While ringing the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange and launch the IPO of his latest business venture, "GrabAGun," Donald Trump Jr. said he thinks there would be an exodus out of New York City if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor later this year.
Mamdani has said he would raise taxes on the rich and has espoused ideas like defunding police and living in communes rather than owning property.
"If what possibly could happen in November happens, I mean, it's scary and, you know, perhaps that's what New York needs," Trump Jr. told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
"Maybe it has to fail to be able to come back, to be able to, you know, put the nail in the coffin of these ideas that have failed so many times around the world."
Trump Jr. predicted that more people would move from New York to Florida, continuing an exodus that has been going on since the pandemic in 2020.
"In New York, I think the stat I remembered, it was from like 10 years ago, but it was something like 18,000 people pay 80% of New York City’s city tax," Trump Jr. said. "Well, those people are all very mobile. They can go wherever they want. This new mayor could possibly be the greatest marketing campaign for Florida ever to exist."
Most Republicans and many Democrats are alarmed at the possibility of Mamdani being mayor, but it seems almost like Trump Jr. is wishing for it.
He seems to think that New York needs to fall in order to be rebuilt and to swing back pendulum-like to more conservative policies that actually work.
Trump continued, "But what happens to New York then? And as a lifelong New Yorker, as someone who grew up here, someone who changed the skyline here with my father for many years before he got into politics, that's a scary notion, but perhaps it's exactly what America needs. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom, and I think if this communist mayor gets elected, rock bottom is what New York's going to see."
Trump Jr.'s partner in GrabAGun, Omeed Malik, compared Mamdani to progressive former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was generally regarded as a failure.
"If you didn't see it on the writing on the wall with de Blasio I don't know what to tell you," Malik said. "I definitely don't want those people in Florida because if you haven't already moved out of here you've got the wrong politics."
President Donald Trump said earlier this month that if Mamdani gets elected, New York will "never be the same."
Current Mayor Eric Adams and former Mayor Andrew Cuomo are both running as independents, but they will likely split the vote if they both stay in the race and give the edge to Mamdani.
If all of Mamdani's detractors unite around one candidate, however, he will be easily defeated.
The questions about Jeffrey Epstein are only growing, and now it appears that an insider has a story about what really happened to the financier-turned punch line.
Epstein was known to be connected to the richest and most famous people in the world, but he was eventually also known for human trafficking, and that eventually caught up with him, as Fox News reported.
Epstein, who allegedly had dirt on everyone from A-list actors to the English monarchy, found himself behind bars just a few years ago and never lived to stand trial.
News broke well before his trial that Epstein had allegedly killed himself, but according to the financier’s former lawyer, he likely had help in doing that particular deed.
"It is clear from the evidence that Epstein committed suicide," attorney Alan Dershowitz wrote in an opinion article for the Wall Street Journal.
"What isn’t clear is whether he was assisted by jail personnel. That seems likely to me, based on the evidence of allegedly broken cameras, transfer of his cellmate, and the absence of guards during relevant time periods."
That death, which took place while Epstein was in federal custody, prompted plenty of questions about what might have been about to come out in court.
While lots of Americans believed that it was possible that people in the government who didn’t want Epstein’s dirty life details out, recent changes have shed new light on the issue.
Epstein’s infamous “list” was supposed to be released, according to a number of conservatives close to President Donald Trump.
However, earlier this week the president and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, said that, actually, there was no list. FBI Director Kash Patel also backed that up, saying that it was all “conspiracy” and there was nothing to see.
That was confirmed by Dershowitz, who said it’s true, there is no client list, and Epstein didn’t keep those kinds of records.
However, he did say that some of Epstein’s accusers who were interviewed by the FBI alleged they knew of “clients" whose names were redacted from official documents.
"I know who they are," Dershowitz wrote. "They don’t include any current officeholders. We don’t know whether the accusations are true. The courts have also sealed negative information about some of the accusers to protect them.
"The media can and should petition the courts for the release of all names and information, so the public can draw its own conclusions," he added.
Democratic Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell’s trial for the 2024 burglary of her stepmother’s home began this week, and the details are a frightening combination of delusion and entitlement.
Mitchell was arrested by the Detroit Lakes police in April of 2024 after Carol Mitchell called for help upon discovering someone in her home.
