Hunter Biden, the scandal-plagued son of former President Joe Biden, reportedly threatened to "knock out" CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
The Daily Mail reported that Tapper, who is promoting his new book titled "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," has reportedly been beefing with Hunter Biden for years.
Tapper and Biden reportedly almost came to blows during a bizarre incident at Super Bowl LII in 2018 in Minneapolis.
The Super Bowl is a destination for America's elite to mingle and wave to the masses and as such politicos like Biden and Tapper can be found in abundence.
Reportedly, Tapper went to meet Hunter Biden after shaking hands with former Congressman Kevin McCarthy, but the meeting was hostile, and Biden told Tapper that under different circumstances, 'I would knock you out."
Tapper, as an anchor for CNN and a journalist, has covered Hunter Biden's many scandals, and some theorize that Hunter Biden was particularly angry with his coverage of scandals ranging from Biden's drug use to his divorce in 2017.
Another theory is that the bad blood stems from when Tapper had called Biden to inform him from an unknown number that his brother Beau had died.
Tapper has denied that latter theory extensively stating that "at no point in my life have I ever called Hunter Biden—I've never even had his phone number—and I would never have contacted a person's immediate family during such a challenging and personal time."
Addressing the Super Bowl incident, Tapper stated that "Hunter did once confront me at a Super Bowl party, but it was over an unrelated issue - coverage he wrongly believed I had done regarding divorce allegations of drug use and using prostitutes, which I actually had never done."
Of course, it's possible that Biden would disagree with Tapper's explanation of the incident, but he has remained silent on the issue.
Hunter Biden has been working to keep a low profile these past few months after receiving a presidential pardon from his father back in January to cover his many criminal indictments.
Prior to his father's last-minute pardon, Hunter Biden was in a world of legal trouble. In December, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses.
Had he been convicted for his crimes, Biden was facing a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison. Of course, that all changed when his father gave him a pardon that he told Americans he would never give in the name of ensuring no one was above the law.
Of course, the Biden family is most definitely above the law, and Tapper is lucky that Biden didn't rough him up knowing that he would face little legal repurcussion for it.
House Democrats have indicated that they will open an investigation into President Donald Trump's acceptance of a $400 million jet from Qatar on the grounds that it might not be legal for him to do so, even on behalf of the Defense Department.
Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) led his panel in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House counsel David Warrington on Thursday, asking for a reported legal memo she wrote arguing that the gift was legal.
"Any legal memo purporting to make such a claim would obviously fly in the face of the text of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause, which explicitly prohibits the President from accepting any ‘present [or] Emolument... of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State’ unless he has ‘the Consent of Congress,'" the letter read.
But Trump wasn't accepting the gift for himself, exactly. Technically, he was accepting it for the country as a whole.
Kind of like the Statue of Liberty, which certainly wasn't unconstitutional.
Detractors did point out that Qatar was a sponsor of terror in the Middle East and supports Palestine and Hamas.
Also, Trump apparently plans to have the plane donated to his presidential library after he's out of office, so in that way it is rather more personal than some gifts might be.
But Democrats went all in on their accusations, saying that it's entirely possible that the "gift" was actually a bribe.
"President Trump’s statements expressing displeasure with delays in the delivery of his new Boeing aircraft to serve as Air Force One and the timing of this ‘gift’ suggest that President Trump or a member of his Administration may have improperly solicited this 'nice gesture' from the Qatari government," the Democrats said.
"The fact that, according to President Trump, the plane would not remain in service to the United States but would rather be donated to his presidential library after his term concludes further raises the possibility that this ‘nice gesture’ is intended as a bribe to Donald Trump."
I'm sure they'll end up impeaching him over it, because of course they will.
Never mind that their guy, former President Joe Biden, reportedly extorted every foreign nation he could for the better part of 15 years for money that went directly into his pocket or the pockets of his kids and other family members.
Like the great Rush Limbaugh always said, if you want to know what the other side is doing, just look at what they are accusing Republicans of.
In this case, they've managed to muddy the waters enough to make it look bad, even if it isn't.
Bolivian presidential election, President Luis Arce, who took office in 2020, took steps to avoid a humiliating loss, and stepped away from the election.
Bolivia's governing party is in turmoil as Arce and former President Evo Morales fight for leadership of their leftist bloc. The decision was made in a late-night televised address, as Breitbart News reported.
“I will not be a factor in dividing the popular vote,” Arce said in his speech, warning that a fragmented base would give Bolivia’s right-wing and centrist parties a shot at power after nearly two decades of socialist rule.
“Much less will I facilitate the realization of a fascist right-wing project ... that seeks to destroy the productive social economic model.”
The long-running animosity between Arce and Morales has been hastening an already-in-the-works economic disaster, which has MAS's working-class base of support in a frenzy.
After claiming one of the lowest inflation rates in the region, Bolivia is now battling with one of the highest, and the country has gone from exporting natural gas to importing fuel.
Bolivian pesos are now worth half as much as they are on the official exchange rate. The nation has come to a standstill due to fuel scarcity and the fact that the nation has run out of money in the central bank.
Even though Morales was part of the foundation of many of the issues the nation faces today, the majority of voters hold Arce responsible for the economic mayhem.
Morales, along with Senate President Andronico Rodríguez, are both on the left, and have been gaining in the polls on the president.
Morales felt he had no choice but to secede from the MAS once Arce took control, so he formed his own party to run for office.
The politically ambitious 36-year-old Rodríguez is from Morales' rural coca-growing area and is thus far undecided about joining the MAS ticket.
Arce's resignation on Tuesday was allegedly seen as a new chapter in his growing animosity toward Morales, whose revived campaign platform appeals to the public looking for ways to obtain fuel and investment and declining poverty rates.
“I challenge former President Evo Morales not to insist on running,” Arce said, “because constitutionally he cannot do so and because the dispersion and fragmentation of the vote would favor the right.”
Six years after his attempt for an unlawful fourth term sparked widespread protests and self-exile in response to pressure from the military, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, Evo Morales, encounters multiple challenges on his path back to his nation's highest office.
In an effort to undo what the Biden administration did while the last president was in office, the current administration is cutting deep, taking on the president's pardons.
On May 13, the newly appointed pardon attorney for President Trump stated that one of his responsibilities will be to review the pardons that former President Joe Biden granted shortly before he left office in January, as The Daily Caller reported.
“I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny. And they need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that’s used correctly,” Ed Martin, the pardon attorney, told reporters during a press briefing in Washington.
“So I do think we’re going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did and if they’re, I don’t know, but null and void, I’m not sure how that operates.”
Former Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney was one of several recipients of pardons awarded by Vice President Joe Biden during his final hours in office. Pardons were granted for actions that did not result in charges against the individuals in question, raising more than a few eyebrows.
Individuals "do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions," Biden remarked at the time.
In March, Trump asserted that the pardons null and void on the grounds that they were signed using an autopen, which is a tool that allows someone to sign documents using preloaded signatures.
Even if the pardons were unreasonable, Martin said he did not believe that an autopen would render them null and void during his May 13 comments.
This came just a day before Martin's departure from his position as acting United States attorney for the District of Columbia.
Following loud and persistent opposition from several senators to Martin's candidacy to permanently assume the position of U.S. attorney, Trump appointed Martin pardon attorney and head of the DOJ's weaponization working group on May 8.
When questioned later on May 13 regarding Denise Cheung's resignation as chief of the DC Criminal Division of the US Attorney's Office, Martin stated that he had requested Cheung to investigate what he deemed as extraordinary behavior, specifically the transfer of $6.7 billion from the government to a nonprofit that had been established only six months earlier.
“That’s what you’re supposed to do, is pause, just like if the Biden pardons are unprecedented in their extent,” he said. “Right back to when Hunter Biden was whatever age you say: ‘That’s uncommon. We ought to take a look at that.'”
Even Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was pardoned by the former president.
