And so it happened that yesterday (14) US President Donald J. Trump took multiple steps that were widely perceived as against Russia and pro-Ukraine.

To begin with, Trump authorized $10 Billion in military aid for Ukraine in an ingenious formula: NATO (Europeans and Canada – but not the US) will pay for the American weapons.

At the same time, the US president threatened Moscow with harsh secondary sanctions if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not reach a peace settlement with Ukraine in 50 days.

[Ukrainian MPs and European officials have complained that Trump ‘gave Putin 50 days to conquer Ukraine’.]

In the runup to this announcement the USAID-media did what they do: published a story with ‘anonymous sources’ saying that during his phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump would have encouraged him to strike missiles deep into Russian territory – including on Moscow.

The Russian side refused to give credence to this report, and today (15) Trump was asked about it.

Trump responded that Zelensky should NOT target Moscow, and added that Putin ‘should agree to a ceasefire deal by a 50-day deadline or sanctions will kick in’.

Watch: Should Zelensky target Moscow?

REPORTER: Should Zelensky target Moscow?

TRUMP: NO, he shouldn’t target Moscow https://t.co/l8KniMiof8 pic.twitter.com/F0BdPCLBXb

— RT (@RT_com) July 15, 2025

Reuters reported:

“His comments came after The Financial Times, citing people briefed on discussions, reported on Tuesday that Trump had privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russia.

The newspaper added that Trump asked Zelenskiy whether he could strike Moscow if the U.S. provided long-range weapons.

‘No, he shouldn’t target Moscow’, Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House when asked if Zelenskiy should attack the Russian capital.”

Watch: ‘I’m here to try and get us OUT of that mess’

.@POTUS: “I’ve been very disappointed with President Putin. I’ve solved a lot of wars in the last three months, but I haven’t gotten this one yet. This is a Biden war; it’s not a Trump war. I’m here to try and get us OUT of that mess.” pic.twitter.com/Q7bz4jh0yg

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 15, 2025

“Asked if he was now on the side of Ukraine, Trump said, ‘I am on nobody’s side’, and then declared he was on ‘humanity’s side’ because ‘I want to stop the killing’.”

Watch: ‘I want to stop the killing’

Trump says he’s on ‘NOBODY’S SIDE’ in Russia-Ukraine conflict

‘I want to stop the killing’

Will sending more weapons to Ukraine ‘stop the killing’? https://t.co/GJTuVCv8UA pic.twitter.com/FEKuqrnfOa

— RT (@RT_com) July 15, 2025

Read more:

(VIDEO) Trump Threatens Russia with 100% Tariffs if Deal with Ukraine isn’t Reached in 50 Days

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RINO Senators Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell voted against advancing President Trump’s DOGE rescissions package.

The three RINOs voted against moving the package out of committee and every Democrat is expected to vote “no.”

Vice President JD Vance came in with the tie-breaking vote. The Senate will now vote on the motion to begin debate on the bill.

LISA MURKOWSKI says she will vote AGAINST discharging $9B rescissions package from committee.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 16, 2025

COLLINS is a no on the motion to discharge.

— Samantha Handler (@sn_handler) July 16, 2025

Susan Collins: “The rescissions package has a big problem – nobody really knows what program reductions are in it. That isn’t because we haven’t had time to review the bill. … The problem is that OMB has never provided the details that would normally be part of this process.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 16, 2025

Politico reported:

Republican senators will need Vice President JD Vance to advance President Donald Trump’s effort to claw back billions in funding.

GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have all voted against moving the rescissions package out of committee. The procedural vote is still open but with all Democrats expected to also vote “no” it will dead lock in a tie, necessitating Vance’s engagement.

GOP senators had been told to expect Vance, though one lawmaker granted anonymity to share private converations said they were warned that it could be a while before he arrives.

The House of Representatives last month passed the measure which seeks to codify $9.4 billion in spending cuts. The Senate has until July 18 to pass the DOGE cuts and said it to President Trump’s desk for a signature.

Only 51 votes are needed in the Senate but the RINOs are once again stalling the passage of the measure.

The Senate will be voting on the next hurdle shortly.

DEVELOPING…

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President Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Tuesday following his Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation event and responded to another question about Epstein, saying he doesn’t understand why his supporters care so much. 

“Don’t forget, we went through years of the Mueller Witch Hunt and all of the different things, the Steele dossier, which was all fake. All that information was fake,” he said.

