Former President Donald Trump contacted Senator Tim Scott on Friday after the South Carolina Republican publicly condemned a reposted video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, according to sources familiar with the call. Trump reportedly told Scott, the Senate's lone Black Republican, that the repost was a staffer's mistake and that he would take it down. The post was removed shortly after the call.
The call came after Scott took to X, formerly Twitter, to express his disapproval of the video. He stated he was "praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House," and urged the president to remove it, according to CBS News. Scott is also the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
In other news, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S., finding that federal immigration agents used "lies, deception, and coercion" to remove them, ABC News reported. The families were originally separated at the southern border during the first Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" policy. They were supposed to be protected under a 2023 settlement granting them temporary legal status and a path to reunification, but they were deported last summer.
Meanwhile, Representative Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, introduced the Homeland Threat Response Act in January, which would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the deployment and assistance of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel for investigations of certain violent acts, shootings, and mass killings, and for other purposes, including big events, according to Fox News. He cited BORTAC (Border Patrol Tactical Unit) and BORSTAR (Border Patrol Search and Rescue) as examples of units that could be utilized.
In other developments, former ESPN broadcaster Sage Steele commented on the upcoming Super Bowl LX halftime show, criticizing headliner Bad Bunny. Steele said her issue with Bad Bunny’s performance had nothing to do with him being from Puerto Rico, but that he had led "with hate" since being announced as the music headliner, according to Fox News.
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