ATTORNEY, GENERALIt’s a controversial move, even within Barr’s own department. A senior law enforcement official called it “a political ploy to make being anti-Trump look like terrorism.”s President Trump continues to try and drum up support for his call for states to “” protesters and beef up police presence against them, Attorney General Bill Barr and a team of senior Justice Department officials have quietly taken the lead on disrupting the and going after the petty criminals who may be using the demonstrations as cover. It’s been a controversial move, even within . One federal...…ATTORNEY, GENERALIt’s a controversial move, even within Barr’s own department. A senior law enforcement official called it “a political ploy to make being anti-Trump look like terrorism.”s President Trump continues to try and drum up support for his call for states to “” protesters and beef up police presence against them, Attorney General Bill Barr and a team of senior Justice Department officials have quietly taken the lead on disrupting the and going after the petty criminals who may be using the demonstrations as cover. It’s been a controversial move, even within . One federal...WW…

For all the implications by President Trump and Attorney General William Barr that “antifa” “terrorists” have hijacked protests against institutional police racism, none of the 22 criminal complaints representing the first wave of protest charges mention antifa in any way. One case references anarchism as a motivating ideology, not anti-fascism. Another in Las Vegas references the so-called “Boogaloo” far-right trend of provoking a race or civil war. But the early charges do not indicate that antifascist motivations have provoked the violent activity that the Trump administration...…For all the implications by President Trump and Attorney General William Barr that “antifa” “terrorists” have hijacked protests against institutional police racism, none of the 22 criminal complaints representing the first wave of protest charges mention antifa in any way. One case references anarchism as a motivating ideology, not anti-fascism. Another in Las Vegas references the so-called “Boogaloo” far-right trend of provoking a race or civil war. But the early charges do not indicate that antifascist motivations have provoked the violent activity that the Trump administration...WW…

Talk about family values.Disclosures obtained by a watchdog group show that White House Senior Adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner raked in as much as $3 million from projects benefiting from Trump administration initiatives in 2019, plus up to $1 million more in rent money from firms which later received COVID-related small business loans from the government. The documents, released by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, show that the Kushner windfall includes revenues from a Jersey Shore luxury development that benefited from a real estate tax break by...…Talk about family values.Disclosures obtained by a watchdog group show that White House Senior Adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner raked in as much as $3 million from projects benefiting from Trump administration initiatives in 2019, plus up to $1 million more in rent money from firms which later received COVID-related small business loans from the government. The documents, released by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, show that the Kushner windfall includes revenues from a Jersey Shore luxury development that benefited from a real estate tax break by...WW…

A judge has freed from a gag order, allowing the president’s niece to speak freely about her family and promote her . The book—, which people close to the project say has already sold close to 1 million copies and is on its third print run—is due out on Tuesday. In a statement to The Daily Beast, Mary Trump’s attorney, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said, “The court got it right in rejecting the Trump family’s effort to squelch Mary Trump’s core political speech on important issues of public concern. The First Amendment forbids prior restraints because they are intolerable infringements...…A judge has freed from a gag order, allowing the president’s niece to speak freely about her family and promote her . The book—, which people close to the project say has already sold close to 1 million copies and is on its third print run—is due out on Tuesday. In a statement to The Daily Beast, Mary Trump’s attorney, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said, “The court got it right in rejecting the Trump family’s effort to squelch Mary Trump’s core political speech on important issues of public concern. The First Amendment forbids prior restraints because they are intolerable infringements...WW…

Give them Vitamin D or give them death.Hundreds of demonstrators swarmed Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, on Friday to protest California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s closure of the Golden State’s sandy shores—an anti-lockdown display organized in part by the owner of a “health and wellness center.”Reporters on the scene captured footage of banners for President Donald Trump’s campaign, “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, and homemade signs with slogans such as “Freedom is Essential.” Overhead shots showed mounted cops corralling the demonstrators onto sidewalks and out of the road. It was clear that...…Give them Vitamin D or give them death.Hundreds of demonstrators swarmed Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, on Friday to protest California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s closure of the Golden State’s sandy shores—an anti-lockdown display organized in part by the owner of a “health and wellness center.”Reporters on the scene captured footage of banners for President Donald Trump’s campaign, “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, and homemade signs with slogans such as “Freedom is Essential.” Overhead shots showed mounted cops corralling the demonstrators onto sidewalks and out of the road. It was clear that...WW…

