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                    "Republican Senator John Curtis is demanding an investigation into Donald Trump Jr. after a Russian oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Umar Kremlev, bankrolled his wedding party.In a post on X, Curtis posted a three-page letter he sent to the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, and the committee\u2019s ranking member, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, calling for Trump Jr. to be subpoenaed as part of a larger investigation into his business dealings and relationships with foreign individuals. Curtis also called for the same scrutiny of Hunter Biden.In the letter, Curtis cited the lavish party Kremlev threw on a private island for Trump Jr., as well as the Trump family\u2019s cryptocurrency ventures, comparing the president\u2019s son to Biden and the myriad Republican-led investigations into Biden\u2019s international business dealings.\u201cA toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. \u2018Trust us\u2019 was not enough then, and it is not enough now,\u201d Curtis said in the post.The move is significant in that Republicans have so far avoided addressing the Trump family\u2019s business deals since the 2024 election. President Trump made a whopping $2.2 billion in 2025, most of it from cryptocurrency, and the family is poised to make hundreds of millions more. The Trumps also have stakes in prediction markets and defense companies, willfully committing ethical violations without any action from Congress. Freedom Fest in Kentucky\u2014headlined by MAGA artist Kid Rock\u2014has been canceled after barely selling any VIP tickets.The host blamed the cancellation on a lack of enthusiasm from his wealthiest friends, noting that he was only able to sell six VIP tickets (at $1,000 each).\u201cI am never ever, ever, ever, ever doing this event again,\u201d former Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate and event host Eric Deters, who throws the event on his farm, said on Facebook Monday. \u201cWhen I put together Patriot State Freedom Fest, I put it together with the game plan and the idea that I could pay for it with the VIP sales of $1,000 from these hundred people that I interact with on a regular basis that have money.\u201dThe Freedom Fest began in 2022 and has drawn large crowds in the past, while featuring speakers like Donald Trump Jr., Candace Owens, and Eric Trump. But this year saw a massive drop in VIP ticket sales and general interest, possibly due to Trump\u2019s horrendous approval rating, rising costs tied to the Iran war, or an oversaturation of MAGA events (like that barely watched Republican midterm convention). Either way, Deters is pissed, lashing out at people whom he apparently expected to attend.\u201cOut of all these people that have money that I interact with, who I do favors for all day long. They ask me for something, I never say no. I never said no to these people,\u201d he said. \u201cNone of these people will ever, ever, ever get a favor from me again, ever. Not only will they never get a favor from me again, they do not have Bulldog immunity.\u201d He also lashed out at the media for not adequately covering the event.This was the last straw for Deters, who has said he\u2019s done throwing the Freedom Fest from now on.\u201cI\u2019m never gonna do this event. Somebody else can do such an event,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m sorry for all the people that were gonna attend. But I can tell you right now, I feel great relief that I ain\u2019t gonna put this burden all by myself.\u201d President Donald Trump lashed out Monday against a federal judge, as more mainstream media outlets joined efforts to mount a press blackout on the White House. In a lengthy tirade on Truth Social, Trump raged against District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, who was assigned the lawsuit brought by CNN, MS NOW, and Politico challenging the president\u2019s decision to ban their reporters from the White House. It appears Trump wasn\u2019t thrilled with Kelly\u2019s selection\u2014even though he was the one who appointed the judge to the bench. Kelly previously ruled in favor of CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta after the Trump administration tried to ban him from the White House.Trump said he expected to appeal the decision. \u201cWith such a Crooked and Corrupt Press, how did I win in such a LANDSLIDE? It is because the Media has NO credibility, and that is a very bad thing for our Nation! Why should I have to give \u2018access\u2019 to such people? Perhaps Judge Kelly could explain that!\u201d he wrote.Meanwhile, the media protests only continued to grow. After major TV networks announced Monday morning they would boycott the White House (you may have seen some hilarious videos of Trump talking to himself with no audio recorded), The New York Times and Washington Post both released statements saying that they would not publish or distribute any images from the day\u2019s events. Despite Trump\u2019s previous commitments to free speech, he is now pretending that freedom of the press is a privilege\u2014not a right. And he appears to be promoting his own form of state-run media that will only print the lies he tells them. So much for capitalism, I guess. All the while, Republican lawmakers, clearly terrified of getting on Trump\u2019s bad side, remained eerily silent. Read more about the protest:The White House is pushing its phone app in response to the broadcast media blackout, offering up a smattering of press releases, scheduling details, and