Former vice president Kamala Harris' inner circle was preparing for something to happen to Joe Biden long before he ended his re-election campaign, according to Harris' memoir 107 Days.

A year before Biden dropped out, Harris' brother-in-law Tony West began assembling a "Red File" laying out plans for Harris to take over, Fox News reports.

"A year earlier, he had started what he called the ‘Red File,'" Harris wrote in her book. "With a president in his eighties, he suggested, it would be malpractice on my part to be unprepared if, God forbid, something should happen."

Harris claims she "didn't want to dwell on such an eventuality” and “I left it in his hands.”

The "Red File"

The "Red File" was continually updated as pressure mounted for Biden to quit, according to Harris.

The plans ultimately did come into play when Biden suspended his campaign and endorsed Harris to replace him, although Biden never resigned the presidency.

Democratic soon rallied behind Harris after Biden anointed her, but the party's top elites did not plan for a coronation. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) and other top Democrats wanted Harris to prove herself first, Harris writes.

The former vice president says she was frustrated with Biden at times, citing a pre-debate phone call in which Biden accused her of badmouthing him.

“I just couldn't understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself," she wrote.

Kamala's excuse

Kamala's book tour is creating new headaches for her party, as Democrats continue pointing fingers over their 2024 defeat.

Like many Democrats, Harris blames her loss on Biden's age and overstretching ambition, but she acknowledges her own "recklessness" in not intervening to stop his campaign sooner.

The fact that her own team was preparing for the worst leaves little doubt that Harris knew that Biden simply was not up to the job, no matter how she might try to spin things. But Harris says she feared that pressuring Biden would be seen as selfish, given her position.

"I talk about what was going through my head, right? And what was going through my head to not bring it up was that it would come off as being very self-serving, and therefore maybe lack the credibility that it deserved. But I do think about it. I do think about it," she told Good Morning America.

Earlier this year, Biden's family announced that he was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. He also underwent surgery to treat

Secret Service agents are very concerned by the slow response to an incident that occurred at the United Nations on Tuesday, according to a report.

Agents should have moved to protect President Trump and his wife Melania right away after an escalator froze under their feet, sources told reporter Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics.

The delayed reaction from Trump's bodyguards has alarmed Secret Service insiders, who say the incident was a perfect set-up for a would-be assassin.

Escalator incident

First Lady Melania Trump briefly lost her footing after the escalator suddenly turned off while she and her husband were on it. Melania was right in front of the president.

“This is not hard. Don’t just stand there,” former agent Rich Staropoli told Crabtree, who added agents "should have closed ranks right around there, as close as you can be.”

“Somebody’s got to make a call. We’re going to stand here like a bunch of morons, like we did in Butler. Or are we going to scoop up the first lady and POTUS and either go down or go up?”

Secret Service agents were similarly slow to get Trump off the stage after he narrowly survived an assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year.

Sabotage?

The Secret Service is probing the cause of the escalator issue including the possibility that it was sabotage, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

According to a report in the Sunday Times, UN staffers had "joked" about turning off the escalators to pressure Trump to restore funding to the global institution.

The United Nations has said the escalator stopped after a built-in safety mechanism was inadvertently triggered by someone further up on the escalator.

Trump demands probe

The escalator incident occurred on the same day that would-be assassin Ryan Routh was convicted for trying to kill Trump at his Florida golf course last September.

Concerns about political violence are also heightened after the assassination of Trump's friend Charlie Kirk by a radical leftist.

Trump made light of the frozen escalator in his speech at the U.N. General Assembly, but Trump struck a more serious tone in a Truth Social post the next day, calling the event part of a "sinister" pattern that needs to be investigated. Trump also cited his teleprompter not working and audio issues during the speech.

“It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first,” Trump posted. “It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster.”

“No wonder the United Nations hasn’t been able to do the job that they were put in existence to do,” he added. “All security tapes at the escalator should be saved, especially the emergency stop button. The Secret Service is involved.”

President Donald Trump and his administration are riding high after a string of Supreme Court victories in key cases, NBC News reported. The success has come in part from being particular about which issues to argue in front of the high court, which leans to a conservative majority of 6-3 among the justices. 

The news outlet views Trump's choices as a careful strategy to accumulate as many wins as possible, and it appears to be working. So far, the administration has successfully argued 19 cases before the Supreme Court and has enjoyed a 16-case winning streak since its last loss in May, after another win this week.

