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Donald Trump talks a lot, and he talks pretty recklessly. Some of what he’s said in the past may even come back to bite him in the butt. For instance, he’s long (falsely) painted Hillary Clinton, his 2016 presidential rival, as a criminal who should be locked up. That claim, incredibly, may prove one of the keys to locking him up. He also once said that having a president who’s been indicted would be bad for the nation. Welp.

As per CNN, at a campaign rally on November 5, 2016 — shortly before his historic win — he mused to a Reno, Nevada crowd about what would happen if a sitting president was brough up on criminal charges, as he would be some seven years later.

“We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial,” Trump thundered. “It would grind government to a halt.”

The rally was held mere days after then-FBI director James Comey opened up an investigation into Clinton’s alleged mishandling of classified information — an investigation that ultimately put her in the clear.

Jump to 2023, and Trump has been accused of the same crime, only with more damning proof — including him basically confessing to the crime on national television.

It wasn’t the first time Trump warned about the dangers of a sitting commander-in-chief being brought up on criminal charges. A few days before, during a rally in Concord, North Carolina on November 3, he said much the same thing.

“If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government,” Trump said. “She is likely to be under investigation for many years, and also it will probably end up – in my opinion – in a criminal trial. I mean, you take a look. Who knows? But it certainly looks that way.

“She has no right to be running, you know that,” he added. “No right.”

It’s worth noting those rallies were in big cities. Nowadays he tends to make appearances in small towns, possibly because he knows he can no longer summon the same big crowds.

(Via CNN)

Kenny Omega has spent the last four years since headlining AEW’s first pay-per-view scratching, clawing, and doing everything he can to remain in the conversation as the best pro wrestler in the world.

Omega put on a match of the year candidate against Will Ospreay for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Title earlier this year, but with Forbidden Door around the corner, he felt the pressure to deliver in the rematch. Being on Canadian soil in an AEW ring, and with so many other great matches on the card, Omega says he wanted to be in the same conversation as guys like Bryan Danielson and Kazuchika Okada, who were slated to main event the show.

So on a night where greats like Danielson, Okada, MJF, Jon Moxley, and CM Punk took their respective places across the Forbidden Door card, it was Omega, alongside a perfect dance partner in Ospreay, who did everything they could to set their match apart from the crowd.

“I feel that magic when I’m in there with Will. I feel that pressure to perform, to deliver, to give the type of performance that I guess I’m known for. So I’m thankful for people on the planet like Will who can awaken that part in me, that as time goes by, it is harder to summon,” Omega told Uproxx Sports.

“Will had his moment in the sun. But I’m proud of the performance. I’m proud of everything that I was able to do in preparation for the match, the sacrifices to keep my mind in a good place for that match. So I was firing on all cylinders. Before the match, during the match, and I’d say after it was all done, I lost this belt. You are that guy now, Will, I’m just going to kind of let it go.”

Omega also went in-depth on the move that drew visceral responses, the Tiger Driver 91.

“That’s what I do,” Omega said. “There were a number of things that were designed to elicit a response from people, whether it be positive or negative. But I wanted to take people on an emotional rollercoaster.”

Omega played into his injury background, spending more than eight months on the shelf in 2022, before making his grand return alongside The Elite late last year.

“Hopefully it leaves fans questioning is he okay? It’s all about the match. We’re battling in that ring and I want you to go along for the ride with us. If they thought everything else in that match was just the worst shit they’ve ever seen in their life, but that one moment, got them for a second, ‘He’s not going to kick out, he’s not going to get up, they better get the gurney, call in the fucking airlift,’ that’s perfect. And if I had a whole match of those types of reactions, even better,” Omega said.

“It’s all part of my job, it’s all part of my profession. These are things that I take a lot of pride in and I think that’s why when I went into this match, there’s a lot of physical and mental preparation that goes into it because I was really preparing myself to wow the crowd to this kind of level.”

Omega said he knew such an emotional response was coming specifically from that move, but he doesn’t think it’s from people looking out for his best interests.

“People that wanted to shit on something or people that want to frown upon something, or for people that want to say, well, if it were me, I wouldn’t have done that. I didn’t get to where I was by being able to do things that everyone else could do. I realized, and I recognized that I do have special talents that maybe not everyone else can do,” Omega said.

