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Sky News AU
2 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Jeffrey Epstein files won't ‘break apart' MAGA base
Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon challenges the 'obsession' surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files, arguing it won't 'break apart' the MAGA base. 'I have to say I'm with the President on this, I don't know why people are so obsessed with this story,' Ms Ungar-Sargon told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'I don't think the average American is thinking about the Jeffrey Epstein file, I think they're thinking about whether groceries are going to go up, I think they're thinking about whether they're going to be able to afford presents for Christmas. 'Anyone who's bothered by this should keep pushing for it, I totally support that and I totally respect it, I just don't see this breaking apart the MAGA base.'
Sky News AU
6 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
‘Tariffs not inflationary': Trump's plan will allow US to live ‘American dream'
Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon discusses a fresh wave of tariffs imposed by United States President Donald Trump and praises their effectiveness. 'Many countries have had tariffs on our goods, for very good reason, because tariffs protect your own workers,' Ms Ungar-Sargon told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'What a tariff does is it effectively says that the product of the labour of the American worker deserves to be competitive in the global marketplace. 'Things might get more expensive, but if that means my kid has a better shot at and a better future of the American dream, I'm happy to pay that. 'It was just an added bonus that it turned out that the tariffs were not inflationary.'
Sky News AU
6 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
‘They were taking our jobs': US employment skyrockets as ICE crackdown continues
Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon discusses US President Donald Trump's whopping creation of 147,000 new jobs across the country in June. 'It turns out, they actually were taking out jobs,' Ms Ungar-Sargon told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'For five years, I've been making this argument that illegal migrants are undercutting the wages of working-class Americans. 'There's this narrative on the left that they are taking the jobs Americans will not do, or don't want to do and it's absolute nonsense.'
Sky News AU
6 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
‘All the predictions were wrong': Trump continues to ‘make good' on tariff plans
Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon says 'everyone was wrong' regarding the effectiveness of Trump's tariff plans. 'He had a theory of the case for how to improve the lives of working-class Americans,' Ms Ungar-Sargon told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'What we are seeing right now is him just making good again and again and again on that theory. 'The entire economic expert class was against this from the get-go and warned that everything he is doing was going to cause massive inflation, and it turned out that every single one of them was wrong and Donald Trump was right. 'He's been talking about this for 40 years, about how tariffs actually improve the lot of working-class people in so many different ways. 'All of the predictions were wrong.'
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Shooting of Israeli embassy staffers is outgrowth of antisemitism on college campuses: Batya Ungar-Sargon
Journalist and author Batya Ungar-Sargon said that the murder suspect who gunned down two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday followed similar rhetoric as anti-Israel protesters on college campuses. "He is an outgrowth of the antisemitism on college campuses," Ungar-Sargon said Thursday of the alleged shooter while appearing on CNN. "And how are we not talking about that? That is the story. There is a culture of dehumanizing Jews that is rampant on the left. Nobody wants to talk about it. They're not going to listen to us. We need people on the left to say this is unacceptable." The Embassy of Israel to the U.S. identified the victims shot in DC as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were set to be engaged. A 31-year-old man identified as Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, has been arrested and charged with the murders. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said that the gun used by him was recovered. Two Israeli Diplomats Shot, Killed During Event At Capital Jewish Museum In Washington, Dc "I think probably a lot of Jews watching this are feeling the way I'm feeling, which is that I can't believe we're talking about this," Ungar-Sargon continued, "rather than the fact that two people were murdered because the terrorist who killed them believed that they were Jews and was chanting the exact same thing that Jewish students have had to hear chanted at them for two years while he did that." The suspected killer chanted, "Free, free Palestine" as he was apprehended, a common refrain of anti-Israel protesters. Read On The Fox News App She described the alleged killer as someone "who wrote a manifesto that reads exactly like the kinds of op-eds that are written routinely on these college campuses, that the comments on that manifesto are all completely in support of him." Witness Recounts Chilling Moment Dc Jewish Museum Shooter Confessed 'I Did This For Gaza' Rodriguez, 31, has been charged with the murder of foreign officials, a federal capital offense, along with multiple firearm-related counts and two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted of either of the first two counts, he could face the death penalty. Under D.C. law, a conviction for first-degree murder carries a minimum sentence of 30 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life behind bars. Fox News' Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report. Original article source: Shooting of Israeli embassy staffers is outgrowth of antisemitism on college campuses: Batya Ungar-Sargon
