President Donald Trump promised on Monday to clean up crime and vagrancy in the nation&#8217;s capital by shifting more responsibilities over the district to the federal government. 
Trump made the announcement during a press conference at the White House, where he laid out a number of executive actions he was taking to fight violent crime, decrease homelessness, and otherwise clean up Washington, D.C. 
“I&#8217;m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation&#8217;s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,” Trump said. “ This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we&#8217;re gonna take our capital back. We&#8217;re taking it back.” 
Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and declared a public emergency. This granted him to move the D.C. Police Department under the control of the Justice Department. DEA Administrator Terry Cole will head the department, per Trump&#8217;s orders. 
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and U.S. District Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro all appeared alongside Trump at the news conference.
The president also added that he was sending 800 National Guard troops to patrol the streets of D.C. Last week, the administration sent 500 federal agents into the district, including from the FBI, ATF, DEA, Park Police, the U.S. Marshal Service, the Secret Service, and the Department of Homeland Security. 
“The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth,” Trump said, adding that “the only language” that criminals understand is when you “knock the hell out of them.” 
The president added that he would like to see Republicans in Congress move to end cashless bail in the district, saying that the policy led to lawlessness in the streets. Trump added that he planned to improve infrastructure in the district and crack down on homeless encampments. 
“We&#8217;re going to replace the medians that are falling down all over the roads. We&#8217;re gonna replace the potholes,” he said. 
Burgum, who briefly spoke during the conference, said that Park Police had cleared over 70 homeless camps from D.C. since March 27. 
“We’re going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can&#8217;t walk on,” Trump said. “We&#8217;re moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people. Some of those people, we don&#8217;t know how they even got there.”

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Vice President JD Vance gave a preview of his expectations for President Donald Trump&#8217;s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
&#8220;Look, it&#8217;s actually very simple,&#8221; Vance said during a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376764434112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News interview</a> with &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; anchor Maria Bartiromo. &#8220;If you take where the current line of contact between Russia and Ukraine is, we&#8217;re going to try to find some negotiated settlement that the Ukrainians and the Russians can live with, where they can live in relative peace, where the killing stops.
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He continued, &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to make anybody super happy. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians, probably, at the end of the day, are going to be unhappy with it. But I don&#8217;t think you can actually sit down and have this negotiation absent the leadership of Donald J. Trump.&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1953940896203919604" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Truth Social that he would meet Putin in Alaska on Friday. He also <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1953921321563218367" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters that</a> a potential deal would include &#8220;some swapping of territories&#8221; to end the years-long conflict, although Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/world/europe/zelensky-trump-ukraine-russia.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> the idea of giving up land.
Vance contended that he did not believe a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy before Trump&#8217;s expected meeting with Putin would be &#8220;that productive&#8221; to the peace effort.
&#8220;I think, fundamentally, the president of the United States has to be the one to kind of bring these two together,&#8221; Vance said, adding that &#8220;fundamentally, this is something where the president needs to force President Putin and President Zelenskyy really to sit down to figure out their differences.&#8221;
Vance said Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff have been helping the Trump administration reach a breakthrough. He noted that one of the &#8220;most important logjams&#8221; was Putin saying that he would never sit down for a conversation with Zelenskyy.
&#8220;And the president has now got that to change,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;We&#8217;re at a point now where we&#8217;re now trying to figure out, frankly, scheduling and things like that around when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump oversaw the signing of a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday, securing a deal that was unsuccessfully sought by the European Union, Russia, and the Biden administration.
Trump met with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev privately in the Oval Office before they all appeared for a press conference and signed the peace declaration.
&#8220;The countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan are committing to stop all fighting forever, open up commerce, travel, and diplomatic relations and respect each other&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity,&#8221; Trump said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s a long time&#8230; 35 years they fought — and now, they&#8217;re friends&#8230; It&#8217;s a big beautiful honor to welcome everyone to the White House for this very historic peace summit between Armenia and Azerbaijan.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/a2vgx1pzGD">pic.twitter.com/a2vgx1pzGD</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1953909197248004139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
The deal promises peace between majority-Christian Armenia and majority-Muslim Azerbaijan after the two nations have fought since the early 1990s. Under the deal, Armenia will grant the United States the rights to develop a transit corridor through the South Caucasus that will be named after President Trump. The trade corridor would be in a strategic location as the South Caucasus acts as the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Trump said the United States is also signing a bilateral agreement with both Armenia and Azerbaijan &#8220;to expand cooperation in energy, trade, and technology, including AI.&#8221; The president also ended U.S. restrictions on foreign aid and defense cooperation with Azerbaijan that had been in place since 1992.
President Aliyev said that the deal means that Azerbaijan is &#8220;writing a new history in the bilateral and interstate relationship&#8221; with the United States.
&#8220;To be in a strategic partnership with the greatest country in the world is a great opportunity, and also a very big responsibility,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;President Trump brings peace to the Southern Caucasus, and we&#8217;re grateful for that.&#8221;
Prime Minister Pashinyan of Armenia said the peace deal &#8220;will pave the way to ending decades of conflict between our countries and open a new era based on the full respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of each other.&#8221; He told Trump that &#8220;today&#8217;s great achievement is yet another testimony to your global leadership and your legacy as a statesman and a peacemaker on the world stage.&#8221;
By bringing Armenia and Azerbaijan together, President Trump ratchets up another victory in the foreign policy column. In just the past few weeks, Trump&#8217;s negotiations have been instrumental in peace agreements between Pakistan and India and Cambodia and Thailand, as well as a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran. Trump also hopes to achieve a massive deal between Russia and Ukraine to end the more than three years of fighting in the coming weeks.
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has centered on a 1,700-square-mile mountainous region called Nagorno-Karabakh that has been inhabited by Armenians for thousands of years but is inside Azerbaijan’s borders. In recent years, the conflict escalated when Azerbaijan set up a military blockade around Nagorno-Karabakh, cutting off food, electricity, and water for the Armenians living in the region. Azerbaijan then launched a full-scale military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023, effectively engaging in an ethnic cleansing campaign as Armenians fled the region to seek refuge outside of the area they used to call home.
Azerbaijan argued that Armenia was &#8220;illegally stationing&#8221; over 10,000 troops in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/asia/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-bombardment-intl/index.html">defended</a> its actions in the region as &#8220;anti-terrorist.&#8221;
Armenians, who represent the oldest Christian nation in the world, have been targeted in the past. During World War I, around 1.5 million Armenians were murdered at the hands of Muslim Turks, who sought to purge Armenians from Turkey, mainly through forced death marches. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thursday-marks-armenian-genocide-remembrance-day">Armenian genocide</a> is commemorated every year, but Turkey and Azerbaijan continue to <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/europe_erdogan-demands-biden-reverse-armenian-genocide-declaration/6205093.html">deny</a> that it ever took place.

