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!! Sen. Josh Hawley tells me that he had a call with Trump last night, and that the president told him that GOP senators had called him up telling him he would have to sell Mar-a-Lago if Hawley’s bill passed. He says Trump still supports a stock trading ban for Congress.

🧵Leavitt: “Special Envoy Witkoff & Ambassador Huckabee had a very productive meeting with PM Netanyahu and other officials today in Israel on the topic of delivering much needed food and aid to Gaza.

.. “Tomorrow, Special Envoy Witkoff and Ambassador Huckabee will be traveling into Gaza to inspect the current distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear firsthand about this dire situation on the ground.

I spent much of my week at the UN for a conference that aimed to revive the two-state solution. The conference raised pressure on countries to recognize Palestine + produced a roadmap for how the international community hopes to bring peace to the region. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/31/pal…

The goal of a two-state solution may seem “unrealistic” in the short term, Richard Gowan said, but it’s “important to underline” that the “horizon is still there.”

"At a minimum, all this talk of a two-state solution at the U.N. offers a political horizon for those Palestinians who cling to the idea that there may be a diplomatic solution to their situation," I tell John Haltiwanger Foreign Policy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/31/pal…

Upshot: Israel's bombing of Iran isn't very popular But it's very popular among Trump's base, notable MAGA opponents notwithstanding. 

Seems like Trump has made up his mind on sanctioning Russia: "Yeah, we're gonna put sanctions, I don't know that sanctions bother him,” he just said. "I don't know if that has any effect, but we're going to do it."

Rewriting history: The Smithsonian removes Trump, the only president impeached twice, from its exhibit about impeachment. "Only three presidents have seriously faced removal," the exhibit now says, referring to Johnson, Nixon and Clinton. Janay Kingsberry washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

The US government sent a totally innocent man to be raped in a foreign gulag

“It’s a straight out of the authoritarian playbook," Raymond Robertson, professor at Texas A&M University tells me in reaction to Trump firing the commissioner of BLS after a new jobs report showed a major slowdown of hiring in recent months. “If you look at Argentina, Hungary,

On south lawn before leaving for Bedminster for weekend, Trump was asked by reporters who asked about moving US submarines closer to Russia. He said a threat was made and he doesn't think it was appropriate -- and we have to protect our people.

Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets cnb.cx/3UEtt4f

Hamas releases video of Israeli hostage Evyatar David from Gaza captivity haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

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🚨Netanyahu is pushing to expand the military operations in Gaza amid the deadlock in hostage deal negotiations, an Israeli official said 🚨The official claimed Netanyahu is working to “free the hostages through military defeat of Hamas” because he believes "Hamas is not