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Independent: Trump endorses idea that Supreme Court ruling blocking his deportations under Alien Enemies Act is ‘illegal’

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President reposted a comment claiming the Supreme Court was heading down the wrong path by blocking some of Trump’s actions

President Donald Trump endorsed the idea that the United States Supreme Court had placed an “illegal injunction” on him by temporarily blocking his administration’s ability to deport Venezuelans, accused of being gang members, without due process, while litigation on the matter plays out in lower courts.

On Truth Social on Saturday, Trump reposted two posts made by attorney Mike Davis, a close Trump ally and the founder of the Article III project, calling the court’s recent decision “illegal” and claiming it was “heading down a perilous path” by not allowing Trump to continue a constitutionally questionable action.

“The Supreme Court still has an illegal injunction on the President of the United States, preventing him from commanding military operations to expel these foreign terrorists,” Davis wrote.

Do these fools have any understanding as to why the Supreme Court exists?

Trump endorses idea that Supreme Court ruling against him is ‘illegal’
President reposted a comment claiming the Supreme Court was heading down the wrong path by blocking some of Trump’s actions

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-supreme-court-deportation-truth-social-b2753057.html

USA Today: ‘Spaghetti against the wall?’ Trump tests legal strategies as judges block his policies

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The Trump administration is fighting to kill 40 court orders blocking its new policies.

  • Solicitor General John Sauer urged the Supreme Court to halt nationwide injunctions against Trump policies but said if class-action lawsuits took their place, he would oppose them too.
  • Legal experts said if the Supreme Court abolishes nationwide injunctions, Trump could cut his losses by limiting the reach of court rulings that go against him.

As the Trump administration fights to kill 40 court orders blocking some of his most controversial or aggressive new policies, legal experts say the government’s strategy is to break the cases apart, into individual disputes, to delay an eventual reckoning at the Supreme Court.

One called President Donald Trump’s legal strategy a “shell game.” Another said government lawyers were “throwing spaghetti against the wall” to see what sticks.

“Their bottom line is that they don’t think these cases should be in court in the first place,” said Luke McCloud, a lawyer at Williams and Connolly who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. “They are looking for a procedural mechanism that will make it the most challenging to bring these sorts of cases.”

‘Spaghetti against the wall?’ Trump tests legal strategies as judges block his policies
Some of Trump’ most aggressive policy changes are being blocked by judges all the way to the Supreme Court. To some, the response feels like a shell game.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/trump-legal-strategies-federal-judges-injunctions/83673013007

Knewz: The One Reason ‘Pentagon Princess’ Pete Hegseth Still Has a Job

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According to The Nation, Hegseth still has a job because of one man – President Trump.

The site explained how Hegseth wasn’t picked for the role of Defense Secretary due to any skills or experience, but because he shares a similar outlook as Trump on the military.

Just like the president, Hegseth believes the military has been compromised by the left-wing.

In late April, Hegseth put an end to a military program he described as “another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative.”

He wrote on X: “This morning, I proudly ENDED the ‘Women, Peace & Security’ (WPS) program inside the @DeptofDefense. WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING.

“WPS is a UNITED NATIONS program pushed by feminists and left-wing activists. Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it. DoD will hereby executive the minimum of WPS required by statute and fight to end the program for our next budget. GOOD RIDDANCE WPS!”

Following the signal scandal, Mike Waltz was effectively removed from his position as National Security Advisor (NSA) by President Trump – but Hegseth wasn’t stripped of his role.

While the world awaits more firings due to the scandal, Hegseth isn’t expected to be let go due to his friendship with the current president.

It’s all about cronies, not competence!

The One Reason ‘Pentagon Princess’ Pete Hegseth Still Has a Job
“Pentagon Princess” Pete Hegseth had a rough few weeks making major mistakes and now, the calls for him to be fired haven’t stopped.

https://knewz.com/the-one-reason-pentagon-princess-pete-hegseth-still-has-a-job

Raw Story: ‘Sad white boys’: Fear as Trump terror adviser shrugs off threat from ‘inside the house’

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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was removed this week but a key Trump counterterrorism official remains in place at the White House — and he’s planning a change in strategy to focus on jihadists rather than white supremacist groups that one leading expert said remain a significant domestic threat.

