Lights! Camera! Cage match! The White House lawn’s Octagon is ready for Trump’s 80th birthday bash

For non-UFC fans, all of this might be disorienting under any circumstances. But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House’s South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring. The Washington Times stories: White House

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Inside Trump’s Reversal on ICE

President Trump woke up this morning with an urgent message for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers deployed on U.S. streets: They were to pay no mind to the internal memo, issued barely a day earlier, telling them to suspend vehicle stops amid a public outcry over two fatal shootings by ICE officers in less than a week. Trump was issuing his own orders. “We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!,” the president wrote on his Truth Social network. “Once we…

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Time to Bury Blanche’s Nomination as Deep as He Buried the Epstein Files

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a confirmation hearing today in response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of his personal lawyer Todd Blanche to become the next U.S. attorney general, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Katie Bethell released the following statement: “Todd Blanche’s record of blind loyalty to Trump over allegiance to the law and his country is disqualifying, full stop. As Trump’s Epstein fixer and personal lawyer, Blanche spent years keeping Trump out of prison and has zero credentials or credibility to run the agency meant…

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