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WASHINGTON — Apple is expected to invest another $100 billion in the United States, a White House official shared with The Daily Wire.
President Donald Trump will make the announcement at 4:30 pm on Wednesday in the Oval Office, the official said, sharing that Apple will boost the company&#8217;s U.S. commitment to a total of $600 billion over the next four years.
“President Trump’s America First economic agenda has secured trillions of dollars in investments that support American jobs and bolster American businesses,&#8221; White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Today’s announcement with Apple is another win for our manufacturing industry that will simultaneously help reshore the production of critical components to protect America’s economic and national security.”
<div id="attachment_957493" style="width: 872px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-scores-another-win-apple-to-pump-100-billion-more-into-u-s-economy/the-inauguration-of-donald-j-trump-as-the-47th-president-34" rel="attachment wp-att-957493"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-957493" class="wp-image-957493 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2194398447-862x576.jpg" alt="" width="862" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2194398447-862x576.jpg 862w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2194398447-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2194398447-768x513.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2194398447.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px" /></a>Apple CEO Tim Cook smiles attends the inauguration of Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson &#8211; Pool/Getty Images)</div>
The Wednesday announcement will include a new American Manufacturing Program (AMP), which will be focused on bringing even more of Apple&#8217;s supply chain and its advanced manufacturing to the United States. The company will use AMP to increase investments across the country and incentivize companies across the globe to manufacture critical components in the U.S., the White House official shared.
Apple supports more than 450,000 jobs and thousands of suppliers and partners in the United States.
Apple <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/apple-plans-texas-factory-ai-servers-20000-research-jobs-2025-02-24/">initially announced in February</a> that it would spend $500 billion in U.S. investments during the president&#8217;s time in office, including a massive factory in Texas and around 20,000 jobs focused on research and development. The $500 billion sum includes purchases from U.S. suppliers and the production of U.S. television shows and movies for Apple TV+, among other content.
<div class="text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-1">Apple shares <a href="https://www.cnn.com/markets/stocks/AAPL">were up 3.95% Wednesday morning</a>, on track for their most significant single-day gain since May, CNN reports.</div>

