'Trying to weaponize FBI through Kash Patel': Rep. Dean slams Trump admin cuts
House Democrats are grilling FBI Director Kash Patel today over $545 million in proposed cuts to the FBI budget. Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) joins Chris Jansing to react to the Trump administration's changes.
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New York Post
29 minutes ago
- New York Post
Andrew Cuomo refuses to condemn Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie for killing bipartisan bill commemorating Oct. 7 attack on Israel
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo refused to condemn state Assembly Speaker and longtime ally Carl Heastie for torpedoing a bipartisan bill that would have commemorated Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on the Jewish state. Cuomo, the frontrunner heading into the June 24 NYC Democratic mayoral primary, told The Post Saturday he was unaware of the bill or that the Bronx pol went to extraordinary lengths to ensure it didn't reach the Assembly floor for a vote. 'I don't know how it happened, but I have no doubt that the Democrats in the Legislature would all honor the memory of Oct. 7 and stand in unity in honoring Oct. 7,' he insisted after leaving the Attneu Synagogue on the Upper East Side, where he addressed members of its congregation. 4 Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted Saturday he's an avid Israel supporter — but refused to condemn state Assembly Speaker and longtime ally Carl Heastie for torpedoing a bipartisan bill that would have commemorated Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on the Jewish state. William Farrington Although Cuomo wasn't willing to attack Heastie, he quickly jabbed Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — a socialist who has been polling second only to the former governor in the Democratic mayoral primary race. 'The Democratic Party is 100% in support of the Jewish community, and I'm sure would stand in solidarity in condemning Oct. 7,' he said. 'Democratic socialists, Zohran Mamdani, that's a different story.' 4 Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) went to extraordinary lengths Friday to ensure it didn't reach the Assembly floor for a vote – such as stacking a committee with Democratic allies who'd vote to scuttle it, sources said. Hans Pennink 'The outlier is Zoran Mamdani and the Democratic socialists who said they won't visit Israel, who said they don't acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, but he does not represent the majority of Democrats in the city,' said Cuomo. Cuomo personally '100% support[s]' commemorating Oct. 7, he said. The bill, sponsored in February by Brooklyn Republican Assemblyman Lester Chang, would enshrine Oct. 7 alongside other days of commemoration in the Empire State, such as 'Rosa Parks Day' and 'Susan B. Anthony Day.' 4 Smoke rises from Israel after Hamas terrorists infiltrated areas of southern Israel, as seen from Gaza, October 7, 2023. REUTERS 4 Socialist Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — who is a staunch Israel critic — is polling second only behind Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary. Daniel Efram/ZUMA / Sources told The Post Friday they believe Heastie, the most powerful Democrat in the Assembly, likely didn't want a bill with a Republican as its primary sponsor to reach the floor for a vote, even though 13 Democrats have already signed on as co-sponsors. Chang said he'd let a Democrat take over as the bill's sponsor if it meant the measure would pass.
CBS News
38 minutes ago
- CBS News
Colorado attorney mistaken for lawyer of Boulder terror attack suspect's family, receives death threats
A construction law attorney in Colorado has been receiving death threats due to being mistaken as the immigration attorney representing the family of Mohamed Soliman, the suspect of the Boulder terror attack. The Colorado attorney has received threats of harm from persons confusing him with a Michigan attorney of the same name, who is representing Soliman's wife and children in federal immigration proceedings. That Michigan attorney, too, has received threats, including one that suggested he be set on fire. A court sketch shows Mohamed Soliman in Denver federal court on June, 6, 2025. Robyn Cochran-Ragland Soliman has been charged with 118 state criminal charges, including 28 counts of attempted murder, and a federal hate crime charge after authorities said he attacked a peaceful walk by Run for Their Lives with Molotov cocktails, leaving 15 people and one dog injured. The group walks each week to bring awareness to Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Several days after the attack, Soliman's wife and five children were taken into ICE custody. Authorities said Soliman is an Egyptian national who arrived in the United States on a non-immigrant visa in 2022. He filed for asylum in 2022, said officials, and his visa expired in 2023. The family has been living in Colorado Springs. Mike Michalek, FBI special agent in charge of the Denver field office, said the family has been cooperative with the investigation, and Soliman's wife took her husband's iPhone to the Colorado Springs Police Department. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the family would be processed under expedited removal, a move a federal judge blocked this week. The family is being held in an ICE facility in Dilley, Texas. Media walk past classrooms during a tour of ICE's South Texas Family Residential Center, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, in Dilley, Texas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hosted a media tour of the center that houses families who are pending disposition of their immigration cases. Eric Gay / AP Many state and local officials, faith leaders and community members publicly denounced the violent terror attack and stressed the dangers of antisemitism, but some people have been directing their anger towards Soliman's family. Michigan-based lawyer Eric Lee, who is representing Soliman's wife and children in immigration court pro bono, said there has been a "substantial influx" of criticism and death threats both to him and his former employers. He shared a recent voicemail with CBS Colorado, in which a person claiming to be a former Colorado police officer threatened him. "Yeah, uh, two hostages, Americans, rescued dead in Israel," the message began, referencing the recovery of the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages earlier this week. The speaker continued, "If you're representing a terrorist family, I hope somebody pours gas on you and burns you, because you're a scumbag and you're anti-American. And as a retired Colorado cop who had to leave there after 23 years of service in the Denver metro area, some Park Counties people like you