The prosecution of individuals involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol, among other steps done during the Biden administration, are among the issues and arrests being examined by the weaponization working group, according to Martin.
Under his leadership, the group plans to increase its transparency regarding its progress and is considering opening a tip-sharing webpage, he said.
A senior staffer for Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) had her car stolen in an armed carjacking on Friday in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood where many congressional staffers live.
Katie Heller was carjacked at a Harris Teeter in Navy Yard. Her work laptop, phone, iPad, staff identification, and bag were all stolen along with her car.
Two males ages 14 and 15 were arrested Saturday for the crime, and two firearms were recovered. It is not known whether the car or other items were also recovered.
The 15-year-old was charged with carjacking, and the 14-year-old was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
Jacobs's office has not commented on the incident so far.
Navy Yard has been the scene of a number of high-profile crimes in recent months.
While overall violent crime is down 22%, vehicle crimes are up 10%.
Residents have been documenting the crimes on an X account called Navy Yard Crime.
The most recent post on the account said there were a large number of car break-ins on April 29. The carjacking was not included in the posts.
In 2025 so far, there have been 104 carjackings in D.C., and 79% of them involved guns.
More than half of arrests this year were of juveniles, with most of them living at a D.C. address.
In 2023 and 2024, there were two carjacking incidents involving politicians.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked at gunpoint near his home in Navy Yard in 2023, and in 2024, former Trump administration official Michael Gill died from his injuries after being shot during a carjacking.
In other crimes, Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) was assaulted in her D.C. apartment. Most people have long known that D.C. was out of control due to longtime Democrat-dominated government, but it seems like things are getting worse than ever.
Fox News guest and former Trump administration official Camryn Kinsey will be back on the air at Fox News this week after she fainted during a live segment with Jonathan Hunt.
Kinsey,24, was answering a question from Hunt when she began to stumble over her words, then fell to the floor unconscious.
She later said severe dehydration caused the fainting spell.
“It was very scary,” Kinsey, 24, told the New York Post. “I honestly felt worse for the audience and the Fox News crew that was helping me than I than I did myself.”
Kinsey said she had received well wishes from those on both sides of the political spectrum, which was heartening for her.
In these situations, people “put differences aside just to make sure somebody’s OK, and I’m truly grateful for that,” Kinsey said.
“You think about it, you’re like, ‘Do I wanna go back on TV?’" she said. "But knowing that I have so many people in my corner, who are genuinely concerned for my well-being and want to see me keep going … that’s anything that I could ever want.”
Kinsey was also thankful she wasn't seriously injured by the fall.
“I’m grateful my shoulder actually broke the fall, so there’s no concussion or bruising,” Kinsey said. “It was hard to hear my family so concerned, and I can only imagine what that looks like in real time — for my family and my friends and everyone watching.
“It was very shocking, but on the flip side of it I’m very blessed that the Lord was watching over me and I have such an incredible support system,” Kinsey said.
Kinsey also defended Hunt, who was criticized by some for continuing the segment after she fainted.
“Jonathan and I spoke afterwards,” she explained. “He was nothing but kind and gracious to me. I understand in a live TV environment, things move fast. No one is really ever quite sure of what’s happening in real time, but I want to make it clear I hold no hard feelings whatsoever.
“In the end, we’re all just human. Things happen and I’m just grateful to be OK.”
Hunt said, "We're just going to get some help here for Camryn," then cut away to another personality while medical personnel helped her.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth cancelled a planned trip to Israel this week to join President Donald Trump on his Middle East trip.
The decision to cancel the trip to Israel to join with Trump carries two significant implications. Firstly, it shows that Hegseth and Trump are on great terms despite Hegseth's difficult time at the Pentagon since being confirmed to the position by the Senate.
Hegseth has had to grapple with internal sabotage and massive leaks by leftist federal workers designed to damage his legitimacy and the legitimacy of the Trump administration.
Democrats have gloated about rumoured dissatisfaction with Hegseth from Trump, but those rumors appear to be exactly that.
