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Every Falsehood, Exaggeration and Untruth in Trump’s and Harris’s Stump Speeches
Thank you very much, everybody. Hello, Las Vegas. Hello, Las Vegas. I’m thrilled to be back in this incredible state with thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots, which is what you are. As you all saw three months ago, we had a monumental victory. We had a beautiful victory three months ago. And then, a couple of nights ago, we had an even better victory. We took her on, Comrade Kamala Harris. We took her on and we did really well. Every poll had us up like 90, 92, 87. We had a, uh – we actually had one, 92 to 6, which sounds about right because now today, Rasmussen just came up, and we were six points up. So, it’s pretty good. Pretty good. We dismantled her terrible record, we exposed her radical liberal agenda, and we laid out our plans to quite simply make America great again. Meanwhile, Comrade Kamala Harris, Comrade, showed up, spewing lies and meaningless platitudes with no plans, no policies and no solutions whatsoever. She doesn’t have a clue. The only thing she had was a lot of people trying to push her over the line. It’s not happening. We’re not going to let this country be destroyed. It’s already in deep trouble. She offered American voters nothing but falsehoods and hoaxes while our country is being destroyed. Our country is being destroyed, do we know that? Not going to be for long. Honestly, November — November 5th, is going to be the most important day in the history of our country, I really believe it. And today, she had a terrible interview. Did you see the interview she had today? She can’t talk. She can’t talk. She can’t talk without, maybe, getting the answers. What’s the story with that? Did she get the questions, do you think? So, I hear she got the questions, and I also heard she had something in — the ear, a little something in the ear. “No, Kamala, do this. Say it this way, Kamala. Okay, be quiet. Too many people watching.” She had a terrible interview today with the Philadelphia TV station. A big word salad. She just kept talking, talking, talking. She had no idea what the hell she was saying. She reminded me of Sleepy Joe Biden. But people said that I was angry during debate, and I said, “Why wouldn’t I be angry? Of course I’m angry. We got 21 million people that came into our country, invading our communities, invading our cities and our towns, and destroying our country. I’m angry about Venezuelan gangs taking over Aurora, Colorado, and I’m angry about illegal Haitian migrants taking over Springfield, Ohio.” You see that mess, don’t you? And the Colorado governor is petrified. He’s scared. He doesn’t know what to do. “The Venezuelans are attacking my state,” he said. “The Venezuelans have big AK-47 Supremes.” This is Supreme. Where the hell do they get these guns? Our soldiers can’t get these guns. They’re taking over our country from within, I mean, can you believe? Then we got – we got Kamala. I’m angry about young American girls being raped and murdered by savage criminal aliens that come into our country very easily, but very illegally. I’m angry about rampant inflation destroying our middle class. And the American people are damn angry, too. We’re all angry. Country’s being – wrecked. That’s why, 53 days from now, we’re going to tell Harris that we’ve had enough. Our country can’t take it anymore. Comrade Kamala Harris, you’re fired! You’re fired! Get out! Get out! Get the hell out of here! She shouldn’t be there anyway, she got no votes. She’s a threat to democracy, right? That’s what they say. They always say, “Donald Trump,” you know it’s a sound bite for them? “Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.” Now she’s a threat. Think of it – Joe Biden had 14 million votes; she had none. She was the first one that failed. Out of all the candidates, I think they had 22, she didn’t even make it to Iowa, the first stop. Didn’t even make it. During the nominating process, she didn’t make it to Iowa. During the nominating process, she didn’t make it to Iowa. But we’re running against her. I think based on what I’m seeing in the polls, I think she could be just as easy as him. He was down so much. He was down 21 points, and they went to him and they said, “Get out of here, Sleepy Joe, you’re going to lose.” “I’m not going to get out. I won’t do it.” He held on for about a day. Did you see the hat, though, the other day, right? He walked into a great, beautiful area in Pennsylvania. I was there, because that’s where one of the planes came down, you know that. It was incredible, the reverence that we had for that area. It’s horrible. But the bravery of those people on that plane. But the fire station, which was so brave also, and they did a fantastic job, and the place was stacked with every family member. And Joe went in first and nobody… They didn’t even, you could hear a pin drop. And then one of the firemen said, “Put the hat on! Put it on.” And I thought he was a little bit rough, Kash. I thought he was a little bit rough, actually. You know we’re talking to the president of the United States, right? But this fireman, rough guy, obviously a Trump fan. So, they throw him a Make America great… Look at them, look at all of them. Oh, I love your hat. Stand up. Stand up. Look at that. No, no, stand up, right there. Turn around. Show the cameras. I love that. I love that hat. You’re going to have to give me that hat later. I’m going to have to make it, okay? Would you do that? You’re so cute. Oh, I’m not allowed to say that! That could be the end of my political career. We’re not allowed to say that anymore. That’s a great hat. But they looked at Joe, they said, “Put on the hat.” “No, no, I can’t do that. It wouldn’t look good. It says Trump on it.” No, it doesn’t say that. It says, “Make America great again.” And then the guy goes, “Put it on! Put it on! Now!” “Okay.” And he puts it on, and the rest is history. It was so bad. Right? The rest is history. Sleepy Joe. What’s better, Sleepy Joe or Crooked Joe? Okay, ready? A free poll. You know it’s Friday night, we have a lot of time, right? Do you think, later on, should I do The Snake or not? People love The Snake. It’s so appropriate. Okay, you ready? A quick poll. Ready? I’ll go Sleepy Joe, and then I’ll go Crooked Joe. Ready? Who likes Sleepy Joe? Who likes Crooked Joe? All right, thank you. I just saved $200,000 with these phony pollsters. They don’t even go out and check. They just give you a number. “Sir, that’ll cost $250,000 to interview 200 people.” Oh, thank you, you just did it for nothing. And they don’t interview the 200, but they just put down a number. “Let’s see, Trump is ahead 50 to 46.” No, that was something. And then by the way, two hours later, I walked into the same firehouse. The place went crazy. Right? The most preposterous part of Kamala… And how do you like the name Comrade Kamala Harris? You know why? It indicates that she is a communist comrade, because she is. You know that she’s further left than crazy Bernie Sanders? Can you believe it? He’s crazy, that guy. He’s almost as crazy as Nancy Pelosi. She’s nuts. The most preposterous part of Kamala’s debate performance was when she tried to gaslight the public into believing she never supported the radical left policies that she has championed for her entire career. Do you mind if we roll a tape, please? Let’s roll a tape. Go ahead. … Everything is a lie, including the fact that she never worked at McDonald’s. She lied about that, too. I told that to one of the fake news people two days ago. I was doing a news conference and the fake news was there. I said, “You people all said she worked beautifully at McDonald’s. It turned out it was a lie. Will you admit it? Will you admit it?” I said. And they said, “Oh yeah, we’ll admit.” They never did. They don’t want to. They’re protecting her. I don’t know why. She wants open borders, she wants – Pennsylvania, zero… You know what’s going to happen? There’ll never be fracking in Pennsylvania. They’re going to take away your guns, you saw that, they’re going to take away your guns. She’s going to take away your guns. Would anybody like to give up their gun? Would anybody like to voluntarily, with great liberal fanfare, say, “I’d like to give up my weapon, so that I can be shot in my house.” But she’s clearly not well. Take a look at these videos. Look at this, real fast. … She said “thank you” 38 times. And at the end it was, “Thank you, thank you, thank, thank, thank, thank, thank, thank.” I said, “What the hell’s… What’s wrong with her?” I say, “Thank you.” And you wait a couple of seconds. You say, “Thank you.” Again. You say, “Come on, let’s get going. Thank you,” one more time. 38 times. “Thank you, thank, thank, thank, thank.” There’s something wrong with her, okay? Or as she would say, “She’s weird. She’s weird.” That was another soundbite they made up about JD and myself. No, we’re solid people. We’re very solid. We’re very solid people. We’re not weird. They’re weird. How about the vice president? How about the vice president? Now, he’s weird. Despite all of these flagrant lies and the many other hoaxes she spread, the fake news moderators did not check her out. They didn’t check what Comrade Kamala Harris… They didn’t – Do you see the lies that she was making up? Project 2025, I’ve said a hundred times, I know nothing about it. I had nothing to do. She goes out with a commercial. “I support this, I support that, I support 25.” All lies, and lies that she knows are lies, that have been debunked, as they say, in the crazy news organization. Hey, that’s a lot of press we have back there. That’s a lot of fake news. That’s a lot of fake news. Meanwhile, every time they interfered to fact check me, it turned out that they were wrong, and Trump was right. For example, a big one, I said that crime was up massively. I didn’t want to go into the details. What’s the purpose? Crime was up massively. And David Muir, you know, he’s another one doesn’t have a clue, you know? And his hair was much better five years ago, I can tell you. But David Muir barged in to claim that, “Sir! Crime was down.” And he said, quote, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI… says overall, violent crime is coming down in this country.” Now let me, you don’t have to see this. You see what the hell is happening with crime? Who would say it was down, even if without looking? So, he reprimanded me for saying