Progressive Democrat Analilia Mejia wins congressional particular election in New Jersey in a landslide
Democrat Analilia Mejia received a particular election to symbolize New Jersey’s eleventh congressional district within the Home of Representatives in a landslide, the Related Press reviews.
Mejia who narrowly defeated Tom Malinowski, a former congressman, within the Democratic major, after an excellent PAC aligned with AIPAC hit him with a barrage of damaging adverts, took greater than 70% of the vote in early counting.
Mejia will exchange Mikie Sherrill, the previous congresswoman who’s now New Jersey’s governor.
Malinowski, a supporter of Israel, had criticized Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, throughout Israel’s assault on Gaza in 2023, and refused to rule out inserting circumstances on US assist to Israel.
Mejia, who was endorsed by Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is much extra vital on Israel and was the one candidate within the Democratic major to name Israel’s actions through the warfare in Gaza a genocide.
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Trump calls it an early evening in Las Vegas, after repeating acquainted litany of false claims
Donald Trump simply wrapped up a comparatively transient, for him, 45-minute occasion in Las Vegas to have fun what he phrases the good success of his “no tax on ideas” coverage, which is definitely only a non permanent deduction of as much as $25,000 in ideas for eligible staff yearly, which expires in two years.
Earlier than he was accomplished, nevertheless, the almost 80-year-old president regaled the small crowd of supporters with quite a lot of lies he tells at occasion after occasion.
In a rambling monologue at one stage, as an illustration, the president falsely claimed that the king of Saudi Arabia had informed him final 12 months the US was “lifeless” through the Biden administration and insisted that 25 million migrants had entered the US illegally through the 4 years between 2021 and 2025.
“The King of Saudi Arabia,” Trump started, in a narrative he has informed repeatedly and once more over the previous 12 months, “he mentioned to me, a 12 months and half in the past, I used to be with him, he mentioned, ‘You understand, two 12 months in the past, you had been a lifeless nation’”.
In reality, throughout Trump’s go to to Saudi Arabia 11 months in the past, he didn’t meet the Saudi king, who’s aged and unwell, however was hosted as a substitute by the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
What’s extra, it seems that Trump has misremembered one thing he mentioned to the crown prince for one thing the crown prince mentioned to him throughout his go to to the Saudi kingdom.
Throughout a speech to a US-Saudi funding discussion board on Riyadh on 13 Might 2025, Trump mentioned: “the times of financial distress below the final administration are quickly giving option to the best financial system within the historical past of the world. We’re rocking. The USA is the most well liked nation, excluding your nation, I’ve to say, proper? I’m not going to take that on. No Mohammed, I’m not going to take that on… You’re hotter. A minimum of so long as I’m up right here, you’re hotter. However groceries, gasoline, power and all different costs are down with no inflation.”
However within the ensuing months, Trump has claimed, at occasion after occasion, that it was “the king of Saudi Arabia” who used this very Trumpian expression, that the US is “the most well liked nation”.
In his remarks on Thursday, Trump slid straight from what he described because the Saudi royal’s remarks into how personal assault on his predecessor. “Everybody thought America was completed, we had been a laughing inventory, with a president that couldn’t stroll up a flight of stairs, he was, no, he was so horrible, assume, I imply it’s not even humorous, it was horrible,” Trump mentioned.
“However the king mentioned, , ‘Two years in the past, you had been a lifeless nation, and now you’re the most well liked nation wherever on this planet.’”
In the identical monologue, Trump additionally claimed, falsely, that Biden “allowed 25 million individuals into the nation, completely unvetted and unchecked… we’re nonetheless getting them out.” Amongst these migrants, Trump claimed, there have been “11,888 murderers… let into our nation”.
Because the CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has reported, Trump’s determine is an enormous exaggeration he has made repeatedly to solid the crackdown on undocumented migrants as very important to stopping crime. “By December 2024, the final full month below the Biden administration,” Dale defined on Wednesday, after Trump used this imaginary determine in a Fox Enterprise interview, “the federal authorities had recorded below 11 million nationwide ‘encounters’ with migrants throughout that administration, together with thousands and thousands who had been quickly expelled from the nation. Even including within the so-called “gotaways” who evaded detection, estimated by Home Republicans as being roughly 2.2 million”.
The determine 11,888 can be a lie, since that quantity refers to non-citizens who entered the US over a number of many years, together with through the first Trump’s first administration, “not just below Biden,” and later dedicated murders, which they had been jailed for.
