TRUMP RETURNS TO THE OVAL OFFICE — THEN DROPS AN EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT THAT SHOCKS AMERICA!
The Washington Post thought it had a scoop. Two anonymous sources. A dramatic scene at Camp David. A furious president dressing down his defense secretary over supposed munitions shortages. The kind of story that, if true, would signal chaos at the top of the administration during an active military conflict with Iran.
It wasn’t true. Not a word of it.
Karoline Leavitt was at Camp David. She said so plainly: the confrontation the Post described “literally never happened.” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the administration told the Post directly that the story was false before publication. The Post ran it anyway, with the anonymous sourcing and the dramatic framing intact, because the story served a narrative it wanted told regardless of whether the facts supported it.
Trump’s response was personal and public. In a Truth Social post that the White House press office amplified Thursday, the president defended Hegseth in the strongest possible terms while tearing into the Post by name:
“The Fake News, as usual, is spreading false and completely unfounded rumors. I am extremely happy with the job that Pete Hegseth is doing. Everything has been extraordinary, including our attack on Venezuela, where the result was accomplished in less than one day, allowing us to bring one of the worst criminals anywhere in the World, Nicolas Maduro, to Justice!”
He credited Hegseth with the Iran operation, with eliminating DEI from the military, and with driving recruitment to historic levels. And he ended with the word that matters most for understanding what the administration believes about the Post’s sourcing: “treasonous.”
This is not the first time the Washington Post has run with anonymously sourced stories about administration chaos that didn’t pan out. The same paper ran the MS NOW-featured Kash Patel firing story — five reporters, eight anonymous sources, an admission buried in the middle that they didn’t know why Patel was summoned to the White House. Patel was working on a leak investigation. The story was fiction assembled from hostile sources.
The pattern is consistent: anonymous officials with axes to grind, dramatic framings that imply dysfunction, publication despite denials from the administration, and zero accountability when the story falls apart. The Post’s own slogan — “Democracy Dies in Darkness” — has become a punchline precisely because the paper so reliably generates its own darkness through exactly this kind of anonymous-source journalism.
What the Post actually produced this week is a coordinated influence operation — the munitions shortage story and the Camp David confrontation story both appeared in the same news cycle, both built on anonymous sources, both painting the same picture of an administration in crisis. Both false. Both timed to land while Iran is deciding whether to accept deal terms.
Trump called it treasonous. Parnell confirmed the denial was ignored. Leavitt said it never happened.
The Washington Post ran it anyway because they’ve long since stopped being a legitimate news outlet in lieu of being propagandists for the never-Trump left.
Biden, Obama Judges Get All Stompy Feet Over Trump's Ballroom - He Can't Believe What Just Happened
A man tried to assassinate the President of the United States at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April. Trump’s response was to build a more secure venue on White House grounds — a $400 million, 22,000-square-foot ballroom that eliminates the need to hold major events at external venues where security gaps are harder to control.
Two judges just told him he can’t.
The D.C. Circuit Court ruled 2-1 that the Trump administration likely cannot demolish the East Wing or proceed with above-ground construction on the new White House Ballroom without congressional authorization. The two judges in the majority — Patricia Millett, an Obama appointee, and Brad Garcia, a Biden appointee — apparently believe that the executive branch needs legislative permission to renovate the president’s own residence and working facility.
Judge Neomi Rao, the lone dissenter and the only Trump appointee on the panel, disagreed — and her dissent goes to the heart of why this ruling is constitutionally dubious. The executive branch has inherent authority over the White House compound. The president lives and works there. The security infrastructure of the presidency is an executive responsibility. Requiring congressional authorization for White House construction and renovation decisions turns a fundamental executive prerogative into a congressional veto over the president’s ability to run his own house. And never mind that many previous presidents have renovated parts of the White House without fussy political hacks disguised as judges interferring.
There’s also a small logistical problem with the majority’s ruling that the article notes almost in passing: the demolition of the East Wing has already happened. The construction is already underway. The court is issuing an order to stop something that is partially built — raising the question of what exactly it expects the administration to do at this point.
