Trump issues pardon to Indiana’s former GOP Rep. Stephen Buyer

Trump officials' cell phone habits made them vulnerable to 'unhinged' spying campaign: NYT

The New York Times on Saturday added significant new detail to a bombshell report first published by NBC News — and covered by Raw Story — revealing that the Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to "critical," its highest level.The most striking addition: a senior U.S. official's characterization of what Israel has been doing. The aggressiveness of Israeli intelligence collection on top Trump administration officials, the official told the Times, has been "unhinged."The Times also identified the specific American officials Israel is believed to have targeted: Steve Witkoff, Trump's chief Iran negotiator; Elbridge A. Colby, the Pentagon's top policy official; and Colby's deputy for Middle East policy, Michael P. DiMino IV.The paper also reports American personnel in Israel found that software to intercept their communications had been installed on their phones.That last detail underscores what officials described as a self-inflicted vulnerability. Senior Trump officials have routinely conducted national security business on personal cellphones, flown on private aircraft, and declined embassy staffing support abroad — habits that make them easy targets, according to the new report."The tendency of some senior Trump administration officials to fly on private aircraft, to conduct national security business on their personal phones and to reject staffing from U.S. embassies abroad made them especially vulnerable targets," a former senior official told the Times."Other current officials also acknowledged the use of personal cellphones by top American officials have made them easy targets for eavesdropping," the Times states.Israel's threat designation now stands higher than any other U.S. ally and higher than some adversaries, the report notes. The Pentagon declined to comment. The White House called the account false. Israel's embassy said Israel "does not gather intelligence on American entities, let alone U.S. government officials."

Iran Demands Billions in Deal Talks — U.S. Intercepts Missiles as Trump Envoys Meet Nuclear Experts

Iran is demanding the release of $24 billion in frozen assets as a condition for advancing a potential agreement with Washington, while U.S. forces intercepted Iranian missiles and drones targeting Kuwait, Bahrain, and maritime traffic near the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald Trump's top envoys quietly convened nuclear experts to prepare for the possible implementation of a deal. The post Iran Demands Billions in Deal Talks — U.S. Intercepts Missiles as Trump Envoys Meet Nuclear Experts appeared first on Breitbart.

25th Amendment calls swirl as Trump seems to forget name of Washington Monument

A clip from President Donald Trump's Friday agriculture roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, spread quickly online, with critics saying it showed the president struggling to recall the name of the Washington Monument.The video, shared by liberal account Acyn, shows Trump holding up a picture of his Reflecting Pool renovation."It was going to take four years, $400 million. It took really about a month, ok? Can you imagine? Washington, between Lincoln — think of Washington, D.C. between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington ... think about this," the president said, stammering. "You know that beautiful spire in honor of the great George Washington? And the beautiful Lincoln Memorial. So between there, thousands of feet long. It was built in 1922, and to be honest, it never really worked. It leaked like a sieve."Trump had traveled to the battleground state to court farmers facing economic strain, but spent much of the event touting his Washington beautification projects — including, per CNN, telling the room about the capital's newly working fountains and reflecting pool renovations.That disconnect drew sharp reactions. Andrew Bates, a former Biden White House deputy press secretary, wrote that Trump's "message to the farmers paying higher prices is that he's having fun redecorating DC with taxpayer money."The clip quickly drew a wave of mockery from Trump critics online. Progressive influencer Harry Sisson wrote on X, "25th Amendment now. This is tough to watch."The progressive news outlet MeidasTouch wrote, "Looks like he just failed a cognitive exam."Progressive attorney Aaron Parnas wrote on X, "The President of the United States has serious cognitive decline and it's on full display for the world to see."Hemant Mehta, a former Jeopardy! champion and YouTuber, wrote on X, "He’s on the verge of not being able to name the son who’s named after him."Jim Stewartson, who writes about the psychological war on democracy, wrote on X, "This demented old man is hopped up on Adderrall which helps with energy but not cognitive decline. Watching this is deeply embarrassing. He has no idea how to escape from the mess he’s made, so he perseverates on things that give him comfort. He is completely dysfunctional."Wow Trump struggles to remember the name of the Washington Monument: pic.twitter.com/dDPuWew1qd— Acyn (@Acyn) June 5, 2026

