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Florida man arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Trump, Rubio and Bondi

May 6, 2026 2:29pm EDT / Fox News

Nathaniel Sanders II faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted on the federal charges

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FL man arrested for making violent social media threats against Trump

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Nathaniel Sanders II, 32, is facing federal charges after allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former Attorney General Pam Bondi, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced Tuesday.

Sanders, who appeared in federal court Monday, allegedly sent numerous social media posts between January and April that threatened to kill the three leaders.

Sanders allegedly threatened to bomb the White House and mentioned first lady Melania Trump in social media posts while referencing the fact that he owned a gun, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida.

“Imma bomb the (expletive) White House,” he posted on X, according to the complaint.

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump bid farewell to Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on April 30, 2026.(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

“I don’t know what to do Melania, like, all I got is a gun. It’s the only thing I can use now is a gun,” Sanders said in a video posted to Instagram, per the complaint.

Another video allegedly targeted Rubio. “Like when I get my hands on him, I’m gonna hurt him. Simple as that,” Sanders said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio fixes his tie.(Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images)

“Threats against public officials are not political speech,” U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones said in a statement.

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“They are serious federal crimes that endanger public safety and the rule of law. The complaint alleges that this defendant repeatedly threatened to assassinate the President of the United States and other senior officials,” he added. “Those allegations will now be tested in court. Our Office will continue working with the U.S. Secret Service and our law enforcement partners to investigate threats, protect public officials, and ensure that those who violate federal law are held accountable.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Feb. 11.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)

The U.S. attorney’s office charged Sanders with threatening the president of the United States and transmitting threats in interstate commerce. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.

Investigations into his threats involve the U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Capitol Police, U.S. Diplomatic Security Service and Miami Beach Police Department.

“Making threats against the President of the United States is a federal crime, and we treat it with the seriousness it deserves every time,” Special Agent in Charge Michael Townsend of the U.S. Secret Service, Miami Field Office also said.

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“It does not matter where the threat is made or what platform is used, our agents will identify you, investigate you, and work alongside our federal and local partners to bring charges when appropriate. We remain relentless in our mission to protect the President and to act swiftly against anyone who puts others at risk.”

Sanders’ arrest was the result of a protected intelligence investigation which highlighted the efficacy of the Secret Service to identify threats “before they can make a plan,” a Secret Service spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital contacted the U.S. Attorney for Florida’s Southern District for additional comment.

U.S. to press allies to bolster counterterrorism efforts under new strategy

May 6, 2026 / 12:03 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington— U.S. counterterrorism officials will meet with international partners on Friday to ask how allies can boost efforts to combat terrorist threats, especially from Iran and in the Strait of Hormuz, a White House official said.

A new counterterrorism strategy, signed by President Trump on Tuesday, seeks to crack down on Islamist terror groups, drug cartels and violent domestic political groups.

Seb Gorka, the senior director for counterterrorism at the White House National Security Council, told reporters that the U.S. will be seeking more from allied countries that want to be viewed as “serious” nations.

“We have a very simple metric: if you want to be measured as a serious nation, whether it is protecting tankers in the Strait of Hormuz or whether it is working against jihadi threats in the Sahel of Africa, we expect more from you. The idea that there is one hyper-power in the world, America, and it will protect all from every threat, is untenable. We reject the concept of global police officer,” Gorka said.

“We will be discussing the new counterterrorism strategy and working together to say, ‘OK, how can you step up to the plate in ways which complement what we wish to achieve?’”

Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the President and senior director for counterterrorism, at the White House on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Gorka outlined the United States’ new 16-page strategy, saying it prioritizes drug cartels and Islamist terror groups, as well as violent political groups whose ideologies are “anti-American, radically pro-gender or anarchist, such as antifa.”

He declined to describe classified steps that will be taken, but said the administration will work to identify threats — and leaders and followers of violent or terrorist groups — and neutralize them by law enforcement efforts, kinetic means or by strangling their financial resources.

The strategy aims to incapacitate cartels until they can no longer bring drugs or trafficking victims into the U.S., Gorka said.

