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#1 Trump Wants DOJ to Pay Him $230 Million for Previous Investigations - ABC News, Breanna Morello, Doris-Maria Heilmann, Meet the Press, Josh Hawley/Dr. Mary Adams, DK Plays/Grok, and The Epoch Times on X
President Donald Trump is pressing for his Justice Department to pay roughly $230 million as a settlement for investigations he faced during the Biden administration and his first term in office, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday. The extraordinary arrangement, as first reported by The New York Times, would likely first need sign-off from top officials in the department who previously served as Trump's defense attorneys or otherwise represented his allies. The settlement negotiations stem from two separate administrative claims that were submitted by attorneys for Trump while he was out of office in 2023 and 2024. One sought damages over the investigation he and those in his orbit faced surrounding ties his 2016 campaign had to the Russian government...
#2 Driver Crashes Car Into White House Security Gate - Seb Starcevic for Politico, Mike Kirby, RedWave Press, facts matter/Ashley, News 19, and The Vagabond News on X
A person drove a vehicle into a gate outside the White House on Tuesday night, according to the Secret Service. "At approximately 10:37 p.m., an individual drove a vehicle into the Secret Service vehicle gate located at 17th & E St, NW," the Secret Service said on X. The law enforcement agency, which is responsible for protecting the president, added the driver was "arrested & the vehicle was assessed and deemed safe." "Our investigation into the cause of this collision is ongoing," the Secret Service said, without giving further details about the person arrested, the type of vehicle, or a possible motive. President Donald Trump was inside the White House at the time of the incident, the New York Times reported...
#3 Trump Pick to Lead Watchdog Agency Withdraws After Offensive Text Messages Revealed - The Associated Press/NPR, CRIXUS, Angelos Papadopoulos, Marie( lady castle)Notdahone, and Paul Ingrassia/jon snow/Grok on X
President Donald Trump's pick to lead a federal watchdog agency withdrew from consideration Tuesday evening, after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted. Paul Ingrassia, who was nominated to lead the Office of Special Counsel, had been scheduled to have his confirmation hearing this week. On Monday, however, Politico reported on a text chat that showed him saying the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell." Ingrassia also described himself in the chat as having "a Nazi streak" at times...
#4 Protests Erupt in New York City After ICE Raids Chinatown Over' Counterfeit Goods' - Cy Neff for The Guardian, #TuckFrump, ☈hino1989, FOX & Friends, Fox News/KP86Privateer, Dispute It, and NAGA|PulseWire on X
Hundreds showed up to protests that broke out in New York City on Tuesday evening after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids related to "selling counterfeit goods" were conducted in the Chinatown neighborhood earlier in the day and resulted in an unknown number of people being detained. Hours after federal agents descended on Lower Manhattan, demonstrators were seen assembling near the 26 Federal Plaza Immigration Building, where they believed detainees were taken. Many shouted chants, including "Ice out of New York" and "No Ice, no KKK, no fascist USA." Videos of the raid show multiple masked and armed federal agents zip-tying and detaining a man, and shoving away onlookers. Throngs of New Yorkers followed the agents through the streets and down the sidewalks. An armored military vehicle was also seen rolling through the city streets...
#5 North Carolina Senate Approves New Map in Effort to Add G.O.P. Congressional Seat - Eduardo Medina for The New York Times, John Allison, Matthew, Deana Harley, Reality Novel, and Gavin Newsom/georgewh1@msn.com on X
Republican state senators in North Carolina approved a new congressional map on Tuesday to further favor their party and help the Trump administration's efforts to retain control of the U.S. House in the midterm elections next year. The new map would likely give Republicans an extra House seat. The State Senate approved it just over a week after Phil Berger, the chamber's leader, and Destin Hall, the speaker of the State House of Representatives, said in a joint statement that they were taking action to protect President Trump's agenda and safeguard Republican control of Congress...
#6 Informed Dissent: Exposing the Bioengineering of the Human Future - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, Andrew Zywiec, M.D. (community note), Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH®, illuminatibot/Dr Sircus, Richard/Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, and WorldviewTube on X
Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced not only a novel virus of suspicious origins but also a unique and tyrannical response riddled with experimental mRNA gene-damaging jabs—touted as vaccines to save the world—deployed to the masses using guilt, coercion, mandates, and emergency use authorization. Now, years later, an ever-growing group of medical professionals, scientists, and legal scholars is evaluating that response. Among the latest and most compelling critiques comes the combined evidence of two pivotal documents. One is a statistical analysis by Dr. John W. Oiler and Dr. Daniel Santiago. The other is a declaration by the Alliance of Indigenous Nations (AIN). Between the two, they form a sobering reality that many of us have said for years. Not only did the COVID-19 mRNA injections cause widespread harm, but under international law, they constitute weapons of mass destruction...#7 Trump: 'Blue Slip' Rule 'Unfair,' 'Not Constitutional' - Eric Mack for Newsmax, Conservative Librarian, The Blaze/Trip Wildermuth, notpushingupdaisies, and Real Patriot News on X
Addressing Tuesday's Senate Republican luncheon in the newly remodeled Rose Garden, President Donald Trump urged the GOP delegation to "look at" the long-standing "blue slip" tradition, arguing Democrat senators are using it to block his nominees for U.S. attorney and judicial posts. Trump rebuked the "blue slip" policy as "unfair to the public" and "not constitutional," taking away executive authority and ostensibly handing it to the "obstructionists" in the minority. "Anytime you have a Democrat senator, not even two, just one, they'll say, 'We're not approving that person,'" Trump lamented in his Rose Garden address that aired live on Newsmax.
#8 Robert de Niro Melts Down on MSNBC and Attacks Rural Americans - BlazeTV, Dolly van den Berg, Terry Gibson, Woodrow Williams, and Paul Mauro/johnny maga/Richard Nemeth on X
Robert De Niro opened up about his struggle with Trump derangement syndrome on MSNBC's "The Weekend" this Sunday, when co-host Jonathan Capehart asked De Niro whether he believes Trump will leave office when his term ends. "No way. ... He will not want to leave. He set it up with his, I guess, the Goebbels of the Cabinet," De Niro replied, referencing Stephen Miller. "He's a Nazi. Yes, he is, and he's Jewish. He should be ashamed of himself," he said. De Niro also attacked Americans across the country, picking on those in rural areas for supporting the president...
