Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream
“Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/14/electric-vehicle-ev-charging-stations-biden-00641188
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“Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/14/electric-vehicle-ev-charging-stations-biden-00641188
Trump’s Saudi Arabia deal may be a lie. Multiple countries have promised to invest big money in the U.S. in deals with Trump, and many have not materialized. Is this a real deal, or a misleading press release?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-GSXaryTM
As the U.S. backs away from clean energy and limiting global warming on the president’s false belief that climate change is a hoax, China is stepping in as a leader globally, leading on the issue and selling its technologies and products to countries around the world. Despite its leadership and its massive renewable production, it still uses a lot of dirty coal. China’s clean energy partnerships around the world give it influence. The Trump-led U.S. is banking on past fuels and energy, while China is advancing into the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJ6UmECe1Q
“Less than two days after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to restrict immigration agents from using riot control weapons, including chemical irritants, a Chicago-area couple and their 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed during their Saturday morning grocery run.
On Saturday morning, the Veraza family was on its way to Sam’s Club in Cicero, a Chicago suburb near the epicenter of the federal government’s immigration enforcement campaign known as “Operation Midway Blitz.” Upon hearing a helicopter and car horns, which are often used by community members to signal immigration enforcement activity in progress, they decided to leave. That’s when a black pickup truck, captured on video by the car’s passenger, drove past their vehicle while a masked agent sprayed a chemical irritant through the car’s open driver’s side window. A cloud of spray hit the driver, Rafael Veraza, in the face, affecting him, his wife, and his 1-year-old daughter, Ariana, in the back seat. The video then cuts to Rafael and his wife trying to wash out Ariana’s eyes as she cries.
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In response to questions regarding the incident, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin sent a statement to the A.P. claiming “there was no crowd control or pepper spray deployed in a Sam’s Club parking lot.””
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/operation-midway-blitz-agents-pepper-sprayed-a-chicago-family-on-a-grocery-run/
“Both countries have been happy to cooperate with Washington against drug trafficking, but think that the decision to kill the suspected smugglers at sea is a step too far.
At least one of the people killed in the boat bombings was a Colombian citizen. “He may have been carrying fish, or he may have been carrying cocaine, but he had not been sentenced to death,” Petro said in a speech on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. “There was no need to murder him.” After Petro criticized the U.S. military campaign last month, the U.S. Treasury accused Petro of being complicit in drug smuggling and imposed financial sanctions on him, his wife, and his son.
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Another neighboring country whose citizens were killed, Trinidad and Tobago, has been more supportive of the campaign. “I have no sympathy for traffickers; the US military should kill them all violently,” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said in a September 2025 statement.
The Trump administration has acknowledged that it is choosing to kill suspects that it could have arrested otherwise. “Instead of interdicting [the boat], on the president’s orders, we blew it up,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters after the first boat strike in September 2025. He argued that arresting traffickers and seizing their cargo “doesn’t work” because cartels plan for those losses anyway. Administration lawyers argue that drug cartels are wartime enemies, so they can be killed rather than arrested, while also denying that the president is limited by constitutional war powers in this campaign.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/britain-and-colombia-cut-off-u-s-intelligence-access-over-caribbean-boat-bombings/
It is not normal for the justice department or the FBI to release the internal files of an investigation. Such files have lots of speculations and falsehoods in them, and releasing them can falsely destroy people’s reputations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1i5jTtkPr0
A small Republican rebellion helped get Congress to pass the order for Trump to release the Epstein files. Trump tried to stop the order, and once it was clear Trump was going to lose, he said he now supports it, and many Republican Congressmen who were going to vote against it, slavishly then voted for it once their dear leader gave them permission. Trump can release the Epstein files without Congress’s order, so if he really wanted to, he could just do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFov-triEi8
“In 2019, Epstein wrote to journalist Michael Wolff that Trump “asked me to resign,” apparently from Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago. “[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop,” Epstein added.
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Wolff told Epstein that Trump was going to be asked about their relationship, and Epstein asked Wolff to “craft an answer” for Trump. Wolff suggested that letting Trump deny their relationship in public would give Epstein leverage.
“If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency,” Wolff wrote. “You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.” CNN didn’t end up asking Trump the question, according to The New York Times.
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the emails do suggest that Trump knew a lot more about Epstein than he let on—and that he has something to hide about their relationship.
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In September 2025, the House Oversight Committee released a sexually suggestive letter from Trump to Epstein talking about their “wonderful secret.”
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during the 2024 campaign, Trump offhandedly agreed to open up the government’s files on Epstein, a campaign promise he would come to regret. In February 2025, the department announced that it was releasing “The Epstein Files: Phase 1,” only to publish a set of already public documents. Shortly after, the Department of Justice informed Trump that his name appeared several times in Epstein’s case file, according to The Wall Street Journal.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-trump-spent-hours-at-my-house-with-victim/
“The First Amendment protects filming the police, but Berenice Garcia-Hernandez says she was dragged out of her car and detained for nearly seven hours for snapping photos of ICE agents.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/oregon-woman-says-ice-broke-out-her-car-windows-and-detained-her-for-filming-them/
“A federal judge in Chicago ordered roughly 600 people to be released from immigration detention…The individuals, the judge found, had been arrested in violation of a 2022 consent decree designed to ensure immigration agents have probable cause before making warrantless arrests.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/federal-judge-orders-over-600-ice-detainees-to-be-released-from-custody/