Scandal-plagued Dem becomes Trump’s measuring stick for Hunter Biden’s 2028 odds

2026-06-04T17:33:16-04:00 / Fox News

Trump drew comparisons between Hunter Biden and Graham Platner, who faces controversies over a Nazi tattoo and cocaine use

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President Donald Trump answers a question regarding Hunter Biden’s chances of running for president in 2028.

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President Donald Trump entertained the idea of Hunter Biden running for president in 2028, quipping on Thursday that the former first son might have a shot if scandal-plagued candidates like Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner can survive the political spotlight.

“[Hunter Biden’s] on social media now, and he has suggested – maybe joking, I don’t know – that he could run for president in 2028. How would he do, Hunter Biden, in a 2028 Democratic primary?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Trump on Thursday.

The former first son became active on X in May, sparking speculation that he is gearing up for a potential run for political office.

“I would say his past is not the greatest,” Trump responded.

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Former President Joe Biden talks with his son Hunter Biden upon arrival at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, on June 11, 2024.(ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

“Hey, if the guy from Maine can do well,” the president continued. “Well, I guess Hunter could do well, too, because the guy from Maine is a basket case.”

Platner, who Trump was referencing, faces a myriad of campaign controversies stemming from his deleted Reddit account, a Nazi-linked tattoo, hard-drug use, sexting allegations and a newly-released New York Times report detailing his alleged behavior with ex-girlfriends. Biden, meanwhile, has a documented history of drug use and legal troubles, culminating in a sweeping pardon from his father weeks before Trump returned to office.

Despite mounting controversies, Platner remains competitive in polls as he seeks to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins.

The Democratic candidate looking to unseat Sen. Susan Collins in Maine has admitted to exchanging sexual texts with several women after marrying his wife two years ago, according to a report.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump also compared a potential Hunter Biden 2028 run to James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas.

“And I would say worse than him is the one from Texas that looks like Alfred E. Neuman,” he said “I would say that if he can do well, maybe Hunter can do well. I’m not sure, it’ll be pretty close as far as I’m concerned.”

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS GRAPPLE WITH BIDEN’S LEGACY AS 2028 RACE BEGINS

Former President Donald Trump answers questions during the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago, Ill., on July 31, 2024.(Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP)

Trump, speaking to the press during an event focused on the administration’s investment in coal energy, also provided some new information about former President Joe Biden’s mental state during a private meeting they held after the 2024 elections.

“President Biden is out promoting a new book this week. When you met with Joe Biden, President Joe Biden, right here in the Oval Office on November the 13th of 2024, could you detect any cognitive decline in President Biden at that time?” a reporter asked.

“No, not really. I mean, he was the same guy I’ve been watching for a long time,” the president answered.

“He was fine as far as I was concerned,” Trump said, adding that “I don’t know, something happened to him during the debate. It could have been me.”

BIDEN ‘A LITTLE OLDER AND A LITTLE SLOWER’ IN THE FINAL DAYS OF HIS PRESIDENCY: NEW YORK TIMES REPORT

President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden participate in the 2024 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 1, 2024.(Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)

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Trump noted that the elder Biden was “never the sharpest guy.

Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for the former president and Hunter Biden on Thursday.

Trump says Bill Pulte won’t be director of national intelligence permanently

June 4, 2026 / 5:00 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — President Trump told reporters Thursday that Bill Pulte, his controversial pick for acting director of national intelligence, won’t be nominated to the role permanently, and the administration is interviewing other candidates to fill the role in the long term.

But while Pulte is heading up the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the president said he may “find out some things about the rigged elections,” a notable comment after outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attended an FBI search of an election center in Fulton County, Georgia, earlier this year.

“It’s an acting position, it’s not permanent, he’s not going to be permanent because, you know, I don’t think he’d want to be permanent,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office. “But he’s a very smart guy and he may find out some things about the rigged elections, etc., etc. I think he’d like to do it. I’d like to — I think he wants to do it very much. Got a lot of energy. But he’ll be very good. Again, it’s not a permanent position. We’re looking at, we’re interviewing people right now. But it’s somebody just to take it over for a little while.”

