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A local Indiana GOP official cried foul after a voting machine test resulted in an inaccurate count.
It turns out that's because he stole ballots. It was caught on video. He's charged with a crime.
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Note the outlet here.
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Habeas corpus has been suspended only 4 times:
1) Civil War
2) When Congress authorized it to combat Ku Klux Klan vigilantism during Reconstruction
3) In the Philippines during a 1905 insurrection
4) In Hawaii after Pearl Harbor
Stephen Miller says the White House is looking into suspending habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful detentions: "A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not."
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) with a strong warning to Ratcliffe -- and perhaps Gabbard:
"And by the way, we will get the full transcript of this chain, and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content."
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Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge Paul G. Young on ICE wearing masks:
"ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
"In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."
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Trump has picked:
-his daughter as WH adviser
-his son-in-law as WH adviser
-his daughter's father-in-law as WH adviser
-his son-in-law's father as an ambassador
-his son's (ex-?)fiancee as an ambassador
Now he's reportedly pushing his daughter-in-law for a Senate appointment
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It bears emphasizing this wasn’t a “college group chat.”
Young Republicans range from 18 to 40. Some of the people mentioned in the Politico story are in their 30s and well established in GOP politics.
This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence.
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Macron goes there:
"If [Putin agreeing to a meeting] doesn't happen by Monday, the deadline set by President Trump, it means that once again President Putin played President Trump."
That "once again" is really something.
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Just a top DOJ official posing for a picture with a man who defamed the families of slain elementary school kids.
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The Justice Department has removed a study from its website which found that "the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism."
The 2024 study was still live earlier this week.
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Lutnick 5 days ago said smartphone manufacturing was coming to the U.S. because of tariffs.
Now we learn smartphones are excluded from the tariffs.
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Trump on CNBC: "I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know, and we are entitled to five more seats."
Fact check: Trump's 56% in Texas 2024 isn't even in the top 10. He ranks 15th, historically.
He won less than Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush.
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Mark Meadows said in his book that the 2020 election was "stolen" and "rigged."
Under legal scrutiny, he has reportedly said something quite different.
Now his conservative book publisher is suing him for allegedly using false information in the book.
thehill.com/regulation/court…
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Ex-Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina, undercutting many months worth of Trump talking points:
"Biden or anyone from his Justice Department have absolutely zero to do with the Manhattan [D.A.] office. ... So to say that Joe Biden brought this case is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard."
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Charlie Crist has now lost:
-A SEN race as a Republican
-A SEN race as an independent
-2 GOV races as a Democrat
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1) Biden was not president on Jan. 6; Trump was.
2) Trump’s own FBI director has clarified that agents were sent *after* the riot touched off.
3) “DO SOMETHING!!!” sounds a lot like the Bondi post.
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Tucker saying "I hate [Trump] passionately" is headline.
But don't sleep on: "That's the last four years. We're all pretending we've got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it's been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn't really an upside to Trump."
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Trump 2020: Sidney Powell has joined my legal team!
Trump after Powell flipped: Sidney Powell was not on my legal team.
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Trump last night posted a meme in which a former Wharton professor calls Trump "the smartest student I ever had."
The actual alleged quote, as relayed by a close friend of the late professor in 2017:
"Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that 'Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.' ”
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We don't yet know Trump's motive for taking and keeping classified documents even after the gov't came knocking.
But in a new filing, Jack Smith's team indicates it does.
It said it will prove "what Trump intended in retaining them."
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Kamala Harris's campaign has claimed she's winning late-deciders by double-digits.
The NYT-Siena poll finds the same.
Other evidence suggests that's indeed plausible -->
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If you can’t see the sleight of hand here, it’s that this chart end weeks before the tariffs, 4,000 points ago.
(We’re at about 38,300 now.)
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Tucker Carlson's video in a Russian grocery store was apparently deemed not subtle enough for a Russian influence operation.
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Honest question: Duke’s center starting tonight in the Final Four is from South Sudan and I assume is on a visa. Rubio says this is “effective immediately.” What happens?
I am taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and to restrict any further issuance to prevent entry into the United States, effective immediately, due to the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner.
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Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday broadcast extensive biographical details about Juror No. 2 -- her neighborhood, occupation, education, marital and family status, and what industry her fiance works in.
He concluded by saying, "I'm not so sure about Juror No. 2."
He claimed last night that "undercover liberal activists" are trying to get on the jury -- comments Trump promoted.
That juror has now asked to be excused, saying people had asked her if she was a juror.
