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Lara Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law and a potential candidate for the Senate from North Carolina, says eventually more details about Jeffrey Epstein will be released by the administration.

Her comments came in a podcast with Benny Johnson amid a firestorm now engulfing MAGA, President Trump and Republicans after the Department of Justice issued a statement that Epstein died of suicide and there aren't more details coming out.

At issue are suspicions of his alleged operations providing young girls to a number of acquaintances including political figures and celebrities – whether those claims are true and if so, who was involved.

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A new report on the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt on President Trump reveals that the Secret Service received classified intelligence regarding a threat to Trump's life 10 days before the rally, but failed to share the information with other key agencies.

The damning report comes from the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) one year after a gunman's bullet grazed Trump's right ear during a campaign rally speech. The shooter, Thomas Crooks, killed attendee Cory Comperatore as he was protecting his family, while two others were injured.

According to Fox News, the report also identified a series of procedural and planning mistakes, including "misallocation of resources, lack of training and pervasive communication failures" that led to the near assassination.

The report had been ordered by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

"One year ago, a series of bad decisions and bureaucratic handicaps led to one of the most shocking moments in political history," Grassley said. "The Secret Service's failure on July 13 was the culmination of years of mismanagement and came after the Biden administration denied requests for enhanced security to protect President Trump. Americans should be grateful that President Trump survived that day and was ultimately reelected to restore common sense to our country."

"There were mistakes made, and that shouldn't have happened," Trump told his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, in an interview on Fox News.

Ten days before the event, high-level Secret Service officials were briefed on a classified threat to Trump. "Once those officials reviewed the intelligence, they could have then requested that personnel within their chain of command be briefed on the specific information," notes the report. But officials failed to share this information, leaving federal and local law enforcement entities planning the event unaware of the threat, including members of the Donald Trump Protective Division. Had they known of the threat, local law enforcement officials would have requested additional assets for the Butler rally, they told the GAO

Also, the Secret Service agent who was responsible for "identif[ying] site vulnerabilities" was new to her role, and this was "her first time planning and securing a large outdoor event as the site agent."

Fox News reported that Secret Service officials denied the Donald Trump Protective Division's request for enhanced counter Unmanned Aerial Surveillance (cUAS) equipment at the Butler event, as "these resources had already been allocated for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions." Fortunately, senior officials with knowledge of the threat against Trump stepped in to approve counter sniper assets for the rally, a decision which was described as "inconsistent" with agency practices for making resource decisions." Absent this last-minute decision, Trump "would likely not have received the counter sniper assets that ultimately took out [Crooks]," the GAO wrote.

As WND reported, six of the Secret Service agents on duty in Butler were punished. During an interview with CBS, Matt Quinn, the agency's deputy director, affirmed that the agents were suspended for periods ranging from 10 to 42 days, during which they were not paid.

The new report comes out as Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., approved a subpoena to the FBI and Justice Department for more information on the Butler assassination attempt.

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Calling her a "threat to humanity," President Donald Trump on Saturday said he's seriously considering revoking the U.S. citizenship of his longtime rival, actress Rosie O'Donnell, who left America for Ireland due to her frustration with Trump.

"Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

O'Donnell responded on social media, telling the president he was "rattled again" and that "18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours. …

"You are everything that is wrong with america and I'm everything you hate about what's still right with it. You want to revoke my citizenship? Go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I'm not yours to silence. I never was."

It's not clear what specifically sparked Trump's threat on citizenship, but O'Donnell last week posted a TikTok video blaming Trump for deaths in recent Texas flooding.

"What a horror story in Texas, the flash floods in Texas," O'Donnell said in the video. "And you know when the president guts all of the early warning and the weathering forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we're gonna start to see on a daily basis because he's put this country in so much danger by his horrible, horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he just signed into law. Republicans cheered."

"People will die as a result and they've started already. Shame on him. Shame on every GOP sycophant who's listening and following the disastrous decisions of this mentally incapacitated POTUS."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt last week slammed anyone suggesting Trump was to blame for the Texas deaths: "Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning. So to any person who has deliberately lied about these facts surrounding this catastrophic event, you should be deeply ashamed."

