British Defense Secretary John Healey RESIGNS Over Starmer’s Insufficient Defense Investment Plan That ‘Will Make the Country Less Safe’
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Embattled Starmer’s government suffers yet another blow.
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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that President Donald Trump is a traitor for refusing to release the Epstein files to protect his associates. Greene said Trump called her a traitor for urging transparency, but she countered, arguing those covering up the files — including the President — are the real traitors. "He told me on the phone that his friends would get hurt, and that's why he's against releasing the Epstein files," explained Greene. She criticized Trump for campaigning as a drain the swamp candidate while allegedly working to suppress documents. Greene argued, those refusing to release the files are covering for pedophiles and rapists, making them traitors to the American people.Collins pressed Greene directly, "You think the President is a traitor," to which Greene affirmed her position, highlighting the contradiction between Trump's transparency campaign promises and his actions blocking file release.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Donald Trump looked at America’s 250th birthday and neurotically concluded that he’s the main attraction.A celebration intended to honor the founding of the United States is rapidly being repackaged as a celebration of Trump himself: his movement, his grievances, his white supremacy, his misogyny, and his power. Every new announcement, from the MAGA rallies to the vanity projects to the carefully choreographed spectacles on the National Mall and White House lawn, reinforces the same message: this is no longer about America turning 250. It’s about Trump making sure America spends its 250th birthday talking about Trump and the power of white men.And if that sounds familiar, it should. Washington has seen this kind of political pageantry before.The misogynists, racists, and fascists are taking over Washington, D.C. this summer, and the parallel to the massive Klan rally of August 1925, staged under another Republican president who declined to denounce it is the script. On that August day a hundred and one summers ago, somewhere between thirty- and forty-thousand Ku Klux Klan members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue twenty-two abreast and fourteen rows deep, ending at the base of the Washington Monument. President Calvin Coolidge refused to condemn them. Their version of America was defined entirely by exclusion: not Black Americans, not Catholics, not Jews, not immigrants, not organized labor, not anyone outside their narrow tribal vision of who counted. That night they burned crosses in Arlington while the band played “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and “America.”A century later, the same Mall is being prepared for the same kind of show, and the artists scheduled to perform are figuring it out and getting out as fast as they can. Within forty-eight hours of the lineup announcement for what Trump’s people are calling the “Great American State Fair” on the National Mall, the Commodores, Martina McBride, Morris Day and the Time, Bret Michaels of Poison, Young MC, and Jodie Rocco of Milli Vanilli all put out statements saying they’d been misled, that nobody told them the event was a Trump-branded MAGA operation. Young MC told Rolling Stone it was a bait-and-switch. The Commodores said their music has always been their voice and they wouldn’t lend it to a single political party.Trump’s response was telling. He didn’t try to recruit new acts or apologize for the confusion. He went on his failing Nazi-infested social media site and demanded the whole concert series be scrapped, replaced with what he called “a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250.” Then he announced he’d personally headline the June 24 opening ceremony himself. The mask came off in about seventy-two hours. The 250th anniversary of American independence has been openly converted into a Trump fascist-fest, and only white MAGA who love to see gladiators beat each other bloody and senseless need apply.Louise and I lived in Washington during the Obama years, and we visited just about every monument the city has, sometimes more than once. We were invited to the White House, and walking up that long drive past the East Wing (which is now rubble) always felt like walking into something larger than any single president. The Lincoln Memorial at dusk, when the reflecting pool went dark and the seated figure of Lincoln doubled itself on that still water, was the kind of place where Americans of every stripe stood quietly together and remembered who we were supposed to be. That reflecting pool, finished in 1923, has held the gravity of Marian Anderson’s 1939 Easter Sunday concert when she’d been denied the stage at Constitution Hall because she was Black, and the gravity of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, and every quiet sunset visit by every family who came to the Mall to feel something solemn about this country.Trump has now had that pool painted blue at a cost he claims is around two million dollars, the same shade you’d find at the kid’s pool in a discount motel. He calls it “American flag blue.” Right. He drove his motorcade across the wet coating before it set, climbed out, and held a press conference standing in the middle of the pool with his cabinet secretaries around him, and now we’re paying to repair that damage, too. He told reporters the old gray stone was “never good.” That dark surface that turned itself into a mirror for Lincoln’s face for over a century, he claimed, was “never good.” The Cultural Landscape Foundation has sued to stop his desecration because the project skipped the federal review process that exists precisely to prevent a president from treating a national memorial like the patio renovation at one of his gaudy golf motels.The June 24 event will be Trump in front of a crowd at the National Mall, hand-picked artists who didn’t pull out, and a brand of “patriotism” carefully scrubbed of anyone who might complicate the picture. The “State Fair” will run sixteen days. Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida are still on the bill.
