A federal judge in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> has sanctioned former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and one of his attorneys over a lawsuit deemed frivolous against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> and 30 others.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sues-hillary-clinton-dozens-of-others-over-far-reaching-russian-collusion-conspiracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, the Democratic National Committee, and dozens of others in March 2022. The former president alleged that the defendants orchestrated a plot to spread malicious and false information about Trump regarding his ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, ordered Trump, his attorney Alina Habba, and Habba’s firm, Habba Madaio &amp; Associates, to pay a $937,989.39 fine for a lawsuit that “needlessly harmed” 31 people and entities “in order to dishonestly advance a political narrative.”
“Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks <a href="https://static.poder360.com.br/2023/01/trumop-clinton-20jan2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions.&#8221;
“As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba,” the judge said.
Trump’s lawsuit accused a slew of Democratic groups, operatives, public officials, and others of “nefariously” abusing federal investigative power, media ethics, and the public’s trust to promote a conspiracy about the Trump campaign’s ties to Moscow. “Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media frenzy,” Trump’s lawsuit said.
Middlebrooks <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/politics/trump-clinton-lawsuit-fine.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw out</a> the case in September, dismissing Trump’s filing as a “political manifesto” disguised as a lawsuit filled with overwrought claims and hyperbole while lacking substance. The judge fined Trump’s legal team $50,000 over the lawsuit in November.
Many of the defendants together filed a joint request for further punishment against Trump, however. Clinton and others targeted in Trump’s suit asked Middlebrooks for additional sanctions against the former president.
Middlebrooks at the time agreed to consider the additional sanctions and warned Trump’s legal team that additional action may be taken against them by “the bar and disciplinary authorities” over the Trump lawsuit.

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President Joe Biden complained Wednesday that what he was able to accomplish during his time in the White House is “changing so rapidly” under President Donald Trump.
Biden delivered the keynote speech in front of a conference of human resources professionals put on by the Society for Human Resource Management in San Diego. The former president’s roughly hour-long address was his lengthiest public remarks since he announced his cancer diagnosis in May.
“Many of the things I worked so damn hard, that I thought I changed in the country, are changing so rapidly,” he said, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-in-rare-remarks-since-presidency-warns-his-accomplishments-are-coming-undone-18c58c50">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Biden also said he has been advising European leaders on how to handle Trump. The 82-year-old ex-president said that European officials have called him and asked him to get involved in politics again. Biden said he is not involved, but is still talking to and advising U.S. and European lawmakers.
“We strengthened NATO in a significant way,” Biden told the conference, adding that now “I’m getting calls — I’m not going to go into it, I can’t — from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged.”
“I’m not, but I’m giving advice,&#8221; Biden said.
The White House pushed back on Biden’s claims. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said that Biden’s leadership left “America weaker than ever before,” according to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-world-leaders-are-asking-him-for-advice-in-new-trump-era/">The Daily Beast</a>.
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“Absolutely no one is calling Joe Biden for advice because his disastrous foreign policy left America weaker than ever before. Thanks to President Trump, NATO allies have made a historic 5% defense spending pledge, Iran’s nuclear capabilities are obliterated, and our country’s standing on the world stage is restored,” Kelly said.
Last month, Trump scored a diplomatic win with NATO countries, convincing all but Spain to increase defense spending to 5% of each country’s relative GDP. The 5% target <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm">includes</a> 3.5% dedicated to core defense requirements and at least 1.5% on security and defense-related “critical infrastructure,” including strengthening each country’s “defense industrial base.”
“There is absolute conviction with my colleagues at the table that, given this threat from the Russians, given the international security situation, there is no alternative,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-triumphs-nato-bows-to-u-s-pressure-with-5-defense-pledge">said</a> of the increase.

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Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern for GOP Rep. Ron Estes of Kansas, was shot and killed in Northwest Washington, D.C., on Monday night.
Estes and the D.C. Metropolitan Police confirmed the 21-year-old Tarpinian-Jachym’s death in separate statements.