By all accounts, Trump is happy with Hegseth's performance and appears to be well aware that Hegseth's path to success was never going to be smooth.
Hegseth was scheduled to meet with his Israeli counterpart, Israel Katz, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then proceed to Saudi Arabia the next day to meet with Trump.
However, Trump invited Hegseth to join him on Air Force One and travel straight to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The decision by Hegseth to completely skip a visit to Israel is raising questions about changing dynamics in the Trump administration's handling of the Middle East.
What is interesting is that a litany of top brass from the Trump administration will be going to Saudi Arabia with Trump and Hegseth.
This extensive list includes Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who will all be heading for a seemingly massive meeting that suggests something big will happen on this trip.
As for Israel, Hegseth is going to visit at a later date and the White House has specifically rejected the idea that the visit was cancelled, but instead has simply been delayed.
It seems that the Trump administration has downgraded Israel's importance in the region and this could be the result of significant developments at the White House.
President Trump recently fired national security adviser Mike Waltz after it was discovered that he had secretly coordinated with Israel to push Trump to use military force against Iran. Further reports have suggested that Waltz was effectively a spy for Israel in the White House.
Furthermore, it was Waltz who added a journalist from The Atlantic to a Signal chat with Trump administration officials who were discussing the ongoing strikes against terrorists in Yemen.
Waltz was not only a bumbling liability, he was actively undermining Trump and working on behalf of Israel. While a lot of this information isn't set in stone, this could explain why Israel is suddenly being put on the back burner.
Trump is pursuing diplomatic avenues to sort out the conflicts in the Middle East and is working to end the war in Gaza as well as rein in Iran and stop it from obtaining nuclear weapons. It seems Israel will have to get its priorities straight if it wants to stay ahead of other Middle Eastern nations' courting Trump's diplomatic favor.
President Donald Trump ordered the termination of Library of Congress head Carla Hayden just one year before her ten-year term was ending.
Hayden has been serving in the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution since 2016, when she was nominated by former President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate.
The reason for Hayden's firing appears to be related to her pushing of “radical” leftist agendas, according to complaints from conservative organizations.
A tweet from the American Accountability Foundation claimed that "The current #LibrarianOfCongress Carla Hayden is woke, anti-Trump, and promotes trans-ing kids. It’s time to get her OUT and hire a new guy for the job!"
That tweet went out hours before Trump's decision to fire Hayden was announced on Thursday night, suggesting that the White House is working with conservative watchdogs to sniff out radical leftists at every level.
In further evidence that Hayden is an agent of the progressive agenda, her firing was greeted with outrage from Democrats who flew into a rage over Trump's decision to fire a seemingly unimportant federal official.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was one of the first to come out to blast Trump's decision as "unjust" and an attempt to "whitewash" American history.
Jeffries railed against Trump by saying, “Donald Trump’s unjust decision to fire Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political hack is a disgrace and the latest in his ongoing effort to ban books, whitewash American history and turn back the clock. The Library of Congress is the People’s Library. There will be accountability for this unprecedented assault on the American way of life sooner rather than later."
Jeffries claims that Trump's firing of Hayden is an "unprecedented assault" on Americans' way of life, implying that progressive ideas like transitioning children are as American as apple pie.
Other Democrats quickly came to Hayden's defense, further lending credence to the idea that Hayden is a leftist ideologue using her position to push horrible progressive ideas.
Hayden has vigorously opposed parental rights groups' efforts to remove books about sexual identity containing explicit sexual content targeted at young people from libraries.
In defending pornographic books being distributed to children, Hayden wrote, "A children's book, and that's so helpful. I've had parents that I even work with, it just makes such a difference when you can share a book with a young person."
Leftists have pushed explicit sexual material and books containing progressive propaganda disguised as "sexual identity" education for years, and it's long past time for them to face serious consequences.
Hayden clearly endorses these ideas and, as such, has no place in the federal government. The fact that Democrats are so angry about her firing further demonstrates that she was doing real damage and had to be rooted out.
