CNN analyst Harry Enten says the recent historic loss for a longtime Republican in Texas proves that the Republican Party is completely owned by President Donald Trump.

Enten cited the president shoving longtime Republican Sen. John Cornyn out of the primary election in favor of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as evidence of Trump’s complete control.

‘When a Republican goes up against Donald Trump or Donald Trump really goes up against them, it doesn’t end too well for that Republican senator.’

“It was historic to a degree that we have not seen since my mother was born!” Enten said. “And I’m not gonna give the exact age, but you’ll be able to figure it out because just take a look here.”

Cornyn lost by 28 percentage points, which was the largest by a Republican in primary history, according to Enten.

“His 28-point loss on Tuesday night was the worst, the worst since at least World War II for a Republican senator,” said Enten. “We have seen this over and over and over again — when a Republican goes up against Donald Trump or Donald Trump really goes up against them, it doesn’t end too well for that Republican senator.”

He also cited the end of Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s re-election campaign after the president backed one of his competitors.

Enten pointed out that while Trump was 45 points in net negative approval in 2015, he is now over 61 points positive 10 years later, a shift difference of 100 points in the positive direction.

Former President George W. Bush, on the other hand, went from a 57% net approval rating in the party all the way down to only 17% net approval, according to his analysis.

“The George W. Bush era of the Republican Party is, simply put, it is dead,” Enten said. “It is dead, and this was the capstone to it. And Donald Trump’s Republican Party is very much alive. He is the leader of the Republican Party.”

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Video of Enten’s analysis was widely circulated on social media.

“George W. Bush, simply put, as I said, … Republican voters are very lukewarm on him, and Republican voters are still very hot to trot on Donald Trump,” Enten added.

“The bottom line is that Donald Trump, it’s his party across the political map, even in George W. Bush’s backyard,” he concluded.

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Ferrari is preparing to launch its first fully electric vehicle — a luxury EV reportedly priced around $640,000 — but BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere believes the legendary automaker may be making a costly mistake.

The car was designed in part by former Apple designer Jony Ive and named after the Italian word for “light,” but it lacks the signature style and soul that made Ferrari famous.

“There’s certain things that happen when you’re watching one of these big product reveals where you don’t need to necessarily have the market dynamics to know immediately, like, this is just not going to work. It looks terrible,” Stu says.

“It doesn’t look like a Ferrari. It looks like they kind of tried to meld some tech device with kind of … an American muscle car … but of course without the cool engine,” he continues.

“It is designed by the guy who designed the iPhone,” co-host Dave Landau points out, adding that “it is a tech device.”

“These companies need to understand, you don’t have to be everything to everybody. You can just be an awesome Italian car company with great engines, and you’ve lived that way for a very long time. You don’t have to please the EV market. Let another company do that,” Stu says.

“You’re ruining the thing that people want,” Dave agrees, adding, “and then you’re just putting this electric in there, and people don’t want it.”

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Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm over Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new housing proposal, warning that he’s laying the groundwork for expanded government control over private property.

The new “Block by Block” housing plan includes taking aggressive legal action against landlords — and even transferring their properties to the tenants themselves.

“Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the City, we will focus on the worst landlords in New York City. When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers,” Mamdani said in a speech announcing his plan.

“And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves,” he continued.

“Give it to the people,” Glenn comments. “At least they’re saying this out loud.”

“For years, Americans have been told, ‘Nobody wants socialism. Nobody wants communism. Stop overreacting.’ But the masks are finally off. The socialist mayor of New York City openly now talking about taking private property from owners and transferring it to the state’s preferred groups,” he says, shocked.

“That is the language of every socialist movement when it arrives there, when they finally take off the mask. That’s every socialist movement because socialism always runs into the same problem,” he explains, “Eventually, you run out of other people’s money.”

And Glenn has a warning for the crowd cheering on Mamdani’s communist speech.

“Here’s the part Americans need to understand before it’s too late,” Glenn begins.

“Communism never comes wearing a hammer and a sickle. It never comes with jack boots. It arrives with compassion. It arrives with friendly faces. It arrives saying, ‘We just want affordable housing. We just want fairness. We just want safety. We just want equity,’” he continues.

