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Trump ‘Not Satisfied’ with Latest Iranian Proposal: ‘May Never Be a Deal’

President Donald Trump said Friday that he is “not satisfied” with Iran’s latest proposal to end the conflict, warning there “may never be a deal” as he described Tehran’s leadership as “very disjointed” and confirmed he was briefed on potential military options if an agreement is not reached.

Speaking to reporters as he departed the White House, Trump made clear that the revised Iranian offer — delivered through Pakistani mediators — falls short despite ongoing diplomatic engagement.

“They want to make a deal, but I’m not satisfied with it,” Trump said, adding that Iran is seeking terms he “can’t agree to” even as negotiations continue. He argued Tehran’s push reflects its weakened position, saying the regime “wants to make a deal because they have no military left, essentially.”

Trump pointed to internal divisions within Iran’s leadership as a central obstacle, describing a fractured system struggling to coalesce after the sustained U.S.-Israeli campaign that decimated much of the regime’s senior command structure.

“There’s tremendous discord — they’re having a tremendous problem getting along with each other,” Trump said. “The leadership is very disjointed. It’s got two, three, maybe four groups … they all want to make a deal, but they’re all messed up.”

(Read more from “Trump ‘Not Satisfied’ with Latest Iranian Proposal: ‘May Never Be a Deal’” HERE)

House Funds DHS, Ending 75-Day Standoff

The House ended a 76-day standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), reopening most of the agency’s operations after weeks of gridlock.

The lower chamber passed the Senate DHS funding bill on Thursday after House Speaker Mike Johnson reversed course and brought the Senate-passed spending measure covering most of the department’s appropriations through September to the floor, according to a CNN report.

The vote came after the DHS funding measure had been stalled in the House for more than a month, as Speaker Mike Johnson declined to bring it for a vote over objections to language he said would defund law enforcement.

Johnson’s opposition reflected broader sentiment among Republicans, many of whom had written off the bill as effectively dead after the Senate passed it unanimously in March.

But the speaker withdrew his opposition this week following signals from the White House backing the Senate’s version and urging swift passage. (Read more from “House Funds DHS, Ending 75-Day Standoff” HERE)

Trump Makes Major Change to Retirement Plans — and Order Could Impact 56M Americans

President Trump has signed an executive order to create retirement accounts for tens of millions of workers who don’t currently have access to a 401(k) or another workplace plan.

“I promised to make the same types of retirement accounts enjoyed by federal employees available to all Americans, and that’s what we’re doing. It only seemed fair,” he said during the signing ceremony in the Oval Office.

Low-income earners without an individual retirement account (IRA) through their employer will receive a yearly federal matching contribution of up to $1,000 each, the president noted.

That designation applies to individuals making less than $35,500 annually, heads of household making $53,250 per year, or couples making $71,000 each year jointly.

“This will be really revolutionary because they’ll be covered,” Trump said in the Oval Office.“Nobody thought that was possible. For example, if a 25-year-old who is eligible for a Saver’s Match program invests just $165 a month under the matching federal contributions, they will have an estimated $465,000 in their account by the time they’re 65 years old,” he added. (Read more from “Trump Makes Major Change to Retirement Plans — and Order Could Impact 56M Americans” HERE)

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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Challenge to E. Jean Carroll Defamation Verdict

A New York federal appeals court rejected President Trump’s challenge to relitigate the verdict in writer E. Jean Carroll’s successful defamation suit against him.

In 2024, prior to the presidential election, a jury awarded writer E. Jean Carroll $83 million in damages after she argued he defamed her with statements he made in refuting her allegations of him sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the early-1990s. The president has repeatedly denied the allegations and has “tried unsuccessfully to substitute the United States as a defendant and to raise a claim of presidential immunity,” per ABC News.

A separate jury in an earlier trial awarded Carroll $5 million in damages after holding Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse. The 2nd Circuit previously rejected each of Trump’s appellate efforts in that case.

On Wednesday, the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the president had raised his arguments too late.

“The fact of the matter is that no other defendant would be permitted to move to substitute the United States in his place, fifteen months after trial and the entry of judgment against him,” Judge Denny Chin wrote. “The Court appropriately declined to convene en banc to revisit this issue.” (Read more from “Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Challenge to E. Jean Carroll Defamation Verdict” HERE)

The Christian DNA of Suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter

In a manifesto reportedly sent to family members moments before he attempted to storm past security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday evening (April 25), Cole Tomas Allen wrote, “Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these last 31 years.”

Though Allen, who was charged Monday with attempting to assassinate the president, didn’t specify which church he was thanking, context about his parents’ church, publicly available information about his involvement in a Christian student ministry and the religious language in his manifesto provide a glimpse into the religious background of the would-be assassin. Despite Allen’s mention of his church, he has been described by President Donald Trump as anti-Christian. . .

The 31-year-old from Torrance, California, was an amateur video game developer and part-time teacher with a Master of Science degree from California State University, per his LinkedIn profile. From 2013-2017, his profile indicates, Allen was a mechanical engineering student at Caltech in Pasadena, where he was involved with Caltech Christian Fellowship, which describes itself as non-denominational. The group emphasizes confessing Jesus as “personal Lord and Savior” and salvation by grace through faith, and links to both evangelical and mainline Protestant churches on their website.

“He was definitely a strong believer in evangelical Christianity at the time that I knew him,” Elizabeth Terlinden, who was also a member of Caltech Christian Fellowship, told The New York Times.

