June 3 (UPI) — Actor Shia LaBeouf pleaded guilty Wednesday to three charges of battery related to a Mardi Gras fight in New Orleans, his attorney announced. The post Shia LaBeouf Pleaded Guilty, Avoids Jail Time After Violent Mardi Gras Rampage appeared first on Breitbart.
Republican Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke about Congress' War Powers vote and warns that it could 'undermine' and 'take away leverage' from President Donald Trump during ongoing negotiations with Iran. He speaks with Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz on Bloomberg's Balance of Power. (Source: Bloomberg)
Four illegal alien gang members with Tren de Aragua, three of whom were released into the United States by the Biden administration, have pleaded guilty to a double murder in the sanctuary jurisdiction of New York City, New York. The post Biden-Released Illegal Alien Tren de Aragua Gang Members Plead Guilty to Double Murder in NYC appeared first on Breitbart.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Chicago arrested Luis Manuel Saucedo-Cardenas. The violent illegal alien felon and suspected former gang member was intentionally released by the Chicago Police Department. The troubling occurrence is repeating itself in multiple sanctuary jurisdictions across the country. The post Exclusive: ICE Nabs Violent Criminal Illegal Alien After Sanctuary Chicago Authorities Set Him Free appeared first on Breitbart.
Marco Rubio just refused to provide a clear answer regarding the administration’s plans for Cuba.The state secretary appeared before Congress Wednesday for the second day in a row as part of the executive branch’s efforts to defend its $2.2 trillion budget request for 2027. But Rubio’s seemingly endless talking points abruptly ended when he was asked a yes or no question by Representative Jonathan Jackson about whether the White House will invade Cuba.“In closing, I’d like to ask you, will you invade Cuba?” asked Jackson.“Well, I have one second to answer. What do I do?” mused Rubio.“Will you invade Cuba?” pressed Jackson.“That’s not the only thing you said,” Rubio said, before committee Chairman Brian Mast took the reins of the exchange. Rubio never provided a deeper explanation on the president’s aims for Cuba, but attacking America’s Communist Caribbean neighbor is apparently not off the table. Donald Trump told reporters at the White House in March—while Cuba was struggling with an unprecedented economic crisis made worse by America’s Venezuelan oil blockade—that he expected to have the “honor” of “taking Cuba in some form.” “I do believe I’ll be … having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form,” Trump said at the time. “I mean, whether I free it, take it. Think I can do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth.”Months later, in May, White House officials told Politico that what had originated as mild musings had since morphed into a genuine interest inside the Oval Office.“The mood has definitely changed,” the person familiar with the White House’s discussions said. “The initial idea on Cuba was that the leadership was weak and that the combination of stepped-up sanctions enforcement, really an oil blockade, and clear U.S. military wins in Venezuela and Iran would scare the Cubans into making a deal. Now Iran has gone sideways, and the Cubans are proving much tougher than originally thought. So now military action is on the table in a way that it wasn’t before.”The conversations took place around the same time that the Justice Department indicted Cuba’s former President Raúl Castro, sparking concerns that the Trump administration would extract and abduct him as it did former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Normalization of diplomatic and commercial relations between the US and Russia has stalled – but it’s not dead. The post Russian Foreign Ministry Says Moscow and Washington Avoided ‘Fatal Breakdown’ in Relations With Secret Talks Last Week appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Donald Trump told a reporter on Wednesday that the January 6th insurrection, which Trump instigated to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, was conducted by people who “went there with love.”After CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Trump to confirm that his $1.8 billion slush fund to insurrectionists is indeed dead, Trump said he’d need to check with his lawyers before attacking the people behind the fund.“As far as I'm concerned, it was a beautiful thing,” Trump told Collins. “It was something I was — I didn't make it, but I was — I heard that — I thought that was the greatest thing, because people like you have abused our people so badly. The fake news, like CNN, like the New York Times, and like others, have abused our people.”After telling the assembled journalists to be quiet, Trump claimed that they “have abused our people so badly, and you should be ashamed of yourself. You. You used to be a conservative. She was a conservative from Alabama — can you believe it? But CNN in particular — CNN does such false reporting. But now they have new ownership, so maybe it'll straighten it out. I doubt it, but it's hard to straighten garbage out.”Trump’s reference to CNN’s “new ownership” involves David and Larry Ellison, the billionaire Oracle founder and his son, who have reportedly promised Trump they would fire journalists he dislikes much as they allegedly have gutted CBS News at his behest.