The administration will put pressure on the top five Islamist jihadi groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization, until they can no longer recruit terrorists, Gorka said. He said “stragglers” from ISIS in Syria and Iran have relocated to African nations, seeking “ungoverned space.”

The U.S. strategy also aims to cripple left-wing extremist efforts before innocent Christians and conservatives are killed, he said. It isn’t targeted at specific labeled groups, Gorka added, but targets anyone who thinks violence for political purposes is justified.

Gorka said: “We see a threat, we will respond to it, and we will crush it, whether it is the cartels, the jihadists, or violent left-wing extremists like antifa and like the transgender killers, the non-binary, the left-wing radicals who killed my friend Charlie Kirk.”

“We will not permit politically motivated violence in the United States from either side of the aisle, but the sad truth is the left has far more politically motivated assassinations or attempted assassinations, to its credit in recent years, not the right.”

Trump signs new counterterrorism strategy that focuses on hemispheric threats

2026-05-06 4:06 PM UTC / Reuters

By Steve Holland

May 6, 2026 4:06 PM UTC Updated 45 mins ago

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WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has signed a new national counterterrorism strategy that focuses in part ​on the “neutralization” of hemispheric threats and incapacitating cartel operations, top ‌White House adviser Sebastian Gorka said on Wednesday.

Gorka, the White House counterterrorism director, told reporters Trump signed the document on Tuesday “driven by the principle that America is our homeland and ​must be protected.”

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The United States has destroyed dozens of boats as ​part of what Washington has called a counternarcotics campaign linked ⁠to an operation that included the ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro this ​year.

“Our new counterterrorism strategy first prioritizes the neutralization of hemispheric terror threats by ​incapacitating cartel operations until these groups are incapable of bringing their drugs, their members and their trafficked victims into the United States,” Gorka said.

Within the U.S., Gorka said the ​strategy will also focus on identifying and neutralizing what he called “violent, secular political ​groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically transgender or anarchist, such as Antifa.”

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“We will use all the ‌tools ⁠constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent,” he ​said.

Gorka said U.S. counterterrorism ​officials will meet ⁠with international partners on Friday to ask how allies can increase efforts to combat terrorist threats, especially from Iran ​and in the Strait of Hormuz.

After the assassination in September ​of conservative ⁠activist Charlie Kirk, White House aides called for a coordinated effort against unnamed left-wing groups accused of promoting violence.

Gorka said the strategy would also focus on ⁠right-wing groups ​that foment violence.

He said the strategy also ​focuses on maintaining pressure on what he called the global jihadi movement, including the “targeting and destruction” of ​groups like al Qaeda.

(This story has been corrected to say ‘transgender,’ not ‘pro gender’, in paragraph 5)

Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis, Rod Nickel

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FBI searches business, other locations associated with Democratic Virginia state senator

2026-05-06T19:30:05.587Z / CNN

By Holmes Lybrand, Sunlen Serfaty

PUBLISHED May 6, 2026, 3:30 PM ET

FBI personnel enter a building in Portsmouth, Virginia, on Wednesday, May 6.

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FBI agents executed a search warrant Wednesday morning on Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas’ personal office, a marijuana shop she co-owns and other locations, according to a source familiar with the probe and news footage of the law enforcement actions.

Lucas, a heavy hitter for Democrats in the state and president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, has recently focused her attention on redrawing the state’s congressional maps, which could help deliver her party additional seats in the upcoming midterm elections.

An FBI spokesperson told CNN the warrant being executed in Lucas’ hometown of Portsmouth was signed by a federal judge but would not comment on the target or scope of the investigation.

CNN has reached out to Lucas for comment. Lucas told Fox News: “I don’t know what’s going on.”

Virginia Senate President pro tempore Louise Lucas listens to debate on the Senate floor, in Richmond, Virginia, on February 17.

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A person close to the state senator told CNN that federal agents were there when she arrived in the parking lot outside of her office, and they seized electronics and other items.