"They’re ecstatic," a source close to the administration said of the impressive outcome. Of the emergency petitions the Trump administration brought to the Supreme Court, only two out of 28 were denied while four are still pending.

This comes as more than 300 active lawsuits are also pending against the Trump administration, while only a handful have been heard by the Supreme Court.  "We are being very careful. We’re dotting our i’s, crossing our t’s. But we prepare for loss, of course. We never just assume," a White House official told NBC News.

Impressive record

Trump's impressive record was illustrated in a bar graph by NBC News White House reporter Katherine Doyle just before Trump notched yet another win, allowing him to dismiss the Federal Trade Commissioner. "The White House has won 18 times at the Supreme Court since Trump took office and is on a 15-case winning run. The last loss was in May," she captioned the image in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.

Trump's team, which includes White House counsel David Warrington, as well as former law clerks for the Supreme Court, said that these wins stem from a careful legal strategy. The orders filed are ones that they believe are solidly based in legal precedent, and also what the president thinks is most important to take on.

"We do take into consideration the fact that some things are more of a priority versus others, and most of what we’re appealing is a priority," the unnamed official explained. While the legal team expected to be sued over policy, they did not anticipate how many of Trump's executive orders would be blocked by lower courts.

"The Trump Administration’s policies have been consistently upheld by the Supreme Court as lawful despite an unprecedented number of legal challenges and unlawful lower court rulings," Abigail Jackson, White House spokeswoman, explained in a statement. "The President will continue implementing the policy agenda that the American people voted for in November lawfully, and the winning will continue!"

Lawfare

Solicitor General D. John Sauer has been instrumental in many of Trump's wins, including his crackdown on illegal immigration and efforts to slash government waste. Sauer is a fighter and was successful in pushing back against the lawfare against Trump, arguing at the Supreme Court on his behalf before he took office.

The cases previously leveled against Trump as an individual have now been directed against his policies, with lower courts blocking many of his executive orders. As Fox News reported, these nationwide injunctions have become a significant challenge to the Trump administration's agenda, as the Supreme Court chips away at them through favorable decisions for the Administration.

Meanwhile, the administration has remained intentional about which issues to fight back on and how, which Jonathan Adler, a professor at the William & Mary Law School, said is part of the game. "There are some cases that are very likely to be losers they haven’t brought," Adler said.

"That suggests to me it has been very strategic," he added. Other significant cases could land in court, such as Trump's ability to impose tariffs, and former Federal Election Commission chairman and litigator Michael Toner believes they might break that winning streak. "They’ve had a very good few months. But the real ballgame still lies ahead," Toner said.

The Trump administration is on point with its strategy so far, as evidenced by its winning streak. Regardless of how much his opponents attack him, Trump will continue to notch victories because he has a legal team that was trained by the many attacks leveled at him for many years.

Accused assassin Tyler Robinson will remain in the jail's "special housing unit" after his mental health evaluation has been completed, Fox News reported. Robinson is being held on aggravated murder and other charges after allegedly gunning down Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

Kirk died at the hands of his alleged assassin, who, by all accounts, fired a single shot at the 31-year-old. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital, and Robinson has been charged with his killing as well as a felony weapons charge, two counts of witness tampering, and another charge for committing a violent offense with a child present.

Robinson was taken to the special housing for an evaluation, and he will remain there even as the Utah County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the screening was completed. "Robinson has been seen by our medical and mental health staff," Sgt. Ray Ormond told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

"Due to patient privacy regulations, I'm not able to [go] further into that. Robinson will stay in our special housing unit for the time being," Ormond said. There's no word on the particular results of the mental health screening that may be keeping Robinson there, and Ormond wouldn't disclose whether Robinson will stay there for good. "That's not set in stone, and his housing location may change down the road."

They're watching

One of the reasons an inmate may stay in such a unit is because of concerns about his mental health or ability to get along in the general population. As the sheriff's office previously noted, Robinson was being kept there so officers could "keep an eye on him," which could suggest mental illness or other concerns.

The department further explained that a person might stay on "special watch" due to suicidal comments or ideation, violence, or other behavioral issues, and even the type of crime the inmate is accused of committing. Robinson has not made any suicidal threats that the sheriff's department is aware of, but authorities have not specified any additional reason why he's being so closely monitored.

