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The media has a secret playbook to take down Trump—and David Sacks just blew it wide open.

Not only did he expose their dirty tricks, he revealed Trump’s 4-D chess move to flip the entire national conversation.

But wait until you hear what he said about Zelenskyy. The globalist warmongers are going to lose it.

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It started with a quiet bombshell—one that David Sacks says most people missed.

According to Sacks, the media isn’t just ignoring Trump’s wins. They’ve built an entire playbook to erase them.

On the All-In podcast, @DavidSacks pulled back the curtain on a dirty trick the media has been using for years. He pointed to a viral post on X that exposed the hypocrisy in plain sight:

“If you think a market selloff delegitimizes Trump’s presidency, you’re going to give him unconditional credit when it rallies right? Cause those are the rules now.”

Simple logic. But as Sacks explained, the media refuses to play fair.

“The market has rallied, like you said it’s up 7% this week but the media doesn’t want to give Trump any credit for it, so it’s kinda created this narrative of a ‘Bessent put.’”

Rather than credit Trump, they scramble to credit anyone else.

“So what they do on any particular week is valorize a particular member of the administration——because I don’t want to give Trump that credit,” he said.

It’s not a glitch—it’s the strategy. Sacks said they’ll keep rotating through different faces just to keep the anti-Trump narrative alive.

“And next week they’ll be tearing Scott down and there’ll be some other member of the administration they’ll be trying to valorize.”

Anyone watching closely can see what’s happening.

“If the media’s going to tear Trump down every time the market goes down,” Sacks said, “you have to give him credit when the market goes back up.”

He added, “I think there’s just a general reluctance to do that.”

The pattern is obvious. But the story doesn’t stop there.
Sacks then turned the conversation to something even bigger—how Trump is flipping the entire national conversation in real time, and most people don’t even realize.

It’s not just about the market anymore. It’s about how Trump uses controversy itself as a weapon.

Andrew Ross Sorkin wondered if Trump could’ve achieved his goals with a softer approach on tariffs.

@chamath Palihapitiya pushed back:

“But what is to say this isn’t the velvet glove?—The stock market is down 6%! Like it's not down 60%.”

Sacks picked up the thread and took it even further.

“This is what I think is so interesting, Andrew, is the way that Trump has already shifted the conversation.”

Just a few weeks ago, none of this was on anyone’s radar.

“Because the truth of the matter is that before Liberation Day on April 2nd, just three weeks ago, no one was talking about the unfair trade practices.”

“No one was talking about the dependencies on rare earths, no one was talking about the race to the bottom. And Trump has shifted the conversation.”

Sacks said it’s no accident. Trump follows a playbook most people don't even realize exists.

“When Jared Kushner was on the show, he talked about how the Trumpian approach is: controversy elevates message.”

Trump isn’t just creating noise—he’s planting flags, forcing a realignment.

“By having this Liberation Day, by planting this flag in the ground, Trump was creating leverage to then have these negotiations, and he completely shifted the conversation.”

And it’s working.

“The fact that you’re saying that you don’t disagree with where Trump is trying to get to, but it’s mostly just tactical, is a huge shift in the conversation.”

The game has changed—and not by accident.
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From there, the conversation took an even sharper turn—straight into the heart of the war in Ukraine.

Sacks sounded off with no filter. He called out something few are willing to say out loud.

“Zelenskyy has made his bed, let him sleep in it.”

According to Sacks, Zelenskyy isn’t just stubborn. He’s become the single biggest obstacle to ending the war.

“The basic problem is that Zelenskyy doesn’t want to make a deal. I mean, he has rebuffed the Americans on Crimea, which should be the easiest point to give on.”

And it’s not just about military strategy—it’s about basic respect.

“He’s been completely unrealistic about their prospects on the battlefield. He was insulting to the White House when he visited the White House in his T-shirt or whatever. He was dressed inappropriately.”

“He was insulting to the president and especially the vice president. He murmured under his breath a curse word to the vice president. Remember that?”

Sacks pointed out the obvious: Zelenskyy is biting the very hand that feeds him.

“And remember, he’s biting the hand that feeds him. I mean, he has an obligation, I think, to be respectful to his patrons in a way that his patrons may not have to be to him.”

