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If he wins a second term in November, Donald Trump wants to covertly deploy American assassination squads into Mexico soon after he’s sworn into office again, according to three people who’ve discussed the matter with the former U.S. president.

Both during and after his presidency, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee has floated different ideas for bombing or invading Mexico in response to the American fentanyl crisis and to “wage War” on notorious drug cartels. As president, Trump even thought it was possible to bomb the cartels’ drug labs,...

All dogs go to heaven, but South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s puppy-executing ways may have just cost her a chance at entering the promised land of the White House as Donald Trump’s running mate.

Several Republicans close to Trump — who, admittedly, are aligned with others vying for the Trump VP slot, or who simply don’t like Noem — are using the Maga governor’s story of shooting and killing an unruly puppy to try to help nuke the former president’s opinion of her. In the days since...

In October 2019, Melania Trump sat in with then-President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretaries Mark Esper and Christopher Miller and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley as they watched the raid that led to the death of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Moments like this are documented in the memoir Soldier Secretary by Miller, who was the special assistant to the president for counterterrorism and transnational threats in 2019.

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In the book, Miller commented on Melania’s unexpected presence during the scene and that the group’s commentary and descriptions about the raid caused her to look up in horror. The raid came to an end when U.S. troops and their combat dog, Conan, cornered al-Baghdadi before he blew himself and two of his children up with an explosive vest.

According to Miller, when Trump...

Update, 7:28 Am Pt: President Joe Biden said that the Isis leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi died when he “chose to blow himself up,” killing himself as well as his family.

“Thanks to the bravery of our troops this horrible terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said in brief remarks from the White House.

Local reports were that 13 people were killed, including six children and four women, according to the AP. The blast blew off the third floor of the building where the Isis leader had been.

Biden said that they chose to embark on a helicopter and ground operation with U.S. forces, rather than a drone strike, to limit civilian casualties.

The Isis leader’s death was similar to that of his predecessor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in 2019, and took place in a similar region.

“Last night’s operation took a major terrorist leader off the battlefield, and it...

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that a U.S. special forces raid in Syria resulted in the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of Isis. The Syrian Civil Defense said that 13 people were also killed, including six children and four women.

“The mission was successful,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement. “There were no U.S. casualties. More information will be provided as it becomes available.”

The Associated Press reported that “several residents said they saw body parts scattered near the site of the raid,...

Three weeks before Christmas, in the piney woods outside of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a deer hunter came across the fallout from a firefight that, to date, no one has been able to explain. A tricked-out Chevy Colorado with matte-black wheels and racing tires was stuck in a rut on a dirt road near Lake MacArthur. In the bed of the truck and on the ground beside it were two dead men. Both had been killed by gunshots, and according to news reports, shell casings were scattered on the ground.

As Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin gathered with the creators of Showtime’s “Homeland” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City Tuesday night to celebrate the premiere of their Emmy-winning show’s final season, President Trump addressed the nation. While they feted the end of their long-running drama of spies and counterterrorism — not so far away — Trump stood before the joint members of Congress, claimed Isis’ destruction and narrated the espionage-like assassinations of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and General Qasem Soleimani. You’ve got to think the state of the Union was on their minds.

“There aren’t many shows that have been interested in mirroring political and cultural phenomenon as they’re occurring in real time,” Danes, “Homeland’s” two-time Emmy-winning star, told Variety on the red carpet. “Yes, it’s entertainment, but I’d like to think we shaped culture, too.”

“Homeland,” whose eighth and final season premieres on Showtime Feb.

Mike Pompeo has had a busy first few days of 2020. In the wake of last week’s Trump-ordered drone strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, the secretary of state has been a fixture on cable news, regurgitating Iraq-invasion talking points and making specious claims about how the attack was justified because Soleimani posed an “imminent” threat to U.S. national security. He repeated them while speaking to reporters on Friday, declining to provide details. “This was going to happen,” was the most he could manage.

Shortly before he took the podium,...

Exclusive: Warner Bros has set up a movie built around Rin Tin Tin, the venerable German Shepherd that once was credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy in the 1920s, and appeared as the hero in 27 films. Hired to write is Matt Lieberman, who most recently scripted another dog tale for Warner Bros in the upcoming animated film Scoob, and who scripted the just released MGM animated film The Addams Family and Playing With Fire, and he is working on the animated Jetsons. He has upcoming the Shawn Levy-directed Ryan Reynolds-starrer Free Guy that Fox/Disney will be released next July.

