'He's full of s**t': Trump RIPS INTO Abdul El-Sayed after his narrow victory in Democratic primary
President Donald Trump lit into the far-left victor of the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Michigan after the highly anticipated contest.
Abdul El-Sayed, 41, was able to defeat establishment candidate Haley Stevens despite polling showing that she had the advantage over the Republican candidate.
'He doesn't love Israel; he doesn't love Jewish people. He hates them. He hates them with a passion that burns in his heart.'
"The polls were wrong again last night when they thought it would be a landslide victory for a hater of Jews and a hater of Israel," the president said during an event in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
"This guy hates Jews," he continued. "Somebody said, 'Oh, that's a little strong.' No, he hates Jews, and hates Israel."
"Abdul El-Sayed, can you believe this? This could only happen to me. Abdul El-Sayed, lovely gentleman. He's a man of hate, and now he's going around saying, 'Oh, I love everybody.' He doesn't love everybody. Put him in office, and you're going to find out what he loves!" Trump said.
El-Sayed has been criticized widely for his far-left progressive values, and his narrow victory is seen as another defeat for the establishment wing of the party trying to keep control away from the extremist fringe.
"He doesn't love Israel; he doesn't love Jewish people. He hates them. He hates them with a passion that burns in his heart, and there's not a frickin' thing he can do about it," the president continued.
"When I watch Abdul, he's full of s**t!" he added to laughter and applause.
El-Sayed will face 63-year-old Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, who ran unopposed for the Republican nomination.
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Speaking to his supporters on Wednesday, El-Sayed invoked his Muslim religion when asked how he would beat Rogers.
"I want you to remind them that if we come through this, when we come through this — inshallah — that we'll have taken $70 million on the chin and kept fighting back," he said.
Inshallah means "God willing" in Arabic.
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'Utter lawlessness': Appeals court BLOCKS construction of White House ballroom — but Trump might get the last laugh
An appeals court ruled against the Trump administration and blocked the construction of the White House ballroom on the basis that it was not properly approved.
President Donald Trump has urged the speedy construction of the ballroom after the alleged attempt on his life at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April.
'The bold assertion that the Executive can act with utter lawlessness, destroying treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it flouts our constitutional order.'
On Friday, an appeals court ruled in a 2-1 decision that the president had acted "lawlessly" by demolishing the East Wing of the White House in order to build the ballroom without congressional approval.
"Executive actions that take control of that property out of the hands of the people's representatives while irreparably harming the historical and visual architecture of perhaps the most prominent public building in the United States seriously intrude on the public interest," two judges wrote in the joint majority opinion.
However, the administration has two weeks to seek relief from the U.S. Supreme Court.
If the court does not intervene, above-ground construction at the White House would need to stop.
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The president has argued that security concerns necessitated the construction of the ballroom with increased law enforcement features. The appeals court found that these concerns could have been addressed without ignoring federal statutes on project funding.
"The bold assertion that the Executive can act with utter lawlessness, destroying treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it flouts our constitutional order," the two judges said.
"While this court accords great weight and deference to invocations of national security and the safety of the President, such arguments are not an automatic get-out-of-law-free card," they continued.
In her dissenting opinion, Judge Neomi Rao agreed with the administration and said the security concerns outweighed the legal concerns brought up by the plaintiff, the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The group praised the decision in a statement, citing the 250th anniversary of the country.
"This is a great day for our country and for the American people's right to voice their opinions about the historic places they cherish, including the White House," the trust said. "From the beginning, our position has been clear and consistent: The law states that only Congress can authorize the construction of a ballroom at the White House."
While the president has touted the private money being used to construct the ballroom, the contractor has since said the budget has surged to $600 million, according to a Washington Post report. The gap will reportedly be filled in by taxpayer funding.
The two judges who ruled against the ballroom were Patricia Millett, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, and Bradley Garcia, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden.
Judge Neomi Rao is a Trump appointee.
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Pets of Springfield, rejoice! DHS is coming for suspended-status Haitians after Biden judge takes 'the L'
Owing to their nation's Temporary Protected Status, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants have avoided deportation despite greatly adding to the strain on American resources in places such as the blue-collar city of Springfield, Ohio, where they were accused by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump of "eating the pets of the people that live there."