“The call is coming from inside the house,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. “We all understand why the right doesn’t want to tackle domestic violent extremism — it’s their base.”

The Trump official is Sebastian Gorka, an Anglo-Hungarian-American academic who spent seven months in the first Trump White House as a national security strategist before being removed. Closely connected to Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, Gorka’s far-right views have proved consistently controversial. His return to the White House generated protests from former Trump advisers, who called him names including “conman” and “clown.”

Regardless, Gorka is promising a new policy focused on “killing jihadis,” thereby downplaying, if not altogether abandoning, a Biden-era emphasis on white supremacist threats.

‘Sad white boys’: Fear as Trump terror adviser shrugs off threat from ‘inside the house’

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/heads-in-the-sand-white-supremacy-expected-to-be-downplayed-in-terrorism-policy/

Raw Story: Trump’s DOJ screwed up by rushing the ‘worst possible case’ to the Supreme Court: expert

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A decision to send Solicitor General John Sauer to defend an executive order signed by Donald Trump before the Supreme Court this week was a massive mistake that could haunt the president going forward.

That is the opinion of conservative lawyer George Conway who appeared on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” Saturday morning where he was asked to weigh in by co-hosts Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels and fill-in host María Teresa Kumar.

Discussing Trump’s attempts to undermine birthright citizenship enshrined by the 14th Amendment, Conway asserted the DOJ used the wrong case at the wrong time.

“This is the worst possible case and that was Justice [Elena] Kagan, former Solicitor General Kagan’s point,” he began. “To bring up to the Supreme Court on the procedural technical issue of when you can issue a nationwide injunction.”

“You want to go up on a case where you’re going to you have a chance of winning, where the court thinks that, ultimately, your position is right,” he stated.

Trump’s DOJ screwed up by rushing the ‘worst possible case’ to the Supreme Court: expert

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supreme-court-2672034883

Rolling Stone: Trump Lies That His Bill Cuts Taxes For Everyone, When It Raises Them on the Poor

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One of the main priorities of the reconciliation package is to codify Trump’s 2017 tax cuts – which heavily favored wealthy Americans – into permanent law. But the tax package produced by the House Ways and Mean Committee won’t actually reduce taxes for all Americans. In fact, it will raise taxes on the poor. 

According to an analysis by Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation, Trump’s reconciliation bill will raise taxes on Americans earning under $15,000 in 2027. By 2029 and going forward, the legislation will continue to increase taxes on those individuals, as well Americans earning between $15,000 and $30,000. 

Millionaires, meanwhile, will see tax cuts in each year included in the analysis. In two of four years, according to the JCT analysis, millionaires will see a larger average decrease in their tax rate than Americans will overall.

Trump Lies That His Bill Cuts Taxes For Everyone, When It Raises Them on the Poor
Donald Trump’s reconciliation bill won’t reduce taxes for all Americans, as the president claims. His bill actually raises taxes on the poor.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-lies-tax-cuts-rich-increase-poor-1235341367

Knewz: Two Dems Confront ICE Agents: ‘Simply Do Our Job’

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Knewz.com is reporting that two Democratic representatives from New Jersey have protested at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, demanding its closure due to concerns over criminality. Rep. Robert Menendez, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) confronted ICE agents during the protest, with McIver attempting to breach security checkpoints to enter the facility. Delaney Hall houses detainees with alleged gang affiliations.

Regarding claims that McIver body-slammed an officer, she stated, “I mean, I honestly do not know how to body slam anyone. There’s no video that supports me body slamming anyone. We, as Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman said we were simply there to do our job. There for an oversight visit.”

McIver added, “What you watch what you’re watching in the video, and we don’t have all of the body cam, and we hope that all of the body cam is released. It was a very tense situation. It unfortunately did not have to be like that. They created that confrontation. They created that chaos and then ultimately went to arrest the mayor of the largest city of New Jersey, who is my mayor and my constituent. And it was very difficult to watch that happen. But absolutely, I did not body slam anyone.”

