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Torri Lonergan at MMFA:

Right-wing media appear not to be fully aligned with President Donald Trump’s framing of his tariffs. After announcing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, Trump administration officials tried to claim this was the start of a “drug war” rather than a trade war, insisting that Trump imposed the tariffs to combat fentanyl trafficking. However, some right-wing media figures have acknowledged that Trump’s tariffs are a tactic in a trade war that is hurting the economy.

The Trump administration has repeatedly insisted its tariffs are part of a drug war, not a trade war

On March 4, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico. The administration said the tariffs were intended to combat “the flow of contraband drugs like fentanyl into the United States.” Trump complained that both countries have “allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens” and said the tariffs will continue until the fentanyl crisis “stops, or is seriously limited.” Trump also imposed a 20% tariff on imports from China using the same rationale. [White House, 2/1/25, 3/3/25; Associated Press, 3/4/25, 3/5/25; Truth Social, 2/27/25; Tax Foundation, 3/7/25]

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told Fox’s Martha MacCallum, “This is not a trade war. It’s a drug war.” Hassett complained that Canada is “not trying hard enough” to prevent fentanyl trafficking and claimed that’s why tariffs were implemented. [Fox News, The Story with Martha MacCallum, 3/4/25]

On Fox, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro insisted, “It’s a drug war, not a trade war.” Navarro reiterated this point to Politico and CNN and while speaking to reporters outside the White House. [Fox News, America Reports, 2/3/25; Politico, 2/4/25; CNN, The Situation Room, 3/5/25; C-SPAN, 2/3/25]

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg, “This is not a trade war. This is a drug war.” Lutnick made the same argument on Fox Business, Fox News, and CNBC, insisting the tariffs are about fentanyl deaths rather than trade policy. [Bloomberg, 3/5/25; Fox Business, Kudlow, 3/4/25; Fox News, America Reports, 3/5/25; CNBC, Squawk Box, 3/4/25]

Fox News helped amplify Trump's “drug war” narrative. The Trump administration’s propagandist allies at Fox News were initially helpful in rebranding the unnecessary trade war against America’s neighbors as a necessary step in a “drug war” against fentanyl while the administration spread misinformation about the crisis. [Media Matters, 3/5/25]

While U.S. officials have claimed this is a “drug war,” both Canadian and Mexican leaders have labeled it a “trade war.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada “will continue to be in a trade war that was launched by the United States for the foreseeable future.” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated, “We don’t want to enter into a trade war.” [Reuters, 3/6/25; The New York Times, 3/4/25]

Fox Business anchor Liz Claman said, “We have a trade war. Let’s just call it what it is.” Claman questioned how long “the people of America will remain patient, especially when they may have checked in on their 401(k)s at the worst points of the session today and really gulped and got worried, especially people who are close to retirement.” [Fox Business, The Claman Countdown, 3/4/25]

Fox anchor John Roberts said, “It could be that there’s a little bit of a trade war brewing between the United States and Canada.” [Fox News, America Reports, 3/4/25]

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt reported, “Trump's commerce secretary says this trade war will likely be over before it really even begins.” Schmitt also noted that “tariffs are freaking out Wall Street.” [Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, 3/4/25]

One America News’ Pearson Sharp predicted that China is “probably prepared to go higher” on reciprocal tariffs in response to “the trade war.” Sharp also said China “didn’t think this was about fentanyl. They thought this was about the trade deficit, and they thought that maybe these things should be separate issues, and we should work on the trade deficit and not use the fentanyl as — what they said — an excuse to address it.” [One America News, The Matt Gaetz Show, 3/5/25]

When Fox News fell out of favor with Donald Trump for insufficient boot-licking and occasional accidental forays into fact, he urged his supporters to tune in instead to the far-right One America News Network, which proudly describes itself as "one of his GREATEST supporters." One of its reporters, Pearson Sharp, is still pushing the "Big Lie" that Trump really won the 2020 presidential election, and recently opted to use some rather extreme language:

"How many people were involved in these efforts to undermine the election? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? How many people does it take to carry out a coup against the presidency? ... What are the consequences for traitors who meddled with our sacred democratic process and tried to steal power by taking away the voices of the American people? What happens to them? Well, in the past, America had a very good solution for dealing with such traitors: Execution. ... Any American involved in these efforts—from those who ran the voting machines, to the very highest government officials—is guilty of treason under US Code 2381, which carries with it the penalty of death."

Vaccinated Populations Suffering Strange New Illness, Doctors Report Foreign Compounds Found In Vaccines Security cameras from around the world are capturing frightening new footage of people collapsing in spasms on the ground in what may be the latest symptom of exposure to the COVID-19 vaccines. One America’s Pearson Sharp has…

[TW: Anti-Vaxxer Extremism, COVID Conspiracies]

MMFA: 

PEARSON SHARP (OAN CORRESPONDENT): A new report from the U.K. proves the phony fact about how the majority of COVID deaths are among the unvaccinated is totally false. Now, it may be hard for branch COVID-ian cultists to hear, but according to an official government report from the U.K.'s health security agency, nine out of 10 China virus deaths are in the fully vaccinated. It's true, and what's worse for [Dr. Anthony] Fauci followers is that four out of five of those deaths are among the triple vaccinated. That's right. Boosters won't save you now, but there's a good chance they could still kill you.

