A Salvadoran illegal alien, who was issued a final order of removal in 1998, yet remained in the country, was indicted on Tuesday after raping a 16-year-old girl in Huntington, Long Island, New York, while she was walking home. Antonio Melendez Reyes, 59, has been indicted on charges of rape, sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child after the June 6 rape. The post NEW: ICE Lodges Detainer Request for Illegal Alien Arrested After Raping 16-Year-Old Girl in New York – Immigration Judge Ordered Alien’s Removal Nearly 30 Years Ago appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The plaintiff in the case, Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, said by refusing to take steps to resume shows, the Kennedy Center is in violation of a previous court order.
An illegal alien living in Knoxville, was arrested back in late March for the hit-and-run death of an elderly pedestrian in Sevierville. The post HORROR: Illegal Alien with Long Rap Sheet Arrested For Fatally Striking Elderly Pedestrian in Tennessee and Fleeing Scene appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Trump claimed on Saturday that multiple individuals have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as he seeks to deflect blame for ongoing water quality and maintenance problems stemming from a recent multi-million renovation project. “The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Pool,” Trump…
Donald Trump returned to his favorite subject Saturday evening, and his account of the great Reflecting Pool conspiracy grew more elaborate with every sentence. In a lengthy Truth Social post, the president announced that "many additional people have been arrested" over what he called "the disgraceful Vandalism of our beautiful Reflecting Pool," then offered a list of crimes that has expanded well beyond the algae and peeling paint that started the whole saga.According to Trump, the vandals did not merely tamper with the water. They "took some form of knife or blade" and carved a "250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade," and they "poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the Pool." He framed the alleged sabotage as an insult to history, writing that the damage was "a true affront to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly." He added that he met with contractors and may be "forced to release and drain much of the water" to complete repairs.The president also delivered a characteristic burst of self-praise wrapped around a shaky history lesson. He claimed the pool "hasn't looked or worked like this since 1922, when it was originally built," insisted his version "worked perfectly, including the mirror like finish," and declared it had never been "so beautiful as it was just one week ago." That timeline quietly undercuts itself, since a structure that worked perfectly a week ago would most likely not need to be drained and repaired now.What Trump did not provide, once again, was evidence. The only confirmed arrest so far is David Hearn, a 67-year-old cyclist and former Olympian charged with a misdemeanor after he touched a piece of paint that had already come loose, an accusation he denies. A second man was reportedly cited for putting his hand in the water. Neither episode resembles a knife-wielding chemical attack on a national monument.
Mary Trump has spent years telling anyone who will listen that her uncle cannot bear to be seen losing. This week she pointed to a tarp draped over the Kennedy Center as her latest exhibit.In the newest edition of her newsletter, the segment she calls "Trump Trolls Trump," the clinical psychologist and niece of the president argued that the covering left over the building's facade was not about construction logistics. It was about ego. Crews began stripping Donald Trump's name off the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after a federal judge ruled the renaming illegal, and Mary Trump claimed the tarp stayed up for a revealing reason. Because he is "such an insecure, thin skinned baby," she wrote, "they left the tarp up so we cannot actually watch Donald's letters being removed."It is the kind of read that lands differently coming from her than from an ordinary commentator. As the president's niece and the author of a bestselling book diagnosing the psychology of her own family, Mary Trump has built her public profile on the argument that her uncle's behavior is driven by a fragile need to never appear weak. The tarp, in her telling, is that need made physical.The underlying events are not in dispute. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper determined that the president's name had been illegally added to the center, after a board stacked with Trump loyalists voted in December 2025 to rebrand it. The court ordered the name removed and blocked the administration's plan to close the venue for a lengthy renovation. After a last-minute scramble of appeals and a requested extension blamed on thunderstorms, workers began prying the lettering off the facade in the early hours of June 13, with scaffolding and tarp covering the wall.Mary Trump found the cover-up almost too fitting. The same tarp meant to spare her uncle the indignity of watching his own name come down, she noted, also blocks the public from seeing the name of the man the building was actually built to honor. "We cannot see the name of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," she wrote, "the man for whom the Kennedy Center was actually named."She returned to the theme that animates her entire project: a man who treats every loss as something to be hidden, spun, or blamed on someone else. Throughout the newsletter she refers to him only as "Donald," a small but deliberate choice that keeps the family relationship in the frame and strips away the deference of his title.Her broader point was not subtle. The week, she argued, was a parade of self-inflicted embarrassments dressed up as strength, "corruption masquerading as governance" and "incompetence disguised as confidence." The Kennedy Center tarp simply gave her the cleanest image for it.The claim that the tarp was kept up to shield Trump's feelings is Mary Trump's interpretation, not a stated explanation from the administration, which has cited the appeals process and the building's condition.
Of all the people Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could have compared Donald Trump to, he reportedly landed on the one name engineered to make a Republican flinch: George Soros.According to "Regime Change," the new account of Trump's second term by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Bessent told associates that Trump reminded him of his old boss, the billionaire investor and Democratic megadonor the right has spent two decades casting as its all-purpose supervillain. "They are the same animal," Bessent said, per the book.That is a striking thing for any sitting Trump official to put into words, and it lands even harder coming from Bessent, who built part of his Wall Street career working for Soros before he ran the Treasury. When he went looking for something to capture Trump, in other words, he picked the man whose name conservative fundraising emails use as shorthand for everything they claim to be fighting. The comparison is, by the book's account, his private assessment of the president he serves.The Soros line is the most quietly damaging revelation, but it is not the only one. "Regime Change," set for worldwide release Tuesday, also reports that Bessent had blunt and unkind things to say about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the run-up to the infamous February 2025 Oval Office meeting.Bessent, the authors write, had strongly urged Trump not to even let Zelenskyy into the White House until he had signed a minerals deal the treasury secretary had drafted. Behind closed doors, his language about the wartime leader was harsher still. "I've dealt with this little f------," Bessent reportedly told associates, calling Zelenskyy "tricky," describing him as "the special-needs child for the Europeans," and saying he was "acting like Mr Bean on crack."Zelenskyy came anyway, and the meeting collapsed in real time as Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated him for insufficient gratitude and for not wearing a suit. Bessent was also in the room. Afterward he told Bloomberg that Zelenskyy had scored "one of the great diplomatic own goals," professing himself "shocked, shocked" at the visitor's conduct.
President Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism.
More arrests were made on Saturday at the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, as law enforcement cracks down on vandals destroying the new renovations. At least two, including former Olympian David Hearn, were arrested on Saturday after destroying the rubber sealant at the bottom of the pool and attempting to stop workers from clearing algae. The post (VIDEO) Several More Arrested at Reflecting Pool for Attempting to Rip Sealant Out appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.