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Here's today's roundup. | FBI Vows to Release Epstein Suicide Proof, but There’s a Catch |
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who continues to insist Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide, pledged on Thursday to release prison security footage he says proves his claim.
Okay, you’re probably thinking, so this is it. Surely Bongino’s tape will show the disgraced pedophile committing his fatal act, and that will be that. Case closed.
Nope.
“No, no, not the actual act,” he said when asked if his release will include that somewhat meaningful detail.
Just to review, Epstein’s trial likely would have exposed untold numbers of powerful figures for their sex crimes and other dirty deeds, making it entirely plausible that someone could have wanted him eliminated so his secrets wouldn’t get out. On the night he “killed himself,” he was without a cellmate, his guards fell asleep, and the cameras supposed to be monitoring him went dark.
Many people remain skeptical about Bongino’s assertions, so we welcome his release of any purported evidence to support his claim. That will let the public decide for itself rather than being told what to think by the government. Read more.
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DC Mayor Flip-Flops on Immigration, Moves to Repeal Sanctuary City Law |
In 2019, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted that Washington is a “proud sanctuary city.”
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Today, she’s singing a different tune.
Bowser is reportedly working to overturn her city’s sanctuary city law, seeking to allow DC officials to inquire about detainees’ immigration statuses, transfer the criminals to ICE, and allow the feds to interview suspects in local custody without a judicial order. The proposal is a part of her 2026 budget plan.
What would the 2015 version of Bowser say about that plan? She’d probably shriek about it being racist, fascist, and maybe even a threat to democracy. Diversity is our strength! Uh huh. Read more.
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Jasmine Crockett Thinks Republicans “Really Like” Her |
Jasmine Crockett said she thinks Donald Trump and Republican voters secretly “really like” her on Wednesday, hypothesizing that the president likes to talk about her because he’s seen her positive polling. She made the comment to Jim Acosta, who apparently has a show.
“Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I really like you,” she claimed GOP voters tell her in public. “Like, we come from completely different parties, but I believe that you are fighting for the people. I believe that you are trying to do what’s best for all of us. I may disagree with, like, how you feel like we get there, but I agree with your fight.”
Crockett is right about one thing: we do really like her. But it’s not for the reason she thinks. In a time when news and politics can be depressing, infuriating, or both, she exists as an excellent source of unintentional comedic relief that makes it just a little easier to wake up in the morning.
Whether she’s bashing Greg Abbott as “Governor Hot Wheels” while simultaneously claiming to be a social justice warrior, suggesting with a straight face that the president wants to revive slavery, or bragging about having that stank, the distinguished congresswoman always knows how to get a good laugh. Read more.
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“Liberation Day” Tariff Ban Lasts Less than One Day |
Yesterday’s Morning Note reported on the U.S. Court of International Trade blocking Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. 24 hours later, that story is already out of date.
A federal appeals court granted the White House’s request to pause the aforementioned ruling on Thursday, giving the administration “some breathing room” as it prepares to argue that judges should halt the tariff ban for the duration of the appeals process.
Read more and see the appeals court’s ruling here.
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Watch Out for the Fake Susie Wiles |
The FBI is reportedly investigating an effort to impersonate White House chief of staff Susie Wiles after an unknown imposter placed phone calls and sent messages to GOP members of congress, governors, and business leaders pretending to be the close Trump confidant.
The perpetrator is said to have used artificial intelligence to mimic Wiles’s voice, seeking things like a cash transfer, a list of potential Trump pardon candidates, and answers to questions any real chief of staff would already know. The communications also contained broken grammar.
Earlier this month, the FBI warned of “an ongoing malicious text and voice messaging campaign” where actors have “impersonated senior US officials to target individuals, many of whom are current or former senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts.” It is unclear if that alert pertained to the Wiles case.
Authorities indicted three members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for allegedly hacking Wiles’ email account last year, but officials do not suspect a foreign nation is behind this con. Read more.
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John Tyler Became President in 1841. His Grandson Lived Until Last Weekend. |
When John Tyler assumed the presidency, thrust into the office after the death of William Henry Harrison, he probably wasn’t thinking about what the world would be like in 2025. The annexation of Texas, among other things, was a bit of a more pressing issue.
