Is Trump Ready For A National Security Crisis?

Donald Trump said Thursday he “appreciated” ex-Republican presidential rival Nikki Haley’s vow this week to vote for him in November and he thinks she will be on his team “in some form,” Axios reports. Said Trump: “We had a nasty campaign, it was pretty nasty. But she’s a very capable person, and I’m sure she’s going to be on our team in some form, absolutely.” Karen Tumulty: Nikki Haley supports Trump in 2024 with her eyes on 2028.

“Peter Navarro, a former top White House adviser to Donald Trump, isn’t interested in a pardon should ‘the boss’ return to power,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Said Navarro: “I will not give the Supreme Court any excuse to duck what is otherwise a landmark constitutional case regarding the separation of powers and executive privilege.” “Perhaps no one has demonstrated loyalty to Trump like Navarro, the polarizing, wiry former White House China hawk and pandemic troubleshooter.

“Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will stand as an independent candidate in the general election, a potentially awkward moment for his old party and Keir Starmer’s campaign to become UK prime minister,” Bloomberg reports.

New York Times: “Ever since he vaulted to the leadership of the Republican Party eight years ago, the same Republicans who once deemed him a ‘kook,’ a ‘pathological liar’ and a ‘delusional narcissist’ nonetheless have come around to endorse handing him the nuclear codes. Even many of those who called him out for trying to overturn an election that he lost are now willing to entrust him again with the future of American democracy.” “Given Mr.

“At five in the morning one week after Republican Royce White lost his 2022 Minnesota congressional primary, his campaign shelled out more than $1,200 in donor funds to a vendor 1,800 miles away not typically associated with political expenses—an all-nude strip club in Miami, Florida, called ‘Gold Rush Cabaret,’” the Daily Beast reports. “That is just one among dozens of outlandish but previously unreported payments that The Daily Beast has identified from White’s 2022 Federal Election Commission filings.

Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), a top possible VP pick for former President Trump, has spent the past six months lobbying some of the heaviest hitters in Silicon Valley to back Trump, Axios reports.