that crime was up. And somebody in our government, at a very high level, likes me. And they released the real numbers. It said, yeah, in breaking news, just yesterday night, the premier statistical agency at the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, released brand-new data showing that since Kamala Harris took office, violent crime, nationwide, is up 40%. Rape is up 42%. Car theft is up 42%. Robberies are up 67%. Aggravated assaults are up much more than 55%. And violent crime with a weapon is up 56%. Violent attacks on strangers, I never heard of that one, is up 61 plus percent. So, David Muir owes me an apology, do you agree? She lies about everything, just like she lied about jobs. They said they had 818,000 jobs, and it was a fraud. They didn’t, they just wanted to pad the numbers before the election. But fortunately, we had a leaker — or a whistleblower, I don’t care which. I love that person; I’m not sure who it is. And that person said that it was a total fraud. They wanted to announce the correction. They were going to do a correction right after the election. They were going to do it on the 10th of November. They just wanted to get by the election. So, they fraudulently added 818,000 jobs. Isn’t that unbelievable? And yesterday they announced, “Yes, it was a slip-up.” 818,000. Because their job numbers were looking like, “Where the hell did all those jobs come from?” You know where they came from? Somebody’s sick brain, that’s where they came from. Under Kamala Harris and the Communist left, our country is under invasion. We are under invasion, just like it was an army. Except, in many ways, it’s more difficult, because they don’t wear a uniform. You don’t know who the hell to go after. Millions and millions of illegal aliens are coming in from all over the world, from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums, and many terrorists, at numbers that we’ve never seen before – terrorists are coming into our country. If you look at 2019, and I disagree with this, really, even though it’s good for me – they said in the year 2019, not one terrorist. There’s an official definition of that, but you don’t want to hear it. Not one terrorist came in. That was my year, 2019, one of my years. Not one terrorist came into the country. Now, I sort of can’t believe that. But it was pretty close, it was pretty close. And now we have thousands and thousands and thousands of terrorists coming into our country. They’re coming in from parts unknown. This will not end well, unless Donald J. Trump is elected the 47th president of the United States, right? Not going to end well, right? Because I am your border president. From now on, I want to be your border president. I did a great job in 2016 on the border and we solved the problem very, very quickly, a beautiful job. And in 2020 when I got millions of more votes than I did in 2016. By the way, we did much better in 2020. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows that, but my people would say, “Sir, they don’t want to hear about the border.” I said, “I want to talk about it. I did a great job.” They don’t care. “You’ve solved the border.” It was solved. It was beautiful. The difference is that this border crisis is 20 times worse than it was in 2016, but I’ll get it solved, I’ll get it solved fast, and we’ll get back to making our country strong again. And I only want to be addressed – no longer as Mr. President – Mr. Border President, sir, because we got to get this border fixed. We got people coming in that have never even dreamed about being in this country, and they’re coming in totally unchecked. Nobody has any idea where the hell they come from. Kamala would be the president of invasion and I will be the president of making this country stronger, better, more beautiful, bigger, more powerful, wealthier, safer than ever before. I will protect our country. She will surrender our country. She has already let in 21 million people and if she gets four more years in America, our country will be obliterated. The 21 million people will be hundreds of millions of people will come in from all over the world, which is where they’re coming from now. You’ll have 150 million more people. You won’t have a country anymore. You’re pretty close to not having one. You better hope I get elected. You better go out. You’ll have a country back soon. You’ll have your country back soon. Not only is Harris … Do you ever notice when you say Harris, nobody knows who the hell you’re talking about. You ever? No, nobody has any idea. Harris. Hey is … Where’s Harris? They know Kamala. They know “Kambabla.” That was the nickname I used for a while, but I don’t use it anymore because everyone thought I was just mispronouncing her name. I wasn’t. “Kambabla.” But no. “Comrade” is the best because it says she’s a Marxist, communist, fascist person, which is … She’s a fascist. Who the hell ever thought would be voting for a communist for president? She is. Look at her record. Do you know that she wanted to have transgender surgery on illegal aliens that came into our country that were in jail? Can you believe it? She wanted… Did anyone know that? I would say that’s quite a liberal thing to do, don’t you think? Where the hell did she come from? Honestly, I am not a big fan of Crooked Joe, but he would’ve been better than her. He really would’ve been. They didn’t want her. She was the last one on the list. They had 22 people they were looking at and the people voted. She was the last one on the list, and I’m running against her. It should be a good thing. Look, based on … That’s sort of like a poll. It should be a good thing, but it’s so unfair to our country and it’s unfair to Crooked Joe. I feel badly. Does anybody feel badly for Joe? No? No. He was the worst president in the history of our country. She is the worst vice president in the history of our country. And the only good thing, he’s an old man now, and I’m sure he’s watching right now, but President Jimmy Carter, his administration looks totally brilliant by comparison. So he no longer has to go down as the worst president because this group … I used to say, and I used to say it a lot, but if you took the 10 worst presidents or administrations, but 10 worst presidents in the history of our country and added them up, they would not have done the damage that this one presidency has done to our country. What’s happened to our country? We’re a laughing stock all over the world. You think President Xi is enjoying it, but he won’t be enjoying it for long. Not only is Kamala allowing millions of illegal aliens to stampede across our border, but she is flying them in from other countries. Once she said a couple of months ago, they put on some extra little breaks to make their numbers look a little bit better, but they forgot to tell you that they’re flying in hundreds of thousands of people right over the border. And I was with Art Del Cueto. I was with the people from border control today or Border Patrol today, and they said, “No, those numbers don’t register.” In other words, they don’t count when they fly them in. They’re flying them in in beautiful jet planes. They’re flying them to Idaho. Idaho potatoes. I don’t think they want them. They’re flying them to Iowa. They’re flying them all over. Now we have only border states okay? Who would believe this fake … They’re saying, “No, no. We want to stop them,” but they’re flying them in by the tens of thousands on big, beautiful jet airplanes. They’re flying them in. These people are sick and they’re destroying our country. You got to get out and vote and make sure they’re not cheating. Make sure your vote counts. Over the past three-and-a-half years, Harris and Biden have resettled a half a million illegal migrants from Haiti, including over 200,000 that she has flown into the United States by very beautiful airplanes, I’d like to have one so nice, and deposit them into American communities all over the country. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, “A Venezuelan gang is expanding its deadly reach into the United States. They’ve become real estate developers,” like I used to be. “They’re taking over apartment houses in Colorado.” The story begins, “U.S. law enforcement officials have watched with alarm the spread of Venezuelan gangs known as dismembering rivals.” They’re dismembering rivals from Chile and from Colombia. They’re dismembering. You know what that means? Cutting them up. They’re cutting them up. How the hell did we allow this to happen to our country? Likewise, The New York Times, or as I call it, the failing New York Times, it’s a failing paper. The Washington Post is a failing paper. Will you fail already? Just get out. They’re such phonies. If The New York Times writes a story about you just go the opposite. If you go the exact opposite, it’ll be very accurate. The failing New York Times today reports this vicious Venezuelan prison gang is “Snick.” It sneaked into the United States among the millions of migrants who have crossed the border and is peddling drugs, guns, and women across the 50 states from urban centers like New York and Chicago to Florida beaches and once tranquil Middle America in Colorado. The gang even got a green light to shoot the cops. They were given an okay to shoot the cops. How about that? I just met a lot of great policemen backstage and police women backstage. That’s not acceptable, but they were given an okay. When I returned to the White House, I will launch a special task force of elite federal law enforcement and charge them with crushing and eliminating every foreign gang and organized crime network that is conquering our country. They’re conquering our country. We will deploy ICE, DHS, and other federal officials to go in and liberate Aurora. We’re going to … Can you believe I’m saying that? Can you believe I have to say this? We are going to liberate parts of our country. Let’s go back another 300 years. We are going to liberate our country. Did you ever think I would be standing here? It’s a hell of a way to get elected. The only good thing about what they’re doing is it’s great for the guy that happens to be running against these idiots, okay? It’s the only thing. That’s the only benefit. That’s the only benefit I can see is running against them is a very good thing. But last week, a high school girl in Virginia was walking to the bus stop when an illegal alien from Kamala Harris caught and released into the United States and