16 JUN 26 SITREP

• The FBI disrupted an alleged domestic terror plot targeting the Freedom 250 UFC event held on the South Lawn of the White House on President Trump’s 80th birthday, an event attended by the President, Vice President JD Vance, several cabinet members, and more than 85,000 people in attendance.
• A Joint Terrorism Task Force affidavit identified a 19-year-old male named Tycen Proper as a potential mastermind; his father told authorities that Proper had recently met random individuals online through Signal chats, acquired camping gear, ballistic plates, a new shotgun, a rifle, extra magazines, plate carriers, and large quantities of ammunition, and planned to depart the weekend of June 13th to conduct what he called “missions.”
• Proper was transported by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office to a local hospital and admitted on the basis of homicidal ideations, after which the FBI was contacted; subsequent search warrants were executed, and investigators described the plot as involving up to 23 suspects who sought to use drones and snipers to push thousands of attendees into a designated kill zone as a second wave of attackers.
• Affidavit materials indicated the suspects expressed anti-capitalist grievances targeting millionaires and billionaires, held anti-Trump and anti-Republican views, and included individuals identified as Brian Roa and Michael Thomas from Southern California, with weapons reportedly purchased across multiple states including California, Nebraska, and Ohio.

• California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly claimed the Trump Justice Department was investigating him and his wife Jennifer Newsom because he was considering a presidential run; investigators and analysts reported the probe may have actually originated under the Biden DOJ out of the Sacramento office, predating the Trump administration’s involvement.
• The Newsoms were alleged to have operated a pay-to-play scheme through a network of interlocking entities, a 501(c)(3), a 501(c)(4), and a for-profit LLC, through which donations and state funds were solicited from entities with business before California’s state government, including the Federated Indians of Grattan Rancheria, which contributed $1 million to Newsom’s nonprofit between 2024 and 2025, as well as AT&T, Comcast, Kaiser Permanente, and PG&E, with funds allegedly flowing back to the governor’s family through salary and benefits.
• Jennifer Newsom’s for-profit company, Girls Club Entertainment, received approximately $3.8 million in IRS-documented payments since 2011 from the California Department of Education to produce films, including titles such as “Miss Representation” and “The Mask You Live In,” that were then shown in California K-12 schools and universities, with former DHS spokesperson and Fix California General Counsel Katie Zachariah characterizing the arrangement as the governor’s office using taxpayer dollars to fund his wife’s productions while embedding DEI content into the public school curriculum.
• Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff, was alleged to have funneled money into a dormant bank account belonging to Xavier Becerra, currently California’s front-runner gubernatorial candidate who denied knowledge of the arrangement; analysts noted the overlapping San Francisco donor networks shared by Newsom and Kamala Harris made the 2028 Democratic primary a potential factor in whether the party would cut Newsom loose as a liability.

• President Trump publicly criticized Israel today for its conduct in the war against Hezbollah, telling reporters the conflict has dragged on too long and resulted in too many civilian deaths, specifically objecting to Israeli strikes that level residential apartment buildings in pursuit of individual targets.
• Trump stated that if Israel cannot conduct operations without mass civilian casualties, Syria should take on the role of targeting Hezbollah, indicating he had urged Israeli officials to rely more heavily on regional partners rather than continuing the current large-scale military approach in Lebanon.
• Vice President JD Vance revealed that Israeli strikes in Beirut nearly derailed ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran that ultimately produced a peace agreement between Washington and Tehran, with administration officials growing concerned that Israeli operations in Lebanon were threatening to trigger a major Iranian missile retaliation and destabilize the broader diplomatic effort.
• Reports indicate Trump described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “f*cking crazy” during a phone call and expressed frustration over Israel’s continued military actions in Lebanon at a time when the administration was actively pursuing regional agreements, with the public remarks expected to be closely watched in Jerusalem and across the Middle East as the White House seeks to contain Hezbollah and prevent a wider regional war.