President Trump kicked off Easter Sunday with a foul-mouthed tirade against Iran and praising Allah — warning the regime to "open the f—in'" Strait of Hormuz or else he will ensure the Islamic Republic's leaders end up in hell.
Before and after the United States began its current action against Iran, commentators claimed that the operation would overstretch the U.S. military. They raised concerns about weakening deterrence and readiness against China. But deterrence rests on credibility. If the U.S. lacks the munitions required to sustain even a lower-grade conflict, its warnings carry less weight. […]
Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies.
One of the Senate's most notorious RINOS is threatening to sabotage President Trump's next nominee for attorney general. The post RINO Senator Thom Tillis Sparks Social Media Fury After Revealing His Red Line for the Next U.S. Attorney General (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The huge proposed increase would be partly offset by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the Trump administration describes as wasteful.
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WASHINGTON — Less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump told Americans the U.S. military had “beaten and completely decimated Iran,” Tehran shot down an F-15E fighter jet, setting off a high-risk scramble by U.S. forces to rescue two service members from deep inside Iranian territory.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday he did not know if convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spied for anybody before adding that there was no evidence in the Epstein files that the disgraced financier was a spy. Fox News’s Jesse Watters, the host of “Jesse Watters Primetime,” asked Blanche who “was Epstein spying for.”…
President Donald Trump celebrated the United States’s rescue of the second and final fighter pilot downed over Iran as an “Easter miracle” on Sunday. “The rescue was an Easter Miracle. The enemy was large and violent. The rescuers were brilliant, strong, decisive, and as cool as anyone can be. The Iranians thought they had him, […]
President Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi and names Deputy AG Todd Blanch as Acting Attorney General. Who might be the next to hold the job of the nation’s top law enforcement official? A reporter shares a new potential leaker of those Bryon Noem photos – an illegal migrant sex worker.
Government investigator Mike Howell says Pam Bondi, out as attorney general, wasn't the right fit to take on the weaponizers.
The former prosecutor has a long-standing relationship with President Trump, having represented him in the criminal hush-money case.
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is not backing down from her push to make former Attorney General Pam Bondi testify before the House Oversight Committee about the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mace told CNN anchor Kate Bolduan on Friday that Bondi was still compelled to sit with lawmakers later this month, despite her…
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem only two cabinet members to be fired despite string of scandals facing male officials. Plus, why New Yorkers are swapping gas for induction stoves• Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Donald Trump has been accused of running a “misogynistic administration” after Pam Bondi became the second woman to be fired from a cabinet already dominated by men.Who will replace Bondi? Trump said Todd Blanche, her deputy, would serve as acting attorney general. Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency, is said to be a top contender to replace Bondi.How badly has Iran been affected? At least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in Iran since the start of the war, according to a rough estimate by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Continue reading...
Pam Bondi's firing marks another casualty in what's becoming a bloodbath of Trump administration appointees and nominees from his home state of Florida. But unlike her predecessors, Bondi faces an additional humiliation: forced testimony before Congress about the administration's bungled handling of Jeffrey Epstein files.According to Politico's Kimberly Leonard, White House insiders don't believe Bondi will leverage her Trump experience into a political career. There's also no indication that she will return to her job as a lobbyist at Ballard Partners, from which she was plucked to serve at the DOJ.Bondi is far from alone. Trump's second term has become a graveyard for Florida appointees: Former national security adviser Mike Waltz was demoted to the UN in the wake of his being caught up in the "Signalgate" scandal.Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister never made it to his confirmation hearing to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).Former Rep. Dave Weldon (R) had his nomination withdrawn by the White House to to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, now an OANN anchor, withdrew his nomination as attorney general amid sexual misconduct allegations and a damning House Ethics Committee which led him to preemptively resign from Congress.In Bondi's case, one place she might find herself busy is in front Congress.Democrats are preparing Bondi's next nightmare: congressional testimony. House Oversight Committee Democrats want her to testify about the administration's handling of Jeffrey Epstein files — a politically toxic subject that has already damaged Trump's second term.Bondi was scheduled to deliver testimony on April 14, and Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost is among those pushing for the hearing to proceed despite her firing."My office has been working to uncover this administration's handling of the Epstein files, reviewing how records were managed, what was withheld and how information was presented to the public," Frost said. "That work has raised serious concerns about transparency and accountability, and it is ongoing."House Oversight Chair James Comer hasn't ruled out forcing Bondi to testify, with his office indicating he would "discuss it with fellow GOP colleagues and the DOJ."
