Republicans Embrace Claims About Migrants Eating Pets

Wall Street Journal: “Officials didn’t know if the drone fleet over Langley Air Force Base, which numbered as many as a dozen or more over the following nights, belonged to clever hobbyists or hostile forces. Some suspected that Russia or China deployed them to test the response of American forces.” “Reports of the drones reached President Biden and set off two weeks of White House meetings after they first appeared in December last year.”

Donald Trump suggested that he was essentially making up numbers for his proposed tariffs as a threat to get countries to make more products in the United States, the New York Times reports. Said Trump: “Until now I’ve said 200 percent… I’m using that just as a figure. I’ll say 100, 200, I’ll say 500, I don’t care.”

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday she does not trust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to certify the 2024 election if Vice President Harris wins, Axios reports. Said Cheney: “I do not have faith that Mike Johnson will fulfill his constitutional obligations.”

Donald Trump said that a national abortion ban is “off the table,” but left the door open on the conversation by saying “we’ll see what happens,” The Hill reports. Trump insisted overturning Roe v. Wade was something “every Democrat and Republican wanted.”

The U. S. will send an advanced anti-missile system — and U. S. troops to operate it — to Israel “to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against Israel on April 13 and again on October 1,” CNN reports.

“Taxes could go up, down or completely sideways next year, depending on which political party controls which parts of the government after the too-close-to-call November elections,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “With the House, Senate and White House all in play, trillions of dollars ride on a few hotly contested seats.