Judge Cannon Ordered to Get Moving on Jack Smith’s Trump Report

Donald Trump’s favorite judge is dragging her feet on a report relating to the president’s classified document case, and a federal court is ordering her to get on with it.

A panel of judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Judge Aileen Cannon needs to rule on motions to release Volume II of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case within 60 days, noting an “undue delay” thus far. The initial motions were filed February 14 and February 25 by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University after Cannon blocked the report’s release days into Trump’s second term as president.

The petitioner also “filed notification on July 17 and July 10, 2025,” the ruling states, pointing out that Cannon let more than 90 days go by without ruling on the petition. In its petition, the Knight Institute argues that there’s no reason to keep the report secret any longer.

“This report is of singular importance to the public because it addresses allegations of grave criminal conduct by the nation’s highest-ranking official,” Jameel Jaffer, the institute’s executive director, said in a statement last month. “There is no legitimate reason for the report’s continued suppression, and it should be posted on the court’s public docket without further delay.”

It’s perhaps no surprise that Cannon is delaying things, after she seemingly went out of her way to protect Trump throughout the classified documents case. Not only did she try to toss the case out by ruling that Smith’s appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional, Cannon also entertained frivolous motions from Trump’s legal team designed to slow the case down and help him evade legal consequences. Her bias was pointed out by numerous legal scholars, and even from one of Trump’s former lawyers. Now Cannon has just 60 more days to keep one of the last pieces of the legal cases against Trump from the public.

America’s 10 richest billionaires have gotten even richer under Donald Trump, with their collective wealth increasing by nearly $700 billion in the past year, according to a new report by Oxfam America.

Though the report, titled “UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need,” outlines how specific policy decisions by both Democrats and Republicans have exacerbated wealth disparities over the last 30 years, it pinpoints just how dire Trump’s impact has been.

“The Trump administration—largely with the support of the Republican-controlled Congress—has moved with staggering speed and scale to carry out a relentless attack on working-class families, while enriching the wealthy and well-connected,” the report states.

Contrary to what the Trump administration likes to claim, the “big, beautiful bill” does not help everyday Americans. In fact, it was one of the “single largest transfers of wealth upwards in decades” because of its tax cuts for corporations and the rich, according to the report.

While the rich get richer, over 40 percent of Americans are now considered low-income, including over 50 percent of children. Compared to the other wealthiest nations, the United States has the highest rate of relative poverty, according to the report.

“Inequality is a policy choice,” Rebecca Riddell, Oxfam America’s senior policy lead for economic justice, told The Guardian. “These comparisons show us that we can make very different choices when it comes to poverty and inequality in our society.”

In order to stop the spiral into unprecedented inequality, the report recommends four solutions: rebalancing power through community-led efforts and antitrust regulations, taxing the rich and corporations, strengthening the social safety net, and supporting workers’ rights.

This report should be a wake-up call for anyone who voted for Trump out of financial desperation. Unless you can help fund his ballroom, the president doesn’t give a damn whether you can feed your family.

Mike Johnson just claimed he doesn’t know anything about President Donald Trump’s pardon of a cryptocryptocurrency billionaire—but don’t worry, Mr. Speaker, the president doesn’t know anything about it either!

During a press conference Monday, Johnson acted coy when asked about Trump’s 60 Minutes interview the day before. The president claimed he had no idea he’d granted a presidential pardon to Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, just months after Zhao did the president’s family’s cryptocurrency a $2 billion favor.

“Does that also concern you?” a reporter asked about Trump’s latest comments, citing Johnson’s previous arguments that all of Joe Biden’s pardons should be rendered “null and void.” House Republicans released a report last week on the previous administration’s alleged autopen use, though the report offered little in the way of actual evidence that the former president was unaware of any of his laws or pardons.

“I don’t know anything about that. I didn’t see the interview. You’re going to have to ask the president about that. I’m not sure,” Johnson said, before taking another question.

Johnson has been on a hot streak of responding to questions with “I don’t know” at his daily government shutdown press conference. The House speaker has conveniently forgotten how SNAP benefits got paid during the previous government shutdown, repeatedly claimed he hasn’t seen any videos of federal agents using excessive force against protesters or ICE arresting U.S. citizens, and even played dumb about who actually runs the government.

When asked on 60 Minutes about pardoning Zhao, Trump replied: “OK, are you ready? I don’t know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that, and I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.”

The president then launched into an extended rant that was cut from the official version, where Trump seemed to suggest the decision had really come from his sons, who were “involved in crypto much more” than he is. “I know very little about it, other than one thing. It’s a huge industry,” he said, adding, “So I am behind it 100 percent.”

Trump repeatedly conflated his “opinion” on Zhao with what he was “told” about the case. “I have no idea who he is. I was told that he was a victim, just like I was and just like many other people, of a vicious, horrible group of people in the Biden administration,” Trump claimed.