A group of 10 Democratic senators and the party's top election lawyers quietly convened to game out responses to what they fear could be an unprecedented attempt to disrupt or overturn the results of this fall's midterm elections.The closed-door session, first reported by Politico, brought together a roster of high-profile legal and political strategists, including former Attorney General Eric Holder and prominent Democratic election attorney Marc Elias, to walk senators through a series of extreme yet increasingly plausible scenarios. Among them: armed federal agents stationed at polling locations, the Justice Department seizing ballots in competitive races and a foreign-backed disinformation campaign powered by AI-generated deepfakes."Trump has talked about stealing the election, violating the election, perverting the election, over and over again," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who convened last week's meeting. "We are going to be prepared for anything that he throws at us."The tabletop exercises, the first major effort from an election-protection task force Schumer launched earlier this year, produced concrete legal playbooks. Participants mapped out injunctions to block armed agents or citizens from appearing at voting sites, and drafted lawsuit strategies to compel the Trump administration to return ballots if confiscated in key battleground contests. They also coordinated messaging plans to counter disinformation in real time across campaigns, elected officials and advocacy groups.Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) were among those who participated, and a second exercise is already being scheduled for July.The urgency behind the effort stems from a string of actions the Trump administration has already taken. It has seized 2020 ballots from swing counties in Georgia and Arizona, sought confidential voter files from nearly every state, and pushed executive orders aimed at restricting mail-in voting and federalizing parts of the election process. When asked last month whether he would send troops or immigration agents to polling sites, Trump said he would do "anything necessary" to ensure honest elections.Democrats are careful to acknowledge the limits of their power as the minority party — they cannot force hearings, and most legal battles are expected to be fought by state attorneys general and outside groups rather than Congress. Some in the party have also privately warned against catastrophizing the issue, noting it could suppress Democratic turnout as much as Republican tactics.“This administration is one that wants people to feel alone, they want people to be afraid," said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, who took part in the war games. “This exercise is actually an exercise in confidence and trustbuilding."But Schumer signaled the preparations will continue regardless."We know that the threats are broad," Schumer said. "They evolve, and we're preparing for them."
For weeks now, Democrats have been trying to convince Americans that President Donald Trump is somehow faking being a fan of the New York Knicks -- simply because of the team's run in the NBA playoffs.
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A judge refused to block the Trump administration’s anti-weaponization fund, reasoning that there was no need to, but said he would take action if the effort was revived. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, shot down a watchdog’s request on the grounds that the Trump administration was no longer pursuing the […]
American political history is rife with examples of corruption. The period after the Civil War was known then as the Great Barbecue, when ethics broke down in public life. There were embezzling treasurers, bribe-giving lobbyists, purchased newspapermen, and swindlers at the public trough. But the Trump administration has just tried to pull off a corrupt deal so brazen it would make Reconstruction-era crooks blush. Good people, including West Virginia’s Congressional delegation, cannot look the other way.In West Virginia, we’ve had our share of corruption, but usually we have been able to right the ship and send the scoundrels packing, sometimes off to jail. Neither political party is immune. We’ve sent Governors Wally Barron (a Democrat) and Arch Moore (a Republican) to prison. And the entire political structure of Logan County has to be cleaned out periodically. But Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and his proposed settlement are something else entirely. They set up a massive raid on the U.S. Treasury to be paid for by taxpayers.Trump v. Internal Revenue ServiceMost Presidential candidates disclose their tax returns. Trump frequently promised to do so, but never did. No wonder. In 2016 and again in 2017, Trump, a billionaire, paid $750 in taxes. In 10 of the previous 15 years, he paid no taxes whatsoever. We know this because a contractor for the IRS copied and then disclosed Trump’s tax returns to the news media. This was a crime, and the contractor is now serving a five-year sentence.In January 2026, Trump sued the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion. He did this as a private citizen, not as president. In his lawsuit, Trump claimed that the contractor was an IRS employee who was improperly supervised. But the last time I checked, President Trump was in charge of the entire executive branch, including the Treasury Department