Friday, April 4, 2025

TRUMP’S FBI: Netting Big Fish Results In BIG Changes We're seeing much more than cosmetic differences this time around Wes Walker April 3, 2025

 

TRUMP’S FBI: Netting Big Fish Results In BIG Changes

We're seeing much more than cosmetic differences this time around

Personnel, they say, IS policy. The difference in how the FBI conducts itself now, compared to Trump’s FIRST term is proof positive.

In Trump 1.0, the FBI was hostile and subversive. In the Biden years, it was open season on anyone the left considered an ‘enemy’. That includes entrapment. (Remember the time a Fed infiltrated a harmless group and tried to get them to throw Molotov Coctails on unused federal property?)

Under Patel and Bongino, their energies aren’t spent on lecturing about white privilege, or trying to develop informants within participants of Latin Mass. There’s no terror watch lists for parents upset about schools hiding the fact that a teenage girl was sexually attacked in her washroom by a boy in a skirt. Rather than pressing charges, he was relocated to another school where he victimized another unsuspecting girl.

Gone are the days of something like 60% of FBI man-hours being spent on senseless J6 cases.

No more.

In this administration, their energies are being spent on a radical new priority: catching bad guys. Go figure. And just two months in, we’re already seeing results in a couple of ways.

First, bad guys are being found and caught.

From Kash himself, we’ve got reports of a top dog in MS-13 getting collared:

When an institution like that walks away from the woke nonsense and turns their attention on fulfilling the actual mission, that gets peoples’ attention.

The FBI received a record number of new agent applications in Director Kash Patel’s first full month leading the bureau, with the flood of law enforcement job-seekers nearly doubling the monthly average since 2016.

There were 5,577 new FBI agent applications submitted in March, Fox News Digital has learned.

The last time the bureau saw a monthly figure even close to that number was April 2016, with 5,283 applications.

By comparison, the monthly average in 2023 was 2,797 applications, with 3,383 applications per month in 2024, according to FBI data reviewed by Fox News Digital. — FoxNews

There’s a less obvious reason that a of flood of applications like this one represents very good news. It represents people coming there for the right reasons… meaning it’s a strong first step in stocking the talent pool. It’s a key part of reversing the one-party capture of the bureaucracy that we’ve seen on display there in recent years.

It’s not the only place we’re seeing such turnaround either.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took to social media to announce that the service achieved its “best recruiting numbers” last month — its highest since 2010.

The numbers surpassed a 12-year record set in December 2024, when the service said it enlisted nearly 350 soldiers per day.

Hegseth credited the surge to President Donald Trump, asserting that America’s youth are now eager to serve under a “bold and strong, America-first leadership.” — Defense Post

Looks like Obama was right: elections really DO have consequences.

WATCH: Jesse Watters Puts Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ In Perspective… With A Jab At Obama Trump has unveiled his reciprocal tariffs and Jesse walks us through the implications Wes Walker April 3, 2025

 

WATCH: Jesse Watters Puts Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ In Perspective… With A Jab At Obama

Trump has unveiled his reciprocal tariffs and Jesse walks us through the implications

If you didn’t have time to catch all of Trump’s speech, Jesse will help you with the highlights.

Economics is all about understanding the behavior of crowd and their buying decisions.

Trump has spent his entire life with a laser focus on exactly that sort of question… now he’s elevating the principles he’s learned at the interpersonal and business-to-business levels and applying them to the interactions of nations.

Remember when Obama taunted Trump when he asked that question about what ‘magic wand’ Trump would wave to deliver all of his bold promises?

No surprise, but Trump obviously knew something about what a President can do that Barack didn’t. And now he’s putting it to work.


Trump is blazing a new path, drawing heavily on lessons learned during the Gilded Age of America. The reciprocal wrinkle leverages the desire other countries have of selling to the US market, pressuring other countries to reduce their own protectionist strategies in exchange for broad access to US markets.

If this works as he has envisioned it, he’s setting up a win-win scenario. Countries that want to play ball with us will lower their trade barriers and tariffs, letting both countries have the benefit of access to the markets. Customers will benefit.

Those who do NOT want to play ball will sell their products here at the same disadvantages that our products face there. That will do one of two things: it will either make them pressure their governments to rethink their trade barriers or it will create an opening where companies from elsewhere (maybe even here!) can out-compete.

Trump reminds us that there was a time before income tax when tariffs like this one helped build America’s Gilded Age.

He’s swinging for the fences in his belief that this same formula — with a few modern tweaks — will recapture that same magic and bring a nearly-bankrup America not only ‘back from the brink’ but open up a whole new Golden Age.

