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Ciara Miller brutally rejects Amanda Batula’s apology for West Wilson relationship: ‘A big f—k you’
During part one of the explosive reunion, Miller claimed her former bestie is perfect for Wilson because she is a "weak figure."
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FDIC Chair Hill Rejects Barr's Warning on Bank Rules
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Travis Hill says he "fully" disagrees with Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr's warning that recent regulatory changes could weaken bank safety and soundness, arguing regulators are trying to focus examiners on material financial risks while keeping the banking system balanced and resilient. He speaks with Kailey Leinz on the late edition of Bloomberg's "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Evidence Destroyed or Lost in Death of ICE Detainee That Was Ruled a Homicide
A medical examiner ruled Geraldo Lunas Campos' death a homicide by asphyxiation. Witnesses say guards choked him to death. Now a government report says evidence is missing.
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Former Republican congressman warns Trump turning GOP into 'party of sore losers'
According to a former pro-Trump lawmaker, President Donald Trump’s greatest legacy is being a sore loser — and he is eroding American democracy by spreading that mindset to other Republicans.“I've said repeatedly — ad nauseam — that Donald Trump's greatest legacy is the destruction of truth,” former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) said in a podcast posted on Tuesday. “Not a surprise, right, when this good, great, decent country puts into the White House twice somebody who lies every time he opens his mouth.Walsh continued that Trump’s “greatest legacy is not winning twice and not getting to the White House twice. His greatest legacy — you want to understand Donald Trump's greatest legacy?Here it is: Sixty — depending on the poll you look at — 60, 70, 80, 90 percent of one of our two major political parties believes right now that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. That right there is Trump's legacy. That right there is Trump's greatest legacy.”Walsh pointed out that it imperils democracy for a “vast majority” of one of America’s two major parties to believe that whenever their candidate loses, it means the other candidate was cheating.“When you look at what's happening in California since their primary election last week, it just reaffirms this point,” Walsh explained. “It expands Trump's legacy. Not only is Donald Trump's greatest legacy — and none of this is good — his greatest legacy is the destruction of truth. His greatest legacy is that he has turned the Republican Party into a party of sore losers, into a party of election deniers, into a party of democracy haters. Trump's greatest legacy is convincing Republicans not to accept the results of elections where their candidate loses. His greatest legacy is convincing Republicans that every time their side loses, it was rigged, it was stolen. Trump did that. Trump turned the Republican Party into that. A party that, when they lose now, never lost — it was stolen.”While he added that “this is so easy to make fun of,” Walsh finds it difficult to do so “because I can think of nothing more destructive that Trump has done than convincing one of our two political parties not to accept election losses. I can't think of anything more destructive to our democracy that Trump has done than that.”Prior to Trump, every president who lost an election peacefully relinquished power, tracing all the way back to President John Adams in 1800. Speaking with this journalist for Salon in 2019, Harvard law professor and Trump impeachment defense attorney Alan Dershowitz cited this precedent in denying that Trump would try to overturn the 2020 election if he lost.“No president will refuse to step down if his opponent is elected in his place,” Dershowitz told Salon at the time. “It just will not happen, and the American public would never tolerate it.”Despite Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, conservative commentator and former presidential adviser George F. Will broke down in February how Trump’s claims have been thoroughly debunked, including by many Republicans such as his own attorney general, Bill Barr, and his own vice president, Mike Pence.“Someone should read to him ‘Lost, Not Stolen,’ a 2022 report by eight conservatives (two former Republican senators, three former federal appellate judges, a former Republican solicitor general, and two Republican election law specialists),” Will explained. “They examined all 187 counts in the 64 court challenges filed in multiple states by Trump and his supporters. Twenty cases were dismissed before hearings on their merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his supporters before hearings. Of the 30 that reached hearings on the merits, Trump’s side prevailed in only one, Pennsylvania, involving far too few votes to change the state’s result.”Will continued, “Trump’s batting average? .016. In Arizona, the most exhaustively scrutinized state, a private firm selected by Trump’s advocates confirmed Trump’s loss, finding 99 additional Biden votes and 261 fewer Trump votes.” Therefore he wrote of Trump, “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”In May, discussing Trump’s being a sore loser, Walsh said that he believed the president became unforgivable “the very first time in American history, a sitting American president lost an election and refused to accept the result. I still believe to this day the American people, all of us, no matter anyone's politics, should have turned their backs on him — all of us — and told him to just get the hell out of our lives. We're done with you. That's the one thing. Because it's the thread by which this representative democracy hangs together, keeps it together.”Walsh added, “Six years later, what still saddens me more than anything else is that the American people did not make him pay for that. The American people did not hold him accountable for that.
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Washington Examiner
Israel calls foreign sanctions over West Bank settler violence ‘disgraceful’
Israel on Tuesday called sanctions imposed by several countries over violence by settlers in the West Bank “disgraceful” and accused foreign governments of attempting to dictate political outcomes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a statement posted by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the government said it “firmly rejects the disgraceful measures adopted by foreign governments against […]
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New York Post
Cardi B flouts MSG’s no-bag rule with $7K Chanel purse — as celebs hit court-side catwalk
It’s one rule for the President — and another for Cardi B. The rapper and singer, who performed at the New York Knicks versus San Antonio Spurs Game 3 of the NBA Finals Monday, showed off a $7,000 Chanel purse as she Instagrammed from celebrity row. This was despite the strict no-bag rule in place...
