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Pardon Chauvin Petition Launched & LA Mayor Recall Effort | Afternoon Update | 3.4.25
Tue, 4 Mar 2025
Ben Shapiro calls for the pardon of Derek Chauvin, Canada, Mexico, and China seek to match Trump’s tariffs, and an effort to recall LA’s mayor gets underway. Developing stories you need to know just in time for your drive home. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Fabric Life Insurance: Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to help protect their family. Start investing in your child today at https://meetfabric.com/WIRENetSuite: Download the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning for FREE at https://NetSuite.com/MORNINGWIRE
Chapter 1: What are the key headlines in today's episode?
Ben Shapiro calls for the pardon of Derek Chauvin. Canada, Mexico, and China seek to match Trump's tariffs in an effort to recall L.A. 's mayor gets underway. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, March 4th, and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update.
Chapter 2: Why is Ben Shapiro calling for Derek Chauvin's pardon?
Daily Wire editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro has called on President Trump to pardon former police officer Derek Chauvin. Shapiro argues that evidence does not support Chauvin's conviction in the death of George Floyd. He says that pressure on the jury in the trial, as well as legacy media influence, played a major role in the verdict. Here's Shapiro.
The media decided in the middle of 2020 that they were going to turn a tragic law enforcement stop that ended with the death of a man, but a significant problem with drugs and preexisting health problems into the raison d'etre of the entire 2020 election. And it led to vast chaos.
It led to, again, the destruction of racial comedy in the United States, $2 billion in property damage, and a guy rotting in prison who the evidence demonstrates certainly was not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in that case.
Daily Wire has launched a petition at PardonDerek.com in an effort to rally support for the dismissal of Chauvin's federal charges. Currently, Derek Chauvin remains in prison where he's serving a 22-and-a-half-year sentence on state charges.
Chapter 3: What can we expect from President Trump's joint address to Congress?
President Trump will deliver his joint address to Congress tonight with many special guests in the audience. Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips, has more.
Among those hosted by the president this evening will be American school teacher Mark Fogel, who was recently freed from a Russian prison after nearly three years in detention. The parents of Lakin Riley and Jocelyn Nungare will also be in attendance, as the president is expected to call on lawmakers to increase resources for deportation efforts.
Riley and Nungare were both brutally murdered by illegal immigrants. Another special guest to the president will be Peyton McNabb, a former high school volleyball player severely injured by a transgender opponent. Daily Wire editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro and host Matt Walsh will also be in attendance as special guests of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The address, titled Renewal of the American Dream, starts at 9 p.m. Eastern from the U.S. Capitol. You can watch the entire thing live on Daily Wire's platform starting at 8.30 Eastern.
Chapter 4: How are countries responding to Trump's new tariffs?
Canada, China, and Mexico have hit back after President Trump's new tariffs took effect today. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce has the latest.
China immediately imposed an additional 10 to 15 percent tariff on goods from the U.S., saying it has raised complaints with the World Trade Organization. Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum responded by imposing 25 percent retaliatory tariffs. Trudeau did the same, but went a step further and called President Trump's tariffs dumb. In a press conference today, Trudeau says the U.S.
is sabotaging its own agenda and plans to speak with Trump in the coming days.
In terms of taking action on fentanyl, we are doing everything that is necessary, and not just for the United States, for ourselves as well, as Canadians are suffering as well from the scourge that is fentanyl. illegal fentanyl. We have laid out extensive plans, actions, cooperations, including as recently as the past days in Washington, and they have always been very well received.
And the numbers bear that out.
The White House says Canada's actions don't go far enough and that Mexico has afforded safe havens to deadly drug cartels. President Trump responded to Trudeau on social media today. He says, please explain to Governor Trudeau of Canada that when he puts a retaliatory tariff on the U.S., our reciprocal tariff will immediately increase by a like amount.
Less than 24 hours after Trump cut off military aid to Ukraine, President Zelensky is saying it's time to make things right. Daily Wire deputy managing editor Tim Rice has the latest.
In a post on X just days after his Oval Office meeting turned contentious, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the meeting didn't go the way it was supposed to, but stopped short of apologizing. Zelensky is urging Trump to restart military aid and says his country is ready to begin negotiations. The Biden-era mineral deal remains up in the air, though Vice President J.D.
Vance says both he and Trump still support it. Vance says aid could be restored if Zelensky offers a plan for peace. Here's Vance last night on Hannity.
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