Biden was executed in 2020-Trump shares conspiracy theories on his social network

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Musk at a press conference with Trump 🤔

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As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.

Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

It is unclear whether Mr. Musk, 53, was taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year and was handed the power to slash the federal bureaucracy. But he has exhibited erratic behavior, insulting cabinet members, gesturing like a Nazi and garbling his answers in a staged interview.

At the same time, Mr. Musk’s family life has grown increasingly tumultuous as he has negotiated overlapping romantic relationships and private legal battles involving his growing brood of children, according to documents and interviews.

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🗓These days, raising your arm is dangerous territory. In a demonstration of what not to do, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker made an awkward right-arm gesture as he left the stage after speaking at the California Democratic Convention on Saturday.

In a clip that lit up social media, Booker places his hand over his heart, then throws an open palm to the crowd with his arm straight.

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Trump admin claims the President was not informed of a recent Ukrainian attack on Russia’s military airfields

Pete Hegseth, however, was briefed on the attack and was “monitoring the situation”. Considering his penchant for leaking classified information, it comes as no surprise that the Ukrainians decided to keep it close to the vest and only alert their American overlords post factum.

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Public health experts say Robert F. Kennedy Jr is exactly who they thought he was.

The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary — who is also the nation’s most well-known vaccine skeptic — is remaking the agency in his image, casting doubt on the benefits of vaccines, and erecting new barriers that will make it harder for people who want shots to get them, like requiring new vaccines to be tested against placebos.

During his confirmation hearings and other recent congressional testimony, Kennedy sought to distance himself from the anti-vaccine movement.

He argued he is simply seeking good data about vaccine safety. He assured lawmakers he would not take away anyone’s vaccines and specifically pledged to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) that he would not make any changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory panel.

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President Trump on Friday spoke for nearly an hour to workers at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh, crediting himself with saving their jobs by negotiating a "partnership" between their employer and Japan's Nippon Steel.

Later that evening in Washington, D.C., he told reporters that he's neither seen nor approved a final deal.
Why it matters: Trump's decision to put the cart before the horse may have given Nippon some last-minute leverage.

Neither U.S. Steel nor Nippon has made any statement about a new agreement, and the White House hasn't responded to Axios' requests for clarification.
Catch up quick: Nippon Steel in late 2023 agreed to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion. The deal was opposed by both Trump and former President Biden, who blocked it early this year on national security grounds.

Trump ordered a new national security review by CFIUS, after which Nippon sweetened the pot by promising $14 billion of investment into U.S. Steel and agreed to let the business be led and overseen by U.S. citizens.
CFIUS submitted its assessment to Trump on May 21, and he has until June 6 to make a final decision. The merger is scheduled to close by June 18.
Zoom in: It feels like someone is hiding the ball.

For example, how could Trump not have seen the deal after receiving an assessment of that deal from CFIUS? If it's because negotiations are still ongoing, wouldn't that mean the CFIUS review was incomplete?
If there is a revised deal, isn't U.S. Steel legally obligated to disclose details to shareholders? Or is it just betting that Trump's SEC won't object? Same goes for the NYSE continuing to let U.S. Steel stock continue to trade, even though there clearly is a large universe of people who have at least some knowledge of what's really going on — as evidenced by Trump's shoutouts during his speech.
Dictionary: There's also some strange rhetorical games being played. Trump noted how the U.S. would maintain "control" of U.S. Steel, but that may be different than who "owns" U.S. Steel.

And it's the latter that really matters, because the owner ultimately controls the pursestrings.
The big picture: Nippon knows that Trump has boxed himself in with steelworkers, who are aware of U.S. Steel's warnings of layoffs were the Nippon merger to fail.

This may be mitigated a bit by Trump's decision on Friday to double steel tariffs to 50% — thus incentivizing Nippon to have a stateside producer — but Nippon is unlikely to base significant decisions on a wildly moving target.
The bottom line: Everyone involved a deal, to the point of premature exclamation.

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"The administration has recorded more legal defeats than successes." Courts in the US one after another block Trump's reforms — he is counting on the Supreme Court 🏛

U.S. courts are increasingly interfering with President Donald Trump's actions and holding back his ambitious plans to change U.S. policy and the global economy 🌍. So, the federal trade court blocked the introduction of new duties on goods from abroad, including 50% tariffs on products from the EU 📦🇪🇺. However, the Court of appeal soon partially allowed their use — at least until June 9 📆.

