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What We Know About the Gunman at the White House Press Dinner

Apr 26, 2026Center Left

The authorities are investigating a motive for the attack by the suspect, identified as Cole Tomas Allen. Those who know him described him as a “completely average guy.”

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'Not mentally well': MAGA suspects Trump sabotaged by liberals armed with weather machines

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'Not mentally well': MAGA suspects Trump sabotaged by liberals armed with weather machines

Kylie Jane Kremer, the activist listed as the permit holder for the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the Capitol attack, has floated a new theory about Washington's summer heat: it's sabotage.In a post on X, Kremer claimed someone with an "extreme case" of Trump derangement syndrome "geoengineered" the weather in D.C. She pointed to the cold at Trump's inauguration as proof of the same plot."I’m telling y’all that someone with an extreme case of TDS geoengineered this weather in DC. Same way they geoengineered Trump’s inauguration to be one of the coldest in U.S. history. People with TDS hate Trump more than they love America," she wrote on X.Her post came in response to Washington Post meteorologist and reporter Ben Noll, who noted the nation's capital would be "hotter than 99 percent of the planet on Friday.""Only parts of Africa's Sahara Desert, the Middle East, China's Gobi Desert and a few spots in the Desert Southwest will be hotter," he wrote on X.Forecasters called the inauguration D.C.'s coldest in decades, and the ceremony was moved indoors. But whether progressives with weather machines were responsible is another matter. And the internet didn't spare her. Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger wrote that people pushing the theory are "not mentally well," while internet commentator Damin Toell reminded followers that Kremer was also a key figure in the 2020 "stop the steal" movement. Writer Joe Flood noted that a woman who helped host the Jan. 6 rally now believes liberals control the weather.Julian Andreone of Drop Site News leaned into the joke, sarcastically agreeing that July heat in D.C. is "very suspicious." Climate advocate Benji Backer flagged the contradiction."Climate change can’t be real but this can be. Got it. Trying to catch up," he joked.The claim echoes a pattern among MAGA figures, including Marjorie Taylor Greene's flood conspiracy theory and her bill to ban "weather modification" after the deadly Texas floods. Even fellow Republicans have stepped in to debunk the weather-control claims. Meteorologists have said cloud seeding cannot produce disasters.

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Israel reportedly attempted to shoot down Iran’s negotiators

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Israel reportedly attempted to shoot down Iran’s negotiators

Israel attempted to kill Iran’s negotiators on their plane after talks between the U.S. and Iran concluded in Pakistan, The New York Times reported. The attempt occurred […]

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s A-list rehearsal dinner guest list revealed

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s A-list rehearsal dinner guest list revealed

The pop superstar and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end have an impressive mix of family members, longtime friends, teammates and celebrity guests ahead of their Madison Square Garden bash on Friday.

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Germany: Mass Migration NGO Worker Allegedly Drove Stade Mass Shooting Suspect to and from Scene

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Germany: Mass Migration NGO Worker Allegedly Drove Stade Mass Shooting Suspect to and from Scene

Germany’s pro mass migration establishment is facing explosive scrutiny after reports that a taxpayer-funded NGO adviser allegedly drove the suspected Stade mass shooter both to a child-welfare meeting and away from the scene after six employees were killed. The post Germany: Mass Migration NGO Worker Allegedly Drove Stade Mass Shooting Suspect to and from Scene appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Michael Goodwin: Usual suspects wail about SCOTUS ruling upholding states’ rights to ban transgender athletes

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Michael Goodwin: Usual suspects wail about SCOTUS ruling upholding states’ rights to ban transgender athletes

The Supreme Court ruling that upholds states’ rights to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls and women’ sports provoked wailing from by the usual suspects.

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Why Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego Is Under Federal Investigation Over Suspected Campaign Finance Violations

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Why Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego Is Under Federal Investigation Over Suspected Campaign Finance Violations

A spokesperson for the Arizona Democrat has said that President Trump is “targeting” him with the probe.

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Supreme Court shoots down Trump’s birthright citizenship order

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Supreme Court shoots down Trump’s birthright citizenship order

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship was unconstitutional. Trump attended the high court’s oral arguments about the case, Trump […]

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Supreme Court’s latest pro-Trump ruling will come back to bite GOP: DC correspondent

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Supreme Court’s latest pro-Trump ruling will come back to bite GOP: DC correspondent

In a 6-3 bombshell in Trump v. Slaughter issued on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court's GOP-appointed justices ruled that President Donald Trump is well within his right to fire members of independent agencies — including former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner Rebecca Slaughter — and overturned the 1935 SCOTUS precedent in Humphrey's Executor v. United States. Trump loyalists are applauding the decision, but not everyone on the right is happy with it.Journalist Andrew Egger, in the conservative website The Bulwark, argues that the High Court's Trump v. Slaughter ruling could be terrible for conservatives in the long run."Many Trump foes have come to view this Court as a doormat for the president," Egger explains. "This is dramatically overtorqued: The Court hasn't been afraid to cross Trump on some of his biggest priorities, from the 2020 election to his signature 'Liberation Day' tariffs to his mass deportation regime. Just yesterday, in a separate case, SCOTUS dealt Trump a major loss on the issue of mail-in ballots, ruling that he could not prevent states from accepting ballots postmarked by Election Day where that practice is consistent with their laws. But there's no question that this conservative Court has one ideological priority that aligns perfectly with Trump's own."Egger continues, "They see the independent agency structure — in which Congress impanels some regulatory body, gives them broad policy-setting and enforcement authorities, and insulates them from political accountability by setting up mechanisms that make their members difficult to fire — as inherently dubious under the Constitution. Their decision in Slaughter yesterday, which greenlights Trump's firing of a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, is the culmination of this view."Back in 1935, it was conservative Republicans who applauded the Humphrey's Executor precedent — as they believed that liberal President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with his New Deal, was doing too much too quickly. But in 2026, many MAGA Republicans are pushing the "unitary executive theory," which favors a very strong and powerful executive branch. According to Egger, Trump is too "shortsighted" to realize that the High Court's Trump v. Slaughter ruling could hurt conservatives down the line."Trump continues to show remarkable disdain for the sausage-making and horse-trading of the legislative process; just yesterday, he dismissed his own administration's housing bill as 'a yawn,'" Egger writes. "But after he leaves office, his laws will be all he can count on remaining. Yes, the Supreme Court has made it easier for Trump to remake the government in his image for now. But they've done just as much to make it easier for the next Democratic president to blot out that image once he's gone."

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