Lev Parnas and Anne P. Mitchell joined Zev Shalev on Monday while Rep. Thomas Massie read articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the House floor.
5️⃣ Trump Sells a Softer Self, Keeps the Hate
Trump told Ross Douthat on 60 Minutes his deportation policy "might be too tough," and in the same hour: "I do hate some of my enemies." Shalev called it good cop, bad cop: Trump sounds conciliatory while Attorney General Todd Blanche threatens Democrats with investigations. Parnas said Trump looked stunned by the midterm results and handed the reins to Stephen Miller hours after the interview. Mitchell said narcissists believe their own words, "because they don't think they're lying."
4️⃣ Draft Launches to Put AOC in the 2028 Race
A group launched Monday to draft Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into the 2028 race. It wants 10,000 local leaders and a million signatures. Mitchell said Tuesday's results left her less sure the country is not ready for a woman president. Parnas said 2028 talk splits the base now. The job now is making the new Congress deliver; about 50 new members won without super PAC money.
3️⃣ Trump Backs Huang After the Spy Affair
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told his staff he had been unfaithful to his wife with a woman U.S. intelligence found was recruited by China's top spy agency. Trump called him "an honorable guy." Trump, briefed on her a year ago, later bought up to $1.6 million of Nvidia stock. Nvidia's board said it has "no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised." Mitchell, a former California litigator, said a divorce would open discovery into the mistress.
2️⃣ Katie Wiles Tapes Reach Congress
On the Katie Wiles tapes Narativ reported with Klix.ba, she asks her firm to scrub a draft's metadata "because somebody will look for who made the edit," and to have "that tweet sort of ready" before Trump's diesel deal with Putin. Parnas said Oversight and Judiciary know, and Rudy Giuliani met Milorad Dodik first, before Rod Blagojevich got his contract. Republika Srpska's taxpayers paid more than $9 million to the lobbyists around Trump.
1️⃣ Massie Forces the Hegseth Vote by Wednesday
Massie read for the better part of an hour. The articles quote the Signal chat on Operation Rough Rider, where JD Vance wrote "there is a strong argument for delaying a month." Trump, asked if he has confidence in Hegseth: "I do," and of Venezuela, "We won that war in less than one hour." Parnas said four to six Republicans are ready to break with Trump, and that Congress should act now, not wait for January.
Bonus: Parnas reported that Jared Kushner, Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff are preparing a worldwide peace plan with security guarantees for Russia, not Ukraine, for trilateral talks within days. Next week he takes a different fight to Washington: whistleblower protection, before Stephen Miller turns the Justice Department on journalists' sources.
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