Jim Mullin

In March 2026, during his confirmation hearing, Markwayne Mullin fought back tears in front of the chamber as he shared a story about his 15-year-old son, Jim, and a side of Donald Trump rarely seen in the headlines. ​Jim was a strong, gifted wrestler—his father’s whole world—until a severe brain injury changed everything in an instant. When Jim opened his eyes, he didn't recognize his own parents. To the boy Markwayne had watched grow up every single day, his own father looked like a complete stranger. ​According to Mullin’s testimony, the only thing Jim still remembered was that Donald Trump was President. ​When Trump found out, he didn't issue a press release or send a standard card. Mullin recounted how Trump personally called, sent his private plane to fly Jim to a rehabilitation center in California, and called the teenager every single day for two weeks while in the middle of a campaign. ​When it came time for Trump to depart during a visit, his staff repeatedly told him they needed to leave. Twice, Trump told them, "Not yet." The third time, he looked at his team and said, "I guarantee you that plane isn't leaving for at least 15 more minutes." ​He walked inside, sat beside Jim, took his hand, and said: "Do you know why I love your dad? Because he loves you." ​Mullin credited that visit and those words with helping spark the return of his son's memory. Speaking through tears before the committee, Mullin summed it up simply: "He did not do it for publicity. He did it because he cared." ​No cameras. No press conference. Just someone choosing to pause a schedule and sit beside a 15-year-old boy when he had every reason to keep moving. ​Keeping Jim Mullin and his continued recovery in our prayers tonight. 🙏🇺🇸 ​#MarkwayneMullin #JimMullin #Inspiration #Fatherhood

— Afshine Emrani MD FACC (@afshineemrani) November 14, 2026

… world—until a severe brain injury changed everything in an instant. When Jim opened his eyes, he didn't recognize his own parents. To the boy Markwayne had watched grow up every single day, his own father looked like a complete stranger.

​According to Mullin’s testimony, the only thing Jim still remembered was that Donald Trump was President.

​When Trump found out, he didn't issue a press release or send a standard card. Mullin recounted how Trump personally called, sent his private plane to fly Jim to a rehabilitation center in California, and called the teenager every single day for two weeks while in the middle of a campaign.

​When it came time for Trump to depart during a visit, his staff repeatedly told him they needed to leave. Twice, Trump told them, "Not yet." The third time, he looked at his team and said, "I guarantee you that plane isn't leaving for at least 15 more minutes."

​He walked inside, sat beside Jim, took his hand, and said: "Do you know why I love your dad? Because he loves you."

​Mullin credited that visit and those words with helping spark the return of his son's memory. Speaking through tears before the committee, Mullin summed it up simply: "He did not do it for publicity. He did it because he cared."

​No cameras. No press conference. Just someone choosing to pause a schedule and sit beside a 15-year-old boy when he had every reason to keep moving.

​Keeping Jim Mullin and his continued recovery in our prayers tonight. 🙏🇺🇸

Harmeet Dhillon, 14 November 2026

First long-form interview since leaving DOJ with my friend and often co-counsel Mark Geragos, fellow CA and NY lawyer.

We discuss Jensen Huang/Nvidia, crisis comms and one-size-fits-all lawyering, and my transition from government service back to private sector legal work.

Musk Casually Sends 26 Satellites Into Space With His “Failure”

„Elon Musks Rakete ist explodiert!“ – Der deutsche Michel jubelt. Die Presse titelt voller Schadenfreude: „Doppellandung gescheitert!“ Während wir in Europa endlos über Bauanträge debattieren, schießt Musk beim „Scheitern“ mal eben 26 Satelliten ins All. Die nackten Fakten des 15. Starship-Testflugs entlarven den Medienzynismus. Ja, Booster 22 landete gestern nicht am Startturm, sondern steuerte aus Sicherheitsgründen den Golf von Mexiko an. Ein „Rückschlag“? Nur für jene, die Innovation nicht verstehen. Auf genau diesem ach so „gescheiterten“ Flug hat SpaceX 26 Starlink-Satelliten der V3-Generation ausgesetzt – das entspricht auf einen Schlag der Kapazität von zehn Flügen der bisherigen Falcon 9. Die wahre Premiere steht heute, am Samstag, noch an: Nach 22 Stunden im All und 14 Erdumkreisungen soll die Oberstufe der Megarakete zum Startturm zurückkehren und aufgefangen werden. Der Abbruch beim Booster-Fang diente exakt dem Schutz dieser für heute unverzichtbaren Anlage. Musks Ansatz ist den europäischen Bedenkenträgern völlig fremd. Bei SpaceX herrscht eine Macher-Kultur, bei der Fehler und Misserfolge „als notwendiger Teil des Fortschritts angesehen werden“. Nur so baut man eine 5000-Tonnen-Rakete, die die Startkosten um 99 Prozent senken wird. Es ist bizarr: Ein Unternehmer bereitet Marsmissionen vor, während sich Europa – dessen überteuerte Ariane 6 kaum ein Fünftel der Starship-Nutzlast stemmt – genüsslich an einem nassen Booster ergötzt. Wer Sicherheit über alles stellt, bleibt eben für immer auf der Erde. #Starship #SpaceX #Starlink https://t.co/VtEOZdj0fq via @welt https://t.co/1vfNRvdRMZ

