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🔵 Anti-Trump Protests Erupt
Citizen Frank
April 05, 2025
Good morning. It’s Saturday, April 5.
Thousands of protesters descended on DC Saturday as part of nationwide “Hands Off!” rallies against spending cuts from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and President Trump’s new “Liberation Day” tariffs — with one speaker calling on the crowd to make the two men “afraid.”
The huge crowd assembled near the Washington Monument with handmade signs for the event — which prompted the White House to postpone garden tours, though the president himself was out of town for the weekend.
“Trump and Musk, who want to be dictators and want to be kings and lords, they are afraid of the power of love and truth and justice!” declared activist minister William Barber II.
Federal immigration officials are seeking to locate up to 7 million people suspected of being in the United States unlawfully by accessing confidential tax data at the Internal Revenue Service, according to six people familiar with the request, a dramatic escalation in how the Trump administration aims to use the tax system to detain and deport immigrants.
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security had previously sought the IRS’s help to locate 700,000 people who are subject to final removal orders and had asked the IRS to use closely guarded taxpayer data systems to provide their names and addresses.
The two agencies have still not reached an agreement on how much data, or how, IRS will share.
President Trump’s tariffs are already having an impact.
Earlier this week, Trump announced a sweeping new trade policy that included a universal 10 percent tariff on all imports into the United States.
In addition to this baseline measure, the administration introduced a system of reciprocal tariffs targeting countries with significant trade surpluses over the U.S.
Trump on Friday shared video of a recent airstrike on Houthi rebels, writing, “They will never sink our ships again.”
“These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!”
The black and white aerial footage appeared to show a group assembling before a massive blast leaves nothing but a crater.
In the prolonged legal battle over a North Carolina Supreme Court seat, a state appeals panel ruled on Friday that tens of thousands of voters would need to promptly verify their eligibility or have their ballots thrown out. The decision could lead to the results of the November election being overturned.
The ruling was a win for Judge Jefferson Griffin, a Republican who narrowly lost the election in November and challenged the result. His opponent, Justice Allison Riggs, is one of two Democrats on the seven-member Supreme Court. The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation and drawn wide criticism.
Judge Griffin’s legal argument centers on a claim that some 65,000 people who voted early or by mail in the Supreme Court election did not provide required proof of identity — either the last four digits of a Social Security number or a driver’s license number — when they registered.
The Department of Justice is seeking an 87-month sentence for former New York Republican Rep. George Santos after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft last August.
“Santos’ history and characteristics are troubling in the extreme. Santos is a pathological liar and fraudster,” states the 26-page sentencing memo from the department. “For years, Santos manufactured and promoted a fictionalized biography, one that depicted himself as a highly educated, independently wealthy, successful businessman, all premised on a heap of lies.”
Santos was elected in the 2022 midterms when he flipped a Democratic district covering parts of Long Island and Queens.
Andrew and Tristan Tate — both accused of sex trafficking overseas — are under probe by the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office, a new civil court filing alleged Friday.
A lawyer representing an unidentified woman and three others being sued by the controversial Tate brothers for defamation made the claim in a bid to keep certain information confidential in the con Florida court case, according to the legal docs.
Attorney Danielle Pinter argued in the motion that a document should remain under wraps “until the United States federal investigation and/or prosecution by the Department of Justice for the Southern District of New York of Andrew and Tristan Tate has concluded.”
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