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Top DOJ Civil Rights Enforcer Resigns After Midterm Catastrophe

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By Daily Caller.

Harmeet Dhillon resigned from her role at the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday following the catastrophic midterm elections.

Dhillon’s resignation makes her the first high-profile official to depart President Donald Trump’s administration after the disastrous midterm cycle. Dhillon served as the Assistant Attorney General within the DOJ’s civil rights unit.

“Serving my country as AAG for Civil Rights has been the honor of a lifetime,” Dhillon said in a statement on X. “We ushered in the downfall of illegal DEI, we fought to protect women and girls’ sports, and so much more. I want to thank President Trump for giving me this opportunity. I look forward to what’s next!”

This comes just days after Republicans endured a bruising midterm defeat, with Democrats flipping seven Senate seats and dozens of House seats so far.

“She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a post on X. “The Department is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors,” Blanche added. (Read more from “Top DOJ Civil Rights Enforcer Resigns After Midterm Catastrophe” HERE)

Trump Cabinet Member’s Son-In-Law Wins House Race To Become Youngest Member

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By The Daily Caller.

The 26-year-old son-in-law of a Trump cabinet official will become the youngest member of the next Congress and the first born in the 2000s — after running a campaign aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement.

Republican Michael Alfonso, the son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, won the open seat race for Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, garnering 56 percent of the vote to Democrat Fred Clark’s 44 percent, the Associated Press reported. Alfonso will succeed Republican Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany, who unsuccessfully ran for governor, in the heavily Republican district President Donald Trump carried by more than 22 percentage points in 2024.

“America First means putting the health and prosperity of our people above all else. That will be my only priority in Congress. I’ve already championed Wisconsin cranberries as a natural alternative to artificial food dyes, and you can expect me to champion even more MAHA initiatives in Congress,” Alfonso told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. “As a young father, ensuring the next generation grows up healthier is deeply personal to me.”

The Gen Z political newcomer beat out five other candidates for the GOP nomination during the Aug. 11 primary, aided by endorsements from Trump and MAHA Action.

“As a young guy, I just had a daughter. The rising costs of health care is one of those scary things that scares not just my generation, but even the older generation. Prescription drugs, you name it,” Alfonso told the DCNF in a July interview. “But if we’re going to have a serious discussion about the rise of health care costs, we can talk about how us as a nation, we have an obese crisis.” (Read more from “Trump Cabinet Member’s Son-In-Law Wins House Race To Become Youngest Member” HERE)

Top Trump Aide Learns Fate After Drink-Fueled Stadium Fight

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The Trump administration’s newly added press adviser was caught on camera causing a commotion at an NBA game before being escorted out to boos.

Britt McHenry, the former ESPN reporter-turned-press-adviser at the State Department, can be seen arguing with an unidentified fan in footage from the Washington Wizards-Milwaukee Bucks game on Wednesday night.

McHenry, 40, attended the game at Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena seemingly with a male friend, according to Page Six.

The dispute reportedly erupted after a group of men behind McHenry began heckling Bucks player Kyle Kuzma and disparaging his fiancee, model Winnie Harlow.

A source told Page Six that McHenry, who had been drinking, turned around to tell the heckler to “ease up,” kicking off a verbal dispute. (Read more from “Top Trump Aide Learns Fate After Drink-Fueled Stadium Fight” HERE)

The Deep State Is Leaking Trump’s Most Sensitive Undercover Operations To The Washington Post

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Anonymous sources have exposed sensitive details of the Trump administration’s reported plans to establish a clandestine espionage program targeting China to legacy media, potentially revealing American intelligence strategies to foreign adversaries.

The Pentagon is reportedly developing a deep-cover intelligence operation that would embed American operatives within private-sector businesses to gather intelligence on China and other foreign adversaries, according to The Washington Post. Six individuals familiar with the initiative disclosed details about its leadership, capabilities and internal planning despite the program’s sensitive nature and the Pentagon’s denial of its existence. . .

The alleged new “non-official cover officer” program is being headed by Tom Rakusan. Rakusan’s background includes a 39-year career in the CIA in which he held a leadership position during the first Trump administration. Following his 2021 retirement, he worked at a private equity firm co-founded by now Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, the Washington Post alleges. He has now returned to the Pentagon as Senior Adviser to Feinberg, according to his LinkedIn page.

Several of the leakers appear to be former colleagues with personal grudges against Rakusan. One, a White House official during Trump’s first term, referred to him as a “pipe swinger.”