“These are people that are great people, that would — destroy their families, have been destroyed, many suicides,” Trump wrote. “They committed suicide, people that went there with love. They went there with love.”He added, “You know, when I made that speech earlier in the day — tremendous crowd. I hate to say it because they'll say, ‘Oh, I was wrong on the number,’ but I believe it's the largest crowd I've ever spoken to, by — by twice. The biggest crowd, I think, bigger than the inaugurations, bigger than anything. And there was so much love and friendship. It was the most amazing thing. People were crying.”After again insisting that he be allowed to finish, Trump concluded that “those people have been abused by you, and by others, and by the politicians, by the Democrats, and dumb people. They want to have open borders. They want to have transgender utilization of your children. They want to have men playing in women's sports. They want to have high taxes. They turn down — you know, they fought us on the tax bill, and they fought us because they want people to pay high taxes. Because they're crazy. There's something wrong with them. There's something wrong with you. It's a shame.”Users on X immediately blasted Trump’s statements.Nothing says "love" like poop on Pelosi's desk, a Capitol Police Officer getting his eye gouged, and a bespoke guillotine for the VP," posted one critic on X, immediately after Trump's claim went live.Similarly, another critic posted “a day of love” next to a GIF of the insurrectionists breaking down Capitol doors, and @JumboElliott76 posted: “Bragging about an attempted insurrection. We're in the stupidest time.”While Trump claims that his $1.8 billion slush fund no longer exists, insiders are skeptical. Trump created the fund by suing his own IRS for $10 billion and then having his own Justice Department, which was assigned to defend the IRS, reach a settlement with him. They rushed to do so before May 20th because the presiding judge demanded they appear before her by that date in order to make sure the deal was legal.“You only need to look at Donald Trump's long history of lies… to disbelieve the notion that the settlement fund and everything associated with it is going to vanish,” Norm Eisen, co-founder and board member of Democracy Defenders Action, said in a statement. “We are fighting to erase the slush fund. It's a disgrace.” Eisen added that forbidding the IRS from investigating Trump or his family is “the worst example of corruption in the history of the American presidency.” - YouTube www.youtube.com
President Donald Trump was pressed in an interview published on Wednesday about the soaring inflation caused by his deeply unpopular war against Iran and its impact on Americans, a line of questioning the president responded to by blurting out a blatant falsehood – one that coincided with reports that directly contradicted his claim.“In your first term, I think that was one of the hallmarks, that peoples' wages – especially working peoples' wages – were rising much faster than inflation,” said The New York Post’s Miranda Devine in a video interview recorded in the White House.Last week, CNBC reported that inflation in the United States had reached a three-year high, citing data released by the Commerce Department. Furthermore, inflation outpaced wage growth for the first time since 2023 per the same data.And yet, despite the data coming from Trump’s own administration, he insisted that the opposite was true.“It's happening now!” Trump falsely claimed, arguing that wage growth was outpacing inflation despite the evidence to the contrary.“We don't have very much inflation. Look, if you take away just the price of gasoline, the energy, we have very little inflation, we're doing very well other than this. That's a big puller – energy and gasoline and all that – that's a big factor.”Trump then offered a prediction he’s shared countless times in the past – that the price of oil would come down “rapidly” once he ends his war against Iran – before bragging about pre-war gasoline prices and insisting the current surge was "not a big price to pay."“When it ends, we'll have a situation where Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and that's really more important than all of it,” Trump said. “We want low gasoline – I had it down to $1.85 a gallon! Think of it, $1.85 in Iowa just before the war started! And it'll be back there again at some point in the probably not-too-distant future.”Devine: In your first term one of the hallmarks was that peoples' wages were rising much faster than inflationTrump: It's happening now! We don't have very much inflation. Look, if you take away just the price of gasoline, the energy, we have very little inflation. pic.twitter.com/28oOjJViRq— Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) June 3, 2026
A measure to direct the president to halt U.S. engagement in Iran had been on track to pass in late May, but Republican leaders postponed action. They have run out of time to delay the vote.