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Trump says Pulte can Declassify 'whatever' he Wants

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Trump says Acting Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), can declassify whatever records he wants and can declassify almost everything.

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The Hill

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· Jul 1, 2026

Trump says he told Pulte to 'declassify almost everything' while DNI

President Trump said Wednesday he told acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte to “declassify almost everything” while he’s in the position. “Bill is there just for a fairly short period of time. But while he’s there, I said you can declassify whatever you want,” Trump told reporters before heading to North Dakota. “I think...

MS NOW

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· Jul 2, 2026

Despite his recent antics, acting DNI Bill Pulte gets broad declassification powers

“Bill is there just for a fairly short period of time, but while he’s there, I said, ‘You can declassify whatever you want,’” Donald Trump said. The post Despite his recent antics, acting DNI Bill Pulte gets broad declassification powers appeared first on MS NOW.

The Epoch Times

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· Jul 1, 2026

Trump Says He Told New Acting Intelligence Director to ‘Declassify Almost Everything’

‘While he’s there, I said you can declassify whatever you want,’ the president said.

Sky News Australia

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· Jul 7, 2026

‘A beacon for crazy people’: How anti-conservative rhetoric fuelled the Charlie Kirk tragedy

Sky News contributor James Bolt argues the assassination of Charlie Kirk demonstrates how left-wing rhetoric serves as a "beacon" for online extremists. “There is a certain element of the radical left that thinks it’s not just enough to go Trump’s a whatever, or Charlie Kirk is hurting this nation; it’s not enough to just go crazy online about that,” Mr Bolt told Sky News host James Morrow. “There is a certain element of very crazy people who go, I need to actually do this. “When the culture starts permitting … all these awful things that get said about Donald Trump, all these awful things that get said about conservative thinkers, a beacon goes out for crazy people to go, this is how I become famous.”

RedState

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· Jun 27, 2026

CA Dem Robert Garcia's Trump Election Fraud Claims Exposed As Pure Baloney

CA Dem Robert Garcia's Trump Election Fraud Claims Exposed As Pure Baloney

National Post

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· Jul 11, 2026

Trump firings at federal election agency spark fears over U.S. midterms

Trump's brazen removal of the officials from the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission comes as he pushes for voting restrictions ahead of the midterms elections

The Independent

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· Jun 26, 2026

Trump bashes ‘Milk Toast’ Fox News host as he admits ICE is not ‘NICE’

President seemingly forgets how to spell ‘milquetoast’ as he grouses about comparisons to his predecessor’s deportation stats

Off The Press

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· Jul 1, 2026

Trump tells Pulte to ‘Declassify whatever you want’

President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed he had told acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte to speedily declassify materials from the office at his discretion. Pulte is holding the DNI position until the Senate confirms a replacement for Tulsi Gabbard, who stepped down after her husband’s cancer diagnosis. Trump has nominated former SEC Chairman []...Click to read more

Knewz

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· Jul 8, 2026

President Donald Trump shades Ted Cruz while hinting at nominating the Texas senator to the Supreme Court

President Donald Trump joked that Sen. Ted Cruz could be one of the easiest Supreme Court nominations in U.S. history, teasing that Democrats would eagerly confirm him simply to remove him from the Senate. Donald Trump hints at nominating Ted Cruz The remark came during an Oval Office event promoting the Trump administration’s new Trump...

BingNews

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· Jul 10, 2026

États-Unis : Trump limoge des responsables électoraux et inquiète avec les élections de mi-mandat

Le président américain Donald Trump a limogé vendredi 10 juillet deux responsables électoraux démocrates, à quelques mois des élections de mi-mandat. Les démocrates l’accusent de vouloir « s’emparer d ...