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If Warnock wins, Democrats will have gained 1 Senate seat and 2 governor's seats.
It would be the first time since 1934 that a president's party has gained in both in a midterm.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a 2021 book wrote that Americans had been "misled ... into believing that measles is a deadly disease."
He said measles outbreaks had been "fabricated" to push people towards vaccines.
First death in the ongoing measles outbreak, per the Texas health department. Unvaccinated school-aged child.
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I mean, she did receive 51 votes -- from GOP senators less than one month ago, after Trump nominated her to this position.
NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez: “On the firing of the CDC director … what specifically did she do wrong?”
Karoline Leavitt: “This woman has never received a vote in her life, and the president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission.”
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Trump’s Intel gambit is so socialist that Bernie Sanders is like, “Yeah, great idea.”
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Elon Musk: Former undocumented worker
Great reporting from my great Washington Post colleagues, @mariasacchetti, @faizsays and @NickMiroff
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2 telling things here:
1) White House crosses out “wrongly,” despite repeatedly acknowledging its error in court.
2) “who’s never coming back” is basically taunting SCOTUS. Signals the opposite of any intent to “facilitate” his return.
Fixed it for you, @NYTimes.
Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen — he’s NOT coming back.
Community note
He came back.
Source: cnn.com/2025/06/06/pol
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Among *Republican-leaning* voters who watched the debate, Tim Walz went from 8% favorable to 24% favorable.
(per @CNN poll)
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It's been noted that Jim Jordan never passed a bill during his first 16 years in Congress.
What's less publicized: None of his bills were even acted upon in committee or on the floor, per Center for Effective Lawmaking data.
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A Trump-appointed judge is warning about this.
MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.
storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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How rare is it for a grand jury not to indict?
"Federal prosecutors pursued over 160,000 cases against defendants in 2009-2010 ... and grand juries only voted not to return an indictment in 11."
The sandwich guy is now the second time it's happened with Pirro in recent days.
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Americans say by 14 points that Zelensky was NOT disrespectful towards Trump in their Oval Office meeting.
They say by 22 points that Trump WAS disrespectful towards Zelensky.
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Reagan-nominated judge:
“I have been shocked to watch some public figures try to rewrite history ... martyrizing convicted January 6 defendants as ‘political prisoners’ or even, incredibly, ‘hostages.' That is all preposterous."
politico.com/news/2024/01/25…
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Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick for Education secretary, resigned from a state education board shortly after a newspaper asked her about her false claim that she had an education degree.
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For the 12th time in 16 speaker ballots this Congress, Hakeem Jeffries gets the most votes.
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Musk revives long-debunked Dominion voting machine claims, which cost Fox $787.5m.
"It is weird that, I think, they were used in Philadelphia and in Maricopa County [AZ] but not in a lot of other places."
In fact, they were in 351 of 731 counties in 10 key states, per @pbump.
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-Last Congress, only 4 lawmakers ranked lower than Jordan on legislative effectiveness, per Center for Effective Lawmaking
-He has ranked in bottom 5 House Republicans last 4 Congresses
-He also rates near bottom in rankings of lawmaker bipartisanship
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The Trump campaign says it’s “ridiculous” for the cemetery worker to fear retaliation.
The previous paragraph: noting the Trump campaign accused her of having a “mental health episode.”
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The leader of France's far-right party has canceled his CPAC speech, citing Steve Bannon's "gesture alluding to Nazi ideology."
theguardian.com/world/live/2…
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Trump is now explicitly telling a witness slated to testify Tuesday that he shouldn't testify.
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Pirro’s office shopped this case to three grand juries. None of them would indict on felony charges.
So the case was brought as a misdemeanor.
The jury unanimously rejected even that.
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Just to underscore: This was in Epstein's estate.
So for this to have been the hoax that Trump has claimed, someone would have had to go to the trouble of planting a fake letter in Epstein's estate.
WSJ: Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the birthday book put together for the financier’s 50th birthday, which includes a letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.
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Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.) to state trooper in bodycam footage:
"You are a fucking full-on dick!” “You better recalculate, motherfucker!”
piped.video/KbRO6HkfXmg
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Campaign finance reports and property documents indicate Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) actually lives in Florida
(via @GlennKesslerWP)
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11 days ago:
"DHS Warns Law Enforcement That Election Deniers May Attempt to Bomb Drop Boxes"
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The day Vance first posted about Springfield, his staff member asked Springfield’s city manager if the claim was true.
The city manager says he said it was baseless.
Vance left the post up, then Trump said it at the debate anyway.
