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Turns Out Trump DID Have The Rights To The Foo Fighters Song

The rock band Foo Fighters have gone quiet after it emerged that the Donald Trump campaign bought a license to play their song at a Rally on Friday.

Foo Fighters threatened to take “appropriate actions” after their song ‘My Hero’ was used at Trump’s rally Friday to introduce RFK Jr.

As we highlighted, the Dave Grohl fronted band issued a statement confirming they were not asked permission to use their hit and would not have granted it to Trump if they had been. They also vowed to give all proceeds from apparent pending legal action against Trump to Kamala Harris.

There’s just one small problem with that, the band sold  their rights to the song to BMI, which licenses it out via its Songview service.

The Trump campaign bought a license to play the song.

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Rutgers Prof Who Said She Hoped Trump Shooting Would “Inspire Others” Will Teach This Fall

The Rutgers University professor who was under an internal review after posts she made on Facebook following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, writing “Let’s hope today’s events inspire others” will teach this coming fall.

A source provided Campus Reform with screenshots of the Facebook posts, which were made by Rutgers University Writing Program Assistant Teaching Professor Tracy Budd in the hours after someone tried to assassinate Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

”Let’s hope today’s events inspire others,” Budd said in one post.

”They shot his wig. Sad,” Budd wrote in another.

Rutgers spokeswoman Megan Schumann told NJ.com that Budd is scheduled to teach in the upcoming fall semester.

Previously, a Rutgers spokesperson told the New York Post that Budd was the subject of an internal review.

“Rutgers University-New Brunswick condemns calls for violence in the strongest possible terms and remains committed to upholding the principles of civil discourse,” the university said.

“The university is reviewing this matter and assures that any appropriate actions will be taken based on our policies.”

“As students, faculty and staff return to campus next month, the university will be communicating the importance of civility in these challenging times,” the school added.

According to the New York Post, Budd makes over $72,000 at Rutgers.

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Foo Fighters Vow To Take “Appropriate Actions” Against Trump For Using ‘My Hero’ Song

The rock band Foo Fighters have stated that they will take “appropriate actions” against Donald Trump’s campaign after they used the song ‘My Hero’ to introduce Robert F. Kennedy Friday.

The epic moment took the internet by storm Friday night as RFK Jr officially endorsed Trump and joined him on stage, vowing to unite America.

Kennedy was greeted with a hero’s welcome at Trump’s rally in Glendale, Arizona.

However, Foo Fighters, fronted by Dave Grohl, issued a statement confirming they were not asked permission to use their hit and would not have granted it to Trump if they had been.

Billboard reports that a spokesman for the band said “Foo Fighters were not asked permission, and if they were, they would not have granted it.”

Furthermore, “appropriate actions are being taken” against the campaign, the spokesperson continued, adding that any royalties received as a result of this usage will be donated to the Harris/Walz campaign.

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PBS’ Judy Woodruff apologizes for falsely telling live audience Trump tried to talk Israel out of cease-fire deal

A PBS senior correspondent apologized Wednesday after falsely telling her audience that former President Donald Trump tried to talk Israel out of a cease-fire amid its ongoing war in Gaza.

Judy Woodruff passed off blame for the blunder by “clarifying” that she based the flimsy scoop on outside reporting she had read before broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on Monday.

“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the prime minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” Woodruff told a PBS roundtable.

“Who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, which is work on that one.”

Woodruff caught plenty of flak online for the comment — overwhelmingly from those who pointed out that the rumors she was citing were proved false days before she regurgitated them live on air.

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Secretary of Commerce Says She ‘Doesn’t Believe’ Fact That 818,000 Jobs Have Disappeared Under Biden/Harris White House

When Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo was asked if the 818,000 jobs supposedly created by the Biden/Harris White House which later turned out to not exist was a “liability” for Kamala’s campaign, she said she ‘didn’t believe’ the numbers.

Yes, really.

In a shock announcement yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the nonfarm payroll figure had been revised down by 818,000, meaning the U.S. economy created that number of fewer jobs than originally reported in the 12-month period through March 2024.

The actual job growth was therefore “nearly 30% less than the initially reported 2.9 million from April 2023 through March of this year,” reported CNBC, the largest downward revision in 15 years.

Despite the number being a manifestly provable fact announced by the government itself, Raimondo claimed it was all a lie invented by Donald Trump.

“When you hear that do you think these new numbers could potentially be a liability for this campaign?” she was asked by an ABC News reporter.

“No, when I hear that, first of all, I don’t believe it, because I’ve never heard Donald Trump say anything truthful,” responded Raimondo.

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Fact Check: Kamala Harris Claims Trump ‘Tried to Cut Medicare Every Year He Was President’

CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris claimed during a speech on Friday that former President Donald Trump has tried to cut Medicare “every year.”

VERDICT: False. Trump did not try to cut Medicare during his time in office; the Biden-Harris administration has cut Medicare Advantage, which a majority of Medicare beneficiaries use over traditional Medicare.

Harris said during an address on her proposed economic policy, “He [Trump] tried to cut Medicare every year he was president. Threatening a program that tens of millions of seniors count on.”

