CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday expressed her astonishment at a die-hard Donald Trump supporter's admission about how he is making ends meet amid the cost-of-living crisis that has been made worse by the president's Iran war. Then he revealed one particular tactic to save cash: "Cook. Fast. Me and my wife have been, you know, fasting. And it's like a lot of benefits. And including one of those benefits is saving money on groceries."
The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5 million to a super PAC backed by President Trump last month, about one week before his administration rolled out a new policy that could prove lucrative to the tobacco industry.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered White House staff and President Trump's top advisers to comply with a law that requires certain presidential records to be preserved. In a 54-page decision, U.S. District Judge John Bates granted a preliminary injunction that requires most White House employees to preserve presidential and vice presidential records covered by the Presidential Records Act. The 1978 law was enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal and established public ownership of presidential records.
After Donald Trump sued his own administration for $10 billion, pitting his personal lawyers against the Department of Justice, the president was gifted a broad, single-page document that gives him sweeping immunity from tax crimes.
Under the guise of a "settlement" between his lawyers and his administration, the president and his allies will both receive government handouts potentially worth tens of millions of dollars. Alleged "victims" of government "weaponization" can file for a piece of a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund, while the president, his family and their businesses escape government scrutiny for tax debts over which they have been under investigation for more than a decade.
"Late-night legend David Letterman knocked leaders at CBS and its parent company as "lying weasels" in a new interview with The New York Times where he called BS on claims "Late Night with Stephen Colbert" was canceled for purely financial reasons. "He was dumped because the people selling the network to Skydance said, Oh no, there's not going to be any trouble with that guy,'" Letterman said. "We're going to take care of the show. We're just going to throw that into the deal. When will the ink on the check dry?'"
The Justice Department has charged former prosecutor Carmen Mercedes Lineberger (62) with stealing records related to Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Donald J. Trumpf's mishandling of classified documents. Unclear is why Lineberger sent these files from the sealed report that USDJ Aileen Cannon blocked from public release to her own personal email address.
Her Horror Aileen Cannon is Worst USDJ in Amerikkka
The inhuman Trumpf junta is investigating Washington state's practice of housing transgender women in its women's prison. Approximately 347 inmates out of a total 11,000 convicts in ten Washington state prisons identify as transgender.
Dummkopf Trumpf signed this horrendous anti-transgender ukase the first day he seized power on 20 Jan 2025
Right wing hatemonger Bill Donohue, who is making himself a tidy salary at the moribund Catholic League, whined that it is Democrats that need "deprogramming," not the MAGA cult followers of Republican POTUS Dummkopf Trumpf.
"Democrats should drop the Trumpf Derangement Syndrome" (TDS)
Alan Chambers, former President of Exodus International, an organization that connected a network of more than 400 anti-gay Christian ministries in 17 countries, was arrested for attempting to solicit sex over the internet from an undercover police officer who was posing as a 14 year old boy.
Scientists warn that an undersea freight train of record-high warm water called a "Kelvin wave" could contribute to one of the strongest El Nino events on record later this year. The cascading effects will impact global climate patterns into 2027, including increasing risks for drought, flooding rain, and record heat and humidity.
Dummkopf Trumpf on the Environment
US President Donald Trump says he will talk to Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te about a possible arms sale, in what would be a sharp departure from diplomatic tradition. US and Taiwanese leaders have not spoken directly since 1979 - when Washington severed formal ties with Taiwan to recognise the Beijing government. Read more
Far-right podcaster Tucker Carlson came under fire after appearing on prime-time Israeli television and accusing both Israel and the US of betraying democracy, calling Israel "probably the most violent country in the world" and saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had dragged President Donald Trump into the war with Iran.
In an interview with Channel 13 anchor and senior political analyst Udi Segal aired on Tuesday night, Carlson also repeated his claim that Israel's actions in Gaza amounted to "genocide," while saying the wording mattered less than what he described as the killing of civilians.
The country had "definitely lost its morality," he said.
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed a new effort to reach a deal with Iran in a difficult call on Tuesday, three sources said, with one source saying Netanyahu's "hair was on fire" after the call.
Why it matters:
A revised peace memo was drafted by Qatar and Pakistan with input from the other regional mediators to try to bridge the gaps between the U.S. and Iran, the sources said.
It comes with Trump vacillating over ordering a massive strike on Iran and holding out for a deal.
White House and agency officials have repeatedly declined to answer whether they will seek authorization for Trump's arch from the current Congress.
Instead, administration officials have cited a 1924 report by a federal commission charged with designing the Arlington Memorial Bridge. That report called for building a pair of 166-foot-tall columns, surmounted by statues, on Columbia Island that would frame the nearby Lincoln Memorial.
Congress formally ratified the commission's report in 1925, and the Memorial Bridge was soon built. However, the columns were not constructed, and Trump officials today argue that in building the arch they would be carrying out past lawmakers' wishes.
"Congress authorized the arch project when it approved the design set out in Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission's report," Justice Department lawyers wrote in a filing last month.
Boos rang out during the University of Arizona's graduation ceremony on Friday as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about a topic that is maybe a little sensitive for those about to enter the workforce: AI. While other speakers received cheers and applause, Schmidt's speech about the impact of modern technology on society struck a nerve.
A man has been arrested in Texas accused of intentionally driving his Tesla Cybertruck into a lake to use the vehicle's "wade mode" feature. The Grapevine Police Department said its officers were called to Grapevine Lake in north Texas on Monday to recover the vehicle, which had been abandoned by the driver and passengers after it took on water and became stuck. Read more
