MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian erupted Wednesday over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s refusal to answer Senate questions about border czar Tom Homan allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe caught on FBI video. Dilanian, who co-authored the original report on Homan’s recorded cash handoff, blasted Bondi for stonewalling Democrats and dodging accountability by deflecting questions with personal attacks. “There’s no reason she can’t say what happened to the money,” Dilanian fumed, calling her silence “obvious” and “infuriating.”
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President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday that his deal with Pfizer would slash drug prices by “300% or more,” a mathematically impossible claim. The agreement, according to CNBC, trades a three-year suspension of tariffs for the pharmaceutical giant’s pledge to build U.S. manufacturing plants, with Trump hyping the announcement as “one of the biggest things that we’ll do.”
President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed the “radical left” for a deadly Dallas ICE shooting the day before, and warned of possible retaliation from his supporters. Speaking alongside Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Trump claimed the right is “a lot tougher than the left” and suggested things could “go back on them.” Notably absent from his remarks was any mention of the ICE detainees killed and wounded in the attack.
At a campaign-style event in Concord, North Carolina, Vice President JD Vance leaned into familiar GOP attacks on Democrats as “soft on crime,” pointing to the killing of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail and the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk. Framed by armored vehicles and local police, Vance sought to project toughness — but his message was overshadowed by breaking news of a deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, where one detainee was killed and two critically injured.
The ICE shooting, quickly politicized by Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel as an act of left-wing extremism, underscored how the administration is using violence to amplify its hardline immigration agenda. Vance cast Democrats as enablers of “violent radicals” and suggested local officials were failing to keep communities safe, though he stopped short of threatening federal intervention in Charlotte as the White House has in other cities. He also repeated baseless claims that Kirk’s killing was orchestrated by a far-left network.
North Carolina’s upcoming Senate race loomed over the event, with Trump and Vance pinning blame for Zarutska’s death on former Democratic governor Roy Cooper, now a candidate. Republicans Michael Whatley and local lawmakers echoed those attacks, invoking Black Lives Matter protests and racial equity initiatives to argue Democrats coddle criminals. By the end of the rally, GOP speakers escalated the rhetoric into a culture-war battle cry, casting the violence as part of a broader “war” against Western civilization itself.
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Raw Story reporter presses Vance on GOP role as ICE shooting news breaksJD Vance speaks in Concord, NC
At least one person was killed and two were critically wounded in a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility Wednesday, Acting Director Todd Lyons confirmed on CNN. Lyons said the shooter appeared to be dead and that all three victims were detainees. Police found the shooter’s body on the roof of a nearby immigration attorney’s office. Lyons called it the second violent incident at a Dallas-area ICE facility and expressed concern over growing threats against law enforcement.
Fox Business correspondent Charles Gasparino, usually a defender of Donald Trump’s deal-making, blasted the president’s TikTok agreement as a “ticking time bomb.” In a column, Gasparino argued that Trump’s proposed framework with China’s Xi Jinping shows none of the “art” Trump boasts of, warning that his fixation has blinded him to the dangers TikTok poses. Once calling it a tool for Chinese spying and manipulation, Trump is now cutting a deal Gasparino says makes little sense.
Lawmakers from both parties are cautiously optimistic they can block Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s push to restore Confederate names to military bases. A House-passed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would halt further renamings, and the Senate is weighing whether to extend those restrictions. While some Republicans back Hegseth’s effort as “restoring history,” others joined Democrats in blasting the move as honoring traitors who fought against the Union.
Laughter erupted in a Senate Health Committee hearing after Sen. Bernie Sanders quipped that it’s illegal to lie to Congress, a remark made during a dispute over whether to swear in former CDC official Dr. Susan Monarez. Monarez, who was fired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine disputes, testified that she chose integrity over silence after Kennedy accused her of being untrustworthy.
An 18-year-old “Dreamer” says her mother died after ICE confiscated her blood pressure medication before deporting them to Guatemala, leaving her too terrified to seek care as her condition worsened. NBC News reported the story as President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push continues, despite his promise to only target criminals and gangs.
Departing for a state visit to the U.K., President Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis after the state Supreme Court declined to hear her final appeal in the racketeering probe tied to his 2020 election fight. Trump hailed the ruling as “a great decision,” then ripped Willis as “a disaster,” accused her of corruptly hiring and paying her romantic partner “$1 million” for work he’d never done, and demanded she be prosecuted for indicting his allies — casting the entire legal effort as a political witch hunt against “patriots.”
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade sparked outrage after suggesting “involuntary lethal injection” for mentally ill homeless people during a discussion about crime and homelessness, with co-hosts offering little pushback. The offhand remark, later amplified on social media, prompted widespread condemnation from critics who called it dehumanizing, dangerous, and reminiscent of fascist rhetoric.
A federal judge who has repeatedly clashed with Donald Trump expressed concern this weekend that she may lack jurisdiction over a new lawsuit accusing the administration of covertly deporting African migrants to Ghana, where they were then redirected to countries with a high risk of torture and persecution. Legal experts noted the judge may transfer the case to another court, though advocates pressed for urgent interim relief to prevent further deportations.
Ex-Trump associate Lev Parnas warned that Donald Trump’s recent NATO letter amounts to a dangerous signal to Vladimir Putin. In a weekend essay, Parnas argued Trump’s demand that NATO impose massive tariffs on China until the Ukraine war ends reads less like foreign policy and more like a real estate shakedown. He claimed Trump is echoing Kremlin talking points by calling it “Biden’s and Zelenskyy’s war” and using inflated casualty numbers. According to Parnas, the letter proves Trump isn’t serious about NATO or democracy, but about leverage—sending Putin the message: “I got your back.”
MAGA activist Laura Loomer demanded Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump take extreme action after the killing of Charlie Kirk, calling for Antifa and the Muslim Brotherhood to be labeled terrorist groups and for the trans pride flag to be banned. Loomer’s call to “use power” rather than “just talking” sparked backlash, with critics blasting her demands as authoritarian and dangerous scapegoating.
Rolling Stone published a scathing report on Stephen Miller that detailed how the Trump aide was widely disliked among his Republican colleagues during the Obama years, to the point that staffers spread rumors mocking him — including claims he liked to play with porcelain dolls. The White House pushed back, calling the allegation “baseless gossip.” The report also revealed Miller’s classmates accused him of dropping friendships over ethnicity, while colleagues branded him an extremist even before his rise under Donald Trump.