And no wonder: we’ve all seen enough of his buildings to know how he LOVES to dress up anything he touches with gold.

Will there be some hiccups as the market adjusts to new realities? Of course. That happens with EVERY kind of change. But Trump’s confident he’s got all the cards here, and he’s pushing in all his chips.

Time will tell if he’s right, or if there’s a wildcard out there that he didn’t account for. But for the moment, there’s a lot of optimism around this fresh new idea.

Especially now that a few countries — yes, we’re looking at YOU, Canada — have already blinked.

A Prayer to Trust Jesus for Protection By Keri Eichberger Bible Reading: “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” - Philippians 4:19

A Prayer to Trust Jesus for Protection - Your Daily Prayer - April 4

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A Prayer to Trust Jesus for Protection
By Keri Eichberger

Bible Reading:

“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” - Philippians 4:19

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Sometimes, I feel so uneasy about the future when I ponder what's in store for me or the people I love. When I contemplate financial decisions on the horizon or consider the constant unknowns of my health and safety that are truly always up in the air. I find myself on edge just trying to wrap my head around how I’ll handle the unexpected, unpredictable, hard stuff that’s sure to hit me–as life always does. And I think what I’m struggling with is fear of pain in the face of these difficult things that may join my reality. It's a specific hurt I can’t fathom handling. Or handling well anyway. And when I find myself in these spaces of worry, I ultimately need the peace of knowing I’m protected and that the power and protection of Jesus will constantly cover me. Knowing and trusting that there will be peace where I fear there will be pain.

Does this resonate with you at all? Is there something you feel uneasy about? Something surrounding you or in front of you that has you desiring to know you are protected deep down? A little fear stirs up in you with upcoming travel plans, the state of the world, the well-being of your children, or some other situation that seems vulnerable to an undesirable outcome. An outcome you feel concerned about could cause pain, heartache, and grief. Circumstances wouldn't seem so worrisome if you could be assured you are protected.

I get it. Even if you can’t pinpoint something in your own life, there’s been so much going on in the world these days that many people stew in a sense of unease. Economic unrest, tragic shootings, aircraft accidents, and uncontainable wildfires, to name a few.

I struggle with the idea of protection a lot. And here’s why. Just because I know God is my protector doesn’t mean life always goes as I hoped or that I avoid suffering and sorrow. Yes, I know I am protected, but God’s protection doesn’t always guarantee the avoidance of all pain, which is what I think I need. Maybe it’s not what you or I truly need–protection from pain, that is. Maybe, just perhaps, what we truly need is peace and strength to endure. Along that notion, this is when I strive to hold tight to one of my favorite verses in scripture—God’s promise in Philippians 4:19 is to provide according to our needs.

God always provides what we need. That said, what if God provides a peace that surpasses understanding in the face of the pain we fear? Or his sufficient strength? What if God actually knows exactly what we need for our exact situation, and that is precisely what he will provide? And what if I told you this is 100% true? The truth is God’s provision protects us. Every one of us who loves the Lord—he protects us. You and I can trust the protection and power of Jesus our Savior because God promises to provide what we need. “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” 

The ultimate protection promised is not necessarily found in avoidance of all the elements, events, suffering, and sorrow we fear in our uncertain future. The protection that we all need, now and in the face of the unknowns of the future, is found in the Lord’s promise to provide… absolutely all that we need.

Let’s Pray:

Father God, You are all powerful and my ultimate protector. I long to feel your protection as I walk through life and all the unknowns surrounding me. Sometimes, I fear what I may encounter and endure, but I know you are always with me. Your protection may not guarantee my escape from difficulty, but I can trust that you will be present and provide precisely what I need to face whatever is on my path ahead. Nothing surprises you, and nothing in front of me is too big for you to supply sufficient strength, peace, or whatever I need to feel the power of your presence. Help increase my confidence in your provision and protection, knowing that you will undoubtedly meet all my needs according to the riches in your son, Jesus. In Your faithful Name, Amen.

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Keri Eichberger photoKeri Eichberger is a Jesus-loving Kentucky girl. She is married to her best friend, Mike, and has a full house of five kids. After years of writing for an online audience, Keri became ordained through Southeast Christian Church, giving her life to full-time ministry. She is the author of Win Over Worry: Conquer What Shakes You and Soar With the One Who Overcomes, and has a passion for sharing faith-filled encouragement through devotional writing. Connect with Keri at KeriEichberger.com or Instagram.

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