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- Wake Up Right -April 28, 2025
Wake Up Right -April 28, 2025
Wake Up Right
April 28, 2025
Welcome back, folks! As if you needed more reasons to hate the media, check out this headline from Fortune over the weekend, suggesting President Trump was the only person at Pope Francis’ funeral in a blue suit:
They cropped the photo to make it look like Trump stood out. Here’s the zoomed-out image:
Blue suits everywhere. Even Joe Biden, a few rows behind Trump, wore a blue suit.
🇨🇦 Today, Canadians will elect a new Prime Minister
📊 59% of Americans say federal income tax is too high
🏡 #1 U.S. housing market this spring: Toledo, Ohio
☀️ California passes Japan as world's 4th-largest economy
Trump DOJ arrests judge for hiding illegal alien from ICE
The FBI arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan for helping an illegal alien in her courtroom evade arrest by ICE.
Set the table: Eduardo Flores-Ruiz — an illegal alien from Mexico — was standing trial before Judge Dugan on April 18 for three domestic abuse battery charges — including assaulting a woman in March.
Dugan gets unhinged: When ICE agents arrived during Florez-Ruiz’s pretrial conference with an active warrant for his arrest, Judge Dugan became visibly irate. She misdirected the agents, sending them to speak to the Chief Judge, while she took the illegal alien and his lawyer out of the courtroom through a back door.
The good news is Flores-Ruiz was arrested shortly after the judge helped him escape.
Insult to injury: While this all went down, the illegal alien’s female victim was in the courtroom watching the Judge protect her attacker.
No one is above the law: On Friday, Judge Dugan was arrested for obstructing an official proceeding.
Related: This arrest came one day after a New Mexico judge and his wife were arrested for allegedly harboring an illegal migrant and Tren de Aragua member.
What the left is saying: Prominent Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin wrote on X: “It is remarkable that the Administration would dare to start arresting state court judges. It’s a whole new descent into government chaos.”
The last word goes to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who used a phrase the left often used while it weaponized the legal system against President Trump: “No one is above the law.”
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Black Hawk pilot ignored instructions, leading to crash that killed 67
Shocking new details reveal that Army Black Hawk pilot Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach repeatedly disregarded instructions in the minutes leading up to the tragic collision with a commercial airliner, which resulted in the deaths of all passengers.
Refresher: On January 29, 2025, an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with American Airlines Flight 5342 over Washington, D.C., killing all 67 aboard.
Rank: While Lobach was the highest-ranking soldier on the flight, her instructor, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, had twice as many flight hours. (This will be important below.)
The new details: A New York Times investigation — based on government documents, cockpit recordings, and interviews with over 50 aviation experts and officials — uncovered a fuller picture of the crash. The following are direct excerpts from the Times article:
First elevation instruction: “Warrant Officer Eaves stated that it was at 300 feet and descending to 200 feet — necessary because the maximum height for its route closer to the airport had dropped to 200 feet.”
Second elevation instruction: “But even as it reached that juncture, Warrant Officer Eaves evidently felt obligated to repeat his instruction: The Black Hawk was at 300 feet, he said, and needed to descend. Captain Lobach said she would. But two and a half minutes later, the Black Hawk still was above 200 feet — a dangerously high level.”
Left turn instruction: “The Black Hawk was 15 seconds away from crossing paths with the jet. Warrant Officer Eaves then turned his attention to Captain Lobach. He told her he believed that air traffic control wanted them to turn left, toward the east river bank. Turning left would have opened up more space between the helicopter and Flight 5342, which was heading for Runway 33 at an altitude of roughly 300 feet. She did not turn left.”
The mission: The Times report also confirmed the purpose of the Black Hawk flight that evening was to evaluate Capt. Lobach in a simulated emergency evacuation scenario.
Perspective: The collision was the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001.
Big picture: There is no public information to indicate that Captain Lobach was admitted into the Army due to relaxed DEI standards. However, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to end separate fitness standards for men and women — which includes tests of reaction time.
[Source: NY Times]
✅ China is exempting some U.S. imports — like semiconductors, medical goods, and aviation parts — from its new 125% retaliatory tariffs. Read more.
🤔 Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent victim of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, took her own life Thursday. Read more.
👜 The man who stole DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's purse was arrested and revealed to be an illegal alien from Chile. Read more.
🥤 PepsiCo plans to speed up its move away from artificial dyes amid the Trump admin’s effort to “Make America Healthy Again.” Read more.
😮 New York AG Letitia James has hired Hunter Biden's lawyer to defend her from allegations of real estate fraud. Read more.
💣️ A top Russian general was killed by a car bomb outside Moscow on Friday. Watch.
✂️ LA Mayor Karen Bass has proposed laying off over 1,600 government workers to address a nearly $1 billion budget deficit. Read more
🇨🇳 China has seized a disputed reef just kilometres away from the Philippines’ most important military outpost. Read more.
👍️ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Obama-crony, Susan Rice from the Pentagon's advisory committee. Read more.
🇵🇸 President Trump says he pushed Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the devastated Gaza Strip. Read more.
🔒️ Former GOP Rep. George Santos was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in 2024. Read more.
🎥 NFL superstar Saquon Barkley rides Marine One with President Trump. Watch.
🎥 The DEA nabs more than 100 illegals in a Colorado nightclub raid. Watch.
🎥 Thousands, including Trump, attend Pope Francis' funeral. Watch.
🎥 LOL loser pollster Frank Luntz tries and FAILS to convince panel to hate Trump tariffs. Watch.
🎥 Former ESPN host Sage Steele debunks race-baiting about black QB who fell in the NFL draft. Watch.
🎥 Chuck Schumer won’t rule out impeaching Trump [AGAIN] if Dems take back the House in 2026. Watch.
🎥 President Trump and First Lady share some PDA as they board Marine One. Watch.
🎥 TikToker explains why young generation "will never vote liberal again." Watch.
🎥 Marco Rubio DEBUNKS misleading claim that three American children were deported. Watch.
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