Live updates: Trump threatens to sue writers who use anonymous sourcing

President Donald Trump has weighed in on the newest close to tragedy at America’s airports, lauding the pilots of a Southwest flight touchdown in Chicago for avoiding a collision with a non-public jet.

He wrote on Fact Social: “GREAT JOB BY THE SOUTHWEST PILOTS IN CHICAGO. A NEARLY TRAGIC CLOSE CALL. PERHAPS SUSPEND THE PILOTS LICENSE OF THE OTHER PLANE, WHO MUST HAVE BEEN ‘SLEEPING!’”

Right here’s our report on the close to miss:

The Trump administration has introduced its plan to attempt to sort out surging egg costs — thought to have been a day one precedence for President Donald Trump.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rolled out the five-part plan on Wednesday however acknowledged that it may take a while earlier than shoppers see an impact on the checkout counter.

The plan requires $500 million in funding to assist farmers bolster biosecurity measures, $400 million in assist for farmers whose flocks have been impacted by avian flu, $100 million to analysis and probably develop vaccines and therapeutics for U.S. hen flocks and discover rolling again what the administration sees as restrictive animal welfare guidelines in some states.

Rollins additionally said that the administration is discussing the import of roughly 70 million to 100 million eggs from different nations within the coming months.

Rollins said that the administration expects egg costs to proceed rising because the Easter vacation approaches, a interval recognized for traditionally excessive demand.

Right here’s Rollins talking exterior the White Home this morning:

White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt was requested this morning in regards to the sudden announcement yesterday that Amy Gleason is the administrator of the Division of Authorities Effectivity and why they hadn’t mentioned so sooner.

The federal government was actually taken to courtroom for failing to establish who was main DOGE.

Right here’s Alex Woodward’s report:

Doug Wilson, founding father of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Church buildings (CREC), wrote in his 1996 e-book Southern Slavery: As It Was, that there had “by no means been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and concord within the historical past of the world.”

Pete Hegseth’s church, Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship exterior Nashville, Tennessee, is reportedly a member of CREC, which has congregations in practically all 50 states and several other overseas nations.

Talking to reporters this morning about Elon Musk’s attendance on the first Cupboard assembly, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned, “Elon is working with the Cupboard secretaries and their workers each single day to establish waste, fraud, and abuse at these respective companies.”

She added: “The entire Cupboard secretaries take the recommendation and route of DOGE.”

There are affirmation hearings within the Senate Judiciary Committee for John Sauer and Harmeet Dhillon immediately.

Sauer, Trump’s decide for solicitor basic, argued for his immunity in entrance of appeals courtroom judges and the Supreme Court docket. He notably didn’t deny that the sort of immunity he demanded included a defend of prison legal responsibility for a president who orders the assassination of his rivals.

Dhillon, Trump’s decide for assistant lawyer basic for civil rights, is an election conspiracy theorist whose agency backed attention-grabbing lawsuits on behalf of right-wing activists in opposition to gender-affirming care, in addition to faculty insurance policies and state and native legal guidelines designed to guard LGBT+ folks.

Donald Trump has threatened to sue writers who use nameless sources or off-the-record quotes in books and within the media on the whole, claiming they’re made up and the folks typically don’t exist.

The president even steered making a “NICE NEW LAW” to cease the follow, which might seemingly instantly run into First Modification courtroom challenges.

Right here’s what he wrote on Fact Social this morning:

As a President who’s being given credit score for having the Greatest Opening Month of any President in historical past, fairly naturally, right here come the Pretend books and tales with the so-called “nameless,” or “off the report,” quotes. Sooner or later I’m going to sue a few of these dishonest authors and e-book publishers, and even media on the whole, to seek out out whether or not or not these “nameless sources” even exist, which they largely don’t. They’re made up, defamatory fiction, and an enormous worth must be paid for this blatant dishonesty. I’ll do it as a service to our Nation. Who is aware of, possibly we are going to create some NICE NEW LAW!!!

The brand new FBI Director reportedly privately agreed with an FBI agent advocacy group to put in an energetic particular agent to function deputy director – solely to then have Trump select an inexperienced and controversial loyalist as an alternative.

As Donald Trump prepares to carry his first cupboard assembly immediately, with Elon Musk, a non-cabinet member, in attendance, the president needs to make sure everyone seems to be on message.

This follows the chaos and confusion attributable to Musk’s electronic mail to federal staff over the weekend, which many company heads needed to inform their workers to disregard.

Right here’s what Trump wrote on Fact Social a couple of moments in the past:

Right here’s Eric Garcia on John Thune and his disagreement with the U.S. determination to vote in opposition to the United Nations decision on the battle in Ukraine earlier this week, a place that places him at odds with the president’s current feedback on the battle.