The stupendous response of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent regarding the extreme tariffs imposed on our (formerly) #3 trading partner:
… so what?
As our stock markets collapse, retirement accounts dwindle, and recession beckons, all this arrogant fool can contribute to the discussion is:
… so what?
Attorney General Pam Bondi was caught skipping out of a press conference as she avoided answering a reporter’s question on migrants without criminal records sent to El Salvador….
“60 Minutes found that 75% of the immigrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have public criminal records. Is that true?” the correspondent asked as Pam Bondi stepped outside to take questions on immigration from reporters.
As part of her reply, Bimbo #3 & Airhead Extraordinaire says:
“So if you committed a murder in our country, we’re gonna keep you here and we’re gonna seek the death penalty and we’re gonna keep you in prison because our victims’ families deserve that, but we don’t have to charge them with every crime. We can deport them and get them out of our country and save room in our prisons because they should have never been in our country to begin with,” she finishes.
Which is a roundabout way of saying that the Venezuelans they’re deporting aren’t really criminals. And the reporter’s follow-up question:
The reporter continues to press her, as Bondi didn’t answer her original question. “So you confirmed they didn’t commit a crime, right?” asked the reporter.
Whereupon Bimbo #3 and Airhead Extraordinaire got flustered and stomped out:
At that point, Bondi turned around and left, ending the press session.
Progressive Furniture has become one of the first U.S. companies to announce that they’ll be shutting down and laying off all 30 employees by year’s end – citing tariffs on their source factory. It comes as the economist whose work inspired Trump’s tariff plan says the White House got it ‘wrong’.
Progressive Furniture is a branch of Sauder Woodworking located in Claremont, North Carolina. They’re the world’s seventh-largest furniture manufacturer, selling their wares at Walmart, Target, and Home Depot.
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/major-furniture-store-announces-closure-1077403
