Donald Trump considers military officers to be “the dumbest people” he’s ever met, and his supporters are pleased with that.
At a military event in Iowa on Monday, Trump mocked Gen. Mark Milley and told a war story of words with the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“I don’t need to tell you what I had to go through with those other people, some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met in my life,” Trump said, to loud applause from the audience.
Trump in Iowa describes military officers as “some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met in my life” and gets a lot of applause for it pic. twitter. com/UmbQQAxJwQ
Trump’s attack on Milley has been a recurring point since The Atlantic published a profile in which Milley described how he “protected the Constitution from Donald Trump. “
In September, Trump posted on Truth Social accusing Milley of treason for talking to Chinese officials about the U. S. election process and hinted that he would be executed. “This is such a blatant act that, in the past, the punishment would have been DEATH. Trump wrote.
Trump’s deranged message about Milley was cited as part of the reasoning at the time Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed the gag order on Trump on Monday.
This is the first time Trump has made disparaging comments about the military. Former White House staffer John Kelly proved that Trump had called disabled veterans “fools” and “losers. “
Donald Trump can’t seem to help but speak rudely of judges in their trials, even with a momentary gag order in place.
On Monday, Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed a gag order over the former president’s trial in Washington, which hinges on four criminal charges similar to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. In a statement released along with the order, Chutkan said Trump’s First Amendment protections “yield to the management of justice” and that his presidential candidacy does not give him “carte blanche” to vilify public officials “who are just doing their jobs. “
A few hours later, however, Trump rose to the level of Iowa complaining about the decision.
“A judgment on the silence ordered today,” Trump said. The judge didn’t like me too much. His whole life doesn’t love me. “
Trump Attacks Chutkan: His Life Doesn’t Love Me pic. twitter. com/7pNGboiRtS
“Do you know what a gag order is?” You can’t talk about your opponent,” Trump added mockingly.
“I will be the politician in history who respects silence and does not allow me to criticize people. Can you believe it?” he continued. It’s very unconstitutional. “
Trump had previously used his speeches and social media presence to lash out at prosecutors and personnel related to the case, disparaging Justice Department special suggestion Jack Smith as “deranged” and his subordinates as “thugs. “
Chutkan said he would “sanction” opposition to Trump if he witnessed any violations.
This is the time when such a gag order is issued in his judicial process, after Judge Arthur Engoron ruled against the former president earlier this month in his industrial fraud case for attacking one of the judge’s assistants.
The right-wing organization Turning Point USA has found itself in the middle of a hate crime investigation after two members of the organization allegedly assaulted a gay professor at Arizona State University on Wednesday.
Two other people known as members of the conservative organization were waiting outside the classroom of David Boyles, a high school English instructor and co-founder of Drag Story Hour Arizona, according to a report by ASU President Michael Crow. The two men then harassed him and threw him to the ground, “bloodied his face,” Crow wrote in a letter to the university and staff.
WATCH the @ASUPoliceDept defense video of the end of Team @TPUSA (in black) with LGBTQ instructor @ASU (in white). https://t. co/cjdaxSXSNc pic. twitter. com/JoqeWUthmg
“This is the kind of outrageous habit one would expect to see in bullies in the cafeteria of a top-tier school,” Crow wrote.
In security camera footage captured by the ASU Police Department, two men dressed entirely in black can be seen surrounding Boyles as he walks through a yard. When Boyles approaches his camera, one of the men, known as Kalen D’Almeida. , runs up to Boyles and knocks him to the ground hard.
“You can’t run,” D’Almeida told Boyles in an excerpt of the altercation published the next day, according to NBC. “It would be more productive if you told me why you need to advertise sodomy to young people. “
In a Facebook post about his condition, Boyles said his injuries were “relatively minor,” but that the incident left him “angry, violated, ashamed and desperate” because society has come to “normalize this type of harassment and violence against anyone. “”Try LGBTQ youth.
Police are investigating the altercation as a “possible incident of bias or prejudicial motivation,” KPNX-TV reported.
