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| | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | 🎙 Elon Musk hosted a two-hour conversation with Trump. Though delayed around 40 minutes due to technical glitches, Elon Musk and Donald Trump drew immense listenership to their conversation and covered a broad range of topics. Trump advanced the idea of mass deportations, cutting the Department of Education, and increasing nuclear energy, while Musk recommended a Government Efficiency Commission to slash spending. | 🏛 Donald Trump is suing the DOJ for $100 million. The former president and his legal team are set to sue the Justice Department over the 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago to obtain classified documents. Trump's lawyers are asserting the raid was performed with "clear intent to engage in political persecution," and that the DOJ's and FBI's conduct was "inconsistent with protocols requiring the consent of an investigative target." | 📉 Polls indicate the attacks on JD Vance are working. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) faced significant backlash over his past remarks about "childless cat ladies," leading to a drop in his net favorability rating which now stands at -9. Recent polling shows more voters labeling Vance as "extreme," as media outlets criticize him for being "weird" while shielding Kamala Harris from similar scrutiny. | 💸 Biden and Harris jump on Trump's "no tax on tips." After Donald Trump made waves back in June by proposing the elimination of taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers, Kamala Harris copied the idea during a recent rally in Las Vegas. Yesterday, the White House confirmed that President Biden also supports the proposal, stating that he has "always had the backs of working people." |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE HEARING | The European Commission threatened to censor Elon Musk for hosting a conversation with Donald Trump. Donald Trump said his assassination attempt increased his faith in God: "Now, I'm more of a believer." JD Vance wants to raise the Child Tax Credit up from $2,000 to $5,000.
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| | | IN THE LOOP | Donald Trump released his 20 Core Promises to the American people. Hezbollah launched 30 rockets into northern Israel on Monday. A Cornell student was sentenced to 21 months in prison after threatening to stab a Jewish student. Israeli Christians, joined with various pro-Israel groups, are suing the Biden administration over their West Bank sanctions. China is battling for one of the world's most contested regions. How will the U.S. thwart China's use of hard power in its own backyard? (Member-only) The most clicked link in our last newsletter was a new poll revealing more voters trust Harris over Trump with the economy.
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| | | WASHINGTON | Did the Iranians hack Trump? | | Donald Trump's campaign was hacked, and confidential documents to the press were leaked Iran is working against Trump to sow discord in the election Democrats are giving Iran everything they want and more so in recent years, increasing the likelihood that Iran will try to prevent a Trump victory
| The story | The Donald Trump presidential campaign confirmed on Saturday that it had been hacked. Trump attributed the breach to "foreign sources hostile to the United States." The hacker leaked numerous internal communications and sent them to mainstream, left-of-center news publications. | Politico and other media outlets claimed they began receiving emails last month via an AOL email address from a source calling itself "Robert." The source shared internal Trump campaign documents, including a 270-page dossier on Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) titled "Potential Vulnerabilities." | The document highlighted potential issues with Vance, like past critiques of Trump, and contained vetting information on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). The source's methods of obtaining the documents are unclear, but the breach represents a serious security concern for Trump's campaign. | Just before the story broke, Microsoft issued this statement: "Groups connected with the Iranian government" have been intensifying operations to sway the election away from Trump, specifically attempting to influence voters in swing states. | Though there isn't sufficient evidence to determine conclusively that Iran hacked Trump's campaign, American intelligence recently detected "Tehran working to influence the presidential election." Iran's preferences appear unchanged since 2020, when it actively opposed Donald Trump's election. | The politics | An MSNBC panel appeared highly skeptical about Trump campaign claims of being hacked by Iran. Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) said, "Everyone's initial reaction should be 'we can't believe him.'" When show host Symone Sanders Townsend — former Bernie Sanders campaign spokeswoman — pushed back against the guests' skepticism, they doubled down. | "I could hack myself if I want," said former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele, insinuating that the Trump team could be lying. In his view, given Trump's "history of dishonesty," people shouldn't take his team's claim at face value. | Meanwhile, many Republicans are outraged that Iran is using every tool at its disposal to take down Trump — but are not surprised. | Rep. Mike Walz (R-FL) argued that, if Iranians hacked Trump, it would align with their previous and ongoing efforts to destroy him — both figuratively and literally. Just last month, a Pakistani man with ties to Iran was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill Trump. For weeks leading up to the former president's near-assassination, American intelligence was aware of Iranian intent to assassinate him. | What the media ignores | Iran has deep ties to the Biden administration and has benefited immensely from President Biden, as well as from the administration of his Democrat predecessor, Barack Obama. | Eight times in the past year alone, the White House hosted Pentagon official Ariane Tabatabai — who is at the center of an Iranian influence operation — even after her connections to the Iranian government were revealed. | Despite these alarming ties, Tabatabai attended multiple meetings organized by the White House's Presidential Personnel Office, raising serious concerns about why someone with close ties to Iran has access to classified information. | In March, the Biden administration signed off on a sanctions waiver that unfroze $10 million for Iran. During Obama's tenure, he sent Iran $400 million to secure the release of American hostages, and tagged on an extra $1.3 billion in interest payments. | Just recently, Iran reported $15.7 billion in profits from illegal oil sales, as the Biden administration's enforcement of remaining sanctions remains woefully lax. | Biden's willingness to pump the Iranian regime with cash has global implications, making the world more dangerous and chaotic. Iran annually funds its terrorist proxies Hamas and Hezbollah $100 million and $700 million, respectively. | Iran has been attempting to eliminate Trump since he ordered the strike that killed its top military commander, Qasem Soleimani in 2020. As Iran continues to meddle in US elections, it's logical to assume that it will meddle in favor of Democrats like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. | Why it matters | The Biden administration made the Iranian regime vastly wealthy. Democrats have empowered Iran, handing over billions of dollars for nefarious purposes like spreading terrorism and meddling in U.S. elections. Beyond merely expanding its interference efforts, Iran is actively attempting to terminate the leader of the Republican Party. | Americans have every reason to worry — not only about free and fair elections but, due to foreign tampering, also that major political representatives could be killed at the hands of external powers. | |
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| | | Interview: David Goldman on China's Miraculous Tech Revolution | | David Goldman is an author, economic strategist, investment banker, and music critic. He is President of Macrostrategy, LLC, a Fellow at Claremont Institute, a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and a Senior Editor of First Things. His writing has appeared in Asia Times, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. He can be found on X @davidpgoldman. | Has the US slowed China's progress? In 2020, the Trump administration imposed restrictions on high-end chips. "In the grand scheme, the US cost China a lot of money and slowed them down, but didn't stop them," Goldman says. | On China's problems, Goldman discusses the country's declining birthrate, the labor economy, and a big shift from real estate to manufacturing. | Is China authentically innovating? "Developing countries that are trying to catch up imitate. It's much cheaper to imitate than innovate. Fifteen years ago, that was probably a correct characterization of China. However, a great deal of innovation is happening now." | "We built the wrong kind of military to take on China. In 1996, all we did was sail an aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Straits, and the Chinese shut up. Bill Clinton did that. Now, our aircraft carriers are sitting ducks. The Chinese can throw scores of vessels at every one we deploy. This insight is not unique to me. We just don't discuss it because it's humiliating." | On the future of Taiwan, "Taiwan has the lowest birth rate in the world. In this century, Taiwan will lose 75 percent of its working-age population. At some point, the labor loss must be replenished by immigrants from the mainland. As a result, unification will take place de facto." | |
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| | | OUR QUESTION TO YOU | 📊 Should the media publish the documents allegedly stolen from the Trump campaign?Poll results will be in tomorrow's newsletter. | | | POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY | Do you think the Trump campaign is losing momentum? | 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ 👍 Yes (199) | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 👎 No (232) | 🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Unsure (93) | 👍 Yes: "Trump is back to his name calling antics which is a losing strategy. He needs to focus on the issues: Border, economy, foreign policy." — Donna 👎 No: "The paid for media is just running Harris stories nonstop." — Angeli 👎 No: "I think the Trump team is allowing the Democrat team to paint itself into a corner." — Matt 🤔 Unsure: "Only if you believe the fake news. But anything can happen. It happened once and it can happen again." — Donald | | | | 524 votes |
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| Today's newsletter was written by Brandon Goldman and Ari David. | |
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