Not that the felon would pay attention to those who actually know, but here’s how he can screw over the Washington Commanders.
These are the paths of least resistance, though each would still require Trump to steel himself for a political fight:
Lobbying D.C. Council members
This would perhaps be the most conventional path to take, though it presents numerous challenges. The District of Columbia is negotiating directly with the Commanders on the $3.7 billion stadium proposal through the D.C. Council, which is the 13-member legislative branch of the District’s government. Trump could attempt to get them to vote no through various channels.
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Withhold funding since Congress controls D.C.'s budget
Under the Home Rule Act of 1973, D.C. residents can elect local officials, but the district’s budget is subject to Congressional oversight. Right now, the Senate and House of Representatives are controlled by Trump’s Republican Party, and would likely approve the blocking of funds for the Commanders’ new stadium.
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Revert control of the RFK Stadium property
Former president Joe Biden signed a bill in January that transferred control of the RFK Stadium site from the federal government to D.C. Section J of the bill, however, outlines grounds for a reversion of control to the federal government and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, a Trump appointee.
The Second Felonials got themselves a dead Black man to divert attention from the felon-in-chief’s Epstein episode (Epsteinisode?).
The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.
In a lengthy statement released Monday, King’s two living children, Martin III, 67, and Bernice, 62, said their father’s killing has been a “captivating public curiosity for decades.” But the pair emphasized the personal nature of the matter and urged that the files “be viewed within their full historical context.”
The Kings got advance access to the records and had their own teams reviewing them. Those efforts continued even as the government granted public access. Among the documents are leads the FBI received after King’s assassination and details of the CIA’s fixation on King’s pivot to international anti-war and anti-poverty movements in the years before he was killed. It was not immediately clear whether the documents shed new light on King’s life, the Civil Rights Movement or his murder.
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Just in case you thought the felon and his accoplices actually cared about impartially performing their duties… (The bolding is mine.)
White House border czar Tom Homan is promising to “flood” cities run by Democrats with immigration agents, as the Trump administration ramps up border enforcement.
Congress earlier this month gave the Trump administration more than $170 billion over the next four years to dramatically scale up enforcement, detention and deportation, and Homan said Americans living in so-called “sanctuary cities” can expect to see far more agents on the street soon.
“We’re going to flood the zone,” Homan said at a July 21 press conference. "Sanctuary cities get exactly what they don’t want: more agents in the community and more agents in the work site. When we arrest (a suspected illegal immigrant) in the community, if he’s with others that are in the country illegally, they’re coming too."
The White House has repeatedly singled out cities from Los Angeles to Denver to Boston for their refusal to assist ICE agents making detentions, and Homan has threatened to arrest elected officials who stymie the president .
A federal judge agreed with the Second Felonial Era’s request…a thousand times (approximately).
A federal judge sentenced former Louisville Police detective Brett Hankison to 33 months in prison for the shots he fired during the fatal 2020 raid on Breonna Taylor’s apartment.
The July 21 sentence was in defiance of a last-minute request from federal prosecutors that Hankison receive only a one-day sentence.
Western District of Kentucky Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings said she was “troubled” by the prosecutors’ July 16 sentencing memorandum, as well as their arguments towards leniency in court on Monday.
“The seriousness of this crime is obvious,” she said at one point.
The Second Felonial Era broke the law ? Say it ain’t so, Joe! (The bolding is mine; the “bazinga” is the judge’s.)
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated federal law by taking down a public website that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies, ordering its reinstatement.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Monday that removal of the online database overseen by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) violated legislation passed by Congress , which requires the OMB to make apportionment decisions publicly available within two business days.
“There is nothing unconstitutional about Congress requiring the Executive Branch to inform the public of how it is apportioning the public’s money. Defendants are therefore required to stop violating the law! ” Sullivan wrote in his 60-page opinion.
FEMA Search and Rescue chief resigns. You’ll like his reasoning. (The bolding is mine.)
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
Ken Pagurek’s departure comes less than three weeks after a delayed FEMA response to catastrophic flooding in central Texas caused by bureaucratic hurdles put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the disaster response agency.
Pagurek told colleagues at FEMA that the delay was the tipping point that led to his voluntary departure after months of frustration with the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. It took more than 72 hours after the flooding for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network.
The Honorable Jasmine Crockett calls 'em as she sees 'em. (The bolding and italicizing are mine; the accuracy is from the gentelwoman from Texas.)
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) dropped a damning new label for Donald Trump this weekend as she explained why she ultimately doesn’t expect Republican lawmakers to break ranks with the president over the Jeffrey Epstein controversy .
Trump has recently sought to downplay demands for transparency around the investigations into the late convicted sex offender, his onetime close friend.
But there’s growing anger and calls for files on Epstein to be released within Trump’s own MAGA base . Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Republicans “want to show that they are loyal to this, you know, I don’t even know what to call him. I’ve called him so many things, but this wannabe Hitler , for sure,” Crockett said on MSNBC this weekend, using a nickname for Trump that quickly went viral on social media.
Yeah, felon; this really dispels the idea you’re a pedophile. (The bolding is mine.)