The president’s pick of Pulte, who has no known national security experience and investigated Trump foes for mortgage fraud as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was not met with enthusiasm on Capitol Hill, at a time when tensions are already high among Senate Republicans. Republicans are looking to extend the federal government’s surveillance powers, but Democrats are threatening to hold up that process if Pulte is in charge of overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies.

The president was asked if Pulte has the national security experience necessary for the nation’s top intelligence chief.

“I think he does, actually, because he’s smart,” Mr. Trump responded. “Because a lot of national security — look, I wasn’t greatly experienced in national security and I think I’ve done a really great job with it, a lot of people would say that.”

The president also called Pulte a “person who’s got high integrity” and who has done a “phenomenal” job running Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Gabbard’s visit to the raid in Fulton County, a key county in Mr. Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in 2020, raised concerns about the politicization of the intelligence community, including from some Republicans. At the time, a spokesperson for Gabbard said both the president and then-Attorney General Pam Bondi asked her to be present for the FBI search of the elections headquarters. The president said Gabbard attended the search “at Pam’s insistence,” meaning Bondi.

韩咏红：日菲抱团“抗中”台湾承压

2026年6月5日 05:00 / 联合早报

日菲加速安全合作，借国际法框架应对中国海洋主张，却意外牵动台湾东部海域权益，使其陷入外交与实务的两难境地。

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菲律宾总统小马可斯今年5月28日对日本进行国事访问期间，在日本国会发表演讲。 （法新社）

上周末在新加坡举行的香格里拉对话上，美国战争部长赫格塞斯延续总统特朗普访华后的基调，大大降低了批评中国的炮火。中美关系缓和了——至少表面上看是如此，而随着美国放缓姿态，日本防长小泉进次郎以及菲律宾防长特奥多罗和中国与会代表针锋相对的对答，成为今年香会上最显火力的交锋。

以上局面恰好直观地反映了本区域内，美国后撤、日菲联动“抗中”的新态势。当美国越显自顾不暇、三番四次要求亚太盟友更积极地分担防务责任，又警告“任何霸权主导的太平洋都将破坏区域力量平衡”时，日本和菲律宾双双已站到抵御中国的最前线。

就在香会之前，菲律宾总统小马可斯于5月26日至29日对日本进行四天国事访问，受到高规格的接待。日菲将双边关系升级为全面战略伙伴关系，扩大在海上安全、国防、贸易及投资领域合作，两国也承诺依据《联合国海洋法公约》，共同维护以规则为基础的国际秩序，并不点名表达对东中国海和南中国海局势的“严重关切”，强烈反对以武力或胁迫单方面改变现状。

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Kennedy Center orders staff to remove Trump’s name

2026-06-04T20:19:52.461Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/politics/kennedy-center-trump-name-memo

• The Kennedy Center’s general counsel ordered staff to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the building by June 12 to comply with a federal court order.
• Staff were also directed to immediately remove Trump’s name from some documentation, like email signatures and marketing materials.
• The directive comes after a federal judge ruled that the center’s board violated the law when it added Trump’s name to the historic performing arts venue.

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The Kennedy Center’s general counsel ordered staff on Thursday to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the building by June 12, according to a memo obtained by CNN, in order to comply with a recent court order.

Staff were also instructed to immediately update some Kennedy Center documentation — including their email signatures and marketing materials — to remove Trump’s name, according to the memo.

“To comply with this order, you must immediately change email signatures, letterhead, and other documents to reflect the name as ‘The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,’ or ‘Kennedy Center.’ Other changes, such as to templates and forms, signage, brochures, and website pages, must be completed no later than Friday, June 12, 2026,” the general counsel wrote in the memo, which was first reported by The New York Times.

The directive is a blow to the president’s bid to control the performing arts center and his broader effort to put his stamp on the nation’s capital. His takeover of the institution began in the early days of his second term, when he gutted the existing board and installed loyalists.

“We are complying with the court’s order while evaluating all legal options to preserve this revitalization and recognize President Trump’s leadership,” Roma Daravi, vice president of public relations for the Kennedy Center, said in a statement.

When asked for comment on the memo, the White House referred CNN to Trump’s Truth Social posts responding to last week’s court ruling. A federal judge blocked the Kennedy Center from temporarily closing its doors for a yearslong renovation and said its board violated the law when it added Trump’s name to the historic performing arts venue.

US District Judge Casey Cooper concluded that the law establishing the center “makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so.”

“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” Cooper wrote in his 94-page opinion.

He gave officials two weeks to remove any signage that includes Trump’s name and update its website to remove all references to the name “Trump Kennedy Center” or the “Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”

Shortly after the ruling, Trump signaled he was moving away from his focus on the arts center, suggesting he would be transferring control to Congress. (Since its founding, the executive branch has had oversight over the board of trustees while Congress has been responsible for annual appropriations for its operations and maintenance.)

“I have instructed the Department of Commerce to make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this Institution, giving them the responsibility for its Operation, Maintenance, and Management,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post last week.

He added that while he was being treated “unfairly,” he had “no interest in continuing” unless he was “free” to do what he wanted to do.

The center’s gift shop had recently put all “Kennedy Center”-branded merchandise on sale — 30% off ahead of the expected closure. A map in the parking garage was affixed with a “Trump Kennedy Center” label. Programs for productions were emblazoned with “Trump.”

But some of the fixtures had yet to include Trump’s name, with concession cups, banners in the grand foyer and digital tickets still bearing the original name.

In an Oval Office appearance Thursday, Trump revealed his latest proposed project for Washington, DC — what he called a “promenade” to connect the Lincoln Memorial with the Potomac River.

“They want to call it the Trump promenade,” he told reporters. “But I don’t know if I want to do that, but it’s going to be beautiful.”

CNN has asked the White House for additional details on the proposal.

CNN’s Devan Cole contributed to this story.

This story has been updated with additional information.

Four Senate Republicans again unite with Dems to block Trump’s SAVE America Act

June 4, 2026 7:03pm EDT / Fox News

Mike Lee slams Democrats for blocking the Save America Act

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Mike Lee discusses the importance of the SAVE Act, countering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s filibuster comments and former Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that voter ID is a poll tax.

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Four Senate Republicans broke ranks to kill another effort to pass President Donald Trump’s marquee voter ID and election integrity legislation as the GOP marches to fund immigration enforcement.

Just like last time, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Thom Tills, R-N.C., joined all Democrats to thwart the move.

It’s the second attempt by Republicans to attach the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to their budget reconciliation package, and the second time that they’ve failed to get the legislation across the line months after launching a quasi-floor takeover to debate the bill.

DOZEN GOP REBELS FAIL TO PERMANENTLY KILL TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL $2B FUND

Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined Senate Democrats to kill a late-night attempt to attach the SAVE America Act to the GOP’s immigration enforcement funding plan.(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Photo by Li Ying/Xinhua via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trying to attach the bill to the nearly $70 billion budget reconciliation package geared toward funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol meant that the amendment from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., needed at least 60 votes to pass.

That threshold again proved too high a bar on Thursday night.

And it’s a result that further solidified the political reality in the upper chamber that the SAVE America Act has little chance of passing, given the unanimous Democratic resistance and lack of total buy-in among the Senate GOP, even if Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., launched the long sought after talking filibuster.

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Still, Graham challenged Democrats to bat down the amendment, accusing them of being “probably into cheating” in elections for not supporting voter ID.

“There’s no other reason to say you don’t have to have an ID. It just makes cheating easier,” Graham said. “Who wants a noncitizen voting in our election if you’re against that, that makes me wonder.”

“And biological males playing girls sports [is] not good for anybody, and a minor should not be allowed to transition their sex,” he continued. “That’s the biggest change you can make in your entire life. You shouldn’t be allowed to do that as a minor. This is what we say. What do you say?”