are a reason I had to leave because you're a [expletive] scumbag and you love terrorists. So, I hope they pour gas on you and burn you somewhere along the line in life, and if not that, you go to hell and burn in fire forever you [expletive] scumbag." In a statement to CBS Colorado, Lee denounced the "atmosphere of violence" and said he will not be intimidated. "In the past 24-hours, I have received a substantial number of threats, including death threats, because I represent a wife and five children (ages 4 to 17) who were arrested, shipped to a detention center in the dark of night and slated for deportation. Another attorney representing the family has also received threats, my former employer's office has faced harassment, and attorneys who share my name have reported receiving death threats as well. The president is responsible for creating an atmosphere of violence by repeatedly dehumanizing immigrants and disparaging their rights. Attorneys representing non-citizens are fulfilling our responsibility to ensure that everyone in this country—citizen and non-citizen alike—obtains the protection of the Constitution. Our legal team will not be intimidated." Colorado-based attorney Eric Lee, who specializes in construction law and works with the Decker & Murphy law firm, has nothing to do with the case. Yet, he's been mistaken for the Soliman family's lawyer due to his name and has also received numerous death threats, his law firm confirmed. CBS Colorado has inquired if either attorney has reported these threats to federal officials, but has not yet received a response. In a recent case involving interstate threats, a Colorado man was sentenced to three years and one month in prison for making violent threats towards election officials in Colorado and Arizona. In 2024, a man in New York pleaded guilty to federal charges of making interstate threats to congressional offices and was sentenced to 13 months in prison. The problem is continuing to grow. In February, the American Bar Association published an article on the increasing threats to judges, civil servants and other public officials, addressing rising safety concerns of those who work in public service and the negative impact it has on those professions. Threats to federal judges alone have risen every year since 2019.
Hamilton Spectator
an hour ago
- Hamilton Spectator
Trump says Elon Musk could face ‘serious consequences' if he backs Democratic candidates
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is not backing off his battle with Elon Musk, saying Saturday that he has no desire to repair their relationship and warning that his former ally and campaign benefactor could face 'serious consequences' if he tries to help Democrats in upcoming elections. Trump told NBC's Kristen Welker in a phone interview that he has no plans to make up with Musk. Asked specifically if he thought his relationship with the mega-billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is over, Trump responded, 'I would assume so, yeah.' 'I'm too busy doing other things,' Trump continued. 'You know, I won an election in a landslide. I gave him a lot of breaks, long before this happened, I gave him breaks in my first administration, and saved his life in my first administration, I have no intention of speaking to him.' The president also issued a warning amid chatter that Musk could back Democratic lawmakers and candidates in the 2026 midterm elections. 'If he does, he'll have to pay the consequences for that,' Trump told NBC, though he declined to share what those consequences would be. Musk's businesses have many lucrative federal contracts. The president's latest comments suggest Musk is moving from close ally to a potential new target for Trump, who has aggressively wielded the powers of his office to crack down on critics and punish perceived enemies. As a major government contractor, Musk's businesses could be particularly vulnerable to retribution. Trump has already threatened to cut Musk's contracts, calling it an easy way to save money. The dramatic rupture between the president and the world's richest man began this week with Musk's public criticism of Trump's 'big beautiful bill' pending on Capitol Hill. Musk has warned that the bill will increase the federal deficit and called it a 'disgusting abomination.' Trump criticized Musk in the Oval Office, and before long, he and Musk began trading bitterly personal attacks on social media, sending the White House and GOP congressional leaders scrambling to assess the fallout. As the back-and-forth intensified, Musk suggested Trump should be impeached and claimed without evidence that the government was concealing information about the president's association with infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein . Musk appeared by Saturday morning to have deleted his posts about Epstein. Vice President JD Vance in an interview tried to downplay the feud . He said Musk was making a 'huge mistake' going after Trump, but called him an 'emotional guy' getting frustrated. 'I hope that eventually Elon comes back into the fold. Maybe that's not possible now because he's gone so nuclear,' Vance said. Vance called Musk an 'incredible entrepreneur,' and said that Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, which sought to cut government spending and laid off or pushed out thousands of workers, was 'really good.' Vance made the comments in an interview with ' manosphere' comedian Theo Von, who last month joked about snorting drugs off a mixed-race baby and the sexuality of men in the U.S. Navy when he opened for Trump at a military base in Qatar. The Vance interview was taped Thursday as Musk's posts were unfurling on X, the social media network the billionaire owns. During the interview, Von showed the vice president Musk's claim that Trump's administration hasn't released all the records related to Epstein because Trump is mentioned in them. Vance responded to that, saying, 'Absolutely not. Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein.' 'This stuff is just not helpful,' Vance said in response to another post shared by Musk calling for Trump to be impeached and replaced with Vance. 'It's totally insane. The president is doing a good job.' Vance also defended the bill that has drawn Musk's ire, and said its central goal was not to cut spending but to extend the 2017 tax cuts approved in Trump's first term. The bill would slash spending and taxes but also leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance and spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade , according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. 'It's a good bill,' Vance said. 'It's not a perfect bill.' The interview was taped in Nashville at a restaurant owned by musician Kid Rock, a Trump ally. ___ Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
