Jurors in the federal trial of Ryan Routh — accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club in 2024 — heard new evidence Tuesday from FBI digital and DNA specialists, including alleged text messages blasting Trump and lab results tying Routh’s DNA to key items. Routh’s witness list also narrowed. Before jurors entered, ...
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi faced a torrent of criticism online Tuesday after she suggested in two separate interviews that the Justice Department would ‘absolutely target’ hate speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s shooting death — sparking intense backlash from Republicans and other conservatives and prompting her to further clarify her remarks. Bondi attempted to bridge the divide between ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., shared just a brief four-word response when a reporter asked him on Tuesday why he missed a congressional vigil for Charlie Kirk. ‘I had a meeting,’ Jeffries said when the matter was broached during his afternoon press conference. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced on Monday that Congress would hold a vigil later that ...
The federal trial of Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump as he played golf in September 2024, resumes Tuesday with more FBI forensic experts scheduled to testify. On Monday, jurors heard FBI Firearms and Toolmarks Examiner Erich Smith, who alleged the rifle found near the sixth hole of Trump International Golf Club was a Chinese-made Norinco ...
Matthew Cavedon A couple of weeks ago, I posted here with a caveat that it’s easier to tweet than to secure an indictment. I meant that there’s no need to interpret everything a government official says as an actual threat. This time, things are different. Following the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, President Trump, Vice President Vance, White House adviser ...
David J. Bier and Sahana Krishnamurthy On September 2, the US military conducted a strike on a small boat near Venezuela believed to be carrying illegal drugs, resulting in the deaths of 11 individuals on board. In a statement, President Trump claimed the crew was made up of members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and later released a ...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed Tuesday that the FBI’s election-related investigation into President Donald Trump, launched in 2022, swept in dozens of Republican entities, including the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. Speaking during a hearing focused on oversight of the FBI, Grassley said the investigation, which the bureau called ‘Arctic Frost,’ was partisan in nature and ...
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released a roughly 120-page transcript of former Attorney General Bill Barr’s deposition, and it appears to affirm Republicans’ claims that the former Department of Justice (DOJ) official had no knowledge of any incriminating ties between President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. That’s despite the top Democrat on the committee claiming last month that the ...
The Trump administration said Tuesday it would appeal a lower court’s decision blocking the president’s effort to fire Fed’s Lisa Cook to the Supreme Court, an eleventh-hour effort to remove her from the board in the run-up to a crucial interest rate-setting meeting. White House officials confirmed to Fox News Digital that they will seek to stay the lower court’s ...
Dominik Lett Read the new paper here. The Cato Institute has just released an updated version of the emergency spending paper I co-authored with Romina Boccia last year. The key takeaway: Congressional abuse of emergency spending designations is worse than we initially thought. Adjusted for inflation and including interest costs, Congress has spent a whopping $15 trillion through the use of ...