“A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt its National Guard deployment to Washington while a lawsuit over the matter plays out in court, siding with D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General and writing that the administration has ‘exceeded the bounds of its statutory authority’ in requesting National Guard assistance from other states,” the Washington Post reports.
Slotkin Gets Security Detail After Trump’s Remarks
“Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) has been assigned around-the-clock police protection, her office said, following calls by President Donald Trump on Thursday morning that the Michigan lawmaker should be arrested and possibly put to death over a video that she made with other Democrats,” the Detroit News reports.
Congressional Republicans Begin to Look Beyond Trump
New York Times: “The willingness of congressional Republicans to defy Mr. Trump and back legislation requiring the disclosure of federal files on Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and one-time Trump friend, was the clearest evidence yet that GOP lawmakers are starting to look beyond Mr. Trump’s tenure to their self-preservation in midterm elections next year.”
“There are other signs as well, notably the refusal by Senate Republicans to bow to Mr. Trump’s demand to gut the filibuster during the shutdown fight, and resistance in some states to his intense push to redraw House district maps to cement the G.O.P.’s hold and prevent a Democratic takeover that would imperil the president.”
Cory Mills Was Caught With Sex Workers
“Following President Joe Biden’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, a group of individuals sought to make an unannounced trip to the Taliban-run country to extract Americans who were stranded inside. One of those people involved in the unofficial mission was Rep. Cory Mills, an Army veteran and a then-congressional candidate,” NOTUS reports.
“En route to Afghanistan, Mills and the rest of the group he was with stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia. One night while awaiting to continue their rescue mission, Mills was caught with sex workers.”
DNC Took Out $15 Million Loan in October
“The Democratic National Committee took out a $15 million loan last month to replenish its shrunken coffers before elections in Virginia and New Jersey and to keep operations fully funded entering 2026,” the New York Times reports.
“Tapping a line of credit outside the crucible of a midterm or presidential election year is unusual for a major party committee, and it is the latest sign of financial distress for the official arm of the Democratic Party.”
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Coast Guard Says Swastika Is No Longer a Hate Symbol
“The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol,” the Washington Post reports.
“Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as ‘potentially divisive’ under its new guidelines.”
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During His Honeymoon
“In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence Summers and his wife, Elisa New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape,” the Harvard Crimson reports.
“But their honeymoon route brought them to what would, years later, seem a fateful stop: financier Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, a place that would become infamous as the center of Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.”
Justice Department Investigates Probe Into Schiff
“The Justice Department is investigating possible issues with the mortgage fraud investigation into California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff that is run by two Trump administration political appointees, Ed Martin and Bill Pulte,” CNN reports.
Mike Johnson Defends Trump’s ‘Sedition’ Attacks
Speaker Mike Johnson defended Donald Trump’s declaration that some congressional Democrats engaged in “sedition” after the president suggested those Democrats should be executed Thursday, Politico reports.
Said Johnson: “That is a factual statement.”
Judge Orders Release of 300 Detainees
“A federal judge Wednesday ordered the release of more than 300 people detained by the federal government as part of the federal immigration enforcement operations being conducted in the Chicago area,” Politico reports.
CDC Updates Its Webpage on Vaccines and Autism
Jeremy Faust, MD: “The update represents an extraordinary moment in the history of our nation’s public health system—a Rubicon moment. The CDC’s page on vaccines and autism is now filled with anti-vaxxer talking points.”
“It’s both expected—we certainly saw this coming, ever since Bill Cassidy’s vote in favor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services clinched his confirmation bid. But it’s still shocking to see.”
Republican Moves to Expel Indicted Democratic Lawmaker
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) said he will force a vote on expelling Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) from Congress after she was indicted by a federal grand jury, Axios reports.
Exchange of the Day
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was interviewed by CNN’s John Berman about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files:
BERMAN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
MURPHY: So what?
GOP Faces a Midterm Meltdown If Economic Anger Holds
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Zelensky Agrees to Negotiate on Trump’s Peace Plan
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Thursday that he’s willing to work with the Trump administration on its new plan for peace in Ukraine,” Axios reports.
“The plan calls on Ukraine to make enormous concessions, including handing over territory to Russia that Ukraine currently controls. But rather than reject it outright, Zelensky agreed to negotiate — and his office said he expects to discuss it with President Trump in the coming days.”
Trump Calls for Democratic Lawmakers to Face Trial
President Trump called for six Democratic lawmakers to face arrest and trial after they made a video encouraging U.S. service members and members of the intelligence community to refrain from following orders if they broke the law, Politico reports.
Said Trump, on Truth Social: “It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.”
Larry Ellison Discussed Axing CNN Hosts with White House
“Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks, and one official has discussed potential programming changes at CNN with Larry Ellison, the largest shareholder of Paramount,” The Guardian reports.
” Ellison often speaks to connections at the White House but, in at least one of the calls, engaged in a dialogue about possibly axing some of the CNN hosts whom Donald Trump is said to loathe, including Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar.”
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