At least one marijuana dispensary, a shop near the senator’s office that she co-owns, was raided in connection with the search warrant.

Lucas, 82, has been an advocate of legalizing marijuana and has proposed using tax revenue from marijuana sales to help cover federal spending cuts that have affected Virginia under the Trump administration.

In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson for Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger acknowledged the raids but would not comment further.

“The Governor is aware of today’s law enforcement operation in Portsmouth,” the spokesperson said, ” In the absence of additional details, the Governor will not be commenting on a federal investigation at this time.”

Don Scott, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, said in a statement that “people should take this with a grain of salt and allow the facts to come out before jumping to conclusions” given the “politicization of this administration.”

US Rep. Bobby Scott, a Virginia Democrat, noted in a statement that the searches come two weeks after Lucas led the successful redistricting effort.

“While we await the full facts of the investigation, it must be acknowledged that this FBI raid occurs in the broader context of President Trump’s repeated abuse of the Department of Justice to target his perceived political opponents,” Scott said in the statement.

Following her redistricting victory, Lucas took to social media to troll President Donald Trump in a series of posts, including one in which she’s wearing boxing gloves.

US FAA head to face questions from lawmakers after agency cited in fatal air collision

2026-05-06 16:29:27 UTC / Reuters

By David Shepardson

May 6, 2026 4:29 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will face questions on Capitol Hill on May ​19 after a report found systemic failures by the agency led ‌to a devastating mid-air collision that killed 67 people last year.

The January 2025 collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ​was the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster in more than two decades. FAA ​Administrator Bryan Bedford will appear before a Senate aviation subcommittee to ⁠answer questions about the agency’s efforts to address a series of National Transportation Safety ​Board recommendations.

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The hearing comes as the House and Senate have passed competing bills to ​address air safety.

“Our aviation system is fragile, as demonstrated by the several close calls, and we cannot afford any delays in implementation of these safety standards,” said Republican Senator Jerry Moran, chair ​of the aviation subcommittee.

The FAA did not immediately comment.

The NTSB determined the accident ​was caused by the FAA’s decision to allow helicopters to fly near the airport with no ‌safeguards to ⁠separate them from airplanes and its failure to review data and act on recommendations to move helicopter traffic away from the airport.

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NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy rebuked the FAA, shedding light on serious communication, culture and safety issues surrounding the 26th busiest ​U.S. airport, which has ​the single busiest ⁠U.S. runway and is regularly used by members of Congress.

The NTSB made more than 30 recommendations to the FAA, citing a ​series of failures before the Washington crash.

Since 2021, there have ​been 15,200 ⁠air separation incidents near Reagan airport between commercial airplanes and helicopters, including 85 close-call events.

The NTSB found issues with how the FAA handles traffic at Reagan and that it ⁠rejected advice ​to add hot spots to a helicopter route ​chart. Homendy said the FAA also did not review the helicopter routes annually as required and had routes ​that were not designed to ensure proper separation.

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Feds charge Texas man who allegedly shot at Secret Service agent on National Mall

May 6, 2026 12:51 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington— The Justice Department on Wednesday charged a Texas man with assault and weapons offenses, after he allegedly fired his gun toward a Secret Service agent and wounded a bystander on the National Mall.

Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas, faces charges of assaulting federal officers with a dangerous weapon, using and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

The incident took place on May 4 near the Washington Monument, as the motorcade for Vice President JD Vance was departing the White House and passing through the area of 15th Street and Independence Avenue SW, which is heavily populated with tourists.

“We will prove this defendant carried an illegal firearm into the heart of Washington, D.C., opened fire at Secret Service officers near a crowded intersection, and shot an innocent bystander who was simply crossing the street with his family,” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement.

An affidavit filed by a Secret Service agent in federal court lays out the alleged details of the incident. The filing says a plainclothes agent spotted Marx walking along the sidewalk, “appearing to conceal a firearm on the right side of his body.”