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A Trump administration staffer is receiving warm words and calls for recognition after he was reportedly beaten in Washington, D.C., while protecting a woman from an attempted carjacking.
The staffer, Ed Coristine, 19, who once went by the moniker “Big Balls” online, works at the Social Security Administration and began his government service as a member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project. President Donald Trump shared a photo on Tuesday of Coristine covered in blood after the attack and threatened to “federalize” D.C. over rampant crime.
“I have to say that somebody from DOGE was very badly hurt last night. You saw that – a young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in DC,” said Trump on Tuesday. “Either they&#8217;re going to straighten their act out in terms of government and in terms of protection, or we&#8217;re going to have to federalize and run it the way it&#8217;s supposed to be run.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;Somebody from <a href="https://twitter.com/DOGE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DOGE</a> was very badly hurt last night&#8230; a young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in D.C. Either they&#8217;re going to straighten their act out&#8230; or we&#8217;re going to have to federalize and run it the way it&#8217;s supposed to be run.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Z6Ywr9oYYX">https://t.co/Z6Ywr9oYYX</a> <a href="https://t.co/yhg9mRfDaF">pic.twitter.com/yhg9mRfDaF</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1952840166458195972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-doge-staffer-edward-coristine-injured-in-attempted-carjacking-trump-federal-takeover-of-d-c/">According</a> to CBS News, the woman was Coristine&#8217;s &#8220;significant other.&#8221; The outlet reported that they were surrounded by about 10 teenagers, and the suspects made a comment about taking their vehicle. Coristine then pushed his significant other into the vehicle and turned to deal with the alleged attackers, the report said.
In a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126">post</a>, the president said that crime in the nation’s capital is “totally out of control” and that the attack on Coristine was carried out by “local ‘youths’ and gang members.” Criminal teens are operating with impunity, “knowing that they will be almost immediately released.”
“The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these ‘minors’ as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14,” said Trump. &#8220;Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see.”
The attack reportedly happened on Sunday morning around 3 a.m. near Dupont Circle. Police arrested two 15-year-olds at the scene and charged them with unarmored carjacking, according to CBS News. Most of the teens fled when law enforcement arrived. A black iPhone 16 was stolen, according to the police report.
Tech titan Elon Musk, the former head of DOGE, backed the president’s call to take over Washington, D.C. Musk also said Coristine was attacked trying to assist a woman who was the initial target of “a gang of about a dozen young men.”
“A few days ago, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in DC. A [DOGE] team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her. It is time to federalize DC,” Musk posted.
Coristine has been hailed for his bravery. GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah floated the idea of rewarding Coristine with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor.
“Big Balls for the Medal of Freedom. Who agrees?” Lee <a href="https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1952877203919913290">posted</a> to X.
“WOW. The [DOGE] employee who was brutally beaten in DC for defending a woman has been identified as none other than ‘BIG BALLS,’” the popular account Libs of TikTok <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1952869965742158269">posted</a>. “Big Balls is a HERO!”

