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'Secretary of Cost-Cutting': Trump taps Musk for new potential role to slash government waste:

Musk has previously promoted the idea of an efficiency commission.

Former President Donald Trump stated on Sunday that, should he win the presidential election, he plans to tap Elon Musk for a new potential role to significantly reduce government waste.

During an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," the Republican presidential nominee said he hopes to appoint Musk as his "Secretary of Cost-Cutting."

Trump told the news outlet, "He's a great business guy, and he's a great cost-cutter."

According to Trump, Musk told him he could slash government costs "without affecting anybody."

He noted that Musk does not want to be a part of the Cabinet but does want to help eliminate government waste.

"He is dying to do this," Trump said of Musk. "We'll have a new position: Secretary of Cost-Cutting. Elon wants to do that, and we have incredible people. He's running a big business. He can't just say, 'I think I'll go into the Cabinet.' Other people can. He can't, but Elon's a little bit different in that sense."

Musk previously stated that he had slashed the staff at Twitter by approximately 80%.

Musk explained... that government overspending causes inflation.

"Would you agree that we need to take a look at government spending and have, perhaps, a government efficiency commission that just ... tries to make the spending sensible and so that the country lives within its means?" he asked Trump.

Musk advocated for a government efficiency commission "that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money — that taxpayers' hard-earned money — is spent in a good way. And I'd be happy to help out on such a commission."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/secretary-of-cost-cutting-trump-taps-musk-for-new-potential-role-to-slash-government-waste   

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Sanctuary cities that keep illegal alien criminals on the streets will soon be a thing of the past, Trump promises:

During a women’s town hall with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner on Tuesday, Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump made a vow to voters that he plans to “immediately” end sanctuary jurisdictions if he secures a victory in the upcoming November election.

...Trump responded, “First of all, we are going to end all sanctuary cities immediately.”

Faulkner asked Trump whether he would accomplish that via executive order.

“I could do it with an executive order; I’ll have to do it with an executive order. You can do it with the Aliens Act of 1798,” he responded.

The Alien Act, which was passed in 1798 by the Federalist-controlled Congress, authorizes the sitting president to deport non-citizens.

Trump declared that sanctuary cities are meant to protect only criminals.

“We’re going to end all sanctuary cities in the United States, and we’re going to go back to normalcy. And we’re going to have law and order,” he stated.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/sanctuary-cities-that-keep-illegal-alien-criminals-on-the-streets-will-soon-be-a-thing-of-the-past-trump-promises

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FBI covertly changes its crime stats for 2022, revealing Trump was right all along:

The FBI originally claimed violent crime dropped in 2021. It actually went up.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that crime is far worse than government officials care to admit, particularly in Democrat-run cities.

Democratic operatives and the liberal media have claimed the reverse is true, citing incomplete FBI data indicating a drop in violent crime in the first two years of the Biden-Harris administration.

It appears that Trump was correct when he told Time magazine that the "FBI fudged the numbers" and possibly also when he suggested during the second presidential debate that the FBI data "was a fraud" — just as he appears to have been correct about U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' bogus jobs numbers.

According to the CPRC, with the adjustments, "there is a net increase of 80,029 more violent crimes, 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, and 37,091 more aggravated assaults."

"This is why the regime wants to censor 'disinformation and misinformation,'" tweeted Auron MacIntyre, podcast host and columnist at Blaze Media. "Our institutions now lie to us regularly for political gain."

Elon Musk's America PAC wrote, "They want to give you the illusion that cities are safe, but now we know the truth."

..."So the two measures are the FBI's measure of crimes reported to police," continued Lott. "And then there's the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure, called the National Crime Victimization data, which gets a measure of total crime, both reported and unreported. Prior to 2020, these two sets of numbers generally went up and down together. But since 2020, they have been going at opposite directions."

Lott noted that in 2022, for instance, when the FBI originally claimed violent crime dropped by just over 2%, the National Crime Victimization Survey reflected a massive spike in the violent victimization rate — from 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2021 to 23.5 per 1,000 in 2022.

Lott said that was the "largest percentage increase that we've ever seen."

While the FBI contends violent crime has fallen under the Biden-Harris administration, the NCVS, which doesn't measure murder, reportedly indicated violent crime jumped 55% between 2020 and 2023.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/fbi-covertly-changed-its-crime-stats-for-2022-revealing-trump-was-right-all-along   

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Melania Trump’s Book Hits #1 on New York Times Bestseller List:

Former first lady Melania Trump’s memoir, Melania, has reportedly hit the top slot on the New York Times bestseller list.

News of the Melania Trump’s book hitting the coveted slot was shared on Wednesday by political strategist and commentator David Urban and the former first lady herself.

According to Fox News, Melania Trump also plans to release a special edition memoir that will feature photographs that she herself captured while serving as first lady and also her life prior to entering politics.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/16/melania-trumps-book-1-new-york-times-bestseller-list/   

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'Election Interference’: UK’s Governing Labour Party Sends 100 Activists to Kamala Battleground States:

Around 100 British left-wing activists are being funded to campaign for Kamala Harris in swing states, leading to allegations of election interference and even American electoral law being broken.

