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=I don’t know why this wasn’t above-the-fold news all across the country over the past few days as the details of the “peace plan” Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff took to Vladimir Putin this week came out. Kushner, it appears, had added in a provision that would have forced both Ukraine and Russia to take actions that would specifically benefit Saudi Arabia, a country that is paying the presidential son-in-law at least $25 million a year. Can you imagine what the response would have been if George Marshall, while negotiating the 1948 Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII, had been personally taking millions from, say, Saudi Arabia, and thus inserted a provision ensuring that country could permanently benefit from the peace plan? Given that then-President Truman and Marshall were Democrats, it’s safe to predict that the GOP would have melted down, but so would have the press. After all, the early-1920s Teapot Dome scandal — then one of the most infamous in US presidential his...

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife both received an official pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this week , and he's now eager to go after the federal investigators who indicted him. That's according to a Friday article in Politico , which reported that Cuellar is now indicating he'll assist House Republicans in pursuing an investigation into the prosecutors involved in his case. The outlet reported that Cuellar may be helping Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, with his ongoing "weaponization" probe into officials who worked in former President Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ). "I really think what they did was wrong," Cuellar told Politico. An unnamed source told Politico that Cuellar spoke with Jordan after Trump announced his pardon. The Texas Democrat reportedly encouraged Jordan to subpoena the DOJ for records pertaining to his case, and Jordan appeared open to the idea. "Based on...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is now offering new details of conversations she had with President Donald Trump pertaining to deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein. CBS' 60 Minutes teased its interview of Greene in a post to X on Friday . In the clip, reporter Lesley Stahl is seen asking the Georgia Republican about behind-the-scenes conversations she had with the president about her push to compel the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all remaining evidence on Epstein from his two federal criminal investigations. "We did talk about the Epstein files, and he was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files," Greene said. "I fully believe that those women deserve everything they're asking, they're asking for all of it to come out. And they deserve it. And he was furious with me." "What did he say?'" Stahl asked. "He said that it was going to hurt people," Greene replied. Gre...

The alleged drug boat at the center of a developing controversy was not on a course toward the United States, according to a new report. CNN reported Friday that during his recent closed-door session with lawmakers about the September 2 boat strike, Admiral Frank M. Bradley — who was the commander overseeing the mission – said the boat in question was actually headed toward Suriname, on the northern coast of South America. Two of CNN's unnamed sources who have "direct knowledge" of the admiral's comments said Bradley testified that the boat was on a path to another vessel, where it was expected to transfer drugs on board toward its final destination. The network cited drug enforcement experts, who said that trafficking routes via Suriname are typically bound for Europe, whereas drug shipments to the U.S. are typically concentrated in the Pacific Ocean. Admiral Bradley's testimony counters President Donald Trump's official justification for the ongoing b...

A significant number of voters in 2025's statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia voted for Democrats this year despite casting their ballots for President Donald Trump in 2024. Now, some of them are hinting at what types of candidates they aim to support in next year's midterms. NBC News reported Friday that focus groups interviewing voters who pivoted from Trump to Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia found that while those swing voters sharply critical of both major parties, they still identified several criteria that they preferred in candidates. The 14 voters themselves are 12 self-described independents, along with one Democrat and one Republican. According to NBC's report, the group was drawn to Governors-elect Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) and Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) due to their moderate posture. Swing voters viewed more positively than the Democratic Party's tarnished brand, which they described with words like "dishonest," "weak,"...

Podcaster Joe Rogan recently revealed that President Donald Trump often sends him text messages out of the blue, and ridiculed his style as childish. That's according to a Thursday article in The Daily Beast , which reported that Rogan said the president texts like a "79 year-old kid" while interviewing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on his podcast. He further described him as "an odd guy." "He makes the text go big, like ‘USA is RESPECTED again’ — all caps — and it makes the text enlarge," Rogan said. "It’s kind of ridiculous." Huang laughed at Rogan's anecdote, but went on to say that Trump was "surprising" in person. The Nvidia CEO has found common ground with the Trump administration on the matter of regulating artificial intelligence (AI), with Huang's company manufacturing a bulk of the chips that power AI globally. Both Trump and Huang have publicly opposed state-level efforts to regulate AI. "The one-on-one Trum...

Despite President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) promising to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), a Virginia grand jury has declined to return an indictment. CNN reported Thursday that despite a judge dismissing the criminal charges against James just 10 days ago, the DOJ's latest attempt to re-indict New York's top law enforcement official has failed. Prosecutors have been attempting to indict James on charges of mortgage fraud after Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue James and other political opponents. "It's said that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Well, apparently the T rump people can't do that," CNN host Jake Tapper quipped, before pivoting to CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins. "They made clear when [James' case was dismissed] that they were going to try this again. But today, Jake, they have failed and did not secure a new indictment against the New York attorney ...

The White House reportedly will be submitting plans for President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom to a federal planning commission later this month, after the East Wing of the White House has already been demolished and as the president replaces the project’s top architect . “The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will dwarf the White House itself, at nearly double the size, and President Donald Trump has said it will accommodate 999 people,” the Associated Press reported on Thursday. Critics blasted the latest news. “Let me get this straight,” wrote U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), in response to the news. “Trump has a plan for a new ballroom, but barely has a concept of a plan to lower the cost of health care?” READ MORE: Inside Trump’s ‘Golden Age’: Troubling New Trends Emerge “Millions are losing health care, but hey, a ballroom! Unbelievable,” declared U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA). “It seems like the Trump White House is working harder on constructing a new White...

