WATCH LIVE: President Trump Holds Cabinet Meeting Following US “Self Defense” Strikes on Iran – 11 AM ET
May 27, 2026
President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in the Cabinet Room. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)
President Trump is holding a cabinet meeting today at the White House, where he and his team will reportedly discuss the Trump administration’s successes ahead of the midterm elections.
Trump initially planned to meet with his cabinet at Camp David in Northern Maryland, but on Tuesday, he announced that he would postpone a cabinet trip to Camp David and hold the meeting at the White House, citing “possible bad weather conditions.”
Based on the possible bad weather conditions tomorrow, we will be having our Cabinet Meeting in the White House, and will be postponing the Cabinet trip to Camp David. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Notably, Presidents have used Camp David to convene meetings and plan military operations, as George W. Bush did in September 2001, prior to the US’s invasion of Afghanistan.
Trump is engaged in ongoing negotiations to end the war in Iran, which is expected to be a focus following US strikes that hit two IRGC boats in the Strait of Hormuz and a surface-to-air missile site in Bandar Abbas on Monday.
According to CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins, the strikes were carried out “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.” Officials insisted the US was still exercising restraint amid the fragile ceasefire.
This comes after Trump announced a “largely negotiated” framework for a peace deal on Saturday. Included in the plan is a 60-day ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, concessions from Iran on nuclear enrichment, and an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.
Early reports on the deal suggest that an agreement is near and that Iran is poised to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and abandon its nuclear enrichment program.
Trump announced on Monday that he seeks to mandate that all Middle East mediators and Iran sign on to the Abraham Accords and secure lasting peace as a condition of a deal.
Trump on Monday further provided an update on the US’s deal with Iran, outlining terms for the destruction of Iran's enriched uranium.
This also comes as violent anti-ICE rioters have occupied the ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, putting Trump's new Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to the test.
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FLORIDA COURT HANDS MAJOR WIN TO DESANTIS — Marc Elias HUMILIATED as Judge Upholds GOP 24R–4D Congressional Map
May 27, 2026
A Leon County circuit judge has UPHELD Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new congressional redistricting map, handing yet another humiliating courtroom loss to notorious leftist election lawyer Marc Elias and his Democrat allies.
On Tuesday, Judge Joshua Hawkes denied the request for a temporary injunction from Equal Ground Florida and their attorneys at the Elias Law Group. The ruling means Florida’s new map — which shifts the state’s congressional delegation from a previous 20R-8D advantage to a dominant 24R-4D — will be used in the 2026 elections.
“Once again, we beat Marc Elias,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier declared on X. “Florida’s new congressional district maps stand.”
Once again, we beat Marc Elias.
Florida’s new congressional district maps stand.
— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) May 26, 2026
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, DeSantis unveiled the new congressional map in late April. It was passed by the Republican supermajority legislature on a party-line vote and signed into law on May 4.
The map redraws 21 of Florida’s 28 districts to better reflect the state’s explosive population growth and the overwhelming Republican voter registration advantage, more than 1.5 million more registered Republicans than Democrats.
Republican Party of Florida Chairman Evan Power put it plainly:
“Gone are the days of snake-shaped districts. Florida’s maps are drawn fairly and reflect the makeup of our state.
The truth is, Republicans hold a more than 1.5 million voter registration advantage in Florida, and our representation should reflect today’s Florida — not outdated, court-driven maps of the past.
We thank Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature for their leadership in fighting for fair representation for Florida voters.”
Another win for DeSantis. Another loss for Marc Elias. Another step toward a stronger Republican majority in the U.S. House.
The Hamas Global Front Group: There’s a Chapter Near You
May 27, 2026
The Hamas Global Front Group has chapters, offices, and relationships with other organizations and front groups around the world. Photo courtesy of Izvestia.
The organizations behind the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was interdicted on May 19, 2026, by Israeli forces while attempting to breach the blockade on Gaza, were part of a global front-group architecture that Hamas has been building for decades. The network spans Europe, North America, and the Middle East, and many of its affiliated organizations have long been designated by the U.S. government as terrorist entities or terrorist financiers.