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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett delivered on Sunday a defense of President Donald Trump over the firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] Commissioner Erika McEntarfer.
On NBC&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/kevin-hassett-says-trump-tariffs-are-the-final-deals-despite-market-backlash-full-interview-244267077761?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Kevin%20Hassett%20says%20Trump%20tariffs%20%E2%80%98are%20the%20final%20deals%E2%80%99%20despite%20market%20backlash%3A%20Full%20interview&amp;utm_campaign=MTP%20%E2%80%93%20Kevin%20Hassett%3A%20Tariff%20rates%20are%20%E2%80%9Cmore%20or%20less%20locked%20in%20%E2%80%A6%20the%20president%20will%20decide%20what%20the%20president%20decides%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Meet The Press,&#8221;</a> moderator Kristen Welker pressed Hassett about &#8220;hard evidence&#8221; for Trump&#8217;s suggestion that McEntarfer, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden and <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00007.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> by the Senate, manipulated job numbers for political reasons.
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&#8220;There was an 818,000 [downward] revision making the Joe Biden job record a lot worse that came out AFTER he withdrew,&#8221; says National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on jobs numbers.
&#8220;It&#8217;s the President&#8217;s highest priority that the data be trusted.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/6Fhuqe97B8">pic.twitter.com/6Fhuqe97B8</a>
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&#8220;Well, I mean, the revisions are hard evidence,&#8221; Hassett replied. &#8220;For example, there was an 818,000 revision making the Joe Biden job record a lot worse that came out after he withdrew from the presidential campaign. There have been a bunch of patterns that could make people wonder. And I think the most important thing for people to know is that it&#8217;s the president&#8217;s highest priority that the data be trusted and that people get to the bottom of why these revisions are so unreliable.&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fires-biden-appointed-labor-statistics-boss-after-major-revisions-to-jobs-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Friday that he ordered the firing of McEntarfer after Friday’s jobs report showed that the United States job market underperformed expectations with 73,000 jobs added last month and made significant negative revisions to previous reports. The ouster led some critics to warn the numbers that come from Trump&#8217;s administration in the future may not be reliable.
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&#8220;Studies show that BLS is getting a — doing a better job now than they did 20 years ago, 20 and 30 years ago, in estimating the first number. So, even though it&#8217;s revised two more times — that 73,000 will be revised two more times. And that&#8217;s — they&#8217;re more accurate now than they were 30 years ago. So, I said groundless. I don&#8217;t know that there&#8217;s any grounds at all for this firing,&#8221; William Beach, former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and executive director of Fiscal Lab on Capitol Hill, said on CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN_v-y441Pg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;State of the Union&#8221;</a> on Sunday.
Beach added, &#8220;And it really hurts the statistical system. It undermines credibility in BLS. Suppose that they get a new commissioner, and this person, male or female, are just the best people possible, right? And they do a bad number. Well, everybody&#8217;s going to think, well, it&#8217;s not as bad as it probably really is, because they&#8217;re going to suspect political influence. So this is damaging. This is not what we need to have.&#8221;
Hassett made the case in a separate <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376509151112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; that Trump did not act in authoritarian fashion, dismissing someone who released legitimate information that he simply did not like.
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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on jobs numbers: &#8220;When the data are unreliable, when they keep being revised all over the place, then there are going to be people that wonder if there&#8217;s a partisan pattern in the data.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/ORjx0WgLcz">pic.twitter.com/ORjx0WgLcz</a>
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&#8220;Look, the fact is that when the data are unreliable, when they keep being revised all over the place, then there are going to be people that wonder if there’s a partisan pattern in the data. And so, if you look back to just a year ago, for example, there was another massive revision from the BLS, almost a million jobs, a million jobs down, that said that the Joe Biden jobs record was a lot worse than people thought, but we didn’t get the downward revision until after Joe Biden had dropped out,&#8221; Hassett told anchor Shannon Bream.
&#8220;And so it, once again, it made people think, what are they doing?&#8221; he went on. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to tell you &#8230; if I were running the BLS, and I don’t aspire to, but if I were running the BLS and I had the biggest downward revision in 50 years, I would have a really, really detailed report explaining why it happened so that everybody really trusted the data. And so we had this move, that move, that move. We had a bunch of people get their responses in late or something like that. But instead, they have this little black box that moves the numbers around and makes people wonder, sometimes with partisan patterns. And so, I think what we need is a fresh set of eyes at the BLS, somebody who can clean this thing up.&#8221;

