By Independent News Roundup
Barbara Boyd argues that media narratives about Donald Trump being trapped by impeachment, high prices, and a new Iran war are false, and that the administration has launched an “accountability” and economic steamroller. The DOJ has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for fraud, alleging the SPLC smeared conservatives while secretly funding racist groups and paying an informant who helped plan the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” event. FBI Director Kash Patel has cut ties with the SPLC and ADL, and the IRS is banning fiscal sponsorships that hide donors. Boyd also covers five Defense Production Act energy executive orders to rapidly expand the U.S. grid and fuel infrastructure to drive prices down, plus Regeneron joining “most favored nation” drug pricing. Finally, she breaks down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s expansion of dollar swap lines to Gulf and Asian allies, framing it as outflanking London-backed alternatives to the dollar.