Trump touted vulnerable voting machines with a photo of a 1990s computer game: report

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Trump touted vulnerable voting machines with a photo of a 1990s computer game: report
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about election security during an address to the nation from the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 16, 2026. SAUL LOEB/Pool via REUTERS

Documents that Trump said supported his election meddling claims relied on a photo of a computer game, per a new report.

On Thursday, Trump made a speech where he accused China of election interference, and he shared a document dump that he said would back up those claims.

According to an article by Talking Points Memo, the supposed evidence featured a "wild" anecdote about the 1990s computer shooter game "Doom."

"That underscored just how far the president was reaching as he tried to substantiate his theories," according to TPM.

The trove of documents included a January 2020 memo from the National Intelligence Council that was declassified by former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. It featured a "Pollbook Hacking Example" involving "Doom," according to TPM.

The pollbook hacking example was a photo of a pollbook that was described as having been "modified" at the 2019 Defcon Voting Machine Hacking Village to run "Doom," TPM reported. The memo noted that the description of the hacked pollbook was based on "press reporting" from the hacking event.

Although the picture was "treated as a serious example of threats to election infrastructure," it came from a tweet by user l33tLumberjack. The photo was included in a Washington Post article about the 2019 Def Con hacking conference, TPM reported.

"Doom on a electronic pollbook?" the tweet by l33tLumberjack read. "Yes please!"

The Post article that featured the "Doom" picture noted that the National Association of Secretaries of State described a prior version of the demonstration as "unrealistic," according to TPM.

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Shouting match erupts after MAGA commentator makes striking claim about the Epstein files

Two political commentators got into a heated shouting match over whether more action needs to be taken on the Epstein files.

During a late-night panel discussion, progressive podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen spoke about Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and argued that he was elevated because he knows how to protect Trump from the Epstein files.

MAGA radio show host Jason Rantz responded to Cohen's comments by asking, "What crime did Trump commit as it relates directly to Epstein?" Rantz argued that Trump isn't criminally implicated in the Epstein files.

"You're mentioning that he's in the files with the implication, of course, that a crime was committed," Rantz continued. "And yet for four years under the previous president, they didn't charge him with anything because there's actually no evidence to suggest that he committed a crime."

Cohen tried to make the point that no one has seen the full Epstein files, so they don't know if Trump committed a crime, and Rantz was asked whether he had seen the files.

When Rantz said that he had, Cohen followed up by asking, "You've seen the other 3 million files?"

"Not everything," Rantz said. "But you're suggesting a crime was committed."

Cohen and Rantz talked over each other, but Rantz repeated his point about the Biden administration not taking action if there were a crime.

Cohen responded, "I'm suggesting that we should probably see the other half of the files that haven't been released."

Rantz called it "the position you only magically started to take in the last two years, not one during the Biden administration."

Cohen pointed out that Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted under the Biden administration, and Rantz asked, "Who should we charge next?"

"Why are you defending the suppressing of 3 million files?" Cohen shouted.

Rantz shouted back some of his previous points while Cohen yelled, "Why are you defending pedophiles?"

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Melania laughed after Trump promised not to air the family's dirty laundry: ex-insider

A former insider described a memory of Melania Trump bursting into laughter when Trump promised to keep a secret.

During an interview on This is Gavin Newsom, ex-Trump ally and former GOP governor Chris Christie recalled a dinner with Trump and Melania long before they were in the White House.

The dinner took place before Christie stepped down as a U.S. attorney in 2008 and after Ivanka Trump met her future husband, Jared Kushner, in 2007. Christie had prosecuted Kushner's father, whom Christie remembered as "the most disgusting defendant" he prosecuted.

During the dinner, Trump asked Christie if he had any dirt on the Kushners. Newsome and Christie noted that Trump at one point wanted Ivanka to date retired NFL star quarterback Tom Brady instead.

"Which I thought was legitimate, like, as a father, my daughter's marrying into this family, like, what the hell," Christie said. "He said to me, 'But I know that you must have more dirt on him that you got in the investigation than you put out there. Can you share that with me so I can use it?'"

Christie said his response was "I can't tell you whether I do or I don't, but let's assume for the sake of argument that I do." He then explained to Trump that federal rules of criminal procedure don't permit him to make any of that information public in any way.

"It's a crime for me to do it," Christie remembered telling Trump. "He leaned over and put his hand on my forearm, and he said, 'Chris, it'll just be between us.' And Melania burst out laughing."

Christie remembered that Melania "looked at me and she said, 'Chris, if this is something that will get you in trouble, don't give it to him because he can't keep a secret.'"

However, Christie added that he was still invited to Ivanka's wedding with Kushner in 2009.

​Trump admin's museum attack resurrects ghosts of 'famously racist law': analysis

The Trump administration's attack on one of America's most famous museums has resurrected the ghosts of a "famously racist law," according to a new analysis.

The Trump administration recently published a 162-page report that accuses the Smithsonian of promoting an anti-American sentiment by acknowledging that some of America's founders owned slaves and that it supported illegal immigration by including the imagery of a butterfly in a PowerPoint presentation. Catherine Rampell, economic editor at The Bulwark, argued in a new article that the administration also included a "telling" defense of a racist law in the report in furtherance of its anti-immigrant agenda.

"But arguably the most telling section of the White House report relates to its defense of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882," Rampell wrote. "The report’s authors bristle at any suggestion that this famously racist law may have been motivated by any kind of racial animus. After all, such an acknowledgment might raise uncomfortable questions about the policies of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller—policies that are explicitly modeled on laws like this one."

Trump made immigration one of his top issues on the campaign trail in 2024 and has since erected a wide-ranging deportation machine with the help of Stephen Miller, his deputy chief of staff for policy.

Rampell noted that Miller's rhetoric about immigration has become "spookily reminiscent of rhetoric around the 1882 law" throughout the second administration. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the brainchild of a society that blamed Chinese people for local economic issues, Rampell noted, similarly to how the Trump administration has blamed illegal immigrants for everything from the degeneration of American culture to the housing affordability crisis.

"So you can imagine why the Trump administration might get a wee bit defensive about anyone offering a critical perspective on this part of our nation’s history, especially since they hope to repeat it," Rampell noted.

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