• Do state secrets trump despotic judges? Last night, the Trump DOJ told two-bit tyrant Judge James Boasberg that it wouldn’t disclose the information he’s demanding about the government’s illegal-immigrant deportation flights because doing so would compromise state secrets and harm relations with other countries. Boasberg, who in his spare time attends anti-Trump conferences, didn’t buy the administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 or its lack of due process for illegal alien gang members. Nor, it seems, does a three-judge appeals panel — one member of which disgracefully quipped, “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than what has happened here.” We hope the Supreme Court ultimately rules for executive power and ends this madness.

• More Mahmoud Khalil allegations: The Trump administration is seeking to deport Mahmoud Khalil, the leader behind Columbia University’s anti-Semitic protests. Let’s just say he’s got issues. When applying for a green card from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he failed to disclose that he served as a political affairs officer for the infamous UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Recall that the U.S. stripped tens of millions in funding from UNRWA after it was revealed that a number of its members were involved in Hamas’s October 7, 2023, pogrom against Israel. Furthermore, Khalil also didn’t reveal that he had worked for the Syrian Office at the British embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, or that he was a member of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the anti-Israel group behind the protests at the school.

• TX Tesla terror foiled: Incendiary devices were found strategically planted at a Tesla dealership in Austin, Texas, on Monday. This is the latest instance of domestic terrorism motivated by hatred of Elon Musk and DOGE. Fortunately, the firebomb devices were discovered before they went off. Tellingly, despite the fact that these firebombs were discovered at 8:04 a.m. local time, the Dallas Morning News failed to report on it even by early afternoon. Yet the online media outlet did include a leftist editorial cartoon making fun of domestic terrorist attacks against Tesla owners. It’s yet another example of how the Leftmedia gaslights over leftist violence.

• Trump’s nominee for CDC director, take two: Yesterday, Donald Trump announced his selection of Susan Monarez to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The president no doubt hopes the second time is the charm, as Monarez, who did post-doctoral work in microbiology and immunology at Stanford, is being elevated from acting CDC director after Trump’s withdrawal of his original nominee, former Florida Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon, due to a lack of votes. Weldon was seen as a critic of Big Pharma, an ally of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a vocal advocate on childhood vaccine safety issues. Still, Trump expects Monarez to work “closely with our GREAT Secretary of Health and Human Services.”

• Patel to remove 1,000 ATF agents: New FBI Director Kash Patel wants to cut upwards of 1,000 agents from the ATF. As the acting director of the ATF, Patel will not be firing these agents; rather, he plans to reassign them to the FBI. This action effectively shrinks the size of the ATF by almost 40%. This is good news for Americans and their Second Amendment liberties, which is why Gabby Giffords’s gun-control group has objected, stating, “This decision would increase crime and hurt law enforcement” and weaken the ATF, making “all [of] us less safe.” The trouble is, rather than defend and protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights, the ATF under the Biden administration targeted legal gun owners with expanded and dubious regulations that turned previously legal gun transfers and sales into illegal actions.

• Trump plans to pardon former Biden pal Devon Archer: A former business associate of the Biden Crime Family might seem an odd choice for a presidential pardon, but Devon Archer is no longer a friend of the family. Archer’s congressional testimony in 2023 about his business dealings with the Bidens helped solidify the evidence of their corruption. Now, “He’s getting a full pardon,” Trump told the New York Post’s Miranda Devine. “He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.” The pardon would relieve Archer of potential prison time for securities fraud over his involvement in a 2015 deal with Hunter Biden. Joe Biden, of course, has already pardoned his wastrel son for anything he might’ve done in the past decade or so.

• Trump repatriates investment billions: The Trump Difference has many manifestations, not least of which is the confidence his presence in the White House inspires both in corporate America and around the world at large. This confidence, in turn, takes the form of business investment — from companies such as Apple ($500 billion), Johnson & Johnson ($55 billion over four years), Japan-based SoftBank ($100 billion over four years), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ($165 billion), and the United Arab Emirates (a whopping $1.4 trillion over four years). All this in just two months. Suffice it to say, the hyper-regulatory Biden administration fostered far less enthusiasm among the world’s great companies — some $910 billion in private manufacturing investments over its four-year term.

• Trump announces tariffs to isolate Venezuela: “Therefore, any Country that purchases Oil and/or Gas from Venezuela will be forced to pay a Tariff of 25% to the United States on any Trade they do with our Country,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday. This comes in response to Venezuela’s deliberate effort to send criminals and destabilizing immigrants to the U.S., including members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua. Venezuela’s crude oil exports go primarily to China, Brazil, Turkey, and others. Trump’s stated goal is to isolate the hostile regime in Venezuela and force greater investment in the U.S. economy. The new tariffs will take effect on April 2.

• Why was the U.S. funding Australian universities? The Trump administration has pulled $600 million in U.S. taxpayer funding from seven universities in Australia. In response, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was urged to call an “emergency meeting” of the National Science and Technology Council. The Trump administration sent a questionnaire asking the universities if they could justify U.S. funding, whether they had also received funding from China, and whether they recognized only two sexes or embraced DEI. The response from Australia was mind-numbingly dumb. National Tertiary Education Union President Alison Barnes stated, “The [Aussie] federal government must push back on the Trump administration’s blatant foreign interference in our independent research in the strongest possible terms.” Wait — whose money was it in the first place?

• Republicans want to keep SNAP users from buying soda: A social safety net like SNAP (food stamps) should be about providing the basic necessities to those who might not have enough to eat otherwise. Most Americans can agree that no one in the U.S. should die because they don’t have enough food and water. The debate comes over whether SNAP recipients should be able to use taxpayer funds to purchase Coca-Cola at the supermarket. Several conservative influencers on X were caught taking money from Big Soda to fight Republican legislation in Congress that will keep SNAP users from doing just that. Whether either of the two proposed bills will ever pass Congress is unclear, but it’s hard to imagine why a conservative would oppose them. Well, other than money.

Headlines

• USPS leader Louis DeJoy resigns as Postmaster General (Just the News)

• Social Security conducting records cleanup, marking seven million listed age 120+ as deceased (Fox Business)

• Justice Department signals support for firearm suppressors (Washington Examiner)

• Columbia’s interim president privately told faculty there was no mask ban — despite telling Trump admin it would be enforced (NY Post)

• Just six of 2,000 homes have been rebuilt since the 2023 Hawaii wildfires (National Review)

• Humor: “Snow White” beaten at box office by middle school recorder recital (Babylon Bee)

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