Gregory Bovino, the former Border Patrol commander-at-large who led President Donald Trump's immigration crackdowns in major cities, including Minneapolis, launched a 2028 presidential exploratory committee, positioning himself to challenge Trump's publicly backed Vance-Rubio ticket. Bovino accused Trump of going soft on immigration, stating, "If I were President, I'd lead that [deportation] effort from the front and be on the front lines from time to time," reports The Daily Beast.Bovino's campaign website slogan reads "House Bovino — Men Fight Back," and describes immigrants as "foreign hordes."His candidacy carries significant baggage. Bovino was fired in January after federal agents under his command shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) criticized his appearance Davos, suggesting Bovino "literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb," referring to the long dark coat he wore, reports The Hill. Bovino later attended a far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal alongside organizers invoking Weimar Republic mass deportation models. The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin dismissed Bovino as irrelevant. Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino suggested on Monday that he is not ruling out a 2028 presidential run. Bovino admitted as much on social media in response to a NewsNation report that says he launched a committee to explore a possible campaign for the White House. “NewsNation is reporting I’m exploring a run for […]
President Donald Trump told reporters he had a meeting locked in with the biggest names in artificial intelligence to discuss the government taking ownership stakes in their companies. There was just one problem — nobody had told the companies.Leading AI companies were "blindsided" by Trump's announcement Friday that he planned to meet with "all the big" firms about taking "pieces" of their companies, "possibly as soon as next week," three sources told NOTUS."I actually have a meeting scheduled in the very short, in the very near future, with — did you know that? — all of the companies," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. "And we're talking about it, where the American people can benefit from the success of AI."The executives learned about the meeting from the president's public comments, not from the White House, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. As of Monday afternoon, the administration had provided no details on timing or location.Trump framed the idea in populist terms. "There's something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public," he said. "It would be a beautiful thing."But the proposal — which would rank among the most consequential federal interventions in the private sector in modern history — has drawn sharp pushback, including from within Trump's own party.When Trump took a 10% stake in Intel in August 2025, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) fired back on X: "If socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldn't the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism? Terrible idea."Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told CBS: "For so many of my self-described true conservatives, you're going to have to explain to me how this reconciles with true conservatism and true free-market capitalism. I don't see it."Even Trump's former AI czar, David Sacks, pushed back against the idea. "Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we're already sliding toward," Sacks wrote on X. "America won't win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S."OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first pitched the idea of giving Trump shares in his company in early 2025, NOTUS reported. But Anthropic — now the world's most valuable AI company at a $965 billion valuation — had not yet discussed the concept as of last week, according to a fourth source. Spokespeople for OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Google all declined to comment.
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While it has been widely reported that President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund is dead, experts are pointing out that the White House may have another tool at its disposal for paying convicted January 6 insurrectionists that essentially amounts to a “bottomless pit of money.”According to NBC News, the Judgement Fund allows the Justice Department to settle legal claims made against the government. Originally created to “eliminate the procedural burdens involved in getting an appropriation from Congress to pay a particular judgment,” the “bottomless pit of money” could allow J6ers to be paid by filing formal claims that only require the approval of a single DOJ official. Critics have long warned of its potential for misuse by the executive branch, arguing that Congress should place guardrails around how payouts are issued. Trump allies at the Justice Department have previously suggested the idea of using the fund, such as Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who recently noted that he already has the authority “to settle any claim that is brought against the United States of America.” He raised the topic while discussing Trump’s controversial “anti-weaponization” fund, which bipartisan critics have decried as a “slush fund” for criminals. Woodward claimed that the “anti-weaponization” fund would actually have more accountability than the Judgement Fund, as the former is overseen by five people rather than one. But as NBC News notes, those five commissioners would be appointed by Trump and could be fired at will. While the new fund has received strong pushback from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has argued that the “victims” of the Biden administration should be paid. In a recent post, he seemed to raise the idea of using the Judgement Fund to such ends, writing, “We have a legal system already in place for people to make claims against the government. That does not need to be reinvented.”Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has told Congress that the Justice Department was “not moving forward” with the $1.8 billion fund, though as many have noted, the DOJ has merely agreed to adhere to a judge’s temporary delay order, not to end the effort entirely. The president’s statements on the matter have made it seem likely that the White House will continue to push for it. According to NBC News, “Trump said Wednesday that he didn’t know if the ‘anti-weaponization’ fund was dead or just on hold, but he called it ‘a beautiful thing’ that he loved and thought was ‘so important.’”A number of Trump allies have already received payouts through the Judgement Fund, including Mike Flynn and Carter Page. What’s more, “The Trump administration has already paid settlements to some of those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. The family of Ashli Babbitt — who was shot and killed after she jumped through a broken window of the House Speaker’s Lobby — received just under $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by her family.” According to NBC News, "Hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants have already signed up with lawyers to seek compensation from the Justice Department. Nine Jan. 6 participants filed a lawsuit this week seeking more than $1 million each related to their ‘injuries and losses relating to the protest on January 6, 2021.’”
The liberal wing of the party is now the majority wing
A joke has been making the rounds among House Republicans about Mike Johnson.The GOP House speaker relies so heavily on President Donald Trump to whip votes and manage his fractious caucus that Trump is, for all practical purposes, running the House himself, the joke goes, but NOTUS reported that most members passing that quip along believe it's essentially true.Trump is in on it, too, the outlet reported. In at least one meeting with Johnson and a small group of lawmakers, the president turned to the speaker and delivered the line himself."I have two jobs," Trump said to laughter in the room, according to NOTUS. "Being president and being speaker."Time and again this Congress, Johnson has turned to Trump when his own tools of persuasion have fallen short, NOTUS reported. With a majority so thin he can afford to lose only two Republican votes on any partisan bill, and a conference fractured between hard-line conservatives and more traditional members, Johnson has repeatedly picked up the phone — or asked Trump to, the report added. The president has obliged, calling holdouts, pressuring them, and on at least one memorable occasion, berating a member on the House floor in real time as their name burned red on the voting board overhead.According to multiple sources, Johnson has in several instances directed members seeking to bring legislation to the floor to first obtain White House approval — a delegation of authority that has left some veteran lawmakers quietly stunned, the outlet reported"In my adult lifetime, I have not seen an executive branch with as much input and influence over the chamber than this one has," Rep. Steve Womack (R-AK) told NOTUS.Johnson's allies argue the arrangement is a practical necessity, not a structural failure, according to NOTUS. With margins this tight, they say, every vote requires solving a different puzzle, and the president's involvement is the only reliable solvent.But critics within his own party are less forgiving."It is a total shirking of responsibilities to the White House," one House Republican told NOTUS.