MAGA talking points as a replacement for America\u2019s biggest news outlets.The app, simply named \u201cThe White House,\u201d first appeared on Apple\u2019s app store on March 27. But it suddenly reemerged Monday as the administration\u2019s apparent redirection away from a collective display of solidarity taken by members of the White House press pool after Donald Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.The push must have been effective. As of Monday afternoon, the app was charting at #11 in Apple\u2019s news category\u2014right behind The New York Times (X and Reddit took the top spots on the leaderboard, despite predominantly being social media platforms). Yet the government software is far closer to propaganda than a bonafide news offering. The app\u2019s front page highlighted Trump\u2019s \u201chistoric deal with Greenland,\u201d displaying a Truth Social post from Friday in which the president boasted that he had negotiated for the U.S. to develop and operate military bases on the island (it did not mention that this deal was originally set in place in 1951 by the Defense of Greenland agreement).Below that, the app offered several banners displaying information pertaining to Trump\u2019s campaign priorities\u2014such as \u201cgrow the economy\u201d and \u201clead the world in AI\u201d\u2014and achievements. However, the latter category was apparently so unquantifiable that the button to actually view such accomplishments took this reporter to the White House website, which first displayed a video of Trump swaying side to side on the stage of the American Business Forum before a scroll-down menu offered some statistics on deportations and, stunningly, a bullet point claiming that Trump had \u201cended the Israel-Hamas War.\u201dOther portions of the app presented advertisements for \u201cTrumpTV\u201d (described as \u201cthe essentials station\u201d) and offered a compilation of social media feeds from the White House\u2019s various accounts. It also suggested via a floating element that this reporter should \u201ctext President Trump.\u201d That invitation opened up Messenger, where the link had created a pre-fabricated message for the White House\u2019s text notification number. It read: \u201cGreatest President Ever!\u201dThe bottom of the app\u2019s home page included a survey for inquiring minds. The question posed: \u201cShould states that allowed noncitizens to register to vote\u2014even through an alleged \u2018software error\u2019\u2014face federal funding penalties?\u201dThe options offered were: \u201cYes\u2014states must be held accountable for election integrity failures;\u201d \u201cYes\u2014federal funding should be tied to election integrity compliance;\u201d \u201cNo\u2014software errors are accidents, not intentional misconduct;\u201d \u201cNo\u2014election administration is a state issue, not a federal funding matter;\u201d and \u201cNot sure\u2014it depends on whether the error was negligent.\u201d True to form for the rest of the administration, the poll did not offer any insight regarding its results.The app\u2019s recent recirculation was a sorry attempt by the president and his aides to keep the American public tuned in to his antics, hours after Trump was effectively muted during the unveiling of a new White House helipad because the press pool wasn\u2019t there to mic him up.The Republican Senate nominee in Iowa is trying to criticize the Iran war\u2019s effect on ordinary people\u2014without mentioning President Trump or her own voting history.\u201cIowans are being squeezed and shouldn\u2019t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran. We need to use every option at our disposal to provide some relief from high prices,\u201d Representative Ashley Hinson posted on X Monday.Not surprisingly, Hinson\u2019s solution doesn\u2019t mention how Trump created the mess in the first place. Hinson also didn\u2019t mention her own voting record: She has voted six times against House resolutions calling for Trump to end the war.Instead, she suggests \u201csuspending the gas tax, pausing diesel exports, unleashing E-15 everywhere we can, reinstating the $1/gallon biodiesel tax credit, and creating a diesel relief program to help our farmers and truckers being crushed by the high costs.\u201d\u201cThese actions to lower costs are needed ASAP, and the war needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end,\u201d Hinson said, adding that Iowa\u2019s highway trust fund needed be \u201creplenished, so that Iowans don\u2019t suffer from crumbling roads and bridges while relief comes our way now.\u201dFuel prices have skyrocketed in the last seven months, thanks to Iran\u2019s control of the Strait of Hormuz, and, more recently, the takeover of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea by Houthi forces in Yemen. 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A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. \u2018Trust us\u2019 was not enough then, and it is not enough now,\u201d Curtis said in the post.The move is significant in that Republicans have so far avoided addressing the Trump family\u2019s business deals since the 2024 election. President Trump made a whopping $2.2 billion in 2025, most of it from cryptocurrency, and the family is poised to make hundreds of millions more. The Trumps also have stakes in prediction markets and defense companies, willfully committing ethical violations without any action from Congress. Freedom Fest in Kentucky\u2014headlined by MAGA artist Kid Rock\u2014has been canceled after barely selling any VIP tickets.The host blamed the cancellation on a lack of enthusiasm from his wealthiest friends, noting that he was only able to sell six VIP tickets (at $1,000 each).