When host Norah O’Donnell noted that the U.S. government had accused Zhao of “significant harm to U.S. national security,” Trump replied simply: “The Biden government.”

Trump’s comments suggest that his sons may be calling the shots on presidential pardons to the benefit of World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance platform that is majority owned by a Trump business entity. Trump has served as the company’s “Chief Crypto Advocate,” while Eric and Don Jr. are both Web 3 Ambassadors, and Barron Trump is a “DeFi Visionary.” Binance has repeatedly boosted and incentivized the use of USD1, WLFI’s stablecoin, a cryptocurrency that maintains a value of $1.

Binance provided WLFI with its first significant boon in May, when the platform accepted a shady $2 billion investment from Abu Dhabi–based MGX made in Trump’s stablecoin. That announcement followed an April meeting between Zachary Witkoff, son of special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, who is a “promoter” of WLFI, and Zhao in Abu Dhabi where they discussed USD1.

America is on a righteous path as a harbinger of death, Senator Lindsey Graham told a room of Jewish conservatives regarding the topic of Israel and Hamas.

The South Carolina lawmaker spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas Saturday to waylay concerns about Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes after the ex–Fox News host gave a softball interview to the proud antisemite.

In a loose, rosy-cheeked speech, Graham affirmed that he’s in the “Hitler sucks wing of the Republican Party,” a denomination that apparently needs to be spelled out these days. In the same speech, Graham brushed off Fuentes’s interview while praising the Trump administration for “killing all the right people.”

“I’ve been asked a thousand times about this crazy interview. I keep telling people, ‘We’re good, our party is good,’” Graham said. “We’re real good.… If you asked me, you go to college, and you ask me a question, ‘Why do we spend so much on Israel, and don’t you think they get us involved in problems and blah blah blah?’ I would say you need to pick up a history book. We have no better friend than the state of Israel.

“Everyone who wants to kill the Jewish state wants to kill us too,” Graham added.

Carlson has been a sore thorn in the Republican Party since he began to voice opposition to Israeli influence in American politics. Turning Point USA, the conservative youth advocacy behemoth founded by the late Charlie Kirk, has suffered its own fallout from Carlson’s recent positions, reportedly losing a $2 million pledge from Robert Shillman, a Zionist tech billionaire, after the TV personality participated in a previous Turning Point event.

But Graham’s attempts to clean up Carlson’s mess only managed to muck the situation up even more.

“So what to do about Hamas?” Graham chortled. “Kill them off.”

He then advocated for making sure that Hamas “can’t survive” and expressed concerns that Gaza’s authority would “not play the game the way they should.”

Israel has already violated its ceasefire arrangement with Palestine several times, killing at least 236 people since the two nations agreed to stop the violence and return hostages. The U.S.-backed ethnic state has also seemingly violated another ceasefire, having demolished villages in Southern Lebanon in another one of its warfaring strategies.

“I just want to say, I feel good about the Republican Party. I feel good about where we’re going as a nation,” Graham said. “We’re killing all the right people, and we’re cutting your taxes.

“[Donald] Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs, we didn’t run out of bombs in World War II,” he noted to celebrate the level of killing enacted by the current administration.

“As a coalition of Republicans—some Baptists, some Jewish—we organize ourselves around principles that we love and cherish,” Graham continued, highlighting “Israel” and “capitalism” as two of those principles. “We love Israel. We love the idea of Israel. We love the struggle they’ve been involved in. We love helping them because you’re helping yourself.

“To those who worry about these stupid interviews, and far off-places, don’t worry,” he added. “Don’t worry, the Republican Party has figured it out when it comes to Israel.”

The Trump administration’s freeze on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds during the government shutdown is forcing many struggling Americans to make hard decisions about feeding themselves and their families. Now the administration is even restricting how much grocery stories can help. 

After several food delivery apps and grocery store chains sought to offer discounts to those whose SNAP benefits were interrupted or delayed, the Department of Agriculture sent an email to stores across the country warning them that they weren’t allowed to offer discounts to people hurt by the cuts to the food stamp program.

MSNBC anchor Catherine Rampell posted a screenshot of the email on X Sunday, and reported that at least two stores withdrew their discounts after receiving the email. At issue is SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which bars stores from either discriminating against people in the program or offering them favorable treatment.  

On Friday, two federal courts ruled that the Trump administration has to use contingency funds to pay for SNAP, but the government has yet to respond with how it intends to comply, leaving the program’s 41 million recipients in limbo as assistance ended on Saturday, the first day of November. And food retailers in low-income areas may themselves be hurt, as much of their customer base now can’t afford to shop. 

In the meantime, the government shutdown has now lasted more than a month and is nearing the 35-day record set by the first Trump administration from December 2018 to January 2019. Not only are many federal workers furloughed or in danger of losing their jobs but health care subsidies are also on the chopping block. It seems that Republicans are not concerned about the survival of much of America.