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MSNBC: Sen. Welch reacts to Trump demanding Bondi go after political rivals [Video]
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) joins Ana Cabrera to share his reaction to President Trump pressuring Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against some of his political rivals and to discuss Trump heading to New York City for the U.N. General Assembly.
Sen. Welch reacts to Trump demanding Bondi go after political rivals
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) joins Ana Cabrera to share his reaction to President Trump pressuring Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against some of his political rivals and to discuss Trump heading to New York City for the U.N. General Assembly.
Daily Mail: Trump savages Pam [“Bimbo #3”] Bondi as he leaks brutal text message listing her failings… and tells her: I want Lindsey
Finally! King Donald savages one of his favorite Bimbos! But given that Pam “Bimbo #3” Bondi is dumb as a rock, does she really have a clue?
President Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on Attorney General Pam Bondi over her failure to take Deep State scalps.
The president appeared to leak a private message he had sent to Bondi accusing her of ‘all talk, no action’ and demanding successful prosecutions of his political enemies.
Trump listed off FBI Director James Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff of California, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, claiming ‘they’re all guilty as hell,’ in the message shared to his Truth Social platform.
The president told Bondi, ‘We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.’
Much of his fury was directed at the outgoing US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, who declined to prosecute James for mortgage fraud over what he said was a lack of evidence.
Siebert also failed to prosecute Comey after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused him of threatening Trump in a social media post.
Siebert resigned last week but Trump in his Truth Social post claimed that he’d been fired.
‘He even lied to the media and said he quit, and that we had no case. No, I fired him, and there is a GREAT CASE, and many lawyers, and legal pundits, say so,’ Trump wrote.
Trump floated a replacement for Siebert in the post, Lindsey Halligan, a member of the White House counsel, who has a track record of defending the president in court – including the classified documents case.
In a follow-up post made about a half hour later, Trump officially announced his intention to nominate Halligan to the US Attorney position in Virginia’s eastern district.
He described Siebert as a ‘Democrat Endorsed ‘Republican” and said Halligan will ‘be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!’
Trump also walked back his prior exasperated tone with Bondi, saying she is ‘doing a GREAT job.’
The earlier post, which appeared to be a deliberate leak of a private text message he had sent to Bondi, was an extraordinary public attack on the nation’s top prosecutor.
Trump’s frustration with the AG over her failed efforts to prosecute his political enemies comes as her position is already weakened by the Jeffrey Epstein debacle.
Bondi, a longtime Trump loyalist who defended him during his first impeachment trial and served as Florida AG from 2011 to 2019, was appointed with expectations she’d aggressively pursue revenge and ‘drain the swamp.’
Trump’s main targets, Comey, Schiff and James, ran what the president describes as ‘witch hunts’, orchestrated by the Deep State to ruin his credibility before the electorate.
Trump fired Comey as FBI chief in 2017 amid the FBI’s investigation into Russian election interference, which the president has repeatedly called a hoax.
Schiff, a vocal Trump critic and high-ranking Democrat Representative from California, led the 2019 impeachment inquiry into Trump over withholding aid from Ukraine.
Democratic New York AG James brought the 2022 civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization which resulted in a $454 million judgment. It is currently under appeal.
Trump’s backers argue these figures represent the unchecked partisanship of the liberal elite; while his critics claim that his demands for prosecutions are an authoritarian overreach which ignores the rule of law.
The president has set his sights on the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, a key federal prosecutorial hub where he is pushing for investigations into the trio.
To help Bondi fulfil this task, Trump now wants his trusted attorney Halligan in the role.
The glamorous lawyer has been representing Trump for years, most prominently serving as one of his attorneys in the case against him for retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
In August 2024, that case was dismissed by US District Judge Aileen Cannon, with her arguing that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
Smith appealed the ruling to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which then formally dismissed the case in February 2025, marking its end.
More recently, Halligan was leading the charge in Trump’s review of historical exhibits at the Smithsonian.
In an August interview with Fox News, Halligan said slavery was an overemphasized topic at the museum in Washington, D.C.
‘The fact our country was involved in slavery is awful — no one thinks otherwise,’ she said.
‘But what I saw when I was going through the museum, personally, was an overemphasis on slavery, and I think there should be more of an overemphasis on how far we’ve come since slavery.’
‘There’s a lot of history to our country, both positive and negative, but we need to keep moving forward. We can’t just keep focusing on the negative — all that does is divide us,’ she added.
Halligan’s new promotion comes after Bondi reportedly tapped Mary ‘Maggie’ Cleary to be the acting US attorney in that office.
Cleary has served as an assistant US attorney in the Western District of Virginia and is perhaps most known for her attempts to beat back an allegation made by an anonymous individual that she was present during the January 6 Capitol Riot.
Cleary, a deeply conservative Republican, was briefly placed on administrative leave but was cleared after a brief internal investigation, Politico reported.
If Halligan is to become the permanent US attorney, she will have to be confirmed by the Senate.
Since the Republicans have a 53-seat majority in the Senate, it is likely she will ascend to the position.
NBC News: White House reviewing Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they align with Trump’s vision
The president signed an executive order this year ordering the removal of “improper ideology” from the museum system.
The White House is conducting an expansive review of the Smithsonian’s museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to ensure they align with President Donald Trump’s view of history.
