Trump Attacks Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene

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By Daily Beast. President Donald Trump was up all night thinking about his ex-MAGA foes.

Trump, 80, raged against Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene in a late Friday night rant, weeks after they met up and teased that a “movement” was brewing.

“Tucker Carlson just met with Lightweight “Former” Congressman, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie “Traitor” Greene, LOSERS ALL!” Trump’s nearly 300-word diatribe began.

It was not immediately clear which meeting the president was referring to. On Aug. 1, Greene posted an image on X showing her smiling alongside Carlson, who was seated at the head of the table, as well as Massie and former counterterrorism official Joe Kent.

“We said no more foreign wars, and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he’s betrayed us all,” Greene wrote at the time. “Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center. The movement has begun.”

Three weeks later, Trump seemed to have found the time to hit back with an attack on the one-time MAGA officials who fell out of favor over the Iran war, the Epstein files, and his “big, beautiful bill.” (Read more from “Trump Attacks Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene” HERE)

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Trump Faces Fierce Backlash From Rep. Thomas Massie and Cattle Ranchers for Temporarily Lift on Beef Tariffs

By Grateful Nzenwa. President Donald Trump announced a temporary waiver on ground beef import tariffs in an aggressive effort to lower grocery costs for American families facing historic food prices.

Under the ninety-day emergency measure, the United States will permit up to three hundred thousand metric tons of ground beef into the country tariff-free, based on commitments that the imported meat will be sold at twenty-five percent below current market rates. . .

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association expressed deep disappointment with the decision, arguing that injecting below-market beef directly threatens the financial stability of domestic producers. Colin Woodall, CEO of the organization, publicly urged the federal government to stay out of the cattle business and let ranchers manage their herds and resources independently. . .

Justin Tupper, president of the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association, released a sharp critique of the measure, asserting that trade policies should not place domestic cattle producers last in order to lower market prices. He warned that flooding the market with foreign beef will weaken cattle prices and pose unnecessary risks to the nation’s food supply chain. . .

Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie delivered an especially scathing rebuke of the administration’s tariff waiver, calling for structural domestic reforms instead of foreign imports.

(Read more from “Trump Faces Fierce Backlash From Rep. Thomas Massie and Cattle Ranchers for Temporarily Lift on Beef Tariffs” HERE)

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If Trump Wants To Reduce Beef Prices, He Should Help Struggling Farmers Grow Their Herds

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While well-intentioned, President Trump’s plan to temporarily permit more foreign beef imports into America without paying higher tariffs will only exacerbate the long-term stock shortage in the cattle industry, and it will directly lead to higher long-term beef prices.

Trump announced Friday that the United States “will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef to be imported with no out of quota tariff” for the next 90 days, and that such product “will be sold at 25 percent below current market prices.” While touted by the president as an effort to reduce ground beef prices for American families, the policy shift was met with concerned pushback from lawmakers representing rural states responsible for U.S. cattle production.

Beef is a very cyclical industry, largely driven by the fact that it takes nine months to create a new calf, and another year or two (at a minimum) to bring it to market and process it. Because of the difficulty of predicting demand that far out, plus the difficulty of matching supply to that demand, we end up with big swings in prices in every five-to-10-year cycle.

Right now, we are at the price peak in the cycle. The only way to bring prices back down is to increase the supply, and that can only happen when farmers choose to retain cows to breed and grow the stock instead of selling them today. This is called heifer retention. When prices are high, farmers want to sell stock. When they’re low, farmers want to hold back the stock.

That’s the revenue side. Then there’s the cost side. Beef costs are driven by the three F’s: feed, fertilizer, and fuel. Right now, the costs of all three are through the roof. (Read more from “If Trump Wants To Reduce Beef Prices, He Should Help Struggling Farmers Grow Their Herds” HERE)

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Americans Warned of Kidnapping, Extortion as Violent Crime Grips Parts of Tourist Spot

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The State Department is warning Americans to steer clear of parts of a South American country as violent crime, terrorism and kidnapping raise safety concerns among tourists.

The State Department this week issued a Level 2 “Exercise Increased Caution” advisory for the nation of Ecuador.

In the advisory, officials warned of widespread crime across Ecuador, including murders, assaults, kidnappings and armed robberies linked to drug trafficking.

“Areas with transnational criminal organizations have much higher rates of violent crime,” officials said. “U.S. citizens and U.S. lawful permanent residents have been victims of kidnapping and extortion.”

The country sits between Colombia to the north and Peru to the south, along South America’s Pacific coast.Ecuador is sought by many tourists for its dramatic Andean landscapes, historic cities and the Galápagos Islands.

Americans make up Ecuador’s largest group of foreign visitors, accounting for roughly a third of international arrivals in 2025, according to Ecuador’s National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC). (Read more from “Americans Warned of Kidnapping, Extortion as Violent Crime Grips Parts of Tourist Spot” HERE)

Supreme Court Rules in Trump’s Favor on Mail Ballot Rules

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of President Trump’s executive order increasing election integrity relating to mail ballots on Monday, saying states suing over the order did so improperly.