let go by her, drove up behind her pretending to be a police officer. He said, I’m a police officer. He wasn’t. The predator got out, grabbed her, and forced her into his car. She had to escape by throwing herself out of a moving vehicle, believing she would be raped or murdered. She was very badly hurt. Also, this month, an illegal alien who entered our country through Kamala’s phone app. Could you believe we have phone apps? You know where they go to? The cartels. The cartels have apps where they call in so they know where to deposit their illegal people that, and they’re making billions. They’ll be in the Forbes 400 along with your friend, me. I’ll say, I don’t believe it. This guy, he doesn’t speak English. He can’t read or write, and he’s worth $10 billion. That tells you something, doesn’t it? If they put all of these people into the Forbes 400. Used to be a big list. I don’t know if it’s a big list. I think Forbes is failing pretty badly now. I haven’t heard about it in a long time, but they’d occupy a large section of the list. But they have an app. An app where they call so they know where they can illegally drop these people. An illegal alien who entered our country through Kamala’s phone app was doing things that nobody believed. He was arrested for the murder of a 25-year-old woman in Tennessee. And in August, an illegal alien from Honduras, a beautiful place, who was previously deported under the Trump administration, was arrested for stabbing a young, beautiful 14-year-old girl with a butcher knife as she watched her brother’s baseball game. He was just doing a horrible thing. Who would like to hear the snake, because I have nothing but time tonight. I got a lot of time. They love the snake. You know why? It’s something that’s highly accurate. It was a song many years ago and we reworked it a little bit and it became something that people like, but it’s very accurate in terms of what it represents for this country. And very sad, too. I will tell you. So let’s go. You ready? On her way to work, one morning down the path along the lake, a tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake. His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew. “Poor thing,” she cried. “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you.” “Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” cried the vicious snake. She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk and laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk. She hugged and kissed him brightly. The work that night had gone. She found the pretty snake she had taken in had been revived. “Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” cried that vicious snake. She clutched him to her bosom. “You’re so beautiful,” she sighed. “But if I hadn’t taken you in by now, you truly would have died.” She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight. But instead of saying, “Thank you, ma’am,” the snake gave her a vicious bite. Surprise. “Take me in oh, tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” sighed the vicious snake. “I saved you,” cried the woman, “And you’ve bitten me. But why? You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die.” “Shut up, silly woman,” sighed the reptile with a grin. “You know damn well I was a snake before you took me in.” And that’s the end of the story. And I had to do that sucker by memory because there’s no light up here. As much light, I’m dark. It’s like dark. I had two problems. It’s dark and the print on that thing is so light you couldn’t read it. So I did the best I could, but not bad, right? I couldn’t see. Michael, I couldn’t see a frickin’ word. I said, “I have an idea. Let’s do this snake.” And then I take it out. I say, “Oh, my God. That’s a very light print. Oh, my God. There’s no light.” Between the light and the print. I’m saying, “What the hell am I doing this for?” But it wasn’t bad. And you get the point. When I’m a president and when I become your president, when we all — we’re going to all work together. We’re going to make it happen. We will get the illegal alien, murderers, rapists, and child predators the hell out of our country, and we will not ever, ever, ever let them back in. So Nevada, get out and vote. We win this state, we’re going to win the whole thing. We win this, we’re going to win the whole thing. If we win this state, we win everything. And the people of Nevada also need to get out and vote for some really great people. And you have to vote against a really terrible radical left senator named Jacky Rosen. She does a terrible job. We have, running, a man of the border, and I’m going to introduce you to him, but Jacky Rosen has voted with Crooked Joe Biden nearly 100% of the time. She voted for every single inflation-causing spending bill. And she also voted for Joe Biden’s Open Borders bill to set a minimum of two million illegal aliens per year. So can you imagine? They said this was a good bill, and that doesn’t include the fly-ins, and it doesn’t include all of the other people that get in. They come in through places that we wouldn’t even believe. They go through Snake Mountain. Running against Wacky Jacky is an American hero named Sam Brown. Sam Brown. Sam Brown. … That was great. I’ll tell you, you got to vote for him. You got to vote for him. Nobody’s been through what he has been through. Nobody ever what he’s been through. And he wants to put his life on the line again. And he wants to do it for you. And he is going to do it. And he’s your border senator. He’s going to be great. And she’s the exact opposite. She’s your open border and you don’t want open borders. You’ve had millions of people come in right here. They’re coming in here more than any place else now because Texas has closed it up pretty well. But they’ve done nothing here. You got to get it. You got to get them in. I also want to thank your Governor, Joe Lombardo, has been fantastic to us. He’s been great. And he’s right now out in the wildfires in Western Nevada, which are really taking a toll. Joe’s been great. And our prayers go out to every Nevada family that, every one of them that’s been forced to evacuate due to these raging fires. They’re raging. And we love you all. And Governor, we thank you very much. He’s done a fantastic job. … These are young guys, but they have plenty of cash, I can tell you that. And they’re great people. So Comrade Kamala Harris is the most radical nominee ever to seek the Oval Office. And, you know, it was just pointed out, and the real number is 325,000 migrant children are lost. They’re being raped or they’re being killed. A lot of them are no longer with us. They lost it during the last three years. 325,000 children, young children, think of it. Never to see their parents again. They’re either gone or they’re in the service as slaves, slaves, sex slaves or slaves. And I just think it’s terrible. You know, they talk about us like we’re evil people. They lost 325,000 young kids. Think of what that means. Think of what that means. As Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing us and the typical family, the typical family, $28,000. Think of that, 28,000. With me, it was the opposite, the exact opposite. Days ago it was announced that we lost 438,000 full-time jobs in August. That’s a record. We lost almost a half a million jobs in August. You know, they like to go around saying how well they’re doing. They’re doing terribly. Inflation makes everything bad anyway. They had the highest ever. We lost 24,000 manufacturing jobs and nearly 6,000 auto manufacturing jobs. And I’ll tell you what, the United Auto Workers, those guys are going to vote for me. Those guys and gals, they’re going to vote for me. They’re going to vote for me because the auto industry is moving to Mexico, it’s moving to China, and it’s moving to other parts of the world, but not the United States. China’s building two massive auto plants in Mexico now, and they think they’re going to build cars and put them into our country. Not going to happen. It’s not going to happen. They’ve got authorization from Biden. You know why? Because they gave them a lot of cash. That’s why. And nobody talks about it. Last month alone, American-born workers lost 1.3 million jobs as migrants gained 635,000 jobs in a single month. You know, the jobs, almost every single job, was taken by a migrant worker. And Black workers are losing their jobs to these people that are pouring into our country and Hispanics are losing their jobs. And next will be unions. Unions are going to be losing all of their power, all of their clout. But the Black worker and the Black family, they’re losing their jobs. Hispanics are losing their jobs. The people that pour into our country illegally. Now Kamala is pushing the largest individual and small business tax increase in American history. And she said that a 70 to 80 percent tax rate is something that’s very, very doable. “It’s a bold idea,” she said, “and it must be discussed.” Now she changed that a little bit, but with a politician, they always go back to their original thought. Harris and Biden waged war on American energy, opened up the Russian pipeline, Nord Stream 2 — that I had closed — but shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline that I had opened. She reentered the horribly unfair to the United States US-Paris Climate Accord. I want it to be the Nevada Climate Accord, not the Paris. It’s the most unfair document you’ve ever seen. And she has always said, “I will ban fracking.” And she has always said, “I will defund the police.” Anybody—you know she was the head of the Defund the Police movement. Anybody that was with that scam for even a week is not fit to serve as the President of the United States. As California Attorney General, she redefined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon and rape of an unconscious person. These are categories, all categories, horrible categories, but she redefined them as, in all cases, nonviolent crimes. Kamala supports states being able to take minor children and perform sex change operations on them without their parents’ consent. Did you know that? Did you know that? Now she’ll say, “Oh no, I don’t – I never said that.” But we can put up the tapes anytime you want. I don’t even want to show – they’re so disgusting, I don’t want to show them. Despite the false fact check by the fake moderators, those guys at ABC Fake News. In the debate this week, her running mate, Tampon Tim, who put tampons – who