Trump's troops just KILLED someone

Two Tennessee National Guard members assigned to Trump's Memphis crime task force fatally shot 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson early Sunday morning during a foot pursuit downtown.

Authorities say Johnson turned toward soldiers with a weapon, But at this point we feel we cannot believe what law enforcement says on matters such as this. We will withhold judgement until we hear or see more.

His grandfather — who said Johnson was a father and a Tennessee State University student — told reporters he was "preparing to help lead the family construction business" and that "he still had so much life ahead of him."

Federal troops have patrolled Memphis since October over the explicit objections of the city's Democratic mayor. This is at least the fourth officer-involved shooting tied to the task force. Trump deployed the troops as a political stunt targeting "Democrat-run cities" — and now a 20-year-old with a handful of traffic violations is dead, and his son is without a father.

Trump spent his July 4th Sunday posting a falsified image of Barack and Michelle Obama boarding a graffiti-tagged Air Force One — complete with "BLM," "Yes We Can," and Arabic text spray-painted on the plane's hull.

The graffiti framing isn't random. It's a coded racist trope linking Black people to crime and urban decay, and Trump knows exactly what he's doing — this is the same president who posted a photo of the Obamas as primates in February, during Black History Month. That one got deleted after bipartisan blowback. A staffer took the blame. Trump never apologized.

This time, the timing is extra rich: the post came days after Trump debuted his new Air Force One — a $400 million Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar — repainted in his personal navy, red, and gold color scheme. He says he’ll be keeping the plane when he leaves office.

The White House didn't respond to requests for comment. Neither did a spokesperson for the Obamas.

Mallory McMorrow suspended her Michigan Senate campaign, and the Democratic primary is now a two-person fight between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens — progressive vs. establishment, no more cushion in the middle.

El-Sayed, a Medicare for All supporter who would be the first Muslim U.S. senator, leads in recent polls and has endorsements from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Stevens has Chuck Schumer, and Super PACs — including AIPAC — have dumped more than $16 million into her campaign specifically because El-Sayed refused to say Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state.

McMorrow's numbers cratered after she compared leftwing streamer Hasan Piker to white nationalist Nick Fuentes — a line of attack that didn't land with Democratic primary voters. El-Sayed thanked her supporters and called out "party insiders" for "bullying anyone who opposes their chosen candidate."

The August primary will test whether the donor class can still buy a Senate seat in a state that keeps picking the left.

El-Sayed has led the last seven publicly released polls of the August 4 primary against establishment pick Rep. Haley Stevens, and he is not being modest about his chances against Republican Mike Rogers.

"He generally has the charisma of a doorknob," El-Sayed told HuffPost.

Rep. Ro Khanna put it clean while campaigning for El-Sayed: "The last people who have any right to lecture us about electability are the establishment who lost to Donald Trump twice."

Michigan's Senate seat has been Democratic since 1978. El-Sayed intends to keep it that way — and make Rogers' golf buddies in Florida remember his name.

Nearly a million investors in Donald Trump's $TRUMP memecoin have lost a combined $3.8 billion on their investments — while Trump personally pocketed $636 million, profiting whether the coin went up or down.

The coin has plunged 97 percent from its January peak of $75.35, now trading at $1.76. One investor, Nicholas Pinto, lost $250,000 — half of what he put in — and called it "almost a legal scam."

Meanwhile, Trump is simultaneously rolling back federal crypto oversight and easing tax reporting requirements for the industry. Rep. Al Green said the quiet part out loud at a June congressional hearing: "We have legalized a Ponzi scheme known as a memecoin... and the president of the United States of America is engaged in this activity."

The president's total new income from all his businesses hit $2.2 billion in 2025. His fans are still waiting on their winnings.

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