While the public isn't being told much about his current condition, there's a good chance that his mental state will come up as part of the trial. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani speculates that the authorities' decision to leave Robinson in the special housing unit "suggests that he should not be housed with the general population," which hints at mental health issues, she told Fox News Digital.

"A full mental health evaluation will be conducted by his defense team to try to negotiate a plea deal to save his life, to put on an insanity or diminished capacity defense during the guilt phase, which is challenging under Utah law, or to put on evidence of mitigation during the death penalty phase," Rahmani added. Based on what is known about Robinson thus far, making the case that he's mentally ill will not be a far leap.

According to the New York Post, Robinson had a "furry fixation" and was living with Lance Twiggs, a 22-year-old gender-confused man who was transitioning to be a woman. Robinson reportedly had an account on FurAffinity.net, which features all sorts of disturbing images, including "sexualized images of cartoon animal characters," and possibly committed the crime for political motivations.

His defense

While authorities are mum on Robinson's possible suicidal tendencies, the 22-year-old suspect was wearing a suicide prevention vest during his first court hearing on Sept. 16 via video conference, which might suggest a motive for his continued residence in the special unit, as People noted last week. A still from that hearing was shared to X, formerly Twitter, by TheBlaze Media, showing a stone-faced Robinson wearing the vest with its velcro restraitns.

Although Robinson turned himself in to the authorities, he pleaded not guilty to the charges set by the state. The accused assassin is facing the death sentence in Utah, but as Newsweek noted, questions about Robinson's frame of mind or mental health during the alleged crime could take that option off the table.

Attorneys could assert that Robinson committed the crime while under "extreme emotional distress" as a mitigating factor. Utah law explains it as a situation where "a person acts under the influence of extreme emotional distress when he is exposed to extremely unusual and overwhelming stress that would cause the average reasonable person under the same circumstances to experience a loss of self-control and be overborne by intense feelings, such as passion, anger, distress, grief, excessive agitation, or other similar emotions."

Whatever the reasons for monitoring Robinson, there are still many questions left open about the alleged killer's motives and whether he had help in planning the attack. This was an unspeakably horrific crime committed in front of spectators that day and the millions who watched on social media, and careful steps must be taken to ensure justice is done.

French President Emmanuel Macron was stranded on a New York City street behind a police barrier that closed the roads in anticipation of President Donald Trump's motorcade on Monday, Breitbart reported.  In a video of the moment that went viral, Macron is seen good-naturedly calling Trump after a police officer denied his request to cross.

Macron was on his way to the French embassy when the street closures blocked his vehicle from making the trip. The French president attempted to negotiate with an officer from the New York Police Department to cross the barricade before he called Trump for help.

"Awkward moment: Macron stopped in New York because of Trump’s motorcade," the European news outlet Nexta posted to X, formerly Twitter. "Police who had blocked roads for Donald Trump’s motorcade mistakenly stopped the car of French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron got out of the vehicle, called Trump, and jokingly asked him to 'clear the road."

Presidential privilege

As the New York Times reported, Macron and Trump are in the Big Apple along with other foreign dignitaries for this week's U.N. General Assembly meeting. From the video shared to X, which was originally captured by French news outlet Brut, Macron was seen taking the whole thing in stride.

"I have 10 people with me. I go to the French embassy," Macron first told a police officer in the video. Unfortunately, nobody, including the French leader, would be permitted past the police line while Trump's motorcade was expected through.

"I’m sorry, President, I’m really sorry. It’s just that everything’s been frozen right now. There’s a motorcade coming right now. I’m sorry," the NYPD officer told Macron.

Ever the diplomat, the French president tried to smooth-talk the officer some more. "I negotiate with you," Macron said, again to no avail. That's when Macron took out his cell phone and called a leader with infinitely more power than he has, whether on the streets of New York or the global political arena: Trump.

"How are you? Guess what? I am waiting the street because everything is frozen for you," Macron said into the phone and then chuckled. The video then cuts to Macron walking down the street with the phone still up to his ear. Later, the video shows Macron greeting a man and a woman on the street, with whom he takes a picture just after the man kisses Macron on the forehead.

