Former President Donald Trump praised a female Secret Service agent at a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday who shielded him with her body during the assassination attempt that nearly killed him at a rally earlier this month.
The Secret Service has faced intense criticism since the event for leaving Trump exposed to gunfire from a nearby rooftop, and also for using female agents who were smaller than Trump and who, critics said, struggled to respond.
The use of female agents has been ascribed to “diversity, equity, inclusion” (DEI) policies, which are a major target of criticism by the Trump campaign and the conservative movement. But Trump defended an agent who ran to his side.
In an ad-libbed portion of his speech, he expressed his appreciation:
Every one of them — there wasn’t one that was slow. A
woman who was on my right, she was shielding me. Beautiful person — she
was shielding me, everything she could.. And she got criticized by the
fake news because she wasn’t tall enough. Well, you know, she wasn’t
tall enough. Because I’m tall, and she wasn’t tall enough. And she was
criticized — she was so brave, she was shielding me with everything, she
wanted to take a bullet, because the bullets were flying. And every one
of those guys.
After weeks of refusing to resign, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on July 23 after a tough round of testimony about the event in Congress. [SOURCE]
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Tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, who once visited
Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, is bundling millions of campaign
donations from Silicon Valley giants for Vice President Kamala Harris’s
presidential bid. With those donations comes some demands, requests for
Harris to fire the nation’s top trust-buster Lina Khan from the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) while also throwing out United States tariffs on
foreign imports.
Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a top Democratic Party donor, is reportedly set to bundle some $100 million from elites in Silicon Valley for Harris’s presidential run.
In an interview
with CNN, Hoffman suggested he wants Harris to return the U.S. to a
free trade consensus that has ruled in Washington, DC, for decades —
resulting in the loss of millions of American jobs, particularly in the
manufacturing sector.
Hoffman said he and other billionaire donors are
unbothered by President Joe Biden and Harris’s push to raise corporate
taxes because the impact would be minuscule.
“Trump wants tariffs which is anti-business … makes this a very
strange election indeed because I think actually Vice President Harris
is much more of the pro-business candidate than Trump and Vance,”
Hoffman told CNN:
I think what’s most important for business is stability of the country, unity, rule of law. And a percent difference in corporate tax … is far, far less important. [Emphasis added]
Former President Donald Trump has said he wants to see
across-the-board tariffs on particularly Chinese imports to reshore
manufacturing back to the U.S.
CNN reporter Matt Egan said Hoffman also mentioned that he wants FTC
Chair Lina Khan, the nation’s top trust-buster, fired under a potential
Harris administration.
“In particular, he strongly criticized Lina Khan, the FTC chair. He
said that Lina Khan is ‘waging war on American business’ and he went so
far as to say that he hopes that a President Harris would replace Lina
Khan at the FTC,” Egan reported.
Hoffman, for years, has made clear he opposes efforts to break up Big Tech corporations and rigorous antitrust enforcement.
“The notion of ‘Oh, we should be breaking up these companies’ is bad
from an innovation standpoint … so that’s part of the reason why I [want
to] shape and make it as good outcomes for society but not an antitrust
action,” Hoffman told the Washington Post in 2021.
The New York Timesreported that Harris may already be caving to big donor requests, such as those from Hoffman, regarding Khan’s role at the FTC:
Business leaders have also bristled at the actions of the Federal Trade Commission’s chair, Lina Khan, who has tried to crack down on corporate mergers. [Emphasis added]
As vice president, Ms. Harris has voiced support for regulating artificial intelligence. But she
has expressed skepticism of Ms. Khan’s expansive view of antitrust
powers, according to a donor who has spoken privately with the vice
president. [Emphasis added]
Khan has won praise from former President Donald Trump’s running
mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), as well as other conservatives such as Rep.
Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for
her seeking to break up Big Tech, corporate monopolies, and eliminate
noncompete agreements for employees.
Federal
Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan prepares to testify before the House
Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill
on July 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In a recent Wall Street Journalprofile
of Khan, the paper coined such Khan supporters “Khanservative
Republicans” — a nod to the party’s populist-nationalist wing that wants
to see a crackdown on the monopolistic power that multinational
corporations have in the U.S. economy.
“I look at Lina Khan as one of the few people in the
Biden administration that I think is doing a pretty good job,” Vance
said a few months ago of Khan’s record as FTC chair.
Gaetz interviewed Khan in August 2023 for Newsmax where he praised
her efforts to crack down on what he said are abuses by Big Tech
corporations against American consumers and smaller businesses.
Khan told Gaetz of her views on monopoly power:
When we think about issues relating to
concentration of power, and in the same ways that you don’t want a
concentration of power in the political sphere, Congress passed the
antitrust and anti-monopoly laws to make sure that we had
decentralization and competition in our commercial sphere so
that any decision that any one person made, it wasn’t affecting whether
people could be seen or heard in the marketplace of ideas. And so we
think that robust competition is a key way to fight censorship, is a key way to make sure that people have more choice in the marketplace. [Emphasis added]
The Wall Street Journal editorial board has seethed over Hawley’s support for Khan at the FTC, publishing two editorials portraying both officials as anti-business.
Hawley was a leading voice in the Senate among Republicans opposing non-compete agreements from employers. Khan has since turned Hawley’s complaints about non-competes into action, issuing a regulation to ban such agreements by employers on their employees.
This week, a federal judge upheld the FTC’s ban on non-compete agreements in a major judicial win for Khan. [SOURCE]
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