* Tucker: Smartest take on U.S. foreign policy ever caught on tape – ‘Why did America push for Ukraine to Join NATO?’ – Tucker Carlson, tuckercarlson.com

* Jeffrey Sachs with probably the smartest and most accurate assessment of the Ukraine war, and American foreign policy more broadly, ever caught on tape.

* Bragg’s team failed to prove Trump’s guilt in New York case, legal experts say – TheBlaze.com

* I Why are people talking about Dr Anthony Fauci’s emails? – BBC.

The over 3,000 pages of emails, were obtained by the Washington Post, Buzzfeed News and CNN through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, date from January to June 2020.

* Ramaswamy purchased a 7.7% stake consisting of 2.7 million shares in BuzzFeed between March 14 and May 21 at costs ranging from $1.47 to $2.51 per share, according to a May SEC filing.

* Vivek Ramaswamy used his recently purchased activist stake in BuzzFeed to urge the media outlet to issue an apology for what he referred to as repeated lies, according to a letter shared with the Daily Caller.

* Ramaswamy pushed the outlet in the letter to apologize and acknowledge to its audience that it “repeatedly lied on issues of national importance.

Address your audience directly and candidly admit: ‘We failed in our obligation to tell you the truth. By both omission and commission, we repeatedly lied on issues of national importance, and so did the rest of the media.

* Former FTX executive Ryan Salame received a prison sentence of 7.5 years – DOJ PR.

Salame and his co-conspirators’ more than 300 political donations, which totaled tens of millions of dollars, were illegal in part because some were paid using the cryptocurrency exchange’s customer funds, according to the press release.

* Salame’s involvement in two serious federal crimes undermined public trust in American elections and the integrity of the financial system.

* He contributed $27 million to Protect Our Future PAC and was its main backer in the 2022 midterm election cycle, according to OpenSecrets. The PAC spent $23 million to boost Democrats during the cycle.

* US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who Bill Clinton appointed, oversaw Trump’s E. Jean Carroll defamation case, where a jury in January found the former Elle Magazine writer should receive damages totaling $83.3M.