\u201cI am never ever, ever, ever, ever doing this event again,\u201d former Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate and event host Eric Deters, who throws the event on his farm, said on Facebook Monday. \u201cWhen I put together Patriot State Freedom Fest, I put it together with the game plan and the idea that I could pay for it with the VIP sales of $1,000 from these hundred people that I interact with on a regular basis that have money.\u201dThe Freedom Fest began in 2022 and has drawn large crowds in the past, while featuring speakers like Donald Trump Jr., Candace Owens, and Eric Trump. But this year saw a massive drop in VIP ticket sales and general interest, possibly due to Trump\u2019s horrendous approval rating, rising costs tied to the Iran war, or an oversaturation of MAGA events (like that barely watched Republican midterm convention). Either way, Deters is pissed, lashing out at people whom he apparently expected to attend.\u201cOut of all these people that have money that I interact with, who I do favors for all day long. They ask me for something, I never say no. I never said no to these people,\u201d he said. \u201cNone of these people will ever, ever, ever get a favor from me again, ever. Not only will they never get a favor from me again, they do not have Bulldog immunity.\u201d He also lashed out at the media for not adequately covering the event.This was the last straw for Deters, who has said he\u2019s done throwing the Freedom Fest from now on.\u201cI\u2019m never gonna do this event. Somebody else can do such an event,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m sorry for all the people that were gonna attend. But I can tell you right now, I feel great relief that I ain\u2019t gonna put this burden all by myself.\u201d President Donald Trump lashed out Monday against a federal judge, as more mainstream media outlets joined efforts to mount a press blackout on the White House. In a lengthy tirade on Truth Social, Trump raged against District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, who was assigned the lawsuit brought by CNN, MS NOW, and Politico challenging the president\u2019s decision to ban their reporters from the White House. It appears Trump wasn\u2019t thrilled with Kelly\u2019s selection\u2014even though he was the one who appointed the judge to the bench. Kelly previously ruled in favor of CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta after the Trump administration tried to ban him from the White House.Trump said he expected to appeal the decision. \u201cWith such a Crooked and Corrupt Press, how did I win in such a LANDSLIDE? It is because the Media has NO credibility, and that is a very bad thing for our Nation! Why should I have to give \u2018access\u2019 to such people? Perhaps Judge Kelly could explain that!\u201d he wrote.Meanwhile, the media protests only continued to grow. After major TV networks announced Monday morning they would boycott the White House (you may have seen some hilarious videos of Trump talking to himself with no audio recorded), The New York Times and Washington Post both released statements saying that they would not publish or distribute any images from the day\u2019s events. Despite Trump\u2019s previous commitments to free speech, he is now pretending that freedom of the press is a privilege\u2014not a right. And he appears to be promoting his own form of state-run media that will only print the lies he tells them. So much for capitalism, I guess. All the while, Republican lawmakers, clearly terrified of getting on Trump\u2019s bad side, remained eerily silent. Read more about the protest:The White House is pushing its phone app in response to the broadcast media blackout, offering up a smattering of press releases, scheduling details, and MAGA talking points as a replacement for America\u2019s biggest news outlets.The app, simply named \u201cThe White House,\u201d first appeared on Apple\u2019s app store on March 27. But it suddenly reemerged Monday as the administration\u2019s apparent redirection away from a collective display of solidarity taken by members of the White House press pool after Donald Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.The push must have been effective. 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However, the latter category was apparently so unquantifiable that the button to actually view such accomplishments took this reporter to the White House website, which first displayed a video of Trump swaying side to side on the stage of the American Business Forum before a scroll-down menu offered some statistics on deportations and, stunningly, a bullet point claiming that Trump had \u201cended the Israel-Hamas War.\u201dOther portions of the app presented advertisements for \u201cTrumpTV\u201d (described as \u201cthe essentials station\u201d) and offered a compilation of social media feeds from the White House\u2019s various accounts. It also suggested via a floating element that this reporter should \u201ctext President Trump.\u201d That invitation opened up Messenger, where the link had created a pre-fabricated message for the White House\u2019s text notification number. 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The question posed: \u201cShould states that allowed noncitizens to register to vote\u2014even through an alleged \u2018software error\u2019\u2014face federal funding penalties?