The bigger picture, he said, is even more troubling.

“And he has demonstrated, I think, that he’s unrealistic in every possible way. He’s unrealistic about Ukrainian prospects on the battlefield, about retaking Crimea, and about who the hand is that feeds him.”

Then Sacks dropped the final hammer:

“So my view on this is quite simple, which is if Zelenskyy won’t see reality, let him find new patrons. Let Starmer and Macron support him.”

And he closed it out with a brutal but honest truth:

“My point is Zelenskyy has made his bed. Let him sleep in it.”
But Sacks wasn’t done yet.

He ended with a warning that stretched beyond the headlines—one that hits the heart of the fight for America’s future, DOGE.

He said Elon Musk has already exposed the rot inside the government through DOGE—and he paid a heavy personal price for doing it.

Elon Musk, Sacks said, has been the canary in the coal mine. And now, it’s Congress’s turn to act.

“What we really need is for Congress to now embrace all of the corruption that Elon has found and eliminate it from the budget, because at the end of the day, in order to capture the savings here, we do need those appropriations eliminated from the budget.”

But the real danger isn’t Musk walking away—it’s Congress slipping right back into business as usual.

“These old bulls in Congress who control the appropriations process—are they going to basically backslide and just put the spending back in because it’s easier to engage in this logrolling, or do we take advantage of this?”

Sacks made it clear: Musk didn’t expose all this without paying a heavy price.

“This has cost him enormously. One of the reasons why Tesla is down is because you've had crazy leftists engaging in terrorism, firebombing Tesla dealerships.”

And what Musk uncovered, Sacks said, is even worse than people realize.

“We’ve basically learned that this whole NGO thing is a giant scam where the people in government give enormous amounts of money to their friends, probably with the expectation that when they leave government, they're going to be next in line at the trough.”

The corruption has been exposed. Now the question is whether anyone will do anything about it.

“Elon's done an enormous service exposing this. But it's not entirely up to him. In order for us to realize the benefit, we need Congress now to act on that. I’m afraid that’s not going to happen.”
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This is devastating.

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After a period of being unsure if the damage was in his head or not, Dr. Sullivan was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, a dangerous condition that elevates blood pressure and forces the heart to work much harder to pump blood to the lungs.

“On the outside, I look fine... I’ve lost half my lung capacity. If I can look this normal while carrying that much damage, how many others are out there suffering silently?” he asked.

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That’s equivalent to aging about ten years in terms of aerobic capacity.

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#8 – Joe Rogan ambushes Gavin Newsom via text with a pointed COVID question, asking if he feels any remorse for his draconian decisions to force jabs on kids and enrich Big Pharma.

“Who will be held accountable for mandating COVID-19 vaccines for children, which were unnecessary and ineffective, and who will take responsibility for the unprecedented increases in myocarditis and cancer cases among them?” Rogan asked.

“Second to that,” he added, “do you feel any remorse for that draconian decision that was obviously heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical companies’ desire for maximum profit?”

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Joe Rogan just AMBUSHED Gavin Newsom with a single text that forced him to answer for California’s draconian COVID policies.

This conversation was a real test.

Newsom tried to recycle old COVID talking points.

But Shawn Ryan pushed back hard, telling Newsom to his face that he REGRETTED taking the vaccine.

Then Rogan’s question landed like a bomb: Who will be held accountable for mandating “unnecessary and ineffective” COVID vaccines for young children?

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Ryan opened the exchange with a direct question:

“Do you think that everyday citizens carrying a gun reduces crime or increases crime?”

Newsom didn’t hesitate, delivering the argument he’s repeated for years.

“I think the evidence, the evidence suggests the opposite. It increases the likelihood of a gun death,” he said, insisting that states with stricter gun laws see fewer gun deaths.

“And you look at all the states with the most comprehensive gun safety reforms, they have lower gun death rates than states with weaker gun laws. And there's a correlation there.”

“California is one of the lowest gun death rates in America. The highest murder rates in the county tend to be red states.”

Ryan wasn’t convinced. He brought up Chicago—a city with strict gun laws but among the nation’s leaders in shootings and homicides.