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Progressive Democrat Analilia Mejia wins congressional particular election in New Jersey in a landslide
Democrat Analilia Mejia received a particular election to symbolize New Jersey’s eleventh congressional district within the Home of Representatives in a landslide, the Related Press reviews.
Mejia who narrowly defeated Tom Malinowski, a former congressman, within the Democratic major, after an excellent PAC aligned with AIPAC hit him with a barrage of damaging adverts, took greater than 70% of the vote in early counting.
Mejia will exchange Mikie Sherrill, the previous congresswoman who’s now New Jersey’s governor.
Malinowski, a supporter of Israel, had criticized Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, throughout Israel’s assault on Gaza in 2023, and refused to rule out inserting circumstances on US assist to Israel.
Mejia, who was endorsed by Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is much extra vital on Israel and was the one candidate within the Democratic major to name Israel’s actions through the warfare in Gaza a genocide.
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Trump calls Doordash supply stunt ‘somewhat cheesy’, repeats false declare about how a lot employee’s tax reduce was
Donald Trump simply repeated his false declare about how a lot the Doordash employee from Arkansas who delivered meals to the White Home this week saved on her taxes because of the no tax on ideas coverage included within the 2025 One Large Lovely Invoice Act.
As he did on Monday, the president claimed that the supply employee, Sharon Simmons, obtained an $11,000 tax refund because of the coverage. In reality, Simmons informed Fox Information that she paid was “most likely going to be saving about $3,000 to $4,000” in taxes on the $11,000 in ideas she made final 12 months.
Trump, who overtly known as the occasion “staged” because it was unfolding on Monday, known as the stunt with Simmons “somewhat cheesy” in his remarks on Thursday.
“You understand, they provide you with these loopy concepts,” Trump mentioned of his employees dreaming up televised stunts for him to star in, like his 2024 marketing campaign look at a McDonalds, which was supposed to drive dwelling the false declare that Kamala Harris had lied about working on the fast-food chain as a school scholar.
“We do these items in politics, they’re somewhat embarrassing. They’re somewhat tiny embarrassing, however we do them and also you win by landslides,” the president, habitually exaggerating the size of his slender, 1.47% margin of victory within the 2024 in style vote.
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Trump says ‘the warfare in Iran goes alongside swimmingly’
Talking in Las Vegas, Donald Trump simply informed supporters “the warfare in Iran goes alongside swimmingly, we will do no matter we wish.”
He didn’t clarify why, then, the US army has been unable to cease Iran from closing the strait of Hormuz.
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In Las Vegas, Trump touts ‘no tax on ideas’ coverage, which expires in 2028
Donald Trump simply arrived for a roundtable in Las Vegas to have fun what he calls the large affect of the tax reduce for tipped staff included within the 2025 package deal of tax and spending modifications often called the One Large Lovely Invoice Act.
Trump started by thanking the comparatively small crowd for serving to him to win Nevada by what he known as a big margin. In reality, he obtained simply 46,008 extra votes than Kamala Harris within the state.
Forward of the president’s remarks, the Reuters correspondent Jarrett Renshaw reported that Nevada Democrats informed him they help the diminished tax on ideas coverage however famous that it has a brief expiration date, not like a few of Trump’s different tax insurance policies that profit rich Individuals. The tax reduce for tipped staff expires in 2028.
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In an Air Drive One posting spree, Trump tears into Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent, however urges Hezbollah to ‘act properly’
Donald Trump has simply arrived in Las Vegas for a promotional occasion touting his no tax on tops coverage.
Earlier than he stepped off Air Drive One, nevertheless, the president devoted the final hour of the flight to a social media posting spree, sending followers 10 posts through which he attacked critics of his warfare on Iran, together with Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent, posted 4 occasions about how upset he’s over a federal choose blocking building of the White Home ballroom he has his coronary heart set on, after which, in a short, closing publish, urged the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to make peace with Israel, which has invaded its homeland and killed a whole bunch of ladies and kids in current days.
“I hope Hezbollah acts properly and effectively,” Trump wrote, addressing the militants in far kinder language than that he reserved for the home critics of his warfare on Iran.
Trump’s longest publish, attacking former supporters turned critics of his resolution to assault Iran started with the query: “Who’s dumber, Tucker Carlson or Joe Kent?”
The president then went on to say, falsely, that he barely knew Kent, his former counterterrorism director.
Trump informed followers that he first met Kent throughout a dignified switch ceremony at Dover air pressure base throughout his first time period. “Kent, horribly, misplaced his spouse,” the president famous.