Uniformed officers responded, and encountered Marx among a group of other pedestrians at an intersection, according to the affidavit. Still images from surveillance cameras included in the filing show three marked Secret Service vehicles pulling up to a crosswalk:

Images included in a Secret Service officer’s affidavit to support charges against Michael Marx. Justice Department

The affidavit says that as Secret Service officers approached Marx, he allegedly “reached into his waistband and produced a firearm while running across the street.” Once he crossed the street, the affidavit says, Marx “turned and fired his firearm in the direction” of a Secret Service officer while a civilian witness was behind the officer. That shot hit the unnamed witness in the leg, according to the affidavit.

An image included in a Secret Service agent’s affidavit to support federal charges against Michael Marx. Justice Department

The Secret Service officer returned fire, charging documents allege, hitting Marx in the “hand, left arm, and upper abdomen.”

While Marx was being transported to the hospital, the affidavit alleges that he “made a statement to the effect of ‘F**k the White House’ and ‘Kill me, kill me, kill me.’”

The charging document says Marx did not have a license to carry a gun in D.C. and was previously convicted of drug trafficking in Florida in 2011.

There was not a future court appearance listed on public court dockets as of Wednesday afternoon.

Obama branded ‘classless moron’ for AG jab at Trump as ‘wingman’ comments resurface

May 6, 2026 2:38pm EDT / Fox News

Obama told Colbert the attorney general is ‘the people’s lawyer’ and not ‘the president’s consiglieri’

By Charles Creitz

Former President Barack Obama laughed as he took multiple veiled digs at President Donald Trump during an interview with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.

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The White House called former President Barack Obama “a classless moron” suffering from “a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome” after Obama launched a thinly veiled criticism at President Donald Trump by saying a president should not direct the attorney general to prosecute individuals.

“He is a total disgrace for all the division he has sowed upon this country, and history will not judge him well,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said of the former president. “The only special interest guiding the Trump Administration’s decision-making is the best interest of the American people. Only pathetic trainwrecks like Stephen Colbert would waste their time interviewing one of the worst presidents in history on his failing show.”

Obama made the remark during an interview with “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert, who asked what restrictions should be placed on presidential power. Obama’s Tuesday appearance comes during the show’s final weeks.

“The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted,” Obama said. “The idea is that the attorney general is the people’s lawyer, it’s not the president’s consiglieri.”

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Former President Barack Obama sits down with late-night comedian Stephen Colbert on May 5, 2026.(CBS/TheLateShow)

“You can’t have a situation in which whoever’s in charge of the government starts using that to go after the political enemies and reward their friends, right?” Obama continued.

Obama discussed his relationship with Attorney General Eric Holder, who served in his administration for six years. He said he consulted with Holder regularly, but only on “broader policy issues.”

“That’s different than who do you charge, what case do you bring,” Obama said.

Trump supporters on social media criticized Obama’s comments, pointing to previous remarks by Holder describing their close relationship. In a 2013 radio interview with Tom Joyner, Holder described himself as Obama’s “wingman” when answering a question about his plans to leave the administration.

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Attorney General Eric Holder delivers remarks at the 103rd NAACP National Convention in Houston on July 10, 2012.(Michael Paulsen/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

“I’m still enjoying what I’m doing, there’s still work to be done.I’m still the president’s wingman, so I’m there with my boy.So we’ll see,” Holder said.

During Holder’s tenure as attorney general, he was held in contempt by the House for failing to produce documents related to an investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, an operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that led to Mexican drug cartels gaining access to illegal guns. Holder has previously faced scrutiny for opting against seeking criminal prosecution, but he was never accused of pursuing criminal charges on Obama’s behalf.

Obama’s remarks come as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche indicted former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly threatening the president’s life based on an Instagram post showing a seashell formation spelling out “86-47,” a reference to removing Trump from office. The latest charges follow the dismissal of charges brought against Comey by the Justice Department last year.

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Former FBI Director James Comey speaks at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics’ JFK Jr. Forum in Cambridge, Mass., on Feb. 24, 2020.(Charles Krupa/AP)

Aside from Comey, several of Trump’s other political foes have been indicted, including former national security advisor John Bolton and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The Justice Department had also opened criminal investigations into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

Trump posted a message on Truth Social in September directly addressed to former Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting that she prosecute several of his political foes.

