The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive News Summary
Trump calls for end to ballroom legal obstruction: In the wake of another assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, Trump called for an end to the legal efforts to stop construction of the White House ballroom. “What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House.” On Sunday, the DOJ sent a letter to the lawyer representing the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which read, “Your client should voluntarily dismiss this frivolous lawsuit today.”
Trump cancels Iran envoys; Iranian damages to U.S. bases calculated: A potential peace summit in Pakistan that would have hosted Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, along with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, has fallen apart. Araghchi left Islamabad before the American representatives arrived, although Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reported having a warm conversation with him. Apparently, warm conversations with no evidence of concessions weren’t enough for President Trump, who canceled Witkoff and Kushner’s flight on Saturday, saying there will be no more “18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.” Meanwhile, the cost of Iranian strikes on U.S. bases during the initial phase of Operation Epic Fury has been calculated at $5 billion. Costs include the loss of aircraft and damage to infrastructure. The U.S. spent $5.6 billion on munitions in the first two days of the war.
DOJ drops Powell probe; Tillis drops opposition to Warsh: Following the Senate Banking Committee hearing for Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh last week, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said that he would not vote to confirm until the DOJ dropped its criminal investigation of outgoing Fed Chair Jerome Powell. DC U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro responded by appearing to dig in, saying the investigation would continue. That was until Friday, when Pirro announced, “I have directed my office to close our investigation as the IG undertakes this inquiry.” Following this development, Tillis responded, “I needed to feel like they were not using the DOJ as a weapon to threaten the independence of the Fed. This will allow Mr. Warsh to move on with his confirmation on time.”
Judge blocks deportation of terrorist’s family: U.S. District Judge Fred Biery issued an emergency order over the weekend blocking the Trump administration from deporting the five family members of accused terrorist Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who is an Egyptian national. In a statement, Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said, “Mohammed Soliman is a terrorist responsible for an anti-Semitic firebombing in Boulder.” Soliman was charged with 12 counts of federal hate crimes, and his family was taken into ICE custody after spending 10 months at a detention center in Texas. “The family received full due process and was issued a final order of removal on December 29, 2025,” Bis said. “They appealed the judge’s decision. The board of appeals upheld the final order of removal on April 22, 2026. Despite receiving full due process, this activist judge appointed by Bill Clinton is releasing this terrorist’s family onto American streets AGAIN.”
Supreme Court weighs Temporary Protected Status: The Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for immigrants has been used to allow various groups to set up shop, apparently permanently, in the U.S. President Trump wants to put the “temporary” back in TPS. The Supreme Court will hear a case on Wednesday surrounding the president’s attempt to end TPS for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. Fifty thousand Haitians were first granted TPS in 2010 following an earthquake, but President Biden expanded coverage to hundreds of thousands more during his migrant surge. Syrians were first granted their status in 2012. Legal experts agree that Trump’s right to rescind TPS is clear-cut, but SCOTUS has found ways to overturn clear-cut presidential powers before, as in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) case in his first term.
Tone-deaf Utah Valley University is still tone-deaf: Utah Valley University, which began the school year tragically with Charlie Kirk’s murder, tried to end the year despicably by hosting an apologist for his assassination as a commencement speaker. That speaker, Sharon McMahon, who posted out-of-context clips of Kirk to besmirch his good name and valorize those celebrating his death, will not be giving the commencement address after pushback. However, UVU couldn’t even get that part right, as officials now allege that McMahon’s speech was canceled due to “safety concerns” rather than the manifest poor taste in inviting her in the first place. The cowards making the decisions at UVU have decided that 13,400 graduates will have no commencement speaker at all.
Another trans murder plot: Hadyn Dollery, a man who dresses as a woman and is a substitute teacher, was arrested for an alleged planned school murder spree last Monday. Dollery posted threatening messages relating to Loudoun County’s John Champe High School on Discord. An anonymous tip led to the arrest of the 19-year-old Dollery on school grounds. Dollery apparently had a “kill list,” and he was listed as a “non-licensed” substitute for the 2025-26 school year. The district has already scrubbed Dollery from its substitute teacher’s list. For any clear-eyed observer, the truth is obvious: gender-confused individuals have no place in our schools or anywhere near children.
Death penalty via firing squad: In response to President Trump’s day-one executive order to prioritize seeking the death penalty to protect the public, the DOJ announced on Friday that it had directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand the means of administering the federal death penalty. A memo from the DOJ read, “Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases.” Trump’s policy stands in direct contrast to that of Joe Biden. During the last month of his presidency, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal inmates on death row. The DOJ memo noted, “These steps are critical to deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims, and providing long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones.”
Seattle’s homelessness agency can’t account for $13M: Democrats pretend to care about the egregious amount of waste, fraud, and abuse perpetrated with taxpayer funds. King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) cannot account for $13 million in public funds. An audit revealed that KCRHA was $44 million in the red at the end of July; it has a $4.26 million administrative operating deficit, $1.26 million in unrecoverable interest charges, and an $8 million receivables balance that could not be reconciled. Seattle City Council member Maritza Rivera stated, “KCRHA has a history of dysfunction and inefficiency, and it is time to acknowledge that it has failed in its mission. I am calling for Mayor Wilson to provide a plan for the dismantling of KCRHA as soon as possible.” The mayor’s office admitted that the audit shows “serious failures of … internal controls, fiscal management and accountability” at the KCRHA.
Headlines
Wisconsin Dem’s bar laments “we almost got free beer day” for Trump assassination (Fox News)
Supreme Court hands GOP a redistricting win by striking down lower court block on Texas map (Fox News)
DeSantis unveils proposed new Florida congressional map giving GOP four extra seats (NY Post)
250 major companies still use SPLC to screen donations despite KKK funding scandal (Daily Signal)
Mamdani to veto school “buffer zone” bill to protect anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian protesters (NY Post)
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