The Associated Press quoted Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, who indicated the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1967 that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution prevents the federal government from rescinding citizenship.

"The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born U.S. citizen," Frost said Saturday. "In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people."

Responses to Trump's post on Truth Social were mixed, but many told the president that revoking citizenship was going too far:

"As much as I despise her idiot rantings and stupidity, her citizenship should stay in place. We have freedom of speech, even for the stupid."

"Leave her alone. She is harmless. She is entitled to her opinion. It's her right. The idea of revoking a persons citizenship over a video and an opinion is crazy talk. She is an American, what's next? We revoke anybody who disagrees or insults you? No sir Mr President! I support you and all that you are doing, but this, and you know it too, is total BS. Take a nap sir, you woke up on wrong side of the bed. MAGA!"

"She's wrong and anyone with half a brain knows it. He's finally fed up with it. Trump and America haters should go. What an example of an American and Mother she is! F*** that pathetic c***!

"So the next time a Democrat president is in power and you criticize them, you're fine with having your citizenship stripped and getting deported?"

"It's a slippery slope. Once this starts, EVERYONE'S citizenship is at risk."

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President Donald Trump, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, visited Texas Friday to survey the results of last weekend's flash floods that left more than 100 dead, and at least that number still missing.

Drainages through the Texas hill country filled with water 20 and even 30 feet deep in a matter of minutes after a deluge estimated at 10 inches to a foot of rain fell in a matter of hours.

Dozens of victims were from Camp Mystic, a Christian camp for girls along the banks of the Guadalupe River, which rose from a depth of about a foot to an estimated 34 feet in the dark.

Cabins, homes, cars, people all were swept away.

The victims include at least 36 children in a county that had declined to install early-warning monitors after failing to secure state funding.

Trump expressed support for a new effort to take on that project.

Reuters reported he said, "After having seen this horrible event, I would imagine you'd put alarms up in some form."

Melania Trump promises prayers for the families hit so hard.

"My deepest sympathy to all of the parents who lost beautiful young souls," she said. "We are grieving with you. Our nation is grieving with you. We just met with the wonderful families."

The president said, "The first lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support, and the anguish of our entire nation, in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood."

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An expert is warning about possible danger ahead for American jurisprudence because of the cash – millions of dollars – that a foreign interest is putting into the pockets of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The warning comes from Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, in a column reprinted at the Gatestone Institute.

The corporation is the German publishing giant Bertelsmann, who in America has brand names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and more.

That German company, the column explains, is an "ex-Nazi foreign corporation" that is "pushing deeply destructive products."

"Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund," the report noted.

Its impact on the Supreme Court has developed over recent years, as Justice Ketanji Jackson "received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year" in deals connected to the conglomerate.

And Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book for which she received a $2 million advance, it said.

And "Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million."

"Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice [Clarence] Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice's 96-year-old mother to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can't even form a quorum over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the court being directed to justices."

The warning noted that the millions are coming "from an avaricious foreign publisher which has deluged Supreme Court justices with millions of dollars in generous publishing deals."

"Penguin's payouts previously made headlines when five Supreme Court justices, including Jackson and Barrett, had to recuse themselves from a case involving allegations of plagiarism by racist Hamas supporter Ta-Nehisi Coates whose works, including a book describing 9/11 firefighters as 'not human to me', were widely backed and promoted by Penguin," the report explained.

"The current Supreme Court is so badly conflicted over its Penguin cash that it can no longer decide cases involving it," Greenfield explained.

That's even as Bertelsmann "has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi's 'How to Be an Antiracist', Robin DiAngelo's 'White Fragility', Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'Between the World and Me', and, during WWII, 'The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth' all came out of Bertelsmann," he explained.

His warning continued, "Supreme Court justices used to write on mainly legal matters (with notable exceptions such as Taft and Douglas) and reserved their memoirs toward the end of their lives. Newly minted justices like Jackson signing memoir deals is an obvious cash-in and Justice Sotomayor, after publishing a memoir no one was asking for 'My Beloved World', began writing children's books.

"Would Penguin really be publishing Sotomayor's feeble efforts at writing children's books, 'Just Help!: How to Build a Better World', 'Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You' and (coming soon) 'Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You' if she weren't a Supreme Court justice?"

