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Donald Trump threatened to bomb a key US ally in the Middle East if they don't 'behave' while responding to a question about who will control the Strait of Hormuz.

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(VIDEO) Trump Responds to Biden’s Lawsuit to Block Ghostwriter Audio Tapes – Urges Acting AG Blanche to Fight for Release

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(VIDEO) Trump Responds to Biden’s Lawsuit to Block Ghostwriter Audio Tapes – Urges Acting AG Blanche to Fight for Release

President Trump on Wednesday responded to Joe Biden's attempt to hide his ghostwriter interviews from the public during his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, slamming the Democrats for nearly destroying the country. "I would like to see what he has to say because we can never allow what happened to this country to happen," Trump said when asked about the tapes by LindellTV's Cara Castronuova. The post (VIDEO) Trump Responds to Biden’s Lawsuit to Block Ghostwriter Audio Tapes – Urges Acting AG Blanche to Fight for Release appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Hochul, Trump Jr. trade jabs over New York Knicks knowledge

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Hochul, Trump Jr. trade jabs over New York Knicks knowledge

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and Donald Trump Jr. traded barbs Wednesday after the former questioned President Trump’s allegiances to the NBA Finals-bound New York Knicks. When a reporter asked Hochul about the president’s Knicks fandom, she responded that she would “ask him to name the starting lineup of the 1993 championship team and…

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Trump teases attending NY Knicks NBA finals game at Madison Square Garden

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Trump teases attending NY Knicks NBA finals game at Madison Square Garden

President Trump on Wednesday teased taking a trip to New York to see the Knicks play in the NBA finals next week at Madison Square Garden. Trump told reporters at a Cabinet meeting at the White House that he was planning on going to a game this week, but then the team secured a championship…

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Trump could be liable for 'creative crimes' due to his IRS deal: law professor

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Trump could be liable for 'creative crimes' due to his IRS deal: law professor

A controversial agreement granting Donald Trump immunity from IRS audits may ultimately prove worthless, according to University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Kim Wehle, who argues in a new column that it may not stand up to legal scrutiny under what are called "creative crimes."As part of a settlement with Trump over a leaked tax return lawsuit, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed off on an addendum granting the president sweeping tax protections. The IRS agreed to drop all pending audits of Trump — potentially saving him an estimated $100 million in liability — and the one-page document declared the U.S. government is "forever barred and precluded" from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization's tax filings.Writing for The Hill, Wehle's core argument is simple: Trump had no legal authority to grant himself this immunity in the first place. "The whole thing is bogus, so any attempt to use it as a valid legal defense is bogus, too," she wrote.Wehle pointed to Supreme Court precedent suggesting future courts may be willing to invalidate the deal. In July 2024, the Court granted Trump criminal immunity for official acts but explicitly stated that former presidents can still be prosecuted for crimes involving unofficial acts — a category that could theoretically include actions taken to minimize personal tax liability.While "Trump is operating as if he is above the law, there is room for future courts to find liability for 'creative crimes' he commits while in the White House," she elaborated.Even during Trump's first term, when he had a "friendly majority" on the Supreme Court, the justices refused to shield his personal accounting firm from turning over tax returns to congressional committees, the law professor wrote, noting that in 2022 the Court refused to block disclosure of Trump's tax returns and financial records to the House Ways and Means Committee.The critical question, according to Wehle, is not whether Trump currently possesses the constitutional authority to grant himself immunity — he doesn't she maintained — but whether future voters will elect an administration willing to challenge the addendum.If that happens, a future DOJ could argue that the agreement is legally void because Trump lacked authority to execute it. "The government would argue that the addendum should be given no weight because Trump had no legal authority to grant himself such immunity in the first place," Wehle explained.Trump's defense team would inevitably seek to invoke the addendum as a legal shield, but that defense would rest on a fundamentally flawed legal foundation. The deal represents Trump attempting to immunize himself unilaterally — an act that legal scholars argue exceeds presidential authority and could be dismantled by future courts or administrations, Wehle suggested.

