Injunction watch👀: Tomorrow, a judge has the unique opportunity to save Trump from himself.
The case❗: Trump revoked the press passes for CNN, MS NOW and Politico — they are suing to get them back on First Amendment grounds.
It seems like a pretty cut-and-dried case.
Go deeper: There is another issue of the White House TV pool — that is the three-person TV crew with close access each day to the president
It rotates between CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News
With CNN kicked out, the other pool members refused to provide a replacement crew and are refusing to cover any pool events.
Comment below if you want me to go deeper on this.
It seems unlikely the courts will get involved in the TV pool question
What I am thinking💭: The White House can win both ways — let the courts order the press passes reinstated and effectively they will have broken the pool.
42 days📅: Hispanic voters may very well decide whether Trump gets impeached, whether his Cabinet picks get confirmed and whether he gets his Supreme Court picks.
Latino voters are abandoning Trump
Today, Trump’s approval rating among Latino voters is at 30%
These are voters who Trump won by wide margins in 2024
Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar dropped an ad publicly rebuking Trump’s immigration
Their top issue is the economy
Latinos are largely in the trades. They work with their hands, drive F-150s, use bulldozers
The economy and prices affect them on a visceral basis
Watch tonight📺: Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart on how the GOP gets them back in 40 days?
What Are We Doing?!
🤦Trump’s foreign policy right now is utterly confusing
Put the United Nations on blast — good, they do the Chinese dirty work
Threaten to blow, actually topple, Iran’s regime — good, maybe it will finally happen
Iranian diaspora rallied outside the U.N. against the Islamic regime with pictures of those executed in Iran.
Odd they didn’t get more coverage considering how concerned Democrats and many in the media are about Muslim deaths in Gaza
Cuba — put them on warning. Good — the Cuban people have suffered long enough.
🚗Tomorrow — Trump goes to Joint Base Andrews to personally welcome President Xi of China.
🔙The last time we can find a president welcoming an American adversary at Andrews is Kennedy with Saudi King Saud
Before that is Eisenhower with Khrushchev — a more relevant comparison
Xi didn’t meet Trump in Beijing –
Trump feels he can get good deals from bad people through force of will — so far, that hasn’t happened with Putin or Xi or Rocketman
Be fair⚖️: Trump’s foreign policy — whatever you think of it — has yielded major wins.
The Abraham Accords
A remade Middle East aligned against Iran
The Greenland bases
🤦If he has goals or organizing principles, he is not sharing them — and his actions present no obvious through line.
Watch tonight📺: Erick Erickson and a former national deputy security adviser for George W. Bush, Steve Yates, on whether Trump can manage the world like a real estate development company.
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Democrat Dilemma‼️
2️⃣There are two ways to win blue states
Go to the middle like Rob Sand in Iowa has
Go to the far left like Abdul El-Sayed has
Kamala Harris was in Michigan today campaigning with El-Sayed to shore up Black voters. On the flip side, Sand in Iowa said “no thanks” to campaigning with Harris.
📰The New York Times writes: “Many Democrats Are Avoiding Kamala Harris. Abdul El-Sayed Welcomed Her”
For El-Sayed, there is a shameless payoff for African American voters.
So he’s using Harris to prop up his image with Black voters, especially women.
‼️This is the problem with Democrats cozying up to Islamists —
Those who seek power on the back of a tiger often end up inside
This is what happens to progressives who think the Islamists are friendly
Reality🤷: They are not. They just want power.
Not the answer🤦: The Democratic Party is less popular than data centers. So, the party is part of the problem.
Watch tonight📺: Corbin Trent and Jane Kleed join us on the Democratic Party’s fight with each other.
Betting on Debt💸
📺We heard from a lot of you last night about our segment on DraftKings using AI to target likely losers. Betting sites are turning into predators, and now, it’s getting even worse
They want to become margin lenders in the same way you can borrow from Charles Schwab to buy stocks
📰CNBC headlines: “Kalshi asks CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform, letting users buy with borrowed funds”
At least right now, margin accounts won’t be able to bet on sports — at least right now
Kalshi accounts for about 90% of the prediction market share.
📉 There are very few who actually win on these betting platforms:
Over 70% of Kalshi traders have been unprofitable.
Users have collectively lost around $583.5 million since 2021
$371.6 million of that was on sports-related bets
And around 69% of accounts have lost money on Polymarket.
🚨Betting addiction is a story that is very underreported in America.
Why: People don’t like talking about losing money. They don’t like talking about their kids losing money.
But Kalshi and Polymarket have somehow convinced the world and regulators that betting, not just on sports, is like investing in stocks.
That’s like drug cartels convincing the DEA they are Walgreens.
As a result, they are regulated much less than casinos
They are allowed to prey on teenagers who aren’t normally allowed in casinos
🚨So what could be worse for young men than sitting in their basements on their phones, losing money they don’t have?
If there is a place for government regulation, this is it
And yet — big surprise — Congress is doing absolutely nothing about it.
Mixed on the press situation- on one hand, they're responsible for so many lies about so many things. Russia, Very fine people, border is closed, masks work, Covid isn't from a lab, 6 ft works, jussie smollet, bubba wallace, the kid in covington, bengazi was about a video, israel hit a hospital, and so much more. that said, trump steps in it all the time and now there's outrage because we need to have a free press. i'd rather him not kick them out and just have more mature call outs versus name calling. Meet with them, ask directly why they write what they write with facts to back up his claims.
Blacks need to know slavery is alive and thriving in so many of the muslim nations. They're considered slaves in Gaza, Qatar, Saudi and so many other places. El-sayed has said on video numerous times he wants sharia and that not only leaves women with no rights, it's blacks too. Remember, Islam preaches taqia--lying to win. It's insane how much TDS has caused a huge swath of the country to overlook and pretend isn't real just to hurt him, no matter what the cost is.
See you tonight, Leland.
Thanks for all you do.