“It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sorted, but it’s boring, and I don’t understand why it keeps going. I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.”

WATCH:

Reporter: I know you’ve urged people to move on, but I’m curious, why do you think your supporters, in particular, have been so interested in the Epstein story and so upset about how it’s been handled?

Trump: I don’t know why they would be so interested. He’s dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life. I don’t understand what the interest or what the fascination is, I really don’t. And the credible information has been given. Don’t forget, we went through years of the Mueller Witch Hunt and all of the different things, the Steele dossier, which was all fake. All that information was fake.

But I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sorted, but it’s boring, and I don’t understand why it keeps going. I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going. But credible information, let them give it. Anything that’s credible, I would say, let them have it.

People want to know who the pedophiles Epstein associated with were and why they continue to walk free.

People want to know what extent the U.S. government or foreign governments were involved with Epstein and running a blackmail operation.

People want to know why Epstein reportedly visited the Oval Office when Clinton was President at least 17 times and what, if anything, Bill Clinton did to young girls.

People want to know why Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent accusers of Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, was found dead by suicide on Friday at her farm in Neergabby, Western Australia.

People want the truth about the bizarre circumstances surrounding Epstien’s alleged suicide.

Many close to the President, including Donald Trump Jr. and FBI Director Kash Patel, made the Epstein files a focal point of Trump’s reelection.

President Trump had even indicated while running for President that he would release the Epstein files, saying, “A lot of big people went to that island.”

People want to know who these “big people” are.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump made similar comments earlier in the day before leaving the White House en route to Pittsburgh, defending Pam Bondi and claiming that the Epstein files is just another hoax that was made up by former FBI Director James Comey, Obama, and Biden.

(VIDEO) Trump Defends Pam Bondi, Says Epstein Files Were “Made up” by Comey, Obama, and Biden – “I Think the Attorney General has Handled it Very Well”

This, of course, all comes after Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel, in February, hosted a big Epstein file release for a select group of MAGA influencers, handing them white binders that turned out to have nothing new inside. Bondi later claimed that she was misled by FBI agents and that “thousands of pages of documents” were withheld from her office after the dumpster fire of a release.

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A suspect is now in custody more than 24 hours after an American Idol executive and her husband were found brutally murdered in their Los Angeles mansion.

According to The Daily Mail, the suspect was identified as 22-year-old Raymond Boodarian.

Police believe Boodarian acted alone.

“Suspect in custody after “American Idol” executive and husband found brutally murdered in their Los Angeles mansion, source tells Fox News Digital,” Fox News reported.

BREAKING: Suspect in custody after “American Idol” executive and husband found brutally murdered in their Los Angeles mansion, source tells Fox News Digital.

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2025

CBS News also reported that a suspect connected to the brutal murders has been taken into custody.

As previously reported:

Robin Kaye, a music producer on the hit show ‘American Idol’ and her husband Thomas Deluca were both shot in the head.

Los Angeles police arrived to the couple’s home for a welfare check on Monday afternoon and neighbors hadn’t seen them in four days.

Police saw blood at the entrance of the house and discovered Thomas Deluca with a gunshot wound to the head. Robin Kaye’s body was found in a separate room.

According to TMZ, the police were called to the couple’s home last week after a (possibly armed) suspect tried to gain entry to the house.

“[Cops] were previously called to the home Thursday … an unidentified suspect was seen trying to gain entry and may have been armed with a firearm. Neighbors say someone spotted a person hopping a fence and called police … officers responded but found no signs of forced entry and searched the property before leaving. Its unclear if this incident is related to the homicides,” TMZ reported.

More from The Daily Mail on this breaking story:

A suspect has been arrested after an American Idol executive and her husband were found dead inside their $5million Los Angeles mansion.

Police arrested 22-year-old Raymond Boodarian on Tuesday following the grisly discovery of award winning music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas Deluca, both 70, on Monday afternoon.

Boodarian is not believed to have had any relationship with his alleged victims.

Police allege he was burglarizing the home on July 10 when the couple unexpectedly arrived home.

CCTV footage allegedly shows Boodarian entering the home about 30 minutes before the couple got home. He did not force entry, and instead found an open way to get inside.

He allegedly shot them both dead during a struggle when they caught him in the act. Police believe it was an isolated event, and that Boodarian acted alone.

Two calls were made to the LAPD about a possible burglary on the day of the couple’s deaths, but when officers responded they were unable to get inside because the home is ‘highly fortified’, ABC7 reported.