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Stephen Miller hit with devastating clapback after wildly false claim about candidate

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Stephen Miller hit with devastating clapback after wildly false claim about candidate

The Democratic National Committee didn't reach for a policy argument when White House senior adviser Stephen Miller deliberately misgendered Texas Senate nominee James Talarico on Wednesday. They went straight for the jugular.After the DNC posted a photo of Talarico — a cisgender man — declaring it was "time to take back Texas," Miller fired back with a false claim: "The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate." The DNC's response was five words: "shut up you ugly f—."Miller's post was no accident. It's the latest escalation in a coordinated Republican effort to paint the Democratic nominee as outside the mainstream — and it comes as the GOP appears increasingly rattled by the state of the race.Polling shows Talarico leading Paxton by as much as 8 points, while Paxton's net favorability sits 9 points underwater compared to Talarico's +10. Talarico has raised more than $27 million in the first three months of 2026, dwarfing Paxton's $2.2 million haul during the same period.Republicans have responded with a kitchen-sink assault. The NRSC launched a deepfake attack ad depicting an AI-generated version of Talarico reading his own social media posts, with the committee branding him "the most radical, woke Democrat Texas voters have ever seen." Paxton debuted a string of nicknames at a victory rally — "Tofu Talarico," "Six-gender James," and "Tala-freak-o" — seizing on a resurfaced 2021 legislative statement in which Talarico argued that modern science recognizes more than two biological sexes.Political journalist David Weigel noted the subtext of the GOP attacks has rapidly become text — that Republican messaging has consistently sought to cast Talarico as effeminate or queer.Talarico has pushed back, accusing Paxton of "intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption." Even Karl Rove has warned that with Paxton as the nominee, Democrats have a real shot.Miller's post drew immediate corrections across social media, including from Rowan Fornow, a digital organizer for a Utah congressional campaign, who noted that the first transgender Senate candidate was actually Misty Snow of Utah, who ran in 2016.

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Trump ally's 'freak' slur earns epic Epstein putdown from Dem star

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Trump ally's 'freak' slur earns epic Epstein putdown from Dem star

Republicans have indicated they intend to portray Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico as a "freak," but he pushed back strongly against his GOP rival in Texas, Ken Paxton.The Donald Trump-endorsed Texas attorney general Paxton slurred the state legislator as "Tala-freako" in his victory speech after beating Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a closely watched GOP runoff election.Talarico leveled an attack of his own after Paxton and other Republicans smeared him in thinly veiled homophobic language."If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles," Talarico told CBS News. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton's wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case. Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry."Paxton’s office took over the case about three years ago after the locally elected district attorney recused himself, and Hoffman was released from jail this week after serving just under half of a 60-day sentence handed down as part of a plea agreement last month.The 49-year-old Hoffman, a former attorney in Waco, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of indecent assault and displaying harmful materials to a minor, both Class A misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail, as part of an agreement offered by Paxton's office after his trial on first-degree sexual abuse of a young child charges ended in June 2025 in a mistrial.Hoffman had been facing life without parole until Paxton's office reduced the charges in exchange for his guilty pleas, despite a friend of the defendant's son testifying that Hoffman had sexually assaulted him repeatedly over a three-year period starting when the boy was in third grade. - YouTube www.youtube.com

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Trump REJECTS Iran's latest peace proposal with ominous joke that Pete Hegseth 'loves war': 'We are not satisfied'

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Trump REJECTS Iran's latest peace proposal with ominous joke that Pete Hegseth 'loves war': 'We are not satisfied'

President Donald Trump issued a chilling warning to Iran during a high-stakes Cabinet meeting today, rejecting Tehran's latest diplomatic overtures.

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In Cornyn’s Enormous Loss, Proof of Trump’s Hold Over G.O.P. Base

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In Cornyn’s Enormous Loss, Proof of Trump’s Hold Over G.O.P. Base

Senator John Cornyn lost to his MAGA-aligned challenger, Ken Paxton, by 28 percentage points. It was a historically poor showing.

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