(Via @WSJ)
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Kavanaugh in 2018:
"No one has ever said, I do not think, that the president is immune from civil or criminal process. So immunity is the wrong term to even think about in this process.”
"I do not think anyone thinks of immunity. And why not? No one is above the law."
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did
(Via @GlennKesslerWP)
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This Georgia poll is the best yet for Harris -- from any high-quality pollster.
Shows her +3.
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The parade of nonsense is going to be intense.
1. 1,850 = records sent to U of Delaware. No evidence of classified docs. politifact.com/factchecks/20…
2. Bill Clinton court case was recordings not classified docs.
3. Comey said no evidence 33k included work-related + intentional.
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The sole Republican on the commission:
“I want to be very clear that ... the reason that some ballots would not be counted is that Republicans targeted Philadelphia — and only Philadelphia — to force us to conduct a procedure that no other county does."
Philadelphia Inquirer: “Philly is considering a last-minute change that will slow down the counting of votes” inquirer.com/politics/electi…
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It's breathtaking how much of this effort is built on bogus claims about things that were already known/publicly available and pretending they've just been uncovered.
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New CNN poll shows Harris +11 in Nebraska's 2nd district. Biden won it by 6 in 2020.
Helps explain why the Trump campaign was so keen to change how Nebraska awards its electoral votes.
With NE-2, Harris would only need MI+PA+WI to get to 270.
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Biden has said the decision is made. The fact that Pelosi is talking like it isn't is the most telling thing here.
🚨PELOSI on Biden on @Morning_Joe : "It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We're all encouraging him to to make that decision. Because time is running short."
LEMIRE: Do you want him to run
PELOSI: "I want him to do whatever he decides to do. And that's the way it is. Whatever he decides we go with."
PELOSI then says he wants Biden to deal with the NATO conference and then restart the discussion on Biden's future.
"Let's just hold off. Whatever you're thinking, either tell somebody privately, but you don't have to put that out on the table until we see how we go this week."
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.):
“The last thing that the victims of Helene need right now is political posturing, finger-pointing, or conspiracy theories that only hurt the response effort.”
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Kind of funny.
Just 2% of Democrats say Biden made the wrong decision by dropping out, per Suffolk poll.
But 18% of Republicans say he did.
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Have now endorsed Harris:
-Whitmer
-Newsom
-Buttigieg
-Shapiro
-Kelly
-Pritzker
-Beshear
-Polis
-Moore
-Cooper
Pretty much all the big speculated-on potential rivals.
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RFK Jr. said his Make America Healthy Again report cites "gold-standard" science." It cites 500 studies and other sources.
But it is riddled with errors. And 7 of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.
(via @NOTUSreports)
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Ghislaine Maxwell wasn't just moved to a lower-security prison that she wasn't eligible for (without a waiver) as a sex offender.
She's also getting special treatment at this lower-security prison that other inmates don't.
(via @mj_lee)
cnn.com/2025/11/13/politics/…
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A bunch of Trump allies are claiming the Epstein birthday letter contains a signature that doesn't match Trump's.
But there are a bunch of "Donald" signatures from the same era that look very much like the one on the Epstein letter.
First image is from the Epstein letter.
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A majority of Trump supporters believe the Haitian immigrants-stealing-and-eating-pets thing.
Independents disbelieve it more than 2-to-1, though.
And 5 times as many independents are sure it’s false as are sure it’s true.
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The abortion-rights position won all 6 state ballot measures in 2022.
That included swing Michigan and red Kansas, Kentucky and Montana.
Looks like Ohio will add another red state to the list. And like most of the others, it's not close.
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Here is Reagan's full, brief address on tariffs from April 25, 1987.
The parts Ontario used in its ad are highlighted.
Judge for yourself if it's use is "selective" and "misrepresents" what Reagan said.
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Dems' Project 2025 focus appears to have penetrated somewhat.
YouGov shows Dems view it unfavorably 64-8.
More to the point: Independents view it unfavorably by a wide margin, too: 38-7.
Key proposals are quite unpopular.
(via @dhmontgomery)
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Springfield's Republican mayor says Vance hasn't spoken to him. He says Vance insisted on a group call, rather than one-on-one.
(via @jmart)
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Trump in 2016: "I don't like the idea of using executive orders like [Obama]. It is a disaster what he's doing. I would build consensus."
Trump in 2025: I signed a record number of executive orders!
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This tweet from a WH adviser came at 9:57 a.m. The Dow dropped more than 2,000 points over the next 6 hours.