President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly making moves to initiate a criminal investigation into six Democratic members of Congress, but some in the FBI are refusing to go along with the plan. Bloomberg Law reported Wednesday that the FBI headquarters is demanding a "seditious conspiracy investigation" into the Democratic lawmakers — who are all military and intelligence veterans — after they released a video encouraging rank-and-file service members to remember their duty to disobey illegal orders. While the investigation has not yet been launched, this would mark a significant escalation beyond the voluntary inquiry the FBI launched in the immediate aftermath of the video. Seditious conspiracy was one of the most serious criminal charges levied against January 6 defendants, and leaders of far-right groups The Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys were convicted on that charge before eventually being pardoned by Trump on the first day of his second term. Le...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) spent a significant portion of a recent address criticizing members of his audience for their obeisance to President Donald Trump. Politico reported Wednesday that the two-term governor — who is presumed to run for the presidency in 2028 — told audience members at the New York Times DealBook Summit that they were complicit in some of the Trump administration's worst abuses. At one point he suggested they should buy the kneepads with Trump's signature he's selling on his website, given their pattern of "groveling to Trump’s needs." "Some of you may need to buy them in bulk," Newsom added. The outlet reported that Newsom's segment was sandwiched between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Turning Point CEO Erika Kirk (wife of slain MAGA activist Charlie Kirk ), and he spent much of it attacking the Trump administration. He specifically called out the administration's deployment of federal agents ahead of the ...

Despite narrowly avoiding an upset in a deep-red Tennessee congressional district this week and losing multiple high-profile statewide elections last month, some MAGA influencers are convinced the Republican Party can avoid steep losses in the midterms by sticking with President Donald Trump. Axios reported Wednesday that prominent conservatives have diagnosed the GOP's problem as being insufficiently pro-Trump, and that Republicans who lost recent contests (like the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections ) only came up short because they weren't MAGA enough. Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio insisted to Politico that the Republicans can win if they "stay the course and talk about the realities of the economy." And Trump himself has maintained that Democrats harping on the "affordability" issue were perpetuating a "con job" and spreading a "fake narrative." "The Republican Party ... needs to double down on the Trump agenda...

One Republican member of Congress with an extensive military record is calling on President Donald Trump to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. During a Tuesday interview with CNN reporter Manu Raju , Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who is a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force and serves on the House Armed Forces Committee, expanded on his view that the embattled defense secretary should be "held accountable" in the wake of a Washington Post report alleging that he ordered the deaths of two people who survived a missile strike. "We do not kill two survivors who are not posing an imminent threat to anybody," Bacon said. "I just want to make sure I get the facts. If what is being reported is true, somebody was wrong and they should be held accountable." "It doesn't sound good. And if somebody actually did this, they should be held accountable," he continued. "And it should be at the top, not the bottom." When Raju asked B...

Alleged Washington D.C. shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal may have been coerced into carrying out last week's attack on two members of the West Virginia National Guard, according to a new report. The Daily Beast's "The Swamp" newsletter reported Tuesday that U.S. intelligence sources are investigating whether the Taliban may have blackmailed the 29 year-old Lakanwal into shooting 24 year-old Andrew Wolfe and 20 year-old Sarah Beckstrom. Wolfe remains in critical condition, while Beckstrom died from her injuries. Lakanwal was also shot during the ambush-style attack and remains hospitalized. According to one unnamed intelligence source, Lakanwal may have felt pressured to drive across the country from his home in Bellingham, Washington to the nation's capital, if Taliban fighters gave him an ultimatum to either attack U.S. troops or have his family killed. The source noted that the threat may have been particularly effective given that Lakanwal helped the U.S. fig...

President Donald Trump's recent pardon of an international drug kingpin has ruffled feathers among members of his own party, according to a new report. The National Review's Audrey Fahlberg reported Tuesday that Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has caused consternation among several Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who say that the clemency measure takes the wind out of the sails of his stated goal of combating drug traffickers. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who is retiring from the Senate in 2026, said the pardon was "horrible optics" and sent a "mixed message" about the administration's goals. "I hate it. It’s a horrible message," Tillis said. Hernández was sentenced in 2024 to a 45-year prison sentence for conspiring to move 400 tons of cocaine into the United States. The Department of Justice's (DOJ) sentencing statement noted that the former Honduran leader's conspiracy amounted to more tha...

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One high-ranking Republican member of the House of Representatives is now saying that President Donald Trump's administration is acting outside its own established legal boundaries, if recent reporting about a September strike is to be believed. The Washington Post reported recently that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Admiral Frank M. Bradley to carry out a secondary strike on survivors clinging to the wreckage of a boat the U.S. military destroyed on September 2, 2025. If true, that would likely be a violation of rules 46 and 47 of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), which ban "no-quarter" orders and firing on anyone who is considered hors de combat ("out of the fight"), respectively. In a Monday segment on CNN , Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) — who sits on the House Armed Services Committee and who used to chair the House Intelligence Committee — told host Erin Burnett that his committee is currently making inquiries about the attack with the Depar...

Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, became the latest notable figure on Monday to hit back against the White House's claims about the "double tap" boat strike, wondering to Semafor if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was "incompetent" or "lying." Last week, the Washington Post reported that on September 2, U.S. forces fired on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, then fired on it again when it was determined that some of the occupants had survived. This reportedly came as the result of a directive from Hegseth to "kill them all." These strikes, claimed with little evidence to be drug traffickers, had already been a source of major controversy for the Trump administration, but this report saw many experts accusing Hegseth of a war crime and outright murder. Despite of Pentagon press representative initially denying the entire story, White Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Monday that the double strike had occurred, but stressed t...

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US President Donald Trump said he would look into reports that the US military conducted a follow-up strike on a boat in the Caribbean that it believed to be ferrying drugs, killing survivors of an initial missile attack. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/BPKJUHq via sinceretalk