Crooks and Liars

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· Jun 30, 2026

Jayapal Perfectly Rebuffs Trump's Red Scare Tactics

Trump and the other Republicans are rattled by the rising popularity of socialism and the big wins in New York by Mamdani-endorsed Democratic Socialists. And because rational thought is not in their skill sets, especially not Trump's, he has resorted to Red Scare tactics. When Kaitlan Collins asked Rep. Pramilla Jayapal about it, she rebuffed him with ease: COLLINS: I want to ask you to respond to what President Trump said. His quote was, they use the word social Democrat because it sounds so nice, but it's really communism you're talking about. JAYAPAL: I mean, he is ridiculous, but the reason he's using communism is because he knows socialism is really popular. So he's trying to turn this into communism when he knows that the ideas that social Democrats are running on, that progressives are running on, universal healthcare, universal childcare, making sure that people get paid higher wages, those are incredibly popular. So he's trying to attach an ideology to it, a label that isn't correct, because he knows that at the end of the day, these folks are going to make sure that his wealthy billionaire buddies pay their fair share of taxes and that it benefits working people. read more

Townhall

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· Jul 9, 2026

Hochul Brags About Taxing New Yorkers to Stick It to Trump

Hochul Brags About Taxing New Yorkers to Stick It to Trump

Lawyers, Guns & Money

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· Jun 21, 2026

Multiple arrests of people picking blue flakes and algae out of reflecting pool

It’s somehow very fitting that this, all things considered, incredibly trivial instance of the complete incompetence and corruption of the Trump administration may be the one that captures the public imagination: It’s been noted by various people that if somebody like oh I don’t know Kamala Harris was as obsessed with what are essentially questions [] The post Multiple arrests of people picking blue flakes and algae out of reflecting pool appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

The New Civil Rights Movement

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· Jun 30, 2026

Trump Is Screaming Another Coup Out Loud: Columnist

President Donald Trump has a plan to steal the midterm elections, argues The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Will Bunch, and he’s “screaming it out loud.” Bunch writes that “nothing is scarier than when the 47th president speaks the truth about what’s really on his mind. Because the only thing that’s in Trump’s brain right now is stealing [] The post Trump Is Screaming Another Coup Out Loud: Columnist appeared first on The New Civil Rights Movement.

Fox News

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· Jul 8, 2026

'Sopranos' creator David Chase warns censorship under Trump is a 'hop, skip and a jump' away

David Chase says President Trump could bring political censorship to Hollywood, comparing it to old Hays Code restrictions as he develops his HBO MKUltra series.

Mother Jones

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· Jun 29, 2026

We’re Talking About “Hypocrisy” All Wrong

Pick any Trump-imposed crisis over the last year, and you’ll find prominent Democrats decrying the president’s actions with an all-too-familiar word. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Trump’s “hypocrisy knows no bounds” after he pardoned fraudsters while throwing “baseless allegations” of “massive fraud” at the Golden State. It was “beyond hypocritical,” California Sen. Alex Padilla said, []

Democracy Now!

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· Jul 1, 2026

Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms

President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is “very disturbing,” says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “My fear is that this is going to embolden Republicans to double down on their efforts to try to get rid of mail voting, including the SAVE America Act, Trump’s sweeping voter suppression bill, which he seems desperate to go to any lengths to try to pass,” says Berman, who also comments on the court’s decision to strike down a federal law limiting campaign spending.

The i Paper

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· Jul 1, 2026

‘Like a detective story’: Trump appoints controversial professor to search for UFOs

It comes after the US president directed his administration to declassify more information on the issue

DNyuz

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· Jun 28, 2026

Congressman pinpoints alarming election comment Trump made ‘out loud’: ‘Becomes a crime’

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) warned this week that President Donald Trump has openly acknowledged directing federal prosecutors to investigate elections whose results he dislikes — a statement the congressman argued the president made plainly and even boasted about. “Trump just told the country, out loud, that he picks up the phone and orders federal prosecutors []