Andrew Lazar’s Mad Chance (American Sniper and Cats & Dogs) will produce with the rights holders Sasha Jenson and Jeff Miller. The idea of a hero hound has gained credibility in the revelation that the dog Conan took part in the raid which resulted in the...

One military pooch is making headlines this weekend after President Donald Trump tweeted a photo of the dog, praising him for his role in the raid that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The dog had been undergoing treatment after suffering minor wounds from the operation and has now since been put back on duty. We have declassified […]

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In addition to starring in the Saturday Night Live cold open as Elizabeth Warren, Kate McKinnon revived her Kellyanne Conway impression for a sketch where the White House honored the “hero dog” that took down Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a raid.

Cecily Strong portrays a military linguistics expert who serves as Conan the K9 commando service dog’s interpreter during the press conference, doling out responses to the press on behalf of Conan while somehow simultaneously keeping the fidgety dog sitting at the podium so it won’t ruin the sketch.

A Saturday Night Live skit poked fun at both the lack of White House press briefings and nation’s fascination with Conan, the military dog involved in the raid that took down Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after Trump repeatedly tweeted about him.

In opening the proceedings, Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) acknowledged that “the White House has not held a formal press briefing in almost eight months. We’ve kept our new press secretary in hiding because our past ones were mocked, humiliated and forced to regain their dignity on Dancing with the Stars.”

That was a jab at former press secretary Sean Spicer who recently resurfaced as contestant on the ABC reality series. McKinnon’s Conway also referenced the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump before introducing Conan.

“We have killed the leader of Isis, which according to the Constitution means that the impeachment can no longer legally move forward.

After kicking off the Nov. 2 episode of “Saturday Night Live” as Elizabeth Warren, diving into the presidential hopeful’s healthcare plan, Kate McKinnon pivoted to reprise her role of Kellyanne Conway to take a jab at former press secretary Sean Spicer, but more importantly celebrate Conan, the military dog integral in helping track down former Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Stepping behind the White House podium once again, McKinnon’s Conway pointed out that Donald Trump’s administration had not given a formal press briefing almost eight months and “kept our new press secretary in hiding because our past ones were mocked, humiliated and forced to regain their dignity on ‘Dancing with the Stars.'”

Rather than introduce this person now, though, she moved on to talk about the killing of al-Baghdadi, which she claimed “according to the Constitution means that the impeachment can no longer legally move forward.” And...

NBC's latest installment of Saturday Night Live featured a political sketch that initially addressed Beto O’Rourke dropping out of the Democratic presidential nomination race before segueing into a press conference started by Kellyanne Conway, who was played by castmember Kate McKinnon.

The press conference featured Conan "the K-9 Commando," the dog involved in the recent killing of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The pooch was joined by a special forces K-9 interpreter played by SNL's Cecily Strong, who said she has a masters in K-9 linguistics from Dr. Doolittle University.

"I was just on dog Twitter,...

In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper talk with guest John Kiriakou on his experience in the CIA and being charged with breaking the Espionage Act for speaking out about the torture program in 2012.

Kiriakou also gives his opinion on the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower. He notes that as a former CIA analyst, he didn’t find that the whistleblower’s report was written in the CIA’s writing style. “I think the whole process was hijacked by the CIA’s leadership and the CIA’s attorneys.

The Jimmy Kimmel Live! show saw Donald Trump’s 48-minute speech on the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and decided there were a few moments of comedy gold to be had.

So they compared and contrasted the oratorical style of the 44th and 45th Presidents as they gravely announce the deaths of some of the world’s worst terrorists. The mashup has been shared and shared again across the Net.

Watch the tale of the tape below.

The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah blasted President Trump for his comments following the death of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — including the idea that the terrorist “died like a dog,” which Trump claimed Sunday during a nationally televised address. al-Baghdadi died during a U.S. raid in Northwestern Syria, with American military dogs helping pursue him into a tunnel, where he detonated a suicide vest that he was wearing.

“al-Baghdadi ‘died like a dog,’ but a dog is also the hero,” Noah said on Monday’s episode. “Some very...