DEMS BLOCK GOP AMENDMENT TYING VOTER ID BILL TO TRANSGENDER SPORTS BAN

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters after a briefing by Trump administration officials on U.S. strikes on Iran at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 2026.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu)

But Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., noted “that just over a month ago, a similar proposal was defeated on a bipartisan basis.”

“Current safeguards are working,” Padilla said. “And yes, it is already unlawful for non-citizens to vote in the United States. What this amendment does is mirrors earlier attempts to push through the president’s priorities, to try to take over elections, to ban vote by mail.”

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“And while we’re at it, while they’re at it, attacking trans folks during pride month, that’s pretty damn offensive,” he continued.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

Colorado court orders retrial for paramedics in Elijah McClain case

June 4, 2026 9:58 PM UTC / Reuters

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[1/2]Protesters march to call for justice for Elijah McClain after Governor Jared Polis amended his executive order regarding the investigation of McClain’s death, which has raised concerns that charges against the police officers involved may ultimately be watered down, in Denver, Colorado, U.S.,… Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabRead more

June 4 (Reuters) – An appeals court in the U.S. state of Colorado on Thursday ordered a retrial of two paramedics ​convicted over the death of Elijah McClain, a ‌young Black man who was pinned down by police and injected with a powerful sedative.

McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was stopped ​by officers in Aurora, a Denver suburb, in ​2019 after a report of suspicious behavior. Officers ⁠placed him in a neck hold, and paramedics Jeremy ​Cooper and Peter Cichuniec injected him with an excessive ​dose of ketamine. He later died.

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The case inspired police reforms in Colorado, including a ban on chokeholds.

Cooper and Cichuniec were found guilty ​of criminally negligent homicide in 2023. The Colorado Court ​of Appeals reversed those convictions on Thursday, citing errors in the ‌jury ⁠instructions, but upheld Cichuniec’s separate conviction for second-degree felony assault.

Cooper was sentenced in 2024 to 14 months in a work-release program, and four years of probation.

Cichuniec was released early from prison ​in 2024 ​after a judge ⁠reduced his sentence to four years of probation.

Attorneys representing McClain’s mother and the two ​paramedics did not immediately respond to requests ​for ⁠comment.

A jury came to a split verdict for three officers in the case.

Randy Roedema was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide while Jason ⁠Rosenblatt was ​found not guilty on manslaughter ​and assault charges.

Another police officer, Nathan Woodyard, was found not guilty of manslaughter.

Reporting ​by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani

乌拉圭将对中国公民实行免签

2026年6月5日 07:12 / 联合早报

乌拉圭将对中国公民实行免签

南美国家乌拉圭宣布将对中国公民实行免签。图为中国外交部长王毅（右）5月28日在纽约与乌拉圭外长卢贝特金会面。 （新华社）

南美国家乌拉圭宣布将对中国公民实行免签。

据新华社报道，乌拉圭外交部长卢贝特金（Mario Lubetkin）星期四（6月4日）宣布，该国将对中国公民免签。

今年2月，乌拉圭总统奥尔西（Yamandu Orsi）对中国展开为期七天的国事访问。他也是去年12月初美国公布新版《国家安全战略报告》后，第一位访华的南美洲国家元首。

当时，中国国家主席习近平在北京与奥尔西举行会谈时说，当今国际形势变乱交织，单边霸凌愈演愈烈，中国愿与乌拉圭共同推进平等有序的世界多极化、普惠包容的经济全球化。北京并支持拉美和加勒比国家维护自身主权、安全、发展利益。

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Sen. Ron Wyden wants to know why Leon Black paid Epstein $170 million for tax planning over 5-year period

June 4, 2026 / 6:10 PM EDT / CBS News

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Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon is demanding that a House panel question billionaire Leon Black over the extraordinary sums he paid Jeffrey Epstein for tax advice when he testifies before the House Oversight Committee later this month.

In a letter Thursday to the committee’s chairman, GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, and Democratic Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia, Wyden outlined the results of a four-year investigation into Black’s relationship with Epstein.