\u201dThe options offered were: \u201cYes\u2014states must be held accountable for election integrity failures;\u201d \u201cYes\u2014federal funding should be tied to election integrity compliance;\u201d \u201cNo\u2014software errors are accidents, not intentional misconduct;\u201d \u201cNo\u2014election administration is a state issue, not a federal funding matter;\u201d and \u201cNot sure\u2014it depends on whether the error was negligent.\u201d True to form for the rest of the administration, the poll did not offer any insight regarding its results.The app\u2019s recent recirculation was a sorry attempt by the president and his aides to keep the American public tuned in to his antics, hours after Trump was effectively muted during the unveiling of a new White House helipad because the press pool wasn\u2019t there to mic him up.The Republican Senate nominee in Iowa is trying to criticize the Iran war\u2019s effect on ordinary people\u2014without mentioning President Trump or her own voting history.\u201cIowans are being squeezed and shouldn\u2019t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran. 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A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. \u2018Trust us\u2019 was not enough then, and it is not enough now,\u201d Curtis said in the post.The move is significant in that Republicans have so far avoided addressing the Trump family\u2019s business deals since the 2024 election. President Trump made a whopping $2.2 billion in 2025, most of it from cryptocurrency, and the family is poised to make hundreds of millions more. The Trumps also have stakes in prediction markets and defense companies, willfully committing ethical violations without any action from Congress. Freedom Fest in Kentucky\u2014headlined by MAGA artist Kid Rock\u2014has been canceled after barely selling any VIP tickets.The host blamed the cancellation on a lack of enthusiasm from his wealthiest friends, noting that he was only able to sell six VIP tickets (at $1,000 each).\u201cI am never ever, ever, ever, ever doing this event again,\u201d former Kentucky GOP gubernatorial candidate and event host Eric Deters, who throws the event on his farm, said on Facebook Monday. \u201cWhen I put together Patriot State Freedom Fest, I put it together with the game plan and the idea that I could pay for it with the VIP sales of $1,000 from these hundred people that I interact with on a regular basis that have money.\u201dThe Freedom Fest began in 2022 and has drawn large crowds in the past, while featuring speakers like Donald Trump Jr., Candace Owens, and Eric Trump. But this year saw a massive drop in VIP ticket sales and general interest, possibly due to Trump\u2019s horrendous approval rating, rising costs tied to the Iran war, or an oversaturation of MAGA events (like that barely watched Republican midterm convention). Either way, Deters is pissed, lashing out at people whom he apparently expected to attend.\u201cOut of all these people that have money that I interact with, who I do favors for all day long. They ask me for something, I never say no. I never said no to these people,\u201d he said. \u201cNone of these people will ever, ever, ever get a favor from me again, ever. Not only will they never get a favor from me again, they do not have Bulldog immunity.\u201d He also lashed out at the media for not adequately covering the event.This was the last straw for Deters, who has said he\u2019s done throwing the Freedom Fest from now on.\u201cI\u2019m never gonna do this event. Somebody else can do such an event,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m sorry for all the people that were gonna attend. But I can tell you right now, I feel great relief that I ain\u2019t gonna put this burden all by myself.\u201d President Donald Trump lashed out Monday against a federal judge, as more mainstream media outlets joined efforts to mount a press blackout on the White House. In a lengthy tirade on Truth Social, Trump raged against District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, who was assigned the lawsuit brought by CNN, MS NOW, and Politico challenging the president\u2019s decision to ban their reporters from the White House. It appears Trump wasn\u2019t thrilled with Kelly\u2019s selection\u2014even though he was the one who appointed the judge to the bench. Kelly previously ruled in favor of CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta after the Trump administration tried to ban him from the White House.Trump said he expected to appeal the decision. \u201cWith such a Crooked and Corrupt Press, how did I win in such a LANDSLIDE? It is because the Media has NO credibility, and that is a very bad thing for our Nation! Why should I have to give \u2018access\u2019 to such people? Perhaps Judge Kelly could explain that!\u201d he wrote.Meanwhile, the media protests only continued to grow. After major TV networks announced Monday morning they would boycott the White House (you may have seen some hilarious videos of Trump talking to himself with no audio recorded), The New York Times and Washington Post both released statements saying that they would not publish or distribute any images from the day\u2019s events. Despite Trump\u2019s previous commitments to free speech, he is now pretending that freedom of the press is a privilege\u2014not a right. And he appears to be promoting his own form of state-run media that will only print the lies he tells them. So much for capitalism, I guess. All the while, Republican lawmakers, clearly terrified of getting on Trump\u2019s bad side, remained eerily silent. Read more about the protest:The White House is pushing its phone app in response to the broadcast media