Term-limited Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) is reportedly moving to block the state GOP from endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy as the next Republican governor candidate, according to sources familiar with the state's politics.
President Donald Trump endorsed Ramaswamy the same night he announced he would run for governor, so the move places DeWine in direct opposition to the president, not to mention Vice President J.D. Vance, who is also from Ohio and has directed his staff to provide support for Ramaswamy's campaign.
It's the second time DeWine has opposed Trump's endorsed nominee: he also did so with Bernie Moreno, who was endorsed by Trump for Senate and who did win the race in 2024.
Some sources say DeWine wants his lieutenant governor, Ohio State football legend Jim Tressel, to succeed him.
“I think he would like to forestall an endorsement taking place, because I think he would like to see if he can convince Jim Tressel to run for governor,” an Ohio Republican leader said of DeWine.
According to his spokesman, the governor is focused on state budget negotiations.
DeWine has also said it's too early to endorse a candidate.
“As far as who I endorse in the Republican primary for Governor, it is much too early, as we do not even know who all will be in the race. We are now 364 days away from the primary and 293 days away from the filing deadline. In politics, this is a lifetime!” the governor noted in a statement.
Two-thirds of the state party’s 66-member central committee must vote to endorse a candidate.
Ramaswamy currently leads polling in the race, but it is still very early.
An ally of Ramaswamy told Breitbart that DeWine is going to be remembered for being wrong on every fight within the GOP.
“If Trump backs you, DeWine’s guaranteed to take the losing side. The establishment isn’t just out of touch — it’s out of time. And the state central committee will prove that again this Friday,” the ally remarked.
“There’s not a unified opposition to the endorsement,” a committee member said.
If Tressel were to run, a point of opposition against him is that he supported DEI policies when he worked at Youngstown University.
Last week, John Thune, the majority leader in the Senate, told Breitbart News that President Trump's progress at the U.S.-Mexico border has been "mind-blowing" and "staggering."
Thune said those things in a long interview with Breitbart News that was filmed last week in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, as Breitbart News reported.
“I think you have to—what he’s had so far, it’s hard to characterize it as anything but just a staggering success,” Thune said during his recent interview.
“It is—you look at what they were under Biden a year ago, you’re talking about 10,000 or 11,000 a day and now we’re down to 200 a day, it is almost mind-blowing in terms of how much difference the leadership of President and the White House has made over Biden’s open borders policy.
The lawmaker said he expects the president to continue to push resources toward Border Patrol agents and supply needed money for the wall and detention beds: "All of those things needed to continue to secure the border."
Senate Republicans, according to Thune, would work as "partners" with Trump to further secure the border and provide him with additional funding to do so.
In the current proposal being worked on by Congress, he assured that a "generational investment in border security" will be included in the Trump agenda.
“We are going to be partners with him. In the reconciliation bill, we’re working on—we have a generational investment in border security that the president will be able to use as a tool to continue to get that job done,” Thune said.
The measure soon to hit the Senate floor will likely include immigration restrictions, but Thune said Congress will also push for more funding to enhance energy production.
He had harsh words for Senate Democrats for unanimously opposing President Trump's emergency declaration on energy production and stated that Republicans are poised to provide Trump more money to enhance energy output.
The lawmaker said the Democrats' response to energy-related topics is an example of how the Democratic Party is being held "hostage" by the far left.
"Voting against an energy emergency in this country when we clearly have an energy emergency—you look at just as an example electricity, you have artificial intelligence, you got data centers, you got crypto mines, all of these things are incredibly power-intensive, and then of course the Democrats wanted to have everybody already driving electric vehicles,” Thune said.
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In addition to these items, Thune emphasized the Senate GOP's efforts to eliminate Biden's regulations by employing the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
“The Biden administration, as you could expect, characteristically relied heavily on the use of regulations to implement their agenda,” Thune said in the interview taped last week.
“A lot of their agenda, of course, was the Green New Deal. It was a lot of their climate agenda.