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'Stupid': Expert thinks Trump is 'blackout drunk' at the wheel of the U.S. economy

New York University Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway blasted President Donald Trump's ongoing tariff changes and attacked him as "stupid."

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg bashed Trump, saying he has "wreaked havoc on the global economy since his so-called liberation day last week with massive tariffs." She noted that Trump has now mostly walked them back, leaving a 10% tariff on all goods and 125% tariff on China.

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Trump DOJ says it won't comply with judge's order in high-profile case: report

The United States Department of Justice said on Friday that it will not comply with an order from Judge Paula Xinis to reveal information on the whereabouts and status of deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

As reported by Politico's Kyle Cheney on BlueSky, the DOJ information Judge Xinis that it would not be able to provide the information she requested on Garcia because the court set an "impracticable" deadline to do so.

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Big Tech CEOs silent on tariffs were actually 'lobbying behind the scenes': report

As President Donald Trump threatened and then delayed the global tariffs (except for China) Big Tech CEOs were hard at work… lobbying, according to a report from WIRED.

With the exception of Elon Musk, a Trump ally who openly disagreed with POTUS on the tariffs, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg, all stayed silent in the public eye on the topic.

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'This is pushing me left': Beekeeper who voted for Trump three times hit hard by economy

A beekeeper who voted for president Donald Trump every chance he got expressed regret over his choice in the most recent election.

North Carolina farmer Jim Hartman, who operates Secret Garden Bees, told CNN that he voted for Trump all three times, but he's not sure he would have made the same decision in November if he knew what the president's tariffs and funding cuts would do to his honey business, reported The Daily Beast.

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'Never tanked this fast': Experts stunned by 'horrific' consumer sentiment numbers

Consumer sentiment over the last month plunged to levels not seen since the Great Recession more than 15 years ago.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, "a closely watched index of consumer sentiment nosedived to 50.8 in April from 57 last month, continuing a recent downward trend stoked by concerns about trade, jobs and inflation."

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'Not a TV show': Trump's latest action compared to 'high-stakes game of chicken'

President Donald Trump’s tariff turnaround rocked the global economy but it’s his “game show-like approach to ‘governance’” which could be more damaging to America than we realize, according to a column in Salon.

While the BBC called the spectacle “a high-stakes game of chicken, with the world's economy hanging in the balance,” columnist Chauncey DeVega believes there is something more subtle happening.

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'Pick up the phone': CNN's Blitzer questions why Trump won't take action after 'error'

CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Friday why President Donald Trump doesn't just "pick up the phone" to speed up the process of bringing home a man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S.

On Thursday, The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate the return” of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was accidentally deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month.

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Lawyer for wrongly deported man: DOJ is delaying his return despite high court ruling

Last night, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of the Maryland man whom the U.S. government admits it wrongfully detained. He was then deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Now his lawyer is asking why the government wants more time.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, lamented that putting someone on a plane isn't that difficult.

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'Whoa!' CNN host reacts to 'scary' encounter with Trump's 'secretary of retribution'

CNN's Jessica Dean was shaken by video of an encounter between one of her colleagues and president Donald Trump's self-proclaimed "secretary of retribution."

Senior correspondent Donie O'Sullivan has been investigating the surge of misinformation and extremism, and his reporting took him to the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Mike Lindell’s pillow factory, a QAnon church and a JFK conspiracy convention, and he previewed his new special, "MisinfoNation," on "CNN News Central" with a clip of his interaction with Trump ally Ivan Raiklin.

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Trump moves to 'dismantle key civil rights' by replacing election figure: report

In an attempt to propel his agenda, President Donald Trump is attempting to remove the Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, according to a Politico Report.

Current chair, Rochelle Garza, is a Democrat in the second year of her six-year term. She and other commission officials received an email last month claiming she was “de-designating” as the current chair.

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'Danger': Intel sources sound alarm on counterterrorism probes of 'anti-Trump' protesters

The Trump administration is using a Biden-era policy to investigate protesters as potential terrorists, and intelligence sources are alarmed by the new strategy.

The effort is being led by White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka, who has recently claimed president Donald Trump has “done a 180 on our counterterrorism policy," which has resulted in strikes on “high value targets” in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia, and intelligence sources told independent journalist Ken Klippenstein that some of those strategies will be deployed on the domestic front.

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Ex-prosecutor cites 'remarkable statement' from Supreme Court putting Trump in his place

Asked for a reaction to the normally-divided Supreme Court coming down unanimously against the Donald Trump administration's decision to snatch immigrants off the street and deport them without due process, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance noted one justice issued a notable admonition.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Vance was asked by co-host Joe Scarborough about the 9-0 ruling that instructed the Department of Justice to effectuate the return of 29-year-old Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from El Salvador after the DOJ admitted he was sent to a maximum security prison due to an "administrative error."

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'Never seen anything like this': Aviation safety expert shocked by unique nature of crash

David Soucie, a former Federal Aviation Administration safety inspector, told CNN's Kate Bolduan on Friday that he was shocked seeing footage from earlier this week of a helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River in New York City this week.

In an interview, Bolduan noted that the helicopter seemed to fall out of the sky "like a rock" and asked Soucie what his "key questions" about the crash were.

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