“Without revealing too much, I think a lot about my health. I think a lot about life after wrestling. I think a lot about my current life. I think about next week’s Dynamite and the week after that. I would never do something I didn’t trust myself in performing 100 percent.”

Omega’s life after wrestling is to be determined. But it wouldn’t be surprising to see him build off the successful launch of AEW’s first video game, Fight Forever, earlier this week. He was heavily involved in the game from ideation to execution, spending countless hours on business calls and creative meetings despite living in the Japan time zone. With his finger prints all over the game, it’s no wonder why it plays much like AEW’s presence in the current wrestling environment — something that feels different from other major promotions.

“I think that if [the game] can stand apart as something different, but something special and something that people enjoy and that is fun, then it’s kind of mission successful,” Omega said. “We had to build something new from the ground up and it was very hard to get everything that we wanted. You can only get what’s possible and what time and budget allow for.”

While the game was released last week, Omega admits there’s more to come.

“There is always going to be additions to this game. You haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve seen a little bit, but you haven’t seen a lot of things that I’m very excited for,” he continued.

“There’s something in particular coming up that, it’s sort of been leaked a little bit, so the Stadium Stampede mode I’m very excited for and I think people are going to have a lot of fun. It’s something so incredibly unique and I think it’s going to be great. The roster, we’re going to add bodies to the roster as well. Custom parts for create a wrestler, all that stuff. I can’t wait to share more announcements with people and to see more of the roster, more match types and see the videos turn up online for how people are enjoying it.”

Omega added that with the relationships AEW has with New Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor, there are “a lot more possibilities for what we can include and what we can design for the game.”

With Forbidden Door and Fight Forever’s release in the rearview, there’s no slowing down for Omega. He’ll instead turn his attention to All In from Wembley in August, followed by All Out in Chicago a week later.

“When you go into the building, it doesn’t hit you until you actually arrive and you see the ring, and you see the empty chairs, and you see the setup and the ramp and the screens. I’ve been in front of 10, 20, 40,000 people, and I’ve been to arenas and stadiums all over the world. So, how is it going to be when we’re in front of 70, 80,000, possibly more people (at All In)? I don’t know. But I know that it’s going to feel really special when I walk into that stadium before all the fans are in the building,” Omega said.

“I feel like the atmosphere and those situations allow you to go to a place on the inside. And I think that Wembley is probably going to be very similar in that regard, where I will be prepared to a certain degree, and then being in that environment is going to allow me to ascend to an even higher place.”

Omega says this feels like a bit of an experiment for AEW while the promotion’s stadium show draws WrestleMania comparisons. He’s never taken part in an experience like this, with two shows connected across the ocean a week apart. How they differentiate All In from All Out remains to be seen, but Omega believes there should be a “heavy focal point on both shows.”

“Not to say that it should be a split roster and you see completely different people on both shows, but I do think that there needs to be matches that are featured and very special for one evening. And I think you need matches that are featured and are very special at the other one,” Omega said.

“I want every show to kind of have its place in history as a special moment. I do think that it helps to sort of spread the opportunities out. We have such a large roster of so many individuals that are very special in this business. If you’re just using the same 20, 30 guys over and over and over again you’re going to have a lot of these special athletes just sitting on the sidelines waiting for their chance to perform. But I think for sure you’re going to see some people on one show that aren’t on another. And I look at that in a positive way because I do want the AEW fans or just fans of wrestling to be able to see more faces.”

All In takes place live from Wembley Stadium on August 27 in London, while All Out takes place a week later on September 4 from Chicago.

Many people played sports growing up and some continue to play as adults on recreational teams in their cities. Usually teams are split between girls and boys, even as adults but there’s one team out there creating a safe space for transgender players. Team Trans is a hockey team made up of hundreds of people and they play competitively in LGBTQ tournaments across the country.

According to one of the players, Team Trans is an international collective of players that identify as trans or nonbinary. Recently there has been more and more legislation surrounding trans rights and issues, including the ability for trans youth and adults to play sports.

But with Team Trans, the members are able to create a safe environment for trans and nonbinary people to compete in a sport that they enjoy. There’s no one telling them who can and can’t play on their team based on someone else’s opinion. They make the rules and they’re having fun.

When the team sat down with Good Morning America, some of the members discussed the importance of Team Trans and how it changed their lives.

“I actually stopped playing hockey when I began my transition. The first time I stepped back on the ice was in Las Vegas with Team Trans and it reignited my love for the sport,” Keira Wiele tells GMA. “It was a life changing experience for me and continues to be a life changing experience for me.”

“We’re doing this for joy. We’re doing this to have fun. That’s it. That’s all it is,” Sarah Antaya says. “We just want to exist and we want to do all of these fun things in our amazing world that all of us want to do.”

You can watch the entire interview below:

Baby animals are just adorable no matter what animal it is unless they’re the frogs hatching off of the back of a mama frog, I will never be able to unsee that. Aside from those frog back babies, there’s something about baby animals that make you want to let out a long “awww” while you thing about all the ways you wish you could snuggle them.

This also may be the reason that people will risk their own lives to save baby animals they see In the wild struggling. Some sort of protection instinct kicks in and you just have to go save the little baby. With the convenience of having tiny cameras in our pockets at all times, we’re catching more of these rescues on film.

One woman filmed her husband saving a baby deer, a fawn for you fancy people. The little deer was following its mom and somehow found itself trapped behind a chainlink fence unable to reach the safety of its mother. That’s when the woman’s husband comes in.

The man stopped the car and jumped the fence to rescue the deer that was running frantically back and forth trying to escape the chainlink barrier. His wife can be heard off camera sweet talking the deer who is too far away to hear as she films her husband and checks back on the mama deer who looks at the situation from the edge of the woods. Eventually the man makes it over the fence and another driver stops to help. They both chase the fawn until the woman’s husband finally grabs it and carries the struggling baby back towards its mom.

As soon as they reach safety, the deer is placed in the grass where it takes off running and the two deer disappear into the tree line. The sweet rescue can be seen below.

The love a mom has for her babies transcends species. Part of what makes seeing other creatures show tenderness for their young so touching is that it reminds us of how connected we all are through this powerful, almost otherworldly feeling.

That’s why it’s no surprise that a video showing a proud mama cow showing off her newborn calf stole millions of hearts online.

The video comes from BreeAnne Clowdus of The Good Place Farm in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, and shows her cow Milkshake (isn’t that the cutest cow name ever?) lead her through a meadow to introduce her precious new edition.

Clowdus had never missed a birth before, but ended up being away from the farm for 24 hours prior. So when Milkshake saw her approach, she could barely contain her excitement.

Finally we see an absolutely gorgeous little calf nestled safely in the grass. Seriously, people were calling her the “Gigi Hadid of cows.”

As if the scene weren’t idyllic enough, Clowdus then spotted a rainbow painted across the sky in a perfect arch.

It’s hard to tell what’s more heartwarming, the look of sweet satisfaction on Milkshake’s face, or the loving praise coming from Clowdus.

Watch:

@thegoodplacefarm #fyp #cows #babycow #farmlife #babygirl #heartwarming #crying #cutebaby #cuteanimals ♬ Unchained Melody (From “Ghost”) – The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Lots of folks were also floored by how strong a bond Clowdus had with her cows. “Those babies are so loved by you,” one person noted, “and I can see they love you so much too.”

But of course, the best comment belongs to @evanderthecat, who wrote “Your milkshake births her calves in the yard,” thus making a 2000s pop reference we all secretly wanted.

Unlike cats and dogs, we often have this emotional disconnect when it comes to cows. But in reality, they are wonderfully sentient and empathetic social creatures. They can feel both happiness and sadness, they have their own personalities, and enjoy play and close friendships just like us. They deserve to be treated by all of us with the same kind of care that Clowdus clearly bestows upon her bovine fam.

You can catch even more adorable cow footage on Good Place Farm’s TikTok and Instagram.

Even though Los Angeles and San Francisco are both in California, they are still 380 miles apart, which either involves an hour-and-fifteen-minute-long flight or a roughly 7-hour drive.

