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Kash Patel Says FBI Lied to Obtain Warrants Used to Illegally Spy on Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign

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FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI lied to obtain surveillance warrants that were used to illegally spy on Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and his first term in office.

“It took me two years of my life to prove the following: that a political party in the United States of America, in the 21st century, would go overseas and hire some bogus intelligence asset to manufacture fraudulent, fake, unverified information,” Patel told Sean Hannity during Tuesday’s episode of Hang Out with Sean Hannity.

From there, the political party would then “funnel that to, not just the intelligence community, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then take those packaged lies that they had paid for with campaign finance funds and go into a secret surveillance court,” Patel continued, “and illegally spy on your opponent to be the next President of the United States.

“That took two years of my life,” Patel reiterated. “And what did we find out? The FISA court themselves came back and said these warrants were illegal, that the FBI did not provide evidence of exculpatory evidence and innocence, and that the FBI essentially lied in those applications.”

The FBI director went on to say that this was merely “step one,” adding, “I knew it didn’t stop there.” (Read more from “Kash Patel Says FBI Lied to Obtain Warrants Used to Illegally Spy on Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign” HERE)

FAA Contractor Charged for Allegedly Threatening to ‘kill you — Donald John Trump’

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Federal Aviation Administration mechanical engineering contractor finds himself at risk of significant jail time over an email he allegedly sent the White House, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire.

The 35-year-old man, Dean DelleChiaie, of Nashua, was arrested on Monday and appeared in court on Tuesday on a charge of interstate communication of a threat against the president. If convicted, the FAA contractor faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

An affidavit in support of the charge filed by a U.S. Secret Service special agent details the alleged actions of DelleChiaie. According to that affidavit, the Nashua man first came to the notice of the Secret Service near the end of January after the FAA IT department contacted the USSS. The contact was made after the suspect allegedly took his government-issued computer to the IT department and asked for his search history to be deleted.

While working on the suspect’s request, the IT department employees noticed disturbing search topics on his computer.

According to the affidavit, these search topics are alleged to have included:

How to get a gun into a federal facility;
Previous assassination attempts against the president;
The percentage of the population that wants the president dead; and
The phrase “I am going to kill Donald John Trump.”

(Read more from “FAA Contractor Charged for Allegedly Threatening to ‘kill you — Donald John Trump’” HERE)

Former Trump Advisor Says Anyone Who Thinks Iran Conflict Was Unjustified Is ‘Testicularly Challenged’

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Deputy assistant to the President of the United States Sebastian Gorka defended the Iran war during a Wednesday press call, using colorful language to dismiss criticisms of the conflict.

Gorka called the previous wars led by Republican administrations in the Middle East “forever wars” in a press call on Wednesday. When the Daily Caller News Foundation asked Gorka how specifically the war in Iran was not a “forever war,” he called the belief that it was “a bad joke” and people who do not want to “deal” with the Iranian regime “testicularly challenged,” pushing forward the assertion that the war would remain a “limited air campaign.”

“They have been plotting to kill President [Donald] Trump, members of his cabinet, former military commanders, former members of the administration, the idea that after just one incident like the Beirut bombing or after one attempted plot against the lives of U.S. personnel here in the United States, we don’t deal with this regime means you are testicularly challenged,” Gorka said in his response to the DCNF.

“Let me just say that that is a low T [testosterone] approach to threat to the United States,” he emphasized.

At the same time, Gorka asserted that the Trump administration “is not a nation-building administration.” (Read more from “Former Trump Advisor Says Anyone Who Thinks Iran Conflict Was Unjustified Is ‘Testicularly Challenged’” HERE)

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

(Read more from “Eyewitness Tells CNN WHCD Shooter Was Not Tackled by Agents as Described by Trump Admin — He Just Fell” HERE)

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

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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)