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JAMM: Snakes Not On A Plane — New Scoops And Fallout From The Catering Cart Caper Edition

The Plot Thickens

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Tommy Christopher
Aug 13, 2026
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Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a beautiful Thursday in America, and in the now-Leavitt-less Washington, DC. Let’s skip the warm-up and get into it!

Yeat Karoline (BAH BAH BAHHH): Trump and Karoline Leavitt announced her departure as press secretary in a pair of lovey-dovey social media posts on Wednesday afternoon. BUT…

Trouble On Marine One? Files: The CALL TO ACTIVISM Twitter account is circulating a zoomed clip from Marine One Tuesday night in which some kind of shit is going down between Trump, Leavitt, and omnipresent “Human Printer” Natalie Harp.

Hours later, Leavitt is gone. And this exchange followed the revelation that Leavitt was part of the Human Shield contingent in Trump’s catering cart heist. Harp was in the truck with Trump and Walt Nauta.

That Had To Hurt: This kinda puts that M1 video in a new light — “A source familiar with the matter told the Daily Mail that, in particular, 35-year-old Natalie Harp’s selection to ride safely with the president was a ‘no-brainer.’ …She was Trump’s first pick.’”

Stephen Miller Storms Away Angry: Perhaps unrelated or not, Miller was visibly perturbed as reporters hounded him about the heist as he scurried away from Pebble Beach after a TV hit. How do you suppose he felt about being on Flying Bullseye Force One?

Trump’s Favorite Photog Is Pissed: Legendary NYT photojournalist Doug Mills has not been charmed by Trump’s frequent gushing patter, and is now among the ranks of disgruntled human shields. This thing has legs.

New Bombshell On ‘Threat’ To Trump: Hours after we floated the idea, The Washington Post dropped the scoop that “U.S. intelligence officials were skeptical of an Iranian assassination threat against President Donald Trump that was relayed by Israel and prompted an extraordinary clandestine maneuver that saw him secretly fly out of Turkey in an alternate military aircraft.”

But their sources are sticking to the story that it was Secret Service that drove the plan to smuggle Trump — not Trump himself. We’ll see if that story holds up.

Victim-Blaming But It’s True: Jon Ossoff makes a devastating point about the Turkey debacle.

This is the same administration where Hegseth texted a national political reporter the classified details of impending U.S. Airstrikes If there was a threat, it's quite reasonable for the public and the congress to ask whether the poor operational security at this white house may have contributed to it

Speaking Of Turkey: Literally every Republican rolls with people who beat cops, but this is the new litmus test.

Insane Fox News Racism:

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