The mechanism connecting Hamas to its overseas operations is the Hamas International Relations Bureau. It is the external-facing arm responsible for managing Hamas’s political influence abroad, its fundraising networks, and its front-group operations.
Treasury designated Mousa Abu Marzook, head of the Bureau as of 2023, as a Specially Designated Terrorist in 1995. Marzook served as the first Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1992 to 1996 and as Deputy Chairman from 1997 to 2013. During his early tenure, he oversaw Hamas operations from Northern Virginia.
U.S. officials estimated up to 15 percent of Hamas’s $70 million annual budget at that time originated in the United States. Marzook also provided the Holy Land Foundation with $210,000 in initial funding and founded the United Association for Studies and Research, which federal prosecutors identified as created by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian Committee to address Hamas’s needs. In April 2021, Hamas elected Marzook deputy chair of its diaspora office under Khaled Meshaal.
The Bureau’s operational role was formalized on April 19, 2018, when then-Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh signed a letter to the Hamas Political Bureau authorizing a dual strategy: escalating violence against Israel and expanding Hamas’s international outreach, with the Bureau as the instrument of that expansion. Treasury has characterized Hamas’s practice of operating behind civilian organizations as “insidious,” stating it “endangers Palestinians and undermines efforts to build a lasting and prosperous peace.”
The Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA), per Treasury, “operates in accordance with Hamas directives and was established and managed by operatives from Hamas’s Bureau of International Relations.” Hamas provided $100,000 to fund its inaugural meeting and controls its strategic and tactical activity through the placement of designated Hamas officials throughout the organization. OFAC designated the PCPA on January 21, 2026 as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224, explicitly identifying it as “a main organizer of recent flotillas that sought to break Israel’s security cordon around Gaza.”
Two documented examples of Hamas officials placed inside the PCPA are Adel Saad al-Din Hassan Doughman and Majid Khalil Moussa al-Zeer. Doughman was one of Hamas’s most prominent representatives in Europe and led Hamas’s efforts in Austria. Al-Zeer served as PCPA Chairman and President and was the senior Hamas representative in Germany. Both were designated by the Treasury on October 7, 2024.
Israel designated the PCPA a terrorist organization in 2021. Documents recovered from Gaza and released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry showed the PCPA coordinating flotilla operations directly with Hamas.
Samidoun was co-founded in 2011 by American Charlotte Kates and Palestinian-Canadian Khaled Barakat, a PFLP member. The organization serves as a fundraising platform in countries where the PFLP otherwise faces legal restrictions. Authorities say it is clandestinely controlled by, or acts on behalf of, sanctioned Palestinian terrorist organizations.
OFAC designated Barakat in October 2024 for acting on behalf of the PFLP. At the same time, the State Department designated Samidoun in a joint action with Canada. Germany banned all Samidoun activities in November 2023 and raided 15 properties across four German states. In January 2026, Germany ordered internet service providers to block Samidoun’s website, citing antisemitic propaganda, calls for violence, and denial of Israel’s right to exist.
In an October 2025 interview, Samidoun’s European coordinator Mohammed Khatib stated that after Palestine is “freed” from the river to the sea, efforts should focus on the “liberation” of the United States, Canada, Australia, and other Western countries. He described those countries as systems of “white supremacy and racism” that “must be abolished and dismantled by all means.”
Harakat Sawa’d Misr, or the “Arms of Egypt Movement,” is a militant group linked to the banned Muslim Brotherhood that was formed in Egypt in 2015. The State Department designated HASM a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization in January 2018 and elevated it to a full Foreign Terrorist Organization in January 2021.
HASM claimed responsibility for the 2016 attempted assassination of Egypt’s former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, the 2017 assassination of Egyptian National Security Agency officer Ibrahim Azzazy, the 2017 attack on Burma’s embassy in Cairo, and a 2019 car bombing outside a Cairo hospital that killed at least 20 people.
