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New York Post
23-07-2025
- New York Post
Sicko Bryan Kohberger delivers grim 3 word response as he refuses to explain Idaho slaughter
Bryan Kohberger will keep his secrets. The sicko killer refused to speak during his sentencing, uttering only three words — despite demands from his victims' families and even President Trump to explain why he butchered the four roommates in Moscow, Idaho in 2022. This means the world may never know his motives. 3 Bryan Kohberger refused to speak when given the opportunity during his sentencing Wednesday. AP 'I respectfully decline,' was all Kohberger said when a Boise judge asked if he had any comments during the hearing Wednesday. Those were the most words the world has heard the convicted killer speak since his 2022 arrest – at his plea hearing earlier in July, he said nothing more than 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Guilty.' And during his sentencing, he said nothing beyond declining to speak. That cold comment came after nearly three hours of heart-wrenching victim impact statements from the friends and family of his four victims — Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20. Those statements moved numerous people in the courtroom to tears – the judge himself was seen wiping his nose at one point. Prosecutor Bill Thompson became emotional while speaking – but Kohberger remained cold as ice as he stared down the people whose lives he destroyed. Whether Kohberger would speak and explain his actions before he was sentenced was at the front of everyone's mind Wednesday. While a plea deal he accepted earlier in July landed him with four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, he was not required to offer a motive for the killings – and so far, no explanation has been revealed. The family of Goncalves was particularly outspoken about wants Kohberger to be made to explain himself, while Trump even weighed in with similar sentiments. 3 Kohberger murdered four university of Idaho students at their home in 2023. 'These were vicious murders, with so many questions left unanswered,' Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday. 'I hope the Judge makes Kohberger, at a minimum, explain why he did these horrible murders.' But Judge Steven Hippler said people begging for answers from Kohberger should think twice. He said trying to get the truth out of Kohberger played into his hands, allowing him to cling to the power that he clearly wants. And there's also no guarantee he'd tell the truth, either, the judge added. 'Even if I could force him to speak, which legally I cannot, how could anyone ever be assured that what he speaks is the truth?' Hippler said. 3 'I respectfully decline,' he said when the judge asked. AP 'Do we really believe after all this that he is capable of giving up the truth, or some piece of himself to help the people whose lives he destroyed in the first place?' He added that the killer's '15 minutes of fame' were now over. Hippler then handed down the sentences, and hit Kohberger with about $200,000 in restitution fines for the families of his victims.
New York Post
22-07-2025
- New York Post
Bryan Kohberger has one chance at his sentencing to give his victims' families relief — will he do it?
Bryan Kohberger will have a chance to speak at his sentencing on Wednesday — but will he answer the question everyone is asking? The sentence that will be handed down to Kohberger is certain: four lifetimes in prison without the possibility of parole or appeal. But it's still unclear whether Kohberger will explain why he butchered four University of Idaho students as they slept — and how he chose his victims. Prosecutors' deal with the failed criminology PhD student spares him the possibility of facing a firing squad — Idaho's prefered form of execution — and avoids a protracted trial. But the agreement made no stipulation that he must explain why he killed Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, in their off-campus house in November 2022. 3 Brian Kohberger plead guilty to the murders in July in exchange for life in prison instead of facing the death penalty. AP The murders attracted the attention of millions across the world, and observers — including even President Trump — are hoping that the judge compels Kohberger to reveal his true motive. 'These were vicious murders, with so many questions left unanswered,' President Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday, summing how many were left feeling after the three year headline-grabbing saga ended. 'While Life Imprisonment is tough, it's certainly better than receiving the Death Penalty but, before Sentencing, I hope the Judge makes Kohberger, at a minimum, explain why he did these horrible murders,' he added. The family members of the victims, too, want to know why he did it. Kernodle's father said he opposed the plea deal because it prevented all the evidence from coming out — and allowed Kohberger to keep his secrets about why he butchered the coeds with a Ka-Bar knife. Goncalves' family said they want, 'a full confession, full accountability, location of the murder weapon, confirmation the defendant acted alone, & the true facts of what happened that night.' 3 Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, were all killed in Idaho. And Goncalves' father has been particularly vocal about wanting Kohberger to make a full confession — claiming even that he had evidence indicating Kohberger might have been trying to act out twisted porn fetishes though the murders. 