White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the details of Trump’s plan to take a 15 percent cut of Nvidia and AMD’s chip sales to China are “being ironed out by the Department of Commerce,” CNBC reports. Leavitt also added that the charge “could expand in the future to other companies.”
After his DC police press conference, an unnamed White House official told CNBC that a new executive order has delayed a 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods for another 90 days. That mirrors the delay put in place on May 12th, and now pushes the deadline into mid-November.
The most effective MAGA influencer happens to be the most shameless, IRL attention-seeker of them all.
Nazis’ presence on Substack has only grown. “Sending out Nazi push alerts may not have been the company’s goal,” write Marisa Kabas and Jonathan Katz, the latter of whom sounded the initial alarm in November 2023. “But it is more of a feature than a bug.”
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Despite police stats showing violent crime in Washington D.C. is down 26 percent from last year, after dropping by 35 percent compared to the year before, the president has continued to insist that crime in the city is “totally out of control,” in posts and comments to reporters.
The latest comments from Trump and Elon Musk pushing to federalize the city follow a report that DOGE affiliate Edward Coristine and another person were attacked in a carjacking attempt that occurred between 3 and 4AM on August 3rd.