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The explosive, rambling 1½-page written confession of accused killer Vance Boelter, sent directly to FBI Director Kash Patel, has now been made public following today’s federal grand jury indictment.

The indictment alleges Boelter executed a targeted political assassination, fatally shooting former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and critically wounding Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, in a carefully planned spree on June 14.

A federal grand jury has indicted Vance Luther Boelter on Tuesday, a 57-year-old radical appointed by Democrat Governor Tim Walz, for the cold-blooded murders of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman.

Speaking to the New York Post from Sherburne County Jail, Boelter previously said that his motive was not what people have speculated.

“You are fishing and I can’t talk about my case…I’ll say it didn’t involve either the Trump stuff or pro-life,” Vance Boelter wrote to The Post.

“I am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn’t those,” he said. “I will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in future that people will look at and judge for themselves that goes back 24 months before the 14th. If the gov ever let’s [sic] it get out.”

Liz Collin from Alpha News wrote on X, “accused Minnesota political assassin Vance Boelter’s full confession letter released.”

In the bombshell letter, Boelter alleges he was part of a clandestine political plot.

He claims he was trained off the books by the U.S. military and deployed globally, from Asia to Africa.

He states that Governor Tim Walz personally approached him to eliminate Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith to clear a path for Walz to run for the U.S. Senate.

Boelter confesses to the killings of the Hortmans and the attempted murders of the Hoffmans, positioning himself as a foot soldier in “secret operations” allegedly directed by the Governor.

BREAKING: Accused Minnesota political assassin Vance Boelter’s full confession letter released. pic.twitter.com/9JF21khtQn

— Liz Collin (@lizcollin) July 15, 2025

Below is the raw translation:

Dear Kash Patel,

My name is Dr. Vince Luther brother Ed.D. I am the shooter at large in Minnesota involved in the June 22 shootings the morning of Saturday June 21st at approximately 2:30 am and 3:30 am and by the time you read this letter, I will probably be dead by the time you read this letter. I wanted to share some info with you that you may find interesting. I was trained by U.S. Military people off the books starting in college. I have been on projects since that time in Eastern Europe, South America, the Middle East and Africa. All in the line of duty, what I thought was right and in the best interest of the United States.

Recently I was approached about a project that Tim Walz wanted done, and [redacted] and [redacted] were also aware of the project. Tim wanted me to kill Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith. Ken [redacted] is to retire as planned. Tim wants to be a senator and he doesn’t trust [redacted] to retire as planned and that’s so he is going to stay at the last minute with Amy — gave Tim would get one of the open Senate seats, and [redacted] wants to be gov, and Keith Ellison would be head of the [redacted] governor’s position.

I told Tim I wasn’t willing to do what it was if he didn’t call off that plan I would go public. He said he would call it off, that’s great, if I didn’t play ball. Then he set up a meeting with me and [redacted] and [redacted] to talk about guns. When I arrived, they had some people waiting to kill me. I was able to get away by God’s mercy. I went back a short time later and started what [redacted].

You should note how I didn’t fire one round at any police officers and boy did I have plenty of opportunity. Ask for the report on how my weapons and ammunition I had with me cops were pulling up right next to me in their vehicles and I had an AK-47 and pistol in my hand and I could have left a pile of cops dead but I did not shoot or provoke law enforcement. You can ask them. Because I support the police and don’t want to see them hurt.

But if they are hurting my wife and kids next time I won’t give them a pass.

If you think I’m making this up, just get on the phone and tell Tim you have a few questions for him.

Then ask Tim Walz if he knows me and see what he says? If he says he doesn’t know me, never met me look in the files and you will see that Tim Walz personally approved me to be on his Governor’s workforce boards as a small business representative. He is probably trying to destroy that info but it’s public record.

Then ask Tim Walz why they kept the story silent from the media when they first happened. Not a word in the press about it. Why? They needed to get their [redacted] story figured out first so everyone was on the same page about what happened! Tim is probably crapping bricks right now because I’m still at large and he knows what I can do and what I know about all the buried skeletons are. So I will be shot on sight you can bet on that.

If you want me to turn myself in it need to be directly to you and Dan. I need to be held at a military prison at a base in the Middle East, or at least on a ship. These guys have their claws everywhere and can get to anybody.

I am willing to spill all the beans. I just want my family safe. They had nothing to do with this and are totally innocent. This was a one person op.

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