Mid-Day Update： August 26, 2025
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Summary
An Obama judge blocks the deportation of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Garcia to Uganda, Cracker Barrel issues a new apology, and Kamala Harris strikes a deal with the DNC to pay off her debt from her failed 2024 presidential campaign.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday,
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August 26th. An Obama judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting
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MS-13 gangbanger and wife beater Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, who's set to be sent to Uganda.
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U.S. District Court Judge Paula Ines, an Obama appointee on Monday, set an evidentiary hearing
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for this Friday after MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia filed a lawsuit to block his
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deportation to Uganda. Garcia was set to be deported to the East African country of Uganda
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after a judge released him from a Tennessee prison last week. Abrego-Garcia was the illegal alien who
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was residing in Maryland when he was deported to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year,
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placed on the notorious Seacott Prison. However, the radical left-wing judges ordered him to be
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returned to the United States. The wife beater and gang member was previously ordered to be
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deported by an immigration judge, but he was not sent to his home country of El Salvador.
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So the Trump administration decided he's going to Africa now. It's time all the criminals go back to
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their country or these safe third countries, which President Trump has made a deal with
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to send these illegal aliens to any country that's willing to take them for a very small fee. In fact,
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a fee that's much smaller than it would cost to keep them here in America.
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Cracker Barrel is doing damage control like no other. They've issued a new statement in response
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to the outrage over all the new sterile branding as its stock continues to free fall. The statement
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was titled, quote, A Promise to Our Guest, and it was posted on their Facebook page earlier this
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morning. The restaurant chain, long beloved for its traditional American charm, faced a storm of
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criticism after unveiling a modern logo that ditched the iconic elements like the barrel and the old
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country store tagline. Fans, including President Donald Trump, slammed the change as woke and an
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erasure of heritage. You put all that together and it was nearly a hundred million dollars sell-off
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for the company in just one day. Now, the statement that was issued this week attempts to convene
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customers that the core of Cracker Barrel remains unchanged despite the rebranding. Quote,
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we're truly grateful for your heartfelt voices. You've also shown us that we could have done a better job
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sharing who we are and who we'll always be. Well, it's a little bit too late for that, and the idiots
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who were part of this plan should have probably talked to Bud Light and asked him how it worked out when
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they decided to put a tranny in charge of America's beer company. And Kamala Harris, who seems to be a
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magician these days, has deceived donors as she struck a deal, or it's a secret deal actually, we'll call it,
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with the DNC to pay off debt from her failed 2024 presidential run. Of course, Kamala Harris deceived voters
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with this new deal. Recall that Kamala Harris stole Joe Biden's delegates and took his donors' money
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after he dropped out of the presidential race in July of 24. Of course, he had no choice other than
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to do that. After blowing through over a billion dollars virtually in three months, Kamala Harris
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ended her presidential run with more than $20 million in debt. According to the New York Times,
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Harris struck a deal that's very secretive with the DNC to pay off her 2024 bills,
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but the donors are being left in the dark. The secret Harris-DNC deal obscured the extent of
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unpaid bills at the end of the race, according to the New York Times. The DNC is still struggling
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financially after they wasted nearly a billion dollars to lose against Trump in that 2024 race.
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Harris owed over $3.5 million to a company that does influencer work since she had to pay for the
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endorsements. You remember the rock stars, the Bruce Springsteens, and the Jon Bon Jovis of the world?
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Those weren't free. The Beyonce's, the Oprah's, none of that came free. But of course, the Democrat
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Party, as they usually do, moving in secrecy to protect Kamala Harris. And what could possibly be
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money laundering? And President Trump is back with his latest threat on tariffs because they seem to
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be working so well. CBO office this week, ensuring that it's going to help President Trump pay up up to
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four trillion dollars of the debt, something we haven't seen done in a very, very long time.
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President Trump threatening to impose additional tariffs on countries that do not remove their
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digital taxes, arguing that they harm technology from the United States. President Trump writing on
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Truth Social, quote, as the President of the United States, I will stand up to countries that attack our
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incredible American tech companies. Digital taxes, digital services legislation, and digital market
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regulations are all designed to harm or discriminate against American technology. They are also
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outrageous, and they give complete paths to China's largest tech companies. This must end and end now.
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The President noted that in retaliation against digital service taxes, known as DSTs, used by trading
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partners, he will put export restrictions on semiconductors and other technology. America first,
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that's what President Trump stands for. Folks, please be sure to join us tonight,
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6 p.m. Eastern Time for the Great America Show. Rumble, YouTube, Twitter, wherever you join us.
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We'll see you there, 6 p.m. Eastern Time. Have a great day, everybody.