Washington Examiner

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· Jun 22, 2026

Judge blocks voter database linking Social Security and citizenship records

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a voter verification system that would combine Social Security information with citizenship records, ruling that the effort unlawfully exposed sensitive personal data and led to eligible voters being wrongly flagged as noncitizens. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who is based in Washington, D.C., halted []

Politizoom

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· Jul 9, 2026

Trump Gets Disturbingly Weird At NATO

Okay, this is it, Trump has totally lost his mind. Even with a prepared speech, he goes off topic. Way, way, way off topic. This one ranks close to his “threesome” remark. It makes me (and you, possibly) speechless. How and where did he come up with this beauty? It makes me twitch. It’s embarrassing.

Disclose.tv

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· Jun 23, 2026

[Media] NEW - Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson blocks the Trump admin's plan to ban SNAP [...]

NEW - Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson blocks the Trump admin's plan to ban SNAP users from using food stamps to purchase sugary drinks and candy.Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/3aev0rpmb3/@disclosetvDisclose.tvJudge blocks Trump ban on using Food Stamps for sugary drinks and candyBreaking news from around the world.

The Daily Signal

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· Jun 22, 2026

VISA REVOKED: State Department Cracks Down on Foreigners Charged With Fraud

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump is revoking the visas of three foreign nationals charged with defrauding the American people, the Daily Signal can first report. Three foreign nationals who the State Department says “swindled investors, looted taxpayer-funded programs, and abused the system” will no longer be allowed to enter the United States. “The...

KSAT San Antonio

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· Jun 30, 2026

Takeaways from Supreme Court term: Trump's power is enhanced, but he lost some high-profile cases

President Donald Trump didn’t get what he wanted in some of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year: tariffs, birthright citizenship and the attempted firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.

Drudge Report

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· Jul 10, 2026

CHARLES SCHWAB Turbocharges Stock-Trading Frenzy...

CHARLES SCHWAB Turbocharges Stock-Trading Frenzy... (First column, 2nd story, link) Related stories:These lawyers represent Trump, even against his own government... Drudge Report Feed needs your support! Become a Patron

WMAL – 105.9 FM – Washington DC

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· Jun 24, 2026

Judge Says Food Stamps Can Be Used to Buy Candy, Soda

By Mary McCue Bell (The Washington Times) A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot bar the use of food stamps to buy candy and s...

Legal Insurrection

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· Jul 12, 2026

Remembering Lindsey Graham’s Pivotal Role in the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings

I would never do to them what you've done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics. And if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. The post Remembering Lindsey Graham’s Pivotal Role in the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

MeidasTouch

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· Jun 25, 2026

“YOU CAN’T EVEN DO THE BASIC FACTS!” Warren GRILLS Trump Nominee

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Drudge Retort

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· Jul 7, 2026

Midterm Elections Doomsday Scenarios Take Hold

Juan Williams: As [Trump's] poll numbers sink to 61 percent disapproval in a Fox survey, Trump is frantic for any tactic to stop Democrats from taking control of the House and possibly winning a Senate majority.

Mehr News Agency

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· Jul 11, 2026

Trump accused of trying to rig election after firing official

TEHRAN, Jul. 11 (MNA) – US President Donald Trump has been accused of trying to “rig” the upcoming US midterm elections after he fired the last three members of an independent federal commission.

The Daily Wire

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· Jun 23, 2026

Court Hands Trump Big Victory To Turbocharge Deportations

President Donald Trump can speed up deportations of illegal immigrants to new levels, thanks to a new federal appeals court ruling. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision Tuesday allowing federal immigration agents to quickly deport illegal immigrants who can’t prove they’ve lived in the country continuously for two years or longer, according ...

Coffman Chronicle

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· Jun 27, 2026

Trump Targets Democrats as ‘Godless Communists’ After New York Progressive Wins

President Donald Trump is testing a new midterm message that casts Democrats as “godless communists,” using recent progressive primary wins in New York as evidence that the party is moving sharply left.

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