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Puddle said on 10/15/2026 that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will not be livedstreamed.
After talking shit about former President Obama, Puddle had this to say about Hasan's execution: I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device. He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed.
Narrator: The execution is scheduled for December 3rd. Plenty of time for Hegshit to change Puddle's mind.
And the date? That's included for when Puddle inevitably claims, "I never said it wouldn't be streamed."
Thursday's random news bits...
Puddle's White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles might be on the way out...
POLITICO Playbook (10/15/2025):
It’s Susie’s turn.
At moments of frustration and adversity, President Donald Trump has long made a habit of calling up friends to ask what they think of his advisers — and whether he should consider making changes.
These days, he’s asking about Susie Wiles, the once-unassailable White House chief of staff.
Trump has been soliciting allies’ views of Wiles and musing about replacements for his top aide, according to four people with direct knowledge of the conversations.
We’re told Trump is getting plenty of encouragement from rivals to Wiles and people who’ve felt “burned” by his loyal enforcer. Some have been sharing unfavorable coverage of Wiles and her family (more on that below) with the president.
“She’s burned a lot of people,” a Republican operative close to the White House said.
Trump stood by Wiles in a statement to Playbook.
“TOTAL FAKE NEWS Politico doesn’t care about facts, integrity, or honest journalism — it’s why I kicked them out of the White House!” the president said. “Susie Wiles is my loyal and longest serving Chief of Staff — there is a reason for that. She has been with me since the beginning, is my trusted advisor, and has my COMPLETE confidence. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
And so far, Wiles has yet to discuss how long she’ll remain chief of staff with the president, according to a White House official familiar with the matter.
Trump’s phone-a-friend inquiries have picked up with the approach of the November election, as he expresses private frustration with his feeble poll numbers.
One senior elected Republican official who received a call from Trump said the president had raised “the first honest questions about Susie.”
Trump has floated several people who could replace Wiles as chief of staff: The senior elected Republican official said the president had mentioned Stephen Miller, his deputy chief of staff, and Randy Levine, the president of the New York Yankees, as an outside-the-building option.
Trump is also considering Steve Witkoff, Bill Pulte and Kevin McCarthy, people close to the president told us. Allies of McCarthy, the former House speaker, have been arguing that he could help Trump handle a hostile Democratic Congress.
Tough midterms have a way of triggering staff changes at the top of the White House, even for aides once seen as untouchable. (Hi, Karl and Rahm!) There are also dynamics at play specific to Wiles.
Trump has bristled at recent reports showing several longtime advisers are profiting from foreign consulting business, including top Wiles allies James Blair and Chris LaCivita (see the NYT). Katie Wiles, the chief of staff’s daughter, was reported (see the FT) to be representing Republika Srpska, the pro-Russian, semi-autonomous Bosnian Serb territory for which Blair and LaCivita also did work. Trump was not previously aware of Katie Wiles’ foreign work and rivals of Susie Wiles have made sure the headlines surrounding her daughter reached the president, one person close to the president said.
“Susie has this whole cadre of people that have been found to have been monetizing his ecosystem pretty dramatically,” a senior outside adviser told Playbook.
White House spokesperson Danielle Alvarez told Playbook in a statement “these anonymous sources know nothing,” and that Trump assembled a “united team focused on his America First agenda — not the egos and political games of anonymous outsiders.”
Wiles has rebuffed previous attacks on her authority from inside and outside the building. This time they come at a moment of unusual turbulence within the White House and Trump’s party.
“This is part of a larger struggle going on right now in Trump world,” one Trump ally told us. “And it’s only gonna become bigger.”
On today’s Playbook Podcast: Dasha and Will investigate what’s changed between Trump and his longest-lasting chief of staff, plus how the Epstein files became a flashpoint in Iowa’s tight Senate race and why Volodymyr Zelenskyy feels betrayed by the U.S.
POLITICO Playbook (10/15/2026).
The Playbook podcast runs 18 minutes.
Propaganda Barbie Too is facing questions about whether she's actually a lawyer or just played one on TV.
On just her second day on the job, following a disastrous debut press briefing, she joined Puddle for his shouting-at-the-sky press gaggle. When a reporter asked which state she'd passed the bar exam in, she famously answered, "When I moved to China."
It turns out, according to the New York Times, she thought the press was asking where she went after graduating law school.
On Wednesday evening, she told The New York Times that this whole mishegas over “lawyer,” “attorney,” and “China,” has been one big misunderstanding.
“I assumed the question was, ‘Where were you after law school?’” she said, taking a quick phone call on the tarmac in Arizona, where the president was holding a midterm rally.
“That’s all I could hear over the sound of Marine One,” she said. “And, wanting to respect protocol, the distance behind the president, kept me from moving closer to hear the question.”
It was only her second day on the job, she pointed out.
So here’s the truth about Katie Zacharia, not-quite attorney-at-law: She graduated with a law degree from Pepperdine University in 2011. By some interpretations, that technically makes her a lawyer, though many legal experts said it would not. But is she an attorney, someone who is licensed to practice law and give legal advice? For that, she would have needed to pass the bar. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that she sat for the California bar exam after graduating law school, but didn’t pass. The Times was unable to find a law license for her in California, or anywhere else she has lived in the United States.
During the brief phone call Wednesday, The Times did not get a chance to press her again about whether she had ever passed a bar exam. But before she had to go, she did explain that when she first began appearing on cable news, she consulted with Pepperdine’s president as to how she should identify herself. She said she was warned not to use the words “attorney” or “esquire,” but that “lawyer” was OK.
New York Times. 10/14/2026.
The Washington Post is reporting what could be filed under "no shit, Sherlock".
A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member.
Tech giants Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million, the top contribution amount, the list shows. The Adelson family, one of the GOP’s largest donor dynasties, committed that sum as well, as did billionaire Charles Ergen, co-founder and chairman of telecommunications company Dish Network.
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The White House publicly identified 37 people, companies and foundations as donors last October, without revealing the amount of their individual gifts.
The list obtained by The Post, an internal spreadsheet used to track contributions for the fundraising effort, contains the source, date and amount of all 67 donations above $10,000 recorded as of late last month. It shows a total of $333 million from private donors, aligning with the administration’s public statements. Additional records, also internal to the fundraising effort, provide more detail about the donations and indicate that at least $77 million came from donors who requested anonymity.
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The Post’s reporting does not establish a connection between the donation commitments and favorable actions by the Trump administration. But the documents show that the vast majority of the funds raised came from companies and wealthy individuals with interests before the federal government.
Companies or executives of firms that have had contracts with the federal government during Trump’s second term accounted for about half of the total, The Post found.
After reviewing the list obtained by The Post, White House spokesman Davis Ingle declined to discuss individual donations but described the ballroom donors as “a wide array of great American companies and generous individuals, all of whom are contributing to make the People’s House better for generations to come.”
“The same critics who are alleging fake conflicts of interests, would also complain if American taxpayers were footing the bill for these long-overdue renovations,” he said. He added that the administration will “relentlessly pursue those responsible for this cowardly leak while continuing to protect all those who give.”
Washington Post. 10/15/2026.
Narrator: They can't say it, but I can. It's in our faces. Pay-to-play corruption.
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P.S. Taxpayers are still on the hook for the security and military upgrades. Turning the White House into a military base with fine china isn't cheap. Drone empires don't fund themselves...
