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Iranian Hackers Threaten to Leak 100GB of Stolen Trump Team Emails
Story by David Gilmour

An Iran-linked hacker group is claiming to be in possession of a trove of stolen emails from President Donald Trump’s inner circle and is now threatening to publish the material in what U.S. officials describe as a politically motivated “smear campaign.”

The group, operating under the alias “Robert,” said it has over 100 gigabytes of emails from key Trump allies, including White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, longtime confidant Roger Stone, Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan, and even adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

Reuters broke the story Tuesday after direct communication with the hackers, who hinted at potentially selling the material, though the group offered no specifics.

The threat comes just days after Trump abruptly reversed a tentative effort to ease sanctions on Iran, following Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s downplaying of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa against Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the pair “enemies of God.”
Legislation goes to House but unclear if lower chamber will accept changes to tax and spending bill amid factionalism
Chris Stein in Washington

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed a major tax and spending bill demanded by Donald Trump, ending weeks of negotiations over the comprehensive legislation and putting it another step closer to enactment.

But it remains unclear if changes made by the chamber will be accepted by the House of Representatives, which approved an initial draft of the legislation last month by a single vote. While Republicans control both house of Congress, factionalism in the lower chamber is particularly intense, with rightwing fiscal hardliners demanding deep spending cuts, moderates wary of dismantling safety net programs and Republicans from Democratic-led states expected to make a stand on a contentious tax provision. Any one of these groups could potentially derail the bill’s passage through a chamber where the GOP can lose no more than three votes.

The bill’s passage is nonetheless an accomplishment for Senate Republicans who faced their own divisions in getting it passed , and saw one lawmaker announce their retirement after clashing with Trump over the bill. The push to get the legislation done intensified on Saturday when the chamber voted to begin debate, then continued with amendment votes that began on Monday and stretched all night.

The vote for passage came just after noon on Tuesday, and required Vice-President JD Vance to break a tie that resulted after three Republicans joined with all Democrats in voting against it.
Shanon Gray, a lawyer representing the family of one of the victims, says relatives are furious about the plea deal.
Aljazeera

A man charged with the murder of four students in the northwestern US state of Idaho is set to plead guilty this week to avoid the death penalty, according to a lawyer representing a victim’s family and a relative of another victim.

Bryan Kohberger has agreed to the deal with prosecutors, Shanon Gray, a lawyer representing the family of one of the victims, Kaylee Goncalves, said on Monday, adding that his clients were upset about it.

Kohberger, 30, is accused of the stabbing deaths of Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen at a rental home near the campus of the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, early on November 13, 2022.

“We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho,” Goncalves’ family wrote in a Facebook post. “They have failed us. Please give us some time. This was very unexpected.”

Gray said prosecutors informed the families of the deal by email and letter.
The president's post comes amid the latest blow-up between the two men after a public feud last month.
By Megan Lebowitz

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened to have the Department of Government Efficiency re-examine government support for Elon Musk's businesses, saying in a Truth Social post shortly after midnight that there was "big money to be saved."

"Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa," Trump said in the post. "No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE."

"Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this?" the president added.

Neither Musk nor a spokesperson for the super PAC he created, America PAC, immediately responded to a request for comment. In the hours after Trump's post, Musk reposted several graphics on X depicting a climbing national debt, which currently sits at more than $36 trillion, according to government data.

Trump's post marks the latest blow-up in the feud between the president and the tech mogul, who spearheaded government cost-cutting efforts at DOGE before leaving his special government employee post in May. The public split is a steep downfall from their previously close-knit relationship, which saw Musk spend at least an estimated $250 million to help elect Trump.
Story by Ailia Zehra

President Donald Trump seemed to stumble when responding to a reporter’s question during a press conference in Florida on Tuesday, where he had traveled for the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz,” a controversial detention facility designed to accommodate migrants.

When asked how long detainees are expected to remain at the detention center, the president replied, "I'm gonna spend a lot. This is my home state. I love it. I'll spend a lot of time here," sidestepping the actual question.

The president’s unexpected answer sparked concern, prompting political commentators to question his cognitive well-being.

Journalist Mike Rothschild said: "He's obviously losing his cognition and coherence in a way that's becoming impossible to cover up or work around. And the more he declines, the more his sycophants prop him up as doing 'better than ever.' It's an unsustainable situation that could easily end in chaos."