Today’s ruling is not the final action but comes as some states begin sending ballots to voters in early September. The opinion was issued in an unsigned order with the three liberal justices dissenting.

In March, President Trump signed the executive order in question directing the Department of Homeland Security to verify citizenship in each state. The order also directed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to initiate rulemaking to ensure only verified, eligible voters would receive ballots.

Last week, the USPS published their series of requirements in preparation of the order being allowed to go into effect. (Read more from “Supreme Court Rules in Trump’s Favor on Mail Ballot Rules” HERE)

Data Center Backlash Brings Thousands Of Projects To A Screeching Halt

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Americans’ growing opposition to the prevalence of data centers has led many politicians to limit or pause their increase altogether.

Lawmakers in New York and Texas, for example, have effected stoppages of data center projects, while other states, such as Pennsylvania, have issued more restrictions on data center construction. Americans’ support for data centers has generally plummeted, as critics have linked them to higher utility bills — reflecting extraordinary water and energy usage — being experienced by local communities.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a sprawling data center moratorium in early August as residents soured on data centers. Abbott claimed his moratorium would protect Texans.

“My directive has halted up to 1,800 data center projects. I established guidelines & guardrails to protect Texas communities,” he wrote in a Wednesday post to social media, adding that data centers must not take water from communities, tax the Texas energy grid, or otherwise disrupt communities.

Abbott’s moratorium drew a range of responses from the private and public sectors.

“What Governor Abbott is doing is working. The Governor established clear guidelines: Data centers must invest their own money, provide their own power, reuse their own water, ensure that the power grid is gaining power— not losing power because of their operations — and must not disturb neighborhoods,” Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press secretary, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. “Data centers across the state have announced their full compliance with those standards, which provide guardrails that protect our communities.” (Read more from “Data Center Backlash Brings Thousands Of Projects To A Screeching Halt” HERE)

Pentagon Makes Major Move Against Military News Outlet

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The Pentagon fired three key figures at a prominent military news outlet following a dispute over how it handled providing “independent news” to readers.

The U.S. Department of War (DOW) fired Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and Middle East reporter Lara Korte on Friday, The Associated Press (AP) reported. In addition, publisher Max Lederer, who announced his retirement Tuesday, was also dismissed. The firings came after each of them reportedly expressed opposition to letting the Pentagon — which partially funds it — influence what the outlet covers.

While the DOW declined to comment, a Pentagon official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that “the separation notices are real.”

“Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker,” Korte said in an X post Friday.

She and Slavin had previously spoken out against the idea of the Pentagon interfering with the outlet’s coverage during a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview in July.

“We need to be able to provide independent news to service members. If we can’t do that, if we were turned into something other than that, if we were public relations, that’s … the foxhole,” Slavin said when asked what “foxholes” — or conflicts between the outlet and the Pentagon — he was “willing to die in.” (Read more from “Pentagon Makes Major Move Against Military News Outlet” HERE)

Iran Faces Massive New Triple-Threat as Hormuz Begins to Open, Cash Gets Tight and Pols Call to End the War

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Iran’s supreme leader is under mounting pressure over the war — as the regime’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz weakens, cash finally starts to get tight and top political leaders publicly urge the Islamists in charge to find a way out of the conflict.

The latest phase of the conflict has seen more and more ships quietly slipping through Hormuz, with nearly 200 vessel sailing through the strait last week, according to data from the UK Maritime Trade Operations Center.

The flow represents a 400% spike in the last two weeks, with maritime analysts Kpler noting that the traffic finding safe passage — aided by US Navy escorts — effectively means Iran has lost partial control of the strait.

And while more ships and oil are getting out, Iran’s own oil exports have dropped to near zero, under the renewed American blockade on its ports and President Trump’s “economic D-Day” measures.

There has been little to no activity seen at Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub, according to recent satellite images, leaving Iran with few options to offset its already ailing economy hit by historically high inflation and unemployment. (Read more from “Iran Faces Massive New Triple-Threat as Hormuz Begins to Open, Cash Gets Tight and Pols Call to End the War” HERE)

Natalie Harp’s ‘Freaky’ Alleged Letters to Trump Revealed in Full

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By Daily Beast. Natalie Harp’s intimate letters to Donald Trump are being revealed in full for the first time—showing her spilling her heart and saying she is “unworthy” of him.

“You are all that matters to me,” Harp writes to Trump, “I don’t want to ever let you down.”

The Daily Beast is publishing them amid swirling questions over the national security implications of 35-year-old Harp’s status as 80-year-old Trump’s most significant gatekeeper, even being used as a conduit to the president by foreign leaders. David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Barack Obama, described the situation as “a deadly serious issue” on Thursday.