Could he have imagined one of his grandchildren would live to see the distant year? It seems inconceivable, but that’s exactly what happened. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the former president’s final living grandson, died over Memorial Day weekend, marking the end of a generational bridge that connected modern America to its antebellum past.
Consecutive cases of late-in-life fatherhood made such a wide generational gap possible, as President Tyler fathered his son, Lyon, at age 63, who then welcomed Harrison into the world when he was 75. Harrison spent his life working in the chemical engineering industry and studying history. He met FDR as a child.
His presidential grandfather began his life in 1790, during the Washington administration, meaning this story is the equivalent of someone born in 2000 having a grandchild survive until the year 2235. Read more.
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South African Woman Sentenced to Life in Prison for Selling Her Own Daughter |
A judge sentenced South African mother Kelly Smith to life in prison on Thursday for selling her 6-year-old daughter. The decision comes after a court convicted Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis, and another man of kidnapping and human trafficking earlier this month after the child, named Joshlin, disappeared in February.
Smith became a sympathetic figure shortly after the girl vanished, with members of the public volunteering to help police search for her in her impoverished neighborhood’s adjacent wilderness. Her role of grieving parent came crashing down, however, when a woman testified that Smith admitted to her that she’d sold the child to a “traditional healer” who wanted to use her “for her body parts.” We’d rather not imagine what that means.
The transaction totaled roughly $1,000, and Joshlin remains missing to this day. Read more. |
Dog Discovers Dismembered Foot, Potentially Solving 27-Year-Old Mystery |
You never know what might happen when you’re walking your dog.
One minute, you’re enjoying a peaceful stroll through your neighborhood, then the next, your pet sees a squirrel and you’re suddenly being dragged down the sidewalk as he pursues his evasive prey. You order him to stop, but to no avail. It’s a total mutiny.
A Utah man encountered a different kind of dog-walk surprise earlier this month when his canine picked up a shoe containing a dismembered human foot. The discovery occurred on the shore of Venice’s Fish Lake, nearly three hours south of Salt Lake City.
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Detectives suspect the remains belong to David White, a fisherman who disappeared in 1997. Police believe he fell from his boat while fishing in the center of the lake and never returned to land. Authorities are comparing the foot’s DNA to that of one of White’s children to see if it’s a match. Read more.
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Jake Tapper had a vision.
Once he released his book revealing the revolutionary discovery that Joe Biden’s mental capabilities are similar to those of a lamppost, the entire media world would be his oyster. Liberals, conservatives, and apoliticals alike would marvel at his groundbreaking journalism, profusely thanking him for shining a light on such a hidden truth that no one would have figured out if not for his stellar reporting.
Thank the Lord for Jake Tapper, the people would cry out. We once were lost, but now we’re found.
Now that we’re over a week removed from the Democrat propagandist’s publication hitting the shelves, it’s worth pausing to analyze how his plan is actually going. Are the people building shrines in his honor? Dedicating libraries in his name? And most of all, are they dropping everything they’re doing the second his CNN show goes live, gluing their eyes to their TVs in hopes that maybe just maybe Tapper will enlighten them with yet another groundbreaking revelation? Like, say, by declaring that believe it or not, Chris Christie is overweight? Or how the White House is… wait for it… white?
Not quite. According to a Thursday report, “The Lead with Jake Tapper” had its lowest-rated month in nearly a decade in May, averaging a paltry 525,000 viewers per night. That figure represents a 25% decrease from the same time last year and paled in comparison to a rival network that routinely attracted over 3 million watchers during the same time slot.
Why might that be?
The unfortunate reality for Tapper is that the American people aren’t the imbeciles he thinks they are. We may repulse him by breathing through our mouths from time to time, but we can still see straight through his act. He created the scandal he’s trying to cash in from “uncovering,” and the public knows it.
Will Tapper’s book enrich him? Probably. But that’s coming at a cost he didn’t imagine he’d have to pay: his integrity.
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May 30, 1431: The execution of Joan of Arc. A farmer’s daughter, the teenage girl became a military leader in the French-English Hundred Years’ War after receiving commands from heavenly Saints to help save France from British domination. Burgundian troops captured Joan during the Siege of Compiègne and handed her over to the English, who subsequently put her on trial for heresy and sentenced her to death. They burned her body three times to ensure complete incineration, as if once wasn’t enough.
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