Daily Beasty: Trump Hijacks NBA Scandal to Dunk on Favorite Adversary

The president couldn’t resist seizing the moment.

President Donald Trump is trying to make the basketball gambling bust that rocked the sports world about himself.

But when Trump, 79, weighed in, he put his own twist—and pettiness—on the subject.

“What’s worse, the NBA Players cheating at cards, and probably much else, or the Democrats cheating on Elections,” he began in a post on Truth Social.

“The 2020 Presidential Election, being Rigged and Stolen, is a far bigger SCANDAL. Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our ‘President!’ We now know everything. I hope the DOJ pursues this with as much ‘gusto’ as befitting the biggest SCANDAL in American history!”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hijacks-nba-scandal-to-dunk-on-favorite-adversary

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/trump-hijacks-nba-scandal-to-dunk-on-favorite-adversary/ar-AA1PecO8

Bradenton Herald: Trump’s Antifa Terror Order Faces Backlash

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, said, “Designating Antifa, which has no defined organizational structure or leadership, as a domestic terrorism organization is not only incorrect, it serves no purpose other than an excuse for the Trump administration to stifle dissent, investigate anyone, or any group, they don’t like, punish their enemies, and potentially label any American they want as a terrorist.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-antifa-terror-order-faces-backlash/ar-AA1PaS6t


Look in your mirrors, fools.

The only terrorists in America are King Donald’s fascists sycohants.

The i Paper: Stephen Miller is Trump’s Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats

The deputy chief of staff’s power at the White House appears to know no bounds, and his voice is one of the most influential in the President’s ear

If civil war begins in the US – and with Donald Trump’s commitment to deploying troops on the country’s streets, there is every possibility that it might – Stephen Miller will probably view it as his own personal, signature achievement.

No figure in Trump’s inner circle exhibits more zealotry than Miller – the White House deputy chief of staff for policy – about the revolutionary ambitions of the “Make America Great Again” movement. Nor more of a willingness to lay waste the country’s constitutional guardrails in an effort to supercharge the President’s powers, disregard Congress, and ignore court rulings that fail to go the administration’s way.

Last week, even Trump acknowledged the extremism of the Rottweiler in his midst.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/stephen-miller-is-trump-s-rottweiler-now-he-wants-to-dismantle-the-democrats/ar-AA1P2ev6

Guardian: Top US prosecutor’s use of text message auto-delete could be illegal, watchdog groups warn

Lindsey Halligan, who brought cases against James Comey and Letitia James, allegedly violated records-retention laws

A top federal prosecutor’s use of an encrypted messaging application with messages set to be automatically deleted after eight hours was potentially illegal, two watchdog groups said.

Lindsey Halligan, the interim US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, used Signal earlier this month to communicate with Anna Bower, a journalist for Lawfare, about the criminal case she is pursuing against the New York attorney general, Letitia James. Bower published the full conversation on Monday evening and said Halligan had set messages to auto-delete after eight hours.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/prosecutor-lindsey-halligan-auto-delete-chats

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/top-us-prosecutor-s-use-of-text-message-auto-delete-could-be-illegal-watchdog-groups-warn/ar-AA1P3xWr

Independent: Trump’s ‘election integrity’ chief claimed president has future powers to declare voting emergency

Heather Honey’s statements follow president’s aggressive effort to radically reshape elections before 2026

Trump says FBI and Tulsi Gabbard ‘working on’ elections plan as he repeats bogus claims

It was clear from the outset that Donald Trump’s administration would include high-ranking government officials who either endorsed his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, or refused to publicly admit he lost.

The president continues to hammer a baseless narrative that the election was rigged against him, vowing publicly that it must never “happen again” as he deploys officials to prepare for midterm elections with the balance of power in Congress — and his agenda — at stake.

Before she was tapped as Trump’s “election integrity” official at the Department of Homeland Security, Heather Honey reportedly told a group of right-wing activists in March that the president could declare a “national emergency” to effectively take control of local election administration.

She said the move would follow an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election, if it revealed “manipulation” of the results, according to The New York Times, which had a recording of the call.