Included in the case proceedings was body cam footage from officers who confronted Nicole Mitchell, who stood in her stepmother’s living room dressed in black.
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Bodycam footage of Sen. Nicole Mitchell's arrest was shown during her burglary trial today.
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The Democrat state senator’s stepmother, Carol Mitchell, 75, took the witness stand, saying she felt “extremely violated” when she discovered her stepdaughter in her basement.
The defense brought up the assertion that she was just there to check on her aging relative, saying that what she did shortly after being found tells the story.
“A burglar runs,” said Bruce Ringstrom Jr., one of Nicole Mitchell’s attorneys, during opening statements. “A concerned child stays.”
The events took such a toll on Carol that she moved away from the home and into a high-security building for senior citizens over the age of 55: “I didn’t dare stay there … And I’ve only now moved back into my home after putting in a security system.”
But the Becker County Attorney Brian McDonald dismissed the claim, saying, “No amount of grief or frustration can justify a home burglary.”
McDonald firmly stated that Nicole Mitchell was “caught red-handed,” and was wearing all black, which included a black stocking cap.
She also allegedly took off her shoes to be more “stealthy,” according to McDonald. He also pointed to the fact that she entered through a basement window to support his case.
But despite all that she still woke up Carol Mitchell, who stepped on Nicole lying beside the bed at 4 a.m., causing the septagenarian to call 911 and report a break-in.
In January of this year, Mitchell’s co-workers at the state capitol moved, without success, to expel her from her position in the state Senate.
The measure was introduced by Sen. Jordan Rasmusson, who argued lawmakers didn’t “need the results of a criminal trial” to determine Mitchell was no longer fit to serve her constituents.
“We shouldn’t be complicit in delaying justice for the victim of a crime by allowing Sen. Mitchell to use her membership in this body to shield herself from criminal consequences,” said Rasmusson.
Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the ethics official who advises her and other top Justice Department officials of their ethical obligations, a source in the DOJ told ABC News on Monday.
Joseph Tirell posted about his dissmissal on LinkedIn on Monday, including a photo of his termination notice, which apparently didn't include a reason for the firing.
"Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics," Tirrell said in the post. "I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department."
His firing appears to be part of the DOJ purge of personnel who participated in former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into and case against President Donald Trump.
Around 35 DOJ employees have been fired so far, and 15 more are likely on the chopping block.
While no official word about why Tirell was fired has been given, a theory has been espoused by several former officials.
Tirell was director of the DOJ's Ethics Office when Smith disclosed that he had been gifted $140,000 in pro bono legal services while he was special counsel.
Tirell apparently signed off on the gift as following the regulations and requirements of the agency, an ethical lapse that could have led to his firing.
The purge is itself a development that has arisen out of the "Weaponization Working Group" formed by Bondi when she first took office as U.S. Attorney General.
The DOJ leadership under Trump is concerned that its personnel could work against Trump the way various personnel did during his first administration.
It's a valid concern because it happened both while he was in office and after.
The DOJ reportedly has tried to distinguish personnel who were only obeying orders from the higher ups from those who seemed to have ill will toward Trump and acted against him on their own initiative.
Trump vowed while campaigning to get rid of what he called the deep state, which is made up of longtime officials who have more sympathies for Democrat administrations than Republican ones.
At least within the DOJ, Trump's pledge is being taken very seriously.
A former adviser to Democrat candidates including Hillary Clinton and Colorado Governor Jared Polis said he was "almost speechless" after hearing anti-police comments made by New York's Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during a 2020 interview.
Mamdani, who is Black and Muslim, has been strongly criticized by the left and right since winning the Democrat primary.
Among other things, he has refused to disavow the phrase "globalize the intifada," which is a de facto call for violence.
In July 2020, Mamdani appeared on the "Immigrantly" podcast espousing rhetoric to defund the police, and the interview recently went viral on social media.
He referred to the history of the New York Police Department (NYPD), saying, "You can see that we have invested in a system that functions in many ways to punish poor Black and Brown people."
He gave examples of the NYPD overstepping their bounds, such as removing a homeless person from a train or responding to someone "surviving, you know, going through domestic violence."