An engineer in Los Angeles named Bill got accepted into a one-year master’s degree program at Cal Berkeley but was put off by the idea of paying the astronomical rent in the Bay Area. Berkeley is located just north of Oakland in the East Bay, where the average rent is over $3500 a month.

Bill had an affordable place in L.A. and a job waiting for him when he finished school, so he decided he would do the unthinkable to most people, commute to school and back.

“I was living in LA comfortably. I got accepted into a one-year MEng program (technically August 2022-May 2023). I knew I would go back to LA after graduation because I want to go back to my previous employer once I graduate,” he shared on Reddit’s Berkeley subforum. “I love flying and I have a lot of frequent flyer miles/points from credit card sign up bonus/flying over the past few years. Bay area rent is expensive in general, and my program is only 10 months, so I thought I could get it through commuting by plane.”

Bill had classes three days a week on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, but he booked flights for five days a week in case he had a meeting or an event he had to attend.

“If I don’t need to come to campus that Tu/Th, I just cancel the tickets the night before and get a full refund. I have elite status with Alaska and Southwest, both offer a valuable perk called same-day change,” Bill said.

On a typical Monday and Wednesday during the fall schedule, when classes started at 10 am, he would wake up at 3:40 am in Los Angeles and drive to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for a 6:00 Alaska Airlines flight to San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Upon arriving in the Bay, he would take the BART light-rail train to campus. For his 8 am Friday class, he would take the 5:30 am Southwest Flight to Oakland International Airport.

“If I’m hanging out with friends or working on hw/projects with cohort for a bit longer in the library, I would take the last flight home (905pm OAK-LAX on Southwest or 1030pm SFO-LAX on Alaska),” he continued. “But normally I would take the 6pm or 7pm flight and reach home around 930pm.”

Bill completed the degree program in 10 months, and the total cost for transportation was less than two months of rent living in Berkeley.

Total Cost:

$5592.66, with $671.29 on BART, $520.00 on parking, $1948.27 on gas, $39.96 on inflight wifi, $1552.10 on Alaska, 407500 Alaska miles, $758.24 on Southwest, 156945 Southwest points, $71.30 on United, 5500 United miles, $15.60 on Avianca, 6500 Avianca miles, $15.90 on Spirit. 114 trips, 238 flights, 92089 miles flown, spent 75955 minutes on my commute, equivalent to 52.75 24-hr days.

But most importantly, Bill got his degree, and according to Fox 5 San Diego, he is now working full-time as a transportation engineer. He hopes to one day become Secretary of the U.S. Transportation Department, like Pete Buttigieg.

“This is probably one of the craziest things I’ve done in my life, and I’m so glad I made it through, without missing any classes,” Bill said. “That itself is a miracle.”

Last week we lost one of the greats: Alan Arkin, whose acting career spanned seven decades. He was 89 years old. The beloved thespian was nominated for four Oscars, and won once, for 2006’s smash hit Little Miss Sunshine. After his passing, the actress who played his granddaughter honored him with a moving tribute.

“Alan Arkin was one of the most kindest, gentlest and hilarious actors I ever worked with,” Abigail Breslin, who was 10 when the film came out, told People. “We may not have been related in real life but he will always be Grandpa in my heart, I send my deepest sympathies this his wife Suzanne and his family.”

In Little Miss Sunshine, Breslin played a young, indefatigably hopeful girl aspiring beauty queen. After she qualifies for a profoundly questionable and queasy pageant, the dysfunctional family, — Arkin’s heroin-snorting gramps included — piles into their rickety Volkswagen van to travel from New Mexico to California. The film is comically cynical about many things, but Breslin and Arkin share many touching (but not sentimental) scenes. Breslin was also nominated for an Oscar.

Over his long career, Arkin appeared in all manner of beloved films, spanning genres. He did dramas like The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (his second Oscar nom) and Glengarry Glen Ross. He did comedies, like Catch-22 and The In-Laws and Grosse Pointe Blank. Did you know he once played Inspector Clouseau? With James Caan, he starred in Freebie and the Bean, often credited as the first buddy cop comedy. He did thrillers like Wait Until Dark and the Best Picture-winning Argo. One of his best is one he directed: 1971’s Little Murders, in which he has one, unforgettable scene.

Arkin will be missed.

