Thursday Headlines： February 27, 2025
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Summary
Latest episode of The Great America Show: A Mid-Day Update - John Fawcett - Today's show features: - Epstein List Release - President Trump Delays the Epstein List - Canada and Mexico Warned of 25% Tariffs - Ukraine's President on his way to meet with President Trump - A Ukrainian government jet is on its way to America from Ireland after a quick stop with the Prime Minister of Ireland - And much, much more!
Transcript
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday,
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February 27th. Folks, the countdown is on. The long-awaited Epstein lists, we're all waiting
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for it. Pam Bondi, Attorney General, last night on Fox News saying the documents will be released
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today. Now it's unclear if it's going to be all of them or some of them. The reports are that it's
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going to be some of them with a lot of name redactions. We hope the name redactions are
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coming on the part of the victims and not on the part of the perpetrators and the people who did
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these heinous acts and hung out with this disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein. So we're on the wait,
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we're all waiting, and we're all anticipating, highly anticipating the release of these documents.
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President Trump formally giving all federal agencies the two-weeks notice. Well, he's given
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them a two-weeks notice to prepare for large-scale bureaucracy cuts that are expected to come on
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March 13th. According to a new release memo from the Office of Management and Budget, also known as
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the OMB, and the OPM, the Office of Personal Management, agencies must submit their initial
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plans for large-scale reductions in force by March 13th. The directive is part of Trump's Department of
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Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, a workforce optimization initiative in executive order
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he signed on February 11th, which aims, of course, to eliminate waste, bloat, and any sort of unnecessary
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spending in the Washington bureaucracy. And it's not just the federal agencies who are learning the
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hard way. FAFO, F around and find out. Canada and Mexico also learning the hard way. President Trump
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letting both nations know that on March 4th, the tariffs are coming. It's those 25% tariffs that were
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supposed to go into effect on February 1st until President Trump delayed them, giving Canada and
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Mexico both some time to figure out their border issues, to close down drug traffic from both the
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North and the South. President Trump saying they haven't kept forth on their promise, sending out
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the following message on Truth Social just moments ago. Quote, drugs are still pouring into our country
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from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels. A large percentage of these drugs, much of
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them in the form of fentanyl, are made in and supplied by China. More than 100,000 people died last year
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due to the distribution of these dangerous and highly addictive poisons. Millions of people have died
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over the last two decades. The families of the victims are devastated and in many instances, virtually
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destroyed. Trump continues, we cannot continue to allow this to harm the USA and therefore until it stops or is
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seriously limited, the proposed tariff scheduled to go into effect on March 4th will indeed go into effect as
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scheduled. China likewise will be charged an additional 10% tariff on that date. The April 2nd
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reciprocal trade tariff date will remain in full effect and full force. Thank you for your attention
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to this matter. God bless America. So 25% tariffs going on all Mexican imports, 25% tariff on nearly all
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Canadian imports and 10% on Canadian energy resources. And then as I said, that 10% tariff on all of China's
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imports, as President Trump said, the fentanyl is coming from China and just simply being pushed
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through from Mexico. Folks, Donald J. Trump is the only president in my lifetime, probably a lot of
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your lifetimes, to ever take on the cartels, to ever take on this massive border issue of drugs and
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illegal migrants. I don't think we've ever seen anything like it. A man who cares about this country
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wholeheartedly. And folks, a Ukrainian government jet is on its way to America from Ireland after a
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quick stop with the Prime Minister of Ireland. Who's on it, you may ask? President Zelensky.
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He's coming a day early. Supposed to meet with President Trump on Friday. Coming a day early.
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Who knows who he's going to see? President Zelensky and President Trump are set to sign
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the declaration or the accords, which will give America some mining rights and other things
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for Ukraine to pay back the $350 billion they owe us. They thought it was free. Turns out it's not so
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free after all. Maybe it was free under Joe Biden, but it's not free under President Trump. President
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Trump saying this morning, earlier this morning, that NATO is, of course, off the table, blaming NATO
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for the reason the war started between Russia and Ukraine. But President Trump reinforcing that it's
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off the table and there's no chance Ukraine gets in NATO. As I've said before multiple times on the
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show, it's unclear if America is going to be in NATO much longer anyway. So without America and NATO,
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it really serves no purpose, has no meaning to it. So the war might have been for nothing in Ukraine.
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And USAID workers are given 15 minutes to clear out their workspaces as the agency is getting
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dismantled. Thousands of USAIDs for International Development Workers who have been fired or placed
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on leave as part of Trump administration's dismantling of the agency have been given a brief
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window today and tomorrow to clear out their workplace belongings. USAID placed just over 4,000
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staffers who work across the globe on leave on Monday. That was joined by a reduction in force,
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is what they're calling it, that will affect another 1,600 employees. A State Department spokesman
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commenting on the issue has told us. USAID is out the window, folks, as we continue to find out where
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this wasteful money was spent, what it was spent on, all the egregious things for other countries. But
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America, over $30 trillion in debt, why worry about us, right? It's only money, after all. Folks,
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please be sure to join us today and each and every day for The Great America Show, twice a day,
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The Great America Show midday updates. Our special guest today is our weekly guest,
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fan favorite, one of my favorites, the great Roger Stone. We'll take up the Epstein files.
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We'll also be taking up the news of the day, the Trump administration, the cabinet appointments,
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and the work and job that all of them are doing. Folks, please be sure to join us for that today,
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only on The Great America Show. I'm John Fossett with this midday update.
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Happy Thursday, folks. I hope you're all having a great day.