After a protracted legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the activist judge who initially held up the process has finally conceded that the Trump administration can start giving Haitian migrants the boot.
How it started
The Trump administration announced last summer that Haiti's TPS was, after 16 years, finally coming to an end, having determined that the Caribbean nation no longer meets the conditions for special status, owing largely to significant improvements in domestic safety and stability.
'You don't have status inside this country any more.'
The revocation was, however, held up in the courts.
In Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration's immigration policy and helped the U.N. secure asylum for so-called refugees — gave her fellow immigration activists cause to hope on Feb. 2, blocking the revocation of Haiti's TPS.
Reyes, originally from Uruguay, claimed that former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem not only violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause when terminating the TPS designation for Haiti but had likely done so "because of hostility to non-white immigrants."
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After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia declined in March to block Reyes' ruling and kept Haiti's special status in place, the government kicked the matter up to the nation's highest court.
In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the Trump administration a huge victory, overturning the lower court's ruling.
In the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito rejected the suggestion that race was a motivating factor behind the TPS revocation and emphasized that the "TPS statute plainly bars consideration of respondents' non-constitutional claims."
How it's going
In the wake of the Supreme Court making mincemeat out of her ruling, Reyes issued an order on Wednesday acknowledging the reversal of her judgment and what it necessarily entails.
The foreign-born judge, who previously had a great deal to say about the matter, kept her admission of defeat brief, noting that her stay of termination "is no longer in effect."
Despite Reyes' insinuation that the government was waiting on her say-so, James Percival, general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, noted, "Haiti TPS ended when the Supreme Court mandate issued on July 27. I will give Judge Reyes kudos though for taking the L with grace and not doing something bonkers like many of her colleagues."
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued a message to Haitians with suspended special statuses: "We're going after them right now. We are giving them an opportunity to either leave on their own, and we'll help you, or we'll arrest you and send you back."
"Either way, you don't have status inside this country any more," continued Mullin. "That has been litigated. The courts spoke very clearly. We knew that we were going to win this because in its name itself it says, 'Temporary Protected Status.'"
Steve Foster, the immigration policy coordinator for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, told ABC News, "Haitians with TPS, regardless of whether they have a pending asylum claim, have gotten a 'DHS Call-In Letter' to appear at ICE offices in person."
Foster said that some Haitians have reportedly been assigned future court dates and given ankle monitors.
These efforts are reportedly under way in Springfield — an Ohio city that has in recent years heard allegations of Haitians eating pets and wildlife and seen a significant spike in Haitian-caused traffic accidents.
In 2024, Springfield Mayor Rob Rue admitted that the tens of thousands of Haitians who had recently poured into his city — a city that had a population of just over 58,000 in 2020 — "taxed" the "infrastructure of the city, our safety forces, our hospitals, our schools." According to the city, there were more than 15,000 migrants presently residing in Clark County alone.
Viles Dorsainvil, the head of a Haitian support group in Springfield, confirmed the government's efforts to get the ball rolling on Haitian migrants' ouster.
"We are just helping these folks to go to this appointment, and when they get there, they interview them and eventually put [an] ankle monitor on them," said Dorsainvil.
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Today In Republicans Being Useless: Murkowski Tries (But Fails) To Sink Blanche Confirmation
The competition to see who the most shallow, feckless Republican in the U.S. Senate can be tight. But somehow, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski always finds a way to come out on top. The Last Frontier State’s senior senator announced on Friday that she will be joining her pal Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in opposing Todd Blanche’s […]Black man receives sentence after stabbing stranger in face on bus, yelling racial slurs at victim
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said the sentence against Gerald Pitts was intended to show that law enforcement officials take racially motivated violence seriously.
Santos Tejas Gonzalez was trying to get around Pitts on a Los Angeles Metro Bus in March 2023 when Pitts yelled racial slurs at Gonzalez.
'Gerald Pitts attacked a complete stranger because of his race or perceived race, repeatedly stabbed him, and kept attacking him even after the victim fell from the bus.'
When Gonzalez tried to get off the bus at the next stop to avoid further confrontation, Pitts stabbed him in the face and kicked him in the head after the victim fell off the bus.