“This the big one. This is the biggest one, perhaps, that we’ve ever captured because this is the one that built Isis.” No, President Donald Trump was not talking about his predecessor in the Oval Office — the guy he famously branded “the founder of Isis.”

Stephen Colbert went to the tape on CBS’ The Late Show tonight to let Trump brag about just how big the military’s killing of the reviled terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi indeed was. “This is the biggest there is,” Potus 45 asserted. “This is the worst ever. Osama bin Laden was big, but Osama bin Laden became big with the World Trade Center.”

Colbert cut in: “I remember. … You know how I know killing bin Laden was a big deal? Because Barack Obama never had to say that killing bin Laden was a big deal.”

But the late-night host ultimately gave credit where credit is due.

Two sets of headlines over the weekend described the suicide of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post Sunday morning:

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48

The Post has since rewritten that, though the description of an “austere religious scholar with wire-rimmed glasses” remains in the lead paragraph. Meanwhile, the headline on Foxnews.com:

Al-Baghdadi kill: how the daring military operation went down

The Post headline would fit a quiet academic who died in his sleep, not a genocidal jihadist leader.

President Trump said Monday that he may declassify and release part of the video of the weekend raid that killed Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

“We had a great weekend for our country,” he said. “We captured a man that should have been caught a long time ago. Unfortunately he wasn’t. He’s done tremendous damage.”

Also Read: Washington Post Criticized for Obit Headline Calling Isis Leader 'Austere Religious Scholar'

Trump praised the “amazing display of intelligence and military power and coordination and getting along with people” that got it done. He also said he may “take certain parts” of the video “and release it.”

On Sunday morning, Trump announced that al-Baghdadi was dead after a U.S. military raid in northwest Syria that also killed several Isis fighters and companions of al-Baghdadi. “He died like a dog. He died like a coward,” Trump said, adding that Baghdadi “spent his last moments in utter fear,...

The alleged leader of one of the world’s biggest terrorist organizations was killed Saturday by Us Special Forces. You’d think that all Americans would breathe a sigh of relief and express gratitude toward those behind the operation.

You thought wrong.

Hollywood celebrities and various anti-Trump factions in media and politics found the dark cloud in the silver lining today, taking to social media to decry the description of the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by President Donald Trump. They were countered by conservative voices who took the Washington Post to task for its changing headlines on the incident and the cynical takes on the operation by liberal voices.

Some of the reactions:

It's Breath taking, Bernie Sanders Acknowledges ‘Kurds and Other U.S. Allies’ After al-Baghdadi Raid, Not U.S. Forces or Trump https://t.co/goezSAH3aA via @BreitbartNews

— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) October 27, 2019

Thank You President Trump#alBaghdadi is Finally Gone!

President Donald Trump made a rare Sunday morning address to the nation shortly after 9 a.m. Et to announce the killing of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a two-hour Us-led raid in Northern Syria.

“He was a sick and depraved man, and now he’s gone,” Trump said.

The major broadcast networks broke into regular programming to deliver Trump’s remarks from the Diplomatic Room of the White House.

The news sent the Sunday morning public affairs shows scrambling to deal with the impact of the death of the world’s most wanted terrorist. NBC News carried an hourlong special report that was anchored by “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd, who was already in place for his regular Sunday morning duties in the 9 a.m. Et hour.

“It is important. He was the leader of the group, he was the symbol of the group, he was the founder of the group,...

As a television man, President Donald Trump knows the value of a tease. Last night, he tweeted that “Something very big has just happened,” setting off a frenzy of speculation on just what was in store.

Today, the Commander-in-Tweet revealed the big news. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, was killed during a Us special forces raid in Syria.

“Last night, the Us brought the world’s No. 1 terrorist leader to justice,” Trump said from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. He was the founder and leader of Isis. The most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world. The United States has been searching for Baghdadi for many years.

Capturing or killing Baghdadi has been the top national security priority of my administration,” Trump added.

We’ll update today’s communications as more rolls in. The tweetstorm so far:

Last night,...

Isis Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a U.S. raid in northwestern Syria, President Donald Trump announced during a Sunday morning nationally-televised address. “Last night, the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice,” Trump said. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.”

President @realDonaldTrump just delivered a major announcement: the world's #1 terrorist leader has been brought to justice. pic.twitter.com/LE1pt01qaB

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 27, 2019

According to the president, al-Baghdadi was pursued by United States special forces and American military dogs into...