Trump Doesn’t Let Troop Deaths Keep Him From Golfing

Donald Trump’s unnecessary war with Iran has claimed the lives of two more Americans, with a third missing, as I write this on Saturday afternoon.

The New York Times reported about this latest development in President Peace Prize’s war: “The deaths could prompt fierce retaliation, which would come on top of an already intensifying conflict. The United States and Iran expanded the scope and intensity of their attacks overnight, striking critical infrastructure sites that included a power station and water facilities, with no sign of an off-ramp to end the fighting.”

Funny, it was just two weeks ago that Trump declared Iran was “totally defeated militarily.” He made the same claim in April. But maybe Grampa Trump is having trouble remembering which killing spree is which in his “pro-life” administration.

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'People Could Die': WH 'Scrambled' To Stop Trump From Naming Names In Election Speech

According to a deeply unsettling new report from POLITICO, White House staffers were left "scrambling" to calm President Trump down and keep him restrained and on script during his big election fraud speech, after Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte took it upon himself to get the president "all spun up," only to tuck his tail right before Donald took the stage after he realized "people could die."

Inside sources with direct knowledge on the matter told POLITICO that Pulte was heavily pushing for Trump to publicly name the names of multiple intelligence analysts who stand accused by the Trump Administration of purposefully hiding "election interference" from the president.

Unsurprisingly, the mere notion of this move sent Donald Trump into a rabid tizzy, with sources describing him as "all spun up," ready to drop names like bombs from the stage, as senior White House officials "scrambled" to regain control of the situation before Pulte and Trump popped a Genie out of a bottle that could never be put back again.

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Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.

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Secret Service Shielding Donald Trump Jr From BBC Subpoena: Filing

The Secret Service has blocked the BBC from serving Donald Trump Jr. with a subpoena seeking his Jan. 6 communications, according to a court filing Friday.

The British Broadcasting Corporation disclosed the blockade in a filing that accused the Justice Department of a conflict of interest — fighting the same subpoena in court that a fellow executive branch agency was stopping on the ground.

President Donald Trump sued the BBC in December, seeking $10 billion over a Panorama documentary that spliced together two portions of his Jan. 6, 2021 Ellipse speech — separated by nearly an hour — to make it appear he had directly urged supporters to "fight like hell" and storm the Capitol. The president claims the edit defamed him and damaged his brand.

ALSO READ: Mike Johnson battered in Dem victory speech as key GOP bill crashes in House

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Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

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Democrats Demand Voter Fraud Investigation Into Ken Paxton

As I’ve previously reported, a blockbuster investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune recently found that crooked Ken Paxton voted six times in the past two years at an address where he almost certainly didn’t live.

The irony is that Paxton, the Texas attorney general now running for the U.S. Senate, fancies himself as the Eliot Ness of voter fraud prosecution. In February, he declared his office “will stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity” and announced the creation of a tip line.

The subject must have been top of mind.

On Tuesday, the Collin County Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Texas secretary of state, asking the secretary to investigate whether Paxton committed election fraud when he voted in the May primary runoff. The reporting found strong evidence that Paxton lived in Denton County with his mistress each of the six times he voted in Collin County,

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Republicans Discover Wildfires Are Bad, Blame The Country That's Currently On Fire

Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno posted on Xitter that he plans to introduce a bill next week to sanction Canada and their government officials for this atrocity. The backdrop: smoke from wildfires burning across northwestern Ontario and northern Minnesota has pushed air quality in Toledo above 600, a new historic high for the city, and Ohio's EPA issued a statewide air quality advisory.

Moreno's office argued that Canada's government failed to invest in wildfire prevention, such as forest thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns, and stronger enforcement against arson. That follows a letter from Michigan Republicans earlier in the week making a similar case — accusing Canada of mismanaging forest maintenance and offering "excuses instead of results," and warning "we are done accepting apologies in place of action... if Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people."

Canadian PM Mark Carney didn't respond directly to the criticism but took a swipe back, saying "climate change is everyone's responsibility — truly everyone's — including the United States."

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