At one point before Gonzalez fell to the ground outside the bus, the knife can be seen protruding from his face in a graphic bus surveillance video the district attorney's office released.
The victim also was stabbed numerous times in the abdomen, arm, and hand.
Pitts was arrested and charged with attempted murder along with additional crimes, including a hate crime designation. In June, a jury found the 67-year-old guilty, and on Thursday Pitts was sentenced to life in state prison plus another seven years.
"A hate crime is more than just a criminal act against one person; it tears at the fibers that hold our community together," L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement.
"These crimes are meant to intimidate entire communities and weaken the trust that holds us together. Gerald Pitts attacked a complete stranger because of his race or perceived race, repeatedly stabbed him, and kept attacking him even after the victim fell from the bus," Hochman added. "We're grateful the victim survived and relieved that he is continuing to recover. This kind of violence is exactly what hate crime laws are meant to address."
The district attorney did not mention Pitts' race in his press release, and news outlets also neglected to mention it. However, Pitts' booking record listed him as a black man.
Hochman tied the attack on Gonzalez to other hate crimes committed in L.A. County, including one on a transgender shopkeeper.
"This office will not tolerate hate incidents and crimes in our communities and will respond with the full force of the law," Hochman added.
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Anti-Trump Republican senator vows to fight Todd Blanche's confirmation — because of course she will
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — a nominal Republican up for re-election in 2028 — appears desperate to undermine the MAGA agenda and prevent President Donald Trump from getting his ducks in a row.
Murkowski — who in recent months repeatedly voted against funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection; voted to reign in Trump's war powers; voted to block Trump's tariffs; voted unsuccessfully to keep taxpayers on the hook for USAID and other foreign funding; voted against multiple Trump nominees, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Under Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao; campaigned against the SAVE America Act; and complained with Democrats about ex-FBI Director James Comey's indictment — revealed Friday she will vote against Todd Blanche's confirmation for attorney general.
'She’s not good.'
With the continued absence of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), this effectively means that the fate of Blanche's confirmation could be decided by Bill Cassidy — a U.S. senator whose hopes of a third term Trump helped dash in Louisiana's May Republican primary.
Murkowski, who started the year with an approval rating of 37%, noted in a lengthy X post that she has had numerous "constructive meetings" with Blanche and credited him not only as being "decent and capable" but also as having "made several noteworthy decisions that will benefit our state and the nation."
The 69-year-old senator nevertheless vowed to "oppose his nomination."
It appears Murkowski is less opposed to the man and more opposed to the administration. After all, some of her complaints have to do with actions taken at the Justice Department prior to Blanche's April promotion to acting attorney general.
"The politicization — even weaponization — of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it," wrote Murkowski. "I take issue with the handling of the release of the Epstein files; the sweeping immunity protections granted to the president, his family, and their businesses; the statements that have been made to anti-abortion groups; and the repeated targeting of individuals ranging from former administration staff to sitting U.S. senators."
Murkowski also expressed skepticism about the scrapping of the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund that would have compensated MAGA victims of Democratic lawfare, noting that while it was taken off the table "because this nomination is pending and the Senate has leverage," there "is no telling what the future holds."
The senator said in conclusion that she does not have confidence that Blanche can "check the worst impulses of this administration."
There is no love lost between Trump and Murkowski.
"I'm against Murkowski," the president recently told Punchbowl News. "I do more for Alaska than any president in history. No president’s done for Alaska what I’ve done. She’s not good."
In June, Trump called the Alaskan U.S. senator "Trump deranged."
Murkowski is not, however, the only Republican lawmaker keen to torpedo Blanche's confirmation.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins — the Maine Republican whose challenger in the midterms is a leftist reportedly married to his second cousin — complained that while Blanche is a "capable lawyer," he "has taken several actions that have further eroded the Department's independence."
Cassidy, a vociferous Trump critic and the remaining undecided Republican, has declined to indicate whether he'll support Blanche, reported The Hill.
The Senate is expected to vote Friday or sometime over the weekend to get the ball rolling on a final confirmation vote.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement, "Todd Blanche is exceptionally qualified and should be confirmed as the next attorney general of the United States so the administration can continue to keep America safe."
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