blackout, offering up a smattering of press releases, scheduling details, and MAGA talking points as a replacement for America\u2019s biggest news outlets.The app, simply named \u201cThe White House,\u201d first appeared on Apple\u2019s app store on March 27. But it suddenly reemerged Monday as the administration\u2019s apparent redirection away from a collective display of solidarity taken by members of the White House press pool after Donald Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.The push must have been effective. As of Monday afternoon, the app was charting at #11 in Apple\u2019s news category\u2014right behind The New York Times (X and Reddit took the top spots on the leaderboard, despite predominantly being social media platforms). Yet the government software is far closer to propaganda than a bonafide news offering. The app\u2019s front page highlighted Trump\u2019s \u201chistoric deal with Greenland,\u201d displaying a Truth Social post from Friday in which the president boasted that he had negotiated for the U.S. to develop and operate military bases on the island (it did not mention that this deal was originally set in place in 1951 by the Defense of Greenland agreement).Below that, the app offered several banners displaying information pertaining to Trump\u2019s campaign priorities\u2014such as \u201cgrow the economy\u201d and \u201clead the world in AI\u201d\u2014and achievements. However, the latter category was apparently so unquantifiable that the button to actually view such accomplishments took this reporter to the White House website, which first displayed a video of Trump swaying side to side on the stage of the American Business Forum before a scroll-down menu offered some statistics on deportations and, stunningly, a bullet point claiming that Trump had \u201cended the Israel-Hamas War.\u201dOther portions of the app presented advertisements for \u201cTrumpTV\u201d (described as \u201cthe essentials station\u201d) and offered a compilation of social media feeds from the White House\u2019s various accounts. It also suggested via a floating element that this reporter should \u201ctext President Trump.\u201d That invitation opened up Messenger, where the link had created a pre-fabricated message for the White House\u2019s text notification number. It read: \u201cGreatest President Ever!\u201dThe bottom of the app\u2019s home page included a survey for inquiring minds. The question posed: \u201cShould states that allowed noncitizens to register to vote\u2014even through an alleged \u2018software error\u2019\u2014face federal funding penalties?\u201dThe options offered were: \u201cYes\u2014states must be held accountable for election integrity failures;\u201d \u201cYes\u2014federal funding should be tied to election integrity compliance;\u201d \u201cNo\u2014software errors are accidents, not intentional misconduct;\u201d \u201cNo\u2014election administration is a state issue, not a federal funding matter;\u201d and \u201cNot sure\u2014it depends on whether the error was negligent.\u201d True to form for the rest of the administration, the poll did not offer any insight regarding its results.The app\u2019s recent recirculation was a sorry attempt by the president and his aides to keep the American public tuned in to his antics, hours after Trump was effectively muted during the unveiling of a new White House helipad because the press pool wasn\u2019t there to mic him up.The Republican Senate nominee in Iowa is trying to criticize the Iran war\u2019s effect on ordinary people\u2014without mentioning President Trump or her own voting history.\u201cIowans are being squeezed and shouldn\u2019t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran. We need to use every option at our disposal to provide some relief from high prices,\u201d Representative Ashley Hinson posted on X Monday.Not surprisingly, Hinson\u2019s solution doesn\u2019t mention how Trump created the mess in the first place. Hinson also didn\u2019t mention her own voting record: She has voted six times against House resolutions calling for Trump to end the war.Instead, she suggests \u201csuspending the gas tax, pausing diesel exports, unleashing E-15 everywhere we can, reinstating the $1/gallon biodiesel tax credit, and creating a diesel relief program to help our farmers and truckers being crushed by the high costs.\u201d\u201cThese actions to lower costs are needed ASAP, and the war needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end,\u201d Hinson said, adding that Iowa\u2019s highway trust fund needed be \u201creplenished, so that Iowans don\u2019t suffer from crumbling roads and bridges while relief comes our way now.\u201dFuel prices have skyrocketed in the last seven months, thanks to Iran\u2019s control of the Strait of Hormuz, and, more recently, the takeover of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea by Houthi forces in Yemen. The average price of gasoline as of Monday was $4.4786 nationally and $4.3698 in Iowa, according to the American Automobile Association. Diesel fuel prices are even worse: $6.5107 nationally and $6.3157 in Iowa, a state with a large agricultural economy whose equipment depends on diesel.Hinson is polling neck and neck with her Democratic opponent, state Representative Josh Turek, and is clearly worried that failing to acknowledge the war\u2019s impact could hurt her in November. Trump won the state by 13 points in 2024, but Republicans and the president are polling lower and lower each day with the ongoing war only getting worse. More on Republicans trying to backtrack:"
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