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“Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, ‘same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done,” Trump wrote. “What about Comey, Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, Leticia??? They’re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.”

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GOP chairman says Lutnick ‘wasn’t 100% truthful’ about Epstein ties as commerce secretary faces congressional investigators

2026-05-06 12:33 PM ET / CNN

By Annie Grayer

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick arrives for an interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel’s ongoing probe of late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 6.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick arrives for an interview with the House Oversight Committee as part of its Jeffrey Epstein probe, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 6.

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing questions from congressional investigators Wednesday about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein after revelations that his contact with the late convicted sex offender extended years beyond what he initially claimed.

Lutnick is the highest-ranking Trump administration official prominently named in the Epstein files — outside of the president himself — and his appearance behind closed doors marks an extremely rare occurrence of a sitting Cabinet official testifying in a congressional probe. It underscores that the Epstein scandal still hangs over President Donald Trump and his administration, despite the president’s repeated efforts to move on from the saga.

The secretary is expected to face questions from the committee related to his multiple interactions with Epstein, including a 2012 visit to the financier’s infamous Caribbean island with his wife, nannies and children.

While Lutnick has faced calls for his resignation, the White House has so far expressed confidence in him. But the headache for the Trump administration won’t end with Lutnick’s appearance. The Republican-led panel is expected to question former Attorney General Pam Bondi later this month about her role in overseeing the release of the Epstein files, which has been mired in controversy.

Lutnick did not answer questions from reporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

House Oversight Chair James Comer told reporters ahead of the interview that he planned to ask Lutnick why his interactions with Epstein spanned years beyond his initial claims. Although Comer conceded that Lutnick was not forthcoming about the extent of his interactions with Epstein, the Republican chairman said judgment is up to the American people.

“We’re going to ask him all of these questions, and we’ll let the American people judge whether the credibility was damaged or not,” the Kentucky Republican said in a response to a question from CNN. “At the end of the day, I haven’t seen wrongdoing in the email correspondence, but he wasn’t 100% truthful with whether or not he had been on the island. So we’ll see.”

In October 2025, Lutnick told the New York Post in a podcast interview that he and his wife decided to cut off contact with Epstein in 2005 after the financier showed off a massage table and made suggestive comments while giving them a tour of his home. But the Epstein files revealed that the relationship between the two men, who lived as neighbors in New York City, went on much longer.

From email correspondence in 2011, a visit to Epstein’s island in 2012, investing in the same business venture in 2013, and corresponding about a neighborhood issue as late as 2018, Lutnick and Epstein kept in contact years after Lutnick claimed to have cut ties.

Beyond clarifying his own record with Epstein, Comer said Lutnick has useful testimony for the Republican-led panel given his visit to Epstein’s island.

“We haven’t talked to too many people that have admitted they’ve been on the island,” Comer told reporters.

Testifying in front of a different Senate committee in February, Lutnick confirmed that he and his family had lunch with Epstein on his Caribbean island in 2012 but insisted that the two did not have a relationship.

“I did have lunch with him, as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me, as were my four children and nannies,” Lutnick told the Senate committee at the time. “We had lunch on the island, that is true, for an hour, and we left with all of my children with my nannies and my wife. … I don’t recall why we did it.”

But the Commerce Secretary denied that he and Epstein had deeper ties.

“Of these millions and millions of documents, there may be 10 emails connecting me with him… over a 14 year period,” Lutnick told senators. “I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person.”

Lutnick is appearing voluntarily for the closed-door interview with the panel. While a transcript will be produced, the interview will not be videotaped, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Comer said Wednesday the panel has a precedent for not videotaping witnesses who testify voluntarily.

CNN’s Jeremy Herb, Adam Cancryn and Matt Egan contributed to this report.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro reelection campaign adds $3.6 million to war chest

May 6, 2026 / 1:02 PM EDT / CBS News

By Zak Hudak

Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s reelection campaign raised $3.6 million over five weeks, according to a senior Shapiro aide.

