President Trump announced on Sunday that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event to take place at the White House will be held on June 14th, which is his 80th birthday. “And on June 14, next year, we’re going to have a big UFC fight at the White House, right at the White House on the grounds,” Trump said. Check it out: POTUS: "On June 14th, next year, we're gonna have a big @UFC fight at the White House." pic.twitter.com/23rtJvtaiB — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 5, 2025 More from The Hill: The Hill has reached out to the White House to confirm. UFC fighter Conor McGregor said Wednesday he would fight in the match-up. Last month, the White House confirmed to The Hill that the event would include fireworks and light shows, fighter weigh-ins at the Lincoln Memorial and fan activities spread across the National Mall. The UFC’s octagon cage will be erected on the White House south lawn to host the match, which Trump first teased in July. At UFC 320 on Saturday night, UFC CEO Dana White said when the company would start working on the card for the White House event. “Then in February, we’ll start looking at building the White House card, which I will right now tell you will be the greatest fight card ever assembled in the history of, at least, definitely this company,” White said, according to Fox News. | Donald Trump has officially announced that next year’s UFC White House event will be held on his 80th birthday, June 14th. This means the fight card will be held on a Sunday. pic.twitter.com/KWr1atz5Oq — MMA Orbit (@mma_orbit) October 6, 2025 Fox News shared further info: While White has addressed many questions about the first-of-its-kind destination, he said the idea is still in the preliminary stages. “We’re still talking about the production and how everything’s gonna work at the White House,” he said. “We have not started negotiating any fights for the White House yet.” UFC will move exclusively to Paramount in January after a $7.7 billion deal to leave ESPN, where it has aired for many years. White added that superstar fighters have been lobbying to be part of the White House card, though no negotiations have begun. Among them is Conor McGregor, but White tempered expectations for his long-awaited return to the octagon. “I made it clear Conor wants to fight on that card, and you can clearly see Conor is very fired up to fight on that card,” White said. “But nothing is done yet, and no fights are being negotiated with the White House.”

On Monday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin repeated his call for Democrat Jay Jones to exit the Virginia attorney general race. He told Fox News the resurfaced 2022 texts where Jones wished death on a rival and his children are “beyond belief.” “This is beyond disqualifying,” Youngkin said on “Fox & Friends.” “And that’s why the […] The post Democrat Candidate for VA AG Wished Death on His Opponents’ Children appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, under fire for three-year-old texts in which he advocated the assassination of a political opponent, found no support on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Host Mika Brzezinski brought up the topic, noting that the messages were so disturbing she hesitated to read them on air. Co-hosts Jonathan Lemire and John Heilemann appeared to share her sentiment, expressing similar discomfort with the content. WATCH: The DNC hacks over at Morning Joe are now calling for Jay Jones to get out of the race. The propaganda press is suddenly turning on Jones after being mum all weekend. https://t.co/3i4obiuWZG pic.twitter.com/ZBVGAC2SIQ — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 6, 2025 “[The] text messages, horrible, I didn’t even want to read them out loud,” Brzezinski began. “How did the — I’m wondering how the text messages came to light?” Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout!  “Deep — deeply disturbing messages,” Lemire agreed, immediately and repeatedly insisting that condemnation of Jones’ texts had come from both sides of the aisle. “Messages that have been swiftly condemned across the political aisle. The Republicans have tried to tie this to the — Congresswoman Spanberger, the gubernatorial candidate, she did very quickly denounce them.” Spanberger did issue a statement voicing her “disgust” over the messages, but she — and many other Democrats stopped short of calling on him to drop out of the race: “After learning of these comments earlier today, I spoke frankly with Jay about my disgust with what he had said and texted. I made clear to Jay that he must fully take responsibility for his words. What I have also made clear is that as a candidate — and the next Governor of our Commonwealth, I will always condemn violent language in our politics.” “But it’s unclear whether this attorney general candidate will stay in the race,” Lemire concluded. “I think there’s a growing sense that he probably should not. We heard from President Trump last night, but even some Democrat leaders, John Heilemann, have started to say, look, this is inappropriate, you can’t — and especially at a time right now with such concern about violent rhetoric and political violence — that this is just way beyond the line.” “Who says that?” Brzezinski interjected. Heilemann agreed with Lemire’s take, adding, “I would say, not to be too much on the high horse, it’s wildly inappropriate under any circumstances — today, tomorrow, ten years ago, six months ago — I think the pressure is going to be on Spanberger to — and for the whole of the party to ask this candidate to just quit the race because just — both because it’s the right thing and also the political splash back.”

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for her part in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted on three counts, including sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor. Despite the setback at the Supreme Court, Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said that “this fight isn’t over,” NBC News reported. In his appeal to the Supreme Court, Markus contended that Jeffrey Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement with the Southern District of Florida — which shielded him and his potential co-conspirators from federal charges — should also apply to one of Ghislaine Maxwell’s three counts prosecuted in New York. The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal. The Justice Department noted that Alex Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, would have needed authorization from his superiors for Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement to apply beyond that district. However, there is no evidence that such permission was obtained. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout Solicitor General D. John Sauer said that Maxwell’s argument was “incorrect,” adding that she failed to “show that it would succeed in any court of appeals,” The New York Times reported. Maxwell has been seeking any way to have her prison sentence shortened, including an appeal to President Donald Trump, since her sentencing in June 2022. Just days after Maxwell petitioned the Supreme Court, she agreed to be interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who asked the convicted sex trafficker numerous questions about Epstein and his associates. The interview was conducted in July, as the Trump administration continued to face backlash over its handling of the Epstein case. Blanche is a former personal attorney of President Trump. During her interview with Blanche, Maxwell stated that she had never seen any high-profile Epstein associates, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, engage in anything “inappropriate.” “I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way,” she said of Trump. “The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.” Along with the appeal to the Supreme Court, Maxwell’s lawyer also said that they were asking “the President himself to recognize how profoundly unjust it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes.” Trump told reporters in late July that “nobody’s approached me” about a pardon for Maxwell. “Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon but nobody’s approached me with it, nobody’s asked me about it,” said Trump, adding, “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I have not thought about.” One week after sitting down for the interview with the DOJ, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison in Texas.

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