Fox reporting the Great American State Fair is closing temporarily due to heat:
We saw a few thousand people out here. Now, as you can see, they're pushing everybody out.
Mamdani: "At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum."
Trump on the bipartisan housing bill he refuses to sign: "There's a lot of Democrat points in there that I don't even think are good. I'd rather not sign anything until we sign the SAVE America Act."
#BREAKING: Psaki: “Do you remember last year when Trump announced his massive across the board tariffs…He called it liberation day, it actually led to a stock market crash. That liberation day announcement was made on April 2nd of last year, and Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made 327 stock purchases six days later, on April 8th, while the market was down…So he makes those purchases on April 8th. The next morning, just after the market opened, he told his followers on Truth social: ‘THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.’ Hours later, he paused his tariffs and the stock market had a historic rally, so historic in fact, it represented the biggest single day gain in the history of the Bloomberg billionaires index. To put it simply, it appears an official act by Trump cratered the stock market. Trump then bought the dip and then used another official act to bring the price of the market back up. Trump of course insists that all his stock transactions are handled by his two adult sons [@EricTrump & @DonaldJTrumpJr] without his involvement or knowledge of the individual trades carried out on his behalf. When asked about the timing of these specific trades, the White House told us tonight that President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public, saying there was no conflict of interest. The White House also directed us to the Trump Organization. We’ve reached out to them, but we haven’t heard [anything] back.”🤦♀️
Psaki: Now, in order to put on this celebration, Trump is using $68 million of taxpayer money. At least some of that money is being paid to a company called Event Strategies Incorporated. It's run by a group of Trump allies. We don't know how responsible they are for the 68 million of your tax dollars going towards this event. But so far, that money has paid for a janky ferris wheel plagued by power outages, a couple of tents with chairs in them, a temu version of Trump's planned arch, which appears to be falling apart and seems like it's being held together with a slapdash sealant job and, of course, some bizarre entertainment, half of which seems to just be Trump officials sitting on stage, basically filling the time. So how much of that $68 million actually went to the state fair, and how much to Event Strategies Incorporated did they get to keep for themselves?
Trump: "Intel came in. They had a problem. I said, 'I can solve your problem, but I want 10% of the company' ... somebody said that's not very American. I said, 'No, I think it's very American, actually.' And I've done that with other deals."
BREAKING: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled 2-1 that ICE cannot detain people under the Trump administration's massive new detention policy for more than 90 days without affording them a bond hearing.
https://t.co/bEpLmClKGr
Trump literally just admitted that everything his children do they have inside information on.
But republicans were mad because Hunter Biden was on the board of a foreign gas company.
Jack Smith: One of the problems is that the justice department can't do its job. If you go to court and the judges don't trust you, you can't do the basic things that you need to do to represent the American people in court. And we have seen judges across the country say they can't trust prosecutors anymore. And that has such a cascading effect… They're just not effective at doing their job anymore. They've jettisoned expertise.
KERNEN: In the disclosure, the amount of money you and the family made from crypto was an outsized number. Did you know about the crypto ventures?
TRUMP: I could know about it. I didn't. There's nothing illegal with that. I could know.
Trump: I feel badly for my kids. Because the presidency is so powerful, you have a conflict of interest. Almost anything they do, there's a conflict of interest.
Reuters found several Trump supporters who invested in his memecoin and lost money.
One put $2,000. It's now worth less than $120, in what she called a "pump and dump scheme."
Another dropped $40,000. He lost almost $33k and now blames Democrats.
#BREAKING: Well well freaking well. Here’s Fox News’ Dana Perino saying in no uncertain terms, that what they screamed about Hunter Biden comes nowhere close to what we’re seeing with @EricTrump and @DonaldJTrumpJr 😳
Q: How can you square charging this alleged vandal when this DOJ has--
PIRRO: Already this is a problem
Q: Over 1,000 January 6 rioters who caused millions of damage--
PIRRO: Are you really talking about January 6? I'm not. Who's next. Not you! No!
Pirro: He caused damage and that damage was over $1000.
Reporter: How do you prove that?
Pirro: With an expert.
Reporter: With his bare hands?
Pirro: We believe it's his bare hands, both hands.
Reporter: Do you believe it was damaged before?
Pirro: He damaged it!
Reporter: Had had already been damaged before?
Pirro: He damaged the pool!
National Economic Council Director Hassett on slow job growth from latest report: "I think that if you smooth through the ups and downs over the last three or four months, we're on a really steep upward trajectory."