Trump opens with a threat to the generals in the room:
"I've never walked into a room so silent before … Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."
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Democrats' 2025 election wins go far beyond the big races:
In Pennsylvania, Democrats swept the top "row offices" in Bucks County, electing the county's first-ever Democratic district attorney and defeating an incumbent Republican sheriff.
Democrats notched commanding victories in county executive races in Erie, Lehigh and Northampton counties.
At the state legislative level, Mississippi Democrats have broken a GOP supermajority in the state Senate after flipping two seats in that chamber plus another pickup in the state House.
Democrats have vastly expanded their control of the Virginia House of Delegates and in New Jersey's General Assembly, the party gained a supermajority.
The House Ethics Committee found substantial evidence of the following:
• From at least 2017 to 2020, Matt Gaetz regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him.
• In 2017, Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl.
• During the period 2017 to 2019, Gaetz used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.
• Gaetz accepted gifts, including transportation and lodging in
connection with a 2018 trip to the Bahamas, in excess of permissible amounts.
• In 2018, Gaetz arranged for his Chief of Staff to assist a woman with whom he engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating to the U.S. Department of State that she was a constituent.
Key findings from the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation into the Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis':
• Scalia accepted lavish gifts from billionaires and others with business before the Court for more than a decade, in violation of federal law, including 258 personal trips, dozens of which were never disclosed.
• Clarence Thomas chose to ignore legal obligations to disclose lavish gifts after media scrutiny over his disclosures in 2004, in violation of federal law.
• Samuel Alito misused the "personal hospitality exemption" when he did not disclose gifts of transportation and lodging he received for a luxury fishing trip to Alaska in 2008, in violation of federal law.
NBC News confirms CNN: In her new book, Liz Cheney paints a scathing portrait of the Republican Party, condemning ex-colleagues as "enablers and collaborators," who were "willing to violate their oath to the Constitution out of political expediency and loyalty to Donald Trump."
In her book, Liz Cheney calls Donald Trump "the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office."
And she says House Speaker Mike Johnson "appeared especially susceptible to flattery from Trump and aspired to being anywhere in Trump's orbit."
Liz Cheney writes: "As a nation, we can endure damaging policies for a four-year term. But we cannot survive a president willing to terminate our Constitution."