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SHARP: Of course not to be outdone, our own government isn't far behind. The centers for Democrat control, the CDC, released their latest data on the Pfizer vaccines and to no one's surprise, it turns out it's much less effective than advertised. The agency's most recent findings show that for children aged 5-11 the vaccine, and I use that word in the loosest possible sense, is less than 50% effective at preventing children from needing emergency-room care for virus symptoms.

Now, this is a joke for a number of reasons, but primarily because children don't need protection from this virus to begin with. Doctors, pediatricians even, have told One America News that they're seeing four times more children hospitalized for the annual flu than for this Fauci-engineered China virus. Seriously, as of March 2, the number of children the CDC claims have died from COVID is 307. Now compare that to 2019 when the CDC estimated some 434 children died from the annual flu.

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Pediatric deaths from the flu in 2018 were around 144. Then in 2019, they jumped to almost 200. Then all of a sudden, COVID shows up in 2020, and bam. Childhood influenza deaths plummeted to just one — one death from the flu in 2020, from hundreds to just one. And so far this year, there have been six deaths from the flu. Doesn't that strike you as odd, when at the same time a much less dangerous virus is suddenly killing hundreds of kids a year, or roughly the same number as were previously dying from the flu but are now no longer dying at all. That's some fancy number shuffling on the part of the CDC. It makes you wonder where all those flu deaths went. Well, wonder no more because they've been magically turned into COVID deaths for the sake of pushing the agenda. The agenda being making hundreds of billions of dollars a year and exerting totalitarian control over society.

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In addition to being totally ineffective at stopping the virus, the vaccine is also having some shocking side effects. According to Swedish researchers at Lund University, the mRNA from Pfizer's vaccine actually goes into your liver and is then ominously converted into DNA. The researchers discovered that when the vaccine enters the liver cells, it undergoes reverse transcription, turning into spike DNA, and all of this happens less than six hours after getting the vaccine.

Why? Why is it doing this? Why is it turning into DNA? And what does it do once it becomes part of your body's genetic code? This is not what vaccines are supposed to do. Just to be clear, vaccines do not turn into DNA when they enter your body. This is not normal. And just a reminder, this exact process where the vaccine manipulates your body into producing a new kind of DNA, altering your body's genetic structure. This is something the CDC specifically said would not happen. In fact, you can go on the agency's website now, today, and you can read the CDC's actual claim, that, quote, “the COVID-19 vaccines do not change or interact with your DNA in any way."

Well, now we know that's just another lie told to us by the centers for Democrat control. The Swedish researchers also found the spike protein from the vaccine in the liver may be targeted by the immune system, causing autoimmune hepatitis, which there have been cases of this reported after people got the vaccine. Another Japanese study found the vaccines mRNA molecules flooded the bloodstream and were found in organs across from the blood to the liver to the spleen and adrenal glands and even the ovaries, which would explain the skyrocketing rates of infertility and miscarriages among the vaccinated women in the military.

Cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough warns the Swedish study proves just how dangerous this vaccine really is, causing permanent chromosomal damage. And yet the media, the government, and the medical mafia are all in lockstep promoting this toxic chemical injection, which physically alters your body at the genetic level.

The really frightening part of the story is that there are no long-term studies for this vaccine. None. The only protection we have now is not to get it. And if you already have, hope and pray it's not as bad as it looks, because as bad as things are now, we won't know the full scope of how truly destructive this injection is for years to come.

Alex Griffing at Mediaite:

One America News Network reported on the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol last week and added in commentary from Pearson Sharp, who is a foreign correspondent on the network.

In the clip, which has since gone viral and been roundly rebuked on social media, Sharp claims: “Biden and his cronies are desperately trying to cook up more conflict to distract from their monumental failures here in America.”

“The United States has a long, storied history of conducting false flag operations in pursuit of its own political agenda and whether it’s starting a war, invading another country, or finding an excuse to sneak out hundreds of tons of gold bullion from a toppled Libyan dictator,” Sharp begins the segment, which first aired on March 12th.

Sharp continued by saying, “I personally investigated and exposed, there was false flag gas attacks in Syria to frame President Bashar al-Assad as a mass-murdering tyrant.”

While it’s unclear exactly which Syrian gas attack Sharp is claiming was a “false flag,” Assad was a mass-murdering dictator who launched hundreds of chemical weapons attacks on his own people. Accusations of “false flag” attacks in Syria were used by both Russia and Assad to justify the use of chemical weapons in that conflict.

Mary Papenfuss at HuffPost: 

In an example of the right-wing eating its own, uber conservative fringe cable TV operation One America News (OAN) has bashed Fox News as “left-wing” — and Newsmax as “left-leaning” for declaring Joe Biden the winner several weeks after the presidential election.

OAN host Pearson Sharp dismissed Fox in a segment updated Saturday as a used-to-be conservative truth-teller that has crossed over to the left.

Then he zeroed in on Newsmax. It “likes to project an image of being home for conservative, right-leaning or at the very least center-right news — a place where anyone who’s tired of Fox’s increasingly left-wing angles can find a fresh take on news,” Sharp noted.

But it’s actually a “left-leaning organization,” he insisted. The proof? “Newsmax threw [Donald] Trump under the bus and buckled almost immediately, declaring Biden the next president,” the disgusted commentator said.

Newsmax referred to Biden as “president-elect” for the first time in mid-December, six weeks after the election, The Hill noted. OAN continued to refer to Trump as “President Trump” and Biden simply by his name until just last month.

There’s no actual evidence that either Fox News or Newsmax are left-wing or left-leaning. OAN has a reputation for spinning baseless conspiracy theories.

Bobby Lewis and Beatrice Mount at MMFA: