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Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump’s Tariff Diplomacy Is Working Feb 07, 2025

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President Donald Trump is not using tariffs for their historical purpose, which is to protect and promote domestic industry. Instead, Trump, as Victor Davis Hanson argues, is using tariffs to hold countries, like Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and China, accountable.

And it’s working.

On this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson dispels the Left’s hysteria over President Trump’s tariff policies:

“So, if you take Venezuela and Colombia, he's saying that ‘you people deliberately emptied your jails and you sent them to the United States—sent them being felons—violent felons. And you're not going to do that anymore’

And they said, ‘we're not taking them back’. He said, ‘you're going to take them back, or I'm going to put a tariff’. So, it was a lever of diplomacy, and it worked. They backed down completely.”

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Anti-Christian Bias, Jesus at the Super Bowl, NCAA Policy on Women’s Sports | Feb. 6, 2025 Feb 06, 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

President Donald Trump’s speech to members of Congress and faith leaders at the National Prayer Breakfast. He promised to make America faithful again and signed an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to create a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias.”

Players from the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles who are speaking openly about their faith. Each team’s star quarterback—Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs and Jalen Hurts of the Eagles—spoke about the role of Jesus Christ in their own lives during Super Bowl media day.

The NCAA’s decision to comply with Trump’s executive order banning men from women and girls’ sports is already having an impact. The NCAA was ground zero for many of these controversies, sparking outrage from student athletes like swimmer Riley Gaines.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers targeted multiple apartment complexes across Aurora, Colorado, but the operation netted only one member of the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang due to a suspected leak.

Democrats successfully delayed FBI director nominee Kash Patel’s confirmation until next week.

The Trump administration ousted members of the board that would hire Kari Lake to head up the Voice of America, potentially easing her appointment to the long-troubled international broadcasting agency.

Federal workers have a few more days to decide if they want to take the Trump administration’s buyout offer thanks to a judge’s ruling Thursday.

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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Clears House at Leftist ‘Rogue Operation,’ USAID Feb 06, 2025

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“If you live by executive order, you can be canceled by executive order,” says Victor Davis Hanson on this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” when talking about the Trump administration’s decision to restructure the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), originally created by President John F. Kennedy via executive order in 1961.

“It's been released that they were subsidizing everything from trans festivities overseas to gay comic books. But what was very interesting was there was a $40 million-plus grant to the Wuhan virology lab and channeled, apparently, through EcoHealth, Peter Daszak’s organization. This is important because under testimony, we were under the impression that Anthony Fauci only had his hands on $600,000.”

“At the very time the Democratic Party is polling, according to Quinnipiac—a very liberal polling organization—just 31% approval, a historical low—they all know what they have to do. And that is move to the center. But Donald Trump has moved so fast, and in so many untraditional ways, that their natural hysteria has overcome their sense of reality.”

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Lawmakers React to Gaza Comments, Trump Protects Women’s Sports, Senate Confirms Nominees | Feb. 5 Feb 05, 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will “take over the Gaza Strip.”
President Trump signs executive order banning men from women and girls’ sports.
The Senate confirms Trump’s nominees for attorney general and housing and urban development secretary.
The CIA offers buyouts to all employees unwilling to return to fully in person work.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, slams the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The NFL will remove the words "End Racism" from the end zones at Caesars Superdome.

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Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump’s ‘DEI Firestorm’ Feb 05, 2025

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If DEI proponents were being honest, they’d say, “We're going to bring in people that may not have traditional criteria or traditional resumes, but we're willing to take that risk with your life,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on this edition of “Victor Davison Hanson: In His Own Words.”

After President Donald Trump’s critics lashed out last week when he broached the idea that DEI hiring standards may have played a role in the disastrous midair collision over the Potomac River, a class action lawsuit surfaced, claiming that the Federal Aviation Administration turned away “1,000 air traffic controller applicants, solely based on their race,” reported Fox News.

The FAA "disbanded a lot of university programs that encourage people with military experience or encourage people that had courses in scientific disciplines or mathematics or aeronautics, not to apply.”

“The thing about DEI—what Trump brought up with the FAA—ask yourself something: If it's so good, why don't people just say that? Why don't they just say, we're willing to have collateral damage? We're going to bring in people that may not have traditional criteria or traditional resumes, but we're willing to take that risk with your life. They never say that.”

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RFK Jr. Advances, China Responds to Tariffs, Cartels Target Border Patrol | Feb. 4 Feb 04, 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advances in his Senate confirmation process.
China responds to tariffs levied by President Donald Trump by imposing tariffs on some U.S. imports.
Mexican drug cartels are ordering their members to attack US Border Patrol agents.
Tulsi Gabbard faces a closed-door vote to be confirmed as Director of National Intelligence.
The White House anticipates a "spike" in federal resignations.
Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., introduces a bill to require universities to disclose any contracts they have with foreign adversaries

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Victor Davis Hanson: Was Trump Right on DEI Being at Fault for D.C. Plane Crash? Feb 04, 2025

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On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” a Daily Signal original series, Hanson discusses the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's blunt comments about diversity, equity, and inclusion potentially being at fault in the recent commercial jet/Army helicopter collision outside of Washington.

“ We do know this, and Donald Trump brought it up, and that was that the FAA consistently under Joe Biden had racial quotas, and they abolished programs, and universities that encouraged people who had either expertise through the curriculum or prior military experience who would do well on meritocratic exams to try to join the FAA—and they were rejected because of their race.”

“ My point is that when [Trump] did that, everybody in the media thought it was awful. But then people who probably didn’t even vote for him said, 'Wait a minute. I want to be safe. I want my daughter to be safe. I want my husband to be safe. You mean there’s people in these control towers that were selected for criteria other than merit?'”

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Deal Made Between Mexico & US, Doors Close at USAID, Benjamin Netanyahu Arrives in DC | Feb. 3 Feb 03, 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

President Donald Trump reached an agreement with the president of Mexico to pause new tariffs for a month.
The Trump administration moves to close USAID.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington, D.C.

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