Krugman: Trump’s Own Adviser Just Admitted to the Scam at MAGA’s Core

                            

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Today: "Podcast—Krugman: Trump's Own Adviser Just Admitted to the Scam at MAGA's Core" Plus, the anti-homelesness plot against the First Amendment; WTF is the FAA doing in El Paso?; Democrats furious over Justice Department attempt to indict them; and more... America Won't Be Easily Forgiven—Even After Trump Is Gone The president's belligerence against Greenland and Canada was no joke to Europeans and Canadians, some of whom say they'll never trust or visit the U.S. again. By Alaric DeArment

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FAA Suddenly Pulls Bizarre 180 After Shutting Down El Paso Airspace WTF is the FAA doing in El Paso? By Malcolm Ferguson Democrats Furious Over Justice Department Attempt to Indict Them "If these f—kers think that they're going to intimidate us and threaten and bully me into silence, and they're going to go after political opponents and get us to back down, they have another thing coming." By Hafiz Rashid What subscribers are reading: Pro-Trump Town Stunned After ICE Raids Leave It "Nearly Destroyed" By Edith Olmsted How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE By Logan McMillen Ro Khanna Reads Out Names of Six "Powerful Men" in Epstein Files By Malcolm Ferguson Is This the Real Reason Trump Threatened Bridge to Canada? Donald Trump threatened to block the construction project after a call with a billionaire buddy. By Edith Olmsted Podcast—Krugman: Trump's Own Adviser Just Admitted to the Scam at MAGA's Core The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent Donald Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, just offered an extraordinary statement on Fox News. He admitted that we should lower our expectations for job creation because of Trump's success in removing immigrants from the country. In essence, Navarro suggested it was a good thing to have lower jobs numbers provided the (supposed) cause is higher deportations, and confirmed that removing immigrants isn't creating jobs for Americans. We think this provides an opening to explore what MAGA economics is really trying to accomplish. So we talked to economist Paul Krugman, author of an illuminating piece on his excellent Substack that takes apart Trump's immigration agenda. He explains how Navarro wrecked a core scam that Trump has long peddled about immigrants, how this undermines the most basic story MAGA tells about the economy, and how Democrats can seize on the failure of that story to tell a better one of their own.  Listen to the episode here. Read the transcript here.

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