The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Top Headlines

• Trump hits China with another $50B in tariffs; China fires right back with tariffs of their own (The Washington Post)

• Democracy Dies in Communism: Washington Post runs Chinese propaganda op-ed (Washington Examiner)

• Fifty years after MLK’s death, U.S. civil rights leaders lament Trump’s rise — because Democrat urban poverty plantations have worked out so well (Reuters)

• Iranian woman of the Baha'i faith, angry over demonetization of militant vegan/animal rights vlogs, attacks YouTube headquarters, wounds three and kills herself (Heavy)

• Trump: “We’re going to be guarding our border with the military” (CNS News)

• Organizers of U.S.-bound immigrant caravan accuse Trump of “bullying,” “threats of mass violence” (Fox News)

• Gun sales soar, set new record in March amid push for more gun control (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Deerfield, Illinois, bans some semiautomatic weapons; owners face steep fines (CBS Chicago)

• Does gun control reduce murder? Let’s run the numbers across the world (The Federalist)

• Attorney Alex van der Zwaan, first person sentenced in Mueller probe, gets 30 days in prison (NBC News)

• Mueller told Trump’s attorneys the president remains under investigation but is not currently a criminal target (Chicago Tribune)

• Middle-Earth announces heavy tariffs on Narnian imports (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: The real source of teachers’ struggles (National Review)

• Policy: Why leaving Syria early would be a disaster (National Review)

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