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Trump’s Spy Chief Spends Final Hours in Job Boasting of Mass Firings

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Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, said he has terminated nearly a third of the officials in his office, but others doubt the figures are accurate.

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'Here they go again!' Ex-prosecutor floored as Trump DOJ's Reflecting Pool case crumbles

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'Here they go again!' Ex-prosecutor floored as Trump DOJ's Reflecting Pool case crumbles

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice floored a former federal prosecutor after a grand jury witness blew up one of its signature cases. On Monday, reports revealed that a grand jury witness admitted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was damaged before the prosecution of David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist who was arrested and charged with felony damage to property after he touched some of the peeling paint in the pool. The admission undercuts the Trump administration's claims that Hearn was responsible for damaging the pool. Hearn's lawyers slammed the indictment in a letter on Tuesday, arguing that the Trump DOJ prosecutors acted improperly. Those claims caught the ear of former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner. He argued in a new podcast that the case seemed destined to go the same way as the prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and the Broadview Six, all of which were dismissed by judges for prosecutorial misconduct. "You may find this shocking, but Donald Trump's dirty DOJ officials, including Jeanine Pirro, may have again been involved in prosecutorial misconduct," Kirschner said. "Here they go again!" he added.

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Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the White House

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Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the White House

President Donald Trump held closed-door meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House before the world leaders paid their respects to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports.

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Anti-Trump brewery’s alcohol permit revoked by Wisconsin officials: ‘Pry me out of my taprooms’

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Anti-Trump brewery’s alcohol permit revoked by Wisconsin officials: ‘Pry me out of my taprooms’

"We’re going to fight the state of Wisconsin tooth and nail, and once again, they’ll have to pry me out of my taprooms before I stop selling beer to thirsty progressives who come to visit us."

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Jay Clayton confirmed as Trump's new spymaster in party-line vote

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Jay Clayton confirmed as Trump's new spymaster in party-line vote

The Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as President Donald Trump's new Director of National Intelligence, in a 51-47 vote following party lines, reported CBS News.The vote gives Trump his pick in an office responsible for coordinating all of America's intelligence agencies.Previously, the DNI role was held by former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, but she exited office after a number of reported ideological differences over the Iran war. Gabbard denied this was the reason for her exit, citing personal reasons instead.Trump initially wanted to replace Gabbard with loyalist Bill Pulte, his head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and installed Pulte in the agency on an acting basis. However, after bipartisan pushback, he instead selected Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.Democrats initially considered this an improvement, but remained opposed to Clayton's nomination after his hearing, due in part to his refusal to acknowledge the result of the 2020 presidential election, and his involvement signing off on a controversial set of subpoenas against New York Times reporters.Clayton enters an Office of DNI that is already in turmoil, thanks to Pulte making a series of ideological purges of intelligence officers.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci's journal reveals how Trump and Biden handled Covid cases

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Dr. Anthony Fauci's journal reveals how Trump and Biden handled Covid cases

Dr. Anthony Fauci's journal entries, published this week by a Republican senator, offer new details about how the administrations of Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden handled their Covid cases. NBC News’ Monica Alba explains the journal revelations as Fauci is set to testify before a Senate committee.

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JUST IN: Iran Launches Strikes at US Base in “Attempted Surprise Attack” After Trump Halted Strikes Against Iran

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JUST IN: Iran Launches Strikes at US Base in “Attempted Surprise Attack” After Trump Halted Strikes Against Iran

Iran launched a missile strike on US forces in the Middle East on Tuesday in what US Central Command described as a "attempted surprise attack." All of the missiles were intercepted, CENTCOM says. The post JUST IN: Iran Launches Strikes at US Base in “Attempted Surprise Attack” After Trump Halted Strikes Against Iran appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Trump hosts separate meetings with Netanyahu, Zelenskyy

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Trump hosts separate meetings with Netanyahu, Zelenskyy

President Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday. And for the first time since the start of the Iran war, he also held a face-to-face meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Nancy Cordes reports.

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Legal expert aghast as Trump seeks 'cataclysmic' power grab in Supreme Court appeal

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Legal expert aghast as Trump seeks 'cataclysmic' power grab in Supreme Court appeal

A legal expert is sounding the alarm on a Trump move that seeks the Supreme Court's help with a "nasty" power grab.During an episode of Talking Feds, former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman warned that the Trump administration is seeking to take away states' control of upcoming elections after filing an emergency application with the Supreme Court through the Solicitor General."It's their first effort to get the Supreme Court to weigh in on one of Trump's really pernicious ham-handed efforts to just wrest control of the voting process from states," Litman said. "It's about as nasty as it goes."Trump's Solicitor General filed an emergency Supreme Court application asking the court to vacate a lower-court injunction on an executive order restricting mail-in voting. The executive order would take effect before the November 3 midterms, according to Litman."This would be really cataclysmic for the election," Litman said. "The executive order itself was from a few months ago, and it gives the executive branch an unprecedented — and I think, in the reading of all courts so far — unconstitutional role in the elections."Litman added that Trump is doing it "in a way that would really disenfranchise millions of people, and disproportionately by a large margin, Democrats." He also pointed out that the emergency application is reaching the Supreme Court via the "shadow docket."Until now, the Trump administration "shied away" from appealing its voting losses, "so this is the first one, and surprise, surprise, it's by emergency docket...so now, really unfortunately, this goes boom into the court by the so-called shadow docket."The Supreme Court issued a briefing order after getting the emergency application that gives the states and other challengers until August 3 to file a response, Litman noted.

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