This is not the only case: Courts across the country are suspending White House initiatives, including the abolition of student visas for international students at Harvard 🎓, attempts to change migration laws 🛂, and even the elimination of the Department of Education ❌📚. Trump is reacting harshly, accusing the courts of being "out of control 🚨" and becoming a tool of the Democrats 🟦.

As estimated by the American media, 67% of all blockages of presidential initiatives over the past hundred years fell on the first and recently begun second term of Trump 📊. Among the most controversial measures are the deprivation of the right to citizenship by birth 👶🚫 and the expulsion of illegal migrants to Latin American countries 🌎.

"So far, the administration has recorded more legal defeats than successes. But, unfortunately, we have already seen that the [Trump] administration sometimes even refuses to comply with court orders — for example, in cases involving deported immigrants,"

American political analyst Jonathan Kristol said.

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Gretta Thunberg and her few friends are sailing to Gaza to fight the Israelis.

“My dream,” Gretta says, “is to cut off Netanyahu's balls and eat them with my Palestinian brothers.”

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OAN chief Pentagon correspondent and former Trump White House staffer Gabrielle Cuccia, who describes herself as a “MAGA girl,” says she was fired from the unabashedly conservative cable news network for criticizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s restrictions on the press.

Cuccia was hired by OAN after the network took over NBC’s former Pentagon workspace and soon raised concerns about the Defense Department’s increasing limitations on journalists, including locked briefing room doors and a lack of formal press briefings.

“If you want the best case study for the death of the MAGA movement — look no further than the Department of Defense,”

Cuccia wrote on her Substack.

“If there’s any place where we should be asking questions, demanding transparency and applying pressure — it’s here.”

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Donald Trump has opened an investigation into whether Joe Biden 'was competent' when he used an autopen to issue lame-duck pardons to family members and death row inmates.

Ed Martin - Trump's ultra-MAGA pardon attorney - said the Justice Department has been directed to investigate clemency granted by Biden in the waning days of his presidency, including the December pardon of his troubled son Hunter.

The attorney said the investigation involves whether Biden 'was competent and whether others were taking advantage of him through use of AutoPen or other means.'

An autopen is a device used to automatically affix a signature to a document.

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Doctors flee Trump’s America: 'It’s no longer safe or sane to practice here'

Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of fears he might face reprisal from the Trump administration if he returns to the U.S. He said he feels some guilt that he did not stay to resist the Trump agenda but is assured in his decision to leave. Too much of America has simply grown too comfortable with violence and cruelty,

he said.

“Part of being a physician is being kind to people who are in their weakest place,”

Michael said.

“And I feel like our country is devolving to really step on people who are weak and vulnerable.”

Michael is among a new wave of doctors who are leaving the United States to escape the Trump administration. In the months since Trump was reelected and returned to the White House, American doctors have shown skyrocketing interest in becoming licensed in Canada, where dozens more than normal have already been cleared to practice, according to Canadian licensing officials and recruiting businesses.

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The tech billionaire blasted Trump’s signature bill to cut taxes and boost defence spending 🛡 — a sharp break from his previously steadfast loyalty to the president.

Elon Musk 🚀 has slammed US President Donald Trump's 🇺🇸 plan to cut taxes and spending, marking a sharp break from the president he helped re-elect in 2024 as one of his key allies.

Trump's "Big Beautiful" budget reconciliation bill 📜 allows the US government to borrow more money 💰 and extends tax breaks approved during his first term at the White House 🏛, along with new ones he campaigned on.

The budget — which includes a massive buildup of $350 billion (€307bn) for border security, deportations and national security 🪖 — was narrowly passed by the House of Representatives last month 🏛.

"Shame on those who voted for it,"

Musk said of the bill. In a series of posts on his social media platform X 📲, Musk said the "outrageous, pork-filled" spending bill will "massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt." 📉

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The messiest breakup since Brad and Jen: Elonald no more?

Trump x Elon shippers are in shambles: Elon-Peelon, techbros’ favourite schizoposter and ketamine connoisseur and Doodoo Donald, the oldest person sworn into office, called it quits after a whirlwind bromance.