Diplomacy

The Times noted that Macron's staff confirmed that the video was accurate and that the French president reached out to Trump while waiting for permission to cross the street. His office also stated that Trump and Macron had a "very warm and amicable" conversation, which he hoped to carry over into a discussion of the situation in Gaza with Trump and officials from Qatar.

The NYPD thanked Macron for his generosity in handling the situation, as thousands of its officers are deployed to keep the city safe for world leaders during the yearly summit. "Merci to President Macron for recognizing the dedication and tireless efforts of our officers who safeguard this annual event,” the NYPD said.

Unfortunately, Macron didn't strike the same friendly tone when speaking about the war in Gaza during a bilateral meeting with Trump. According to Reuters, Trump disagrees with France and other nations that recognize Palestine as a state, particularly after the savage invasion of Israel launched by Hamas in October 2023.

"I think it honors Hamas, and you can't do that because of October 7. You just can't do that," Trump told reporters this week during the meeting. Macron disagreed on this critical issue while sitting alongside Trump. "Nobody forgets the 7th of October. But after almost two years of war, what is the result?" Macron said. "This is not the right way to proceed," he added.

Trump is very skilled at handling world leaders, such as Macron, and is known for his ease with those who head both friendly and adversarial nations. While Macron spoke out against Trump's viewpoint at the U.N., where America is routinely outnumbered in such matters and is too often disrespected, Macron was astute enough to know that aligning with Trump's interests was a winning strategy on the streets of New York.

In a stunning turn of events, White House border czar Tom Homan has found himself at the center of controversy over allegations of accepting $50,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents.

The allegations, which surfaced over the weekend, claim Homan accepted cash from agents posing as business executives, though both he and White House officials have denied any criminal activity and labeled the incident as an entrapment scheme, the Washington Examiner reported. 

Reports of the alleged incident first emerged over the weekend when MSNBC broke the story, later confirmed by the Associated Press.

Uncovering the Alleged FBI Sting Operation

According to the reports, FBI agents, operating under the administration of former President Joe Biden, posed as business executives and recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash.

The money was allegedly offered in exchange for assistance in securing a government contract, though specific details of the interaction remain unclear.

Homan has neither confirmed nor denied the specifics of the cash exchange but has repeatedly asserted that no illegal actions took place.

Homan's Defense on National Television

On Monday, Homan addressed the allegations during an interview on Fox News with host Laura Ingraham.

He emphasized that the Department of Justice and the FBI investigated the matter and found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Homan declared, “I did nothing criminal. I did nothing illegal. And this is hit piece after hit piece after hit piece.”

Personal Sacrifices Highlighted Amid Accusations

He continued, “And I'm glad the FBI and DOJ came out and said ... that nothing illegal happened and ... no criminal activity.”

Homan also spoke about the personal toll of his role, stating, “Not only did I sacrifice ... my family sacrifices. I make sacrifices every day. I get more death threats than anybody.”

He added, “So after all the sacrifices, after serving my nation for all these years, they want to come out and dirty me up. And it's not going to end. There's a hit piece on me every two weeks.”

Defiant Stance Against Ongoing Criticism

Homan remained defiant, saying, “But keep coming because you know what? Tom Homan is not going anywhere.”

He further asserted, “Tom Homan isn't shutting up and Tom Homan is going to keep doing what he's doing because working with President Trump is the greatest job of my life. We're making this country safer again every day.”

Throughout the interview, Homan portrayed himself as a dedicated public servant who has endured significant personal and professional challenges to serve in his current position.

President Trump is urging pregnant mothers to stop taking Tylenol, tying the common painkiller to autism, ABC News reports.

Trump shared the bombshell claim at a White House press conference where he was joined by top health officials, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who had pledged to make autism's cause known by September.

Trump targets Tylenol

Tylenol has long been considered the safest painkiller for pregnant moms to take, but Trump said mothers should avoid it unless they have a high-risk fever.

“With Tylenol, don’t take it! Don’t take it,” Trump told reporters from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. “Ideally, you don’t take it all, but if you have to, if you can’t tough it out, if there’s a problem, you’re going to end up doing it.”

The president's contentious claims have sparked vigorous pushback from the medical community and Kenvue, the company that makes Tylenol.

"Acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy. Without it, women face dangerous choices: suffer through conditions like fever that are potentially harmful to both mom and baby or use riskier alternatives," Kenvue said in a statement.