“Until one day, the government decides your property serves the collective better than it serves you,” he says, pointing out that while the government claims it’d only be targeting the “negligent landlords,” this claim is “how every seizure starts.”

“Every expansion of government power begins with a hated group. They never start with the popular people. They start with the rich or the landlords or the oligarchs, the enemies of the people,” he explains.

However, that hated group then starts to grow bigger.

“That definition grows a little more broad, always, “Glenn says, “because once government gains the power to seize property for political or social goals, the argument to seize your property never ends. The category just grows wider and wider and wider.”

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When President James Monroe delivered his annual message to Congress in 1823, the United States was young, still fragile, and still finding its place among the great powers. Yet Monroe declared that the Western Hemisphere would no longer be treated as open territory for European colonization, manipulation, or imperial intrigue. Foreign powers would not be permitted to turn neighboring nations into strategic footholds against the United States. The Monroe Doctrine, as it came to be known, warned European powers that America would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs in the Western Hemisphere.

More than simply setting a foreign policy, Monroe had drawn a line. And as America’s rivals and enemies changed over time, the doctrine rose to the occasion.

During the Cold War, it acquired renewed relevance as the United States confronted Soviet efforts to project power throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Moscow understood that influence in the Western Hemisphere could give it strategic leverage against the United States without ever having to attack the American mainland directly.

America first, in other words, but not America alone.

Especially through Cuba and Nicaragua, the Soviet Union worked to turn America’s own neighborhood into a theater of anti-American power, fueling revolutionary movements in Central America, waging political warfare, and providing military, intelligence, and ideological support for Marxist insurgencies.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was not the only example of the Soviets’ forward operations, but it was the most dramatic. Moscow’s attempt to place nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida marked the moment when the logic of the Monroe Doctrine became imperative. Here was an unprecedented fusion of strategic proximity and foreign penetration, in the attempted transformation of the American hemisphere into a platform for outside coercion.

But after the immediate crisis ended, the broader Cold War struggle in Latin America methodically intensified the Monroe Doctrine’s importance. Soviet and Cuban operations exploited instability across the region and pulled vulnerable states into the orbit of America’s geostrategic rivals. The United States did not view these efforts, which extended deep into South America, as distant foreign-policy disputes. It understood the hemispheric scope as a direct challenge to domestic security.

The lesson was simple: Hostile powers do not need to occupy Washington, or even reach American coastlines, to threaten American sovereignty. They only need to embed themselves in the surrounding systems on which American security depends.

Today, the same logic applies. But the hemisphere has changed. For the digital sphere, America needs a Cyber Monroe Doctrine.

The Trump administration’s understanding of cyber

Just as the original Monroe Doctrine recognized that foreign control over nearby territory could pose a direct threat to American security, a Cyber Monroe Doctrine would recognize that foreign control over digital systems could pose a direct threat to national survival. Hostile foreign powers must not be permitted to dominate, manipulate, surveil, or disable the digital infrastructure of the United States or the free world.

For too long, America has treated cybersecurity as a technical issue, as though it were mostly a matter of stronger passwords, better software patches, compliance checklists, and incident-response plans. Those things are important, but they are not enough.

No longer a back-office IT function, cybersecurity is national strategy.

Today, and from now on, a nation is not fully sovereign unless it can secure its ports, pipelines, hospitals, electric grid, military communications, water systems, election systems, law enforcement databases, pharmaceutical supply chains, and financial networks. It may have borders on a map, but if its digital nervous system is owned, surveilled, manipulated, or sabotaged by adversaries, its independence is compromised.

The modern state depends on systems most citizens never see, from food distribution, public health, and emergency services to banking, air travel, and energy production. Not just military readiness but also court systems, public health, and public debate itself depend on networks. But those networks depend on more than a falsely reassuring “cloud.” They rely on hardware, software, data, energy, spectrum, chips, rare-earth minerals, and, ultimately, human trust.

Together, these myriad elements make up a nation’s digital sovereignty, without which national survival cannot long endure.

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President Trump’s second administration has grasped something that many policy elites spent decades avoiding: For all the digital sphere’s virtuality, digital sovereignty is not an abstraction. It is built, mined, manufactured, coded, powered, defended, and enforced. It requires borders, industry, and secure supply chains. It requires not only technological dominance but the enacted political will to ensure that America’s critical systems serve the American people, not foreign hostiles, whether regimes, cartels, cyber gangs, or shadowy transnational bureaucracies.

The administration understands that cyber, AI, energy, border, and critical minerals policies must be viewed as components of a single strategic project: restoring American control over the systems that make national life possible.

The Trump administration’s June 2025 cybersecurity order focused on defending digital infrastructure, securing vital digital services and capabilities, and improving the nation’s ability to address key cyber threats. Its 2026 action against cybercrime and foreign predatory schemes called for coordinated federal efforts, including private-sector involvement, to detect, disrupt, dismantle, and deter cyber-enabled criminal activity targeting Americans, businesses, critical infrastructure, and public services.

The administration has also moved decisively on the industrial foundation of digital sovereignty. President Trump’s March 2025 order on American mineral production aimed to boost domestic mineral production, streamline permitting, and strengthen national security.

A nation that cannot mine, refine, manufacture, power, and protect the infrastructure of the digital age will not lead that age. It will slavishly trail behind.

The same is true of artificial intelligence.

To ensure America’s decisive and enduring digital-sphere leadership, President Trump’s January 2025 order on AI removed barriers to American AI leadership and stated the goal of retaining global leadership in artificial intelligence. His administration’s July 2025 order promoting the export of the American AI technology stack recognized that the United States must not only develop frontier AI but also ensure that American technologies, standards, and governance models are adopted worldwide. And in March, the administration released a national AI legislative framework focused on winning the AI race to advance human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.

Articulating the doctrine

A Cyber Monroe Doctrine would take these instincts and organize them into a clear national strategy.

It would begin with a declaration that the United States will not accept adversarial control over critical digital infrastructure in the American homeland or among core allies. Hostile state-linked companies must not build, operate, or control the networks on which our military, police, hospitals, utilities, financial institutions, schools, and governments depend.

America cannot allow adverse and incompatible regimes to use telecommunications equipment, cloud services, consumer apps, data brokers, AI platforms, or embedded software as instruments of espionage, influence, coercion, or sabotage. We must stop pretending that every technology product is politically neutral simply because it arrives in a sleek package and is sold at a competitive price.

A Cyber Monroe Doctrine requires a trusted industrial base for the digital age. Chips, hardware, software, telecom, cloud platforms, AI, data infrastructure, and energy itself must all come from trusted sources and be trustworthy right down to bare metal. Cyber policy, in that sense, is industrial policy.

The digital world is physical. It runs on semiconductors, rare-earth minerals, fiber-optic cables, satellites, substations, servers, cooling systems, power plants, and factories. A nation that cannot make, maintain, or secure these inputs is merely renting its future from true sovereigns.

That is why the Trump administration’s emphasis on energy abundance, domestic production, critical minerals, AI leadership, and cyber defense is so important. These are the fused elements of one single foundation of national sovereignty. Our adversaries understand this. They do not separate cyber policy from industrial policy, military policy, intelligence policy, or political warfare. They view technology as state capacity, use companies as instruments of national strategy, and leverage markets to hardwire dependence and submission.

A Cyber Monroe Doctrine would respond with equal seriousness, treating attacks on critical infrastructure as strategic acts more than mere crimes. Ransomware gangs, proxy hackers, and state-sponsored cyber units operate in the gray zone between law enforcement and war, targeting core social infrastructure such as hospitals, schools, police departments, and pipelines, as well as institutional systems across courts, municipalities, small businesses, and local governments.

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States that shelter, direct, finance, or tolerate these actors must face consequences. The United States should not allow hostile regimes to hide behind criminal proxies while they weaken American society one network at a time.

But America cannot be stuck at the level of reacting to adverse events. The Cyber Monroe Doctrine must frame and animate constructive action: a digital alliance system among free nations.

This is why the Trump administration’s focus on exporting the American AI technology stack is so strategically significant. It recognizes that America cannot merely defend its own networks at home. It must shape the global technology environment abroad. America first, in other words, but not America alone.

The United States, Europe, Israel, Japan, Korea, Australia, India, and other partners should coordinate on secure telecom, cloud infrastructure, AI governance, critical minerals, export controls, semiconductor resilience, cyber defense, and technology standards. The answer to Chinese and Russian cyber power is not isolation. It is trusted interdependence among sovereign nations that share a commitment to freedom, transparency, and the rule of law. If free nations do not build and export the infrastructure of the future, unfree nations will.