Its two designated leaders are both based in Turkey.
The Egyptian and Jordanian branches of the Muslim Brotherhood were designated Specially Designated Global Terrorists on January 13, 2026, under President Trump’s Executive Order 14362 issued in November 2025. As of 2025, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas coordinated on possible terrorist activities against Israeli interests in the Middle East. EMB members facilitated the travel of fighters into Gaza, while the Muslim Brotherhood kept Hamas informed of their status. Hamas described itself as a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in its 1988 founding charter.
IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation is a member of the U.S. Treasury-designated Union of Good, an umbrella organization Treasury described as having been created by Hamas leadership in late 2000 to facilitate the transfer of funds to Hamas. Germany’s interior ministry banned IHH in 2010. Then-Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said approximately €6.6 million had been funneled to Hamas under the cover of humanitarian aid.
French counterterrorism magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière, who led France’s counterterrorism judiciary for nearly two decades, testified in U.S. federal court that IHH had “clear, long-standing ties to terrorism and Jihad.” He said the organization provided al-Qaeda with forged documents, recruited operatives, and transferred weapons. Bruguière also stated directly that “IHH had a role in the organization that led to the plot” targeting Los Angeles International Airport in 1999.
Union of Good itself was designated by the Treasury in November 2008. Authorities said it facilitated the transfer of tens of millions of dollars per year to Hamas-managed associations. Its board included a West Bank Hamas member and Abd al-Majid al-Zindani, a Yemen-based Hamas fundraiser designated in 2004 for supporting al-Qaeda.
The Union’s secretary general simultaneously served as vice chairman of Interpal and, as of mid-2007, sat on the Hamas executive committee under Khaled Meshaal. Interpal, headquartered in the UK, was designated in 2003 as the principal charity used to conceal the flow of money to Hamas. Treasury described Interpal as the fundraising coordinator of Hamas, a coordination point for affiliated charities, supervising their activities and directing fund transfers.
The same August 2003 Treasury action designated France’s Comité de Bienfaisance et de Secours aux Palestiniens and its Swiss subsidiary, Association de Secours Palestiniens, as primary Hamas fundraisers collecting money from mosques and Islamic centers. Palestinian Association in Austria and Lebanon’s Sanabil Association for Relief and Development were designated in the same tranche, with Sanabil serving as Interpal’s Lebanon representative.
Turkey’s Filistin Vakfi was separately designated for raising funds for Hamas terrorism. In the Netherlands, the Israa Charitable Foundation, run by Hamas operative Amin Abou Rashed, was designated for diverting funds to Hamas. In June 2025, Italy’s Associazione Benefica La Cupola d’Oro was designated in the same sanctions tranche for funding Hamas.
Treasury’s January 2026 designations targeted a Hamas-operated network inside Gaza that presented itself as an independent civil society. The organizations included Waed Society Gaza, Al-Nur Society Gaza, Qawafil Society Gaza, Al-Falah Society Gaza, and Al-Weam Charitable Society. Treasury described the groups as clandestinely controlled by Hamas and fully integrated into its military wing. Hamas internal security forces were formally assigned to work inside several of them.
Separately, in June 2025, OFAC sanctioned five individuals and five sham charities abroad for funding Hamas’s military wing under the pretense of humanitarian work. Hamas also generates revenue through a commercial investment portfolio consisting of companies operating in Sudan, Algeria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries. The portfolio is directed by the highest levels of Hamas leadership and is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Inside the United States, the domestic arm of the network operates primarily through American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine.
A federal lawsuit filed in May 2024 by nine October 7 survivors, brought by Greenberg Traurig in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, described AMP and NSJP as “in continuous active dialogue with Hamas to amplify propaganda on social media or help craft it from America” and “the propaganda arm of a terrorist organization operating in plain sight.”
AMP’s origins trace directly to the Holy Land Foundation network. AMP was founded by several senior leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which funneled $12.4 million from Americans to Hamas before the U.S. government shut it down.
