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Trump says Bill Pulte won't be director of national intelligence permanently

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Asked if Bill Pulte has the national security experience for the job, President Trump said he does because he's "smart."

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(VIDEO) Trump Says He Couldn’t See Biden’s Cognitive Decline and That Biden Was “Fine” – “He Was the Same Guy… He Was Never the Sharpest Guy”

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(VIDEO) Trump Says He Couldn’t See Biden’s Cognitive Decline and That Biden Was “Fine” – “He Was the Same Guy… He Was Never the Sharpest Guy”

President Trump on Thursday told reporters that Joe Biden was "the same guy I had been watching for a long time" when he last met with Biden in 2024, denying that he was having cognitive health issues. Clearly, Biden was out to lunch for four years, but Trump says he was just "never the sharpest guy." This is a departure from Trump's previous antics of imitating Biden on stage at his rallies. The post (VIDEO) Trump Says He Couldn’t See Biden’s Cognitive Decline and That Biden Was “Fine” – “He Was the Same Guy… He Was Never the Sharpest Guy” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Trump official alarms onlookers with claims about a destructive parasite: 'Totally fine'

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Trump official alarms onlookers with claims about a destructive parasite: 'Totally fine'

An uncomfortable description of a threatening parasite by a Trump administration official is drawing startled reactions.Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins spoke at an oversight hearing on Thursday about the spread of the New World Screwworm that threatens cattle ranches."It's a vexing challenge that we thought we had beaten in the 1970s," Rollins said. "You need about 400 million sterile flies per week to mate with the bad flies...the larva [of the screwworm] is what actually eats the flesh."Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) called the confirmation of screwworm "alarming." Oklahoma Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles McCall noted that cattlemen across his state are "extremely nervous, and for good reason.""NEW WORLD Screwworm. Totally fine," political commentator Owen Shroyer posted on X. The account FactPost dug up and posted a Fox News clip of Sec. Rollins saying in November that, "We have screwworm under control.""This is what Trump and his cabinet members ALWAYS do," wrote Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI). "Tell you that a problem is going to resolve itself by a certain time and then hope you forget once that turns out not to be true.""Did the screwworms buy a pardon from Trump?" joked writer Grant Stern.We are treating the confirmed case of New World Screwworm in a Texas cattle ranch with the utmost seriousness and are responding aggressively alongside our state partners @TAHC.USDA's proactive actions bought us nearly a year to prepare, as models had projected New World… pic.twitter.com/Ws5ceLc9ew— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) June 4, 2026

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Republican lawmaker launches $250 million ploy to help Trump rig elections

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Republican lawmaker launches $250 million ploy to help Trump rig elections

A House Republican is drafting legislation to try to bypass Senate rules and advance President Donald Trump’s push to require enhanced voter identification. The bill would cost taxpayers $250 million over five years.According to Politico, U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) is working on the “SAVE America Through REAL ID Act,” which would provide funds for lower-income voters to obtain a REAL ID, while encouraging states to require a REAL ID to vote.“In order to address that one issue, we’ve created this grant program for states to use to help people who meet the income qualifications … to be able to get a free REAL ID,” Fedorchak told Politico. Fedorchak hopes the $250 million price tag will make the legislation eligible to pass in the Senate under the reconciliation process, which requires only a simple majority — thus potentially bypassing the need for any Democratic votes.Fedorchak’s bill would be “an alternative to the proof-of-citizenship and voter-ID mandates in the original SAVE America Act that would likely be excluded from a party-line bill by the Senate parliamentarian,” Politico reports.Politico’s Meredith Lee Hill reported that House GOP leaders were “scrambling to find ways to squeeze pieces of the SAVE America Act into their next party-line bill.” That would include “using funding carrots instead of policy mandates to clear the Senate parliamentarian.”Despite repeated pressure from President Trump, as recently as Thursday afternoon, the SAVE America Act has stalled in the Senate. Trump wants that legislation to require all voters to show voter ID and proof of citizenship, while sharply narrowing the use of mail-in ballots. Trump is also pressing for the bill to ban “men in women’s sports,” and “transgender mutilization [sic] surgery for our children.”Back in February the president vowed the SAVE America Act would pass into law, “one way or another.” Critics see the controversial bill as voter suppression legislation.Democrats oppose the bill in part because it requires a passport or birth certificate to register to vote — something tens of millions of Americans do not currently have, according to voting rights groups. It also narrows generally accepted forms of photo ID to vote.Others oppose it because it requires states to run their voter rolls through federal immigration databases, which reportedly have a high error rate. Critics also say that it creates a large unfunded administrative burden for states.In April, Trump told Republicans that enacting the SAVE Act would “guarantee the midterms” — while claiming that was not the reason he was pushing the bill. “I don’t think you can politically exist if you’re not going to do voter ID and these things.”

