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The Daily Herold: 5/8/26 - UFO Files Are Here, Virginia Win & FBI Probes Senate Dems
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- Badlands Media
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- May 8, 2026
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- 3340
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Summary
Jon Herold comes in on a Friday ready to be amazed by the most anticipated document dump in history. The Trump administration released the first tranche of UAP and UFO files to the public, and Jon goes through them live: a grainy dot over Iraq, a slightly less grainy dot over Greece, a letter from a 1965 housewife in New Hampshire, and a document buried on page 53 that describes a directed energy mind control weapon used to induce fake UFO visions. Jon's verdict: same energy as the JFK files and the Epstein dump, with about the same amount of revelation. On more grounded news, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the Democrat-backed redistricting referendum that was going to hand them four House seats, which Jon calls a genuine win in a situation where wins are rare. The Federal Trade Court blocked Trump's global tariff plan, which is headed to SCOTUS. The FBI is now probing Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats for classified leaks after an NSA criminal referral connected to the Tulsi Gabbard Hezbollah smear. And Jon reads through the DOJ Brennan investigation story, calls it pre-indictment narrative positioning, and explains why weak charges getting brought before strong ones is still his biggest concern.