“Rakusan just wants to build his own CIA down in the Pentagon,” an anonymous former CIA official told The Washington Post. (Read more from “The Deep State Is Leaking Trump’s Most Sensitive Undercover Operations To The Washington Post” HERE)

Supreme Court Refuses to Let Trump Cut Transgender Inmate Care

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to let the Trump administration gradually end transgender-related medical services for prison inmates who want to be treated as members of the opposite sex.

The justices split 7-2 against the government, turning away its emergency request to enforce the restrictions while the lawsuit continues. The majority gave no explanation. Only Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have granted the request: Thomas, appointed by George H.W. Bush, and Alito, by George W. Bush.

At issue is a Bureau of Prisons policy adopted this year that would halt hormone therapy, surgery, and a range of day-to-day accommodations such as female undergarments, makeup, and wigs for inmates who identify as transgender. It followed an executive order Trump signed on his first day back in office in January 2025, which pledged to restore what he called “biological truth” and barred federal money for care meant to help inmates live as the opposite sex.

Government lawyers maintained that the restrictions were the prison bureau’s own decision, not a product of the order, and that running a secure prison was justification enough on its own. Transgender inmates would lose nothing they truly needed, the administration argued, calling hormones and social accommodations “not medically necessary” for gender dysphoria

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, rejected that account. He concluded the policy had been built backward from the executive order to give it a legal footing and froze it while the case runs its course, faulting officials for never explaining why gender dysphoria should be handled differently from any other medical condition. (Read more from “Supreme Court Refuses to Let Trump Cut Transgender Inmate Care” HERE)

Rural MAHA Voters Don’t Think Trump Admin Has Helped Health In Their Communities, New Poll Shows

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Most backers of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement living in rural areas do not believe the Trump administration’s health policies are actually helping their communities, per a new KFF-Associated Press poll.

The survey suggests that roughly 8 in 10 rural U.S. voters said the administration’s policies have had a negative impact or no effect on the health of individuals in their local communities. Particularly, 68 percent of these rural voters who said they aligned with the MAHA movement said they felt the same way, the poll shows.

The poll found that just 10 percent of rural Democratic voters said they had a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while 74 percent of rural Republicans said the same. Roughly 5 percent of rural Democrats and 69 percent of rural Republican voters reported trusting President Donald Trump a “great deal” or “fair amount” for trustworthy health information, according to the survey.

“This poll takes the views of a small subset of voters and attempts to draw sweeping conclusions about the impact of the Make America Healthy Again agenda in rural communities nationwide. The reality is that President Trump and Secretary Kennedy have made rural America a central focus of MAHA,” an HHS spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that a $20 million investment is being disbursed in an effort to bolster healthcare technology and expand patient access in rural North Carolina via the federal Rural Health Transformation Program. (Read more from “Rural MAHA Voters Don’t Think Trump Admin Has Helped Health In Their Communities, New Poll Shows” HERE)

Jack Smith’s Team Ignored Attorney-Client And Speech Or Debate Privileges To Get Trump

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“I ignored the written description of filtering the other night,” Molly Gaston messaged her fellow federal prosecutor, J.P. Cooney, in the early days of the post-2020 election targeting of President Donald Trump, documents obtained exclusively by The Federalist reveal. “Me too,” Cooney replied, showing that two of the attorneys whom Jack Smith would later choose to lead the special counsel team disregarded rules when judged “not tenable.” And additional documents whistleblowers provided Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, confirm the special counsel office ignored the protocol established to protect privileged documents.

Monday afternoon, in advance of Jack Smith’s Tuesday testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, The Federalist is publishing a cache of documents it obtained exclusively from Grassley, in advance of their public release. These new documents provide further evidence that the Biden Administration and Special Counsel Jack Smith weaponized the Justice Department.

The first incriminating document consists of what a representative from Grassley’s office confirmed included text exchanges between two prosecutors in the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office from February of 2021. Those communications came soon after Biden’s inauguration and while Tim Thibault remained a key player pushing for an investigation into Trump.

Cooney opened the relevant exchange by asking Gaston “how confusing/bad was the filter guidance? I’m sitting in another call, but am getting pinged that it is a bit of a cluster.”

The referenced “filter guidance” concerned the DOJ’s directions to prosecutors and agents for the handling of documents being reviewed as part of their investigation, where the materials included — or potentially included — privileged materials, such as communications with an attorney. To properly protect privileged communications, when documents may include privileged material, the DOJ requires those documents to be sequestered from the investigative and prosecuting team, with a “filter” or “taint” team reviewing the documents to redact or withhold any protected communications from prosecutors. (Read more from “Jack Smith’s Team Ignored Attorney-Client And Speech Or Debate Privileges To Get Trump” HERE)

Judge Orders Trump Admin To Reverse ‘Fake News’ White House Ban

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By Daily Caller. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore press credentials to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico after the president “banned” them from the White House Friday.

