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Trump finds new way to misspell Nikki Haley's birth name in new racist dog whistle

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Donald Trump found another way to misspell Nikki Haley's birth name in an insulting attack on his Republican primary rival.

The former president referred to his one-time United Nations ambassador, whose given name is Nimarata, as "Nimrada" earlier this week, and Friday morning he called her "Nimbra" in an apparent effort to draw attention to her family's Indian heritage.

"Governor Chris Sununu, the now failing Governor of New Hampshire, where I am beating his endorsed candidate, Nimbra, by big numbers, and DeSanctimonious by even bigger numbers, should spend more time keeping Democrats from voting in the Republican Primary - How ridiculous is that?" Trump posted on Truth Social.

Haley was born in South Carolina to immigrant Sikh parents but has gone by her middle name, Nikki, since she was a small child, and she took her husband's last name when they married nearly 30 years ago, giving up her maiden name, Randhawa.

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"Anyway, it doesn’t matter, because Nimbra doesn’t have what it takes," Trump posted. "She’s weak on China, Russia, Borders, and Crime, but never saw a war she didn’t like. I defeated ISIS, Rebuilt our Military, and brought our soldiers back home. I hope Sununu’s endorsement of Nimbra has more strength than Kim Reynolds’ Iowa endorsement of DeSanctus! How did that work out? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

"Nimbra" seems to be a shortened form of his insulting misspelling of Nimarata, similar to his shorthand "DeSanctus" insult against Ron DeSantis, whom he often refers to as "DeSanctimonious," and is widely seen as an update of his birther attacks questioning Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president.

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GOP lawmaker accuses fellow Republican of 'greatly exaggerating his military service'

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Saturday accused fellow Republican lawmaker, Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), of "greatly exaggerating his military service."

Mace recently lashed out at Mills and accused him of privately threatening her, following the failure of her resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) earlier this week.

Over the weekend, Mace doubled down on her crusade, going back to 2020 when Mills publicly hit back at a critic, saying, "You clearly were not a JSOC/SOF member or you would realize our service is premised on our morals and values."

To that statement, Mace wrote, "Do morals and values mean either lying or greatly exaggerating your military service?"

In a separate post, Mace asked, "Did you know Cory Mills was 'allegedly' married in an al Qaeda mosque by a radical Muslim imam who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombings?"

She then added, "The Muslim officiant was also a Hamas fundraiser. Is this why he voted to protect Ilhan Omar? Cory’s wife is allegedly Muslim. Is he Muslim too? I understand the only way to get married in a mosque is to be 100% Muslim. He also has an international arms dealing company and we made this guy a chairman of an intel committee on Foreign Affairs?"

"What in the world…" Mace concluded on Saturday.

Mills didn't address the allegations at the time of writing.

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Trump just suffered 2 major overlooked legal defeats on the same day

Although the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 Republican supermajority has delivered some decisions that were quite favorable to Donald Trump — including Trump v. the United States in 2024 — he is having his share of disappointments in the lower federal courts.

Two of them came on Friday, September 19.

According to Newsweek reporter James Bickerton, "A federal judge in Rhode Island (ruled) the president's executive order on 'gender ideology' can't be applied to National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grantees. Separately in California, a panel of 9th Circuit judges affirmed the (Trump) Administration must hand over documents related to the firing of federal workers."

Trump and his close allies — including Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi — are claiming that the lower federal courts are failing to respect the powers of the government's executive branch. But legal experts like Lisa Rubin, Joyce White Vance and Barbara McQuade at MSNBC and Kimberly Wehle at the conservative website The Bulwark are countering that federal courts are supposed to play an aggressive role in the United States' system of checks and balances.

"With Republicans controlling both the Senate and House of Representatives," Bickerton observes, "the courts have emerged as one of the main impediments to Trump Administration policy in recent months. The administration has suffered legal defeats on subjects including the imposition of punitive measures against law firms involved in proceedings against Trump, a bid to strip Haitan migrants of legal protection and sanctions on International Criminal Court employees."

In the California decision, the 9th Circuit panel ruled, 2-1, to "affirm a lower court decision demanding the Trump Administration hand over documents related to the firing of thousands of federal workers."

"In April, a coalition of labor groups, non-profits, cities and a Texas county sued the federal government arguing job cuts imposed by Trump were outside his authority according to the Constitution, and also needed Congressional approval," Bickerton notes. "Sweeping layoffs took place across the federal government following Trump's second presidential inauguration in January, spearheaded by the newly created and Elon Musk led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)."

Read the full Newsweek article at this link.

Top Trump official 'investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents': report

Tom Homan, U.S. President Donald Trump's border czar, was reportedly investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents.

Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian of MSNBC over the weekend reported that Homan was under investigation and that, "The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a 'deep state' probe in early 2025."

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC," the outlet reported. "The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Trump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case, two of the people said."

According to the report, "It’s unclear what reasons FBI and Justice Department officials gave for shutting down the investigation" into the man who Trump has leaned on to accomplish his immigration raid goals.

"The federal investigation was launched in western Texas in the summer of 2024 after a subject in a separate investigation claimed Homan was soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the presidential election, according to an internal Justice Department summary of the probe reviewed by MSNBC and people familiar with the case," the report states.

Read the full piece here.


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