“I will remember his kind heart and how he always greeted anyone who entered our office with a cheerful smile,” said Estes. “We are grateful to Eric for his service to Kansas’ 4th District and the country. Please join Susan and me in praying for his family and respecting their privacy during this heartbreaking time.”
Tarpinian-Jachym of Granby, Massachusetts, was a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was majoring in finance with a minor in political science, according to Estes’ office.
On Monday night around 10:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of gunshots in the 1200 block of 7th Street, Northwest. Officers found Tarpinian-Jachym unconscious with gunshot wounds. Officers also found “an adult female and a 16-year-old male.” Both were conscious and had gunshot wounds, as well, <a href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-provides-update-7th-street-homicide">according to</a> police.
All three victims were taken to area hospitals where Tarpinian-Jachym eventually died.
“The preliminary investigation indicates that multiple suspects exited a vehicle at the intersection of 7th and M Street, Northwest and began firing at a group. The suspect vehicle has been recovered. Detectives believe the decedent was not the intended target of the shooting,” D.C. Metropolitan Police said.
The nation’s capital has ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in recent years. A crime spike that had progressed for years <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/why-dc-remains-one-the-nations-most-dangerous-cities">spiked</a> in 2023 at 40.9 homicides per 100,000 residents, making Washington the fourth most dangerous city in the United States behind New Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit, respectively.
A report from Republicans on the House Budget Committee <a href="https://budget.house.gov/press-release/the-nations-capital-is-suffering-the-worst-crime-wave-in-21st-century">said</a> the crime wave was the worst the city had faced in over two decades, tallying in 2023 “over 270 murders, 950 carjackings, and 106 children shot — reminiscent of the 1990s crack epidemic.”
Victims of the crime wave included some of the nation’s most powerful people. Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congressman-carjacked-at-gunpoint-in-washington-d-c">carjacked</a> at gunpoint in October 2023. Former Trump official Mike Gill was shot and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-trump-official-mike-gill-shot-during-d-c-carjacking-dies-from-injuries">killed</a> several months later in February 2024.
In 2024, Washington’s homicide rate dropped to 27.3, which D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser touted as a result her administration’s focus on crime. The city’s rank as the fourth most dangerous city in the United States remained unchanged, however.

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A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s proclamation freezing most asylum claims at the southern border.
Federal District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Randolph Moss wrote in a 128-page <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277039/gov.uscourts.dcd.277039.71.0.pdf">opinion</a> that the president lacked authority under immigration law and the U.S. Constitution to issue the proclamation. The judge, an Obama appointee, stayed his ruling for 14 days to give the Trump administration a chance to appeal.
“The Court recognizes that the Executive Branch faces enormous challenges in preventing and deterring unlawful entry into the United States and in adjudicating the overwhelming backlog of asylum claims of those who have entered the country,” wrote Moss. “But the [Immigration and Nationality Act], by its terms, provides the sole and exclusive means for removing people already present in the country.”
“Nor can Article II’s Vesting Clause or Article IV’s Invasion Clause be read to grant the President or his delegees authority to adopt an alternative immigration system, which supplants the statutes that Congress has enacted and the regulations that the responsible agencies have promulgated,” the judge continued.
The ruling could knock down a key piece of Trump’s border policy just at the White House is celebrating a massive drop in immigration since Trump took office.
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In his ruling, Moss granted class-action status to the lawsuit and said it would apply to “all individuals who are or will be subject to the Proclamation and/or its implementation and who are now or will be present in the United States.”
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller slammed and ridiculed the ruling, taking special issue with the scope of its effect.
“To try to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions a marxist judge has declared that all potential FUTURE illegal aliens on foreign soil (eg a large portion of planet earth) are part of a protected global ‘class’ entitled to admission into the United States,” Miller <a href="https://x.com/StephenM/status/1940483307407540379">posted</a> on X.
“The West will not survive if our sovereignty is not restored,” he <a href="https://x.com/stephenm/status/1940487259553493113">added</a>, likely referring to judicial overreach that has stymied the president’s agenda through broad injunctions delivered by lower court judges.