Former Democrat adviser Dan Turrentine blasted Mamdani on "The Morning Meeting Podcast" when co-hosts Mark Halperin and Sean Spicer brought up the viral podcast.
"I'm almost speechless. Like, that is so enraging," Turrentine said. "It's crazy. I hope it hurts him. Like, when I hear that, and I try to have an open mind, hope that whoever our next mayor is makes this city a great place. I live [here]. We have children here. New York City police officers put themselves in such harm's way. This city is full of crazy people on subways. I, our children go on it. The number of times that there are homeless people who are, like, out of their mind who come up to kids, who scream at them right near - to say the police are the [problem], I hope our party condemns him."
Turrentine said he thinks the city has made progress with crime until recently and can't afford to go backward.
Obviously, Mamdani is a bad candidate for New York City and will cause great harm if he is elected.
However, Mamdani has disavowed those earlier comments, which were made in the wake of the George Floyd death and all the protests that followed.
"I will not defund the police. I will work with the police because I believe the police have a critical role to play in creating public safety," he said during a mayoral debate in June.
Many candidates who called for defunding the police in 2020 disavow it now, so it's not surprising that he has changed his tune.
That doesn't mean anyone should vote for him, but it would be good to focus on the real reasons for not doing so rather than grasping onto something that doesn't represent his current views--or at least his current stated views.
President Donald Trump has thrown his support behind Attorney General Pam Bondi amid calls for her resignation after dropping a bombshell announcement about the Epstein client list case.
MAGA and members of the Trump administration want Bondi to step down after she announced that the infamous Epstein client list didn't exist, after telling Americans months ago that she had the client list on her desk.
Americans have been eager for the release of the client list as it promised to be a monumental moment in American history that would expose the rich and powerful people who were involved in billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's sordid business.
One of the big reasons Trump gained such strong support in last year's presidential election is promises to expose the rich and powerful, including many powerful politicians, for their involvement or knowledge of Epstein's child sex trafficking operations.
Bondi's sudden announcement that the list didn't exist and there is no evidence of who was involved shocked America, and it's painfully obvious that there is a cover-up happening.
Despite the outrage against Bondi's act of cowardice, Trump is standing behind Bondi and has loudly declared his support for her. Trump's decision to support Bondi came as a shock because of how bad this situation looks for him.
In a post to Truth Social, Trump said, "What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening."
Trump's appeal to unity seems to be completely missing the point. Americans do not care about unity, they care about finding out who the rich and powerful were that participated in the massive child trafficking operation Epstein ran for years.
Trump's post continued, "We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein." He capped off the post saying, "LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!"
Nowhere does Trump acknowledge the fact that releasing the Epstein client list was a major promise of his campaign as part of his mission to drain the swamp and bring the corrupt elite to justice.
Bondi's cowardly behavior has been met with outrage among some of Trump's closest allies who have worked for years to expose the swamp and Epstein's associates to justice.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel are at the forefront of this rebellion in the Trump administration, and there have been rumors that both are considering resigning unless Bondi either comes clear or resigns from her position.
Bongino has been especially zealous, reportedly telling White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan that he "won’t stay at FBI if she [Bondi] stays at DOJ.”
This situation has been catastrophic for Trump, and it is paramount that he make the right decision in cleaning up this mess before it fractures MAGA and his own administration.
President Donald Trump is reportedly poised to accomplish his goal of firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell after a bitter months-long feud.
The White House is reportedly probing renovations at the Federal Reserve's headquarters amid reports of cost overruns and inefficient management. Speculation is rising that the Trump administration is preparing to use this probe as a pretext for removing Powell.
The White House is now accusing Powell of “mismanaging the Fed” and suggesting that Powell had misled Congress about an “ostentatious” renovation of the central bank’s headquarters.
Trump has been itching to fire Powell for months, but cannot unilaterally fire Powell without cause. However, if the White House can put together a case that Powell indeed mismanaged this project, Trump now has cause to get rid of Powell.
Should Powell be removed from his position, it will be a massive victory for Trump, as Powell has made it clear that he opposes Trump's economic agenda and will hamstring Trump's economy with high interest rates.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is leading the charge in this new attack by the Trump administration on Powell.
