July 14, 2025
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'God Alone Saved Me That Day': Trump Reflects On Near Assassination, One Year Later . . . "One year ago today, at 6:11 pm—eight minutes after taking the stage on the grounds of Butler Farms to address thousands of Americans gathered at a campaign rally—rifle fire broke out, and an assassin's bullet came within a quarter inch of ending my life and silencing our movement to restore American greatness," Trump said in a statement. "Yet, by the hand of providence and the grace of Almighty God, my life was spared. As we commemorate one year since the harrowing events of July 13, 2024, we reaffirm that the American spirit has and will always triumph over forces of evil and destruction." Daily Wire
Republican Lawmakers, Officials Thank God for Saving Trump . . . One year after President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at the infamous Butler, Pennsylvania, rally, Republican lawmakers and officials are crediting God with saving the president's life. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), and a slew of other leaders in the Republican Party took to X to remember July 13, 2024, and the role they believe God played that day. Breitbart
Politics
Inside Dan Bongino's tense meeting with White House officials over Jeffrey Epstein fallout . . . Bongino raised his voice during a discussion with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles before storming out of the meeting, according to two sources close to DOJ leadership. Bongino also exchanged heated words with Attorney General Pam Bondi during the meeting, and the whole ordeal has led him to consider resigning from the FBI, another source said. Another person with knowledge of the meeting disputed the characterization that Bongino yelled at Wiles or Bondi during the sitdown. Fox News
'SHE'S GREAT': Trump Backs Bondi, Wants Top Officials To End Conflict Over Epstein
Former Biden Campaign Lawyer Now Works in Trump Justice Department . . . A lawyer who worked for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign and for two different offices in the Biden White House now works in President Donald Trump's administration as an ostensibly nonpolitical staffer at the Justice Department. According to OPM records, Scheinman transitioned from a political role to a career position on Oct. 31, 2022. She left her position as associate general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget to take an attorney-advisor position in the Justice Department's antitrust division. Daily Signal
Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen . . . Toward the end of his term as president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. reduced the sentences of nearly 4,000 federal convicts and pre-emptively pardoned dozens of politically prominent people he saw as potential targets of vindictive criminal investigations by his successor. Biden said that he had orally granted all the pardons and commutations issued at the end of his term, calling President Trump and other Republicans "liars" for claiming his aides had used an autopen to do so without his authorization. New York Times
Let's see, who is the liar, the guy who says that as president he had time to review 4,000 clemencies that were signed by autopen or anyone who says he didn't?
FBI opens 'grand conspiracy' probe on weaponization, opening door to special prosecutor . . . The FBI has quietly launched an investigation into a decade of Democratic party and deep-state antics from Russia collusion to Jack Smith, opening the door for the appointment of a special prosecutor to examine whether the well-documented episodes amount to a criminal conspiracy to meddle in three U.S. elections to the benefit of Democrats and the detriment of President Donald Trump, Just the News has learned. Just the News
AOC should be sued 'into bankruptcy' over latest attack on Trump, stunned critics seethe . . . New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being accused of defaming President Donald Trump by calling him a "rapist" on social media amid controversy over the Department of Justice's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. "Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?" Ocasio-Cortez posted to X on Friday. She appeared to be referencing the 2023 civil trial leveled against Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll. A jury found Trump liable of sexual assault, but not of rape. Fox News
Trump Says He's Giving 'Serious' Thought To Stripping Rosie O'Donnell's Citizenship
Trump Presents Chelsea with Trophy After FIFA Club World Cup Final Win . . . President Donald Trump presented the Premier League's Chelsea with a trophy after the team won the FIFA Club World Cup final on Sunday evening at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. In videos posted to social media, Trump was seen carrying the FIFA Club World Cup trophy to the team after Chelsea defeated the French club Paris Saint-Germain 3-0. Trump was also seen celebrating with the team as they lifted the trophy into the air. Breitbart
Culture
Whistleblower Who Exposed Transgender 'Medicine' Targeted by FBI, Lost Her Job . . . Vanessa Sivadge lost her job at a Texas hospital and faced questioning from the FBI after speaking out about experimental transgender "treatments" on children. She told "The Daily Signal Podcast" how her faith motivated her to speak out and why she feared no one else shared her concerns, despite the fact that so-called "gender-affirming care" violated not just her faith but her medical ethics, as well. "I felt so alone," Sivadge said. "I felt like I was the only one in this hospital system that believed what I believed." Daily Signal
National Security
Chinese illegal immigrant crossings that surged during Biden admin a 'national security concern' . . . U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 122 illegal immigrants to China June 3, many of whom were convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and human smuggling. Officials said the individuals were taken to China on a "special high risk charter flight." The Department of Justice on Tuesday charged seven Chinese nationals after they allegedly operated a multimillion- dollar marijuana trafficking ring. Fox News
Fortunately, the biggest national security threat is no longer a threat: Joe Biden.