Trump thanks himself in post about his takeover of part of Lincoln Memorial

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to announce the completion of work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — and used the occasion to both thank himself by name and note that a stretch of the historic monument's grounds would henceforth bear his name. "Thank you President Trump, thank you Department of the Interior," Trump wrote, crediting his own administration in the third person before pivoting to the news buried in the post: the forthcoming "Trump Promenade at The Lincoln Memorial." The pool, Trump claimed, was originally opened in 1922 but had "never functioned properly" — a claim that may surprise the tens of millions of visitors who have gazed into its waters over the past century, including the hundreds of thousands who gathered there for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. Trump described the pool's surface as "very complex, but powerful, Dark Blue" before workers submerged it in what he called "CLEAN, BEAUTIFUL WATER" — a standard feature of reflecting pools. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum was on hand for the inspection, riding alongside workers in what appeared to be an off-road utility vehicle flying an American flag, with the Washington Monument visible in the background. The announcement did not stop at the promenade. Trump also teased the "Triumphal Arch" and his "White House Ballroom," claiming that when completed, these projects would constitute "the Greatest Structure in Washington" — a city that already contains, among other things, the Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial itself. The renaming of public lands and federal monuments after Trump has accelerated in his second term. The administration has already moved to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," among many other proposals. The Lincoln Memorial, completed in 1922, is administered by the National Park Service and was dedicated to the 16th president. It is unclear what congressional or regulatory process, if any, was used to authorize naming a portion of it after the 47th.

Trump AI Policy Adviser Krishnan Is Giving Up White House Role

Sriram Krishnan, a top White House adviser on artificial intelligence, is stepping down from the post.

Trump Announces AI Leaders White House Visit

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Wisconsin on Friday, President Trump announced that top artificial intelligence leaders will visit the White House next week to discuss how the technology can benefit Americans. (Source: Bloomberg)

Trump Administration, U.S. Military Celebrate D-Day Anniversary

'Who is their press person?' GOP insider stumped by Ivanka Trump interview

An amused Democratic strategist and an appalled Republican Party strategist agreed on MS NOW that Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, hurt both her own image and damaged the Trump administration with a decision to boast about the purchase of an island when Americans can’t fill their gas tanks.In a clip from the David Senora podcast earlier in the week, the woman known as the first daughter expressed her joy at discovering the 1,400-acre luxury Mediterranean island off the coast of Albania where she and her husband Jared Kushner hope to build a resort.“For me, it feels more like a challenge than anything else. The culmination of all of my experience in real estate, all of my travel, a lot of reflection on how I want to live, how I think people increasingly are wanting to live, and trying to really build something that’s a tangible manifestation of that,” she joyously recalled.After watching the clip with MS NOW’s Alex Witt, former House Speaker John Boehner adviser Maura Gillespie has a few critical things to say. “I just don't, I don't understand why she would go out and do an interview about this,” she began. “I mean, it comes across so tone deaf. She's not a, you know, leader or an elected official, but she obviously is the president's daughter.”“And by doing these interviews — I wonder, who's their PR person? Who is their press person?” she asked. “Meghan [Hayes] and I both did columns for officials and people who are in government positions or positions of power, and I just don't understand who advised her to do this or why she thought this was a good idea.” “I don't think she's striking the right balance,” she continued with a laugh. “I think that when people are struggling to pay for their groceries and gas, talking about taking a boat, which I'm assuming is a yacht, to do a nice swim in the Mediterranean Sea, I mean, it's just really tone deaf.”Democratic communications expert Hayes then piled on.“She used words that ‘the opportunity became available for us to do this,’ which I think says to the American people, this is corruption,” she observed. “They worked with the government, they made deals, and it just spells more corruption by the Trump family. I mean, I've been to Albania, it's gorgeous, I understand why you would want to do something, a development there, but not in this way, not in this time. It's just completely tone deaf and it just feels [like] more corruption from the Trump family.” - YouTube youtu.be