A social media post by the Director of Operations of the UK’s governing party, Labour, recruiting “Labour Party staff” for campaigning in North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia has caused concern. The message from Labour’s Sofia Patel promised paid-for accommodation for those taking up the offer. 

Some have expressed concern the group may have been breaking U.S. law, including Elon Musk and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who recommended UK politicians would probably be better off back in Britain, fixing the country’s many problems rather than trying to interfere abroad. She stated: “You are breaking [Federal Election Commission] laws. Foreign nationals are not allowed to be involved in anyway in U.S. elections.

As it is, under U.S. Federal Election Commission rules foreign nationals are allowed to volunteer on political campaigns but can’t be paid a salary, donate money, spend money on the campaign’s behalf, or take leadership (“decision-making”) roles.  So whether these laws have been obeyed will have to be determined by the FEC, but influential Westminster gossip blog Guido Fawkes states its understanding that the trips to America for Labour staffers being paid for by the Democrat Party and they are campaigning “in their own time”, which would be legal.

Mr Farage said: “This is direct election interference by the governing Labour Party, and particularly stupid if Trump wins. Who is paying for all of this?”.

Mr Farage himself has campaigned on behalf of his friend President Trump, but clearly in the minds of some the scale of the organised effort to ship left-wing activists from the UK to the U.S. puts the move in a different category.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/10/18/election-interference-uk-labour-sends-100-activists-to-harris-campaign/   

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“God Was Watching Us in This Moment” – Pro-Life Students Speak Out After Kamala Mocked Them and Jesus at Her Rally – And Told Them They Were Not Welcome! (VIDEO)

Kamala Harris and her supporters openly mocked a Christian attendee and Jesus Christ during a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday.

Kamala skipped the Al Smith Charity Dinner, a major Christian event in New York, to hit the campaign trail in Wisconsin instead.

During her speech, she focused on promoting abortion when someone bravely interrupted her.

“We remember Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade, and they did as he intended.”

A Christian attendee bravely stood up and proclaimed, “Jesus is Lord,” only to be mocked by Harris herself, who coldly replied, “I think you’re at the wrong rally.”
The crowd erupted in cheers and laughter, and Harris, with an air of smugness, added, “Try the smaller one down the street.”
It was a disgusting display by the godless Democrat and her gaggle of supporters.
 
On Sunday morning, FOX and Friends Weekend had the two university juniors on their show to discuss the insulting anti-Christian display.
 
Luke Polaske:
...And I guess we could start off with, after she talked about overturning Roe v. Wade and Donald Trump, I yelled out to the crowd that abortion is the sacrament of Satan. And when I said that, I deeply do believe that as a Christian. And about 10 seconds go by, and that’s when the video of my friend Grant and I proclaiming that Christ is Lord and Jesus is King, when we said that. And I think it’s important to say this is a small venue, and We were about 20 to 30 yards away from Kamala at this point. There’s a lot of controversy that says she wasn’t talking to us or we’d laughed we didn’t get kicked out. Well, I can speak on Grant and I’s behalf on video. Grant’s getting pushed and shoved. And there’s about five seconds before she tells us to go to the smaller rally down the street.

You can see on the video, she waves. She was actually waving to me. I took this cross off my neck that I wear. And as we were getting asked to leave, I held it up in the air and waved at her and pointed to her, and she looked directly in the eye, gave me an evil smirk.

And I just wanted to clear that up and confirm that she 100 % was talking to us. And there’s other controversy that says we left. We were getting shouted at, pushed, assaulted, screamed at. So we were walking away, but there was about three attendees there, volunteers, that kicked us out with badges or whatever they had.

Grant Beth:
...As you can see in that firsthand video, I was pushed by an elderly woman. We were heckled at, we were cursed at, we were mocked. And that’s the biggest thing for me, personally, in reflection of the event, Jesus was mocked, his disciples were mocked, and that’s okay. In reality, we did God’s work, And we were there for the right reasons. And God was watching us in this moment. I’m all about being a cordial to a person, no matter your beliefs. But I do believe that that we were sent there by God.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/god-was-watching-us-this-moment-pro-life/   

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Victor Nieves: The Christian Case for Trump:

The presidential election is only days away. It is estimated that there are around 210 million Christians in this country. Without question, Christians hold the power to decide the result of this election and chart our nation’s future. Tragically, it is believed that as many as 32 million Christians will not be voting.

Our nation is plagued by immorality, corruption, and sin. Christians have sat idly by for years as our nation turned its back on the Biblical worldview that founded this country’s ethic. Now we are faced with a dichotomy, either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States. As Christians, we get to decide which candidate best aligns with the greatest attainable good.

