DOGE, Tariffs, and the Fight for Western Values

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Townhall Review – April 12, 2025

🔹 Trump and Tariffs – President Trump shakes markets with a 90-day pause on tariffs (excluding China). Hugh Hewitt and Alex Gray (former White House official) discuss the national security implications of trade policies.

🔹 DOGE on Government Fraud – Charlie Kirk talks with Antonio Gracias (Valor Equity) about DOGE’s findings: inefficiency, fraud, and emotional tolls on agencies like Border Patrol.

🔹 Social Security Scandal – Explosive revelations from DOGE investigations show massive increases in suspicious Social Security numbers, including voting by non-citizens.

🔹 Demographics and the Ballot Box – Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on illegal immigration and its political consequences, calling out the Left’s strategic narratives.

🔹 Douglas Murray: “On Democracies and Death Cults” – British author and journalist Douglas Murray joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss Israel, October 7, and the West’s response to ideological extremism. Check out his book: On Democracies and Death Cults.

🔹 Fanaticism on Campus – Douglas Murray and Hugh explore how anti-Israel sentiment has spread across universities and cities worldwide.

🔹 Hope in Crisis – Douglas Murray reflects on the resilience of Israeli youth and the light amid tragedy following October 7.

All this and more on Townhall Review with Hugh Hewitt.

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0:00.0	This week on the Town Hall Review with Hughitt.
0:07.0	We'll look at President Trump and tariffs.
0:09.0	We have a big job to do. No other president would have done to what I did. No other president. I know the president. They wouldn't have done it.
0:15.0	We'll talk to a veteran of the Trump White House, Alex Gray.
0:18.0	Fundamentally, for me, this is about our national defense.
0:22.5	We'll look at the Doge efforts on Social Security and the vast increase in suspicious
0:27.0	social security numbers that have been issued.
0:28.7	We found that the asylum programs were the vast majority of the increase.
0:33.8	And what those non-citizens were doing?
0:36.2	We found thousands of people on the voter rolls, and many of them had voted.
0:40.5	Victor Davis-Hanson weighs in.
0:42.2	Everybody knows they're voting.
0:43.6	That was the whole point of the open border.
0:45.5	Plus, Douglas Murray on his new book on democracies and death cults.
0:49.3	What can be done in the face of people who, like al-Qaeda, like ISIS and others,
0:55.4	taunt us with their love of death.
0:58.3	We've got all this and more.
0:59.9	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
1:01.2	Great to be with you.
1:02.6	Catch my program each weekday afternoon.
1:04.8	Now noon to three Pacific, three to six eastern, on demand 24-7.
1:09.7	Learn more at Hugh Hewitt.com. And follow me, please, on X at Hugh Hewitt.
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