Randall Head

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[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

News: Secret Service officials are furious that FBI Director Kash Patel prematurely announced on Tuesday morning the details of a sealed and ongoing criminal investigation into a plot to attack the UFC fight event this weekend with drones, according to three people familiar with the incident.

Secret Service and FBI agents had been partnered on the investigation into a group of individuals discussing plans for a drone attack at the White House in the last week, and had discussed unsealing the case and making an announcement later that day. The problem with Patel’s social media announcement, the sources say, was the case had been sealed in court and roughly ten suspects had not yet been arrested and placed in custody at the time Patel made his public social media post.

Secret Service and FBI officials had discussed seeking to make more arrests, unseal the case by late Tuesday afternoon and make a joint public statement, and were surprised by Patel “jumping the gun.”

“We all woke up this morning to see this on Twitter,” said one administration official, who like others, asked to speak confidentially to discuss sensitive matters.

The threat to the UFC event became known to the Secret Service and FBI in the last week when a relative of one of the suspects contacted local police in the Cincinnati area, according to two people briefed on the probe, and reporting that their relative was talking about engaging in some vague plot in DC.

An advanced threat interdiction team at the Secret Service, with the help of the FBI, began seeking a subpoena for an encrypted Signal chat thread and then were able to identify the plot being planned and some of the people discussing using drones and possible snipers to attack the UFC fight event at the White House’s South lawn.

Authorities then arrested one suspect on June 13 and moved immediately to seal the case so the FBI and Secret Service could continue investigating and identifying and arresting additional suspects. The Secret Service also dramatically increased its plans for security around the event as a precaution, and put out an alert to its law enforcement partners to be on the lookout for people with drones in downtown Washington and other identifying information.

Matt Quinn, the Secret Service’s deputy director, called out Patel’s premature announcement in a Tuesday news conference but did not use his name and said the Secret Service made a conscious decision not to reveal the existence of the probe prematurely.

“I’ll tell you a phrase I learned early in my career in the New York field office and that’s `Don’t choke on your own smoke,” he said. “I’ll tell you the Secret Service led that investigation from the beginning. I’ll tell you that case is ongoing. In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation and the security plan, we chose not to leak it.”

He said he was choosing not to discuss extensive details of the case because it remained sealed and ongoing.

With @CarolLeonnig @MarcSantiaNews @lawofruby

[Randall Head @RandallHead1]

@RadioFreeTom Not once in planetary history has any country won a war and then paid $300B to the country they defeated.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

I campaigned for Ronald Reagan. Met him several times. Spent my life speaking, writing, teaching, advocating for conservative policy, limited government, free-markets and individual liberty. Spoke numerous times at CPAC, Heritage, Cato, and to Republican groups all over the country. Spoke this spring to a Turning Point group.

And I have been driven from today's Republican Party.

So be it.

[Randall Head @RandallHead1]

@scarylawyerguy There has never been a country which won a war and then paid $300B to the loser.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

Today, June 16, 2026, National Park Service workers were pouring bottles of 12% hydrogen peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to treat @realDonaldTrump fresh algae bloom.

In a typical pool/spa, 30–50 parts per million (ppm) of 12% hydrogen is a common shock dose to get rid/control algae. In a 30,000-gallon pool (average inground), that's roughly 12.5 gallons.

The Reflecting Pool holds approximately 6.75 million gallons of water. In this case, they would need approximately 2,800 gallons of 12% hydrogen peroxide for a standard 30–50 ppm shock dose to help control the algae in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Based on retail/consumer pricing, that would cost approximately $70,000 to $140,000.

SO MUCH WINNING, RIGHT MAGA!?!

Your cult leader @realDonaldTrump is a total dumbass.

[Randall Head @RandallHead1]

@OurShallowState

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

I told CNN’s Audie Cornish that the most important part of JD Vance’s book about his conversion to Catholicism was what wasn’t in it.

In his first week in office, Vance accused Catholic bishops of profiting from migrant resettlement and lectured clergy on the teachings of St. Augustine.

It led Pope Francis to rebuke him in a letter to American bishops — a letter ghostwritten by Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV.

The Church loves its converts.

But a convert who walks in lecturing everyone on how they’re doing it wrong — and gets rebuked by two popes in a single year — is pushing his luck.

[Randall Head @RandallHead1]

@greggkrupa In planetary history there has never been a country which won a war and then paid $300B to the losers.

[Randall Head @RandallHead1]

@LiberaleMug @Gianl1974 Oh, Hell no - that's HIS money, he embezzled it, fair and square.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

This is what you wanted. You hated Joe Biden b/c he cut off your precious access and <gasp> just did the job of being President. You buried his presidency under an avalanche of negative coverage b/c Trump is the drug you cannot quit.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I don't know about you, but I have a very hard time believing that an increasingly desperate and delusional Trump, addictively putting forth faux grandiosity that resonates with fewer and fewer people, feeble with age and illness, conscious of the sand pouring out of his hourglass, laden with humiliations, brimming with malice, and surrounded by an administration of real and imitative psychopaths and power-crazed ideologs, is going to easily allow our own US midterms to transpire in a free and fair manner.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kerry Kennedy on her brother RFK JR: There was a snake in the garden. He rushed over with his infant son in one hand—he grabbed this snake and stuffed it into the pillowcase while he was holding his infant son.

He walked up to where the rest of the birthday party was, and he reached into the bag. And the snake was just chomping on his hand, and he pulled out the snake to show the kids. Then there was a vole and he grabbed that with his hand and he put it into the bag with the snake, which made all the kids scream.

Then we went over to his house a mile away. There were tons of kids in the swimming pool and he released this snake that had chomped on his hand into the swimming pool.

Now, so this is somebody who, on the one hand, has a fascination with nature, but on the other hand has, you know, a lack of judgment when it comes to the safety and care of children and of and so is this the person who you want running HHS who's got this lack of judgment when it comes to health and safety?

[Randall Head @RandallHead1]

They don't actually have an agreement yet, they have a Memorandum of Understanding, which is basically an agreement to agree, details to be negotiated later.

Given Trump's well-known negotiating prowess, he might agree to give them three trillion dollars.

Of course a promise from Trump is worth about as much as stock in Trump Casinos, so ...

[Gonzo in AZ @Gonzo_AZ]

@JoJoFromJerz

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Gov. @GavinNewsom: Donald Trump is selling the presidency. He's running the largest cash heist in American political history, trading foreign tariff relief for approval of his golf courses, day trading behind the Resolute desk, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit, and he's doing it openly. He did it last night on the White House lawn. He's doing it through cryptocurrencies. The White House has become a marketplace, a marketplace for sneakers and coins and watches, cologne, guitars, Bibles, and phones. Influence for sale. Access for sale.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

I'm really tired of how much credit Chicago gets for dying the Chicago River green for Saint Patrick's Day, when President Trump has done the same thing for America's 250th Anniversary with zero fanfare.

[Randall Head @RandallHead1]

@Gianl1974 Obama gave Iran its own money back that the United States had "frozen" for forty years.

Trump complained about that.

Trump is paying Iran $30B to pay for Iranian stuff that Trump and Bibi destroyed.

Obama gave them their own money; Trump is giving them ours.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one.

He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.

He hates that I consistently call him out. He is simply the most corrupt President in American history.

We have nothing to hide. 

Mr. President, come after me. I am not going anywhere. 

The country is watching.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

So, Trump is gonna give Iran $300 billion to open a strait that wasn’t closed, so long as they promise not build a nuke they didn’t have?

Do I have that just about right?