Last week, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-fight">delivered</a> an opinion curbing district court judges’ authority to issue nationwide injunctions on presidential orders.
“[F]ederal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the court’s opinion.
“When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too,” she said.
Trump issued a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion/">proclamation</a> on his first day in office restricting asylum claims at the southern border, calling the flood of illegal immigration that swamped the United States&#8217; southern border an &#8220;invasion&#8221; and arguing that the mass of unchecked people represented a significant &#8220;public-health concern.&#8221;

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A judge denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ request to be let out of jail on bail Wednesday as the disgraced rapper awaits his sentencing.
Judge Arun Subramanian ruled against Combs’ request for a $1 million bail. Subramanian quoted Combs’ legal defense and spoke about the rapper’s past violence against his girlfriends when delivering his ruling.
“At trial, the defense conceded defendant’s violence in personal relationships saying ‘it happened’ in relation to Cassie Venture and Jane,” Subramanian said, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/entertainment/live-news/sean-diddy-combs-trial-07-02-25#cmcmgj2dn000t3b6mzhehagb4">CNN</a>. Prosecutors had argued that the rapper was a flight risk.
The judge also noted violence that took place after Combs’ homes were searched, saying of the episodes, “this highlights a disregard for the rule of law and a propensity of violence.”
Combs has been in jail since he was arrested in September.
Subramanian has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/entertainment/live-news/sean-diddy-combs-trial-07-02-25#cmcmgq1s400103b6mvx7yo2hu">floated</a> an October 3 date for Combs’ sentencing hearing. Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo asked for the hearing date to be moved up as much as possible, suggesting that, if the judge agreed, the defense would waive a pre-sentencing investigation to secure an earlier date.
A Manhattan jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-diddy-combs-found-guilty-on-2-counts-acquitted-of-most-serious-charges">found</a> Combs guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution on Wednesday. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Both counts related to incidents with ex-girlfriends of the rapper.
The jury acquitted Combs of the more serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
After the verdict was delivered, Combs <a href="https://apnews.com/live/sean-diddy-combs-trial-verdict-updates">appeared</a> to celebrate the jury’s decision that acquitted him on the most serious charges. He raised his hands in a prayer motion and then hugged one of his defense attorneys, Teny Geragos.
The verdict concluded a weeks-long trial in which prosecutors accused the 55-year-old rapper of coercing girlfriends to take part in drug-fueled “freak-off” parties that included rampant sexual exploitation of the women.
Combs’ defense did not deny many of the sordid details, but asserted that the activities at the parties and elsewhere were consensual.

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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate in New York City’s mayoral race, sponsored a bill that would fine Jewish groups at least $1 million for donating to “unauthorized” charities operating in Israel.
Mamdani first introduced his bill, known as the “Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act,” in 2023 to block donations to groups that he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/17/new-york-law-aims-stop-funding-israeli-settlements-west-bank">accused</a> of funding the “expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians in the occupied territories.”
The bill is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-israeli-settlements.html">backed</a> by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Mamdani and has appeared at recent rallies alongside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Mamdani, a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, wrote the <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S606">legislation</a> to target “not-for-profit corporations” that engage “in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity.”
The legislation would ban Jewish synagogues and charities from donating to groups such as United Hatzalah and ZAKA, nonprofit groups that specialize in emergency response and treatment of victims of terrorism, according to <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-859627?dicbo=v2-puQTs4k#google_vignette">The Jerusalem Post</a>.
The bill would also ban donations to the <a href="https://oneisraelfund.org/learn/">One Israel Fund</a>, which focuses on “the safety and wellbeing of the 500,000+ residents of Judea and Samaria,” including providing “medical, educational, recreational, preventative security and all other forms of communal and social welfare.”
The bill defines settlement activity as “aiding and abetting activity by the Israeli armed forces, the government of Israel, or citizen thereof” relating to “the unlawful transfer of Israeli civilians into occupied territory” and “acts of violence committed by Israeli citizens against protected persons living in occupied territory.” The law goes on to include the “destruction, damage, or vandalism of Palestinian property,” “the appropriation, expropriation, seizure, destruction, demolition, dismantlement, or confiscation, in whole or in part, of private Palestinian land,” and “the unilateral acquisition and annexation of land in occupied territory.”