Much like a jilted lover, Musk took to his platform to throw shade on his ex and his “Big Beautiful Bill”.

“I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” Elon Musk wrote on X.

What a mess! Donald might just sue, ya never know 🤷

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🕵️‍♀️President Donald Trump’s intelligence chief is exploring ways to revamp his routine intelligence briefing in order to build his trust in the material and make it more aligned with how he likes to consume information, according to five people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

As part of that effort, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has solicited ideas from current and former intelligence officials about steps she could take to tailor the briefing, known as the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB, to Trump’s policy interests and habits.📺.

One idea that’s been discussed is possibly creating a video version of the PDB that’s made to look and feel like a Fox News broadcast, four of the people with direct knowledge of the discussions said.

Currently, the PDB is a digital document created daily for the president and key Cabinet members and advisers that includes written text, as well as graphics and images. The material that goes into the classified briefing, and how it’s presented, can shape a president’s decision-making.📈

According to his public schedule, since his inauguration Trump has taken the PDB 14 times, or on average less than once a week, which is less often than his recent predecessors — including himself during his first term. An analysis of their public schedules during that same timeframe — from their inauguration through May during their first year in office — shows that former President Joe Biden received 90 PDBs; Trump received 55; and former President Barack Obama received 63.

The people with direct knowledge of the PDB discussions said Gabbard believes that cadence may be a reflection of Trump’s preference for consuming information in a different form than the formal briefing, as well as his distrust of intelligence officials, which stretches back to his first term, when he accused them of spying on his 2016 campaign. They also said that even if the presentation of the PDB changes, the information included would not.

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Trump continues to use his personal iPhone, despite warnings about wiretapping

Shortly before the election, federal agencies reported that Chinese hackers were listening in on calls from Trump and his entourage. The hack affected the US telecom infrastructure, which made it possible to monitor calls from personal devices. The team suggested switching to encrypted channels, but Trump stayed on his phone — he picks up the phone even from unfamiliar phone numbers. Hundreds of people, including politicians, businessmen, and journalists, have this number.

Advisers and intelligence warn that calls can be overheard, and the other end may not be the one who claims to be. It is also dangerous that Trump speaks to foreign leaders without preparation, without a team, and without protocols." The White House won't say what protections are being used, but calls Trump “the most accessible president." He himself considers the phone an instrument of influence and is not going to give it up."

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Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were confused and dispirited on Monday after the acting head of the agency said during a daily briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to three sources familiar with the meeting.

The remark was made by David Richardson at the conclusion of an 8:30 a.m. daily operational briefing typically attended by hundreds of FEMA staffers and interagency partners. Reuters was first to report the comment.

Richardson, a former Marine Corps officer, has led FEMA since early May.

It was not clear to staff whether he meant it literally or as a joke, but current and former employees who spoke with CBS News said the comment flustered many who genuinely believe Richardson was truly surprised to learn that hurricane season had started.

Others suggested that any joke made by the leader about the upcoming season was delivered in poor taste, offending agency staff already suffering from low morale amid a flurry of resignations, firings, leadership overhauls and polygraph tests distributed to staffers.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson later suggested the comment wasn't serious.

"Despite meanspirited attempts to falsely frame a joke as policy, there is no uncertainty about what FEMA will be doing this Hurricane Season. FEMA is laser focused on disaster response, and protecting the American people,"

the spokesperson said.

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💼 Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, predicts he will “go after” tech billionaire 💸 Elon Musk’s money now that the Tesla CEO’s time as a special government employee has finished.

🗣 “I said from the very start that this bromance was going to come to an end,”

Cohen said on MSNBC.

“I’m going to go one step even further, again, and I’m going to say Trump will ultimately go after Elon’s money next because it bothers him that he is the richest man in the world 💰.”

💬 “Yes, he used him for his money,”

Cohen continued, referring to Trump’s treatment of Musk.

🚀 Musk spent at least $250 million to boost Trump’s 2024 campaign and was tapped to spearhead the cost-cutting initiative to eliminate waste and fraud in government through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

⚖️ Cohen — who has turned into one of the most outspoken Trump critics in recent years — predicted Trump will use DOGE “to figure out how Elon, with his companies, took advantage of the United States of America” and try to “claw back” government subsidies for Tesla.