The ruling comes after the three outlets joined forces to sue the administration to restore their press credentials. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly granted the outlets a temporary order to reinstate their access on Monday, but reports claim journalists are still being denied entry to the White House.

“The brief makes clear what the law has long established: the government cannot remove journalists from the White House because it dislikes their reporting,” White House Correspondents Association President Jacqui Heinrich said in a post on X.

“That is viewpoint discrimination, and a clear violation of the First Amendment.”

“It is called the Oval Office, and it should be treated with Decorum, Respect, and Dignity, not defiled by Third Rate Clowns, who purposefully distort, twist, and degrade with everything they write or publish,” President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post following the lawsuit. “Virtually every story about me, or anything having to do with me, is negative, wrong and, in many cases, DANGEROUS for our Country! No matter how GREAT my Achievements, they trivialize and demean.” (Read more from “Judge Orders Trump Admin To Reverse ‘Fake News’ White House Ban” HERE)

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3 US news outlets return to White House after judge orders Trump to lift ban

By Miami News 7. Three news organizations banned from the White House for days were back Thursday, after a judge handed CNN, MS NOW and Politico a reprieve in an extraordinary showdown between President Donald Trump and outlets whose coverage he dislikes.

But media coverage of Trump’s White House was hardly normal. On a high-profile day when Chinese leader Xi Jinping was visiting Washington and planning to attend a state dinner, no major American network was airing live coverage.

After the White House banned CNN from a rotation of five major U.S. broadcast outlets who take turns shooting and sharing video, the other four — in a show of solidarity — were still declining to participate in the so-called video pool.

It was part of a chaotic day at the White House and in court. (Read more from “Judge Orders Trump Admin To Reverse ‘Fake News’ White House Ban” HERE)

9/11 Family Members Demand Trump Admin Release Docs ‘Deep State Has Hidden’ During Memorial

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Two family members of 9/11 victims demanded during a 25th anniversary memorial Friday that the Trump administration release files that could potentially shed more light on Saudi Arabia’s role in the terrorist attack.

During a ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City, family members of 9/11 victims called for the Trump administration to tell Saudi Arabia, home to Osama bin Laden and most of the hijackers, to “stop lying” about its alleged role in the attacks and demanded that the federal government release related documents. Saudi Arabia has long been accused of playing a part in the terrorist attacks, with allegations ranging from direct Saudi involvement, to theories that the CIA used Saudi assets as cover to obtain human intelligence from two of the hijackers.

Terry Strada slammed Saudi Arabia during the ceremony after reading the name of her deceased husband Tom Strada’s name, saying: “How can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder?,” Fox 5 New York reported.

“Yes, we finally made it into a court and proved that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fomented a rancid culture of anti-American terrorism around the globe and then sent its agents to support the radical Islamic hijackers so they could attack you and all of our loved ones,” Strada added.

Strada went on to criticize the U.S. government, suggesting that previous presidential administrations chose to “protect the Saudis.” (Read more from “9/11 Family Members Demand Trump Admin Release Docs ‘Deep State Has Hidden’ During Memorial” HERE)

RFK Jr. Now Probing Whether US Service Members Died From COVID Vaccines

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An Army doctor said she is teaming up with the Trump administration to investigate whether U.S. service members died from COVID-19 vaccines after a Biden-era mandate, Politico first reported Thursday.

Dr. Theresa Long told a Virginia federal court that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth selected her to be Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s senior medical military adviser, Politico reported, citing an Aug. 14 deposition. Long stated that she is probing whether 2,544 unverified deaths among troops reported to HHS’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) resulted from COVID-19 vaccines, according to the outlet.

Long also told the court in the deposition that she is seeking to complete her research about potential vaccine-related health complications “within a year,” Politico reported.

The Pentagon referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to the HHS when asked for comment. The HHS did not immediately respond to the DCNF. Long could not immediately be reached for comment.

When reached for comment, the Department of War told Politico that it does not “have anything to announce at this time” regarding Long’s role as Kennedy’s senior medical military adviser and referred the outlet to a May 8 statement. (Read more from “RFK Jr. Now Probing Whether US Service Members Died From COVID Vaccines” HERE)