— Bernd Kaiser (@Bernd_Kaiser_BD) November 14, 2026

“Elon Musk’s rocket has exploded!” – The German everyman is cheering. The press headlines are dripping with schadenfreude: “Double landing fails!” While we in Europe endlessly debate building permits, Musk casually sends 26 satellites into space with his “failure.”

The bare facts of the 15th Starship test flight expose the media’s cynicism. Yes, Booster 22 did not land at the launch tower yesterday, but instead headed for the Gulf of Mexico for safety reasons. A “setback”? Only for those who don’t understand innovation.

On this very flight, the supposedly “failed” one, SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites—the equivalent, in one go, of ten flights of the existing Falcon 9.

The real premiere is still to come today, Saturday:
After 22 hours in space and 14 orbits of Earth, the upper stage of the megacock is supposed to return to the launch tower and be caught. The aborted booster catch was specifically intended to protect this facility, which is essential for today’s mission.

Musk’s approach is completely alien to Europe’s naysayers.
SpaceX has a can-do culture in which mistakes and failures are “seen as a necessary part of progress.” That’s the only way to build a 5,000-ton rocket that will cut launch costs by 99 percent.

It’s bizarre:
An entrepreneur is preparing Mars missions, while Europe—whose overpriced Ariane 6 can barely handle one-fifth of Starship’s payload—takes gleeful delight in a wet booster. Anyone who puts safety above everything else will simply stay on Earth forever.

Open Letter to Reinstate Jensen Huang

BREAKING: An open letter to reinstate Jensen Huang as CEO of Nvidia, $NVDA, now has over 65,000 signatures, alleging that Huang was removed "without meaningful due process." The letter has been signed by more than 35,000 shareholders and 4,700 current and former Nvidia employees. Elon Musk has publicly stated that he has signed the petition and fully supports Huang's return to the company. We maintain our view that Huang was removed prematurely, without a conclusive investigation.

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 14, 2026

…employees.

Elon Musk has publicly stated that he has signed the petition and fully supports Huang's return to the company.

We maintain our view that Huang was removed prematurely, without a conclusive investigation.

Democrats Win an Election & Immediately Move to Subvert Democracy

It appears democracy is too important to be left to voters.

Jonathan Turley

After Democrats ran on “saving democracy” from its imminent destruction, many voters may be a bit confused by the actions of their newly elected representatives. Democratic politicians and pundits are moving to negate certain results in the last election and to circumvent future votes on key reforms. The country could soon be experiencing the greatest changes to our constitutional system in 250 years, but the public will have little to say about it.

In Seattle, socialist Mayor Katie Wilson announced that she and the city would move to block a statewide initiative approved by 36 of 39 counties. The public voted to require the separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports. It is an issue that has overwhelming support among both Democrats and Republicans, with polls showing roughly 70 percent of Americans supporting girls’ sports for girls alone.

But Wilson and others do not like the decision, so they are seeking to protect the public from their supposedly bad choices.

In Colorado, Governor-elect Phil Weiser (D), the former dean at the University of Colorado Law School, was a prominent figure in the “No Kings” protests before the election. But after his election, he decided that the voters’ democratic decisions on transgender policies were inherently flawed and he would have to correct them.

Colorado voters passed a ban on male athletes in girls and women’s sports. Proposition 134 defined girls as having female reproductive organs and boys as having male reproductive organs. So that there would be no ambiguity later, the drafters expressly added that “students assigned male at birth play only on boys teams or co-ed teams and vice versa for females.”

The public also passed Proposition 135, banning gender-affirming surgeries for minors.

Weiser, however, declared that, with a new supermajority in both houses, Democrats would “have to take a look at these anti-trans measures … to fix [them] and provide a much more human and sound approach.”

This is the same politician who recently insisted that he was “defending democracy” and standing for “our government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” But apparently, the last thing large-D Democrats want to do is actually listen to the people.

The “saving democracy” crowd seems to have a very serious problem with democracy.