'People got so angry at what was happening in that courtroom that they would literally pick up their phone and call us and say, 'This is what's on Bryan's phone. This is what he was searching. This was sexually motivated,'' Steve Goncalves told NewsNation. 'Weird, weird porn fetishes, but two of the fetishes were in that room — drunk passed out girls and gagging girls,' he said, claiming the coroner who examined his daughter told him 'gag' marks were found on her. That contradicts what prosecutors said during the plea hearing where no motive was offered, though sexual assault was categorically ruled out. But Goncalves isn't the only one not buying that. Others think sex — or a lack thereof — might have directly driven Kohberger to kill. 3 The Moscow, Idaho, home where Kohberger murdered the four university students on November 13, 2022. Kai Eiselein 'The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy,' a new book from writers James Patterson and Vicky Ward, suggests Kohberger was an incel — involuntarily celibate — who stalked Mogen in a bizarre tribute to one of the so-called movement's most prominent figures, Elliot Rodger, who blamed his own murder-spree on a blonde coed named Maddy. Mogen's window was clearly visible from the road, the book pointed out, noting that Kohberger went straight to her room when he broke inside and speculating that targeting her may have been a nod to the incel-icon. And classmates from his Washington State University criminology program told the authors that Kohberger was cruel to women in class, and even openly expressed virulent disdain for them with language and ideas incels frequently use in their dark communities. During the plea hearing in July, prosecutors laid out in excruciating detail how Kohberger carried out the murders — turning off his phone ahead in an attempt to conceal his movements, driving to the students' Moscow home with a huge Ka-Bar knife and creeping inside, methodically moving through the rooms and stabbing his victims to death before fleeing — but no insight on his motivation was provided. Even if Kohberger remains silent about whatever his dark motives were during his sentencing, there is new hope that a picture of what drove him might emerge after a gag order sealing documents related to the case was finally lifted last week. That means that in the coming weeks and months, documents and evidence investigators and prosecutors used to convict Kohberger will finally come to light — and that maybe the world will finally know why he did it.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Ugly Truth About Trump's ‘Appalling' Hair: Biographer
Donald Trump's signature hairdo is all about grabbing maximum attention, author Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast this week. Wolff, author of a series of books about Trump in power, said the president viewed his hair as part of a wider strategy to stand out—including from Joe Biden on the 2024 campaign trail. 'He looks gray,' Wolff said of Biden. 'He's washed-out. You know, his hair is—what's left of it—is gray. The skin is gray. The suits are gray.' 'And Trump would point out, 'Look at him,'' he continued. ''Nobody even sees him. Everybody notices me.' Which is absolutely true. And side by side, you know, who do you notice? You notice this guy, this appalling-looking guy who is Donald Trump, and not just the relatively normal old man-looking guy that Biden was.' Wolff said Trump's entire appearance is 'by design.' 'He looks that way because he thinks that's an effective way to look,' he added. The White House did not immediately return a request for comment on the biographer's characterization. Wolff also referenced a passage from Stormy Daniels' book, where the porn star described a conversation she claims to have had with Trump about his locks during their alleged 2006 relationship. (Trump has denied any affair). In Full Disclosure, Daniels wrote that she asked Trump about his hairdo, and he admitted it was 'ridiculous.' Trump claimed that 'every celebrity stylist' had offered to fix it, but he declined, according to the 2019 book. 'Everybody talks about it,' Trump said, per Daniels. 'It's my thing. It's my trademark. Plus, if I let this person do it, it will just piss off all these other people. 'Well, why did you let him do it?' I know a lot of people who would kill to do it. The best. The best of the best.' Daniels' claims are backed up in part by an unexpected source: Seth Rogen. The actor, who appeared alongside her in Knocked Up (2007), says Daniels once told him about a bizarre exchange she claimed to have had with Trump about his hair. In the 2024 documentary Stormy, Rogen recalls Daniels saying that Trump believed his 'power' was tied to his hair, and that if he lost it, he'd lose his 'power and his stature.' 'And that's why, even though he knows it's ridiculous and... objectively not passing all the checkmarks you would want a head of hair to pass, to him that is preferable than cutting it off because he has, like, superstitions about it,' Rogen said. Wolff has been in Trump's firing line after claiming on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that the president's war on Harvard stems, at least in part, from a personal grudge over being rejected by the school. 'That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard,' Trump fumed on Truth Social Monday. 'I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He is upset because his book about me was a total 'BOMB.' Nobody wanted it, because his 'reporting' and reputation is so bad!' Wolff's most recent book, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, also drew an angry outburst from the president at the time of its release in February. Trump called the book a 'total FAKE JOB' and 'obviously fictitious.'
