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Deadline: ABC News Suspends Terry Moran Over X Post That Called Trump Official Stephen Miller A “World-Class Hater”

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ABC News said that it has suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran over a late night X post, since deleted, attacking Trump administration official Stephen Miller as a “world class hater.”

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Top Trump administration officials had called out the X post on Sunday morning, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying that the network should hold him “accountable” and Vice President JD Vance asking for an apology.

The 12:06 a.m. post called Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, a “world class hater.”

“You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.”

“Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

Unfortunately Terry Moran was right. Stephen Miller is the most reviled White House staffer of our times. And that’s an understatement.

ABC News Suspends Terry Moran Over X Post That Called Trump Official Stephen Miller A “World-Class Hater”
The ABC News correspondent’s post called Miller a “world class hater.”

https://deadline.com/2025/06/abc-news-suspends-terry-moran-trump-stephen-miller-1236426913

Techdirt: Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court DOGE Can’t Be FOIAed

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The destructive force that is DOGE still somehow manages to exist, despite it not being (depending on which claim is made and when) an official federal agency and/or overseen by anyone specifically identifiable as the head of DOGE.

Until recently, everyone — including Donald Trump — knew (and said as much in public) that DOGE was both a government agency and headed by Elon Musk. When the lawsuits started flying, the backtracking began by the administration, which apparently thought it could cover its tracks by walking backwards in its golf-cleated clown shows.

Trump’s love for DOGE has managed to undercut the protections DOGE hoped it would be able to avail itself of when the FOIA requests began pouring in and the discovery demands started hitting federal dockets.

Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court DOGE Can’t Be FOIAed
The destructive force that is DOGE still somehow manages to exist, despite it not being (depending on which claim is made and when) an official federal agency and/or overseen by anyone specifically…
Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court DOGE Can’t Be FOIAed

Raw Story: ‘Second biggest scandal’: Trump accused of new grift that puts Qatari plane in Shade

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“The plane is the second-biggest scandal on this trip,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told Raw Story. “The $2 billion crypto investment in Trump stablecoin [by an Emirati firm] is the more offensive grift.”

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Now, Trump is unshackled. The president and his sons aren’t even pretending to close shop: they’re expanding, thirsty for deals like the one they signed in April to build a golf club in Qatar.

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“What he’s doing is already illegal, so we don’t actually need a statute for that,” Schatz told Raw Story. “Now I would say his corruption complicates the conversation for sure, but I am not one of these people who think we need to make a new law to reiterate that the existing laws shouldn’t be broken.”

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As for the confluence of multi-billion dollar crypto investments, real-estate deals and a $400 million plane?

“That’s just what we know,” Whitehouse said. “I don’t think it gets better.”

‘Second biggest scandal’: Trump accused of new grift that puts Qatari plane in Shade

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-qatar-plane-2672031382

Raw Story: ‘No one voted to deport moms’: Pro-Trump town regrets its choice

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A Missouri town that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the 2024 election has come to regret its choice after a beloved neighbor was detained by ICE, according to The New York Times.

In the farming town of Kennett, MO, population 10,000, Times reporter Jack Healy met with residents who “supported in theory” Trump’s tough talk on immigration. Now they’re rallying around a Hong Kong immigrant named Ming Li Hui, who went by “Carol” in her adopted hometown.

“In the 20 years since she arrived from Hong Kong, she had built a life and family in Kennett, working two waitressing jobs and cleaning houses on the side,” Healy wrote. He quoted a Kennett city councilwoman who said, “Everyone knows Carol.”

But Hui has since been arrested and detained by the Department of Homeland Security as she awaits deportation back to her birth country.

“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” one woman told Healy. “But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.”

‘No one voted to deport moms’: Pro-Trump town regrets its choice
A Missouri town that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the 2024 election has come to regret its choice after a beloved neighbor was detained by ICE, according to The New York Times. In the farming town of Kennett, MO, population 10,000, Times reporter Jack Healy met with residents who “supported in theory” Trump’s tough talk on immigration.…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/no-one-voted-to-deport-moms-pro-trump-town-regrets-its-choice/ar-AA1FF6RR

Daily Beast: Paranoid Kash Patel Polygraphs FBI Agents in MAGA Purge

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Top brass at the agency are being pushed out as the chief continues his obsessive quest to plug leaks.

The FBI has devolved into chaos amid Director Kash Patel’s ongoing efforts to rid the agency of staff disloyal to the Trump administration.

Patel is now subjecting senior executives to polygraphs at a “rapid rate,” The New York Times reports, as part of a wider effort to stamp out embarrassing news leaks from within the agency.

One senior official told the Times in its exposé that he was forced out last month after being subjected to a lie detector test. He believes he was targeted because he hadn’t told Patel about his wife taking a knee during the 2020 protests against police brutality in Washington, D.C.

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Internal critics say the firings, forced retirements, unfair reassignments, and unit shutdowns have not only “obliterated decades of experience in national security” from the agency but also signal that the agency will not brook dissent over the actions of Trump as well as as Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the latter two who were caught up in a leak scandal involving commercial messaging app Signal.

The less qualified you are, the more paranoid you become?