“Well, I thought Chicago was the number one?”

Newsom faltered.

“No.....well.....as cities you'll have different experiences, but at state levels, gun safety from our perspective, saves lives,” he tried.

He insisted the data proved his point.

“We have the data to bear that out.”

But there’s a reason that argument often feels hollow.

California’s overall gun death rate might look better than the national average on paper, but its largest cities have become with violent crime rates that defy easy talking points.

For anyone paying attention to the crime waves in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco, it was hard not to see the disconnect.
But things really unraveled when the topic turned to Covid.

Newsom fell back on the lines he’d used for years, praising the vaccine rollout and claiming it kept hospitals from being overrun.

“I think it prevented the acuity of the symptoms and disease, and kept people out of the emergency rooms,” he said. “And I think that's universally accepted by 90% of objective, of....uh....experts.”

But Ryan wasn’t some media anchor nodding along. He fired back with his own experience—blunt and undeniable.

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“And then I got f*cking Covid like a couple weeks later.”

The exchange was devastating for Newsom.

He had no comeback, just the same stale claim that "experts agree."

The governor looked and sounded exactly like the politician who forced mandates on millions while ignoring anyone who pushed back....even when their own experience told them the promises didn’t hold up.

It was the moment Newsom’s polished veneer cracked.

Watching him try to explain why people should trust the same messaging that had failed so many times was downright painful.
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The worst part? Many former SSRI users say that their personality never came back, even after quitting.

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Hanson laid out THREE DAMNING examples of lies and hoaxes that expose the real Brennan.

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As Hanson put it, there’s a reason Brennan is back in the spotlight.

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But when power changed hands, so did Brennan’s story.

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He eventually admitted it.

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#9 - Tucker Carlson Says Dan Bongino Got ‘Completely Shafted’ in the Epstein Mess

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#8 - Stephen Miller delivers the single greatest explanation of the Democrat Party’s immigration agenda in two minutes flat.

This was a wake-up call.

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“The left has been trying to shove marxism, socialism and communism down the throat of the American people for generations now.”

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“The Democratic Party shifted their tactics to use migration as a weapon to break down the middle class and to gain political control in this country.”

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Jul 14
President Trump just announced he’s sending “EVERYTHING” to NATO.

This is part of a big, new effort to “get Putin to the table.”

Secretary General Mark Rutte says this is “only the first wave. There will be more.”

Lindsey Graham predicted this would happen. What comes next is “weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend themselves.”

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On Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham sat down with Margaret Brennan on CBS’ Face the Nation and made a stunning prediction about Ukraine and the United States’ role in the war.

He said President Trump was about to ramp up military support for Ukraine in a way we hadn’t seen before.

Brennan pressed him on whether it would be a stronger sign if the president simply sent the weapons immediately, noting he had nearly $4 billion in drawdown authority he could use without Congress.

Graham made it clear: “Well the $4 billion is not nearly enough,” he said.

“I expect him to exercise that drawdown authority. But the game regarding Putin’s invasion of Russia [Ukraine] is about to change.”

Graham explained that he expected “weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend themselves” in the coming days.

He also hinted at new tools for Trump, saying there would be “tariffs and sanctions available to President Trump, he’s never had before.”

According to Graham, Putin had miscalculated badly by trying to outplay Trump.

“For six months, President Trump tried to entice Putin to the table. The attacks have gone up, not down. One of the biggest miscalculations Putin has made, is to play Trump,” he said.

“And you just watch, in the coming days and weeks, there’s going to be a MASSIVE effort to get Putin to the table.”
It turns out Graham’s prediction wasn’t just talk.

Today, it came true.

In the Oval Office, President Trump met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and laid out a hard line on Russia, starting with tariffs and sanctions.

The president opened the meeting with: “One of the reasons that you’re here today is to hear that we are very unhappy, I am, with Russia. But we’ll discuss that maybe a different day.”

“But we’re very, very unhappy with them and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days.”

He spelled out just how steep those tariffs could be.

“Tariffs at about 100%, you’d call them ‘secondary tariffs’. You know what that means,” he added.

“But today we’re going to talk about something else.”
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