The assessment, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed to NBC News, will include reviews of online content, internal curatorial processes, exhibition planning, the use of collections and artist grants, and wording related to museum exhibit messaging.
The Smithsonian Institution includes 21 museums, 14 education and research centers and the National Zoo.
News of the review was outlined in a letter sent Tuesday to Lonnie Bunch, the institution’s secretary. White House senior associate Lindsey Halligan, Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley and White House Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought signed the letter.
“This initiative aims to ensure alignment with the president’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions,” the letter says.
It directs officials at eight museums — including the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of African American History and Culture — to turn over information about their current exhibits and plans to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary in the next 30 days.
Within 120 days, museums “should begin implementing content corrections where necessary, replacing divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate, and constructive descriptions across placards, wall didactics, digital displays, and other public-facing materials,” the letter said.
“Additional museums will be reviewed in Phase II,” the letter said.
The review, which the letter said will include “on-site observational visits,” is aimed at making sure the museums reflect the “unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story” and reflect the president’s executive order calling for “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
That order, which was signed on March 27, calls for removing “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo.
“This is about preserving trust in one of our most cherished institutions,” Halligan said in a statement. “The Smithsonian museums and exhibits should be accurate, patriotic, and enlightening — ensuring they remain places of learning, wonder, and national pride for generations to come.”
The Smithsonian said in a statement Tuesday that its work “is grounded in a deep commitment to scholarly excellence, rigorous research, and the accurate, factual presentation of history.”
“We are reviewing the letter with this commitment in mind and will continue to collaborate constructively with the White House, Congress, and our governing Board of Regents,” the statement said.
NBC News reported in May that historical leaders and critics were questioning why exhibits at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall were rotating out. NBC News found that at least 32 artifacts that were once on display had been removed.
Among those items were Harriet Tubman’s book of hymns filled with gospel songs that she is believed to have sung as she led enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad, and the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the memoir by one of the most important leaders of the abolition movement.
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History also recently made headlines after it removed a placard referring to Trump from an impeachment exhibit, sparking concerns over his influence on the cultural institution. Mention of his two impeachments was restored to the exhibit after criticism of the removal.
In a statement, the Smithsonian said that the exhibit was temporarily removed because it “did not meet the museum’s standards in appearance, location, timeline, and overall presentation.”
“It was not consistent with other sections in the exhibit and moreover blocked the view of the objects inside its case. For these reasons, we removed the placard,” the institution said.
Trump’s executive order called for changes at the museum system, charging that the “Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
“[W]e will restore the Smithsonian Institution to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness — igniting the imagination of young minds, honoring the richness of American history and innovation, and instilling pride in the hearts of all Americans,” the order said.
Trump has also gotten more involved at another federally controlled D.C. institution, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He named himself the center’s chairman and fired the bipartisan board of trustees after vowing there would be no “anti-American propaganda” at there.
“We don’t need woke at the Kennedy Center,” he said in February.
House Republicans have moved to rename the center the “Donald J. Trump Center for Performing Arts,” but the law creating the center prohibits any of the facilities from being renamed.
Trump seemed to acknowledge the House effort in a post on Truth Social Tuesday.
“GREAT Nominees for the TRUMP/KENNEDY CENTER, whoops, I mean, KENNEDY CENTER, AWARDS. They will be announced Wednesday,” he wrote.
Newsweek: Iran threatens to release 100GB of Trump aides’ emails: What to know
An Iran-linked hacking group has threatened to release a batch of emails it said it has stolen from President Donald Trump‘s longtime aides, including adviser Roger Stone and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Reuters reported Monday that a cyberattack group that hacked the president’s campaign in 2024 claimed it had roughly 100 gigabytes of emails it could leak.
The hackers, operating under the pseudonym Robert, did not provide information about the content of the emails or when they plan to release them, according to the news agency. The group previously released some emails in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election last year.
In online chats with Reuters, they said they also had emails from the accounts of Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan and Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who it was revealed was paid $130,000 to sign a non-disclosure agreement about an affair she says she had with Trump.
A “hostile foreign adversary is threatening to illegally exploit purportedly stolen and unverified material in an effort to distract, discredit, and divide,” the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said late on Monday.
Unfortunately our Grifter-in-Chief is an inept buffoon seemingly unable to conduct himself in a respectable, uncompromisable manner.
Iran threatens to release 100GB of Trump aides’ emails: What to know
An Iran-linked hacking group said it has stolen emails from President Donald Trump’s aides, including Roger Stone and Susie Wiles.
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-hackers-threaten-leak-trump-emails-2092864
EURweb: Artifacts Tied to Slavery and Civil Rights Quietly Pulled from Black History Museum as Trump Orders ‘Race‑Free’ Review
More than 30 objects, including Harriet Tubman’s hymnal, have been rotated out of the National Museum of African American History and Culture amid President Trump’s executive order targeting “divisive” racial exhibits.
In all, NBC News counted 32 artifacts that have disappeared from public view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) just weeks after Trump signed a March 27 executive order demanding that the Smithsonian eliminate material that “divides Americans based on race.”
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The executive order charges Vice President J.D. Vance with a top‑to‑bottom review of Smithsonian content deemed to “degrade shared American values.” Its timing has fueled accusations of historical whitewashing.