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Trump’s company is selling paying customers early access to his official posts. Now, a new lawsuit claims that’s unconstitutional. Sailors on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln have reportedly tried to jump overboard as Trump’s Iran war drags on with no end in sight. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is about to spend as much as $20 million on electric shock gloves so its agents can exact even more brutality on immigrants. And even though MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell lost Minnesota’s Republican gubernatorial primary by more than 13 points, he still won’t concede.
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Trump Sued Over Scheme to Sell Investors Access to His Truth Social Posts
A new lawsuit is accusing President Donald Trump of selling access to something he doesn’t actually own. Both The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing Trump and the White House social media team, arguing that the president selling early access to his market-moving Truth Social posts violates both the the First and Fifth Amendments.
Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) — which is the parent company of Truth Social — recently started selling a product called Truth API. For a subscription fee of $60,000 to $100,000 per month, customers get Trump’s posts a few milliseconds before everyone else sees them. TMTG says it’s already signed more than ten deals, mostly with high-frequency trading firms.
Trump regularly uses Truth Social to announce new executive orders, personnel changes and war updates. That means Truth API users could get a preview on market-moving news before the rest of the country.
Legal experts say even though the timing gap is small, it’s still a huge problem. Nikhel Sus, the chief counsel for anti-corruption group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), noted there’s no exception in the U.S. Constitution for a small violation. Even a delay measured in milliseconds still matters.
There’s also a deeper argument to consider. The plaintiffs in the case say a sitting president’s official statements aren’t his private property. According to the groups suing Trump, the Presidential Records Act puts those statements squarely in the public domain. If the courts agree with that argument, Trump would be liable for auctioning off something that belongs to the American people.
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Adam Schiff of California have drawn attention to the scheme, asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether the arrangement violates federal securities law. They added the arrangement was a “shocking abuse” of the presidency. Now we find out whether the courts agree.
Depressed Sailors Trying to Jump Overboard as Trump’s War Drags on with No End in Sight
The human toll of Trump’s war with Iran is becoming impossible to ignore: not only in terms of those killed and injured, but those suffering mental distress as well.
The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln has been deployed in the Middle East since November. It was supposed to head home in May. Instead, the Iran war has kept the aircraft carrier in the region indefinitely, with no return date in place yet for the roughly 5,000 people aboard the vessel.
The Military Times reported this week that multiple sailors have even tried to jump overboard, only to be stopped by fellow crew members. Family members of sailors say the ship is in midst of a rapidly unfolding crisis. One military spouse said her husband recently texted her saying he hoped he wouldn’t wake up the following day.
At town halls with Navy leadership, military families have pushed back hard against the Trump administration. One woman in San Diego told acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao she couldn’t feel proud of her relative because he’d told her he felt guilty about killing civilians.
Conditions on the ship have also gotten increasingly grim. Photos of sparse, barely edible meals have been circulating on social media. Some reports have described how water on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln is contaminated, while others have referenced plumbing failures and even an inability to get mail through. But that all still pales in comparison to the strain those on board are feeling who still have no idea when they’re going home.
Trump has responded to these claims by bragging on Truth Social about his Naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. He has yet to offer any comforting words to the sailors aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln or their families.
ICE Spending $20 Million on Electric Shock Gloves for Agents
ICE is preparing to spend up to $20 million on electric shock gloves for agents. The devices are called the G.L.O.V.E., which is short for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, made by a company called Compliant Technologies based in in Lexington, Kentucky.
They look like ordinary patrol gloves until the wearer flips a switch. Then touching someone’s skin delivers a jolt the manufacturer said is similar to a bee sting, meant to get quick compliance from a combative person.
DHS published the purchase notice this week and hasn’t yet offered much in the way of explanation. The contract could be posted as a no-bid solicitation as early as Friday, meaning it may never face real competition or even scrutiny.
Civil rights groups are sounding the alarm, and for good reason. ICE has already been heavily criticized for its brutal tactics with essentially no independent oversight. The ACLU’s Jenn Rolnick Borchetta said those being shocked may get no warning at all, and that a device that can be easily activated with the flip of a switch is a recipe for widespread abuse.
Even supporters of the gloves say it’s usually limited to jails and transport settings, not for everyday immigration enforcement. That raises an obvious question nobody at ICE has answered yet: why do civil immigration enforcement officers need a pain-compliance device at all?
Trump-Endorsed Candidate Refusing to Concede Despite Decisive Loss
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell lost Minnesota’s Tuesday night Republican gubernatorial primary to House Speaker Lisa Demuth, and it wasn’t close. Demuth beat him 43.4 percent to 32.5 percent. Now, Lindell is refusing to concede.
After he was told live on his own streaming channel that the AP officially called the race for Demuth, Lindell dismissed it. He claimed hundreds of thousands of votes had yet to be counted and said he wasn’t giving up. He, of course, offered no evidence to back up his claim.
This may not be all that surprising for those familiar with Lindell. This is the same man who spent years and tens of millions of dollars pushing the widely debunked lie that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election from Trump. That claim led to Lindell having to pay. a $1.3 billion defamation judgment to the voting technology company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems. He was also unable to answer questions about whether he even lived in Minnesota, since his voter registration was active in Texas for weeks while he told reporters he’d since moved back to the Gopher State.
Trump threw his weight behind Lindell, urging Minnesota Republicans to vote for him while praising his commitment to what the president called “free and fair elections.” Lindell’s loss is the latest among a growing list of Trump-endorsed candidates who’ve gone on to lose their Republican primaries.
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