and the IRS. He appointed the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of the IRS and can remove them whenever they displease him. So Trump is essentially suing himself. But wait, the cheese gets even stinkier.A court has no jurisdiction over a made-up controversy because there is no true adversity to resolve. That would include situations where one party is trying to sue himself, say to recover insurance money. When Trump v. IRS was filed, the judge questioned whether this was just such a made-up case. But before the Justice Department answered the judge’s concern, or put up the first defense, the parties announced that they had “settled” the case and asked the judge to dismiss it. The lawyers for the American people caved to a lawsuit filed by their boss without a fight.Terms of the settlementNeither Trump’s lawyers nor the Justice Department disclosed the settlement agreement to the judge. If they had, she would have seen that Trump demanded a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people he believes were unfairly treated by the federal government, including the people who were involved in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. These are the same people who attacked police, paraded through the Capitol with Confederate flags, and defecated on the floor. Many of them were convicted of federal crimes for this, but were later pardoned by our President. This giveaway would be funded by U.S. taxpayers.In response to a huge backlash on this proposed compensation fund for criminals, even from his own party, Trump is backing down — for now. This followed a ruling in Virginia on May 29 that halted any activity to set up the fund or make payments from it. But in testimony before Congress, Todd Blanche, acting head of the Justice Department, refused to put in writing that the Trump Administration is abandoning the idea permanently.There is a second aspect of the settlement Trump refuses to abandon that is blatantly corrupt. Trump demanded a provision in the settlement agreement that the U.S. be “forever barred and precluded” from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization over past tax filings. This is complete overreach. Immunity from past tax infractions has nothing to do with the leak of Trump’s tax returns, which was the reason for the lawsuit in the first place. But the Justice Department was happy to give Trump anything he wanted.An IRS inquiry now pending could reveal that Trump owes over $100 million in tax liability, penalties, and interest. Who will make up for the shortfall in revenue if these millions aren’t paid? The taxpayers will. The Wall Street Journal has called this deal “extraordinary and unprecedented.” The New York Times called the immunity from audit a “staggering public benefit.” Why should Trump get a deal no other taxpayer can get, at huge taxpayer expense, to settle a made-up lawsuit? He got this self-serving deal because he controls almost everyone involved in making it.Where we go from hereBut Trump does not control the federal judge who is presiding in the case.
The Trump administration was forced to publicly declare the $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization" slush fund canceled after widespread and bipartisan outrage from the public and lawmakers over the idea that tax money would be diverted to pay off Trump's allies. But Justice Department officials have revealed it's not actually dead — just under wraps.According to The Atlantic, eight Trump administration insiders "said that Justice Department officials and people close to the White House have indicated that the payout idea has not actually been scrapped. Rather, they say, officials are exploring whether elements of the fund can be reactivated while also examining alternative arrangements to make sure loyalists get compensated."These officials said the plans to pay off Trump allies on the side are "being kept quiet while the Trump administration waits for opposition to the fund to blow over," and particularly until Todd Blanche has been confirmed as attorney general permanently, out of fear a handful of maverick Republicans like Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) could block the process.One proposal for how it would work would be that the same people who would have applied to the "Anti-Weaponization fund" would simply file lawsuits against the administration, which the DOJ would then quickly settle and pay out through other existing compensation funds.All of this comes after Senate Republicans decided against including language limiting the fund in their reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement, using the justification that the administration had agreed not to move forward with the fund.It also comes as a federal judge in Washington, D.C., declined to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the fund for the same reason — but warned the Justice Department not to "play possum" with the fund and enact it through other means.
The Maine Senate race between Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Democratic challenger Graham Platner is on, with Platner winning his primary with more than 70% of the vote despite numerous scandals. Platner’s supporters have stuck by him after sexually explicit texts, reports of physically and emotionally abusive behavior toward ex-girlfriends, a since-covered Nazi tattoo, and […]
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