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In new remarks, Pope Leo XIV denounced the Trump-Vance immigration raids as a moral failure, warning of “violence” against longtime residents living peaceful lives.
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Bob Woodward’s account of his Jan 22, 2020 conversation with Trump about MBS’s role in Khashoggi’s murder from his book Rage: I wonder if the recording is in his book of audiotapes he put out in 2022.

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"That is one of the most gruesome things," I said. "You yourself have said." "Yeah, but Iran is killing 36 people a day, so - "Trump said. I pressed him on MBS's role in the Khashoggi killing. My reporting showed that Trump had told others about the crown prince. "I saved his ass," Trump said after the U.S. outcry over Khasshogi's murder. "I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to stop them." He'd sarcastically told members of Congress "Let them trade with Russia instead. Let them buy a thousand planes from Russia instead of the United States. Fellas, you've got to be smart." In May 2019, Trump used his emergency authority to bypass the objections of Congress and sell the Saudis $8 billion in arms. Now, Trump said, "Well, I understand what you're saying, and I've gotten involved very much. I know everything about the whole situation." He said Saudi Arabia spent hundreds of billions in the United Statesand was responsible for millions of jobs. Of MBS, Trump said, "He will always say that he didn't do it. He says that to everybody, and frankly I'm happy that he says that. But he will say that to you, he will say that to Congress, and he will say that to everybody. He's never said he did do it." "Do you believe that he did it?" I asked. "No, he says that he didn't do it." "I know, but do you really believe -" "He says very strongly that he didn't do it," Trump said. "Bob, they spent $400 billion over a fairly short period of time." Trump was referring, as he often did, to the deals struck in advance of his trip to Saudi Arabia in 2017. In a fact-check, the Associated Press wrote, "Actual orders under the arms deal are far smaller, and neither country has announced nor substantiated Trump's repeated assertion that the Saudis are poised to inject $450 billion overall into the U.S. economy." "And you know, they're in the Middle East," Trump went on. Saudi Arabia was an important ally. "You know, they're big. Because of their religious monuments, you know, they have real power. They have oil, but they also have great monuments for religion. You know that, right? For that religion."
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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The former police and military will be paid $300 per address verified for ICE, up to a maximum of $30,000, a person briefed on the plan said www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Brown said that ICE does not have good addresses for some of its targets, one person briefed on the plans recalled. Feds United would give recruited individuals a list of addresses based on things like utility bills, the person said. Feds United would split the people into teams to perform the surveillance, and after verifying the target lived at the address each person on the team would be paid $300, they added. This would go up to a maximum of $30,000, they said. “Do not talk to the neighbors,” the person said, recalling the plans. “This was strictly supposed to be observe and report,” referring to a tactic where they are not supposed to directly interact with anyone.
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Sexual deviants need to stick together.
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM