FBI Subpoenas Journalists Over Bribe Force One Reporting
It's not a secret if the White House is tweeting about it.
This afternoon in New York, Judge Arun Subramanian will hold a hearing on a motion to quash grand jury subpoenas served on several prominent New York Times journalists. The government hopes to put them in front of a grand jury and compel them to disclose their confidential sources. The FBI calls it an issue of national security. The Times calls it a gross assault on the freedom of the press.
Obviously, it’s that second one. It’s also CRINGE AS F***.
The bribe jet
On July 6, 2026, President Trump flew his spiffy new plane to a NATO summit in Ankara. The Boeing 747 was a “gift” to America from the Kingdom of Qatar, with the proviso that it will be conveyed to the Trump Presidential Library when he leaves office — a grift so brazen that it would have resulted in the immediate impeachment of any prior president, but which barely merits a news cycle at this point.
Luckily Trump was able to get his bribe jet blinged out on the taxpayer dime. And yet, on July 8, Trump returned home on the old, Cold War-era Air Force One, abruptly boarding before traveling journalists could photograph him and taking off with the window shades conspicuously down.
Trump said the swap was so the new plane could go on a beauty pageant to entertain the troops. His pugilistic press flack Stephen Cheung released a statement saying that “there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal — including distraction and misdirection — to address those threats.”