While "judges putting their names on things to make money is not illegal," Greenfield noted, "What happens when Bertelsmann triggers a court case with major legal implications and once again a quorum of justices can't be found to sit on it?

"Then the woke mega-publisher will have officially bought America's legal system."

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During the 2016 presidential election, a jokester went online and told Democrats to "Save Time, Avoid the Line" and vote online.

WND reported the joke was by Douglass Mackey, who for the joke was convicted in New York state of "election interference."

But he appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the decision, arguing that if the government's case against him stands, the results necessarily would criminalize not just political misinformation and satire, but also "lies about also whether and for whom to vote. Such a sprawling political speech code is in the teeth of every applicable canon for reading criminal laws, and grossly offends the First Amendment."

Now a report in the Washington Examiner reveals his conviction has been overturned.

"A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered a lower court to enter a judgment of acquittal after finding that trial evidence brought by Biden-era federal prosecutors failed to prove Mackey conspired with others to influence the election at the time," the report said.

"The government was obligated to show that Mackey knowingly entered into an agreement with other people to pursue that objective," Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston wrote in the unanimous opinion, which was joined by Judges Reena Raggi and Beth Robinson. "This the government failed to do."

There were claims Mackey tricked some 5,000 people into voting by text or social media, even though there was no process to accommodate those attempts.

Prosecutors claimed that there were social media platform groups discussing interfering with voting rights, but they could not show Mackey ever engaged with those.

"The government failed to offer sufficient evidence that Mackey even viewed—let alone participated in any of these exchanges," the opinion said. "And in the absence of such evidence, the government's remaining circumstantial evidence cannot alone establish Mackey's knowing agreement."

WND also reported that a "progressive activist told Trump supporters to vote by text, but she was not prosecuted.

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Outrage continues to build among President Donald's Trump supporters over the Justice Department's conclusion there was no client list for pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, with some Trump fans urging the ouster of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Among them is journalist and Trump ally Laura Loomer, who refers to Bondi as "Blondi."

"Please join me in calling for Blondi to RESIGN!" Loomer said on X. "How many more times is this woman going to get away with Fing everything up before she is FIRED?"

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A shooter, armed with a rifle and wearing tactical gear, tried an ambush of U.S. Border Patrol agents at a facility in McAllen, Texas, and was shot and killed, authorities reported.

"The Department [of Justice] has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will bring the full weight of the law against those responsible," explained Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Police reported the shooter wounded one officer, but he was in stable condition.

The dead man was identified as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, and reports revealed no known motive yet.

But they said it was a "targeted" attack on federal officers.

A report at the Washington Examiner explained border czar Tom Homan said on Fox News that attacks on ICE officers increased since last year by 690% as of July 4.

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A majority of the judges on a state supreme court's bench have exercised what has been determined to be their "personal preference" to overturn a "duly enacted" law banning abortion.

The details are documented a report at the Federalist, which pointed out the minority dissent in the case before the Wisconsin state Supreme Court noted even judges are supposed to follow the law, even if they don't like it.

The report explained, "In a decision deemed judicial activism and a 'power grab' by pro-life and judicial experts, the leftist-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday to nullify the Badger State's longstanding law barring abortion."

The 4-judge majority claimed "the legislature impliedly repealed" an 1849 law that made abortion a felony. There was no specific repeal.

The new interpretation of the law, unchanged by the legislature in the state, is abortion is allowed – through a certain time period.

Chief Justice Jill Karofsky actually "repeated the leftist lie that women, such as Georgia woman Amber Thurman, lost their lives 'because they lived in states that severely restrict abortion care,'" the report confirmed.

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ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is coming under fire for his perceived anti-Trump coverage of the catastrophic flash floods that killed dozens in Texas on Saturday, reporting "significant staffing shortfalls" at federal weather stations.

During his "This Week" broadcast on Sunday, Stephanopoulos said to his correspondent Mireya Villarreal on the scene in Kerr County, Texas: "We're also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region."

Villarreal replied: "You know, George, as of right now, the local county officials really didn't want to address that just yet. What they are telling us is they expected between four and six inches of rain. That is what weather experts told them. The National Weather Service as well.