“We have some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” she said. “[W]e can take these other steps without Congress and we can mandate that states do things and so on.”

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-election-emergency-heather-honey-b2850270.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-s-election-integrity-chief-claimed-president-has-future-powers-to-declare-voting-emergency/ar-AA1OZeFE


If you thought what happened after the 2020 election was bad,

the worst is yet to come!

Independent: Trump-appointed prosecutor contacted reporter via Signal to complain about coverage – then tried to claim it was all ‘off the record’

‘You’re not a journalist so it’s weird saying that but just letting you know,’ Halligan wrote

Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s hand-picked prosecutor, reached out to a reporter about her coverage of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ indictment in what became a 33-hour exchange — and then insisted the conversation was “off the record.”

Last month, Trump tapped Halligan to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after her predecessor resigned and reportedly found insufficient evidence to criminally prosecute James. Overseen by Halligan, James was accused earlier this month of making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a loan for a property she purchased in 2020. She has denied any wrongdoing.

The New York Times then published an expose about James’ Norfolk, Virginia, home in question. Lawfare reporter Anna Bower tweeted screenshots of the article, which seemed to poke holes in the James indictment, and added her own commentary.

In an unusual move, Halligan reached out to Bower through the encrypted app Signal. Prosecutors rarely discuss ongoing cases. Still, the pair went back-and-forth and at the end, Halligan insisted everything was “off record.”

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lindsey-halligan-signal-reporter-b2849319.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-appointed-prosecutor-contacted-reporter-via-signal-to-complain-about-coverage-then-tried-to-claim-it-was-all-off-the-record/ar-AA1OTpl5

NBC News: Some Trump critics fear they could be the president’s next target for prosecution

The president has called for indictments of some of his political enemies.

Fear is spreading among some who’ve run afoul of President Donald Trump.

A foreboding that grew out of Trump’s election victory last November has deepened, several people told NBC News, after the Justice Department secured indictments against two public figures who’ve long been in his crosshairs: New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.

Some said they worry that the Trump administration will target them for prosecution, draining their life savings and potentially landing them in jail. In a time of heightened political violence, others said they fear that the president’s most zealous followers may try to do them harm.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-critics-fear-presidents-target-prosecution-rcna234460

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/some-trump-critics-fear-they-could-be-the-president-s-next-target-for-prosecution/ar-AA1OUxvU

Reuters: DHS purchase of business jets during shutdown draws Democrats’ ire

Democrats in Congress on Saturday criticized the Trump administration’s decision to buy two Gulfstream G700 jets for $172 million during the ongoing government shutdown that are to be used by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior leaders.

The U.S. Coast Guard entered into a sole-source contract on Friday, according to a government contracting website. The jets will be used for the Coast Guard’s Long Range Command Control fleet of aircraft.

DHS said in a statement late Friday that the new jets are needed because it currently relies on a Gulfstream CG-101 G550 jet that is over 20 years old, outside of the aircraft’s service life “and well beyond operational usage hours for a corporate aircraft.”

The department said it would not allow the federal shutdown “to slow down this process” of replacing the jet, but Democrats want to know where the money is coming from.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/dhs-purchase-business-jets-during-shutdown-draws-democrats-ire-2025-10-18

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dhs-purchase-of-business-jets-during-shutdown-draws-democrats-ire/ar-AA1OJHUk

Daily Beast: Trump Lines Up Next Target as Bolton Could Face Life in Prison

Republicans have set their sights on Jack Smith, the former special counsel who indicted Trump twice.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lines-up-next-target-as-bolton-could-face-life-in-prison

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lines-up-next-target-as-bolton-could-face-life-in-prison/ar-AA1OGonC

Slingshot News: ‘You Lied About Your Military Service!’: Pam Bondi Resorts To Personal Attacks When Richard Blumenthal Exposes Her Corruption In Hearing [Video]

During a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi resorted to personal attacks when Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) pressed her on misconduct taking place in the Justice Department.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/you-lied-about-your-military-service-pam-bondi-resorts-to-personal-attacks-when-richard-blumenthal-exposes-her-corruption-in-hearing/vi-AA1OCO7E