Donald Trump gave a startlingly low number when asked if he had a sexual “age limit” during a now-resurfaced interview with Howard Stern.
Trump has been under heightened scrutiny in the weeks since the DOJ and FBI released a memo that, despite previous statements, there was no evidence of a client list from Jeffrey Epstein existed. This led many conspiracy theorists convinced of the list’s existence to assume Trump has to be on it. With this closer examination into the president’s past statements, an unearthed interview on “The Howard Stern Show” certainly paints more questions for Trump.
“Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds,” Stern asked in the 2006 interview.
“Oh, absolutely,” Trump responded “I have no trouble.”
“Would you do it” Stern clarified.
“I have no problem,” the future president said.
Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers then asked, “do you have an age limit or would you…”
“If I- No, no, I have no age–. I mean, I have an age li…” Trump replied.
Then, when asked to provide his “upper bracket,” Trump said, “I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”
Venezuela is going to investigate treatment of its citizens in the concentration camp. (The bolding is mine.)
Venezuela says it is opening a formal investigation into several Salvadoran officials, including President Nayib Bukele , over the alleged abuse of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US.
Some 252 Venezuelans, who had been imprisoned at the notorious Cecot prison in March following their deportation, were released and returned to their home country on Friday in exchange for 10 US nationals and dozens of Venezuelan political prisoners, US officials said.
Venezuela has previously accused El Salvador of kidnapping the detainees after it agreed with the US to take them into custody. El Salvador claimed the detainees had ties to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, though immigration attorneys, advocates and family members have pushed back on that, claiming in many cases that the detainees had no criminal record.
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab held a press conference Monday to address the alleged mistreatment, showing edited footage of some of the detainees talking about their experience at the prison. Saab said officials have gathered 123 complaints of abuse, including reports of sexual assault, torture and beatings by Salvadoran prison guards.
In one of the videos, a man says he was sexually abused.
In another, several detainees who claim to have been beaten and shot at with pellets and pepper spray show what appear to be bruises and scars all over their bodies.
CNN cannot independently verify the extent of the injuries, when they were sustained, or whether the men were speaking under duress. It has reached out to the Salvadoran presidency for comment.
They left out one particular president in their investigation. El Salvador’s government was our felon-in-chief’s hired hand in this situation.
The felon is adding a skill to his résumé!
Washington — The Texas Legislature is convening Monday for a special session where it will attempt to redraw the state’s congressional map to boost President Trump and his allies’ efforts to maintain the GOP’s grip on the U.S. House in next year’s midterm elections.
The state’s decision to recraft the boundaries of House districts comes midway through the decade and several years after its GOP-controlled Legislature adopted a redistricting plan in the wake of the 2020 Census.
Under that plan, Republicans hold 25 of the state’s 38 congressional seats, while Democrats control 12. (The death of Rep. Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, has left one seat open.)
But with Republicans holding a razor-thin majority in the House, and the risk the GOP could lose control of the chamber in the 2026 midterms, a reshaping of the congressional districts could give Mr. Trump’s party an edge heading into next year’s elections.
Mr. Trump’s political team had been pushing Texas GOP leaders to look into redrawing the state’s congressional map, The New York Times reported last month. Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed the Legislature would undertake the effort, among 17 other agenda items, when it meets. Ahead of the start of the special session, the Texas House speaker announced the creation of a new 21-member select committee on congressional redistricting. The panel consists of 12 Republican state House members and nine Democrats.
“I don’t think this has anything to do with Texas — this has to do with Trump,” said Joshua Blank, the research director of the Texas Politics Project. “This has nothing to do with the internal dynamics of the state, the political trajectory of the state. This is purely about this election cycle and one person’s benefit.”
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Mr. Trump appears to be on board with the recrafting of Texas’ voting boundaries. Before leaving the White House on Tuesday, the president said he is looking for a “simple redrawing” where Republicans pick up five seats.
“Texas would be the biggest one,” he said.
Conman, crook, convict, and now cartographer. He’s a polymath! (Don’t you dare ask him to spell, let alone define, that word!)
Railer13:
On a semi-positive note, today (or yesterday) marks the six-month mark of the current term. 1/8 down, 7/8 to go.
Not sure any of us can survive another 87.5%.
No kidding! (The bolding is mine.)
Donald Trump spent the evening of his six-month anniversary back in office raging on Truth Social in a torrent of boastful, conspiratorial and outright random posts.
By the end of the day, the 79-year-old president had posted more than three dozen times. Topics ranged from jailing political opponents to promoting the book of a Fox News ally, and in one case, a video collage including widely debunked footage of a woman appearing to catch a King Cobra with her bare hands in South Africa. Often, posts were sent minutes apart.
Trump also posted a series of graphics celebrating “6 months of winning ,“ claiming that “America’s decline is over” and touting his harsh immigration policies. He shared an anniversary post from House Speaker Mike Johnson that claimed “America is safer, stronger, and more prosperous” thanks to Trump.
He gave particular focus to claims from his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who announced on Friday that she was referring Obama administration officials to the Justice Department for prosecution over an alleged “treasonous conspiracy” to stoke Russian election interference claims.
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We are well and truly screwed.
Not until he gets a return on all the Bounty he gave them.