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Jesse Watters: "The judge overrules every objection from the defense and sustains every objection from the prosecution."
Per the transcript, Merchan yesterday:
-sustained 6 objections from the defense
-overruled 8 objections from the prosecution.
He overruled 42% of prosecutors' objections.
Watters: We’re hearing that every time the defense raised an objection, overruled
Habba: Overruled
(Not true)
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This is really something.
Trump has signed an executive order basically pledging Article 5-esque security guarantees to Qatar.
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Well this is kind of 👀
James Comer, who was derided even by some allies for the first impeachment inquiry hearing, said last week:
"I don’t know that I want to hold any more hearings, to be honest with you."
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Fox News in 2023 agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion after it sued Fox for airing voter fraud misinformation -- info that discovery showed many at the network knew to be false or baseless.
Fox settled for millions with the family of Seth Rich after it aired false conspiracy theories about his murder.
Fox also ran a number of segments featuring conspiracy theories about the Paul Pelosi attack and even joking that it might have been a gay lover's quarrel. (i.e. Nancy "comes home to find out that her husband’s playing hide the hammer with a Black Lives Matter guy.")
Would submit that the gov't policing misinfo might not be a great standard for Fox.
You’re conflating intentional misinformation with opinion. Which is as dishonest as conflating David Frum with physically appealing and relevant.
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"It is so insane but our viewers believe it," Tucker's producer said.
After it was suggested they not be too harsh on the claim, he called it "surreal":
“Like negotiating with terrorists, but especially dumb ones. Cousin f----- types not saudi royalty.”
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Trump in his Fox News interview: "I didn't say lock her up."
Trump on Oct. 10, 2016: "Lock her up is right."
Trump on Oct. 14, 2016: "For what she’s done, they should lock her up."
Trump on Jan. 9, 2020: "You should lock her up, I'll tell you."
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Zuckerberg in a letter last year:
"... I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction -- and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again."
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.
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The federal judge who is hearing the case on Trump's use of the National Guard in Chicago says started receiving threats "about ten minutes after I got this case."
cnn.com/us/live-news/nationa…
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An absolutely brutal @QuinnipiacPoll for Democrats:
Republican Party: 43% favorable, 45% unfavorable (-2)
Democratic Party: 31% favorable, 57% unfavorable (-26)
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Reuters reports that, just days after taking office, Hegseth halted military aid shipments to Ukraine. But sources say Trump never ordered him to do so.
It reportedly caught the White House off-guard.
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Trump shortly ago: "You saw what happened to a highly respected lawyer today, Bob Costello. Wow."
Costello is a witness.
Trump's gag order bars him from "making ... public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses."
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Key points from police report on Hegseth's alleged sexual assault:
-it was first reported by a nurse, not the accuser
-accuser suggested she might have been drugged
-2 other women at the event said Hegseth placed a hand on their thighs and invited them up to his hotel room
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt just cited a report, she believed from the Daily Signal, on signature analysts "who said this absolutely was not the president's authentic signature."
I cannot find such a story on the Daily Signal.
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A pretty remarkable scene in this Breyer footnote:
National Guard Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman objected to the Trump admin's plans for a show of force in MacArthur Park.
A Trump political appointee, Gregory Bovino, responded by "questioning Sherman's loyalty to the country."
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In newly published Jan. 6 footage vis @NPR, a senior adviser to the Trump Justice Dept is shown urging people to “kill” police. npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-549…
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George Santos lost the Queens portion of his district by 4 points in 2022.
Mazi Pilip is losing it by 26 points with 83% of the vote in.
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Democrats last night: Haha you might as well just make Elon Musk the speaker!
Republican this AM: Let’s make Elon Musk the speaker.
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The lewd Epstein birthday book included a joke about Epstein selling a "fully depreciated" woman to Trump.
Now these new documents show Epstein telling someone that he "gave" Trump his 20-year-old girlfriend in the mid-1990s.
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"Gonna get it together" is not exactly the roundest of endorsements. Implies he doesn't already have it together. And this is the guy who has been running the Pentagon for 3 months.
Trump on Hegseth: "I think he's gonna get it together" axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-i…
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Former Trump White House counsel Ty Cobb:
“I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years, and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity. This is such a tight case, the evidence is so overwhelming.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
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Trump is on the verge of having a net-positive favorable rating -- something he never had in his first term.
(via @FiveThirtyEight)
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Turns out people are actually pretty concerned about the White House ballroom
More than half of independents disapprove “strongly.” cnn.com/2025/10/29/politics/…
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