“Whether they were cowards and therefore as to the legality and appropriateness of their actions, the Turning Point USA ‘reporter’ and ‘cameraman’ fled the scene before police arrived,” Crow noted.
Not long ago, Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid for speaker of the House seemed dead. Jordan, one of the founders of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, is not very popular, even within his own party. An institutionalist, he’s a bomb-thrower, not a legislator, which is rarely exactly a typical speaker. Less than two weeks ago, Jordan narrowly lost a vote to become his party’s nominee for president, to the more institutional Steve Scalise. Scalise then retiró. su called himself more or less immediately, knowing that he would not have the votes needed to be president. So it was time for Jordan to shine.
Jordan’s bid seemed doomed to failure before the weekend began. On Friday, 55 Republicans voted against his candidacy, though there was no alternative. Jordan promised a vote on Tuesday, even if he didn’t have the votes to take the gavel, but traditional wisdom had no way of unifying his group (sort of; he may only lose a handful of votes to be elected president) in time.
With less than 24 hours to go before the internal vote, Jordan is on the verge of defeating those resisting his party. On Monday, Jordan managed to knock down nearly everyone resisting, adding Rep. Mike Rogers, who had hinted days earlier that he was willing to hear Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries about a conceivable deal. Jordan doesn’t have the votes it wants yet, but it’s incredibly close.
Jordan would make Kevin McCarthy look like a master of compromise. There are any and all explanations as to why he would run the House in a more radical, obstructionist manner. It should be noted that it is plagued by scandals: In 2018, several former Ohio State wrestlers accused Jordan, then an assistant coach, of knowing about sexual abuse within the program between 1986 and 1994, but doing nothing to fix it. Jordan claimed he was unaware of the abuse, but also claimed that the allegations against him were part of a broad left-wing conspiracy to derail his political career.
Still, the scandal did little to derail his career: Because Republicans showed little interest in him, he remained a right-wing cable news star and is a favorite of Donald Trump. Jordan’s rise to the presidency would be remarkable: either because he has no interest in governing and because he seemed like it just a few days ago. And yet, most remarkably, the House of Representatives could, one way or another, become even less functional than it is now.
One prominent conservative donor is the questionable Harvard Square poster, which attacked academics who signed a letter criticizing Israel’s role in its war against Palestine.
The truck carrying signs, which appeared on campus Wednesday and bore the names and faces of the academics under the slogan “Harvard’s Top Anti-Semites,” was organized through the conservative watchdog Accuracy in Media. However, the money that drove the initiative was much higher. The Guardian reported.
The nonprofit’s largest donor in 2022, the Informing America Foundation, according to IRS documents received through the outlet. That year, Informing America signed a check on behalf of the watchdog for more than $166,000, or about 18% of the donations the nonprofit earned that year. .
Separately, Informing America distributed more than $8 million to 12 other media outlets and activist teams in the same year. Causes under its umbrella included Star News Digital Media, a for-profit news network founded through former Tea Party activists whose sites have been “pink slime” and dubbed “Bathrough Breitbarts. “
The organization contributed to the Real Clear Foundation, a nonprofit news organization whose original news and reporting makes headlines for “anti-MAGA” initiatives, highlight random violence in liberal cities, and criticize Joe Biden and his family.
However, Informing America is the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, a $1. 5 billion institution that played a major role in investing in a network of voter suppression equipment after the 2020 election, according to a report by the Center for Media and Democracy.
The founder, executive chairwoman, and namesake of the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, Diana Davis Spencer, has only been known as the largest donor to the Informing America Foundation, offering $1. 5 million in 2021, but also as a member of the conservative group’s board of directors.
Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton on Sunday called for the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in an interview with Fox News’ Shannon Bream.
“As far as I’m concerned, Israel can clean up the rubble of Gaza. Everything that happens in Gaza is Hamas’ duty: Hamas killed women and girls in Israel last weekend,” Cotton said.
Over the past week, Israel has killed at least another 2,800 people and wounded about 10,000, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, in a series of retaliatory measures after the Hamas terror organization carried out a deadly incursion into Israeli territory, killing 1,400 Israelis.