Paranoid Kash Patel Polygraphs FBI Agents in MAGA Purge
Top brass at the agency are being pushed out as the chief continues his obsessive quest to plug leaks.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/paranoid-kash-patel-polygraphs-fbi-agents-in-maga-purge

Associated Press: Trump’s big plans on trade and more run up against laws of political gravity, separation of powers

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On Wednesday, an obscure but powerful court in New York rejected the legal foundation of Trump’s most sweeping tariffs, finding that Trump could not use a 1977 law to declare a national emergency on trade imbalances and fentanyl smuggling to justify a series of import taxes that have unsettled the world. Reordering the global economy by executive fiat was an unconstitutional end-run around Congress’ powers, the three-judge panel of Trump, Obama and Reagan appointees ruled in a scathing rebuke of Trump’s action.

The setbacks fit a broader pattern for a president who has advanced an extraordinarily expansive view of executive power. Federal courts have called out the lack of due process in some of Trump’s deportation efforts. His proposed income tax cuts, now working their way through Congress, are so costly that some of them can’t be made permanent, as Trump had wished. His efforts to humble Harvard University and cut the federal workforce have encountered legal obstacles. And he’s running up against reality as his pledges to quickly end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have turned into slogs.

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By unilaterally ordering tariffs, deportations and other actions through the White House, Trump is bypassing both Congress and the broader public, which could have given more popular legitimacy to his policy choices, said Princeton University history professor Julian Zelizer.

“The president is trying to achieve his goals outside normal legal processes and without focusing on public buy-in,” Zelizer said. “The problem is that we do have a constitutional system and there are many things a president can’t do. The courts are simply saying no. The reality is that many of his boldest decisions stand on an incredibly fragile foundation.”

Trump’s big plans on trade and more run up against laws of political gravity, separation of powers
President Donald Trump’s big plans on trade, deportations and more are running up against the laws of political gravity and the separation of powers.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-judges-courts-setbacks-1864c944c8142f18fd3075d5643bdefc

USA Today: Michigan Gov. Whitmer says Trump vowed to ‘drop’ idea of pardoning kidnapping plotters

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 Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a radio interview that President Donald Trump had previously told her he would not consider pardons for the men convicted of conspiring to kidnap her — a position he veered from this week, when he told reporters gathered in the White House that he would “take a look at it.“

Never believe or trust King Donald.

Michigan Gov. Whitmer says Trump vowed to ‘drop’ idea of pardoning kidnapping plotters
In a radio interview, Gov. Whitmer said Trump told her he would “drop” the idea of pardoning men convicted of conspiring to kidnap her in 2020.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michigan-gov-whitmer-says-trump-vowed-to-drop-idea-of-pardoning-kidnapping-plotters/ar-AA1FKz7E

Independent: ‘Creepy [Bimbo #1] Karoline’: Former Trump lawyer comes up with new nickname for White House press secretary

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‘I don’t think anybody in America really takes her seriously,’ the former Trump lawyer said

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb christened White House press secretary Karoline [Bimbo #1] Leavitt “Creepy Karoline” after she launched an attack on the judges who ruled against Trump’s tariff plans.

Cobb, a former prosecutor, jibed that “Creepy [Bimbo #1] Karoline” isn’t being “taken seriously” by Americans during an interview on CNN’s OutFront show Thursday, where host Erin Burnett grilled him on the overturning of Trump’s tariffs in the U.S. courts Wednesday.
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“I don’t think creepy [Bimbo #1] Karoline – when she speaks – I don’t think anybody in America really takes her seriously on a matter of substance. I mean, she’s not learned by any imagination,” he said.

“And I think her comments are clearly so defensive and so ill-informed that people might largely turn her out. She’s wrong.”

Former Trump lawyer slates White House press secretary as ‘Creepy Karoline’
‘I don’t think anybody in America really takes her seriously,’ the former Trump lawyer said

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ty-cobb-trump-lawyer-karoline-leavitt-b2760735.html

Telegraph: Trump’s cabinet turns on tariff architect

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Members scrutinising Peter Navarro after ‘smack in face’ court ruling halting levies

The architect of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs is facing scrutiny from cabinet members after the levies were halted by judges.

A New York court ruled on Wednesday that Mr Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs were illegal and overstepped the authority of the Oval Office.

The ruling is a “huge smack in the face” for Peter Navarro, one of the president’s closest advisers, a source close to the White House told The Telegraph.

Members of Mr Trump’s cabinet are now closely scrutinising Mr Navarro, who is widely viewed as the architect of the president’s tariff scheme.

“Navarro has been given enough rope to hang himself,” the source said.

Trump’s cabinet turns on tariff architect
Members scrutinising Peter Navarro after ‘smack in face’ court ruling halting levies

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/05/29/peter-navarro-donald-trump-tariff-court

Bloomberg: Key Republican Hopes ‘Revenge’ Tax Will Be a Never-Used Deterrent

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House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith on Friday defended the provision, called Section 899, which calls for increasing income tax rates on foreign individuals and companies from countries whose tax policies the US deems “discriminatory.

A key House Republican tax negotiator said he hopes the so-called “revenge” measure in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill targeting foreign investors will be a deterrent that is never deployed. 

So the next time a narcissist fruitcake like Trump fibs his way into the Oval Office, he will have another tool with which to destroy our economy and alienate any friends that we might have left. Many wise foreign investors and business will simply avoid doing business in the U.S.A.

Bloomberg: Key Republican Hopes ‘Revenge’ Tax Will Be a Never-Used Deterrent

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/key-house-republican-hopes-revenge-tax-on-foreign-investors-will-never-be-used