Some studies have found an association between the active ingredient in Tylenol, acetaminophen, and autism, but no causal link has been proven.

The Food and Drug Administration will be changing the label on Tylenol to include the warning, and doctors will be advised to tell pregnant moms to limit acetaminophen use, Trump said.

Evidence mixed

The White House cited an August meta-analysis from Harvard and Mt. Sinai that found an association between prenatal Tylenol use and autism in a majority of existing studies, but the paper's authors sounded a note of caution.

"[A]s the only approved medication for pain and fever reduction during pregnancy, acetaminophen remains an important tool for pregnant patients and their physicians," co-authors Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, dean of the faculty and professor of environmental health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told ABC News in a statement.

"High fever can pose risks to both the mother and the fetus, including neural tube defects and preterm birth."

The FDA was also less certain than Trump, noting "a causal relationship has not been established and there are contrary studies in the scientific literature."

While targeting Tylenol, Trump also suggested that children should receive vaccines less often.

Trump had recently said that vaccines work "pure and simple," but the president introduced doubts at his press conference Monday, saying the childhood vaccine schedule should be changed.

“You have a little child, little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess, 80 different blends, and they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won’t take Tylenol, and on the vaccines, it would be good instead of one visit where they pump the baby, you load it up with stuff, you do it over a period of four times or five times,” Trump said.

The House Republicans' narrow majority could shrink after a special election in Arizona.

The Democratic candidate, the daughter of the late congressman Raul Grijalva, is expected to easily win Tuesday night's race for his former seat, Fox News reports.

Congressman's daughter

Adelita Grijalva is a former member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, where her father once served as chair. Her Republican competitor, businessman Daniel Butierez, lost in a landslide against the late Rep. Grijalva in 2024.

The winner of Tuesday's race will serve out the remaining 15 months of Raul Grijalva's term.

Grijalva was a strident liberal during his 22 years in Congress, and his daughter is likely to continue that legacy. She easily won the Democratic primary, boosted by name recognition and endorsements from the far-left figures like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Ny.)

Immigration differences

Immigration is a top issue in Arizona's majority-Hispanic 7th district, which borders Mexico.

Like her late father, Grijalva has pledged to protect the rights of immigrants, both illegal and legal.

She supports a path to citizenship for illegal aliens and is furiously opposed to Trump's mass deportations. Butierez supports immigration enforcement although he agrees reform is needed, the Center Square reports.

“The rules are not changing. The laws are being enforced,” Butierez said during a debate last month. “The ICE agents are doing what the law requires them to do, not what the administration is requiring them to do.”

Narrowing margin

If elected, Grijalva would provide Democrats with the numbers needed to force a vote on the Jeffrey Epstein files. The effort is being backed by a handful of Republicans, including Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

Republicans currently have a 219-213 majority. Three seats are vacant - two Democratic, one Republican.

While upsets are always possible, Arizona's 7th congressional district is solidly Democratic. The district has been vacant since March, when Raul Grijalva died from cancer treatment complications at age 77.

Grijalva was one of the three House Democrats to die in office this year, expanding the GOP's thin margins and sparking a debate about the age of lawmakers in Washington D.C.

There is still one other vacancy left in a Democrat-leaning district. Texas' 18th opened up after the death of Rep. Sylvester Turner, who passed away days before Grijalva.

Republicans are expected to fill a heavily Republican district in Tennessee after the resignation of Mark Green. That race is on December 2.

Tom Holland will soon return to filming the next Spider-Man movie after suffering a concussion.

The 29-year-old English star was hospitalized after an injury on the set for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, according to The Sun.

Spider-Man actor injured

It is said that Holland cracked his head while performing a stunt on Friday at Leavesden Studios in Watford.

"We were called at 10.30am on Friday to attend to a patient who had sustained an injury at Leavesden Studios in Watford," An East of England Ambulance Service spokesman said, according to The Sun.

“An ambulance was sent to the scene, and the patient was transported to hospital for further care.”

The movie production is shutting down for a week while Holland recovers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

In recovery

This is Holland's fourth time acting in a standalone Spider-Man movie. He became famous for playing Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016.)

Holland appeared at a dinner for his family's charity, Brothers Trust, over the weekend. The actor was joined by his fiancée Zendaya, who is reprising the role of Michelle “MJ” Jones MJ in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Holland left the charity event early because he was not feeling well, according to reports.