put tampons in young boys’ bathrooms. He even signed a law that allows abortion in the ninth month. He says abortion in the ninth month and babies to be executed after birth. And that’s right. And it’s happened numerous times in the states and other states too. There are radical left states that allow that. Nobody wants to talk about it, but they allow that, execution after birth. But from the moment we take back the White House from Comrade Kamala Harris, I believe we are going to have the four greatest years in the history of our country. Starting on day one, I will seal the border and stop the migrant invasion. We will carry out the largest deportation operation of criminals in American history. We will defeat inflation quickly and we will make America affordable again. We’re getting your prices way down. We will make America the dominant energy producer in the world by far. You know I already had it above Russia and Saudi Arabia. Then we had a terrible result in a horrible election, an election where I got, remember, more votes than any sitting president ever by far, by millions. We have more liquid gold under our feet than any country in the world. Think of it. We are standing on more liquid gold under our feet than any country in the world, and we’re going to use it. In 12 months, I will cut your energy costs in half, and that includes heating, air conditioning, electricity, and gasoline for your car. Right? As part of our efforts to increase housing affordability, I will work with your governor to open up new tracks of federal land for large-scale housing construction, and you’ll get it for a much lower price. More than 80% of all land in Nevada is owned by the federal government. Governor Lombardo has sent three letters to the Biden-Harris administration, asking them to open up some of this land to help alleviate the crisis. But Kamala and crooked Joe did not even have the decency to reply to those requests. Under the Trump administration, the pleas of Nevada will be ignored no longer. We’re going to open it up. We’re going to open. We’ll start with a small portion, you’ll get it going, and then we’re going to open up large portions of land. We will create special new zones with ultra-low taxes and ultra-low regulations to allow the development of really extraordinary new housing at a proper price, while also bringing jobs and industries to Nevada. Like the movie industry, the technology industry and the massive manufacturing plants from foreign nations will be coming into your state. And that means jobs. And if I pull this off, with the help of your governor, a lot of Hollywood will be moving from California because right now you don’t have the land. Because you don’t have the land. It’s owned by the federal government. We’re going to open up that land to you. You’ll be able to build studio lots and everything else. Millions and millions of Americans will be able to take part in building these clean, safe, and beautiful new communities, reviving the frontier spirit and the American dream, something you don’t hear much about anymore. It’s going to be done right here in Nevada. Next, I will turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower, more than it has ever been before. We’re going to bring back the car industry too. We’re going to bring back the car industry, and we’re not going to let China and Mexico sell cars into the United States that are going to just take back our jobs. They’re going to have to pay 100%, maybe a 200% tariff because we don’t want those cars. We want to make our own cars in our country. We’ll do it better than them. Other countries that make us pay a tax to do business with them will be charged the same tax when they send their product into the United States. It will be called the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act. In other words, if China or any other country charges us a 100, 200 or 300% tax, which they actually charge, then we will charge them a 100, 200 or 300% tax in return. Right now we charge them nothing. My message is simple. Make your product here in America and only in America. That’s what we wanted. My plan is that if you open your factory in Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or anywhere else in the United States, you don’t pay a tariff. You don’t have to pay anything. All you have to do is pay the workers and the workers are going to be you. But if you move your production outside of the United States and send it back here, you’ll have to pay a massive tariff and we don’t even want your product, even if you pay it. We are going to very quickly supercharge our country. And when I’m back in that beautiful White House, we will pass larger tax cuts for workers and we have a special tax that here is going to do I think quite well, it’s called no tax on tips. No tax on tips. No tax on tips. Did you see when I announced that a long time ago, all of a sudden she announced it and she was met with rebuke. And you know, they can’t do it anyway, because they have so much legislation in, that make sure that you pay your tax on tips, and it didn’t go over too well. But we are going to do it. We’ll get it done fast. They said they were going to cut the school lending. When you borrow money to go to school, they were going to cut it. They were going to cut it down to nothing. Guess what? A big thud. Never happened. It never happened. You know why? Because they’re all talk and no action. And you saw that the other night at the debate. She was all talk, I’m going to do this and I’m going to do that, and then I’m going to cut tax and then I’m going to give you 25,000 per house and then I’m going to go, over and over. And I said very simply at the end of my last little statement, “Why haven’t you done it? You’ve been there for three and a half years. Why haven’t you done it?” Right, Michael? Why haven’t you done it, Michael? Right, Michael? Why haven’t they done it? I said, “We will leave this debate stage, which is just a waste of time anyway. I will go with you to Washington and you can announce the closure of the border.” You know she doesn’t need a bill. I didn’t have a bill. I said, “We’re closing the border.” We closed the border and we had the greatest chart of all time. You want to put up that chart if you can find it, the border chart, my all-time favorite in the history of charts. Yeah, I love that chart. I’m going to sleep with that chart. That chart saved my life. Can you believe it? Just like that. I said, “Put up the chart.” I went like that to look at it. Ding. That chart, think of it, illegal immigration saved my life. See that? That is the most beautiful document I’ve ever seen. But you see the arrow on the bottom, that’s when I left office. That’s the lowest point in the history of our country for illegal immigrants to come in, but also drugs and everything else that was coming in bad. That point is the lowest. And then as soon as they took over, look, it became a rocket ship. Look at that, like a rocket ship. And our country was destroyed. We had it under control. That’s the lowest point in the history. That was done by border patrol, that chart. But regardless of the numbers, I love that chart. I’m sorry. Additionally, I will fight for and protect social security and Medicare with no cuts, no cuts, and we will have no tax on social security benefits for our seniors. No tax on social security. And then we wheeled out a great one. And I actually think this is going to be fantastic for the country as well as the worker because a lot of people are going to be working overtime. And just yesterday I announced that there will be no taxes on overtime. No taxes on overtime. We will terminate the Green New Scam. I call it the Green New scam, Green New Deal, Green New Scam. It’s greatest scam. You know what they’re going to spend? $97 trillion. Where are they going to get that money? That’s more money than every country in the world has. It’s a scam. They were going to spend $97 trillion. And you know the time is coming up. Remember they said we only have 12 years to live because the environment is going to kill us, right? That time is very close. Somehow I’m not worried. I am worried about nuclear because to be honest with you, we have incompetent people dealing on it. You’re going to end up in World War III. You’re going to have a nuclear holocaust if we’re not careful, these people have no idea. Our people have no idea what they’re doing. And I will keep you out of World War III. I’m the only one that’s going to be able to do it. But we’re going to spend all of that Green New Scam money on roads and bridges and real infrastructure and paying down debt. We’re going to pay down debt and you know we’re going to have growth like this country has never seen before. We’re going to get that debt way down. We’re going to get your interest rates way down so you can buy the house, you can have the American dream. I had interest rates at 2% and now they’re 10% and you can’t get the money. You can’t pay the money anyway, too expensive, but you can’t get the money. We’re not going to have fake infrastructure that’s caused massive inflation. You know the Inflation Reduction Act, which is a fake deal, they actually said about six months ago, they never expected it to do anything for inflation. It was a scam to get more money for the environment. So listen to this, very important I think, you haven’t heard the word environment in seven months. You know why? It doesn’t play. It doesn’t play. We want clean air. We want crystal clear water, beautiful water, and we want an unbelievable country, and we want an economy that’s better than it’s ever been before. The environment isn’t playing. They don’t mention it anymore. With all the money they spent wasted on all this nonsense that they did, the apartment, your windows have to be smaller, preferably don’t have any windows at all. They showed me a building, an ideal building. I said, “What is that? Is it a bunker?” “No, this is a building. It’s a modern building.” It had no windows. Let’s try selling one of those apartments. You have – not small windows, you had no windows. Because it’s good, the sunlight doesn’t go through. Okay, look, she’s laughing. That’s crazy, isn’t it? I don’t know if you’re laughing or crying. I’m sort of crying about it. It’s crazy. These people are crazy. We want a new building and they want to knock down all those beautiful buildings of Manhattan and rebuild them with no windows. We don’t want one