"Jack Smith, the former special counsel who brought two federal indictments against Donald Trump, said he believes the rule of law is under an unprecedented attack during his first televised interview since resigning from the Justice Department less than two weeks before Trump returned to office in 2025.
Speaking to MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Smith said the attack is "different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime."
"I have investigated cases focusing on the facts and law throughout my career. We did this case the same way, under the same standards," said Smith, who brought charges accusing Trump of interfering in the 2020 election."
Vladimir Putin has increased the number of officers responsible for his personal protection to more than 800.
The Russian president, who has reportedly become more paranoid over his safety in recent months, ordered the increase at the central apparatus of the Federal Protective Service (FSO), according to a draft decree set to take effect on Wednesday.
Congresswoman Lisa McClain (R-MI), who in 2022 lied that Dummkopf Trumpf caught Osama bin Laden, bleated the following nauseating screed:
Why doesn't Lisa McClain want the Jeffrey Epstein files released? Who or what does she want to protect from public scrutiny?
Video footage captured Miller trying to speak over the sound of chanting and sirens. The internet mocked Miller for the embarrassing moment.
A woman has become the first person to be publicly caned in Indonesia's Aceh province for 'committing obscenity live with a man on social media' under its strict Sharia law. Read more
The FBI is ramping up its investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County, Georgia, by ordering field offices across the country to send investigative analysts to Atlanta to help evaluate thousands of records, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. According to a memo sent to all field offices and reviewed by CBS News, the Directorate of Intelligence requested "surge support" to Atlanta to assist in what it called FBI Director Kash Patel's "priority" investigation.
Iran and the United States concluded a round of indirect talks on Wednesday with no sign they had made headway toward a lasting peace, focusing instead on issues that they said had been resolved when an interim agreement was announced two weeks ago. Sources familiar with the discussions said negotiators for the two countries spent two days in Doha discussing maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and unfreezing Iran's funds, two critical issues under the initial agreement.
"A rather embarrassing flop," MS Now wrote. "A big ol' dud," was the verdict of Slate. "To put it simply, miserable," the New Republic ruled, while USA Today said witnessing the failure of Trump's fair is "like watching your high school bully host a party that no one attends". What makes it so bad?
Dummkopf Trumpf staged a hostile takeover of the US's 250th anniversary celebration to enrich political allies, harvest voter data, and promote Christian nationalist ideology, according to a congressional investigation: "From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday."
Imbeciles keep supporting this crook and sexual predator
Dummkopf Trumpf plans on razing "Washington's oldest grove of cherry trees," the sole survivors of Japan's original 1910 gift to America, for his personal and selfish golfing needs. The "White House Windbag" also vowed to deliver a long, boring speech on the Fourth of July when the temperature will reach 107 degrees Fahrenheit: "By the way, on July 4th, it's going to be approximately 107 degrees out, and I'm going to go, and I'm going to make a really long speech just to show that I can do anything."
Dummkopf Trumpf is an ecological terrorist
NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (D) announced City Hall will provide 100,000 free tickets for New Yorkers to watch the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks from prime viewing areas at Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn and the Seaport in Manhattan. The public lottery at july4.events.nyc is open now and will remain open through 29 June. Winners will be notified between 30 June and 2 July and may claim up to four tickets.
Each member of the NBA champion NY Knicks will have a Manhattan street temporarily named after him.
A woman known as Jane Doe 4 in the Jeffrey Epstein files is "staying off the grid" and lives in fear of retaliation from the Trump administration amid an escalating controversy over its handling of her case, according to a family member.
"Trauma is brutal. Chronic trauma destroys," said the relative, who described the woman's life as layers of abuse dating back to early childhood. "She's coping as best she can." Read more
And then there's this... thepostmillennial.com
Like a demented sequence killer, the US-funded Israeli Death Forces murdered 12 defenseless Palestinians, including four children in Gaza over the past 48 hours. Meanwhile, the ghoulish Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to establish three settlements in Gaza over the graves of tens of thousands of slaughtered or nebulized Palestinians.
Israeli hypocrisy
On hatemonger Glenn Beck's podcast, Lara Trumpf whined there are only 13 Democrats who signed an inane "Promise to America" pledge vowing to fight against Democratic Socialists like successful NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) or popular Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI): "I do think there are a few reasonable Democrats left out there, the John Fettermans of the world, who see this sort of thing and they're like, 'oh my God, this is the new party. This is the face of our party.'
Tom Suozzi (D-Israel) inexplicably initiated this idiotic anti-progressive pledge
Some portions of the United States are preparing for real feel temperatures upwards of 110 degrees ahead of America's 250th birthday. Others will be cleaning up heavy snowfall with nearly three feet of snow falling in some regions.
