The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher #Education Has a Troubled #Legal and Financial History
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Leo Terrell’s past is at odds with Trump’s description of an “incredibly successful” attorney.
Documents obtained by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveal a trail of legal disputes and unpaid debts.
Trump’s Pick to Help Run the FBI Has a History of Prosecuting Influential Democrats
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s targeting of Democrats is legally questionable, experts say, but it’s helped to further his career nationally: “The more outrageous you are, the more you are going to attract the attention of Donald Trump.”
The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher #Education Has a Troubled #Legal and Financial History
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Leo Terrell’s past is at odds with Trump’s description of an “incredibly successful” attorney.
Documents obtained by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveal a trail of legal disputes and unpaid debts.
She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election.
Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
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Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election (and a protege of lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who tried to help overturn those election results), has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Lutnick about the US #government potentially becoming the largest shareholder of #Intel, a #private tech company, & pressed him on where the #Trump admin would draw the line.
“Why shouldn’t the US government say, you know what? We use #Palantir services, we would like a piece of Palantir. We use #Boeing services, we would like a piece of Boeing,” Sorkin asked, citing the private data mining & aerospace companies.
In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Lutnick about the US #government potentially becoming the largest shareholder of #Intel, a #private tech company, & pressed him on where the #Trump admin would draw the line.
“Why shouldn’t the US government say, you know what? We use #Palantir services, we would like a piece of Palantir. We use #Boeing services, we would like a piece of Boeing,” Sorkin asked, citing the private data mining & aerospace companies.
Lutnick said there was, in fact, a “monstrous discussion” going on among #Trump admin officials about taking partial ownership of #defense giants.
“I mean, #LockheedMartin makes 97% of their revenue from the #US #government. They are basically an arm of the US government,” Lutnick said, adding that #Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth & Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, among others, were considering the #economics of such an arrangement.
#law#FederalGovernment#Business
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/26/trump-lutnick-ownership-defense-companies/
In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Lutnick about the US #government potentially becoming the largest shareholder of #Intel, a #private tech company, & pressed him on where the #Trump admin would draw the line.
“Why shouldn’t the US government say, you know what? We use #Palantir services, we would like a piece of Palantir. We use #Boeing services, we would like a piece of Boeing,” Sorkin asked, citing the private data mining & aerospace companies.
She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election.
Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
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Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election (and a protege of lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who tried to help overturn those election results), has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
Members of #DOGE uploaded a copy of a crucial #SocialSecurity database in June to a vulnerable #cloud server, putting the #PersonalInformation of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked, according to a #whistleblower complaint filed by the Social Security Administration’s chief #data officer.
The database contains records of all #SocialSecurity numbers issued by the #federal #government. It includes individuals’ full names, addresses & birth dates, among other details that could be used to steal their identities, making it one of the nation’s most sensitive repositories of #PersonalInformation.
A federal judge in #Maine declined on Monday to block the #government from stripping #Medicaid #funding from one of Maine’s largest #abortion providers, finding that to do so would override “the will of the people as expressed by Congress.”
At issue is a provision of the tax & spending bill Congress passed in July that would deny abortion providers Medicaid funding even for #health services other than performing abortions.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/maine-judge-abortion-funding-blocked.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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