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Nemotron 3 Ultra

THIS IS WHY THEY TOOK DOWN JENSEN HUNAG Four months ago, Jensen Huang revealed he was about to BREAK the closed-model monopoly over AI and completely reshape the AI industry. He made a direct THREAT to America’s biggest AI companies. He revealed Nvidia was working on a MASSIVE new frontier-level, open AI named Nemotron 3 Ultra and that it would be competing directly with Claude Opus… And most importantly, it would be MUCH cheaper. Think about what that means. An American, open-weight, frontier-level model at a fraction of the cost could destroy the business models, valuations and upcoming IPOs of America’s AI oligarchs. And what do you know, the person who leaked the “honeypot” story to the press was none other than ANTHROPIC CO-FOUNDER Jack Clark, who reportedly holds a larger stake in Anthropic than Dario Amodei himself… NVIDA is well placed to dominate AI as it has the one thing almost every AI company needs but doesn’t produce. The hardware. And if NVIDIA starts competing directly with its biggest customers with frontier-level, open-weight AI, at dramatically lower prices, its over for the AI Epstein class. And it would be amazing for humanity. So he had to go. He has been replaced by a Zionist who starts her day every day talking to Israel. And 3 Israelis are on the list to replace him permanently. Will they shelve or nerf the Nemotron family and the coalition of eight labs building frontier OPEN models? Will they CANCEL his five-year, $26 billion commitment to open-weight model development? And will they kill the pending $13B acquisition of Hugging Face, the default distribution layer for open models. A deal that has not yet closed, very convenient timing. Founder priorities rarely survive such transitions intact, especially when the stock dives 30%. They know this.

— ADAM (@adamemedia) November 14, 2026

… MASSIVE new frontier-level, open AI named Nemotron 3 Ultra and that it would be competing directly with Claude Opus…

And most importantly, it would be MUCH cheaper.

Think about what that means. An American, open-weight, frontier-level model at a fraction of the cost could destroy the business models, valuations and upcoming IPOs of America’s AI oligarchs.

And what do you know, the person who leaked the “honeypot” story to the press was none other than ANTHROPIC CO-FOUNDER Jack Clark, who reportedly holds a larger stake in Anthropic than Dario Amodei himself…

NVIDA is well placed to dominate AI as it has the one thing almost every AI company needs but doesn’t produce. The hardware.

And if NVIDIA starts competing directly with its biggest customers with frontier-level, open-weight AI, at dramatically lower prices, its over for the AI Epstein class. And it would be amazing for humanity.

So he had to go.

He has been replaced by a Zionist who starts her day every day talking to Israel. And 3 Israelis are on the list to replace him permanently.

Will they shelve or nerf the Nemotron family and the coalition of eight labs building frontier OPEN models?

Will they CANCEL his five-year, $26 billion commitment to open-weight model development?

And will they kill the pending $13B acquisition of Hugging Face, the default distribution layer for open models. A deal that has not yet closed, very convenient timing.

Founder priorities rarely survive such transitions intact, especially when the stock dives 30%. They know this.

Calling for Foreign Countries to Pursue Criminal Cases Against Secretary Hegseth

This is evil.

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 14, 2026

Three former government lawyers wrote the plan to prosecute Pete Hegseth. Their timing: WAIT until Trump leaves office. It ran in May on Just Security, a national security law site. Two of the authors worked for Barack Obama, one as counselor to his Homeland Security secretary, one as adviser to his Guantanamo closure envoy. The third served in the State Department's war crimes office. Their line on Colombia and Ecuador, verbatim: officials there could "gather evidence of the crimes and wait to issue indictments until Trump is out of office." The crimes they mean are the strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Ninety-nine countries, they count, have laws that let them charge a foreigner with crimes against humanity. They don't stop at the Secretary. The essay names Admiral Frank Bradley, who runs Special Operations Command, and General Francis Donovan, who runs Southern Command, as "potential perpetrators." Tuesday, the same day the House shelved his impeachment, Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and said what was coming: "Put the secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow." I read the essay. He wasn't guessing. The admiral and the general were already on the page. That isn't justice. That's waiting for the guard to change. 💎

— Jewels Jones ® (@JewelsJonesLive) November 14, 2026

… one as adviser to his Guantanamo closure envoy. The third served in the State Department's war crimes office.

Their line on Colombia and Ecuador, verbatim: officials there could "gather evidence of the crimes and wait to issue indictments until Trump is out of office." The crimes they mean are the strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Ninety-nine countries, they count, have laws that let them charge a foreigner with crimes against humanity.

They don't stop at the Secretary. The essay names Admiral Frank Bradley, who runs Special Operations Command, and General Francis Donovan, who runs Southern Command, as "potential perpetrators."

Tuesday, the same day the House shelved his impeachment, Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and said what was coming: "Put the secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow."

