Talk about saying the quiet part out loud: “While CNN’s Brian Stelter speculated that Trump got the idea for putting ICE agents in the airports from ‘Linda from Arizona,’ who called in to ‘The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show’ last Friday, Trump ally Steve Bannon suggested on his podcast War Room yesterday that ‘[w]e can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms.’”

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March 24, 2026

This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another word for that, he said, is “treason.” The evidence for such a claim is the sudden and isolated jump in trading volume in S&P 500 and oil futures about 15 minutes before Trump suddenly announced that the U.S.

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