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Experts warn Trump ‘inventing fraud’ in California as president ramps up baseless claims
Critics say president using well-worn playbook – with loyalists in key positions ready to amplify his messageDonald Trump is “inventing fraud” in California’s primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him, pro-democracy experts have warned.While the US president has used this playbook for years – from his loss at the Emmys as a reality TV star to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election – election integrity campaigners fear this time could be different. Continue reading...
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Pathologist reveals hidden dementia warning in Trump’s interview blow up
President Donald Trump stormed out of an interview with NBC News this weekend after being pushed on false claims, and according to a certified speech pathologist, there might very well have been a dementia warning sign hidden in his explosive reaction.On Sunday, NBC's Meet the Press released a sit-down interview with Trump conducted by Kristin Welker, in which the president became increasingly frustrated over tough questions. In particular, Welker pushed back on Trump's attempt to reiterate his false claims about elections in the U.S. being rigged, which he has made since losing the 2020 presidential race, and has rehashed this week as Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt lost a spot in the general election.When Welker pressed him for evidence of these claims, which he has never been able to provide, he chastised her as either "crooked" or "stupid" and stormed out of the interview early. This prompted many shocked reactions from observers, with an MS NOW piece calling it the beginning of the end of his credibility as president, and CNN media analyst Brian Stelter calling it "one of the wildest interviews with President Trump that I've ever seen."Beyond the implications that the reaction had for Trump's perception and his claims about fraud, speech pathologist and political content creator "Hilary M.A. CCC-SLP" — who has highlighted numerous recent incidents as evidence of Trump's declining cognitive and physical health — argued that there was evidence to suggest that the incident was consistent with the behavior one would expect from someone struggling with dementia. The interview with Welker took place inside a barn in Wisconsin, where Trump was visiting to take part in an event for farmers. According to the pathologist, the persistent rainy weather in the state over the weekend could have contributed to Trump's hostility towards Welker."For people who have dementia, changes in weather, specifically rain, can actually be really problematic for them," she explained. "When it is raining all day long, the typical lighting of the day is very disrupted. So, it is difficult to know just by looking outside, is it daytime or is it nighttime, late afternoon, that type of thing."She continued: "With somebody who already has sundowning behaviors, as the president demonstrates he does, that can make it even worse, because the entire morning has not had the typical sunlight, his circadian rhythm is already off due to the deterioration of the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and it is very difficult when it is just gloomy, cloudy and raining all day to have any environmental supports for that."She noted that these sorts of situations can increase a patient's frustration and agitation, which might have already been elevated for Trump, as Welker seemed to note that the interview had been delayed from when it was initially scheduled. This might have troubled Trump's "cognitive flexibility," which causes dementia patients to struggle with understanding their daily structure and makes them susceptible to heightened agitation when it is disrupted.
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Republicans reject Trump’s latest attack on elections
Republicans are escalating their attacks on elections after the recent results out of California, but as The Hill reported, they are notably rejecting President Donald Trump's latest baseless accusations of fraud.Major primaries were held in California last week, and as has become common with the state's elections, the final results took several days to arrive as the ballots were counted, prompting a new round of vague accusations about corruption or wrongdoing in the process from the GOP. Republicans were particularly stung after their Los Angeles mayoral candidate, ex-reality TV star Spencer Pratt, was shut out of the general election after coming in third in the state's all-party primary. Incumbent Democrat Karen Bass will now face a challenge from within her own party from Nithya Raman.Spurred on by Pratt's loss and the lengthy counting process, Republicans have renewed their attacks on California's electoral system, and elections as a whole, despite the fact that conservative gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton still appears poised to make the general. As The Hill reported Tuesday morning, there was particular rancor over Pratt's 8-point lead over Raman evaporating as votes were counted, which could amount to the typical "red mirage" phenomenon, in which mail-in votes counted later in the process heavily favor Democrats.The report also noted that Republicans have stopped short of embracing Trump's own attacks on California, in which he has rehashed his longstanding and baseless allegations that elections in the U.S. are being rigged against Republicans. In attacking the results from California, the GOP is instead alleging "incompetence" in the mail-in vote counting process, rather than "conspiracy."“I’m not going to defend any of California’s election process. I think it’s crazy that it takes that long to count votes, I really do,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.When pressed about the possibility of Democrats cheating in California, however, he stopped short,"Cheating is something, obviously, you have to prove," Thune added. "I would characterize a lot of the way California does things, including elections, as incompetence. I think that’s on full display on a lot of levels in California."House Speaker Mike Johnson took a similar stance.“They are counting votes weeks after the election,” Johnson said. “I’m not saying it’s rigged. I’m saying it stinks to high heaven, and everybody knows that.”GOP strategist Brian Darling told The Hill that a similar dynamic is bound to return in November if votes take a long time to be counted."If we have a bunch of elections where votes are being counted a week and two weeks after the election’s closed out, I think that’s going to be a problem,” he explained. “If you have a repeat of what’s happening in the LA mayor’s race, if that happens nationwide, it’s going to feed into the idea that our elections are broken."Ross K. Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University, also told the outlet that Trump is likely to accuse Democrats of cheating if they win the House, no matter how the vote counting goes.“I think it’s predictable, and I think the strength of his reaction will be in direct proportion to the Democratic win because he’s going to see his program evaporating in a Congress where Democrats are in the majority, at least in one House,” Baker said. “You absolutely can count on it... I just think you’re going to see a tidal wave of litigation and investigations by the Justice Department and accusations of voter fraud."
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