In the middle of a pandemic that has killed 27,000 Americans and counting, the Army this week gave a politically connected Montana firm half a billion dollars—not to manufacture ventilators or protective gear to fight the novel coronavirus, but to build 17 miles of .  On , the Army Corps of Engineers announced it awarded BFBC, an affiliate of , $569 million in contract modifications for building “17.17 miles” of the wall in two California locations, El Centro and San Diego. That works out to over $33 million per mile—steeply that the Trump administration is already doling out for...…In the middle of a pandemic that has killed 27,000 Americans and counting, the Army this week gave a politically connected Montana firm half a billion dollars—not to manufacture ventilators or protective gear to fight the novel coronavirus, but to build 17 miles of .  On , the Army Corps of Engineers announced it awarded BFBC, an affiliate of , $569 million in contract modifications for building “17.17 miles” of the wall in two California locations, El Centro and San Diego. That works out to over $33 million per mile—steeply that the Trump administration is already doling out for...WW…

A Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson came under fire Wednesday afternoon for pinning that left eight dead—including six Asian women—on a 21-year-old white man’s “really bad day.”“Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Jay Baker said with the Atlanta Police Department about 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long.But it seems the same spokesperson shared racist content online, including pointing the finger at China for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—the same vitriol advocates say has fueled a horrific surge in violence against Asian Americans.In a...…A Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson came under fire Wednesday afternoon for pinning that left eight dead—including six Asian women—on a 21-year-old white man’s “really bad day.”“Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Jay Baker said with the Atlanta Police Department about 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long.But it seems the same spokesperson shared racist content online, including pointing the finger at China for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—the same vitriol advocates say has fueled a horrific surge in violence against Asian Americans.In a...WW…

DALLAS—As a raged across Texas over the weekend, Akilah Scott-Amos received an alarming message from her power company: Please switch services because “prices are about to explode.”The 43-year-old owner of an organic skincare and apothecary shop was initially confused by the message from Griddy, which sells wholesale power for a monthly membership, but she began to look for other providers.Then she checked her bill.“I paid $450 for one day. I was in shock,” Scott-Amos told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “It made no sense because we have a gas heater, a gas fireplace, and we have been keeping...…DALLAS—As a raged across Texas over the weekend, Akilah Scott-Amos received an alarming message from her power company: Please switch services because “prices are about to explode.”The 43-year-old owner of an organic skincare and apothecary shop was initially confused by the message from Griddy, which sells wholesale power for a monthly membership, but she began to look for other providers.Then she checked her bill.“I paid $450 for one day. I was in shock,” Scott-Amos told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “It made no sense because we have a gas heater, a gas fireplace, and we have been keeping...WW…

Two Virginia police officers, including one who is an Army veteran and trained sniper, have been arrested after they allegedly took part in the Capitol riot—then boasted about it being legal on Facebook afterward.Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson, both officers with the Rocky Mount Police Department, were charged on Wednesday with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Daily Beast.Prosecutors allege the two cops, who were off-duty when...…Two Virginia police officers, including one who is an Army veteran and trained sniper, have been arrested after they allegedly took part in the Capitol riot—then boasted about it being legal on Facebook afterward.Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson, both officers with the Rocky Mount Police Department, were charged on Wednesday with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Daily Beast.Prosecutors allege the two cops, who were off-duty when...WW…

When the Trump administration began implementing a to bail out struggling employers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a central concern was that the president would use the program to .It turns out that Trump’s pals weren’t the ones catching the windfall so much as Washington, D.C.’s . Among the entities cashing six to seven-figure checks from the in recent months were a fiscal responsibility advocacy organization run by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, a high-powered consulting firm run by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the nonprofit headed by former Trump campaign official...…When the Trump administration began implementing a to bail out struggling employers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a central concern was that the president would use the program to .It turns out that Trump’s pals weren’t the ones catching the windfall so much as Washington, D.C.’s . Among the entities cashing six to seven-figure checks from the in recent months were a fiscal responsibility advocacy organization run by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, a high-powered consulting firm run by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the nonprofit headed by former Trump campaign official...WW…