“Mark Milley, a retired U.S. army general who was chair of the joint chiefs of staff under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, fears being recalled to uniform and court-martialed should Trump defeat Kamala Harris next month and return to power,” The Guardian reports.

Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Donald Trump’s bid to keep from the public a large appendix containing exhibits to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page immunity filing, but gave him 7 days to try to get a higher court to overrule her.

“Shares of Trump Media soared, keeping up a recent rally that has reversed some of the Truth Social operator’s steep losses from a recent weekslong sell off,” CNBC reports.

It turns out Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bibles were made in China, The Independent reports.

“The Kremlin confirmed that former US President Donald Trump while in office sent Russian President Vladimir Putin Covid-19 testing devices during the height of the pandemic, as recounted in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward,” Bloomberg reports.

Shares of Trump Media surged nearly 19% on Tuesday, putting the Truth Social operator on track for its fourth straight day of gains — its longest positive price streak since June, CNBC reports.

“As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use,” the Washington Post reports.

“Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.”
 
Putin, according to the book, told Trump: “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.”

“Donald Trump beckoned his wife to the most secure room in the White House one Saturday in the autumn of 2019,” the Daily Beast reports.

“There, in spite of the fact that she lacked a security clearance, Melania Trump learned the classified identity of the furry U.S. soldier who chased the leader of the ISIS terrorist group to his death.”

Forbes: “One of Donald Trump’s prized properties, the landmark building 40 Wall Street, is 63 stories high but now appears to be underwater. The remaining 35 years on Trump’s leasehold in the Financial District tower is worth about $116 million. That’s $2 million less than the estimated $118 million Trump owes on his mortgage, according to an analysis of loan documents, real-estate records, financial disclosures and appraisals.”

“The building is simply not earning enough money to cover the loan: 40 Wall Street’s annual net operating income has dropped from about $20.7 million in 2018 to $12.8 million last year, as the building’s occupancy rate plummeted from 94.3% in early 2018 to 73.9% in June, thanks in part to the distressed post-pandemic commercial real estate market.”

“A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars and admonished her for her role in a data breach scheme catalyzed by the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump,” the AP reports.

Just Security has created an annotated version of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page brief in the election interference case against Donald Trump — identifying the names behind the redactions.

Just Security has identified the overwhelming majority of individuals whose names have otherwise been redacted in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page brief on presidential immunity.

“In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, former President Donald Trump has blasted the Biden administration for its handling of the disaster — going so far as to accuse Democratic leaders of ignoring the needs of Republican storm victims,” Politico reports.

“But a review of Trump’s record by Politico’s E&E News and interviews with two former Trump White House officials show that the former president was flagrantly partisan at times in response to disasters and on at least three occasions hesitated to give disaster aid to areas he considered politically hostile or ordered special treatment for pro-Trump states.”

Tara Palmeri: “Melania Trump, like her husband and step kids, appears to be using this election as a merchandising opportunity.”

“She’s leaked a few juicy nuggets every few days from her new memoir, Melania, in an attempt to drive the news cycle. Last week, she kicked off the media campaign by proactively defending her 24-year-old nudes—which nobody in the media, or anywhere, has talked about for eight years—as a form of artistic expression.”

“Donald Trump’s media company has forced out executives in recent days after internal allegations that its CEO, former Rep. Devin Nunes, is mismanaging the company,” ProPublica reports.

“Several people involved with Trump Media believe the ousters are retaliation following what they describe as an anonymous ‘whistleblower’ complaint regarding Nunes that went to the company’s board of directors.”