Trump Confirms the FIFA Fix: “I Asked for a Review”
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⚽ TRUMP OWNS THE RED-CARD FIX — AT THE PODIUM, ON THE RECORD
Trump confirmed this morning that he personally asked FIFA to reverse Folarin Balogun’s red card. “I spoke to Johnny,” he said of Gianni Infantino, at a White House event recorded by Narativ. “I asked for a review… I didn’t tell him what to do. I can’t tell him what to do.” He ruled on the play himself — “that wasn’t a foul, that wasn’t even an infraction” — then smeared the referee: “a little bit suspect if you check his past… If you’d like, I’ll provide you with the past.” A sitting president offered the press corps a dossier on a World Cup official. He claimed the tournament outright — “I got the World Cup… It was not Biden. Biden was asleep” — and pre-spun tonight’s Belgium game: “If they beat us, I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020.” Balogun — a New York-born birthright citizen of the exact kind Trump’s movement wants stripped of that birthright — plays tonight. The fix was confirmed by the fixer, with a bow.
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🎙️ TRUMP BLESSES COHEN’S COMEBACK — THE STAGE IS SET
Trump gave Michael Cohen a “glowing recommendation” for a new 770 WABC show — a personal greenlight for hiring the star witness who helped convict him, sought in advance by owner John Catsimatidis: “I checked with the White House and they had no objection.” Cohen spent January claiming Bragg and James coerced his testimony; Blanche — who branded him “the greatest liar of all time” — needs exactly that recantation, weekly, in public, to free the president from the 34-count conviction. Cohen sold the resistance a truth-teller, kept the subscription money, and went back to the fold; The Narativ reported the project in January and got attacked for asking. Boycott 770 WABC — Catsimatidis asked permission for a host, let him ask for an audience.
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⚖️ THE STATE SHOWS ITS ROBINSON CASE — ON CAMERA
Utah prosecutors open a five-day preliminary hearing this morning to put Tyler Robinson on trial for his life in the Charlie Kirk assassination — livestreamed, over defense objections, with Erika Kirk in the room. The case is very strong: DNA on the trigger, a written declaration of intent, a family that turned him in; what changes today is that the record stops being thin and the theories meet the evidence. Expect the bindover; watch for plea signals from the defense.
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🗳️ HE SHOUTS COMMUNISM — AND RUNS A COMMAND ECONOMY
Trump’s Mall speech warned of “communists” while his weekend record showed allocation by loyalty: no-bid Reflecting Pool contracts kept with Trump-tied vendors, donor pardons, a critic facing ten years, 702 rules erased by decree. The accusation is a confession.
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🤝 THE FIXER FLIES TO ANKARA
Kyiv buried 11 more this morning; Wednesday at 2:30 Trump sits with Zelenskyy carrying Saturday’s Putin call — land for an ending, priced in territory that isn’t his to trade — with al-Sharaa and the Lebanon fix booked for the same afternoon.
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🎯 THE BIGGER PICTURE
Fairness left the building this weekend, and this morning Trump said so out loud. “If they beat us, it was rigged” — the president’s rule for tonight’s game is the rule for everything now: outcomes he likes are earned, outcomes he doesn’t are stolen, and what you owe him decides which you get. Cohen recants and collects a microphone. Infantino defers and delivers a striker. Vendors stay loyal and keep the contracts. Putin gets ninety minutes and a fixer; Ukraine gets the bill. And the man shouting communism from the Mall spent the weekend allocating contracts, pardons and punishments by loyalty — the command economy he claims to be saving us from, minus the free market capitalism actually requires. One room still runs on rules this morning: a courtroom in Provo, where the state lays out a very strong case on camera and takes cross-examination like everyone else. That’s what fairness looks like. Notice how rare it felt.
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He told you who Cohen was in January. Trump’s Lawyer: Michael Cohen is ‘The Greatest Liar of All Time’ — Blanche gave Cohen the nickname. He needs him now.
Trump's Lawyer: Michael Cohen is 'The Greatest Liar of All Time'
On Friday, January 16, 2026, Michael Cohen published a Substack post claiming Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and NY Attorney General Letitia James “pressured and coerced” him into giving testimony against Donald Trump.
I tuned-in to Malcolm Nance, Lev Parnas and Michael Cohen back way back when and found it interesting to listen to a spy talk with 2 felons.
I was a free subscriber to all 3. I accidentally paid for a year subscription to Cohen for a year. It ended in May. I do not miss him.
Greg and I both subscribe to Malcolm Nance / Black Man Spy. We have participated in every single one of his webcasts since the beginning of the Iran War. Along with Malcolm are Danish intelligence officer, Jacob Karsbo (subscribed) and mideast expert, Wajeeh Lion (subscribed) Tuning in to Black Man Spy a great way to start the day.
I’ve always thought Cohen was a whiney POS. Never fell for his act. Every time he spoke, he made it about himself - sound familiar. Hope karma does her work soon.