What he failed to say is that, in line with feedback he later made at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago for Kent’s subsequent marketing campaign for Congress, Trump was so impressed by Kent that day that he urged him to run for Congress, whilst they waited for the stays of Kent’s spouse, an intelligence officer who was killed in Syria, to be returned for burial.
Trump then endorsed Kent in each of his failed runs for Congress, and recorded a telephone message to let voters find out about that help.
On Thursday, nevertheless, the president omitted that historical past in his social media publish, writing that, after that transient encounter with the grieving Kent at Dover, “quite a lot of years later, I seen the identical particular person was operating for Congress in Washington State, and misplaced. I then seen a few years later, he was operating once more, and misplaced.”
“Whereas I didn’t know him apart from our transient Dover encounter,” the president lied, “however feeling sorry for him after the 2 Election losses, I informed my individuals, ‘Rent him for the White Home.’”
“He was actually a SLEAZEBAG, and a few would say, on high of all of it, A LEAKER! “ the president wrote of the person he urged to run for Congress at a memorial for his spouse, twice endorsed after which nominated to a senior place in his administration. “Kent is a LOSER, identical to Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and the remainder of them are LOSERS — You’re born that method, LOW IQ, and there’s not a rattling factor they’re going to have the ability to do about it!”
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The US Division of Justice (DoJ) has opened an investigation into Eric Swalwell following his resignation from Congress, in line with a supply accustomed to the matter.
The information of a federal investigation comes days after the Democratic consultant from California stepped down attributable to a number of allegations of sexual misconduct.
The DoJ has not publicly commented on its investigation.
Swalwell, a seven-term consultant, was a frontrunner to exchange Gavin Newsom as California’s governor till he grew to become engulfed in scandal. He suspended his gubernatorial marketing campaign after which resigned from Congress after the San Francisco Chronicle reported the account of an unnamed former staffer, who mentioned he sexually assaulted her on two events. CNN printed an analogous account, which included claims from three different ladies who mentioned Swalwell had despatched them undesirable sexual messages.
On Tuesday, the day after Swalwell resigned, Lonna Drewes, one other alleged sufferer, publicly got here ahead, saying Swalwell had drugged and raped her in 2018. Drewes spoke out at a press convention in Beverly Hills, saying the consultant choked her and that she “misplaced consciousness” and thought she had “died”.
Sara Azari, a lawyer representing Swalwell, mentioned in an announcement earlier this week that he “categorically and unequivocally denies every allegation of sexual misconduct and assault that has been leveled in opposition to him”.
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‘How deranged do it’s important to be to be upset with the Pope for preaching about peace and love’ Ilhan Omar asks
In remarks that by some means haven’t prompted a tirade on Fact Social, but, Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota congresswoman, was sharply vital of Donald Trump’s repeated assaults on Pope Leo.
Requested on Thursday by the congressional correspondent Pablo Manriquez what she makes of the president’s rhetoric in opposition to the Catholic chief, Omar mentioned: “I imply, how deranged do it’s important to be to be upset with the Pope for preaching about peace and love, within the spirit of Jesus Christ?”
“So it’s telling that these those that say that they’re individuals of religion that they’re removed from being individuals of religion and much from training Christianity and having respect for the Bible and spiritual leaders,” the congresswoman continued.
Christopher Hale, who writes the Substack publication Letters from Leo, wrote in response to Omar’s feedback: “The Muslim Congresswoman is giving a extra eloquent protection of the gospel of Jesus Christ and Pope Leo XIV than nearly each Christian GOP Member of Congress.”
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Police in Illinois responded Wednesday night to the house of Pope Leo’s brother, John Prevost, after a bomb menace was made, NBC Chicago and different information retailers reported. No explosive machine or hazardous supplies had been discovered and authorities at the moment are investigating the incident.
Christopher Hale, who writes about Pope Leo on Substack, famous on X that Donald Trump had talked about the pope’s different brother by identify in his earlier Fact Social publish attacking the chief of the Catholic church as “WEAK on Crime, and horrible for Overseas Coverage”.
“I like his brother Louis significantly better than I like him, as a result of Louis is all MAGA,” Trump wrote in his prolonged, ranting publish on Sunday.
The president’s screed adopted the pontiff’s social media publish lat week that named no names however appeared to trace at White Home officers harnessing Christian nationalism to glorify the US and Israel’s warfare in opposition to Iran.
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Democrats on the Home committee that oversees the Division of Homeland Safety have attacked the Trump administration for chopping funding for a Catholic charity that gives help to unaccompanied migrant kids, amid the president’s spat with the pope.
“The celebration of performative Christianity is closing a shelter for homeless kids,” the Home Democrats wrote on social media. “Despicable.”
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