U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba [Bimbo #4] reported that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D-NJ) ignored multiple warnings to leave the premises and was arrested for trespassing during the protest. Baraka was released later in the evening amid demonstrations from supporters.

Obviously Bimbo #4 hasn’t watched the video.

Two Dems Confront ICE Agents: ‘Simply Do Our Job’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/two-dems-confront-ice-agents-simply-do-our-job/ss-AA1EYkOK

Washington Post: Trump peddles false conspiracy theories tying Clintons to several deaths

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Among a litany of social media posts shared by Donald Trump on Saturday, the sitting president dredged up a 2016 video rehashing old, false claims implying that former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton are tied to several deaths.

Trump has made thousands of false or misleading statements about his political opponents across his two terms in office, and he has repeatedly vowed to use the power of the federal government to punish his foes. Democrats have long warned that such baseless rhetoric could lead to violence.

The video, overlaid with the caption, “THE VIDEO HILLARY CLINTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE,” perpetuates the long-standing “Clinton body count” conspiracy theory, which claims that the Clintons are responsible for the deaths of several individuals who could be seen as political opponents. The claims, however, are false.

It’s hard to contemplate an American president behaving in this manner, but here he is!

Trump peddles false conspiracy theories tying Clintons to several deaths
Donald Trump has made thousands of false claims about his political opponents across his two terms in office while threatening his critics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/17/trump-clinton-false-conspiracy-theories

Daily Beast: Ex-GOP Rep Rips ‘Weak Loser’ Trump Over Walmart Tantrum

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The president rage-tweeted that the retail giant would just have to “EAT THE TARIFFS” after the supermarket giant raised prices.

Donald Trump‘s tantrum about Walmart upping its prices over his tariffs has prompted furious backlash from members of his own party.

“What a weak loser thing to do!” former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois told MSNBC, describing the president as “that crybaby in the White House.”

Fellow former Rep. Charlie Dent, a Republican from Pennsylvania, appeared on the same broadcast, further tearing into Trump for leading his supporters to believe the effects of tariffs would not hit consumers.“This will absolutely be inflationary,” Dent said on Saturday’s broadcast. “Trump can go ahead and blame Walmart or any retailer for raising prices, but this is going to have a real impact.”

Trump’s meltdown unfolded on Saturday morning after Walmart executives announced the company would raise prices in response to higher import costs caused by the president’s trade war.

Ex-GOP Rep Rips ‘Weak Loser’ Trump Over Walmart Tantrum
The president rage-tweeted that the retail giant would just have to “EAT THE TARIFFS” after the supermarket giant raised prices.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-republican-congressman-joe-walsh-rips-weak-loser-trump-over-walmart-tantrum

The Wrap: Lawrence O’Donnell Says Trump Is ‘Famously Too Stupid’ to Keep His Stories Straight on Qatari Jet Gift | Video

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Lawrence O’Donnell mocked Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying that the president is “famously too stupid” to present a convincing argument of why he’s accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar.

“The first line of Donald Trump’s exclamation-point defense of accepting that plane tonight is: ‘The Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, not to me!,'” O’Donnell noted, quoting the president’s post on Truth Social.

He then played a clip of Trump telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that he was accepting the gift personally and not on behalf of the Air Force, using the phrase, “Why wouldn’t I accept the gift?”

“He didn’t say anything about the Air Force accepting a gift there. [He said], Why shouldn’t I accept a gift?'”

O’Donnell went on to say, “Donald Trump is, of course, famously too stupid to keep his conspiracy story straight. The man is just too stupid to observe the theory of the conspiracy and say to Sean Hannity, ‘My attitude is, why shouldn’t the Air Force accept a gift?'”

Lawrence O’Donnell Says Trump Is ‘Famously Too Stupid’ to Keep His Stories Straight on Qatari Jet Gift | Video
Donald Trump is “too stupid” to keep his stories straight about why he’s accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar, says Lawrence O’Donnell.

https://www.thewrap.com/lawrence-odonnell-donald-trump-too-stupid-qatari-jet-video