Harp was one of the few people who accompanied Trump when he fled Air Force One in a catering truck in Turkey, leaving behind Secretary of State Marco Rubio, staff, and journalists as flying decoys, while he flew in a secret plane to avoid an apparent Iranian plot to target Air Force One.

The extraordinary letters were written in 2023, either during or after Harp accompanied Trump on a trip to Scotland and Ireland. She was 31 and Trump was 76. They reveal Harp’s utter devotion to Trump. She even tells him she is envious of women “whose only job seems to be to talk with you and look pretty.” (Read from “Natalie Harp’s ‘Freaky’ Alleged Letters to Trump Revealed in Full” HERE)

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‘Freaky’ Natalie Harp report unsettles observers: ‘Please tell me this isn’t real’

By Raw Story. The fully exposed letters of President Donald Trump’s aide Natalie Harp are drawing unease about how she writes him.

On Friday, online critics reacted to Harp’s letters that were released the previous evening by Trump biographer Michael Wolff and The Daily Beast, which produces his podcast Inside Trump’s Head. Harp has been in the spotlight lately after Sen. Jon Ossoff called the president out for preferring to “travel with Natalie Harp” rather than do his job, which drew scrutiny to her relationship with Trump.

“You are all that matters to me,” one line, highlighted in a post by HuffPost editor Philip Lewis, read. “I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

Ron Filipkowski, the editor-in-chief of the political news network MeidasTouch, pointed out that she randomly capitalizes words the way Trump does and related it to how she reportedly drafts Trump’s Truth Social posts.

“The syntax and random capitalizations in Natalie Harp’s letters to Trump are a Rosetta Stone that can be used to determine which he wrote and which are her writing him,” Filipkowski posted on X.

(Read more from “‘Freaky’ Natalie Harp report unsettles observers: ‘Please tell me this isn’t real’” HERE)

Deep State’s Election Interference Spin Is Now A Case Study In Spy Schools

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As evidence piles up of American spies spinning intel about foreign election interference because of their feelings about President Donald Trump, spy schools around the world now use the scandal as a textbook case of politicized intelligence.

Tradecraft classes in Italy, Canada, Israel and other nations study the way that senior officials manipulated intelligence about Russian and Chinese election meddling according to their stance on Trump, Barry Zulauf, formerly an internal watchdog for the intelligence community (IC), told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

As the IC’s independent ombudsman, Zulauf authored a 2021 report concluding that the IC massaged intelligence about Russian and Chinese election interference. Zulauf’s inquiry has become standard reference material for young spies in training, he told the DCNF.

In the U.S., the U.S. intelligence community added new instruction on politicization to Analysis 101, the orientation for the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and a seminar on objectivity for the whole IC, per Zulauf.

Trump revealed in a primetime speech in July that American spy agencies suppressed evidence that China hacked into massive reams of voter data from his Presidential Daily Brief. The revelation may deepen the suspicions of many Americans that spy agencies constitute a Deep State unaccountable to outsiders, even the president — referred to in the intelligence community as “Customer #1.” (Read more from “Deep State’s Election Interference Spin Is Now A Case Study In Spy Schools” HERE)

Prosecutors In Karmelo Anthony Case Hid The Most Damning Evidence

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. . .We are now learning that the trial of Karmelo Anthony — the black high school student who stabbed a white teenager named Austin Metcalf to death at a track meet last year — did not even come close to following this well-established, fundamental, all-important adversarial process. Instead, critical evidence against Karmelo Anthony was withheld from the jury by the prosecutors — the very people who, under our adversarial system, should have presented that evidence.

This evidence was not withheld because of a judge’s ruling, but because of a “gentleman’s agreement” between the district attorney and the defense lawyers. And, as you’re about to find out, the hidden evidence would have been overwhelmingly beneficial to the prosecution’s case against Karmelo Anthony. We’re talking about what was, in effect, a confession by Anthony to premeditated murder. And it was hidden by the prosecutors for reasons that simply do not add up.

In other words, the prosecution gave Anthony’s defense team a huge leg up, while also burying critical information so that the jury and the public at large couldn’t see it. There’s no other way to say it: The fact that Anthony was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison occurred despite the prosecution giving his defense team a major legal advantage in a case that just so happens to involve the brutal slaughter of a white teenager by a black criminal.

We’re learning about this new evidence because Anthony’s lawyers are now seeking a new trial. And as part of that process, a judge is now hearing arguments about all of the evidence in the case, including evidence that wasn’t presented to the jury.

First, we need to discuss the hidden evidence itself. In court Thursday, the prosecutor — Collin County Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirskye — admitted that the state possessed several violent text messages that Anthony sent to an ex-girlfriend. In one of those text messages, on the morning he stabbed Austin Metcalf, Anthony sent his ex-girlfriend a picture of his knife, along with the caption, “I’m low key on the verge” — as in, on the verge of snapping. (Read more from “Prosecutors In Karmelo Anthony Case Hid The Most Damning Evidence” HERE)