building in Manhattan. I will end the chaos in the Middle East and I will settle the war in Ukraine as I will settle that as President-elect. And remember, a vote for comrade Kamala Harris is a vote for war with Russia. Would anybody like to be in war with Russia? If necessary we would, but preferably not, right? Don’t you think? It’s also a vote to bring back the draft? Would anybody like to be drafted in the audience? Because that’s what they’re doing. She’s already talking about bringing back the draft. She wants to bring back the draft and draft your child and put them in a war that should never have happened. Remember, Russia would’ve never attacked Ukraine ever and didn’t for four years. And remember this, when Bush was president, he gave up a lot to Russia. When Barack Hussein Obama was president — gave up a lot to Russia. When Biden was president — going to give up the whole thing to Russia, it looks like. But when Trump was president, he gave up nothing to Russia. Zero. I gave up nothing. I’m the only one. I’m the only one. And a vote for comrade Kamala Harris is a vote to obliterate Israel and fast. Israel is going to be blown off the face of the earth if she becomes the President of the United States. I hate to say it, I’ve always backed Israel. They will not have a chance if she… She went to a party instead when your prime minister came to the United States and spoke before Congress, which is a big event, she went to a sorority party instead, she found that more important. Ready? Israel will be blown off the face of the earth. It will not exist if she becomes President of the United States. If I become President of the United States, it will go on to glory. But if she becomes President, it will be obliterated. Just remember I said it. A vote for President Donald J. Trump is a vote for prosperity and peace. We will rebuild our cities, including Washington D.C., which is a mess with graffiti all over our beautiful marble buildings, with roads that have potholes all over and medians that are falling down into the gutter. We’re going to make those cities safe, clean, and beautiful again, and we will keep the U.S.dollar as the world’s reserve currency. We’re losing it fast. Nobody else will be able to do that. We’re already missing so many. Russia’s gone. China essentially has gone. China’s the one that wants to take it. North Korea’s got… They’re all getting out. But with me it’s different. I’m going to say, you know what? You want to get out? Yes, we’re decided to get out. We’re going to go with Russia. We’re going to go with China. I said, “That’s okay. Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to put a 250% tariff on anything you sell us in this country.” And you know what they’re going to do? Sir, we’ve decided that we want to stay in your currency, sir, we’re going to stay in your currency. It won’t happen. It won’t happen. Just like Mexico gave us all those soldiers at our border, everyone said you could never get that. I got it. 28,000 soldiers cash, right? We got 28,000 soldiers to protect our border while we were building the wall. And we got a lot of other things too. I could go over them. I could speak all night long about what we got. What we’re going to get is the greatest country in the history of the world. We’re going to bring it back. And just in closing, this is how we will end the era of inflation, mayhem and misery under Kamala and crooked Joe, and unleash safety, prosperity, and peace for Americans of every race, religion, color, and creed. Together we will deliver low taxes, low regulations, low energy costs, low interest rates, and low inflation so that everyone can afford groceries, a car and a home. Very simple, isn’t it? I saw the other night on television, a woman went up to the grocery store and put on the counter three apples. And then she realized she didn’t have enough money for that, and she took one of the apples back. I said, that should never happen in our country. We’re not going to let it happen in our country, while other people get rich and while illegal migrants are staying in luxury hotels and our soldiers, our vets are sleeping on the streets at the base of those hotels, and they’re up in luxury rooms, and they came into our country illegally and many of them are very bad people. We will stop the invasion, end migrant crime, support our police, strengthen our military, build a missile defense shield, and a lot of it is going to be built in Nevada. We will keep critical race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports. I don’t know if you saw the Olympics a couple of weeks ago, a beautiful young Italian boxer, female boxer, and supposed to be very good, and she was fighting a young gentleman or a young woman. You always have to be careful. You know your political career could end immediately with the wrong statement. So I’ll say one of each. But she was fighting a person who was a man and transitioned into womanhood. And he looked like if Muhammad Ali in his prime saw him, Muhammad would be afraid. And the fight began, and they’re standing. Henry would know this better than anybody, but they were standing up, and a left jab, it’s just sort of defense. Left jab, left jab. And he hit her with a left jab and she was, oh, oh my. Whoa. She got hit like a horse. She said, “Somebody hit me. It was a horse.” And then she said, “I’ll try it again.” And she went up and he hit her again with just a left jab. And she said, “Nope, I’m not going to do it.” He ended up winning the gold medal, went through the boxers like nothing. There were two people in women’s boxing that transitioned. Both of them happened to win a gold medal. Are you surprised? Are you surprised by that? Are you surprised? No, I’m not either right? I’m not surprised. We will defend the Second Amendment, restore free speech, and we will secure our elections. We’re going to have to secure our elections because they cheat so badly. Everyone will prosper. Every family will thrive, and every day we will be filled – you know the word they used – with joy. So I’m not going to use that word, if you don’t mind. But opportunity and hope – we’re going to be filled with ambition. We’re going to go out and love getting up every morning and going to work and making a lot of money. But for that to happen, we must defeat comrade Kamala Harris, a radical left lunatic. And we must stop her country destroying liberal agenda once and for all. If they get in, we’re never going to be able to turn this country around. It’s going to be Venezuela on steroids. You’re never going to be able to do it. So get everyone you know to vote. We want a landslide that is too big to rig, too big to rig. On November 5th, we will save our economy. We will rescue our middle class. We will reclaim our sovereignty and restore our borders like they have not been restored in a long time. We will put America first and we will take back our country. Together we will make America powerful again. Make America wealthy again. Make America healthy again. Make America strong again. Make America proud again. Make America safe again. Make America free again. We will make America great again. Thank you very much, Nevada. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you everybody. Get out and vote. God bless you.
Politics
Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him.
Plaintiff Council for Opportunity in Education
Defendant U.S. Department of Education
Filed in the District of Columbia on Oct. 14, 2025
Injunction
Plaintiff Dallas County, Tex.
Defendant Kennedy
Filed in the District of Columbia on Dec. 5, 2025
Plaintiff Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Defendant Kennedy Jr.
Filed in the District of Rhode Island on July 21, 2025
injunction
Plaintiff Colorado
Defendant Department of Health and Human Services
Filed in the District of Rhode Island on April 1, 2025
injunction
Plaintiff Housing Authority of the County of San Diego
Defendant Turner
Filed in the Northern District of California on Oct. 15, 2025
injunction
Plaintiff National Alliance to End Homelessness
Defendant Department of Housing and Urban Development
Filed in the District of Rhode Island on Dec. 1, 2025
injunction
Plaintiff Washington
Defendant Federal Emergency Management Agency
Filed in the District of Massachusetts on July 16, 2025
lost
Plaintiff Arizona
Defendant Environmental Protection Agency
Filed in the Western District of Washington on Oct. 16, 2025
Plaintiff Open Technology Fund
Defendant Lake
Filed in the District of Columbia on March 20, 2025
injunction
Plaintiff National Public Radio
Defendant Trump
Filed in the District of Columbia on May 27, 2025
Plaintiff San Francisco Unified School District
Defendant AmeriCorps
Filed in the Northern District of California on March 10, 2025
injunction
Plaintiff Maine
Defendant National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Filed in the District of Maine on June 17, 2025
Plaintiff Rhode Island Latino Arts
Defendant National Endowment for the Arts
Filed in the District of Rhode Island on March 6, 2025
lost
President Trump has tried to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding to coerce states, punish opponents, remake programs and impose his views. His targets have repeatedly sued to stop him, and the courts have repeatedly rebuked him — only for the president to try again and again.
Take just these seven cases, all of them tied to the administration’s efforts to block funds from “sanctuary” communities, those that restrict cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Last February, a coalition of cities and counties sued over executive orders directing agencies to shut off such funds.
Plaintiff City and County of San Francisco
Defendant Trump
Filed in the Northern District of California on Feb. 7, 2025
injunction
A judge issued a preliminary injunction, halting those directives while the case proceeded.
The same day, the Department of Transportation told communities they must cooperate with immigration enforcement to get federal transportation dollars.
Twenty states, led by California, soon sued …
Plaintiff California
Defendant Department of Transportation
Filed in the District of Rhode Island on May 13, 2025
lost
… and the administration lost in district court.
The Department of Homeland Security tried to withhold emergency management funds. Another lawsuit followed …
Plaintiff Illinois
Defendant FEMA
Filed in the District of Rhode Island on May 13, 2025
lost
… and the administration lost.