Cotton did not bother to distinguish between Hamas, the terrorist organization, and the millions of Palestinian civilians who now face a humanitarian crisis while Israel denies them food, water and electricity. Instead, Cotton insisted that Hamas was to blame for the thousands of Palestinians who suffered. of Israeli bombs.
Cotton explicitly blamed Hamas for the Israeli army’s bloodbath of Palestinian children, implying that the terror organization was attempting to force U. S. intervention by pressuring Israel to commit heinous war crimes. If Hamas uses schools, kindergartens and mosques for military purposes, Israel has any and all rights, under the law of war, to retaliate,” Cotton said. “It is Hamas that is committing war crimes through those civilians to create photographs that try to put pressure on the Biden administration,” he added.
While the Democratic Party for the Palestinians has grown in the face of Israeli aggression, the Biden leadership has yet to show any sympathy for the Palestinians and has continued to blatantly attack Israel.
Cotton’s egregious call to violence ignores the fact that the Israeli military has already engaged in disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks on Palestinian civilians, in flagrant violation of foreign law. More importantly, obligations under foreign law are reciprocal, meaning that if one side commits war crimes, it means the other can too, according to Sari Bashi, program director at Human Rights Watch.
More than anything, Cotton’s calls for indiscriminate violence do nothing to end a standoff that has already claimed thousands of innocent lives and threatens to escalate into a devastating regional war.
Trucks carrying much-needed humanitarian aid to Gaza are stalled outside the Israeli-Egyptian border ahead of a planned ground offensive that has strangled the region’s access to fuel, medicine, food and water.
The Rafah crossing, Gaza’s “lifeline” for foreign aid, closed for more than a week after Israel bombed the checkpoint, rendering the crossing unusable, Reuters reported; Israel continued to bombard the area.
Egypt “must maintain the operational pace and in such a way as to allow humanitarian aid access,” the country’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, told ABC News on Monday.
“So far, unfortunately, the Israeli government has taken the position of allowing the Gaza side of the crossing to be opened for aid access or the departure of citizens from [other] countries,” he added.
More than 400,000 Palestinians living in the region’s southern cities sought safe haven in hospitals and schools on Monday, the Associated Press reported. Israel has called on more than a million people to evacuate the northern region of the enclave to the south, as Israel enters a new phase of its all-out assault on Hamas.
As Israeli airstrikes pounded the southern town of Khan Younis, the Israeli government denied reports that it had agreed to a ceasefire to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid and the passage of Palestinian refugees and foreign nationals into Egypt. “There will be no ceasefire for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip and for the departure of foreigners,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Israel has been issuing orders to evacuate citizens along its northern border with Lebanon, for an exchange of fire with Hezbollah after the militant organization said it had attacked five positions in northern Israel.
At least another 2,800 people were killed in Palestine and 10,850 wounded, according to a report from the Gaza government’s press office received via the New York Times, which noted that more than 60 percent of the dead were women and children.
The scenario in Gaza’s hospitals is appalling, with an Israeli invasion on the horizon. “It will probably be to evacuate the hospital,” Dr. Muhammad Abu Salima, director of Gaza City’s largest medical complex, told the New York Times. “Nowhere in Gaza can we settle for the number of patients in our intensive care unit or in our neonatal intensive care unit or even in the operating rooms. “
On the other side of the conflict, more than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, most of them civilians, in Hamas’ marvellous three-pronged attack on Israel on October 7.
The Israeli government reported on Monday that 199 hostages had been recovered from Gaza and that the head of Hamas’ General Intelligence had been killed in airstrikes in Khan Younis.
Blind lies, accusations of criminals and calls for resignation within the party don’t seem to topple Rep. George Santos, but bankruptcy might.
Many donors to the political pariah’s crusade asked for their cash back amid the Long Island Republican’s numerous scandals over the summer. New filings with the Federal Election Commission show a giant overdraft between July and September: negative $16,526. 09. This includes $17,200 in refunds, as well as $674 in new donations.