Wyden wrote in his letter that Black paid Epstein $170 million between 2012 and 2017 for tax and estate planning advice.

“To date, I do not believe Black has provided a credible explanation as to why he paid Epstein amounts that vastly exceeded those paid to other professional advisors involved in his tax and estate planning,” Wyden wrote.

Wyden’s letter notes that in 2013 and 2014, Black also paid a law firm $2 million for estate planning, a small fraction of what he paid Epstein during those years.

“Black’s attorneys from premier law firms demand rates exceeding $1,000 an hour, yet Epstein was paid exponentially more than a small army of high-priced lawyers from firms,” Wyden wrote.

Wyden had written to Black in March to demand answers to questions related to revelations from the so-called Epstein files about Black’s “significant personal and financial entanglements with Epstein.”

Adam Fridman, an attorney for Black, responded in April, writing to Wyden that, “those materials do not contain any credible evidence that Mr. Black was aware of, or involved with, Mr. Epstein’s then-ongoing criminal activities.”

Fridman also accused Wyden, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, of seeking information outside the committee’s jurisdiction.

“We see no discernable legitimate legislative purpose underpinning the March 20 Letter,” Fridman wrote. “Congressional investigations are not vehicles for public inquiries about an individual private citizen’s personal life.”

Still, Wyden said Black has “refused” to respond to questions about “outstanding irregularities” related to his payments to Epstein.

A spokesperson for Black declined to comment Thursday.

Susan Estrich, an attorney for Black, told CBS News in December that Black requested an internal investigation at Apollo of his relationship with Epstein. The law firm, Dechert LLP, “investigated and reviewed more than 60,000 documents and concluded that Mr. Black paid Epstein for estate planning and tax advice, no more, no less,” Estrich said.

Wyden also claimed that recently unsealed DOJ records “appear to indicate that Black may have funneled hush money payments to women using Jeffrey Epstein as a middleman,” and that Epstein “kept close tabs of women who Black had reached settlements/NDAs with and reached out to Russian government officials to help Black with these so-called problems.”

Wyden’s letter refers to an October 2017 email exchange in which a woman, described as an associate of Black’s, wrote to Epstein, “L mentioned he’s going to transfer me $100,000 but I’ve received $28,000.”

“The ‘L’ here seemingly refers to [Leon] Black,” Wyden wrote.

Wyden also flagged a $62 million legal settlement between Black and the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands “for all issues related to Jeffrey Epstein.”

“It is unclear what potential conduct this criminal immunity was intended to cover,” Wyden wrote.

美国总统特朗普的长子小特朗普星期四（6月4日）在瑞士苏黎世一场面向投资者的活动上说，他不会选择投资中国。图为小特朗普（左）与特朗普5月3日在白宫散步。 （法新社）

尽管美国总统特朗普政府正在推动改善美中经贸关系，他的长子小特朗普星期四（6月4日）在瑞士苏黎世一场面向投资者的活动上说，他不会选择投资中国。

据彭博社报道，小特朗普在活动上问及是否会投资中国时回答：“我不会。我认为我们不能假装中国是盟友，那样做是愚蠢的。”

与弟弟埃里克（Eric Trump）共同担任特朗普集团执行副总裁的小特朗普，在父亲重返白宫后积极推动多项海外投资与开发项目。他向现场投资者说，自己尤其担忧中国的法律体系，并认为这一体系对外国企业不利。

他说：“我想不出有哪个非中国企业在中国做生意时，曾赢得过一场诉讼。”

小特朗普发表上述言论之际，美国贸易代表办公室当天刚启动公众意见征询程序，准备落实特朗普与中国国家主席习近平上月在北京会晤期间提出的“贸易委员会”（Board of Trade）构想。

美国官员透露，双方正寻求确定各约300亿美元（385亿新元）的商品清单，确保相关贸易不涉及国家安全风险，并以此为基础降低部分商品关税。

特朗普去年初重返白宫后，美中一度陷入针锋相对的关税战。不过，双方随后达成协议，同意相互降低部分关税，美中贸易关系也因此出现缓和迹象。