Then D.H.S. tried reducing counterterrorism grants to sanctuary states instead …
Plaintiff Illinois
Defendant Noem
Filed in the District of Rhode Island on Sept. 29, 2025
lost
… and again, the administration lost.
In the past year, funds for housing, transit, health and public safety have all been conditioned on cooperation with immigration.
Plaintiff King County
Defendant Turner
Filed in the Western District of Washington on May 2, 2025
injunction
Plaintiff Fresno
Defendant Turner
Filed in the Northern District of California on Aug. 20, 2025
injunction
Plaintiff Chicago
Defendant Department of Justice
Filed in the Northern District of Illinois on Nov. 12, 2025
injunction
Injunctions regularly followed.
These are among 198 lawsuits in the past year identified by The New York Times that challenge how Mr. Trump has leveraged federal funding to carry out his agenda without the consent of Congress. And they reflect one remarkable feature of the campaign: It has proceeded undeterred by losses in court.
With that persistence, the administration has been hammering away at a new kind of reality in Washington, one where the president wields far more control over spending, and where his opponents aren’t entitled to the services of their federal government.
“Anyone in the country who relies on federal dollars is depending on the president to get that money,” said Matthew Lawrence, a law professor at Emory University. “And that’s a new thing.”
The president has threatened money to states that don’t adopt his policies, universities that don’t bend to his will, hospitals that don’t alter their services, school districts that don’t abandon diversity efforts, nonprofits that don’t embrace his gender views, and researchers who study the wrong subjects.
These moves have tested whether Congress, granted the “power of the purse,” still holds the ultimate authority over spending. And they have challenged the courts with a flood of cases — 37 separate suits from the state of California; four from the Association of American Universities on virtually the same question; one from King County, Wash., that has grown to include as plaintiffs 75 communities and agencies.
“You would think there would be some conditioning here: You do an action, you get sued, you lose, maybe you don’t do that action anymore,” said Rob Bonta, who as California’s attorney general has brought many of those suits. “He’s continued to repeat offend. And repeat lose.”
The administration’s approach has amounted to “a game of three-card monte” in the courts, said Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan. Each injunction covers the parties suing and the specific programs at issue, but doesn’t necessarily stop the administration from blocking funds to other groups it disfavors. The result, Mr. Bagenstos said: “‘Oh, well, you think I can’t do this thing over there? Well I’m going to do it over here.’”
Presidents have long sought to steer funding to advance their priorities, designing programs with Congress or awarding competitive grants to communities that emphasize certain ideas. But the Trump administration has gone much further: terminating en masse funds that were already awarded; imposing new conditions on future grants that flout federal rule making; and blocking money to whole programs and agencies created by Congress.
The groups that have sued represent a fraction of everyone affected; many have lacked the means or the will to go to court. But these 198 cases, as of the beginning of March, have pried open a public view into the breadth of the administration’s tactics. And one year in, they have produced a lopsided record of rulings.
When plaintiffs have sought immediate relief, district court judges have temporarily blocked the administration’s actions 79 percent of the time, signaling plaintiffs’ likely success on the merits. In the 26 instances where district judges have issued partial or final rulings, the administration lost 23.
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York v. Department of Health and Human Services
Just because a pronouncement comes from the president does not make it true, even if expressed in the form of an executive order, and even then, does not supersede the law.
lost
American Federation of Teachers v. U.S. Department of Education
By leapfrogging important procedural requirements, the government has unwittingly run headfirst into serious constitutional problems.
lost
Michigan v. Noem
None of this appears consistent with Congressional intent or FEMA’s mission.
lost
The administration declined to comment on the record. But a White House official authorized to describe the strategy said the Trump administration is restoring power to the presidency that previous presidents have shied away from, while tapping that power to prevent fraud and steward taxpayer dollars. The groups bringing all these lawsuits, that person said, are the ones using the courts in a hostile campaign to hamstring the president.
The administration has notably walked away from some defeats without appealing them. But it is counting on a better record before appeals court judges, as has been the case more broadly. Among cases it has appealed, appellate courts have reversed or paused orders against the administration in about 40 percent of their rulings, often with judges appointed by Mr. Trump in his favor.
But even when it is losing in court, plaintiffs’ attorneys and legal scholars said, the administration may still find it is winning on its own terms.
‘Undeserving recipients’
Alongside that first sanctuary cities directive, early executive orders outlining the president’s core agenda aimed to end all “diversity, equity and inclusion” in the government, to eradicate “gender ideology,” to reverse the “green new deal,” and to enforce “election integrity.” All of them proposed leveraging federal funds to do it.
These cases show the administration pulling that lever in numerous ways.
It has tried to set conditions with no clear relationship to program goals (like immigration requirements for highway funds). It has threatened funding to force states to share information (voter rolls, food aid lists). It has told grantees they must pledge to comply with orders the president hasn’t issued yet. And it has invoked criminal and financial penalties if they break those pledges.
It has terminated even small sums, targeting with laser precision opponents of the president (who then sued):
The American Bar Association lost $3.2 million in domestic violence training grants after the administration attacked the group.
Plaintiff American Bar Association
Defendant Department of Justice
Filed in the District of Columbia on April 23, 2025
injunction
The American Academy of Pediatrics lost nearly $12 million in grants in apparent retaliation for its advocacy of vaccines and gender-affirming care.
Plaintiff American Academy of Pediatrics
Defendant Department of Health and Human Services
Filed in the District of Columbia on Dec. 24, 2025
injunction
Maine lost access to support for school meals as Gov. Janet Mills was fighting with the president over transgender athletes.
Plaintiff Maine
Defendant Department of Agriculture
Filed in the District of Maine on April 7, 2025
injunction
The government backed down with the American Bar Association and Maine after judges issued initial rulings, only to turn its focus elsewhere.
“You can see that the government’s posture is essentially: Do the thing that’s going to make the White House happy, or get the press release about sticking it to trans people,” said Kevin Love Hubbard, a former D.O.J. attorney who represented the government before leaving in August. Agencies are doing that, he said, “without thinking about then having to go into court.”
Today, he is suing the government in several funding cases with the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island.
Most of these nearly 200 cases are about disfavored categories of recipients like sanctuary jurisdictions, Harvard researchers or organizations serving transgender people.
“We are the undeserving recipients, at least in the mind of our current administration,” said Leesa Manion, the prosecuting attorney in King County, Wash., which encompasses Seattle. “The goal all along was to ensure that we — the undesirables — do not get our fair share. Whether it works or doesn’t work, if that’s your overarching goal, you just keep evolving your technique.”
The administration is now increasingly targeting blue states as such a category, too.
That began during the government shutdown last October, when the White House budget director Russell Vought announced the administration would cancel nearly $8 billion in energy projects in 16 states — all where voters had supported Kamala Harris in 2024.
A small group of grantees, including the city of St. Paul, Minn., sued in response.
Plaintiff St. Paul, Minnesota
Defendant Wright
Filed in the District of Columbia on Nov. 10, 2025
lost
In January, the administration lost in district court, where a judge said it had violated the Constitution.
But officials were already preparing other cuts to blue states. H.H.S. froze $10 billion in child care and family assistance funds to five states. The states sued …
Plaintiff New York
Defendant Administration for Children and Families
Filed in the Southern District of New York on Jan. 8, 2026
injunction
… and a judge issued an injunction.
The D.O.T. suspended funding to the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project connecting New Jersey and New York. Both states sued …
Plaintiff New Jersey
Defendant Department of Transportation
Filed in the Southern District of New York on Feb. 3, 2026
injunction
… and secured another injunction.
Even after those setbacks, in early February the administration told Congress it would cut more than $600 million in public health grants to four blue states. They sued …
Plaintiff Illinois
Defendant Vought
Filed in the Northern District of Illinois on Feb. 11, 2026
injunction
… and the next day, a judge issued another injunction in the form of a temporary restraining order.
Still, last week, the administration said it would withhold about $250 million in Medicaid funds from Minnesota (prompting another lawsuit).
These moves, citing a mix of fraud and immigration policies, follow the president’s vow to block all funding to sanctuary jurisdictions — a group, under the D.O.J.’s definition, that could encompass one-third of the U.S. population.
“They can sue us and maybe they’ll win,” the president said in January. “But we’re not giving money to sanctuary cities anymore.”
Arbitrary and capricious
At stake in many cases are weighty constitutional principles: the separation of powers; the right to due process when the government says grantees have done something wrong; the First Amendment protections for organizations to advocate their views without government retaliation.