AMP personnel included individuals who previously belonged to the Holy Land Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and KindHearts. Its donor list included groups with ties to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Qassam Brigades, and al-Qaeda.
The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court found sufficient evidence linking AMP to Hamas supporters for the Boim civil suit to proceed. The court noted AMP emerged with largely the same core leadership, mission, and chapter structure as the sanctioned Islamic Association for Palestine and American Muslim Society, organizations the Boim family had already won a $156 million judgment against for providing material support to Hamas.
AMP supports SJP chapters by speaking at campus events, reposting SJP statements, organizing conferences, and facilitating the SJP National Convention. A May 2024 report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy found more than $3 million per year in funding for NSJP linked to organizations accused of funding Hamas.
Students for Justice in Palestine founded its first chapter in the 1990s at the University of California, Berkeley. Approximately 250 chapters existed before October 7, 2023. After the attack, more than 80 additional requests to establish chapters were reportedly received.
In November 2024, police raiding the home of George Mason University’s SJP chapter president during a vandalism investigation reportedly found firearms, ammunition, foreign passports, and pro-terror materials, including Hamas and Hezbollah flags and signs reading “death to America” and “death to Jews.”
In December 2024, SJP stated that it had helped establish 127 student encampments, pass 56 divestment resolutions, and mobilize more than one million students. At the urging of Ron DeSantis, Florida university system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues directed university presidents to disband SJP chapters. He cited a Florida felony statute prohibiting knowingly providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. No federal designation of American Muslims for Palestine or NSJP has been issued to date. Both organizations were named in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial’s unindicted co-conspirator list alongside the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust.
The State Department’s summary of the May 2026 action described the architecture plainly: “Hamas exploits diaspora organizations, religious institutions, and purported civil society groups to advance its malign agenda while claiming humanitarian objectives. Hamas uses these enablers to sustain its position in Gaza, finance its operations, and engage in terrorist violence beyond its borders.”
Trump Blasts ‘Crooked Politician’ Biden for Filing Lawsuit to Block Release of Damaging Ghostwriter Audio Tapes
May 27, 2026
President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden on Tuesday evening, calling him a “Crooked Politician!!!” after the former president filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump Justice Department in an attempt to permanently block the public release of audio recordings and transcripts from his private interviews with the ghostwriter who wrote his book.
The recordings, made in 2016 and 2017 during work on Biden’s memoirs, were gathered as part of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
The files have become a flashpoint because they allegedly reveal Biden discussing sensitive information and displaying signs of cognitive decline, details that Democrats fought hard to keep hidden during the 2024 election cycle.
Trump reposted a Just the News article detailing the lawsuit on Truth Social and added, “A Crooked Politician!!!”
Biden filed the lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to bar the Justice Department from releasing the materials to the House Judiciary Committee and the Heritage Foundation on June 15.
The Heritage Foundation had requested the records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) after Hur’s report became public.
The Biden DOJ had previously fought the release, claiming the materials were exempt.
Once Trump took office, the DOJ reversed course and notified Biden’s team that it would comply with the request.
Biden’s legal team argues the tapes contain deeply personal conversations tied to his late son, Beau, and should remain private.
A Biden spokesperson, TJ Ducklo, told New York Magazine earlier this month, “President Biden cooperated fully with Special Counsel Hur, and agreed to provide audiotapes of conversations with his biographer for a book about his deceased son on the condition that they would not be made public. The DOJ themselves have said these tapes serve no public interest.”
Special Counsel Robert Hur’s final report did not recommend charges against Biden for the classified documents but described him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Republicans have long argued the recordings would provide damning evidence of Biden’s diminished capacity while in office, especially since Hur noted Biden read classified information aloud to his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.
Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project president Mike Howell told Politico earlier this month that the tapes “will further prove the massive lie regarding Biden’s fitness for office and the fact Biden revealed classified information.”
“The shenanigans aren’t over: At the last possible second, and after every delay tactic possible, the autopen is objecting to the American People receiving transparency,” Howell added.
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