President Donald Trump is preparing to install a statue commemorating Christopher Columbus outside the White House. So there's no mistaking the counterrevolutionary and restorative nature of this act, the White House will reportedly erect a replica of the figure that iconoclasts unceremoniously tore down and tossed into Baltimore's harbor on July 4, 2020. Columbus' four transatlantic voyages opened the way for European exploration of the Americas. While once celebrated for his courage and ambition — such that counties, cities, and towns across the United States were named after him — the Italian "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" who sailed under the Spanish flag has in recent years been subjected to routine defamation and denunciations by liberals. Columbus' memory and likeness were especially popular targets during the left's Black Lives Matter-bannered deracination and iconoclasm campaign of 2020 that saw graves dug up, animals and places renamed, church windows busted, and cities torched. As various municipalities and institutions such as the Smithsonian advocated for dropping Columbus Day in favor of "Indigenous Peoples' Day," radicals vandalized and toppled statues commemorating the Italian explorer across the country. In Baltimore, masked thugs marched through the city's Little Italy neighborhood on July 4, 2020, in search of a target. After harassing restaurant patrons and other residents, the thugs set to work on toppling a Columbus statue dedicated in 1984 by former Mayor William Donald Schaefer and President Ronald Reagan. After tearing down the statue and jumping on the broken Italian Carrara marble likeness of the great explorer — acts that were brushed off by city officials — the cheering mob chucked the broken pieces into the harbor. Artist Tilghman Hemsley hired a dive team to recover the broken pieces... "We brought it out of the harbor and reconstructed it, rebuilt it," Hemsley told the Sun. ...White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to Blaze News, "In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero. And he will continue to be honored as such by President Trump." On Friday, January 30, the Department of Justice released a third batch of Epstein-related material. The drop was the biggest yet, with over 3 million additional pages of documents, more than 2,000 videos, and about 180,000 images. But in this gargantuan sea of information, BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says there’s one key takeaway — and it has to do with President Trump. Even though Democrats have tried to use the Epstein files to smear Trump for years, they have never been successful. Although his name appears numerous times in every file dump the DOJ has released, there’s been nothing that implicates him. In fact, in the latest document dump, there is an email written by Jeffery Epstein to author and journalist Michael Wolff in 2019, stating, “[Trump] never got a massage.” The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 50,000 for the first time ever on Friday. In a post on social media, President Donald Trump touted the high-water mark for the Dow, celebrating the feat as "the first time in History." “CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA!” Trump said. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/dow-crosses-50000-time/story?id=129930238 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Alex Marlow Show in an exclusive interview on Friday that TrumpRx.com, which offers massive discounts on prescription drugs, is set to save millions of Americans thousands of dollars. Leavitt joined Marlow on the show a day after her latest White House press briefing, which was followed by President Donald Trump’s launch of the TrumpRx website Thursday night in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium. Leavitt emphasized to Marlow that Americans can now claim discounts on what the website lists as 43 drugs currently offered by 5 of the 14 leading pharmaceutical companies with which Trump has struck Most-Favored-Nations (MFN) deals (products from other companies in MFN agreements will be available in the months ahead). “Your audience can take advantage of it today, right now, if you go to TrumpRx.gov,” Leavitt told Marlow. “And I would encourage everybody to just take a look at this website and remind everyone this is a government website, and never has government looked so good.” “This is a direct-to-consumer website, where Americans can go and can purchase drugs directly, and can see the massive savings that they’re going to get as a result,” she added. “So not only is it innovative and beautiful, it works, and it’s going to result in millions of Americans saving thousands of dollars throughout their lifetime thanks to President Trump.” Wegovy and Ozempic, for instance, cost $1,349 and $1,028 per month, but with TrumpRx, they drop to an average of $350 per month. Depending on the dosage, the price could fall to as low as $199 for consumers. On Thursday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the Small Business Administration, talked about steps by the administration on fire recovery. Loeffler said, “They can download two very simple forms. One for themselves to self-certify…and one for their builder…we’ve already had hundreds of people download the forms. We’ve been told that this is actually helping get things moving on the ground. It’s not a performative half measure, which is what seems to be going on locally. This is full-on permitting and rebuilding right now.”
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