In the St. Paul suit, a district judge, Amit P. Mehta, ruled in January for the first time in one of these cases that the administration had violated the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection clause by singling out states for their partisan lean. During the litigation, the government didn’t deny doing that. Rather, it argued it was allowed to.
St. Paul, Minnesota v. Wright
Defendants freely admit that they made grant-termination decisions primarily — if not exclusively — based on whether the awardee resided in a state whose citizens voted for President Trump in 2024. There is no rational relationship between that classification and defendants’ stated governmental interest.
lost
But that ruling covered only seven canceled grants worth about $27.5 million out of the nearly $8 billion total terminated. Now a coalition of 13 states is suing with the same constitutional argument in a new case about the same cuts.
The constant that is running through most of these cases, however, is the more mundane-sounding Administrative Procedure Act. That 1946 law says that the federal government must be reasoned and document its thinking according to transparent rules — in short, that it shouldn’t be slapdash and secretive.
These cases are full of examples of it doing just that. When the Department of Homeland Security tried last year to reduce counterterrorism grants to sanctuary states, the agency appeared to arrive at the lower award sums by simply lopping digits off the original values.
Illinois v. Noem
Neither a law degree nor a degree in mathematics is required to deduce that no plausible, rational formula could produce this result.
lost
Officials have sent out directives with copy-and-pasted typos, termination letters without agency letterhead and bare explanations with boilerplate rationale.
“You had literally grants for millions of dollars being canceled in a single vague paragraph: ‘This no longer comports with administration priorities, thank you very much,’” said Claudia Polsky, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, who has led a class-action lawsuit among University of California researchers that has restored, for now, at least a thousand grants worth about a billion dollars.
The administration has given grantees new mandates — and prohibitions — so vague that they haven’t known how to comply.
“‘Promote gender ideology’ — what does that mean?” said Maria Corona, the head of the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which has challenged new conditions on grants. “When you’re talking about ‘violence against women,’ in the language itself we’re already talking about a gender issue.”
Last February, the National Institutes of Health issued a seismic policy change on a Friday night, to take effect the following Monday, slashing payments to universities for research overhead, drawing several lawsuits.
Plaintiff Massachusetts
Defendant National Institutes of Health
Filed in the District of Massachusetts on Feb. 10, 2025
lost
Plaintiff Association of American Medical Colleges
Defendant National Institutes of Health
Filed in the District of Massachusetts on Feb. 10, 2025
lost
Plaintiff Association of American Universities
Defendant Department of Health and Human Services
Filed in the District of Massachusetts on Feb. 10, 2025
lost
In April, the administration lost these cases, consolidated under one judge (an appeals court upheld the decision this year).
But after the district court ruling, the Department of Energy, followed by the National Science Foundation and then the Department of Defense, each rolled out an identical policy.
Plaintiff Association of American Universities
Defendant Department of Energy
Filed in the District of Massachusetts on April 14, 2025
lost
Plaintiff Association of American Universities
Defendant National Science Foundation
Filed in the District of Massachusetts on May 5, 2025
lost
Plaintiff Association of American Universities
Defendant Department of Defense
Filed in the District of Massachusetts on June 16, 2025
lost
As these cases accumulated, so did the judges’ irritation.
Association of American Universities v. Department of Defense
The Court does not write upon a blank slate but instead follows three other courts in this district who have come to similar conclusions with respect to different federal agencies’ attempts to enact virtually identical policies. Notably, defendants ignored these obviously relevant — and at least reasonable — analyses before adopting this policy.
lost
Success for the administration has seldom involved winning on the merits. Rather, the administration has argued in most of these cases that district judges have no business hearing them at all. Cases seeking money, it says, belong instead in the Court of Federal Claims, a specialized court dedicated to financial contract disputes with the government.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett breathed life into that argument, concurring in a preliminary ruling last summer that surprised some legal experts. Her opinion — suggesting policies should be litigated in district court, while payouts resulting from them belong in the Court of Federal Claims — has further complicated these cases. So has the Supreme Court’s ruling last year ending nationwide injunctions.
Winning while losing
By the time grantees have gone to court, they have already lost much. Researchers have halted studies. Nonprofits have laid off staff. The core expectation that the government is a reliable partner has already been undercut.
“The result is a corrosive uncertainty that undermines the basic functioning of government,” said Jacob Leibenluft, a former official in the Biden White House budget office.
That uncertainty sets in the moment money isn’t on time, or when grantees start to think it won’t be in the future. Other changes take root, too: Grantees rethink what’s in their mission statements; professors shift what they teach.
American Association of University Professors v. Trump
Numerous U.C. faculty and staff have submitted declarations describing how defendants’ actions have already chilled speech throughout the U.C. system.
injunction
The administration is advancing these changes even when it’s losing particular funding cases in court. And it has successfully blocked money to groups who haven’t sued, further entrenching the president’s expanded power over spending.
Whether this dynamic sticks depends as much on Congress as on the courts. If legislators were more actively guarding programs they had funded themselves, many of these lawsuits likely wouldn’t exist.
New York v. Trump
The interaction of the three co-equal branches of government is an intricate, delicate and sophisticated balance — but it is crucial to our form of constitutional governance. Here, the Executive put itself above Congress.
injunction
In rare cases, Republicans in Congress have pushed back against the administration and been able to reverse billions in cuts far more quickly than courts could, including from after-school programs and mental health and addiction treatment.
For most programs targeted by the administration, however, Republicans have publicly said little, and that’s unlikely to change as the president now targets blue states more explicitly. Republican and Democratic appropriators have together quietly tucked some new guardrails into spending bills this year. But it is Democrats, primarily, who have spoken up for the larger principle that lawmakers set the terms of federal spending — not the president.
“We have to guard that with our lives,” said Rosa DeLauro, the top Democratic appropriator in the House. The alternative, she said, is that funding becomes a tool to silence dissent. “‘Don’t speak out — or I’ll cancel your grant.’”
Absent bipartisan clamor in Congress, cases like King County v. Turner grind on. The case was brought last May by eight local governments challenging new conditions on housing and transportation grants. Then they added H.H.S. as a defendant. And 23 more local governments and transit and housing agencies joined as plaintiffs. Then another 29 came on board. Then 15 more. Each one has had to explain the harms it has faced. The judge has had to review each claim, alongside the details of dozens of grant programs, while crafting what are now four successive injunctions. All that is just one lawsuit.
“Should we have to do that 200 times, 300 times?” said Erin Overbey, the general counsel with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. “What’s the number where we reach critical mass?”
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Combustible Republican Senate primary in Texas heading into overtime
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AUSTIN, TEXAS – The expensive and contentious battle for the Republican Senate nomination in Texas is headed to a May runoff, after none of the three major candidates in the crowded field of contenders topped 50% of the vote in Tuesday’s primary election.
Longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn will face off with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after they finished in the top two in the primary, with Rep. Wesley Hunt in third place, according to unofficial primary election results.
The winner will face off with either progressive firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a vocal critic and foil of President Donald Trump, or rising star state Rep. James Talarcio, who were vying for the Democratic Senate nomination. Both were trying to become the first Democrat in nearly four decades to win a Senate election in right-leaning Texas.
This year’s Senate showdown in Texas is one of a handful across the country that could determine if Republicans hold their majority in the chamber in the midterm elections. The GOP currently controls the chamber 53-47.
The Cornyn campaign and aligned super PACs spent nearly $100 million to run ads attacking Paxton and Hunt, with the senator charging in the closing weeks of the primary campaign that Democrats will flip the seat in the general election if Paxton’s the GOP’s nominee.
Cornyn, his allies, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of the Senate GOP, repeatedly pointed to the slew of scandals and legal problems that have battered Paxton over the past decade, as well as his ongoing messy divorce.
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“If I’m the nominee, I’ll help President Trump by making sure that we carry the five new congressional seats as well as maintain this Senate seat and will help him continue his agenda through the last two years of his term of office,” Cornyn touted in a Fox News Digital interview on Sunday.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks during a campaign stop in The Woodlands, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Annie Mulligan/AP Photo)
And, he argued, “If the Democrats win, because we nominate a flawed candidate with incredible baggage like the attorney general, then that last two years of [Trump’s] agenda is jeopardized, as well as everybody down ballot that we need to continue to elect as Republicans.”
