Judge Blocks Boulder Terror Suspect's Family Deportation, Big Beautiful Budget Battle： AM Update 6⧸5
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A Biden-appointed judge blocks the removal of a terror suspect s family. They have the audacity to kidnap our neighbors and then to shoot us with tear gas when we declare to consent! A chaotic scene in Minneapolis as protesters riot against what they thought was an immigration raid but was actually a criminal investigation. President Trump s big, beautiful bill facing criticism from Elon Musk as it works its way through the Senate. An alleged victim of Sean Diddy testifies about the time she was allegedly dangled over a 17-story balcony by the enraged mogul. And George Clooney attempts to impart some wisdom.
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It's Thursday, June 5th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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A Biden-appointed judge blocks the removal of the Boulder, Colorado, terror suspect's family.
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and then to shoot us with tear gas when we declare to consent!
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A chaotic scene in Minneapolis as protesters riot against what they thought was an immigration raid
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The bill must pass. He can't fail. Failure's not an option or the Trump presidency is in huge trouble.
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President Trump's big, beautiful bill facing criticism from Elon Musk as it works its way through the Senate.
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An alleged victim of Sean Diddy Combs testifies about the time she was allegedly dangled over a 17-story balcony by the enraged mogul.
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And George Clooney attempts to impart some wisdom.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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On Wednesday evening, a Biden-appointed judge in Colorado blocking the Trump administration
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from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman,
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"...deportation without process could work irreparable harm on them."
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Soliman facing one federal hate crime charge and multiple state charges
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for burning pro-Israel gatherers with Molotov cocktails.
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"...free Palestine!" as he launched the incendiary devices at a crowd of largely elderly people,
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injuring 15, two of whom are still in the hospital as of Wednesday evening.
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On Tuesday, DHS taking the family into custody.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday providing details on the family,
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the 41-year-old wife, 18-year-old daughter, two minor sons and two minor daughters,
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all Egyptian citizens, were granted entry to the United States on August 27, 2022.
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Soliman claimed his wife and children as dependents on his asylum application.
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Under the Biden administration, Soliman was given a work permit,
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At that point, the entire family was here illegally and could have been deported.
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Then their patriarch set a group of Americans on fire.
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As Charles C.W. Cook put it on National Review,
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If one discovers that a member of a family here illegally has been puttering around committing
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jihad, the only additional question to answer is whether that family's deportation ought to be
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DHS is also currently investigating whether anyone in the family had prior knowledge of the attack.
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The next hearing for the family is set for Friday, June 13th.
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New information on the federal law enforcement action spurring a riot in the streets of South
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On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters turning out in response to what they incorrectly believe to be
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Rioters creating a human shield, attempting to block agents and vehicles from multiple federal
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Some dumping garbage bins into the street, throwing tires in front of armored vehicles,
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graffitiing the vehicles with Nazi and Don't Come Back,
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clashing with police and even getting physically aggressive with them.
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Some agents deploying pepper spray to control the crowd.
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Independent reporter Nick Shirley capturing the scene.
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They come out here, they have the audacity to kidnap our neighbors and then to shoot us
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My Mexican brothers and sisters have as much as right as I do to these lands!
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On Wednesday, ICE revealing the operation conducted on the Las Cuatro Milpas Taco restaurant
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was not an immigration enforcement action, but rather a criminal investigation relating
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No arrests were made in connection with the investigation.
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Minneapolis police report two men were taken into custody for allegedly assaulting an officer.
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The search warrants relating to the investigation remain under seal.
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ICE declining to share details with us because the investigation is ongoing.
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The operation, led by Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE probing cross-border crimes,
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including drug trafficking and money laundering, involving an alphabet soup of federal agencies
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Minnesota authorities rushing to emphasize the action in the sanctuary city did not involve
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A statement from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office reading,
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We, quote, partnered with federal agencies on a criminal investigation and the execution of
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Our role in the incident today was solely focused on that.
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This incident was not related to any immigration enforcement.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye posting on X, quote,
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It's not surprising that these reports of federal law enforcement agents in South Minneapolis
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Donald Trump's cruel immigration policies have created an environment of understandable fear.
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I will fight relentlessly to defend our communities from this administration's efforts to tear them
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apart, and I will counter their efforts to sow fear and chaos in Minneapolis with facts and
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As Democrats and leftist activists ramp up resistance to the Trump administration's mass deportation effort,
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an effort which has significant majority support in this country, agents find themselves under increasing threat.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday comparing ICE agents to the KGB.
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And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will, of course, be identified.
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Critics of this kind of language warn it risks inflaming tensions and it undermines the safety of ICE workers,
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many of whom ICE bosses say have already been doxxed and seen their families threatened.
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President Trump's big, beautiful bill, a 1,000-plus-page bill aimed at making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent,
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increasing funding for immigration enforcement and border security,
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and reforming welfare, among other things, facing criticism from Elon Musk.
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This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
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Press Secretary Caroline Levitt responding to Musk's comment in a briefing.
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The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill.
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This is one big, beautiful bill, and he's sticking to it.
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According to analysis by the Congressional Budget Office,
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the Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by the House from 2025 to 2034
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would cut taxes by $3.7 trillion, cut spending by $1.3 trillion,
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and increase the national debt by $2.4 trillion.
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The Senate is currently debating the bill and is likely to make changes which could affect the final cost.
