Donald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal newspaper reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a lewd letter and sketch of a naked woman. Trump's lawsuit on Friday, which also targets Dow Jones and News Corp, was filed in the southern district of Florida federal court in Miami. The lawsuit seeks at least $10bn in damages. read more
Utah Sen. Mike Lee is facing outrage and calls for his resignation over social media posts that baselessly claim the man charged with targeting Minnesota lawmakers in shootings during the weekend has ties to the political left. read more
The world is laughing.
California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla says FBI agents escorted him to a Kristi Noem press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, where he was swarmed by security, contradicting the Trump administration's version of events.
The Homeland Security Secretary was addressing the policing of this week's anti-ICE protests in the California city, which saw President Donald Trump controversially send in the National Guard and Marines to keep order, when Padilla spoke up to ask a question and was roughly wrestled to the ground by Secret Service and FBI agents and eventually led away in handcuffs.
Noem, the agents, and the White House have since insisted that the senator "lurched" at the secretary. Still, Padilla insisted this was not the case, offering his own version of events on last night's episode of MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber.
Two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot in apparent "targeted" incidents on Saturday that left them in grave condition, officials said... read more
So...to cap things off here: nobody with any significant influence gives a flying rat's ass.