PAXTON DEMANDS STRICTER VETTING AFTER DEADLY TEXAS RAMPAGE
Paxton, a MAGA firebrand who grabbed significant national attention by filing lawsuits against the Obama and Biden administrations, pushed back, telling Fox News Digital on the eve of the primary that “I’m 3-0. I’ve won three statewide races.”
Pointing to public opinion polls suggesting he has the edge over Cornyn, Paxton argued, “it’s really easy for him to say that when he’s losing a primary, because he’s not delivered for the people of Texas, and he’s going to find out tomorrow what that means. He’s going to end up losing.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican Senate candidate, speaks to supporters at a campaign event on primary eve, in Waco, Texas, on March 2, 2026. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
“This idea that I can’t win a race is not true… there’s no evidence of what he’s saying is being true. As a matter of fact, the evidence is just the opposite,” Paxton added.
Paxton was boosted a few weeks ago by an endorsement from the political wing of Turning Point USA, the powerful grassroots conservative organization that was long steered by the late Charlie Kirk.
The GOP nomination battle was a two-person race until Hunt, a West Point graduate and military veteran who flew helicopters during his service and who represents a solidly red district in suburban Houston, announced his candidacy last autumn.
“I think there’s going to be a runoff, no matter what happens,” Cornyn predicted on Sunday.
Paxton, speaking to supporters on primary eve, touted that “if we go to a runoff, the odds get better for me,” as he pointed to what will likely be a smaller electorate for the May 26 runoff.
Republican Senate candidate Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas, at a primary eve campaign event, in Houston, Texas on March 2, 2026 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Hunt, in a Fox News Digital interview on the eve of the primary, argued that he’s “the best candidate to win the primary and win the general.”
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And pointing to the negative ads from Cornyn and his allies that have targeted him the past couple of weeks, Hunt said, “They have spent tens of millions of dollars against me in the state of Texas, which means that I must be doing the right thing, and I must be a threat. DC will not decide who will be the next senator from Texas. Texans will and that’s why I got in this race.”
But Hunt fell short, coming in third place.
Trump, whose clout over the GOP remains immense, stayed neutral to date in the Republican primary. All three candidates, who sought the president’s endorsement, were in attendance Friday as Trump held an event in Corpus Christi, Texas.
“They’re in a little race together,” Trump said of Cornyn and Paxton. “You know that, right? A little bit of a race. It’s going to be an interesting one, right? They’re both great people, too.”
Trump also complimented Hunt, and said that all three contenders were engaged in an “interesting election.”
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in a Whataburger restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 27, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
While Trump stayed neutral, his top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, helped the Cornyn campaign. And veteran Republican strategist Chris LaCivita, who served as co-campaign manager of Trump’s 2024 White House bid, consulted for a top Cornyn-aligned super PAC.
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The big questions going forward as the runoff campaign gets underway are whether Trump will make an endorsement, and whether the major outside groups that supported Cornyn will continue to throw resources into the extended nomination battle.
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Israel believes Iran war could last months, testing U.S. resolve
NEW YORK — U.S. and Israeli officials are privately casting doubt on projections from the Trump administration that the war with Iran could end within a matter of weeks — instead warning that a months-long campaign may be required to destroy the country’s ballistic missile capabilities and install a pliant government, multiple sources told The Times.
The prospect of extended combat creates political risks and uncertainties for President Trump, whose penchant for dramatic, short-term military operations has suddenly given way to a full-scale assault on the Islamic Republic, shocking a MAGA base that for years supported his calls to end forever wars in the Middle East.
One Israeli official told The Times — despite internal guidance among Israeli officials to adhere to the U.S. president’s stated time frame — that the war “definitely could be longer” than the four-week window that Trump repeatedly offered to reporters.
A U.S. official said that in private conversations, top administration officials presume the campaign will require a longer runway now that remnants of Iran’s government have chosen to resist rather than acquiesce to Washington.
Protracted war was always a possibility. Trump was presented with U.S. intelligence assessments gaming out the potential conflict that emphasized how highly unpredictable the results of an attack would be — an analysis the intelligence community believes has borne out on the ground in the chaotic early days of the conflict.
A longer conflict could create diplomatic space between Trump and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has advocated for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic for over 30 years.
The Israeli leader has succeeded in convincing Trump to take military actions in Iran that American presidents have rejected for decades, from bombing its nuclear facilities to assassinating its leadership, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an opening strike over the weekend.
Goal of a change of government fades
Yet, mere days into the war, White House officials have all but ceased references to a democratic spring that could sweep Iran’s government aside.
A set of four U.S. goals for the mission no longer calls for changing the regime itself. Still, Netanyahu’s government remains keen on replacing the government, and the nation’s longest-serving premier sees the current war as his best opportunity to do so, one official said.
Speaking with reporters Tuesday, Trump rejected reports that the Israelis had convinced him to launch the attack.
“No, I might have forced their hand,” Trump said. “Based on the way the negotiations were going, I think they were going to attack first, and I didn’t want that to happen. So if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand, but Israel was ready, and we were ready, and we’ve had a very, very powerful impact because virtually everything they have has been knocked out.”
In a series of interviews this week, Trump said he had been given projections of a four- or five-week war, while noting he is prepared to go longer if necessary.
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official who is Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said that projecting a deadline to the conflict at its start would be a strategic mistake for the Trump administration, as it would in effect give Iran’s remaining leadership an end date to wait out the fighting.
“Successive presidents have shown that America has strategic attention deficit disorder,” Rubin said. “If that was the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s especially true under Trump. He imposed a ceasefire on Gaza that let Hamas survive to fight another day; they still haven’t disarmed.”
The duration of the war will depend, in part, on Iran’s ability to resist and defend its remaining capabilities — but also on the president’s willingness to accept an outcome that leaves the Islamic Republic in place.
That decision has not yet been made by Trump, who has vacillated between calls for a democratic uprising across Iran — and U.S. military options to support resistance groups inside the country — as opposed to a shorter campaign that cripples Iran’s political leadership and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians, ‘See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding,’” Trump told Axios.
One of Israel’s primary goals is to effectively eliminate the country’s ballistic missile program, and progress on that score is ahead of schedule, another source familiar with the operation said. “Things are going very well at the moment,” the source added. “Great pace.”
An Israeli military source noted to The Times that the stated goal of the mission is to significantly degrade, but not necessarily destroy, Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities, a goal the source said could be accomplished within Trump’s preferred time frame.
“Israel was quite unhappy Trump ordered the [June 2025] 12-day war ended when it did,” said Patrick Clawson, director of the Iran program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He said he expected the current war would “take time” to comprehensively set back Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities, after a series of Israeli missions in 2024 against the missile program failed to set them back by more than a matter of months.
“Some Israelis think before the recent strikes, Iranian production was fully restored,” Clawson said. “So a really comprehensive attack on Iranian missiles is an important Israeli objective.”
The Maduro model
But no one inside the Islamic Republic system has emerged so far to serve in a supplicant role to Trump in the way that Delcy Rodríguez has stepped in as acting president of Venezuela, after U.S. forces captured that country’s strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, in an audacious overnight raid in January.
Since then, the Stars and Stripes have flown alongside the Venezuelan tricolor at government buildings in Caracas, where senior Trump administration officials have been welcomed to discuss lucrative opportunities in Venezuela’s oil industry.
Trump is now looking for an Iranian counterpart to Rodríguez, he said Tuesday, suggesting he is willing to keep the Islamic Republic in place despite encouraging its citizens to rise up against their government.
“Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “We had some in mind from that group that is dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also…. Pretty soon we’re not gonna know anybody.”
“I mean, Venezuela was so incredible because we did the attack and we kept the government totally intact,” he added.
Dennis Ross, a veteran diplomat on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who served in the George H.W. Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations, expressed doubt that Trump would be willing to proceed with a months-long campaign, regardless of Israel’s aspirational objectives.
“I believe President Trump doesn’t define clear objectives so he can decide to end the war at a time of his choosing, and declare the objective at that point, announcing we have achieved what we sought to do,” said Ross, noting that finding a figurehead in Iran as he did in Venezuela was always “a long shot.”
“Unilaterally, he could declare we made the regime pay a price for killing its citizens, and we have weakened Iran to the point that it is not any longer a threat to its neighbors,” Ross added. “He could then say, if Iran continues the war, we will hit them even harder.”
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