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Trump Administration Tries to Shift Blame for Ebola Response

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Trump Administration Tries to Shift Blame for Ebola Response

After cutting its support for frontline healthcare workers in Central Africa, the Trump administration is pointing fingers. The post Trump Administration Tries to Shift Blame for Ebola Response appeared first on The Intercept.

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Trump Suggests “Never Ever” Taking Down White House UFC Ring

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Trump Suggests “Never Ever” Taking Down White House UFC Ring

President Trump loves the UFC ring on the White House South Lawn so much that he thinks it could stay there permanently.On his official TikTok account Tuesday, Trump posted a video titled “MAYBE WE’LL NEVER TAKE IT DOWN,” comparing the arena to France’s Eiffel Tower, which was originally supposed to be temporary but stayed up. Like the tower, Trump said, the arena is “quite attractive to a lot of people” so “maybe we’ll never ever take it down.”“People don’t know that in Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower, 1889 it was built. It was supposed to be taken down immediately after the world’s fair, and then they said … ‘Leave it up a little bit longer, and then they said, ‘Let’s leave it up longer and longer and longer,’” Trump said.“Well, they never took it down, and you know we’re building something in front of the White House that’s quite attractive to a lot of people. Really, it’s going to have the big UFC fight on June 14, and I’m looking at i,t and maybe we’ll never ever take it down,” the president added.The UFC arena is being built for a June 14 fight scheduled as part of Trump’s Freedom 250 festivities, coinciding with Flag Day and Trump’s 80th birthday. Paid for by the UFC’s parent company, TKO Sports, the $60 million arena dwarfs the surrounding landscape and the White House behind it.Is Trump trying to avoid paying for the arena to be taken down? Taxpayers are already expected to foot the bill for security for the fight, which the White House hasn’t said anything about and will probably be quite high. While the Eiffel Tower was only supposed to stay up for 20 years after its construction in 1889, it remains open to the public and is a major tourist attraction.A UFC arena on the White House grounds would be closed to anyone who isn’t authorized by the president to be there. Trump has already turned part of Pennsylvania Avenue into a (ostensibly temporary) parking lot for America 250 events and bulldozed the White House’s East Wing to make room for an unpopular ballroom. What’s another permanent eyesore on what used to be considered the “People’s House”?

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Trump denies China is funding data center opposition movement in US

Washington Examiner

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Trump denies China is funding data center opposition movement in US

President Donald Trump rejected the claim that China is behind the anti-data center fervor sweeping the nation during a Thursday afternoon event at the White House. “We had a great meeting with China, and you know they do things to us, and we do things to them. I say it all the time,” Trump told […]

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Fetterman says he will not vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general

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Fetterman says he will not vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said on Thursday he will not vote to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as the permanent head of the Department of Justice. The admission is notable, considering Fetterman sometimes votes in favor of Trump nominees during the Senate confirmation process. Last year, he was the sole Democrat to back the […]

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Trump stresses Pulte ‘not going to be permanent’ DNI

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Trump stresses Pulte ‘not going to be permanent’ DNI

President Trump said Thursday that his choice to serve as director of national intelligence (DNI), Bill Pulte, would only be a temporary selection amid bipartisan controversy over the pick. Trump said Pulte, who’s currently the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is “very smart” and has “high integrity,” when asked by reporters in the…

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