President Donald Trump seeks hundreds of millions of dollars to renovate the White House residence, according to a new budget request. The administration’s fiscal 2026 proposal includes more than $377 million “for repairs and renovations to the executive residence,” with another $174 million projected for 2027, according to budget documents reported by Politico.That represents “a mammoth 866 percent increase over the $39 million estimated to have been spent in fiscal 2025 on sprucing up the area of the White House where the president lives.”An Office of Management and Budget spokesperson told Politico that the totals include not only work on the residence itself, but also security-related costs, adding the funding is for “a number of renovations, not just the executive residence.” The budget does not specify which projects the money would fund, Politico noted Friday. The MAGA leader's proposal also seeks to classify $350 million of the spending as mandatory, a designation reserved for programs Congress is required to fund, such as Social Security and Medicaid. Trump has made upgrading the White House complex a priority in his second term.“At the center of that effort is the proposed new White House ballroom, a roughly $400 million project that would dramatically expand the complex’s capacity for large-scale events,” Politico reported. “The plan envisions a sprawling addition capable of hosting hundreds of guests at once, replacing the current reliance on temporary tents on the South Lawn for state dinners and major receptions.”The project has been plagued by legal and oversight challenges, and was blocked this week as part of a lawsuit brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation of the United States.
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Ultimately, Bondi's fulsome defense of the president could not overcome blowback over her handling of the Epstein files.
On today's episode of Bloomberg Businessweek Daily, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec speak with a Jersey, Bloomberg Intelligence Chief US Interest Rate Strategist and Robert Tipp, PGIM Fixed Income Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist, and Head of Global Bonds. They also discuss President Trump introducing Attorney General Pam Bondi with Bloomberg's Jeff Mason and Matthew Seligman, Founder of Grayhawk Law. Finally, the discuss the MIT Media Lab's research into women's health with Jessica Rosenworcel, Executive Director of the MIT Media Lab and former Chair of the FCC. (Source: Bloomberg)
Attorney general was key part of effort to go after enemies but even she could not satisfy whims of mercurial presidentPam Bondi’s swift dismissal on Thursday underscores a reality that has met Trump loyalists from Jeff Sessions to Kristi Noem – no amount of loyalty is enough to save oneself from being dumped by Donald Trump.Since the president assumed office last year, there have been few people more important to his effort to remake government than Bondi, his longtime friend. Continue reading...
Two more members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet could soon be on their way out.The president is reportedly considering axing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.Trump has polled his top advisers about the duo’s fate, asking other Cabinet officials in recent weeks whether he should give them the boot.His gripe with Gabbard relates to her decision to shield a former deputy who disagreed with Trump’s war with Iran, people briefed on the discussions told The Guardian. It’s not clear if Gabbard will actually be fired, or who could possibly replace her.Meanwhile, Bondi’s administrative future is apparently on the fritz due to her handling of the Epstein files. Trump has been “frustrated” with her leadership at the Justice Department, and is considering tapping Lee Zeldin—the current administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency—to replace her.Yet Trump is still opting to publicly display his confidence in Bondi. The duo traveled to the Supreme Court together Wednesday for the court’s birthright citizenship case (something that no sitting president has ever done), and Trump chose to heap praise on Bondi’s performance when asked about the situation by The New York Times.“Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job,” Trump said in a statement to the Times.In comparison to his first administration—which was practically a revolving door for the president’s underlings—Trump has been much more sparing with his staffers over the past year. Still, Bondi and Gabbard would not be the first officials from Trump’s second term to receive a pink slip from the Oval Office.Trump axed Kristi Noem from her position atop the Department of Homeland Security last month, immediately following a string of abysmal appearances before Congress. Her position among the higher echelons of the Trump administration had become increasingly tenuous in recent months due to a series of scandals, though most notably after ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, marring Trump’s immigration agenda—a chief MAGA priority—in the process.