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Russiagate was &#8220;literally&#8221; a coup against President Donald Trump that meets the &#8220;criminal elements&#8221; of a conspiracy, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller declared on Sunday.
Documents that were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evidence-of-clinton-russia-hoax-was-buried-in-back-room-at-fbi-kash-patel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declassified</a> by the Trump administration indicate Hillary Clinton may have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-greenlit-russia-hoax-to-hide-email-scandal-declassified-docs-reveal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> a Russia collusion hoax against Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. In addition, former special Counsel John Durham <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-durham-bombshell-obama-era-fbi-allowed-trump-russia-hoax-to-fester" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> the Obama-era FBI appeared to ignore intelligence that indicated Clinton&#8217;s campaign, its supporters, or Russian disinformation fueled allegations of ties between Trump&#8217;s camp and Moscow in order to distract from her email controversy.
&#8220;The Russia collusion hoax against President Trump remains the single greatest hoax and the greatest assault on our democracy in the history of this country,&#8221; Miller said during a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376510935112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News interview</a> with &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; host Maria Bartiromo. &#8220;There&#8217;s no comparison, there&#8217;s no parallel to anything else. It was a coup. And I&#8217;m using that term literally. &#8230; It meets the criminal elements of a conspiracy against the government and the criminal elements of a conspiracy to deprive citizens of their civil rights under color of law, one egregious felony after another.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Russia collusion hoax against President Trump remains the single greatest hoax and the greatest assault on our democracy in the history of this country,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a>.
&#8220;It was a coup, and I&#8217;m using that term literally &#8230; One egregious felony after another.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Y88hXagAYK">pic.twitter.com/Y88hXagAYK</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1952010355460448437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former President Barack Obama and top national security veterans from his administration have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/trump-obama-treason-russia-miller.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-denies-bizarre-trump-claims-of-2016-election-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> of there being a &#8220;treasonous conspiracy&#8221; associated with the Russia collusion fiasco.
&#8220;The special counsel John Durham, who was appointed during Mr. Trump&#8217;s first term to investigate how the Russia probe was conducted, similarly found no evidence of an Obama administration conspiracy against Mr. Trump,&#8221; Former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/trump-obama-treason-russia-miller.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a New York Times op-ed. &#8220;But he affirmed the findings of the special counsel Robert Mueller, who conducted a separate investigation into the allegations, which found ample evidence of Russian interference in the election.&#8221;
But Miller argued the new information &#8220;eliminates any scintilla of doubt about the intention, the premeditation, the planning and orchestration of this conspiracy.&#8221; Miller also agreed with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, a former prosecutor and congressman who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-director-says-classified-docs-will-blow-lid-off-russiagate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Bartiromo</a> last week that he did not believe the statute of limitations would be a hinderance because the alleged conspiracy is ongoing.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has initiated a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-department-to-form-strike-force-to-assess-weaponization-of-intel-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike force</a>&#8221; tasked with evaluating the evidence relating the Obama administration&#8217;s efforts to drive the Russia collusion allegations in response to various documents that are being disclosed to the public, such as findings that purportedly show officials <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2025/4090-pr-18-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">manufactured and manipulated</a> intelligence regarding Russia to undermine Trump.
Miller, who contended that the country was placed at risk with the &#8220;entire security apparatus of this country focusing on the hoax,&#8221; said he has &#8220;every hope and expectation that the Department of Justice, under the leadership of our courageous attorney general, will follow these facts and follow the evidence and deliver justice.&#8221;
He added: &#8220;Because, if we have a country where we can continue to have FBI careerists and CIA careerists, deep staters, who will fabricate and doctor evidence, who will create and produce fake material, fabricated material, phony information to try to go after their political enemies, up to and including the president, if we continue to create the impression and the reality that there is not a criminal, a severe criminal penalty for such conduct, it will never stop. It will never desist. It will keep on going forever. And we will continue to have a country that is sabotaged endlessly by the production of fake documents, fake material, fake plots against democratically elected officials. We can&#8217;t have that. There must be consequences.&#8221;

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Stephen Miller Deems Russiagate A Coup Against Trump: ‘One Egregious Felony After Another’