MSNBC contributor Rotimi Adeoye said: "Clear sign of cognitive decline here."

Author Jennifer Valent said: "And in today's episode of 'If Joe Biden Had Done This'..."

"We're at the point where he's unable to understand the simplest of questions," wrote a user.
Story by Joey Garrison, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said he would look at having Elon Musk deported to his native South Africa as their rift reignited and reached new heights amid the billionaire tech entrepreneur's latest wave of criticism of Trump's tax and budget bill.

Trump made the threat while speaking to reporters on July 1, hours after the president in an early morning post on Truth Social said he might order the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk previously led to review the billions in contracts that his companies receive.

"We'll have to take a look," Trump said when asked whether he will deport Musk. "We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn't that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies."

Trump's attacks came after Musk, the world's richest man, resumed his vocal opposition to Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" in a flurry of X posts on Monday while the bill entered a fourth day of debate in the Senate. It included a warning from Musk that he would boost midterm primary challenges to defeat Republican lawmakers who vote for the legislation.

"Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa," Trump wrote in a 12:34 a.m. July 1 post on Truth Social. "No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. "Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!"
Opinion by Zeeshan Aleem

Elon Musk's feud with President Donald Trump is heating up again — and the richest person in the world is threatening to try to take down the entire Republican Party.

Musk is fiercely opposed to Trump's megabill, which passed the Senate on Tuesday and is now headed to the House. He sees it as a "disgusting abomination" that will saddle the U.S. with debt.

On Monday, Musk launched an all-out offensive against the bill on X, suggesting he would seek vengeance against the GOP if it passes the bill.

"If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” he wote. “Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a VOICE.”

He even threatened to primary Republicans en masse: "Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth."

When former Rep. Justin Amash asked Musk to support Rep. Thomas Massie — a libertarian Republican from Kentucky who opposes Trump's megabill and could find himself vulnerable to a MAGA challenger — the Tesla CEO responded, "I will."
Story by Sara Dorn, Forbes Staff

President Donald Trump’s pardons and commutations have cost more than $100 million in fines owed to the federal government and another $1.5 billion in restitution to victims.

Key Facts
Trump has pardoned or commuted the sentences of 16 people or companies whose sentences included fines ranging from $50 to $100,000,000 and total $102,647,458, according to a Justice Department list, though the figure is likely even higher as the DOJ list omits some previously reported fines and restitution payments.

Meanwhile, Trump has granted clemencies and commutations to people who owe more than $1.3 billion in restitution money, combined, to victims of white collar crime, according to the former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer, who tallied the money using court records.

Fines are paid to the Treasury Department, while restitution is paid to crime victims.

Oyer’s tally does not include $2.6 million in restitution payments the 1,270 pardoned Jan. 6 defendants owed, according to a report by House Democrats.

Trump issued the pardons at the same time his administration has lamented the size of the federal government’s debt.
Trump’s bill gives him vast new law enforcement resources. Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg reflects on what the coming wave of militarized arrests will do to America—and how Democrats should fight it.
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent | The New Republic

In today’s episode, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg makes a crucial point: During months of debate about President Trump’s now-signed budget bill, there was very little public debate about what its explosion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding will inflict on America. Rosenberg chalks this up in part to Democrats’ failure to engage on the matter.
Story by Ailia Zehra

El Salvador has informed the United Nations that it holds no legal responsibility for the more than 200 Venezuelan men whom President Donald Trump ordered to be sent to its maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison earlier this year — a claim that directly contradicts repeated assertions from the Trump administration.

Lawyers representing the Venezuelan detainees presented a document Monday, showing that El Salvador had informed the UN it does not hold legal authority over the men.

In March, following Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, these Venezuelan nationals were removed from the United States without due process and placed in El Salvador’s CECOT. The administration justified its action by maintaining that they are legally bound by Salvadoran authority.
Story by Hadas Gold, CNN

Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, has begun pushing antisemitic tropes in its responses to some users’ queries, weeks after Musk said he would rebuild the chatbot because he was unsatisfied with some of its replies that he viewed as too politically correct.

On Tuesday, Grok connected several antisemitic tropes to an X account with a name it identified as being “Ashkenazi Jewish” that caused controversy with offensive comments posted online about the victims of the recent Texas floods.