The haul, which came in between March 31 and May 5, boosted the campaign’s cash on hand to a massive $37 million, the aide said.

Treasurer Stacy Garrity, Shapiro’s presumptive Republican opponent, has not yet released her campaign’s fundraising numbers from the same period but Shapiro’s campaign outraised hers 10-to-1 over the first three months of the year, bringing in more than $10 million.

Shapiro currently holds the record for the most money raised in a Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, pulling in $68 million for the whole 2022 election. He told donors in January that he hopes to raise between $90 and $100 million in his reelection bid, according to Spotlight PA.

Conducting a statewide campaign in the Keystone State can run up costs, driven in large part by the expensive media markets surrounding Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Spending topped $110 million in Pennsylvania’s 2022 gubernatorial race.

Shapiro, a moderate, is considered a contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028. Former Vice President Kamala Harris vetted him as a potential running mate in 2024.

Shapiro has no primary opponents in the May 19 primary. Garrity is also running unopposed for the GOP nomination.

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Trump requests E Jean Carroll $83M judgment stay for pending Supreme Court action on presidential immunity

May 6, 2026 12:26pm EDT / Fox News

Carroll does not oppose the stay in lieu of $7.46 million for post-judgment interest

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President Donald Trump’s lawyers are requesting a stay of the $83.3 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case while he seeks Supreme Court review on the grounds of presidential immunity, according to a new filing late Tuesday night.

The Trump request for a stay is unopposed by Carroll’s legal team if Trump increases the bond by roughly $7.46 million to cover post-judgment interest on the original judgment that has been under appeal.

“This Court should now stay the mandate to allow President Trump to present important questions relating to, without limitation, Presidential immunity and the Westfall Act to the Supreme Court,” the filing from Trump’s presidential lawyer Justin Smith read.

“Carroll does not oppose this motion.”

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The Supreme Court is set to review President Donald Trump’s petition to consider the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case.(Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images; Alex Kent/Getty Images)

The Westfall Act is a federal law that protects government employees from being personally sued for common law torts like negligence or defamation committed while they were doing their jobs. Carroll originally sued for defamation in November 2019 during Trump’s first term.

Essentially, the referenced law acts as a legal “shield” by shifting the target of a lawsuit from an individual person to the United States government itself.

The 24-page filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit signals Trump’s intention to ask the Supreme Court to review where Trump is immune for this May 2023 judgment delivered as Trump was weighing another presidential primary run before 2024 and facing myriad legal cases under then-President Joe Biden.

SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP PETITION ON E JEAN CARROLL JUDGMENT

President Donald Trump is making the case he is immune or not liable for E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation case brought in November 2019 and the judgment brought down in May 2023.(Getty Images)

Trump’s lawyers argue there is a “reasonable probability” the Supreme Court will take the case and a “fair prospect” the justices will reverse the lower court. They point to a dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc in which three Second Circuit judges identified what Trump’s team describes as legal errors involving presidential immunity and the Westfall Act.

“Absent a stay, President Trump will suffer ongoing irreparable harm due to violation of his right to immunity from this defamation suit for his official statements as President of the United States of America,” Smith argued, adding Trump may face proceedings to execute on the $83.3 million judgment before the Supreme Court has reviewed the case.

“President Trump respectfully asks the Court to stay the mandate until the Supreme Court’s final disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari,” the filing stated.

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“There is a ‘fair prospect’ that the Supreme Court will reverse the Panel’s erroneous decisions that Presidential immunity and the Westfall Act were both waived,” Trump’s lawyers continued. “Issuing the mandate and permitting lower court proceedings to move forward during Supreme Court review of these significant questions would ‘eviscerate the immunity [the Supreme Court has] recognized,’ as well as create a likely inability to recover funds if the Supreme Court reverses, as it should.”

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The motion was filed Tuesday by Smith of the James Otis Law Group.

Smith was nominated by Trump to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit in early March, and the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on his nomination April 15.

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