The 14-day pause gives the Trump administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court. They should do so immediately and they should win. The legal argument for congressional authority over White House construction decisions is weak. The president controls the White House. The White House is both a home and a national security facility. A court ruling that Congress must authorize specific renovation decisions at the executive residence would create a constitutional framework with no historical precedent and severe practical consequences.
The broader pattern here is as important as the specific ruling. Democrat attorneys general coordinated secretly for months before Trump took office to build a legal war machine against his presidency. Democrat judges have been issuing nationwide injunctions against executive actions at an unprecedented rate. And now two Obama-Biden appointees have decided they get to weigh in on the president’s construction plans at his own residence — based on a legal theory that the dissenting Trump-appointed judge found insufficient to justify the intervention.
This is going to the Supreme Court. The court that just cleared the way for the SAVE America Act’s mail ballot verification order — with a 6-3 conservative majority — is the right venue.
Build the ballroom. Win the appeal.
Dems Attempt to Rally Around El-Sayed After Michigan Senate Primary
One of the Democratic Party’s most closely watched primary battles has come to an end after months of campaigning, sharp personal attacks, and deep ideological divisions.
The outcome is expected to have national implications as both parties compete for control of the U.S. Senate in next year’s election.
Far-left candidate Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating Rep. Haley Stevens after one of the most closely watched and expensive Democratic primary contests of the 2026 election cycle.
And now, Democrats in the state and nationally are attempting to portray a unified front despite El-Sayed’s noted anti-Israel, anti-Semitic stances and political policy positions that put him and the Democratic Socialists of America aligned with him at odds with the U.S. Constitution and the country’s founding.
With fewer than three months remaining before the general election, El-Sayed is set to face Republican Mike Rogers in one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate contests.
The race is expected to play a key role in determining which party controls the U.S. Senate, increasing pressure on Democrats to unify behind their nominee.
“The things that unite us are so much bigger than the things that divide us,” El-Sayed claimed in a Wednesday speech.
The race became open after Democratic Sen. Gary Peters announced he would not seek reelection. Michigan remains one of the nation’s key battleground states, having voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, and Trump again in 2024.
Stevens, who lost the Democratic primary by less than one percentage point, told CBS News on Thursday that she is willing to campaign alongside Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed in the general election.
“Whatever he wants me to do,” she said, per NBC News.
Immediately after the race was called on Wednesday, El-Sayed called out his opponents for attempting to use his full name as a smear.
The son of Egyptian immigrants — whose full name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed — went after Rogers and other Republicans during a victory speech for using his full name in social media pieces.
“But right now, as bitter and as divisive and as cynical as the campaign against us might have been, I want us to realize that there is so much more that unites us now,” El-Sayed told supporters.
“Because the campaign that Mike Rogers and Donald Trump, and their GOP MAGA allies, are launching is already more bitter. All you gotta do is look at the ads you’re already watching on TV, starting today,” El-Sayed added.
For his part, Rogers, in a video posted to social media on Thursday, made an appeal to the moderate Democrats in Michigan who supported Stevens and reject El-Sayed’s radical left agenda.
“You have a home with us,” he said in the video, seated next to his wife.
“To young people who are looking for real solutions to solve our housing affordability crisis, you have a home with us,” Rogers continued.
“To working families who don’t want higher taxes and lower paychecks, well, you have a home with us.”
“If you’re among the majority of Democratic voters that woke up on Wednesday feeling, well, hopeless, because the person who won does not represent your values, well, just know, there is still hope. Michigan deserves a senator who is ready to sit with you, hear from you, and represent you,” he added.
“To the vast majority of people across Michigan who do not want to throw their support behind a campaign filled with anger, divisiveness, calls for violence, and the views that are out of touch with your values, well, you have a home with us,” said Rogers.
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“The fight is far greater than just left versus right,” he noted.
“The fight is for the very soul of our nation. Over the next 90 days I’m going to work hard to earn your trust, to earn your support, and earn your vote. We have a state to save Michigan.”