Vought wrote in a post on X that, "While continuing to run a deficit since FY23 (the first time in the Fed’s history), the Fed is way over budget on the renovation of its headquarters. Now up to $2.5 billion, roughly $700 million over its initial cost. The cost per square foot is $1,923--double the cost for renovating an ordinary historic federal building. The Palace of Versailles would have cost $3 billion in today’s dollars!"
If these reports are accurate, Powell has squandered billions of taxpayer dollars with nothing to show for it. The Federal Reserve building, while an important piece of architecture, is certainly no Palace of Versailles.
Vought further pointed out that, "The plans for this project called for rooftop terrace gardens, VIP private dining rooms and elevators, water features, premium marble, and much more."
Powell himself has refuted these claims, but in a very dismissive mannerwhich suggests Powell is not interested in transparency but rather in protecting himself.
For a renovation project to go hundreds of millions of dollars over budget either suggests gross incompetence or worse, extreme corruption. Both would constitute grounds for Trump to dismiss Powell and finally name a replacement.
Vough's letter has requested that Powell respond to 11 questions about the renovation project within seven business days, but so far, there has been little to no communication from the Federal Reserve, considering the allegations.
Powell has held onto his post despite pressure from Trump for him to resign. It would be a bizarre twist if he were forced out thanks to grossly mismanaging something as mundane as renovating the Federal Reserve's headquarters.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday characterized former DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni as a "disgruntled employee" and "leaker" who is telling false stories about the Trump administration's alleged internal dialogue that encouraged President Donald Trump to defy court orders when they interfere with his policies.
Reuveni told the New York Times in a story published Thursday that federal judge appointee Emil Bove made repeated suggestions about defying court injunctions and rulings that limited Trump's executive orders on immigration, one of which led to the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and hundreds of other illegal immigrants to CECOT in El Salvador.
The administration was "thumbing its nose at the courts" over the due process rights when it deported Abrego Garcia and the others to CECOT, Reuveni said.
"If they can do this sort of thing to Abrego Garcia, to 238 people that nobody knows, and send them to CECOT forever with no due process, they can do that to anyone," Reuveni told the Times. "It should be deeply, deeply worrisome … that the government can, without showing evidence to anyone of anything, spirit you away on a plane to wherever, forever."
Bondi pointed out that the timing of the Times story was very convenient; Bove's confirmation hearing to be a judge in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals took place on Friday, the day after the story came out.
Bove previously served as one of Trump's criminal defense attorneys and was a top official in the Justice Department.
"We support legitimate whistleblowers, but this disgruntled employee is not a whistleblower — he's a leaker asserting false claims seeking five minutes of fame, conveniently timed just before a confirmation hearing and a committee vote," Bondi said on X.
"As Mr. Bove testified and as the Department has made clear, there was no court order to defy, as we successfully argued to the DC Circuit when seeking a stay, when they stayed Judge [James] Boasberg's lawless order. And no one was ever asked to defy a court order," she went on.
"This is another instance of misinformation being spread to serve a narrative that does not align with the facts. This 'whistleblower' signed 3 briefs defending DOJ's position in this matter, and his subsequent revisionist account arose only after he was fired because he violated his ethical duties to the department," her post concluded.
At issue are emails Reuveni released that he says show Bove favored rush deportations and suggested the DOJ might be forced to say "f*** you to court orders in order to implement Trump's executive orders.
There has been a very definite conflict playing out between the executive branch and the legislative one.
Trump was ordered to turn around planeloads of immigrants that were already in the air, but it did not happen.
Did Trump defy the order or did it come too late to do anything about the planes already in the air?
It's not out of reach for someone in the administration to say what Bove is alleged to have said, in the heat of the moment and sort of hypothetically.
A woman has been charged with a crime after her desire to speak to President Donald Trump got the better of her, and she appeared at his residence with a firearm, as Breitbart News reported.
While the president’s life is far from a quiet one, like anyone, he’s likely looking to minimize the number of people who appear at his door with a firearm and an “urgent message."
But that was not the case earlier this week when Trump’s Beach estate at Mar-a-Lago was swarmed by Secret Service and local police when it was discovered a visitor had brought with her guns and a desire to talk to the Commander in Chief.