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WASHINGTON—Construction on the new White House ballroom will soon begin, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared on Thursday, led by Washington, D.C., architect James McCrery.
Leavitt announced the news during Thursday&#8217;s White House press briefing, where she shared that the new ballroom will be &#8220;a much needed and exquisite addition of approximately 90,000 total square feet&#8221; able to seat 650 guests. Leavitt stressed that the new addition will be carefully crafted and beautifully designed.
The White House says that previous presidential administrations have wanted to add a large event space at the White House complex that could hold a much larger number of guests than the current space allows.
<div id="attachment_955239" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-classical-architect-james-mccrery-to-lead-white-house-ballroom-construction/ballroom-5" rel="attachment wp-att-955239"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-955239" class="wp-image-955239 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-5.webp" alt="" width="600" height="338" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-5.webp 600w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-5-300x169.webp 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>Mock-up of the new ballroom. Photo courtesy of the White House.</div>
<div id="attachment_955241" style="width: 1930px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-classical-architect-james-mccrery-to-lead-white-house-ballroom-construction/ballroom-1" rel="attachment wp-att-955241"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-955241" class="wp-image-955241 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-1.webp" alt="Photo courtesy of the White House. " width="1920" height="1080" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-1.webp 1920w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-1-300x169.webp 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-1-1024x576.webp 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-1-768x432.webp 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/BALLROOM-1-1536x864.webp 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></a>Mock-up of the new ballroom. Photo courtesy of the White House.</div>
In a release, the White House notes that though the building is one of the most beautiful and historic in the world, it is &#8220;currently unable to host major functions honoring world leaders and other countries without having to install a large and unsightly tent approximately 100 yards away from the main building entrance.&#8221;
“Presidents in the modern era have faced challenges hosting major events at the White House because it has been untouched since President Harry Truman,&#8221; McCrery said in a statement shared by the White House.
&#8220;I am honored that President Trump has entrusted me to help bring this beautiful and necessary renovation to The People’s House,&#8221; he added, &#8220;while preserving the elegance of its classical design and historical importance.”
McCrery, who practices classical and traditional architecture, is the founder of McCrery Architects and a professor of architecture at the Catholic University of America. Some of his past work includes the Knoxville, Tennessee based Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of the Mountains Church in North Carolina, and St. Mary Help of Christians church, based in Aiken, South Carolina.
<div id="attachment_955227" style="width: 398px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-classical-architect-james-mccrery-to-lead-white-house-ballroom-construction/screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4-03-50-pm" rel="attachment wp-att-955227"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-955227" class="wp-image-955227 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.50-PM-388x576.png" alt="Photos courtesy of McCrery Architects. " width="388" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.50-PM-388x576.png 388w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.50-PM-202x300.png 202w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.50-PM-768x1140.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.50-PM-1034x1536.png 1034w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.50-PM.png 1064w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px" /></a>St Mary Help of Christians sanctuary. Photos courtesy of McCrery Architects.</div>
<div id="attachment_955229" style="width: 1032px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-classical-architect-james-mccrery-to-lead-white-house-ballroom-construction/screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4-03-58-pm" rel="attachment wp-att-955229"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-955229" class="wp-image-955229 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.58-PM-1022x576.png" alt="Photos courtesy of McCrery Architects. " width="1022" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.58-PM-1022x576.png 1022w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.58-PM-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.58-PM-768x433.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.58-PM-1536x866.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.03.58-PM-2048x1154.png 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px" /></a>Our Lady of the Mountains. Photos courtesy of McCrery Architects.</div>
<div id="attachment_955231" style="width: 392px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-classical-architect-james-mccrery-to-lead-white-house-ballroom-construction/screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4-04-05-pm" rel="attachment wp-att-955231"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-955231" class="wp-image-955231 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.04.05-PM-382x576.png" alt="Photos courtesy of McCrery Architects. " width="382" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.04.05-PM-382x576.png 382w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.04.05-PM-199x300.png 199w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.04.05-PM-768x1157.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.04.05-PM-1020x1536.png 1020w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.04.05-PM.png 1058w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px" /></a>Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Photos courtesy of McCrery Architects.</div>
The president himself, along with other donors, has committed to funding the project, which will cost about $200 million, according to the White House. The United States Secret Service will provide security enhancements and modifications.
The White House says  that the ballroom&#8217;s theme and architectural heritage will be &#8220;almost identical&#8221; to the White House itself, though it will be &#8220;substantially separated from the main building.&#8221; The new ballroom will be located where the East Wing — which has been renovated repeatedly — is currently located.
“President Trump is a builder at heart and has an extraordinary eye for detail,&#8221; White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles shared in a statement. &#8220;The President and the Trump White House are fully committed to working with the appropriate organizations to preserving the special history of the White House while building a beautiful ballroom that can be enjoyed by future Administrations and generations of Americans to come.”
McCrery has long been lauded as a classical architect, particularly when it comes to his work on Catholic Churches.
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The beautiful church for the Newman Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was designed by McCrery Architects, led by James McCrery, who has been appointed by US President Donald Trump to oversee the renovation of the White House.
Image: Michael Donlan <a href="https://t.co/U6FBrNLlel">pic.twitter.com/U6FBrNLlel</a>
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The D.C.-based architect has deplored modernistic church architecture of the late 19th century and 20th century, arguing that modern church architecture often fails to truly glorify God or inspire those attending mass or praying in the church.
In 2013, he pointed out to the National Catholic Register that some modern churches lack statues and instead include &#8220;nondescript altars, stained-glass nature scenes and rounded pews that focus Catholics on one another instead of the altar and the Eucharist.&#8221;
“We don’t have a big of a problem as in Europe, especially France and Italy, because our culture has not drifted as far toward modernism, theologically or architecturally,” McCrery said in 2013. “But we do suffer substantially from this problem.”
Arguing in favor of traditional church architecture, he <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/news/in-catholic-church-architecture-tradition-shouldn-t-be-ignored">told</a> the National Catholic Register: “Tradition didn’t just all of the sudden happen. It has been in the works for thousands of years. A chemist would not come to the elements with a fresh look every time, deciding the elemental chart is of no use or interest whatsoever in the modern era and that his personal creativity is something more valuable.”
“That would be absurd,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But it’s exactly where we’ve arrived after a century and a half of architectural lunacy.”