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A key reason the CBO projects an increase in the deficit is the decision to make the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent.
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According to the CBO, doing so would likely reduce how much revenue the government collects each year,
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which in turn drives up the deficit unless there is significant economic growth,
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which is what the administration thinks will happen,
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which White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says will also happen.
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Some critics have implied the bill increases spending.
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Even according to the CBO, the bill cuts spending over $1.6 trillion.
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Of course, honestly accounted, extending current tax rates has zero deficit impact,
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which is why the bill, because of its spending cuts, reduces the deficit.
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Wednesday on The Megyn Kelly Show, next up host Mark Halperin weighing in,
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saying he expects the legislation to pass because it has to.
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Three realities that were true before he spoke out are still true.
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Failure's not an option or the Trump presidency is in huge trouble.
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Two is that there's very few Republicans in the House and the Senate who might possibly vote no.
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And so they still have to round up most of those 20.
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They'll have to sell it as the best thing ever, but it's not perfect.
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There's other things that are wrong with the bill from a public policy point of view,
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If they did what Elon said, it wouldn't pass because the votes aren't there to do what he wants to do.
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Because what he wants to do is interrupt the delicate balance that got it passed through the House
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The Senate is aiming to vote on the big, beautiful bill by July 4th weekend.
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Another alleged victim of Sean Diddy Combs taking the stand in the disgraced mogul's criminal trial.
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Longtime friend of star witness Cassie Ventura and fashion designer Brianna Bongolan testifying under an immunity deal.
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In November 2024, Bongolan filing her own civil lawsuit against Combs, accusing him of sexual battery.
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On Wednesday, Bongolan attesting to not wanting to meet Combs, despite her friendship with Ventura because she had seen Ventura with a black eye before.
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I wasn't really fond of what I was seeing, so I wasn't really wanting to meet him.
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The witness testifying to a September 2016 altercation with Combs.
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The witness saying she was asleep at Ventura's LA apartment when she heard Combs banging on the door.
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Bongolan saying she moved to the balcony of the 17th floor apartment with a marijuana cigarette to appear casual.
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I either lit the blunt or was about to light it.
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He lifted me up, then had me on top of the rail.
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The witness saying Combs grabbed her chest, then held her up by her armpits over the railing, yelling, quote,
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Bongolan testifying that she still does not know what Combs was referring to in that moment.
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After about 15 seconds of dangling, the witness saying Combs then slammed her into the balcony furniture, quote,
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I had a bruise on the back of my leg and back and neck pain.
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I have night terrors and paranoia and scream in my sleep at times.
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Bongolan testifying to FaceTiming with Combs a day or two after the incident, quote,
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I remember saying a couple of times, I don't want any problems with you.
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The witness testifying to another moment earlier that year, quote,
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He came up really close to my face and said something around the lines of,
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Bongolan telling the prosecutor she did not know why Combs would say something like that.
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Bongolan testifying that it was normal for Combs to show up at Ventura's apartment late at night banging on the door.
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This witness recalling one of those instances when Combs threw a knife at Ventura, who threw it right back, neither one hitting the other.
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Bongolan saying she did not report it to police, quote,
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I was just scared of Puff, which is another of his nicknames.
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On cross-examination, the witness testifying that most of the time she spent with Ventura
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revolved around getting high on drugs like cocaine, ketamine, and acid.
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The witness saying she would regularly sell drugs to Ventura.
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The defense attempting to poke holes in Bongolan's recollection, suggesting she is told different versions of the I could kill you moment,
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saying Bongolan's attorney wrote in the first demand letter from her civil suit against Combs
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that the threat came while he was dangling her over the balcony.
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Bongolan responded those were not her words in that demand letter, rather a mistake she fired her attorney for making.
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The cross-examination will continue later today.
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George Clooney sitting down with CNN to promote his Broadway show Goodnight and Good Luck,
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an adaptation of Clooney's 2005 movie by the same name,
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centering around journalist Edward R. Murrow's coverage of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist campaign.
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CNN will air the Broadway show live on Saturday.
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According to a CNN article about the Saturday broadcast, quote,
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The play comes at a time when the Trump administration has launched attacks on the media,
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including barring the Associated Press from some of President Donald Trump's events
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and attempting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS.
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Clooney wearing a baseball cap, obscuring the odd-looking dark brown dye job of his onstage character,
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waxing poetic about the parallels between the McCarthy era and today in an interview with Anderson Cooper.
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Although McCarthyism was bad, it wasn't anywhere near as pervasive as it is right now,
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the kind of fear that you see kind of stretching through law firms and universities.
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I do think it is worse now, although there is one caveat that kind of gets ignored when people talk about this.
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Overriding all of this was the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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I mean, we were pretty sure we were going to all dive a nuclear bomb somewhere along the way.
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So that always kind of rode on top of the McCarthyism of it all.
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But McCarthyism, what's fun about doing the play is it reminds people that, you know,
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that we have been through difficult times, challenging times, and that we survive it as a country.
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And we do find our better angels along the way.
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Clooney, who, when not pretending to be a journalist, has been patting himself on the back for knifing Joe Biden in July 2024 on his mental acuity,
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leaves out the fact that he knew of Mr. Biden's mental problems and chose to say absolutely nothing.
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It was not until after that June debate, in which Mr. Biden could barely speak,
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and subsequent polling showing a Democrat bloodbath, that Clooney finally decided to tell the truth about Mr. Biden.
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