“The U.S. has received several warnings from Israel over the past year that Iran intended to assassinate President Donald Trump, including before a secret Air Force One ruse in Turkey, that U.S. intelligence officials could not independently verify,” Reuters reports.
Hugh Hefner Reported Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI
“Hugh Hefner reportedly notified the FBI that a Playboy Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and others in his orbit,” NewsNation reports.
“Court records state that Hefner was told by then-Playboy Playmate Audra Christiansen in 2005 that she was an Epstein survivor and requested the Playboy founder call the FBI, arguing he would have more status than her with the authorities.”
“Hefner allegedly called the FBI several times with the tip, who didn’t investigate the claim for 15 years, according to court documents.”
Why Karoline Leavitt Decided to Quit
Multiple insiders tell the Daily Mail that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s decision to quit “has actually been months in the making — and deeply pained.”
Said one insider: “It was a very stressful job to do with her children. She never got any sleep, and she didn’t want her performance to slip either, so she decided to stay as long as she could and do the job well. The president did everything he could to keep her.’
Making matters worse, “the president would contact her often and repeatedly ask when she was coming back.”
Pentagon Has Lost Roughly 25% of Its Reaper Drones
“The U.S. military has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the war with Iran, or roughly 25 percent of its fleet,” the Washington Post reports.
“The Reaper is used to conduct surveillance and targeted strikes, and it can cost between $30 million and $50 million depending on the type of sensors and weapons it carries, according to the Air Force. The potential taxpayer cost of recent losses is over $1.3 billion for that weapon system alone.”
After Supreme Court Losses, Trump Keeps Pushing
“In the Supreme Court term that ended in June, President Trump suffered three stinging losses,” the New York Times reports.
“Or were they merely temporary setbacks?”
“Trump has said that none of the three rulings — on tariffs, the Federal Reserve and birthright citizenship — will stand in his way. Other paths exist, he said, to get to where he wants to go.”
Trump Lets Firms Hack Foreign Cybercriminals
“The Trump administration is encouraging American companies to conduct their own cyberattacks against criminal hackers, a move that White House officials say will help address digital scourges like ransomware but that some former officials and security experts warn could lead to chaos,” the New York Times reports.
“Under a national security memorandum that President Trump signed late Wednesday, select companies would work with the Justice and Homeland Security Departments to strike foreign cybercriminal groups with hacks under certain conditions. The attacks would allow both surveillance of the criminal networks and specific types of hacking operations that could lead to disruption, manipulation or destruction of information systems and networks, including virtual and physical infrastructure.”
Iran Grates On Republicans as Midterms Near
“Back in March, Senate Republicans were hopeful the war in Iran would last only a matter of weeks — a limited operation that would allow gas prices to fall back in place and avoid the prospect of a conflict dragging closer to the midterm elections,” NOTUS reports.
“Nearly six months on, the protracted war has thoroughly vexed President Donald Trump and administration officials as they try to bring it to an end. It also means Republican lawmakers are being pressed regularly to explain the strategy.”
How Covid Transformed Supreme Court Arguments
“On about 40 mornings each year, the justices take their seats behind the Supreme Court’s majestic mahogany bench to hear oral arguments,” the New York Times reports.
“Part interrogation of the lawyers before them and part conversation among the justices, those sessions are not as important as the written briefs submitted by the parties. But the arguments that follow those submissions are essentially the only way the public can see the court at work.”
“The ritual had hardly changed in 50 years until the spring of 2020, when the pandemic ousted the justices from the courtroom for 18 months.”
“Scrambling for a solution, they decided to hold arguments by telephone, revised how they posed questions and let the public listen in. Those improvised stopgap measures turned out to be the start of a fundamental transformation of the court’s signature ceremony.”
Dick Cheney’s Cardiologist Questions Trump’s Health
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, former Vice President Cheney’s cardiologist, says that President Trump “has not looked well” during his second term, The Hill reports.