Congressman Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the next attorney general needs to be “aggressive” and deliver real results, not just “show” and “statements.” President Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi on Thursday, confirming in a Truth Social post that Bondi would move to an undisclosed role in the private sector. “Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a […]
More details have emerged regarding Pam Bondi's sudden firing as Attorney General, and they do not reflect well on her at all. The post REPORT: Pam Bondi Pleaded with Trump Not To Fire Her During Meeting and Allegedly Tipped Off Eric Swalwell About FBI’s Push to Release Salacious Fang Fang Files appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Donald Trump officially fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday after she failed to meet his demands, which were untenable or legally impossible, according to CNN.Bondi has been willing to go after Trump's foes like former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, but each case has fallen through because a grand jury refused to indict. Reports say that Trump wants more of his foes to be targeted. CNN reported that Trump began making calls on Monday about firing her. Senior justice correspondent Evan Pérez noted that these rumors have been circulating since January, even after Bondi's emphatic defense of Trump before the House Judiciary Committee. According to the Daily Mail, Bondi "begged" for her job in a "dramatic" scene in the White House. Pérez said that some of the sources CNN has spoken to say that they're not sure where Trump can find anyone willing to do what Bondi did in her efforts "to do his bidding" and "still [be] credible.""Certainly she was [credible] last year before she has had this past year behind her. So, I don't know where he finds somebody like that because you know, Bondi has really done everything he wanted. Now he's not happy because some of the things that he wants just can't be done. The facts aren't there on these cases. Some of the screw-ups have been because of the White House," he said. He cited the inability to indict people due to grand juries or regular juries, while with others, there simply isn't any evidence. "You know, that's not Pam Bondi's fault. That is the fault of no one's," Pérez said. "The fault of reality," said CNN host Boris Sanchez."That's reality, right?" agreed Pérez. "And the president just can't really sort of come to terms. Right. And the law! The law is a very sticky thing, right?""You're not guilty because someone says you're guilty," added Sanchez.
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President Trump said Thursday he would "soon sign an order" to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees. Why it matters: The president's announcement marks the second time in a week he's moved to circumvent Congress to pay federal workers amid the record-long DHS shutdown."I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the Department of Homeland Security," Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday. He added: "Help is on the way for our Brave and Patriotic Public Servants who have continued to work hard, and do their part to protect and defend our Country."Trump's announcement comes a day after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced a plan to end the shutdown. Zoom out: Trump's move to bypass Congress and pay all DHS workers by fiat comes a week after he announced he would sign a similar order to restore pay for TSA workers.The administration's attempts to keep parts of the government open without congressional approval could run afoul of the Antideficiency Act.The 150-year-old law bars spending without appropriations and underscores Congress' constitutional control of the purse.State of play: The Senate earlier Thursday sent its plan to fund DHS — excluding ICE and CBP — back to the House for consideration.Even with Johnson now on board, arm-twisting still could be needed to get the measure through the House.Johnson had previously opposed the plan amid opposition from hardliners in his conference, calling it a "joke."The speaker hasn't said whether he will call lawmakers back to Washington from a two-week recess that began Monday.
The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order blocking its ban on government use of Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence technology.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson faced viral conservative backlash over a wallet-stealing-in-Japan analogy during birthright citizenship oral arguments on Wednesday.
NATO member states must step up and demonstrate their value to the US after President Donald Trump threatened to leave the bloc amid frustrations over the war against Iran, Washington’s top envoy to the alliance said.
Supreme Court justices and lawyers cited a litany of historic cases that reflect the many times Asians turned to the courts, trying to shape immigration law.
President Donald Trump is actively considering a “broader cabinet shake-up” following his high-profile firing this week of Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House insiders revealed to Reuters in its report Saturday."Let's just say, based on what I have heard, Bondi is not the last one,” one White House official told the outlet, speaking on the condition of anonymity.Trump fired Bondi this week after growing frustrated over her inability to secure criminal convictions of his perceived enemies, as well as her handling of the Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein files, reports have suggested. Bondi’s firing came just weeks after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was ousted by Trump, the first high-profile cabinet-level shake-up of Trump’s second term.Since Bondi's removal, Trump has continued to grow "increasingly frustrated with the political fallout from the war with Iran,” Reuters reported, and is actively considering firing more of his top administration officials.“A shake-up to show action is not a bad thing, is it?" another White House official told Reuters, also speaking on the condition of anonymity.While sources told Reuters that Trump has yet to commit to firing a specific cabinet member, “several of the sources” said that the president has been asking allies their thoughts on “potential replacements” for National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard. The sources told Reuters that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was also potentially “on the chopping block,” the outlet reported.Trump’s alleged frustrations with the political fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran was exacerbated, Reuters reported, by the president’s addresses to the nation this week, which one White House official said did not go well.“The speech did not accomplish what it was supposed to,” an official told Reuters, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “Voters tolerate ideological messaging, but they feel fuel prices immediately.”