According to the bill, &#8220;occupied territory&#8221; relates to “the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.” “West Bank” is the Palestinian name for the regions of Judea and Samaria. The reference to “East Jerusalem” means that part of Israel’s capital city would be considered “occupied territory.”
After it was introduced in 2023, the legislature received swift condemnation from New York lawmakers, including many of Mamdani’s fellow Democrats. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins both <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/05/socialist-legislators-back-bill-block-new-york-charities-funding-israeli-settlements/386485/">said</a> that Mamdani’s bill would not receive a vote. A group of 25 lawmakers signed a letter opposing the bill.
“The bill is a ploy to demonize Jewish charities with connection to Israel. It was only introduced to antagonise pro-Israel New Yorkers and sow divisions within the Democratic party,” the letter <a href="https://x.com/DanRosenthalNYC/status/1658646209702051845">said</a>.
Mamdani beat former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to receive the Democratic Party’s nod to run in the general election for New York City mayor. Mamdani’s vocal support for socialism and <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/30/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-chilling-call-for-seizing-the-means-of-production-draws-outrage-from-communist-refugees/">use</a> of Communist revolutionary language has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/nyregion/eric-adams-business-leaders-meeting.html">worried</a> New York’s business community. Mamdani’s anti-Israel positions – including support for the antisemitic Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement – has further <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/politics/zohran-mamdani-jewish-voters.html">worried</a> New York’s substantial Jewish community.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a pair of bills Monday night rolling back parts of a landmark environmental law to remove barriers to tackling the state’s housing shortage.
The California legislature with bipartisan support voted last week to exempt certain projects, such as some high-density housing plans, from onerous California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reviews and approvals. Newsom pushed the legislation forward, threatening to hold up the state’s budget unless the CEQA rollbacks hit his desk, as well.
“Today’s bill is a game changer, which will be felt for generations to come,” Newsom said in a <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/30/governor-newsom-signs-into-law-groundbreaking-reforms-to-build-more-housing-affordability/">statement</a> referring to the CEQA overhaul.
Newsom held a press conference Monday evening touting the bills as necessary to rescue the reputation of California’s government and prove that the state is capable of solving pressing problems.
“If we can’t address this issue, we’re going to lose trust, and that’s just the truth,” said Newsom, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/california-environment-newsom-ceqa.html">The New York Times</a>. “And so this is so much bigger in many ways than the issue itself. It is about the reputation of not just Sacramento and the legislative leadership and executive leadership, but the reputation of the state of California.”
Newsom has promised to address California’s burgeoning housing shortage since his first campaign for governor in 2018. Now well into his second term and close to being term-limited out of office, Newsom pushed the CEQA reforms forward as he is widely seen as a potential Democratic contender for president in 2028.
CEQA was originally signed into law in 1970 by then-Governor Ronald Reagan. The law at the time it was enacted was thought to only apply to government projects, but a court decision two years later broadened the law&#8217;s application to a host of development projects.
Since then, critics have said that the law’s strict review and approval process, believed to be the toughest in the United States, has been <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook-pm/2025/07/01/ceqa-bill-signed-00436315">abused</a> by environmental activists, labor unions, California residents, and others to extract concessions in exchange for politically sensitive projects or to override construction proposals unpopular with a small group.
Environmental groups rallied against the CEQA reforms. Dozens of groups partnered together to urge lawmakers to reject the bills.
“This bill is the worst anti-environmental bill in California in recent memory,” the groups wrote in a joint <a href="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/79/7e/ba35e6994248bac9c0237763d82a/ab-sb-131-oppose-ceqa-budget-bill-5pm-6-27-25.pdf">letter</a>. “It represents an unprecedented rollback to California’s fundamental environmental and community protections at a time in which the people of California grapple with unprecedented federal attacks to their lives and livelihoods.”

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