The suspect’s father, Thomas Allen, until recently, was listed online as an elder at Grace United Reformed Church in Torrance, a church in the same neighborhood as the home Allen shared with his parents. The church is affiliated with the United Reformed Churches in North America, a small, theologically conservative group of Reformed Protestant churches that, in 1996, split from the Christian Reformed Church over concerns about “pure doctrine,” according to their website. (Read more from “The Christian DNA of Suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter” HERE)

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Eyewitness Tells CNN WHCD Shooter Was Not Tackled by Agents as Described by Trump Admin — He Just Fell

An eyewitness at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting told CNN that the shooter was not tackled to the ground as the Trump administration claimed.

Just minutes into the start of the event, attendees heard gunfire outside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton. The shooter, later identified as 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen, was subdued before entering the ballroom. According to his manifesto, Allen was targeting President Donald Trump and other members of his administration.

In the aftermath of the incident, Trump and his officials commended the officers who acted quickly and took Allen down before he could cause any harm.

According to Erin Thielman, who was near the scuffle as it unfolded, that wasn’t exactly how it happened. On Monday’s edition of The Situation Room with Pamela Brown and Wolf Blitzer, the conversation went as follows:

BROWN: Obviously, you were a key eyewitness as Wolf was. So when you say he fell at your feet, did it seem like he fell, something brought him down, he wasn’t tackled at that moment by law enforcement?THIELMAN: No, they started running in on him right as I ran down the stairs.BROWN: OK, so he wasn’t tackled, and that’s what brought him down to the ground?THIELMAN: No, he was not. He was not.BLITZER: It looked like he tripped.THIELMAN: Maybe that’s what happened. I have no idea.

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Ex-FBI Director James Comey Indicted for Threatening to Kill Trump in ‘86 47’ Instagram Post

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted again Tuesday, this time by a federal grand jury for threatening to kill President Trump in a May 2025 Instagram post that called to “86 47.”

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the charges during a news conference, saying that “threatening the life of the president of the United States will never be tolerated by the Department of Justice.”

The indictment, handed up in the Eastern District of North Carolina, lists one count for “knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States.”

The other count was for “knowingly and willfully transmitting an interstate commerce communication that contained a threat to kill the president of the United States.”

Comey, 65, posted an image of seashells arranged on a beach to form the numbers “86 47” on his Instagram on May 15, 2025, before deleting the message. (Read more from “Ex-FBI Director James Comey Indicted for Threatening to Kill Trump in ‘86 47’ Instagram Post” HERE)

Trump Claims WHCD Shooting Suspect Had Written Anti-Christian ‘Manifesto’

By HUFF Post. President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that the man accused of opening fire outside the White House correspondents’ dinner had written a “manifesto” that included “anti-Christian” beliefs.

“When you read his manifesto, he hates Christians, that’s one thing for sure,” the president said in a Fox News interview, calling the suspect “a sick guy.” Multiple outlets, including Fox News, have identified the suspect as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the suspect had “some writings” that criticized the Trump administration. Citing the White House, CNN reported that Allen relayed such a document to family members, who then told police. Trump echoed that reporting in his comments to Fox. (Read more from “Trump Claims WHCD Shooting Suspect Had Written Anti-Christian ‘Manifesto’” HERE)

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Trump says WHCD shooter ‘hates Christians,’ called himself ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ in manifesto

By The Post Millennial. . .Authorities say they have recovered writings connected to the suspect as part of an ongoing investigation into motive. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that investigators have “some writings,” adding the inquiry remains in early stages. He previously indicated the suspect may have targeted Trump administration officials.

Here is the manifesto in full, per the The New York Post:

Hello everybody! So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.” I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near. I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me. And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.) While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest. Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me) Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls). I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

(Read more from “Trump says WHCD shooter ‘hates Christians,’ called himself ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ in manifesto” HERE)

Obama Calls on Americans to ‘Reject the Idea that Violence Has Any Place in Our Democracy’

Former President Barack Obama responded to the thwarted assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, as well as his cabinet members, by calling on Americans to “reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy.”

The former president released his call for peace on Sunday in a statement on X.

“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” Obama said.

“It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay,” he added.

A man, now identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, allegedly intended to target the president and several of his cabinet members during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday night. A resident of the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, Allen allegedly traveled across the country by train and came to the Washington Hilton armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. (Read more from “Obama Calls on Americans to ‘Reject the Idea that Violence Has Any Place in Our Democracy’” HERE)

Some Democrats Are Gearing Up To Impeach Trump A Third Time If They Retake The House

A group of House Democrats is already laying the groundwork for a third impeachment of President Donald Trump, with some members urging their party to prepare a case well before a potential majority flip in January 2027.

Democratic Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez told Axios that Democrats need to start building their strategy immediately. “This is something that I keep saying to our leadership … we need to have a very concrete, coordinated strategy,” Ramirez said. She called on colleagues to conduct “shadow hearings” and finish the investigative work required to act on Day 1. Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari told the outlet that if Democrats recapture the chamber, “the push for impeachment is going to be overwhelming.”

The effort has gained significant traction over the past year. When Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green forced a vote last June, 128 Democrats joined Republicans in killing the measure while just 78 backed it, Axios reported. By December, Green’s second attempt drew support from 140 Democrats, and the House voted 237-140 to table the resolution, with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his deputies shifting to vote “present,” the Associated Press reported.

The impeachment drumbeat has been building for months. Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna vowed on MSNBC that Democrats “will impeach” Trump once they retake the House. Democratic New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman made a similar pledge at a January town hall, as the Daily Caller reported.

Not every Democrat is on board. Democratic Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider, who chairs the center-left New Democrat coalition, told Axios that without a two-thirds Senate majority, “the president will not be removed from office.” A Jeffries ally told CNN in January that another impeachment would be “a waste of time,” while a separate Democrat close to leadership warned the strategy could hurt the party’s 2028 chances. (Read more from “Some Democrats Are Gearing Up To Impeach Trump A Third Time If They Retake The House” HERE)