Wrote Reiner, in the New York Times: “Despite reassurances from the White House to the contrary, at times over the past year, the president has not looked well. I am not Mr. Trump’s doctor, and have only reviewed his records that have been made public. But Mr. Trump is probably the most photographed president in American history, and a variety of physical ailments are easy to see.”
Jon Ossoff Taps Hamptons Donor Network
“Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia is slated to meet with political donors in the Hamptons later this month for his November reelection bid, a fundraising swing that will also allow the Wall Street set a chance to vet him as a potential 2028 presidential candidate,” Bloomberg reports.
Trump Mostly Talks About Construction
“President Donald Trump devoted more of his public remarks this year to his construction projects than virtually any other major issue facing his administration — except the Iran war, according to a new analysis,” Mediaite reports.
“PolitiFact examined Trump’s recorded public remarks from January through July after its reporters noticed the president repeatedly returning to projects, including the White House ballroom and Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.”
Kennedy Center Board Votes to Inscribe Trump’s Name
“The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted on Thursday to inscribe President Trump’s name on the building beneath the main signage, aggressively testing a federal judge’s order to remove it,” the New York Times reports.
“According to the resolution approved by the Trump-allied board, the inscription underneath the institution’s name would read: ‘Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.'”
Deadline: Trump-controlled Kennedy Center board votes again to close main performing arts complex for renovations.
Donald Trump Takes a Fresh Swipe at Childhood Vaccines
The Economist: “There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. Nor is there evidence that spreading out vaccines is beneficial. In fact, doing so increases the window in which kids are vulnerable to infection. Doctors’ groups, therefore, lined up to denounce the order…”
“The good news, then, is that Mr Trump’s order will have little practical effect. States, not the federal government, normally set vaccination requirements for schoolchildren. And most of them are guided by abundant evidence that vaccines have driven down rates of infectious disease by a miraculous degree.”
“But as the administration injects more doubt and confusion into decisions over vaccines, parents are increasingly declining them.”
Ship to Be Replaced Amid Poor Troop Conditions
“U.S. military leaders are privately raising concerns inside the Pentagon and the White House about low morale and widespread fatigue among American service members who’ve been deployed for months to support the war with Iran,” NBC News reports.
“Amid the concerns, the Pentagon plans to replace one of two aircraft carriers deployed in the Middle East — the USS Abraham Lincoln.”
Trump’s White House Remodel Tab Keeps Growing
“The East Wing is gone, a new helipad is spreading across the lawn, and scaffolding wraps the White House’s front columns, but the price tags for President Trump’s renovations are far less obvious,” Axios reports.
“The muddled mix of funding streams — whether from private donors, the president himself or taxpayers — has fueled ethical questions about who’s footing the ever-rising bill for the HGTV-reminiscent White House redesign.”
Homeland Security Targeted Liberal Groups
“Four days after Alex Pretti was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the Homeland Security Department quietly opened an investigation at its office in St. Paul,” the New York Times reports.
“The target was not the Border Patrol agents who had killed Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old government nurse, in late January. Instead, it was several left-leaning political organizations — labor unions, a climate change group, socialist collectives — that investigators believed had provided help and money to what they described as the ‘violent opportunists and agitators’ on the street.”
U.S. Claims 40 Countries Are Helping China Avoid Tariffs
“The White House has accused more than 40 countries, including Canada, Mexico and Japan, of helping Beijing illegally avoid U.S. tariffs by rerouting trade through nations subject to lower American import duties than China,” the Financial Times reports.
Look to Iowa for a Different Kind of Democratic Insurgency
The Economist: “Iowa has voted solidly Republican at the state and federal level for more than a decade. Republicans have dominated the state legislature since 2016; no Democrat has won the governorship since 2006, a Senate seat since 2008 or a congressional race since 2020. In the most recent presidential election, Donald Trump carried the state by more than 13 points.”
“Yet Iowa is still home to a large bloc of independents—35% of registered voters—and they appear to be swinging left.”
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