Friday Headlines： March 21, 2025
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An FBI agent who opposed President Trump during his first term was arrested and charged for sharing confidential information to write a memoir. After taking a dip, Tesla's valuation has soared back to $44 billion, underscoring a sharp turnaround in the company's fortunes since Elon Musk assumed the role as CEO.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday,
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March 21st. Happy Friday, folks. We all made it through another week, and it's time for the
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weekend. President Trump this week signing a highly anticipated executive order calling for
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the dismantling of the Department of Education. President Trump, who was flanked by school
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children, lawmakers, parental right advocates, and Republican governors from across the United
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States, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Trump signed an
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order declaring that, quote, the experiment of controlling American education through federal
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programs and dollars and the unaccountability of the bureaucracy that those programs and dollars
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support has plainly failed our children, our teachers, and our family. When President Carter
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created the Federal Education Department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as
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well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times editorial board, and the famed
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Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. History has proven them right. Absolutely right, in fact,
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President Trump saying in that speech before signing that executive order. Now, this order
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instructs the education secretary to, quote, maximize extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all
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necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over
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education to the states and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of
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services, programs, and benefits which Americans rely. Consistent with the Department of Education's
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authority, the Secretary of Education shall ensure that the allocation of any federal Department
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of Education funds is subject to rigorous compliance with federal law and administration policy,
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including the requirement that any program or activity receiving federal assistance terminate illegal
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discrimination obstructed order under the label diversity, equity of inclusion, also known as DEI,
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or any similar programs. So in this, President Trump looking to restore power back to the students,
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back to the teachers, get it out of the damn hands of these federal bureaucrats who have absolutely ruined
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our education system in this country. FEMA fraud happening over in California, 20 times more applicants than
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homes in the Los Angeles wildfires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA,
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has received 270,000 applications from purported homeowners in the recent LA fires, though only about
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13,000 homes were destroyed. What's going on in California? It seems maybe they're trying to make up a few
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bucks off the federal government before the place gets gutted out. Not entirely sure what's happening over
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there with those folks. And humiliation is seeking in for the Marxist Dems. Having initially tried to
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black out the deal, and Musk eventually completed his takeover of Twitter back in October of 2022 for
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$44 billion, since renaming it X, the move was widely derided by leftists and Democrats at the time as a
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catastrophic mistake, and a sign that Musk was not a business genius so many believed him to be.
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Many analysts also claimed that Musk had destroyed the platform by ending the company's aggressive
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censorship regime, allowing conservative voices including the Gateway Pundit and many others back
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on the platform. Well, we've got bad news. After taking a little bit of a dip, X's valuation has soared
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back to that $44 billion, underscoring a sharp turnaround in the company's fortunes since Musk has assumed the
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role as CEO of the company. So those Marxist Dems, they try to destroy everything, but there's certain
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things that they just can't get their hands around because the people are just a little bit too smart
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for them. Over on the deep state side, an FBI agent who opposed President Donald Trump during his first
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term was arrested and charged on Monday for sharing confidential information to write a memoir.
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The arrest of a 15-year FBI veteran, Jonathan Burma, occurred at John F. Kennedy International Airport
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in New York this week. He was accused of printing about 130 files of classified FBI documents and
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messages, later sharing their materials with associates for a book he's writing about his career at the
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Bureau. Court document claimed that Burma's book draft contained information that obtained through his
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position as an FBI special agent that relates to FBI's efforts and investigations into the foreign
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country's weapons of mass destruction programs. This is a man who was going after President Trump for
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what? Classified documents? What was he going after President Trump for? It's always the Marxist Dems,
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folks, who try to blame the Republicans for exactly what they're doing. They never seem to get caught,
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but the tides may be turning. Turning, hopefully they are. Folks, please be sure to join us today and each and
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You can follow me on Twitter at John Fawcett NY. I'm John Fawcett with this midday update. Have a great Friday, folks.