Donald Trump also has been an adamant defender of Christianity and common sense in his proposed policy. Donald Trump has:

  • Vowed to keep men out of women’s sports.
  • Vowed to STOP genital mutilation surgery for minors.
  • Vowed to promote a positive education of the nuclear family and Biblical gender roles.
  • Promised his Education Department would impose “severe consequences” on any teachers or school officials who “suggest to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body.”

Trump has publicly declared, “They want to tear down crosses where they can, and cover them up with social justice flags, but no one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration, I swear to you.”

While it is not disputed that Trump is a sinful man, God has a long history of using flawed and sinful men. 

Comparing the respective records, the answer is clear as day. While Donald Trump is an imperfect sinner in need of the grace of God, as are you and I, he is by far the best attainable good for our nation.

We are faced with a political dichotomy. Either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will become our next president. It is up to us to decide which candidate is best for our families, churches, neighbors, and community members. The results of this election will impact American’s abilities to pay for their groceries, avoid foreign wars, and worship freely.

Christians that do not vote for the greatest attainable good are complicit in the evil that Kamala Harris would enact. Not making a choice is inherently a choice. If 32 million Christians refuse to vote and Kamala Harris wins by a few hundred thousands votes it will be Christians to blame for every abortion, every transgender surgery on a minor, every family suffering financially, and every attack on Christianity caused by a Kamala presidency.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/victor-nieves-christian-case-trump/

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As America teeters, sitting out isn’t an option for believers:

Some pastors and evangelical leaders counsel true believers to rest assured that no matter what happens in November, no matter who wins the presidency, Christians are citizens of heaven, and God, in a very real sense, “has our backs.” The country might end up going to hell, but we are headed, sooner or later, to a better place.

That’s all well and good — to a point.

...So a true follower of Jesus cannot use the excuse that he is “not political.” That statement in itself declares a political position — whatever happens, good or bad, I have given my consent.

Reports say more than 70% of Christians calling themselves evangelicals do not vote. How is that possible? Would not an entire country be set aright with participation of godly people? That appears to be a no-brainer.

It should be overwhelmingly obvious to anyone with even a tiny spark of wisdom that America cannot continue on its current trajectory....

https://www.theblaze.com/abide/as-america-teeters-sitting-out-isnt-an-option-for-believers  

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Leftist Media Salty After Donald Trump Mans Fry Station at McDonald’s:

Corporate media outlets and leftist media personalities were salty after former President Donald Trump donned an apron at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania and manned the fry station and drive-through window, calling it staged.

New York Magazine posted on X:

So in an effort to highlight his claim that Kamala Harris never worked at McDonald’s, Trump pretended to work at a closed McDonald’s where he served pretend orders to supporters pretending to be customers. Hopefully the fries weren’t cold.

The outlet’s report ignored all of the staged stops from the Harris-Walz campaign, including one where two different handoffs of Doritos chips to Vice President Kamala Harris were filmed and one where Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, ordered coffee at a cafe and walked off without paying.

There was at least one progressive media figure, however, who conceded that Trump working at McDonald’s was a positive for his campaign, calling out his leftist compatriots.

Cenk Uygur posted on X, “Some in the press called Trump’s McDonald’s photo-op bizarre. This is how you lose credibility. That was a home run photo-op. He looked like a real person there, connecting with the average American. If you can’t see that, you’re totally blind.”

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/21/leftist-media-salty-donald-trump-mans-fry-station-mcdonalds/   

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‘Soft-on-Crime’ Vs. ‘Law and Order’: Crime in Swing States May Push Voters Toward Trump:

As Election Day nears, one issue stands out as a potential game-changer: the significance of crime in key swing states, which may just be the catalyst that tips the election toward Donald Trump.

Amid ongoing political debates, crime has become a growing concern for voters, particularly so in key battleground states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona. As safety takes center stage, the Biden-Harris administration’s policies face increased scrutiny. 

According to a fresh Washington Post/Schar School poll conducted across key swing states between September 30 and October 15, 2024, crime is a significant issue in the upcoming election for nearly four in five key-state voters. Additionally, former President Donald Trump holds a substantial lead over Vice President Kamala Harris on the issue, with voters trusting him to handle crime better than Harris by a margin of roughly ten points.

The Biden-Harris administration has often championed police reform and community-based approaches to crime reduction, with Harris herself having once expressed support for the “defund the police” movement....

Despite attempts by the Biden-Harris administration to downplay crime rates, the Trump campaign has accused it of mismanaging crime data and overseeing a dramatic rise in violent crime, with 2022 and 2023 marking two of the deadliest years since 2012. In fact, despite initial reports from the FBI indicating a slight decrease in violent crime in 2022, a quiet revision revealed a 4.5 percent increase, sparking concerns over the transparency of the data collection process.

The campaign also noted that under Harris, violent crime surged to record levels last year, surpassing any year under Trump, with murder rates still higher than before the pandemic.

Ultimately, crime concerns in key battlegrounds, alongside the administration’s foreign policy disasters, could be one of the most significant factors driving voters to the polls — and into Trump’s corner.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/21/softoncrime-vs-lawandorder-crime-swing-states-push-voters-trump/   

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