Trump looks to impose more tariffs in ‘near future’

[CRAIG NIGRELLI]

GOOD MORNING

I’M CRAIG NIGRELLI

IT’S MONDAY APRIL 14TH, 2025

AND THESE ARE YOUR UNBIASED UPDATES:

MORE TARIFF TALK TO BEGIN THE NEW WORK WEEK. THIS TIME PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE IS TAKING A LOOK AT SEMICONDUCTORS AND THE WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN.  WE HAVE THE PRESIDENT’S REMARKS AND WHAT HIS COMMERCE SECRETARY SAID ABOUT WHERE A LOT OF THOSE PRODUCTS ARE MADE. 

AND — ARRESTED !   POLICE IN HARRISBURG PENNSYLVANIA NOW HAVE A SUSPECTED FIREBUG IN CUSTODY.  THE MAN NOW CHARGED WITH HOPPING A FENCE,  BREAKING INTO THE GOVERNOR’S RESIDENCE AND SETTING FIRE TO THE HOME WHILE THE GOVERNOR AND HIS FAMILY SLEPT. 

L3: TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE SEMICONDUCTORS TARIFFS IN THE ‘NEAR FUTURE’

THIS MORNING — QUESTIONS SURROUND WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S NEXT ROUND OF TARIFFS WILL GO INTO EFFECT– AFTER HE POSTED ON HIS TRUTH SOCIAL PLATFORM HIS ADMINISTRATION IS LOOKING INTO SLAPPING TARIFFS ON SEMICONDUCTORS AND THE QUOTE “WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN”, RAISING CONCERNS OVER HOW THAT WOULD IMPACT THE PRICES OF ITEMS SUCH AS – SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS.

“Well, that’s going to be announced very soon. And we’ll be discussing it. But we’ll also talk to companies. You know, you have to show a certain flexibility. Nobody should be so rigid. We will… you have to have a certain flexibility. And we’re doing really well and financially our country is going to be stronger than it’s ever been.”

Reporter: “So some products might lose flexibility for some products?”

Trump: “For some products, yeah. Maybe.”

Reporter: “Can you say what time?”

Trump: “No. I’ll be announcing it in the not too distant future, but it’s going to be separately announced.”

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AFTER HIS ADMINISTRATION ISSUED A TARIFF EXEMPTION FOR KEY ELECTRONICS — INCLUDING  IPHONES AND LAPTOPS — ON FRIDAY.

BUT ON SUNDAY — HE SAID IN HIS TRUTH SOCIAL POST TECH-SPECIFIC TARIFFS ARE STILL COMING AND NO ONE IS “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” FOR UNFAIR TRADE BALANCES WITH THE U.S., ESPECIALLY  CHINA.  THE PRESIDENT REITERATED QUOTE ” WE NEED TO MAKE PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES”.

HIS COMMERCE SECRETARY — HOWARD LUTNICK — ALSO TOLD A-B-C NEWS ON SUNDAY – THAT FRIDAY’S DECISION TO EXEMPT CERTAIN ELECTRONIC DEVICES FROM TARIFFS IS TEMPORARY.

HOWARD LUTNICK, U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY

“All those products are going to come under semiconductors, and they’re going to have a special focus type of tariff to make sure that those products get reshored. We need to have semiconductors, we need to have chips, and we need to have flat panels — we need to have these things made in America. We can’t be reliant on Southeast Asia for all of the things that operate for us.”

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND LUTNICK ALSO BOTH SAID THIS WEEKEND TARIFFS ON PHARMACEUTICALS ARE IN THE WORKS, WITH THE GOAL OF MANUFACTURING MORE PRESCRIPTIONS DRUGS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.

L3: U.S. DEPORTS 10 MORE ALLEGED GANG MEMBERS TO NOTORIOUS EL SALVADOR PRISON

THE U-S DEPORTED ANOTHER 10 ALLEGED GANG MEMBERS TO EL SALVADOR ON SUNDAY.

THEY WERE ALL FLOWN TO EL SALVADOR’S NOTORIOUS TERRORISM CONFINEMENT CENTER.

AS OF NOW — THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS SENT ROUGHLY 260 DEPORTEES TO THE PRISON,  MORE THAN 100, UNDER THE ALIEN ENEMIES ACT — AN 18TH-CENTURY WARTIME LAW THE ADMINISTRATION HAS USED TO TARGET ALLEGED MEMBERS OF THE VENEZUELAN’S VIOLENT TREN DE ARAGUA GANG.

THE SUPREME COURT HAS ORDERED THE U-S GOVERNMENT “FACILITATE” THE RETURN OF ONE OF THOSE MEN — KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA — TO AMERICA AFTER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ADMITTED HE WAS MISTAKENLY DEPORTED. HIS FAMILY DENIES GOVERNMENT CLAIMS THAT HE HAS TIES TO THE GANG, MS-13 IN EL SALVADOR.

ON SATURDAY — THE STATE DEPARTMENT SAID ABREGO GARCIA IS QUOTE “ALIVE AND SECURE” — BUT STILL NOT ON AMERICAN SOIL.

THE STATE DEPARTMENT ALSO HAS NOT YET SAID WHAT STEPS IT IS TAKING TO BRING ABREGO GARCIA HOME.

THIS ALL COMES AS EL SALVADOR PRESIDENT NAYIB BUKELE (nigh-EEB boo-kay-lay) IS IN WASHINGTON TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AT THE WHITE HOUSE LATER TODAY.

L3: SUSPECT CHARGED WITH ARSON AFTER FIRE AT PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR’S MANSION

IN PENNSYLVANIA — A MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER POLICE SAY HE SET FIRE TO THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION AS GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO AND HIS FAMILY SLEPT INSIDE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.

