Kash Patel's FBI right-hand aide suddenly QUITS after 'tumultuous' year

🔮 Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois said that Trump, in the weeks following the 2020 election, ‘demonstrated a wanton disdain for the laws of the United States, the will of the people, and our national security.

🔮 Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks on stage on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention Attorney Joe diGenova, a longtime Trump ally, was tapped to oversee the investigation in the Southern District of Florida President Donald Trump, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speak to reporters at the White House The Daily Mail had exclusively reported last week that the so-called grand conspiracy probe was on the rocks - though DOJ officials had insisted the investigation would continue. Maria Medetis Long, a senior career prosecutor, was reportedly taken off the case earlier this year after she expressed concerns about the strength of the evidence. A coterie of Trump-friendly names was assigned to the probe instead, including longtime Trump ally Joseph diGenova, and Kurt Olsen, a former White House official and 2020 election denier.

🔮 - Sign up HERE for our weekly DC Insider newsletter - your guide to what's rocking Washington, rattling the White House and setting tongues wagging on Capitol Hill - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will not participate in a major climate case. The case, Suncor Energy v County Commissioners of Boulder County, involves state efforts to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change.

🔮 - Sign up HERE for our weekly DC Insider newsletter - your guide to what's rocking Washington, rattling the White House and setting tongues wagging on Capitol Hill - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source A senior deputy to FBI Director Kash Patel will depart the bureau after roughly one year on the job - news that comes as the preeminent law enforcement agency has struggled to respond to concerns of politicization.

🔮 Kennedy is one of several Republicans that have criticized the rebranded campaign ads Attendees cheer during the second day of the Republican National Committee midterm convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas It is unclear how much the government has spent in total on the pro-Trump advertisements. Ethics lawyers - and some Republicans in Congress - have cited concerns with the ads, which they said could violate the Hatch Act, or a 1939 law limiting the political involvement of most executive branch employees. 'The president and his administration have gone from breaking the law to trampling it,' Norm Eisen, a former White House ethics czar during the Obama administration, told the New York Times of the taxpayer-funded ads.

🔮 His office said the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Quinones, a staunch Trump ally, will take over with 'support' from the Justice Department.

🔮 'And frankly, it is the polarization in our country right now that means everybody will be unhappy with one side or another.'

🔮 'I'm not going to answer it.' Alexis Wilkins, Kash Patel's girlfriend, looks on during FBI Director Kash Patel's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on FBI oversight Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Chuck Grassley speaks during Patel's testimony, which stretched for nearly five hours Kash Patel's girlfriend performs at a wrestling match in the fall of 2025 Alexis Wilkins is seen with Patel and President Donald Trump during the beginning of his second term Alexis Wilkins poses with Kash Patel for a selfie during a wrestling match in the fall of 2025 Schiff then observed that the back-and-forth would only extend the hearing longer, prompting Patel to turn to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and urge him to end the hearing entirely.

🔮 Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, authored a short concurrence with the majority – suggesting that the USPS might have the power to implement rules on mail-in ballots. But he wrote election officials 'do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before' the November midterm elections.

🔮 - Sign up HERE for our weekly DC Insider newsletter - your guide to what's rocking Washington, rattling the White House and setting tongues wagging on Capitol Hill - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source FBI Director Kash Patel sparred with senators on Tuesday over recent revisions the FBI made to its hiring policies, including a policy on applicants who may have engaged in bestiality. The exchange first occurred with Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.