Trump approved to open his own BANK

Happy Sunday! Trump just got federal approval to own his own bank — what could go wrong? We’ll get into that, plus:

And we’ve rounded up some other headlines you might have missed. Let’s get into it.

While Trump was sleeping through meetings and being wheeled around in a catering cart, a Democratic socialist candidate has been gaining ground in his own backyard — and making quite the splash on Fox News.

Oliver Larkin is taking on Rep. Jared Moskowitz in Florida's 25th District — a South Florida seat that runs right through Trump's own backyard in Palm Beach County.

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Yes. A sitting president just got federal approval to operate a bank.

Elizabeth Warren is calling it "the most brazen act of self-dealing our financial system has ever seen."

Trump and his family owns a crypto company called World Liberty Financial. On Friday, the federal government gave that company approval to become an official bank. Once it's a bank, it gets to create and control its own cryptocurrency — basically a Trump family version of the dollar that the U.S. government just agreed to regulate and oversee.

This is the same family that told us they'd drain the swamp and put America first.

Turns out "America first" means Trump Inc. first.

A president doesn't get to use federal regulators to hand-deliver banking charters to his own company while he's still in office. That's corruption.

The OCC approved it anyway. Warren and 10 other Senate Democrats introduced a bill that would ban presidents and their families from owning federally approved banks.

That law didn't exist before, because no one thought a president would need to be stopped from doing this. It likely won’t pass this Congress.

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal charges Friday — but the statement he made in court is what caught our attention.

His attorneys say he took no plea deal, and they've already filed a motion to dismiss his New York state murder charges on double jeopardy grounds, arguing the federal guilty plea covers the same conduct. That means Mangione may face only federal sentencing — which is scheduled for December 18, with a maximum of life in prison.

Now here's the part UnitedHealthcare probably wishes hadn't been entered into the federal record. Mangione says he emailed UnitedHealthcare pretending to be an investor managing over $50 billion in assets and requested information about the conference. 

“Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour,” he said. 

UnitedHealthcare told him where the conference was. 

He spent years with a broken back, navigating the same insurance system that routinely stonewalls patients — and heard nothing. He posed as a rich guy with a big check, and the response was immediate.

He acknowledged what he did was illegal. He expressed no remorse.

UnitedHealthcare is one of the most profitable health insurers in the country. It has also faced sustained scrutiny over its claims denial rates, which patients and providers have long called among the highest in the industry. The annual investor conference — the one Mangione located by impersonating a fund manager — exists because UnitedHealthcare's shareholders are, in fact, the people the company is built to serve.

Military brass aren't staying quiet. A retired Major General publicly accused President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of "spewing lies" after both men dismissed reports of deplorable conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Rep. Seth Moulton, a combat veteran, went further: "The president, the commander in chief, is more worried about his golf game this weekend."

A woman whose husband is a Sailor trapped aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln tore intro Trump too, and compared the aircraft carrier to a “floating metal prison.”

Bill Maher — not exactly a reliable ally of the left — said the conditions made his "blood boil," while acknowledging the administration had "f**ked up" a war he once supported.

Four separate voices, across the political spectrum, landing on the same word: lies. It’s about time.

Newly disclosed court documents reveal that the Department of Homeland Security launched a sweeping surveillance operation targeting anti-ICE protesters, major labor unions, and left-leaning advocacy groups.

Undercover agents infiltrated community meetings, joined private Signal chats, and secretly recorded audio at local events.

DHS also issued administrative subpoenas to seize the financial records of unions and nonprofits — framing the inquiry as an investigation into "domestic terrorist financing."

This is the government treating its own citizens' political organizing as a national security threat. The documents are in court because someone got caught. The question is how much of this never made it to a courtroom.

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro quietly convened a rare special grand jury this week, and Trump allies are already telling reporters they think it's a desperate bid to get back in the president's good graces.

The context: Pirro recently embarrassed Trump by dropping charges against a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — only for her office to discover the damage was caused by a contractor Trump hired for his own renovation project.

Special grand juries are typically reserved for organized crime and financial fraud cases. The reason for this one remains undisclosed.

When your own side thinks your legal maneuver is a loyalty performance, you've already lost the argument.

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson — one of the "Tennessee Three" expelled from the state legislature for protesting gun violence after a school shooting — won his Democratic congressional primary this week, running on Medicare for All, voting rights, opposition to data center pollution, and ending what he called U.S. support for genocide.

Pearson explicitly connected the dots between the billionaires profiting from war and the same class of people polluting his constituents' communities.

"Republicans are responding to elected officials who stand up to billion-dollar datacenters," he said. "Democrats are responding to a vision of Medicare for All, ending genocide." He didn't triangulate. He didn't soften. He named the machine and won anyway — in Tennessee.

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