THEY SAY THE MAN — 38-YEAR-OLD CODY BALMER — IS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER, TERRORISM, AGGRAVATED ARSON AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AGAINST AN ENUMERATED PERSON.

THEY SAY BALMER JUMPED A FENCE AND MANAGED TO EVADE STATE TROOPERS AFTER HE BROKE INTO THE MANSION… THEN FLED THE SCENE.

HE WAS LATER WAS ARRESTED AFTER TURNING HIMSELF INTO POLICE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO, (D) PENNSYLVANIA

“First, this type of violence is not OK. This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society. And I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one particular party or another or one particular person or another. It is not OK. And it has to stop. We have to be better than this. And we have a responsibility to all be better.”

SHAPIRO IS CONSIDERED A POTENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 20-28, 

NEITHER HE NOR HIS FAMILY WERE HURT IN THE INCIDENT.

L3: NEW YORK HELICOPTER TOUR COMPANY SHUTS DOWN AFTER DEADLY CRASH

THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED LATE LAST NIGHT,  THE COMPANY INVOLVED IN THE DEADLY HELICOPTER CRASH INTO THE HUDSON RIVER, IS SHUTTING DOWN OPERATIONS IMMEDIATELY.  NEW YORK HELICOPTER TOURS.

IT’S CHOPPER PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER ON  THURSDAY, KILLING AN EXECUTIVE FROM THE COMPANY SIEMENS, HIS WIFE AND THREE YOUNG CHILDREN.

THEY WERE IN NEW YORK, VISITING FROM SPAIN.

THE HELICOPTER PILOT, A NAVY VETERAN  WAS ALSO KILLED.

BYSTANDERS IN BOTH MANHATTAN AND NEW JERSEY WATCHED IN HORROR AS THE CHOPPER’S ROTOR WENT FLYING OFF AND SPUN THROUGH THE AIR AS THE HELICOPTER THEN PLUNGED OUT THE SKY AND CRASHED, UPSIDE DOWN, INTO THE WATER.

THE FAA SAID IT IS WORKING WITH THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ON THE INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT WENT WRONG.

THE FAA IS ALSO LAUNCHING AN IMMEDIATE REVIEW OF THE OPERATOR’S LICENSE AND SAFETY RECORD.

EARLIER SUNDAY, U.S. SENATE MINORITY CHUCK SCHUMER CALLED FOR A SHUTDOWN OF THE COMPANY CALLING NEW YORK HELICOPTER TOURS, A DANGER TO THE PUBLIC.

THE COMPANY C-E-O MICHAEL ROTH SAYS HE IS COOPERATING WITH THE INVESTIGATION, AND IT WAS THE FAA’S DECISION, NOT HIS, TO SHUT-DOWN OPERATIONS.

DEADLINE TO FILE 2024 TAXES IS TOMORROW

A REMINDER — THE DEADLINE TO FILE YOUR 20-24 TAXES IS TOMORROW

IF YOU DON’T FILE BY THEN — OR REQUEST AN EXTENSION IN TIME — YOU COULD FACE A PENALTY.

HOWEVER — TAXPAYERS IN SEVERAL STATES ARE GETTING A REPRIEVE — AUTOMATIC DEADLINE EXTENSIONS ARE IN-PLACE DUE TO NATURAL DISASTERS, SUCH AS HURRICANES,  IN 20-24 AND 20-25.

THEY INCLUDE FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA, NORTH CAROLINA, AND SOUTH CAROLINA.

CERTAIN PARTS OF OTHER STATES — SUCH AS JUNEAU, ALASKA, CHAVES COUNTY,  NEW MEXICO AND SEVERAL COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA — ARE ALSO GETTING MORE TIME.

THE AUTOMATIC EXTENSION GIVES PEOPLE UNTIL MAY 1-ST TO FILE.

PEOPLE IN FIRE-RAVAGED LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE UNTIL OCTOBER 15-TH TO FILE THEIR INCOME TAX RETURN.

WHILE PEOPLE IN ALL OF KENTUCKY AND SOME COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA HAVE SEEN THEIR DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 3-RD BECAUSE OF SEVERE STORMS IN FEBRUARY.

RORY MCILROY WINS MASTERS PLAYOFF FOR CAREER GRAND SLAM

FINALLY, I HOPE YOU SAW THE MASTERS FINISH ON SUNDAY. WHAT DRAMA.

RORY MCILROY HAD A FOUR SHOT LEAD ON THE BACK NINE, BUT A DOUBLE-BOGEY ON 13, FOLLOWED BY A BOGEY ON HOLE 14 AND SUDDENLY IT SEEMED LIKE THE TOURNAMENT WAS SLIPPING AWAY.

BUT MCILROY RALLIED LATE AND MADE A FEW GREAT SHOTS, DOWN THE STRETCH. HE HAD A FIVE-FOOT PUTT TO WIN THE MASTERS ON THE 18TH HOLE, BUT MISSED IT.

HE AND JUSTIN ROSE THEN WENT TO A PLAYOFF WHERE MCILROY MADE AN INCREDIBLE SECOND SHOT, IN SUDDEN DEATH ON 18, TO COME WITHIN FOUR FEET OF THE HOLE.

THIS TIME HE MADE THE PUTT AND WON THE MASTERS.

RORY MCILROY BECOMES JUST THE SIX PLAYER IN GOLF TO WIN ALL FOUR MAJOR TITLES, JOINING THE LIKES OF JACK NICKLAUS AND TIGER WOODS.