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Brown University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for research.
University President Christina Paxson announced the deal on Wednesday, saying Brown had agreed to pay $50 million over 10 years to workforce development groups. The university will also enact a number of policies to prevent discrimination, as well as make other adjustments at the behest of the Trump administration.
“At its core, the agreement preserves the integrity of Brown&#8217;s academic foundation, and it enables us as a community to move forward after a period of considerable uncertainty in a way that ensures Brown will continue to be the Brown that our students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and friends have known for generations,” said Paxson in an open <a href="https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-07-30/brown-united-states-resolution-agreement">letter</a> announcing the deal.
Brown University struck an agreement as the Trump administration puts pressure on elite institutions to reform their campus policies. The Trump administration has targeted universities over free speech concerns, antisemitism, the inclusion of males in female sports, and other issues.
In April, the Trump administration froze $510 million in taxpayer funding to Brown University over concerns of rampant antisemitism on its campus. The university had been one of a number of schools rocked by anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protesters. The university had initially chosen to engage with the protesters before rejecting their terms instead of cracking down on violations.
Paxson in her letter said the university underwent significant strains during its struggle with the Trump administration over half a billion dollars in funding. The university took a $300 million loan in April after the funding freeze went into effect, and then in a filing last week, the university revealed it had taken another loan with $500 million. 

“[F]or the last few months, many of these aspects of our mission and our community have been under threat,” the university president wrote. “Beyond the financial stresses of terminated and unpaid research grants and contracts, we have observed a growing push for government intrusion into the fundamental academic operations of colleges and universities, and with the stated purpose of compelling a commitment to comply with laws focused on prohibitions against antisemitism and discrimination.”
As part of the agreement, the university has promised to codify definitions for “male” and “female” and develop policies around athletics and housing to align with federal standards. The university will also promise to not perform sex mutilation surgeries.
&#8220;The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child’s appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex,” the agreement states.
The university has also agreed to revamping commitments to protect Jewish students on campus, as well as end discriminatory policies in its admissions process and elsewhere in the university.

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Brown University Cuts Deal With Trump To Restore Half Billion Dollars In Taxpayer Funds

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sign legislation Wednesday aimed at helping veterans receive federal assistance with their mortgages, The Daily Wire has learned.
Trump will sign the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act on Wednesday, a White House official shared with The Daily Wire. The signing will take place in the Roosevelt Room of the White House at 1:3o pm ET.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) originally introduced the bill in March, and the legislation passed the Senate earlier this month.
&#8220;This is going down!&#8221; Van Orden said in a <a href="https://x.com/derrickvanorden/status/1950562940580467071">post</a> celebrating the news on Wednesday. &#8220;We are making sure that the VA Home Loan Guarantee will remain a viable program into the future so our vets can achieve the American Dream of homeownership.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_954321" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-sign-bill-to-help-veterans-buy-and-keep-their-homes/topshot-france-history-wwii-dday-anniversary-2" rel="attachment wp-att-954321"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-954321" class="wp-image-954321 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1148305892-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1148305892-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1148305892-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1148305892-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1148305892.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>TOPSHOT &#8211; A WWII veteran points to US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump during a French-US ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery on June 6, 2019. (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
The legislation is intended to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages receive federal aid: it establishes a permanent partial claims program within the VA Home Loan Program, &#8220;bringing VA in line with other federal agencies that lend money for homes and replacing the fiscally irresponsible Biden administration-era VASP program,&#8221; according to a release from Van Orden&#8217;s office.
“Under the Biden administration, the VA created the VASP program without consulting Congress, costing the American taxpayers $5.8 billion and endangering the entire VA home loan guarantee program,” Van Orden said in a statement earlier this month.
“The time for faceless bureaucrats to run roughshod over elected officials is over,&#8221; added Van Orden, who serves as  Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Economic Opportunity Subcommittee. &#8220;My bill offers a real solution to help every servicemember and veteran maintain the American Dream of homeownership. I am grateful to my Senate colleagues for passing this important bill, and I look forward to President Trump signing it into law.”
The president will also deliver remarks on &#8220;Making Health Technology Great Again&#8221; on Wednesday afternoon at the White House following the bill signing.

