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Weekend Report: What's going on?

Weekend Report: What's going on?

Hegseth praises his pastor who says women shouldn't vote, gays should be jailed. Trump selling Ukraine out to Putin--again. MAGA immigrant owner of Trump-themed burger joints is being deported.

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Pete Hegseth, the extremist Christian nationalist defense secretary, promoted his pastor on social media, the self-described Christian nationalist Doug Wilson. This came after CNN interviewed Wilson in a segment called, “Crusade for Christian Domination in the Age of Trump.” He advocates for repealing the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, and believes homosexuality should be criminalized.

After all the threats against Putin, giving him a deadline and even moving nuclear submarines around, Donald Trump is bowing once again to Vladimir Putin. After telling Putin he’d only meet one-on-one if Putin agreed to a follow-up meeting with him and President Zelensky, Trump accepted Putin’s refusal for that follow-up meeting. They are reportedly meeting in Alaska, where Trump is going to accept Putin’s terms on keeping all the territory he’s taken in the war.

And a Lebanese man who overstayed his visa apparently thought he’d be spared from Trump’s mass deportations because he’s super-MAGA and owns a bunch of Trump-themed burger restaurants. But he’s been taken into custody and is facing deportation.

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