However, despite Harris’s claim, this is not true. An NBC News fact check found that Trump’s White House budget proposals did not call for benefit cuts to Medicare.

NBC News wrote:

His fiscal 2020 blueprint called for Medicare changes to lower payments to providers and suppliers through new incentives and a lower inflation benchmark. Biden and Democrats embraced the same types of “cuts” under Obamacare, which extended the solvency of Medicare by lowering payments to hospitals and insurers, in exchange for more customers.

Sahil Kapur, a senior political reporter for NBC News, wrote, “Democrats have been using this line for years. It’s false. Trump’s budgets didn’t cut Medicare benefits; they targeted providers & suppliers—the same “cuts” Dems enacted in the ACA.”

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Trump Supporter Prevented from Entering Mets Stadium with MAGA Hat: ‘Political Discrimination’

A Trump supporter claims that she was prevented from entering the New York Mets stadium while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, and labeled it “political discrimination.”

Aura Moody explained to the New York Post that she, and her friend Taisha had been wearing MAGA hats and had gotten past the security checkpoint when they were informed they could not enter the Mets stadium, known as Citi Field. The ladies were informed by an employee that the hats were “too political.”

Moody and her friend were instructed to put the hats back in their car after the stadium worker informed them they were not allowed to place them in their bags.

“The United States of America is no longer the vehicle of freedom and tolerance,” Moody told the outlet. “I am living under a communist regime where our freedoms are trampled upon….that was the first thought that came to my mind.”

Moody and her friend, who serve on the board of the Queens Village Republican Club, had arrived at the game separately from other people from the Republican club, according to the outlet.

The New York Republican pointed out that if she had been wearing a hat supporting President Joe Biden or Black Lives Matter, staffers at the stadium “would have let” her inside without an issue.

“We are conservative people, we believe in tolerance,” Moody told the outlet. “If I was wearing a BLM, Biden, Harris hat, they would have let me go through.”

Moody added that after they had placed the MAGA hats back in the car, they discovered that “at least eight” people in their group were wearing MAGA hats.

“When I got into the venue, I did see at least eight MAGA hats,” Moody told the outlet.

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Democrat Group Files FEC Complaint Claiming Elon Musk’s X Interview with Trump ‘Amounted to a Virtual Campaign Event’

President Donald Trump has once again become the target of lawfare following his interview with X boss Elon Musk.

Democrat political action committee End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over the interview.

The unprecedented live-streamed conversation received over one billion views around the world.

Musk has also offered the same opportunity to Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, but the offer was ignored.

The FEC complaint alleges their broadcast “amounted to a virtual campaign event” for Trump, Newsweek reported.

The 45th president sat down with Musk on his X platform for a two-hour interview.

The pair spoke about a wide range of issues, including criticism of Trump’s agenda and Harris, his Democrat opponent.

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Google in the Hot Seat as Trump Assassination Attempt Sparks Congressional Showdown

One of the most jarring developments (and that’s saying something) this US campaign season so far has been the assassination attempt on former President Trump, now a candidate for the country’s highest office.

But even worse, it soon became clear that the focus was being quickly shifted from this major event; Trump supporters suspected this was not an organic lack of interest from voters, but Big Tech censorship. However, if these allegations are found to be true, the whole thing could easily be treated as an actual conspiracy.

We obtained a copy of the letter for you here.

And so, both the House and the Senate are launching investigations.

The Congress Republicans want to know – did Google and Meta, the most powerful message- and narrative-controlling online entities, deliberately suppress news stories about the assassination attempt? And why?

Google’s response to Senator Roger Marshall’s letter effectively asking these questions has left him seeing no option other than to have Google execs IMMEDIATELY (the capitalization in senator) subpoenaed by the Senate Homeland Committee.

They will be asked to expound on what exactly was meant when they tried to (“bizarrely,” Marshall stated) justify the attempt as a “hypothetical act of political violence” – because “Google systems” were supposedly programmed to do that long before Trump narrowly escaped death.

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This Explains All the Fake News Attacks: 70% of Audience Sharing Musk-Trump Interview Was from 25-35 Age Group

X-Data released their results from the historic Donald Trump-Elon Musk X Spaces interview that took place on Monday night.

X-Data confirmed Tuesday evening that 70% of the audience sharing the Trump-Musk interview was from the 25-35 year-old age group.

X Corp CEO Linda Vaccarino commented on this amazing number: “Young, curious, engaged and tuning into X for a new kind of political conversation.”

And the over 54 age group made up only 1% of audience during the historic interview!

In case you missed it – There were 72 million views recorded when the interview ended on Monday night despite its late start due to a (deep state?) DDOS attack.

While the source of the attack remains unclear, it’s evident that certain forces were desperate to prevent this powerful exchange from taking place. But they couldn’t stop it.

And the combined conversation reached nearly one billion views 12 hours later!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk didn’t just make headlines—they broke the internet. The Musk-Trump interview on Twitter Spaces smashed records, attracting 72 million views by the time it ended, and a total of 16 million viewers who tuned in to the interview.

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