Fears over ICE lead university to give option for online classes . . . Leaders at Cal State L.A. said this week that professors can move their classes online amid growing fears over immigration raids voiced by students at the campus east of downtown. In a letter to faculty, the university provost said that after hearing from students "scared to take public transit and fearful of driving to campus," leaders reiterated policies that also allow professors to provide excused absences and alternative makeup work arrangements for concerned students. Los Angeles Times
International
Trump envoy arrives in Kyiv as US pledges more Patriot missiles to Ukraine . . . U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, was in Kyiv on Monday, a senior Ukrainian official said, as anticipation grew over a possible shift in the Trump administration's policy on the three-year war. Trump last week said he would make a "major statement" on Russia on Monday. Trump made quickly stopping the war one of his diplomatic priorities, and he has increasingly expressed frustration about Russian President Vladimir Putin's unbudging stance on U.S-led peace efforts. Associated Press
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Jen Psaki Flops in MSNBC Primetime Role, Loses Hundreds of Thousands of Viewers . . . Psaki took over MSNBC's coveted 9 p.m. ET timeslot on Tuesday through Fridays in May as "The Rachel Maddow Show" returned to only airing on Mondays. "The Briefing with Jen Psaki" averaged 1.1 million total viewers from its May 6 debut through July 3, losing 44% of the 1.8 million that Maddow – and a few January shows hosted by Alex Wagner – pulled in at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday through Fridays throughout 2025. Fox News
Fox News Surpasses NBC and ABC Viewership in 2025 Second Quarter . . . Nielsen's second quarter report showed that Fox News had 3 million prime-time viewers and 350,000 in the 25-54 age demographic, compared to the 2.9 million viewers of ABC and the 2,704,000 viewers of NBC. Fox News also did well during the day, with its second-highest ratings quarter in the network's history in the weekday total day viewership, with an average of 1.8 million viewers and 223,000 in the 25-54 age demographic. Daily Signal
Suspect kills 2 women in Kentucky church after shooting state trooper, police say . . . Two women died Sunday at a church in Lexington, Kentucky, in a shooting rampage that began when a state trooper was wounded after making a traffic stop, police said. The suspect in both shootings was also killed. The suspect carjacked a vehicle after the traffic stop near Lexington's airport and fled to Richmond Road Baptist Church, where he opened fire, city Police Chief Lawrence Weathers said. Killed in the shootings at the church were a 72-year-old woman and a 32-year-old woman, the local coroner said. Associated Press
Chicago: Over 2,200 Shooting Victims During Last 12 Months
Serial NYC shoplifter waltzes free despite staggering 254 arrests . . . Anthony White, 63, was allegedly ripping off stores where he had already been banned for theft — but was set free by judges after his arraignments on the latest offenses, court records show. Rampant shoplifting like White is accused of has prompted stores across the city to lock their goods behind plastic barricades. While the number of offenses has dipped 10% so far this year over last year, the crime has surged 89% to more than 27,705 incidents this year from 14,286 in 2020, police data show. New York Post
Always running late? A mental health condition could be to blame, experts say . . . Chronic lateness can be frustrating for those left waiting, and is often attributed to laziness and carelessness. But experts say a health issue called time blindness could be to blame for perpetual tardiness. Often misunderstood as an inability to perceive time, the condition disrupts a person's ability to estimate how long it will take to complete tasks, affecting everything from daily routines to long-term productivity. Fox News
Um. Not buying it.
Elmo's X account gets hacked, posts antisemitic messages on social media . . . Several hate-filled posts with slurs and antisemitic messages were posted by the X account of the beloved Sesame Street puppet. Other messages featured comments about President Donald Trump and the Epstein files while also calling the president "Netanyahu's puppet." "ALL JEWS SHOULD DIE" and "DONALD TRUMP IS NETANYAHU'S PUPPET BECAUSE HE IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES," read sentences of the first post from Elmo's social media account. "Kill all Jews," read another post. Washington Examiner
They're saying he was hacked. But is it possible that Elmo is not the puppet we thought?
Guilty Pleasures
Mr. Met falls off stage during Lumineers concert at Citi Field . . . Mr. Met may want to stick to walking on the tops of dugouts at Citi Field instead of concert stages from now on. The Mets' beloved mascot took a nasty spill off the stage at the Lumineers concert in Flushing on Friday night and the embarrassing video went viral. It didn't start well for Mr. Met, dressed in a white shirt and suspenders to fit the band's look, as he first failed to catch a tambourine thrown to him by Lumineers lead singer Wesley Schultz. New York Post
Does Mr. Met have a drug problem?
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