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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt unloaded on CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins during Wednesday&#8217;s White House briefing, accusing her of fomenting &#8220;chaos and distrust&#8221; among President Donald Trump&#8217;s cabinet and assuring her that her efforts would be unsuccessful.
Leavitt, flanked by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, detailed some of the findings revealed by a congressional report that had been released just hours earlier — a report that outlined the troubling actions taken by members of former President Obama&#8217;s administration and the intelligence community.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> shuts down CNN: &#8220;The only people who are suggesting that <a href="https://twitter.com/DNIGabbard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DNIGabbard</a> would release evidence to try to boost her standing with <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> are the people in this room, who constantly try to sow distrust and chaos amongst <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>&#8216; Cabinet—and it is NOT working.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/L64pCDil6s">pic.twitter.com/L64pCDil6s</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1948088635498139923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Leavitt noted that multiple reports had confirmed Russia&#8217;s attempts to meddle in the 2016 election, but said that evidence showed the Obama administration had pushed fabricated information from the Steele Dossier — which had been funded by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign — suggesting that Trump had actively colluded with the Russians toward that end.
&#8220;And [Rubio] also said at that time we discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the FBI, under [Director James] Comey, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the Steele Dossier without verifying its methodology,&#8221; Leavitt continued, also pointing out the fact that many legacy media outlets had also run with the information in the Steele Dossier without being terribly curious about its veracity.
To Collins&#8217; additional question — namely that Gabbard had released the tranche of documents in order to curry favor with the president — Leavitt had a more blunt reply: &#8220;The only people who are suggesting that the Director of National Intelligence would release evidence to try to boost her standing with the president are the people in this room, who constantly try to sow distrust and chaos amongst the president&#8217;s cabinet — and it is NOT working.&#8221;

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‘It Is NOT Working’: Karoline Leavitt Upends Press Corps Efforts To ‘Sow Distrust’ In Trump Admin

'It Is NOT Working': Karoline Leavitt Upends Press Corps Efforts To 'Sow Distrust' In Trump Admin

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The White House blocked The Wall Street Journal from joining the press pool for President Donald Trump’s weekend trip to Scotland.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Wall Street Journal reporter Tarini Parti has been removed from the pool over her outlet’s “fake and defamatory” story regarding the extent of the president’s past relationship with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“As the appeals court confirmed, the Wall Street Journal or any other news outlet are not guaranteed special access to cover President Trump in the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and in his private workspaces,” Leavitt told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/journal-removed-white-house-pool-epstein-00465548">Politico</a> in a statement. “Due to the Wall Street Journal’s fake and defamatory conduct, they will not be one of the thirteen outlets on board. Every news organization in the entire world wishes to cover President Trump, and the White House has taken significant steps to include as many voices as possible.”
Trump filed a libel suit against The Wall Street Journal last week after the outlet published a story on a risque birthday message Trump allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003. The president has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter">dismissed</a> the birthday letter at the center of the story as “FAKE.”
The White House Correspondents’ Association said the White House’s action against The Wall Street Journal “defies the First Amendment.”
“Government retaliation against news outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern all who value free speech and an independent media,” CBS News correspondent and association president Weijia Jiang said in a <a href="https://x.com/peterbakernyt/status/1947419716370542711">statement</a>. “We strongly urge the White House to restore the Wall Street Journal to its previous position in the pool and aboard Air Force One for the President’s upcoming trip to Scotland. The WHCA stands ready to work with the administration to find a quick resolution.”
The association previously oversaw entry into the press pool and granted access to the pool for special events, such as the president’s trip to Scotland. The White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-white-house-strips-whca-of-press-pool-control-opens-access-to-new-voices">stripped</a> the association of the authority earlier this year, ending the power of a cabal of “D.C.-based journalists” to dictate “which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States in these most intimate spaces,” Leavitt said at the time.
Earlier this year, the president banned all Associated Press reporters and photographers from all pools over the outlet’s refusal to recognize the renamed “Gulf of America.” The legality of the outlet’s removal is currently being litigated in court.

White House Boots WSJ From Press Pool Over Report On ‘FAKE’ Epstein Letter

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