Former President Donald Trump faced condemnation from Republican lawmakers after sharing a video on social media that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The video, which was quickly removed, prompted criticism from within his own party, including Senator Tim Scott, who called it "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House."
The video, posted to Trump's Truth Social account, amplified false claims about the 2020 presidential election. According to CBS News, Trump claimed he only viewed the beginning of the video and did not see the offensive depiction of the Obamas. "I just looked at the first part," Trump said on Air Force One, adding that "somebody slipped" when posting the video.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially defended the video, but it was later removed. The incident sparked immediate backlash, with Senator Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, urging the president to remove the video. "Praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House," Scott wrote.
In other news, former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig was convicted of federal charges in an illegal sports gambling case. Puig, 35, faces up to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators. According to CBS News, Puig had initially agreed to plead guilty but later withdrew, claiming he "never should have agreed to plead guilty to a crime I did not commit."
Meanwhile, authorities are investigating a new message related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie. The FBI and the Pima County Sheriff's Department are inspecting the message for its authenticity, according to a social media post from the sheriff's department. Guthrie went missing last weekend, and authorities believe she was abducted from her Arizona home.
In a story of a different nature, a truck driver in Clifton Park, New York, spent decades creating a miniature replica of New York City. Starting in 2004 with a model of the RCA Building, Joe Macken expanded his project to encompass all of Manhattan and eventually the entire city. His creation, which now requires a storage facility due to its size, represents approximately one square mile of New York City per square.
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