Santos’ campaign spent a lot, though it generated virtually no new donations. In those same months, the New York Republican’s campaign spent $42,000, leaving him with less than $23,000 in the bank at the end of September. His expenses went to the Washington-based law firm Dickinson Wright, to which Santos owes another $70,000, Axios reported.
On top of that, Santos’ campaign treasurer “became aware” of more than $120,000 in undisclosed debts over the past three months to various aides and suppliers, according to the documents.
At the $630,000 Santos is still owed for a fake (and then real) contribution to the 2022 campaign, that leaves members of Congress more than $800,000 in the red.
On Tuesday, Santos was indicted on a dozen counts related to stealing his donors’ credentials and credit card information, allegedly transferring tens of thousands of dollars to his private bank account and the rest to boost his campaign numbers.
“As alleged, Santos is accused of stealing people’s identities and charging his own donors’ credit cards without their permission, lying to the FEC and, by extension, the public about his campaign’s monetary situation. Santos falsely inflated reported campaign proceeds with nonexistent loans and contributions that were fabricated or stolen,” U. S. Attorney Breon Peace said in delivering the indictment.
The congressman is scheduled to appear in federal court in Suffolk County on Oct. 27.
The Gaza Strip is experiencing a humanitarian crisis not seen since 1967. At least another 2,300 people lost their lives. That’s the number of people who have arrived at hospitals. Hundreds of people were buried under the rubble and no one was able to get out of it.
The unprecedented destruction of infrastructure has turned life into a hell open to all. It is the hardest for women, young people and other people with disabilities. There are 8,000 injured in hospitals in the first week. This figure is close to the number of wounded from the 51-day war in 2014. This would exceed the capacity of the world’s most complex fitness formulas, not to mention a fragile fitness formula that has suffered for years from a shortage of drugs and equipment. Medical groups are no longer functioning.
The Israeli army orders 1. 1 million citizens of the Gaza Strip to evacuate their homes and flee to the southern regions, while bombing the cars carrying them, contradicting humanity. The resolve to impose a complete siege on Gaza, cut off electricity, cut off fuel and save it, the delivery of infant formula and medicine threatens to turn the entire Gaza Strip into a veritable grave.
It is highly unlikely that another two million people live on less than a third of Gaza’s land area. Not allowing humanitarian aid or a humanitarian truce that allows others to catch their breath is in itself unbearable suffering for the population. Anyone who does it won’t die the raiders, they’ll die of hunger and thirst.
What is needed is a 48-hour humanitarian truce now, before Sunday, that other people can maintain for themselves. The most important thing is a ceasefire to prevent further loss of life and further suffering from the inferno that has opened wide over the next seven days.
Tensions at the Longsworth building came to a head Friday afternoon, when Rep. George Santos lashed out at a group of journalists and shouted insults at a man he accused of being an anti-Israel protester.
What happened in Longworth? pic. twitter. com/ujKHayt8aT
“It’s an animal,” shouted the disgraced congressman accused of fraud. “He’s a terrorist sympathizer who has no business in this building. What is happening in Israel is abhorrent. What is happening to the rest of the people of Israel is not being defended. No one who defends Hamas has a business in this building, whether an elected official or a civilian. Santos was also carrying a baby when the confrontation began. It is not known who the baby isArray
George Santos just left Tim Burchett’s job with a baby in his arms. When asked if it was her baby, she replied “not yet. “pic. twitter. com/QQsfPAo8hC
The subject of Santos’ tirade has been known as Shabd Singh, according to Fox News’ Chad Pergram. Singh is Jewish but belongs to the State of Israel.
Singh allegedly tried to ask former President Kevin McCarthy about “what he’s doing to prevent war crimes committed through the IDF,” Singh told Pergram, but when McCarthy didn’t answer, he directed the question to Santos, who was walking the other way. address.
“Then he discovered me here in that hallway, came up to me and yelled at me, essentially describing what I was saying as some kind of anti-Semitic trope,” Fox correspondent Singh was quoted as saying.
Singh was arrested by Capitol Police shortly after the incident.