(Via People)

For the second year in a row, Lonnie Walker IV is on the unrestricted free agent market. Walker somewhat surprisingly was able to choose any team he wanted last offseason due to the San Antonio Spurs rescinding the qualifying offer, which led to the former first-round pick coming to terms on a 1-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Walker had an up-and-down year in Los Angeles, one which saw him provide a scoring punch in the starting lineup, miss an extended period of time due to a knee issue, and struggle to consistently make his way back into the rotation after the team’s high-profile midseason overhaul. It did end on a bit of a high note, though, as he 13 of the team’s 16 games in the playoffs, which included a 15-point performance against the Golden State Warriors in the second round that helped put the Lakers in the driver’s seat of the series.

Now, Walker is once again free to choose where he’s going to play his basketball, and on Sunday he agreed to a one-year deal to join the Brooklyn Nets as they have shuffled their roster and look to make another playoff run this season.

Walker appeared in 56 games for the Lakers with 32 of them coming in the starting lineup during the 2022-23 campaign. He averaged 11.7 points in 23.2 minutes per game while shooting 44.8 percent from the field and 36.5 percent from three. Walker’s hope this free agency was to find a team he could join that would be a playoff contender, and he’ll join a Nets team looking to remain just that after re-signing Cam Johnson and making some trades to shed veteran salaries — opening up minutes at the two-guard spot they’ll hope Walker can help fill.

50 Cent has racked up significant wins in music, film, and business throughout his career. Unfortunately, his winning streak hasn’t always translated in the courtroom. According to Reuters, 50 Cent’s $32 million malpractice lawsuit against his former lawyers was thrown out by a federal judge.

On Friday (June 30), the “I Get Money” rapper, real name Curtis Jackson, received the news of the case’s dismissal after U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant made her final ruling. In a statement about the case, Judge Bryant said, “Without more, the court cannot conclude the conflict of interest impacted counsel’s discovery strategy, or that the conflict caused Jackson to lose at trial.”

Jackson attempted to sue his former legal team at Reed Smith for $7 million in damages and $25 million in punitive damages. The suit stemmed from his 2015 bankruptcy filing after his longtime foe Rick Ross’ ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child, Lastonia Leviston, took Jackson to court for posting a sex tape of her without her permission. In that case, Leviston won a $7 million judgment which Jackson is looking to redeem from his former counsel due to their “uninformed” legal strategy.

The complaint alleged that the agency had an apparent conflict of interest due to their past dealing with Rick Ross, which was “neglectful, negligent, and unethical.” At one point, Ross was called to be a key material witness by the firm.

The mogul’s paperwork also rattled off other grips, commenting, “Reed Smith and Raymond did not follow established legal standards in representing Jackson in the Leviston Case by failing to provide effective representation and conduct proper pre-trial and trial preparation prior to the Leviston trial. In addition, their lack of effective representation and inadequate pre-trial preparation and preparation for trial caused Jackson to retain new counsel on the eve of trial.”

At this time, it is not clear whether or not Jackson will refile with additional proof substantiating his initial claims.

Prior to the start of free agency, the Los Angeles Clippers waived Eric Gordon and his non-guaranteed deal for this upcoming season to save an outrageous amount of money on their upcoming luxury tax bill.

After shopping Gordon to no avail, the Clippers waiving him meant Gordon was free to sign with any team of his choice. While he figured to have interest from plenty of contenders, Gordon chose to go to the team with the most intrigue — but also the most questions — coming into the 2023-24 season: the Phoenix Suns.

Gordon will sign a 1-year deal with the Suns on the minimum to try and help Phoenix win its first championship, as he joins a team he’s been connected with in the past but never made it to. He figures to play a fairly significant role for the Suns, given they have a lot of minutes available behind their star quartet of Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, Kevin Durant, and Deandre Ayton. Phoenix will hope Gordon can bring them some shooting pop to their backcourt rotation and another ball-handling option as they cobble together a brand new rotation.

Phoenix has been as busy as any team in the league since free agency began filling out that depth, bringing back some of their own free agents in Damion Lee and Josh Okogie, while adding Yuta Watanabe, Keita Bates-Diop, Drew Eubanks, Chimezie Metu, and now Gordon on minimum deals.