated risk for America.

Amid this unprecedented threat, many China analysts view President Trump’s tough stance as a necessary response to safeguard American sovereignty, economic interests, and national security. The Department of Defense’s 2024 China Military Power Report notes China’s nuclear arsenal has grown to over 600 warheads, with projections surpassing 1,000 by 2030. Meanwhile, the U.S. Trade Representative reports that China is pursuing “production and market share targets that can only be achieved through non-market means” across critical economic sectors.

An objective analysis of previous administrations’ approaches to China shows that Donald Trump has implemented the most aggressive and comprehensive economic measures of any American president.

Before President Trump launched the U.S.–China trade war in 2018, average U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports were just 3 percent, while China imposed average tariffs of around 8 percent on U.S. goods. To correct this imbalance, Trump implemented aggressive tariff increases, which by his second term had surged to an average of 51.1 percent on all Chinese exports, a more than 15-fold jump. These measures marked the most comprehensive trade action against any major U.S. trading partner in modern history and were widely seen by Trump supporters as a justified response to decades of unfair Chinese practices.

In 2025, Trump threatened tariffs as high as 145 percent on all Chinese goods. While ultimately negotiated down, the implemented rates remain at unprecedented levels. The economic impact has been swift: U.S. tariff revenue reached $24.2 billion in May 2025 alone, while direct imports from China fell 43 percent year-over-year to a 19-year low. Overall, the 2025 tariffs are projected to raise $156.2 billion in federal revenue, equal to 0.51 percent of GDP, making them the largest tax increase since 1993.

Beyond tariff’s, the president’s approach to China extended into a broad, strategic decoupling across multiple sectors. His administration imposed sweeping restrictions on Chinese investment in critical U.S. industries, technology, infrastructure, energy, healthcare, food supplies, farmland, ports, and minerals, primarily through enhanced powers of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Trump also restricted China’s access to American capital markets. Executive Order 13959, signed on November 12, 2020, barred U.S. investors from holding securities in companies identified as “Communist Chinese military companies,” forcing divestment from dozens of major Chinese firms and triggering broader financial separation.

In parallel, Trump signed the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, creating a pathway for delisting Chinese firms from U.S. stock exchanges if they fail to comply with American auditing standards for three consecutive years. Since its implementation, the SEC has flagged over 135 companies relying on auditors based in China or Hong Kong for potential future action, though enforcement mechanisms and audit access agreements have prevented mass delistings as of 2025. Many Chinese companies have proactively pursued alternative listings in Hong Kong and other venues in anticipation of potential future enforcement.” These measures were meant to cut Chinese firms off from the world’s largest capital markets.

The Trump administration also targeted Chinese technology with export controls and outright bans. Huawei Technologies was barred from purchasing vital U.S. components and excluded from American telecom networks on national security grounds. Trump further ordered bans on dealings with the Chinese owners of TikTok and WeChat, citing similar concerns. These actions aimed to sever Chinese tech giants from critical U.S. technology and cripple their global operations.

Trump’s decoupling strategy extended to academia. The administration imposed strict visa restrictions on Chinese students and scholars, especially those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or enrolled in sensitive research fields. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. would begin “aggressively” revoking such visas, representing a dramatic shift from decades of academic exchange.

Together, these non-tariff actions constituted the most comprehensive economic and technological confrontation with China in modern U.S. history. Unlike previous administrations, Trump’s strategy was unified, far-reaching, and explicitly designed to achieve long-term decoupling from the Chinese Communist Party’s influence.

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Black Lives Matter Activist in Boston Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges – Scammed Donors to Fund Her Lifestyle

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A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston named Monica Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty to federal charges this week, admitting that she scammed donors and used their money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Cannon-Grant was previously held up as an admired figure. The city of Boston named her the Bostonian of the year at one point for her ‘social justice activism’ and she was even recognized by the Boston Celtics basketball team for her efforts.

She is now facing a minimum of two years in prison.

The New York Post reports:

BLM-linked activist admits conning donors to fund her lavish lifestyle

A once-celebrated Boston social activist has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors — including Black Lives Matter — out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggy bank.

Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to 18 counts of fraud-related crimes that she committed with her late husband while operating their Violence in Boston (VIB) activists group, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

The activist scammed money — including $3,000 from a BLM group — while claiming it was to help feed children and run protests like one in 2020 over the murder of George Floyd and police violence.

Cannon-Grant also conned her way into getting $100,000 in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits — which she used to pay off her personal auto loan and car insurance policy.

But she has now confessed to transferring funds to personal bank accounts to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon — and even a summer vacation to Maryland.

Just amazing.

Here’s a local video report:

She should pay back every penny.

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Keith Olbermann Backpedals Furiously With Apology for Threatening CNN’s Scott Jennings – Jennings Responds (VIDEO)

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As the Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, former MSNBC host and generally unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann, appeared to threaten CNN’s conservative pundit Scott Jennings on Twitter saying, ‘You’re next motherf**ker.’

Well, Olbermann may have gotten a phone call or a visit from the FBI because today he walked back those comments with a full-throated apology.

RedState has an update:

To quickly recap, Scott Jennings, a Salem Media Network radio host and conservative CNN political commentator, reacted to breaking news on Monday that Kimmel had been reinstated by tweeting, “So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive pr**k, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it.”

This enraged Olbermann, who proceeded to tweet what many, including Jennings, perceived to be a threat. “You’re next, motherf**ker. But keep mugging to the camera.” Jennings tagged Patel and included a screengrab of the tweets in response.

Though the FBI hasn’t commented as to whether an investigation was launched, Olbermann ostensibly appears to have thought twice about what he tweeted and deleted, apologizing profusely in tweets posted on Tuesday and claiming what he wrote was “misinterpreted”:

See Olbermann’s tweet below:

Scott Jennings, always a class act, offered this hilarious response:

Keith Olbermann really needs help. The guy is just so out of control.

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Where is Lance Twiggs? Kirk Assassin’s Transgender Lover Has Vanished

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Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson and roommate Lance Twiggs

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner – a male-to-female trans named Lance “Luna” Twiggs.

The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify that Robinson was the assassin. Lance Twiggs has not been charged with any crime; however, federal authorities are still investigating.

Last week, Utah authorities released the text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs, sent shortly after Kirk’s assassination.

Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray announced seven charges against Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. They will also be seeking the death penalty.

Robinson was charged with:

– Count 1: Aggravated murder (capital offense)
– Count 2: Felony reckless discharge of a firearm causing bodily injury
– Count 3: Felony obstruction of justice for hiding the firearm
– Count 4: Felony obstruction of justice for discarding the clothing he wore during the shooting
– Count 5: Witness tampering for asking roommate to delete incriminating messages
– Count 6: Witness temperating for demanding trans roommate stay silent, and not speak to police
– Count 7: Commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child

Jeff Gray released the chilling texts between Tyler Robinson and his “love” Lance Twiggs.

Read the text exchange here:

Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 1
Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 2

Lance Twiggs was reportedly cooperating with the FBI, however, according to the Daily Mail he has seemingly vanished.

“If [Lance Twiggs] ever comes back, it will be in a body bag,” a neighbor said to the Daily Mail. “That’s not a threat – I’m just saying that there are so many people who want a piece of him he’d be mad to show his face in public again. This was a generational event.”

The Daily Mail reported:

The Trans boyfriend of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin has fled their former lovenest – and locals tell the Daily Mail they never want to see him again.

Lance Twiggs, 22, was led away for questioning when police swooped on the smart three-bed condo he shared with accused gunman Tyler Robinson, 22.

Shaken neighbors say the part time plumber has not been back to the $320,000 property in St. George, Utah – one declaring: ‘Good riddance. I never want to see either of them again.’

His beaten-up Infinity compact is still parked in his space with his work gear tossed across the back seat and a sandwich wrapper and a drink on the front passenger seat.

Upstairs lights have been left on for more than a week and notes and Amazon packages are piling up outside the home owned by Twiggs’s devout Mormon family.

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