Producers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day made the call on Monday to pause work for a week. The movie is being co-produced by Marvel Studios and Sony and is set for release in July 2026.

Financial hit

While the pause is not expected to delay the movie's release, it is certain to be very costly.

According to the Daily Mail, Holland's absence will likely burn through over $14 million. Daily operating costs for the $200 million movie are likely in the range of $2 million, a director told the Daily Mail.

"On a production the size of Spider-Man, which carries a $200 million budget, the daily running costs are immense," said director Emeka Egbuonu.

"Once you factor in cast, crew, set locations, equipment, and the logistical machine that keeps a blockbuster moving, each day of filming can cost between $1.5 and $2 million [£1.1m and £1.5m]."

"The challenge is that even when filming halts, many of those costs don't disappear — the crew still need to be paid, sets need to be maintained, and equipment continues to be on hire."

That's one expensive fall! But it goes to show how much the star is worth in a big production.

The Department of Homeland Security will not comply with a newly enacted California law that bans federal agents from wearing masks while conducting their operations, The Hill reported. A social media post from the DHS on Monday emphatically stated that the DHS "will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban."

President Donald Trump's administration has begun conducting raids and deporting illegal immigrants just as he'd promised during the 2024 presidential campaign. In California, 27% of residents are foreign-born, a fact which likely spurs on Newsom's opposition as he makes a play for the White House in 2028.

On Saturday, Newsom signed the first-of-its-kind legislation banning masks for agents, including DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carrying out immigration enforcement and other operations. The leftist governor charges that these agents are "hidden from accountability" and that masks deny "transparency" and block "oversight" by the public.

"That’s Trump’s America, but that’s not the America we’ve grown up in," Newsom said during a news conference at a California high school while announcing the legislation. "And so we are pushing back," the governor promised.

Growing danger

According to the Department of Homeland Security, 5,000 illegal immigrants were arrested from June to August in the city of Los Angeles alone. Rather than focusing on the widespread nature of the problem and the ways the federal government is addressing it, Newsom is concerned about what the people who bring these criminals to justice are wearing on their faces.

Meanwhile, ICE agents have been forced to wear masks because of the increased threats against them. "At a time that ICE law enforcement faces a 1,000% increase in assaults and their family members are being doxxed and targeted, the sitting Governor of California signed unconstitutional legislation that strips law enforcement of protections in a disgusting, diabolical fundraising and PR stunt," the DHS, led by Secretary Kristi Noem, said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.

The video accompanying the post featured a Fox News interview about the Trump administration's response to the issue. It began with Newsom and his taunting message after signing the legislation. "To ICE: unmask. What are you afraid of?" Newsom said in his remarks about the law.

Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin then explained that the situation has become dire due to the leftists' crusade against immigration enforcement. "Not only are they facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them, largely because of the rhetoric of these politicians likening them to the Gestapo or Nazis. This law, in fact, was called the No Secret Police [Act]." McLaughlin added.

Lashing out

McLaughlin believes Newsom is "giving permission" for people to attack agents with such rhetoric, and the new law equates the actions of government agencies with America's enemy in World War II. She also pointed out that just before announcing the legislation, Newsom's social media "issued a threatening post against Secretary Noem," she shared.

"It seemed very menacing and I think it was pretty disturbing to see," McLaughlin said about the post to X. Newsom's official press office issued the post stating, "Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today. You’re welcome, America."

According to Fox News, this prompted a formal threat response from the U.S. Secret Service. Agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi shared that the Department of Justice referred the matter to his agency, but that he was unable to comment on "specific protective intelligence matters" such as this.

"However, the Secret Service must vigorously investigate any situation or individual, regardless of position or status, that could pose or be perceived as posing a threat to any of our protectees," Guglielmi said. "Especially in a politically charged climate, such as this," he added. This threatening language from a high-profile politician came a little more than a week after conservative pundit and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot to death, which has put many on edge about political violence.

Newsom's law demonstrates a severe disregard for the safety of government officials tasked with carrying out law enforcement operations. What makes it worse is his rhetoric surrounding it that only adds to the heightened temperature of political discourse right now, and Newsom seems unable or unwilling to see the potential risks of that.

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