The Federal Bureau of Investigation last week reportedly executed a search warrant on Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), a Republican hardliner who has faced scrutiny for months about major discrepancies in his financial disclosures . News Channel 5 Nashville reports that the search in question "may have been limited to Ogles’ electronic devices," although the report notes that "details of exactly what areas were authorized to be searched remain murky.
" At issue is a false claim that Ogles made in a financial disclosure form in which he said he personally lent his campaign $320,000, despite the fact that his finances do not show he had sufficient assets to make such a loan possible. The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) earlier this year filed a complaint against Ogles raised serious questions about the origins of the loan. ALSO READ: Why ‘vanilla’ Tim Walz is the ingredient to beat Trump: Dem lawmakers "While it is possible that Rep.
Ogles has a non-interest-bearing bank account, it would be highly unlikely that such an account would contain such a substantial amount of money like the $320,000 he loaned to his campaign," the complaint stated. As News Channel 5 Nashville notes, Ogles filed amended paperwork this past May in which he acknowledged that he did not loan his campaign $320,000 . "Other amendments to his campaign financial reports resulted in Ogles retracting claims regarding thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and expenditures that he had previously reported to the Federal Election Commission," News Channel 5 Nashville adds.
Donald Trump's onetime campaign adviser thinks the former president is suffering mental decline for a surprising reason: an Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight named Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov. A.J.
Delgado took to X Tuesday morning to explain to non-UFC fans why exactly Trump's preference for Nurmagomedov, professed in an interview with influencer Adin Ross Monday , was potentially disastrous. According to Delgado, Trump's response to a single question revealed two problematic truths. " Trump actually knows almost nothing about UFC/MMA but likes attending bc the crowd claps," Delgado wrote.
"He's old and his brain is GONE." Delgado, who has been stuck in a legal battle with Trump's campaign after she claimed it discriminated against her, argues Trump made it plain to UFC fans that he knows much less about the sport than he claims with his answer to the question, "Who are your favorite fighters?" ALSO READ: Don’t be fooled: Project 2025 is already happening Trump ignored fighters such as Jorge Masvidal or Colby Colvington , both of which have expressed outward support for his campaign, and named Nurmagomedov by his first name instead. "So he goes with 'Khabib,'" Delgado writes.
"Notice he's unable to list FIGHTERS (plural), which was the question. (No real UFC fan lists only ONE fighter, when asked. But Trump is NOT a real fan - it's a ruse for base appeal.
" Rather than discuss Nurmagomedov's assets in the ring, Trump pivoted back to politics and argued the fighter had urged him to stop the war in Ukraine. Delgado points to video of Nurmagomedov at a UFC event in New Jersey in June in which he urges Trump against war, not in Ukraine, but Palestine. "Trump's brain REALLY is in severe decline," writes Delgado.
"I actually don't think he's lying here - I think this shows us his mind is gone." CONTINUE READING Show less Calls for civil war and political violence spiked the day after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump , according to a new analysis. Moonshot, a data analysis institution that monitors violent extremism online, found a sudden rise in calls for civil war – 1,599 posts, a 633 percent increase over the day before – across a range of platforms, including 4Chan and Reddit, as well as YouTube and newer sites oriented toward right-wing extremists, CBS News reported Tuesday.
"The uptick in online calls is fairly typical of online discourse in spaces that glorify violence," said Moonshot chief strategy officer Elizabeth Neumann. "The fact is, there is an online ecosystem out there working day in, day out to encourage violence of all kinds, from political civil war to mindless school shootings." Gunman Thomas Crooks, 20, stunned the nation when he fired an AR-style rifle at a rally in Butler, Pa.
, killing firefighter Corey Comperatore and leaving Trump and two attendees wounded. But experts say the reaction followed a common pattern as other mass shootings or targeted violence, and point to Crooks' reported prior posts about violence . Moonshot found 2,051 specific threats or encouragements to violence the day after the shooting, more than double the typical amount.
ALSO READ: We asked 10 Republican senators: ‘Is Kamala Harris Black?’ Things got weird fast The group also found Google searches were the gateway to platforms that hosted the troubling discussions, while actual calls for carrying out violence came from a smaller subset of individuals. John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, which partnered with Moonshot to produce a new report on the chatter, told CBS he wished such platforms would do more to prevent the spread of such content. "In the aftermath of mass shootings, we often learn that the shooter was radicalized with help from vile content he found on sites like YouTube," Feinblatt said, "yet the leaders of these platforms consistently refuse to crack down on users who violate their own policies.
" A representative for YouTube said the platform explicitly prohibits content that glorifies or promotes violent tragedies and removed 2.1 million videos in the first quarter of this year for violating those policies, and a spokesperson for Reddit said its policies also banned content that incites or glorifies violence and rapidly monitored that content and removed it. Feinblatt argued more needs to be done, saying, "We call on these companies to put public safety ahead of traffic numbers, and proactively moderate spaces that are breeding grounds for hate and violence.
" CONTINUE READING Show less J.D. Vance failed to connect on one of his first attacks since learning the identity of his Democratic vice presidential rival.
The Ohio Republican appeared Tuesday in Philadelphia hours after Kamala Harris tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, and Vance described him as a "San Francisco-style liberal" — an irony called out by Bryan Metzger, senior politics reporter for Business Insider. "Vance spent about four years living in SF between 2013 and 2017 as a venture capitalist," Metzger wrote.
"Walz visited SF for the first time *just last month.*" Republicans have been trying to deride Harris, who spent time in California as a child and spent most of her professional and political career there, as out of touch with most Americans due to her time in the Bay Area, a dynamic Walz commented earlier this week. "There was a desire to make these undesirable places," Walz said of conservative attacks on coastal regions and urban areas.
"They do it to San Francisco, and just to be candid ...
last week was my first time, last week was my first time in San Francisco. Stayed down there, I was doing some meetings, woke up, did my five-mile run through the Presidio, to the Golden Gate, went back to my hotel, was downtown, and as I was leaving, I said, 'That is the most beautiful city I've ever been in.' ALSO READ: Tim Walz's personal finances are extraordinarily boring — and that may help Harris "The temperature, and I see the Golden Gate – what they've done, look, have there been problems? Yes, homelessness is an issue across the country, but just to see this – it was exotic to me.
" "I've seen San Francisco on TV hundreds of times and I've heard about it, and there I am driving around, and I'm like a kid again," Walz added. "I'm, like, 'America is so awesome, San Francisco is just the greatest,' and that's the way people would feel – go out to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, go to northern Minnesota and look where the mining has happened for 100 years. This is the beauty of America, and they demonize it.
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