What started as a series of trespassing incidents at the presidential residence ended with additional security measures and renewed attention for who might be wandering the facility.
An arrest affidavit from the Palm Beach Police Department revealed it was 49-year-old Caroline Shaw who approached the south side of the property and told agents she needed to speak to Trump.
She was detained at the time, pending further investigation, and agents took a special interest in her car, which they found did, indeed, contain firearms.
Shaw found herself the proud new owner of misdemeanor charges for an expired vehicle registration and a suspended driver's license, seemingly slight infractions for someone who appeared at a presidential residence the way she did. She has, according to Newsweek, pleaded not guilty to both.
The Palm Beach Police Department (PBPD) said shortly after the incident that they responded to Mar-a-Lago due to the Secret Service’s request for assistance with a “suspicious person.”
An assessment of the situation, some review of her more deadly accessories, and it was determined that this was a serious situation, and police took custody of Shaw.
PBPD arrested her and booked her into the Palm Beach County Jail, which, given the circumstances, could have been considerably worse.
Mar-a-Lago is located in South Florida and is where Trump spends the majority of his free time, in addition to his resort in New Jersey. Both places are protected by local law enforcement as well as the Secret Service.
Since his first term, Mar-a-Lago has been host to a number of high-level meetings, and due to the nature of the club’s semi-public venue status, there have been some interesting security challenges.
Thanks to the high-profile nature of the president, not just for his politics, but also his position, there have been an increasing number of individuals arrested for their unauthorised presence at Mar-a-Lago.
This includes Chinese nationals who attempted to trespass on the property after the election late last year. Some have been attempting to enter under false pretenses, some have carried electronic equipment, and some have just said they’d like to speak to Trump.
President Donald Trump issued some massive promises while running for office in 2024, and now one eighth of the way into his four-year term, those working in the administration are enumerating some of his wins.
The president has made massive changes in immigration, the economy, energy, international relations and trade, as Breitbart News reported.
During a recent cabinet-level meeting, the members of Trump’s inner circle spoke about those changes just after the Republican-controlled Congress passed Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
The Trump-led meeting, taking place just days after Republicans delivered on passing President Trump’s big, beautiful bill, touched on the advantages of this historic legislation as Vice President JD Vance congratulated all those involved in getting it done.
One of the most controversial promises Trump took to the national stage during his campaign was the promise to do away with the Department of Education, and to let the funds allocated for children’s education follow the child, regardless of where or how they’re educated.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said during the recent cabinet meeting that the bill does just that, and it provides opportunities for scholarships “for kids who are in failing schools. ”
“It’s going to be a big turnaround,” she predicted.
.@VP: "I want to congratulate the White House staff, led by @POTUS, on getting the One Big Beautiful Bill passed... I was skeptical we'd be able to get that thing done by July 4th — we did it because we worked together." pic.twitter.com/mk067nl572
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 8, 2025
On a different front U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer pointed to the most recent jobs numbers in the last few months, saying that “Four months in a row, we’ve seen those jobs numbers increase.”
In addition to more jobs, the Department of Labor has also cut away excessive regulations, lauding their office’s whopping 63 new deregulations: “It’s an exciting time."
While jobs might bring in the money, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill also makes a way for people to get to those jobs, whether physically, or virtually via the $12.5 billion in the bill earmared for internet service providers to “move from copper to fiber all over the country.”
Domestic changes are great, but the White House has also looked beyond national borders and propped up the U.S. economy through international relations.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reported that the United States has brought in $100 billion in tariff income, just in the months since the president rolled out his new international trade plan. That figure will likely increase once more tariffs crank up in the second quarter, with the secretary estimating a likely $300 billion in revenue by the end of the year.
Other international relationships have grown as well, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted. According to Rubio, there have been “MAGA” achievements worldwide:
“We’ve prevented and ended a war between India and Pakistan, NATO is now at 5 percent for the first time ever… a peace deal between the [DRC] and Rwanda, a 12-day war that ended with an American operation that we’re the only country in the world that could have done, hopefully pretty soon a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia,” he said.
“The entire Middle East and the infrastructure of it has the potential now to change because of Syria and Lebanon. And it hasn’t even been 6 months,” Rubio said, asserting that is due to Trump’s leadership.