A civilization at stake

But governments do not own most of the networks, platforms, data centers, codebases, satellites, logistics systems, and industrial control systems that define modern life. Any serious national cyber strategy must therefore mobilize entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, utilities, banks, defense companies, telecom providers, hospitals, universities, and state and local governments.

We need public-private cooperation that is faster, less bureaucratic, and more operationally serious; procurement systems that reward trusted technology; capital markets aligned with national resilience; and companies cognizant that selling into critical infrastructure is a national responsibility.

The Trump administration’s great contribution is that it has reoriented technology policy around the great national interest of defending our shared civilization’s operating system.

We must be clear-eyed about the inescapable civilizational stakes. Artificial intelligence is already able to control not only infrastructure, but perception itself.

As Martin Heidegger warned, technology does not merely give human beings new tools. It changes the way we encounter reality. His concept of “enframing” described the tendency of technological systems to reveal and order the world and everything in it as a “standing reserve” of raw material to be atomized and reaggregated, measured, optimized, managed, and processed.

In a free society, this is already a profound philosophical problem. In a collectivist society armed with artificial intelligence, it becomes a political weapon.

An authoritarian government using AI does not need to censor every book, arrest every dissident, or burn every newspaper. It can shape what citizens see before they even know they are being governed. It can decide which facts are surfaced, which memories are buried, which videos go viral, which voices are discredited, which narratives are amplified, and which possibilities become literally unthinkable.

Through algorithmic control, predictive surveillance, synthetic media, social-credit systems, biometric tracking, and AI-generated propaganda, a regime can construct a managed reality where citizens or subjects obey power because their very experience of the world around them is designed by power.

The new form of political system unlocked in this way treats human consciousness itself as raw material to be sculpted toward planned ends from a single dashboard.

This is why a Cyber Monroe Doctrine cannot be limited to firewalls, procurement rules, software audits, and sanctions. It must also defend the very conditions of free thought.

A sovereign nation must protect not only its networks, but its people’s ability to perceive reality without foreign manipulation. The battle over artificial intelligence is therefore not only a contest over productivity or military advantage. It is a contest over who gets to define the real.

Fortunately, here, again, the Trump administration is pointing in the right direction, insisting on American AI leadership, rejecting ideological capture of AI systems, promoting the American tech stack, and tying AI development to national security and economic competitiveness.

A Cyber Monroe Doctrine would not mean that every foreign-made product is dangerous or that every cyber incident is an act of war.

The test is straightforward: If a system is essential to American survival — from continuity of government and military readiness to public safety, economic stability, civic trust, and freely formed public opinion — then it must be secure, resilient, and free from adversarial control.

That principle should guide procurement, regulation, investment, diplomacy, military planning, export controls, and alliance strategy. It should shape how we buy software, where we manufacture chips, how we build data centers, how we protect children online, how we defend elections, how we secure hospitals, how we safeguard law enforcement, and how we respond to cyberattacks.

The great strategic contest of our time is not only over territory on the map but the organ systems of the body politic that connect and course deep within it.

The Monroe Doctrine was born in an age of empires. A Cyber Monroe Doctrine is needed in an age of networks.

Monroe rejected foreign empires planting themselves in the physical hemisphere around us. Now his heirs must reject hostile regimes planting themselves inside the digital, industrial, and cognitive hemisphere of free citizens.

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Tonight, the San Antonio Spurs will face off against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6 of the 2026 NBA Western Conference Finals. The Thunder team currently leads the series 3-2.

But a viral conspiracy theory claims that Game 5 was rigged in Oklahoma City’s favor.

Between several controversial refereeing calls — including a missed goaltending violation, a denied coach’s challenge, and a massive free-throw disparity — as well as Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama’s mysterious shutdown after dominating earlier in the series and a Google “glitch” that prematurely listed Thunder vs. Knicks as the Finals matchup, many are convinced this was a rigged outcome designed to keep the Thunder alive and boost playoff viewership.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes this conspiracy theory is true.

