Pound-For-Pound: Piker’s Latest Attack on the U.S.

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Hasan Piker went on Axios this week and said it plainly: America is worse than al-Qaeda. Not close. Worse. “Pound-for-pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” he told host Alex Thompson, who asked him to compare his country to the group that flew planes into the World Trade Center. This wasn’t a slip. He’s been building to it for years. “America is the top dog in terrorism,” he’d said before. This was him doubling down. On camera. Straight face. “We have caused tremendous terror all around the world,” he said. Then further still — framing it as terror

The Money Shows Up. Now the Voters Have To.

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Say this for the man: he doesn’t like to lose. For months, Republicans worried quietly. Trump’s political machine was sitting on nearly $400 million. Would it move? Or would it just sit there while candidates ran low on gas down the stretch? That worry can stand down now. The New York Post reported this week that Trump’s operation is preparing to spend roughly $138 million to help Republicans hold Congress. About 50 races. More than $130 million of it in ads. The rest in mail and texts, aimed at voters who don’t watch much television anymore. That’s a serious number.

New Details — and Questions — With Butler Documents.

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He never cried. Not at birth, not much after. That’s how Thomas Matthew Crooks’ own father described him to federal investigators — a boy who came into the world silent and stayed that way, right up until the rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania. New documents, handed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and reviewed by The New York Post, lay out the fullest portrait yet of the young man who came within a hair’s breadth of killing Donald Trump. It is not a comforting read. He couldn’t hit a target at first. Then he spent four or five years turning himself

Homan Confirms: Investigation Into Ilhan Omar Is Real.

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Tom Homan didn’t say much on “The Sunday Briefing.” What he did say was enough. Asked point-blank about Ilhan Omar, the White House border czar confirmed there’s an active criminal investigation. He wouldn’t say what evidence they have, or don’t. But he wasn’t backing away from it, either. “I know things are going on, but I can’t give specifics of what’s happening,” he said — then added, for good measure, that congressman or not, “no one’s above the law.” Pushed again on whether he was confirming a probe into Omar specifically, Homan didn’t dodge. “I’m confirming that ICE is, yeah,”

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