“THEY HAD TO DO IT”
Reacting to the South Carolina Supreme Court decision in the Alex Murdaugh case, @NancyGrace points to alleged comments made to jurors by a court clerk.
“If she said what they claim she says, there had to be a reversal… You cannot speak to jurors like that.”
“I know Notre Dame people don't want to hear this, I think Marcus Freeman will be in the NFL at some point. He will be a head coach in the NFL.” — @Clowfb
That's coming from someone who's spent some time around Freeman and at ND lately. Interesting...
🚨 NEW: Fox News guests SLAM actress Meryl Streep for supporting Jimmy Kimmel over his ‘expectant widow’ comment: “She’s certainly gushing over him, celebrating talk of ass*ssinations: I can’t believe this is where we are in America and in Hollywood today,” says @TudorDixon.
NEW: Security footage from the WHCA Dinner appears to show a K9 flagging Cole Allen as suspicious moments before the alleged attack, only for the dog to be pulled back by its handler.
Seconds later, Allen allegedly charges through security with a shotgun in hand, shoots a Secret Service agent, and is tackled before reaching President Trump.
Notre Dame makes Ron Powlus the first Chief Operating Officer in program history.
It's a progressive move on part of Fighting Irish athletics director Pete Bevacqua, who's investing in administrative oversight in a chaotic collegiate sports climate.
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Scottie on Trump: "l get a call or a text from him sometimes after wins… Whether you're the person serving us lunch, or the caddie on the golf course, or the president of the club, he treats everybody like they're the greatest person in the world."
Jimmy Kimmel addresses calls for him to be fired by First Lady Melania and President Donald Trump, claims his “expectant widow joke” was about their age difference, not assassination.
Regardless of his intent, he was joking about the President dying and Melania being happy about it, which does not belong on taxpayer-funded airwaves.
Kimmel also now admits there is a good argument for building The White House ballroom after the shooting.
My family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O’Donnell last night, and we were shocked. Seeing a president speak to a woman journalist with that level of contempt — and a clear allergy to facts — is disturbing, though at this point not unexpected given his pattern of behavior.
But that is the problem. Because when that level of disrespect from the highest office in the country repeats itself, it starts to trickle down into our culture and define what power looks like, shaping how boys and plenty of men see women and girls and what they come to accept as normal behavior.
🚨 JUST IN: The FCC is preparing to CHALLENGE the licenses of ABC affiliates following Jimmy Kimmel calling First Lady Melania Trump an "expectant widow"
The review will begin as early as this afternoon.
Kimmel seemed SPOOKED last night over this, going on defense and making up BS excuses for his rhetoric.
This guy needs to be tossed off the air.
🚨🚨@RCPolitics SECRET SERVICE EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of another assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night, sources tell me that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles rejected efforts by former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to impose more reforms on the Secret Service earlier this year after a string of scandals and failures.
The DHS leadership team at the time wanted to install a political, hand-selected chief counsel after Secret Service Director Sean Curran's top attorney resigned after an embarrassing road-rage incident, which RealClearPolitics first reported.
Wiles, who directly oversaw the Secret Service and kept Curran in place despite numerous lapses and scandals, resisted efforts to install a hand-selected chief counsel, a former administration official with direct information about it told @RCPolitics.
These sources also contend that Wiles undercut another effort to have a DHS deputy chief of staff offer reform recommendations to the Secret Service.
In fact, when the DHS deputy chief of staff visited the Secret Service to offer them, Wiles had the individual walked out of the building after Curran complained to her, the sources assert.
The security lapses and embarrassing incidents include: missing the stand in a tree at West Palm Beach International airport, allowing Code Pink protesters to harass Trump and several cabinet members at a D.C. restaurant, missing a glock during screening at a Trump golf course in Virginia, two officers getting into a physical fight outside President Obama's residence, an agent celebrating Charlie KIrk's assassination on social media, and numerous others.
How many close calls does Trump get before Curran and others at the Secret Service lose their jobs? — a former administration official asked in an interview with
@RCPolitics after the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
“The guy is going to get killed, and everyone will keep their jobs,” the former official remarked.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt flatly denied the assertions that Wiles opposed the DHS leadership team's Secret Service reforms.
"Let me be clear: Nobody cares more or has pushed harder, or has asked more hard questions about President Trump's safety than Susie Wiles," she said in a statement to RCP. "The insinuation that Susie would object to anything that would help strengthen protection for her boss and friend is absolutely absurd."
Leavitt did not respond to specific questions about whether Wiles was involved in a decision to walk the DHS deputy chief of staff offering reform recommendations out of Secret Service headquarters or rejected the appointment of a political chief counsel.
A source familiar with presidential security protocols said Wiles has let Curran remain in his job despite numerous failures on his watch and no firings for Butler. In fact, Curran gave two Butler supervisors big promotions even though they failed to ensure that all the buildings at the Butler rally were covered with security assets One is now an assistant director in charge of professional responsibility and all disciplinary actions against Secret Service employees.
“They’re about to fire Kash, and he had nothing to do with this when Susie oversees the Secret Service, and it’s failure after failure after failure, and she gets no blame,” the source said.
“This should’ve been the most secure perimeter in the world. And the fact that the guy made it through the mags underscores the epic failure of the US Secret Service in protecting the president.”
Other sources tell RCP that Wiles never wanted Curran as USSS director, but Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump pulled for him.
If anything goes wrong, "It's on the boys," for choosing him, Wiles has remarked to other top administration officials after Trump decided to tap him, according to multiple administration sources.
NEW: Former Secret Service Special Agent Richard Staropoli says the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was a "disaster in the making" and is urging the agency to change the way they do things to better protect President Trump.
"It should never have gotten to that point... The leadership and management at the Secret Service has completely misread the assignment."
Notre Dame RB Aneyas Williams didn't need to rush back and shed his red non-contact jersey for the Blue-Gold Game.
But he wanted to.
"The position that I’m finally in, that I’ve been waiting for the last two years, I couldn’t just sit there and watch."
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“CJ Carr is in a position now where he can steer the ship. Sometimes he steers it in a ditch and sometimes he steers it on the straight and narrow. We're still working through all that,” OC Mike Denbrock stated.
The Blue team utilized three quarterbacks, combining for 222 passing yards, two touchdowns, and two interceptions.
🏫 A school in China built its running track on the roof.
Tiantai No. 2 Primary School in Zhejiang fits a 200m rooftop track for 1,800 students on a site too small for a standard layout.
🛡️ Safety features: ✨ Stainless steel inner rail ✨ Green belt barrier ✨ 1.8m tempered gl