“What tranquilizer did they shoot into Victor Wembanyama? … What were Tony Brothers and the DEI refereeing crew doing last night? What were the San Antonio Spurs doing last night?” he asks. “Adam Silver, I got some questions.”

“The NBA and Adam Silver need content,” Whitlock says, speculating that Wembanyama was told by his coaches to “conserve [his] energy” because the “refs aren’t going to allow [the Spurs] to win Game 5.”

“That’s what it looked like last night, particularly in the first half when Wembanyama couldn’t even be bothered occasionally to run full court and to even enter into the Spurs’ offense, when Victor Wembanyama hung out, 7-foot-5, spent the entire first half and most of the game just hanging out casually around the three-point line,” he explains.

To the counterargument that Wembanyama was just “worn out” or had “an off night,” Whitlock contends that “superstars” like Wembanyama may have “bad shooting nights,” “a bunch of turnovers,” and even make “a critical error at the end of the game,” but they never just stop “giving a sincere effort.”

The officiating crew’s performance was on par with Wembanyama’s, he adds, highlighting Spurs coach Mitch Johnson’s denied coach’s challenge on a play where replays clearly showed the ball going out of bounds off Thunder player Chet Holmgren’s foot.

“I’m not some crazy ‘every game is rigged’ conspiracy theorist, but you can’t tell me that game last night was on the up and up,” Whitlock says.

To hear his full game analysis, watch the episode above.

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Negotiators representing the U.S. and Iran have reached a tentative agreement about the ceasefire, according to various news outlets.

If signed by President Donald Trump and the Iranian regime, the ceasefire would extend for another 60 days. Trump has not yet signed off on the memorandum of understanding, according to an official who wanted to remain anonymous.

‘President Trump is not going to make a bad deal for the American people, for the US.’

“This is an agreement to get everybody to the table,” the official told Axios. “We will work out the details in the negotiations.”

If both sides agree to the ceasefire, it would lead to the Strait of Hormuz being opened to trade again and possibly lowering gas prices across the globe. Other policies to be decided include billions of dollars of frozen assets that Iran would like to regain and restrictions on its ability to refine uranium for military nuclear capabilities.

The president had lambasted previous offers from the regime and at one point called its proposals “garbage” and “unacceptable.”

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When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about the deal on Thursday, he would not answer directly.

“Everything depends on what the president wants to do, and President Trump is not going to make a bad deal for the American people, for the U.S.,” he said.

This is a developing story.

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A wild brawl recently erupted at a kindergarten graduation ceremony at Queen of Apostles School in Toledo, Ohio — and it was allegedly over seating.

WTVG-TV reported that new video of last Thursday’s dust-up is raising more questions after the arrest of one parent who told the station she’s being treated unfairly.

‘Once I was taken to the ground, it was probably four or five other guys that were on top of me, trampling me, punching me, kicking me in the head.’

Jessica Anderson was charged with felonious assault, but she told WTVG she wasn’t the aggressor and wants police to review all videos of the fight — and wants charges against her dropped.

Witnesses told the station that attendees got angry over seating. Cellphone video shows multiple punches thrown, and WTVG reported that an individual appearing to be Anderson grabbed a woman by the hair.

But Anderson emphasized to the station that the clip doesn’t tell the full story.

“I removed her from the pile, and her arm fell into a chair,” Anderson recounted to WTVG. “Then we were surrounded by people, and she was hitting me. I didn’t know what was happening, so I started swinging back.”

She also told the station, “I wasn’t the aggressor; it wasn’t my face that should have been blasted everywhere. I take accountability that I was involved. A lot of people were involved, but me being the only person charged was not fair. It wasn’t.”

Anderson is charged with felonious assault, WTVG reported, adding that a judge put her on house arrest.

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WTVG also said cellphone video it obtained appears to show parent Craig Mays involved in the fight over seating.

Anderson told the station that after a disagreement over the chairs, Mays rushed toward one of her family members while she called 911.

“Craig Mays snatched Katie, and then the nephews got involved,” Anderson told WTVG. “He charged over there.”

The station said it spoke with Mays, and he denies that’s how things went down.

“Her whole family in the first two rows just stand up, five guys, five girls. They just all stand up. As I’m arguing with Jessica, I literally don’t remember anything. I just know I was sucker punched. Once I was taken to the ground, it was probably four or five other guys that were on top of me, trampling me, punching me, kicking me in the head,” Mays told WTVG.