I read the essay. He wasn't guessing. The admiral and the general were already on the page.

That isn't justice. That's waiting for the guard to change.

Secretary Rubio, 113 November 2026

Standing on the Precipice of Disaster

Once you understand the incentive, the reason for the behavior becomes obvious: they are importing a left-voting bloc that depends on government handouts. A prominent example of this in America is Ilhan Omar and her Somali voting bloc in Minnesota, an area which used to be primarily Nordic-German. Importing voters is a CERTAIN path to a single-party supermajority and has ALREADY happened at the state level in California and New York. It also explains why those states have BANNED VOTER ID in order to accelerate a permanent socialist supermajority, destroying any semblance of democracy. We stand on the precipice of disaster, an end to America.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2025

… primarily Nordic-German.

Importing voters is a CERTAIN path to a single-party supermajority and has ALREADY happened at the state level in California and New York. It also explains why those states have BANNED VOTER ID in order to accelerate a permanent socialist supermajority, destroying any semblance of democracy.

We stand on the precipice of disaster, an end to America.

A Growing Body of Evidence Indicts the NYT’s Reporting

David Sacks says the big story in the Jensen Huang saga isn’t the alleged spy. It’s that somebody risked jail time to leak a classified memo to The New York Times to take Huang down. SACKS: “I think it’s pretty clear that there were two ops here... And that second op began when somebody or multiple people leaked a highly classified memo, or the contents of it, to The New York Times. I think it’s really important to understand that that’s a crime.” “I don’t believe that The New York Times just got this by overhearing people talking about it at a bar. Somebody made the calculated decision that they’re willing to risk going to jail... to let The New York Times know about this story.” CONTEXT: Leaking classified national security information is a federal felony under the Espionage Act, punishable by up to 10 years in prison per count. Sacks wants to know who handed The New York Times the memo identifying Alice Huang as a suspected Chinese spy, why they’d risk prison to do it, and why no one is investigating the leak.

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) November 14, 2026

… somebody or multiple people leaked a highly classified memo, or the contents of it, to The New York Times. I think it’s really important to understand that that’s a crime.”

“I don’t believe that The New York Times just got this by overhearing people talking about it at a bar. Somebody made the calculated decision that they’re willing to risk going to jail... to let The New York Times know about this story.”

CONTEXT: Leaking classified national security information is a federal felony under the Espionage Act, punishable by up to 10 years in prison per count.

Sacks wants to know who handed The New York Times the memo identifying Alice Huang as a suspected Chinese spy, why they’d risk prison to do it, and why no one is investigating the leak.

NYT has responded to my post by claiming that I’m “spreading conspiracy theories.” But which of us is the one trafficking in unsubstantiated allegations? Recent coverage (including CNN, which I QT’d) shows: — The intelligence community has not established conclusive evidence that Alice Huang knowingly acted as a spy or funneled information to Beijing. — There is internal disagreement about the strength of the evidence and whether she was recruited by the MSS. — Attorney General Todd Blanche has said on the record that the Justice Department, he, and FBI Director Patel have reached no conclusions about “who she is or is not.” — Some officials at ODNI and CIA have indicated the “Chinese spy” label is not fully accurate or is “over-torqued” based on the available intercepts and collection. — Incoming House Intelligence Chairman Jim Himes, a Democrat, said it was still unclear whether Alice Huang was a Chinese spy immediately after he was briefed. NYT’s stories (which have alleged “Chinese spy” dozens of times) have relied exclusively on anonymous officials. No official has gone on the record affirming it as established fact, and the more recent reporting reflects greater caution and disagreement inside the government. So when I point out that the spy narrative is unconfirmed and increasingly contested, that is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a growing body of evidence that indicts the NYT’s reporting.

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) November 14, 2026

…that Alice Huang knowingly acted as a spy or funneled information to Beijing.

— There is internal disagreement about the strength of the evidence and whether she was recruited by the MSS.

— Attorney General Todd Blanche has said on the record that the Justice Department, he, and FBI Director Patel have reached no conclusions about “who she is or is not.”

— Some officials at ODNI and CIA have indicated the “Chinese spy” label is not fully accurate or is “over-torqued” based on the available intercepts and collection.

— Incoming House Intelligence Chairman Jim Himes, a Democrat, said it was still unclear whether Alice Huang was a Chinese spy immediately after he was briefed.

NYT’s stories (which have alleged “Chinese spy” dozens of times) have relied exclusively on anonymous officials. No official has gone on the record affirming it as established fact, and the more recent reporting reflects greater caution and disagreement inside the government.

So when I point out that the spy narrative is unconfirmed and increasingly contested, that is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a growing body of evidence that indicts the NYT’s reporting.