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#1 Trump Sows Doubt About Election Integrity Four Months Out From the Midterms - Jonathan Allen and Peter Nicholas for NBC News, James O'Keefe, Nick Sortor, johnny maga, 𝔉a𝒏 Karoline Leavitt, and Kyle Becker on X
President Donald Trump unspooled a multi-pronged conspiracy theory about the 2020 election during a White House address Thursday night, alleging again — despite vast evidence to the contrary — that American election systems are vulnerable and can be. The president declassified records that he claims reveal election vulnerabilities, imploring Congress to pass the SAVE America Act...#2 Trump Speech Intensifies Pressure Campaign Against Broadcasters - Sara Fischer for AXIOS, Shawn Farash, 𝔉a𝒏 Karoline Leavitt, The Patriot Oasis™, and Reuters on X
President Trump threatened again to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC and NBC on Thursday, after those networks decided not to preempt their regularly scheduled programming to cover his address on election integrity live. The Federal Communications Commission has already launched probes into broadcasters, alleging that their practices violate public-interest standards. Those efforts could have...
#3 Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Suspended For Allegedly Betting On His Speeches - Sara Dorn for Forbes, ABC News, Bloomberg, Financial Times, 7News DC, and CBS News on X
Federal investigators with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission reportedly believe Gabriel Perez, the operator who has worked for Trump since 2016, made money betting on Trump’s State of the Union address and more than a dozen other Trump speeches, according to ABC News, citing unnamed sources. Perez is on unpaid leave, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday shortly after the ABC story broke, and is reportedly in talks to settle the allegations he has earned more than $100,000 trading on the president’s speeches, which emerged when the trading market, Kalshi, alerted the CFTC of suspicious activity on its site...
#4 LA Blew $60M on Homeless ‘Fix’ — It Housed Just Three Units - Jamie Paige for New York Post, Spencer Pratt/Joel Pollak, Mike Netter, and Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD/Matthew Seedorff on X
Just three out of a promised 2,000 apartments have been used to relocate the homeless in Nithya Raman’s failed $60 million project to get people off the streets. Councilmember Raman, the chair of the Los Angeles City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, introduced the Time Limited Subsidy program back in September as a cheaper alternative to Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe Program — meant to get homeless people into an established residence...
#5 Trump Fires New Seattle Prosecutor Less Than an Hour After Appointment - Max Rego for The Hill, NewsTongue, Parallel Polis in Exile,
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President Trump on Wednesday fired U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff less than an hour after he was appointed as the top federal prosecutor in the Western District of Washington state. Rogoff was sworn in shortly before 8 a.m. PDT in downtown Seattle, but he told The Associated Press that he received an email from the Trump administration informing him of his termination while waiting in the lobby of the U.S. attorney’s office...
#6 ‘There Is No Need to Wait’: Fired FBI Employee Asks Judge to Turn Up Heat on Kash Patel in Discovery at the Court’s ‘Earliest Convenience' - Matt Naham for LAW & CRIME, MR SPICI, Kory Stone, Out Magazine, and Kyle Seraphin/Scott MacFarlane on X
A trainee for an FBI special agent position who alleges he was "singled out" and fired in October for displaying a pride flag on his work desk in a Los Angeles office is asking a federal judge to send his lawsuit against Director Kash Patel to discovery at the court's "earliest convenience." David Maltinsky, who is gay, first filed the lawsuit in November, claiming that Patel ended his 16-year career as a staff operations specialist and intelligence support employee with the FBI — dashing his "childhood dream" of becoming a special agent. The plaintiff alleged that he was fired because he "displayed a Progress Pride flag at his workstation — which the FBI itself had flown and which he displayed with the permission and approval of his superiors."#7 Judge Who Freed Cuban Plane Hijacker Dies Suddenly Days After Controversial Ruling - Alex Diaz and Isabel Vincent for New York Post, Μολων Λαβε 2A 1A PRIMARY all RINOS, Congressman Greg Steube, Tegu Breaking News, and The National Pulse on X
A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation. The death of Judge John E. Steele, 77, was confirmed by a legal source in Miami as well as a law clerk for Chief Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the Middle District of Florida, where Steele served. The circumstances were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody...
#8 Tim Walz Offers Strange Defense for Pardoning Convicted Child Rapist Trump Administration Deported - Michael Sinkewicz for Fox News, Retard Finder, Benny Johnson, Glenn Beck, Ron DeSantis/Homeland Security, and Jonathan Turley on X
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz publicly defended his vote to pardon a Laotian national who had been under a final removal order after losing legal status following a child sex crime conviction of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a 10-year-old girl after the Trump administration deported him to Laos last week. Tou Lue Vang, 42, received a pardon from Minnesota's Board of Pardons on June 10. On Friday, the Trump administration announced Vang's legal status had been revoked and that he had been deported to his home country of Laos. Asked about the deportation, Walz questioned what the move accomplished...
#9 Federal Judge Awards Hunter Biden $1.7 Million in Defamation Suit Against Former CEO of Overstock - Kevin Killough for Just the News, Washington Free Beacon, SweetMarie, Kyle Cheney, Hunter Biden, and Alex Jones on X
A federal judge awarded Hunter Biden $1.7 million in his defamation lawsuit against former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. The lawsuit stemmed from comments Byrne made in 2023, claiming that Biden told the Iranian government in 2021 that President Joe Biden would release $8 billion in Iranian funds in exchange for a bribe, NBC News reported. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson said that the court found plenty of evidence that Byrne knew the story was false and continued to make the same claims publicly while the case wound through court. The judge called it a "coordinated strategy" that was "motivated to defame" Biden. Wilson issued his ruling on Friday and formally entered the judgment on Wednesday...