“[T]hat surname? Every damn time,” Grok said in response to a user who asked the bot to identify a woman in an unrelated image. When a user asked the chatbot to elaborate, Grok responded that, “’the type’ in that meme often points to surnames like Goldstein, Rosenberg, Silverman, Cohen, or Shapiro—frequently popping up among vocal radicals cheering tragedies or pushing anti-white narratives. Pattern’s anecdotal but persistent; not every one fits, but damn if it doesn’t recur.”

When asked by another user “who is controlling the government,” the bot replied with an answer with more anti-Jewish tropes.
Story by David McAfee

Donald Trump on Saturday seemed to show enthusiasm for "prosecuting Obama" as the president is reeling from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The president took to his own social media site over the weekend, first to pressure a GOP leader and then to highlight a Fox News panel all about the former president.

"Great job by young and talented Harrison Fields on FoxNews," Trump wrote. "The Panel was fantastic on prosecuting Obama and the 'thugs' who have just been unequivocally exposed on highest level Election Fraud."
Story by AP

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Black man who was shown on video being punched and dragged from his car by Florida law officers during a traffic stop will speak to the public on Wednesday.

William McNeil Jr., along with his family and attorneys, is set to host a news conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Church of Jacksonville.

Footage of the 22-year-old man's arrest has sparked nationwide outrage, with civil rights lawyers accusing authorities of fabricating their arrest report.

The video shows McNeil was sitting in the driver's seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville officers' supervisor, when they broke his window, punched him in the face, pulled him from the vehicle, punched him again, and threw him to the ground. He was then knocked to the ground by an officer who delivered six closed-fist punches to the hamstring of his right thigh, police reports show.
Story by Brad Reed, Common Dreams

A Friday report from Reuters claims that a senior Trump administration official recently informed diplomats in South Africa that a refugee program set up by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year was explicitly intended for white people.

According to Reuters, American diplomats in South Africa earlier this month asked the U.S. State Department whether it was allowed to process refugee claims from South African citizens who spoke the Afrikaans language but who were of mixed-race descent.

The diplomats received a response from Spencer Chretien, the senior bureau official in the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, who informed them that "the program is intended for white people," writes Reuters.

The State Department told Reuters that the scope of the program is actually broader than what was outlined in Chretien's message and that its policy is "to consider both Afrikaners and other racial minorities for resettlement," which lines up with guidance posted earlier this year stating that applicants for refugee status under the program "must be of Afrikaner ethnicity or be a member of a racial minority in South Africa."
Story by Carl Gibson

Emil Bove — who President Donald Trump has nominated to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals — is now being accused by a second Department of Justice (DOJ) whistleblower of instructing employees to ignore the judiciary.

HuffPost's Jennifer Bendery reported Friday that an unnamed whistleblower has since confirmed a previous whistleblower account that Bove, in his capacity as principal associate deputy attorney general (the 3rd most powerful official in the agency), instructed employees to defy a federal judge's orders. Earlier this month, Erez Reuveni publicly came forward as the DOJ employee behind the first whistleblower account alleging that Bove told staffers to say "f--- you" to the courts in response to an order prohibiting the deportation of immigrants to a notorious maximum security mega-prison in El Salvador.

"Our client and Mr. Reuveni are true patriots – prioritizing their commitment to democracy over advancing their careers," Whistleblower Aid chief counsel Andrew Bakaj told HuffPost.
Story by Matt Jackson

Ruby Wax was "thrown off" Donald Trump's plane when she laughed at his presidential aspirations. The incident occurred just before the tycoon warned he would "kill" the comedian if their paths crossed in the future.

Wax, 72, had the encounter with Trump over two decades ago for her show Ruby Wax Meets. The infamous interview unfolded aboard Trump's private aircraft, complete with a gold sink and an expansive double bed.

The comedian has previously recounted their initial interaction as one of the most "excruciating moments" of her career. She believes that Trump "hated" her from the get-go. It comes as Trump made "disturbing remarks" about his own daughter in a resurfaced clip.

Describing the former President as "vicious" and "sharp" with a "gutter rat instinct," Wax believes the atmosphere soured after she chuckled at his goal to become the US leader. She now admits she would have "handled it really differently" if she were to do the interview again.

Speaking on the Disruptors Podcast, Wax explained: "He said at one point, 'You're angry but with a smile'. And I thought that was so accurate.
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