William Melvin

NEW: state Rep. Don McLaughlin says New World Screwworm within 1 mile of Texas border and urged state leaders to set up response modeled after Operation Lone Star. Says the federal government is "failing to take seriously a threat that could devastate our livestock industry."

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: I went undercover into a leftist training “class” here outside ICE Newark, where rioters are each handed ~$100 of equipment to pretend to be medics These people are basically Antifa’s support staff They were given goggles, latex gloves, and most notably, 3M P100 respirators with MULTIPLE spare cartridges — all new in the box. The respirator + spare cartridges cost $75 each. And they were doling them out like candy. These are NOT organic riots. They’re well organized and well-funded. These groups need to be broken up into a million pieces.

Platner should drop out

I’m actually pretty pissed at how badly they’ve bungled America 250. First they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one hit wonders. Then when that didn’t work they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk about himself for 90 minutes. This should have been a massive, raucous celebration of the country and its 250 year history. Now it will be a political rally identical to the ten million other ones we’ve already seen.

On the one hand, it's truly sad that we will never be able to celebrate America's 250th the way we did the Bicentennial in 1976. I love this country every bit as much as I did when I was born in 1980. But this was the most foreseeable outcome imaginable.

NEW: The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Donald Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event at the White House, and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.