Cellphone video allegedly recorded just after the initial brawl appears to show Mays climbing back to his feet, walking away, taking off his shirt, and putting up his fists while confronting and squaring up with a man dressed in a black sweatshirt, the station said.

Toledo police continue to investigate the fight, WTVG said, adding that the school has yet to announce a rescheduled graduation ceremony date.

A spokesperson for Central City Ministries, which operates the school, told WTVG-TV in an earlier story that no students were in the room during the brawl.

Gabriel Jakubisin, head of school for Central City Ministries, told the station that he’s proud of how staff members handled the situation. Staff members called 911 and went into lockdown, WTVG reported.

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A bizarre post from the White House about a dead gorilla has triggered many of the president’s critics, who are imploding with great fury and outrage.

Harambe was a 17-year-old western lowland silverback gorilla who was shot and killed by officials of the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016 in order to protect a child who had made his way into the animal’s enclosure.

‘F**k it, Iran just launch the nukes, put us out of our misery, you’d be doing us a favor.’

The gorilla died but lived on in memes and jokes that turned him into a hero of the manosphere and other online communities.

On Wednesday, the White House social media account remembered Harambe as a “legend” and a patriot.

“He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe,” the post read.

“Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news,” the White House continued. “And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on. Gone, but never forgotten.”

Not surprisingly, the outrage online has been hysterical.

“This is really abhorrent. And this will go in the National Archives,” read one popular response. “It is just more evidence, that you have zero decency, understanding, nor regard for subject matter. You are mocking the death of this animal, who deserved better in life, and now, in remembrance. It further shows how you have no respect for the responsibility you hold.”

“So many people are losing rights and our government is talking about f**king harambe, what are we doing bro,” read another reply.

“F**k it, Iran just launch the nukes, put us out of our misery, you’d be doing us a favor at this point this is EMBARASSING,” said an account with pronouns in the profile.

The post from the White House garnered more than 27 million views on social media in only 18 hours.

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Former Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters, who presided over the case, said that it was the most tumultuous incident he experienced in terms of the social media response.

“We’ve had much worse cases, believe me. We’ve had serial killers. We’ve had tons of other cases, but in terms of the effect of social media in a particular case, this took the prize by a long shot,” he said to WCPO-TV 10 years later.

He added that it was an easy decision not to charge the mother of the child for negligence because he didn’t think a jury of her peers would have convicted her.

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Online reports indicate that a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was the victim of a swatting incident on Wednesday evening.

A recording posted by a self-identified Washington, D.C., photographer purportedly documents a police dispatcher ordering a police response to the home of a “high-priority resident of the county.”

‘The proper response will be putting the offender in prison for many, many years.’

The dispatcher informs the officer that personnel have been unable to call the complainant back, indicating that it may be a swatting incident.

“Units responding to suspicious noise. Be advised, we have not been able to get an answer on call back to the complainant’s phone number. Unknown if it’s going to be a swatting situation,” she says.

“Just made contact with security that’s on scene,” a male officer says. “They should be outside in an Explorer. He said he hasn’t heard anything. We’re just going to meet up with him first, just to go over anything.”

The photographer reported that the victim of the swatting incident was Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) responded to the report but did not appear to confirm it.

“Swatting is an attempt to get an innocent person killed — in this case, a sitting Supreme Court Justice,” he wrote. “The proper response will be putting the offender in prison for many, many years.”

The Fairfax County Police Department confirmed to Blaze News in an email on Thursday that officers had responded to a swatting incident at the home of a SCOTUS justice but did not identify the justice by name:

Yesterday evening at approximately 9:02 p.m., officers responded to a swatting call at the residence of U.S. Supreme Court justice in Fairfax County.

The call was received through the department’s non-emergency line. Officers immediately coordinated with Supreme Court Police personnel assigned to the residence and quickly determined that the report was fictitious. No additional police resources were utilized.

The SCOTUS public information officer did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Barrett was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump in 2020 during his first term in office.

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After the president won his second election, members nominated to his Cabinet reported being the victims of swatting incidents in Nov. 2024.

“The FBI is aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees, and we are working with our law enforcement partners,” read a statement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time.

This is a developing story.

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