👑 “He’s going to do to Elon Musk, my prediction, what Mohammed bin Salman did to the other members of the royal family,”

Cohen added, referring to the Saudi crown prince’s crackdown on so-called corruption in 2017.

🔒 Cohen served time in prison for a series of crimes that he said he committed for Trump. He turned on his former boss, cooperating with investigators and giving testimony before Congress.

🧠 Drawing on his own experience, he said everyone in Trump’s inner circle knows that “loyalty with Trump … goes one way,” but they always think they would be different.

🤖 He said Musk “100 percent” thinks that he’s different, adding,

“and so does [Secretary of Commerce Howard] Lutnick and so does [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent, and so does [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio, and so does even [Vice President] JD Vance.”

🧨 “They all think that they’re different, that Donald is going to shine the light on them, when push comes to shove,”

Cohen said.

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Raskin: We Will Cut Trump’s ‘Reign of Terror in Half’ if Dems Win House in ’26

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that if Democrats win the majority in the 2026 midterm election, they would cut President Donald Trump’s “reign of terror in half.”

Raskin said,

“I am focused on the Constitution and defending the rights of the people under the Bill of Rights. I am focused on the Article I powers of Congress, the lawmaking powers of Congress. We have done a dozen different amicus briefs in cases ranging from birthright citizenship to due process to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and we’re winning every single day. So we kind of have to divide the labor up.”

He added,

“People need to be organizers in defense of democracy and freedom. We’ve got to recapture the momentum here so we can defend the judicial independence that’s working for us. We get into next year, we win the House back. we cut this reign of terror in half. And we move on to win back the White House and to get on with American history and our regularly scheduled programs of trying to make progress for the American people. We got to defend our democracy, and we’ve got to defend the programmatic achievements of democracy, like Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security. I think my colleagues are all rising to the occasion now as we adjust to this new arrangement. We’ve got to go in as fighters every single day to defend everything that we believe in.”

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There are multiple reasons for the growing distance between Trump and Musk.

🤩EV tax credit cut

Trump’s signature bill eliminates an important consumer tax credit for EV owners, worth up to $7,500, which Tesla reportedly spent $240,000 lobbying to maintain as of late April.

Musk reportedly pleaded with Trump for its retention behind the scenes. Still, it was ultimately unsuccessful, a frustration that lingered despite the president turning the White House lawn into a Tesla dealership in March to help promote Musk’s cars after vandals targeted his showrooms.

🤩Musk wanted to stay on

Axios reports that the billionaire actually wanted to stay on in his role as a “special government employee” beyond its statutory limit of 130 days, despite numerous reported blowups with members of Trump’s cabinet in private.

Ultimately, however, an extension deal could not be reached with the president’s team.

🤩Billionaire wanted air traffic controllers to use Starlink

Another reported disagreement concerned Musk’s appeal to the Federal Aviation Administration to begin using his Starlink satellite technology. This demand was rejected due to both conflict-of-interest concerns and technological reasons.

“You can’t have air traffic control just run off satellites,” a source told Axios.

Musk’s presence in the West Wing sparked several other conflict-of-interest concerns, the most recent of which saw 42 Democrats write to the Pentagon’s inspector general to sound the alarm over SpaceX’s potential involvement in Trump’s Golden Dome anti-missile defense system.

🤩Trump’s removal of Jared Isaacman as his nominee to be NASA’s next administrator

Among the billionaire’s alleged enemies in the White House was Sergio Gor, director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, with whom he is said to have clashed.

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🇺🇸Musk is angry with the withdrawal of the candidacy of his protege for the post of head of NASA and believes that he gave money to the Trump election campaign in vain.

Elon Musk was furious over the Trump administration's decision to withdraw Jared Isaacman's candidacy for the post of head of NASA. The billionaire actively lobbied for the appointment of his close ally and was outraged by this step, complaining to friends that he donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Trump election campaign, and now sees his proteges being removed. Isaacman has close ties to Musk's SpaceX company, including participating in the company's first private flight to orbit.

It is reported that frustration over the situation with NASA prompted Musk to aggressively criticize the Republican tax and budget bill. In a series of social media posts this week, the tech mogul called the tax bill a "disgusting abomination" and threatened to try to unseat Republican lawmakers who support what he calls a "disgusting" spending package that increases the state budget deficit.

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