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Mocked For Punking Canada With More '51st State' Talk As Great North Goes To The Polls
As Canadians vote today in a national election dominated by Donald Trump and tariffs, POTUS this morning once again urged the Great North to join America, and oddly put himself on the ballot. While still silent on the fatal tragedy in Vancouver that saw 11 people killed and dozens injured as a car intentionally drove into a festival crowd, a typically factually challenged Trump took to his Truth Social Monday to urge Canadians to give up their sovereignty. More from Deadline How Trump's '51st State' Jibes Made Culture, Media & The CBC A Key Battleground For Canada's Future International Insider: Canada's Surprise Political Shift; Cannes Sidebars; Hollywood Contemplates Hungary Law '60 Minutes' Does Segment Explaining Departure Of Executive Producer Bill Owens: "Paramount Began To Supervise Our Content In New Ways" 'Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America,' the Republican wrote in a punctuation challenged post, using many of the terms and tropes he has brought up over our once closest ally since returning to power in January. Of course, being that Trump is neither the leader of the poll-leading incumbent Liberals nor the once MAGA friendly Conservatives, no one will actually be electing the convicted felon to anything in Canada anytime soon. Still, it's undeniable that Trump's threats against Canada and his erratic trade policy's hits on the country's economy has been the top issue in the five-week campaign. With the resignation of longtime Trump foil Justin Trudeau earlier this year and global banker Mark Carney taking on the PM job, the double-digit tariffs and annexation huffing and puffing flipped what looked like a slam dunk win for the Conservatives and their Trump-lite leader Pierre Poilievre into a surge of national unity and a likely fourth consecutive term for the once politically DOA Liberals. Rounding up immigrants and even American citizens, Trump may be deadly serious giving 40.1 million Canadians new USA passports. However, from hockey games, tourism drop-offs, and celebs like Ontario-born Neil Young and Mike Myers, Canadians have rejected the invite even as POTUS, VP JD Vance and minions like Secretary of State Marco Rubio push their takeover line. In fact, on what is a National Day of Mourning in Canada due to the horrific attack in Vancouver, Trump's post may have hobbled the mild 11th hour rise in the polls the Conservatives were experiencing. Today, as the only x-factor in Canada's election is if the Liberals will secure a clear majority of the 343 seats in Parliament or not, both Poilievre and PM Carney clapped back on Trump to stay on his side of the border. Carney may not have mentioned Trump by name Monday, but it was crystal clear who he was referring to with his 'independent future' remarks in a multitude of posts: The irony of Trump's bellicose 51st state insistence is that if Canada were to join America a Republican would almost certainly never be elected to the White House again for decades. Additionally, Democrats would hold solid majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Canada became part of the USA. Canada's population would automatically make it the most populous state in the union, guaranteeing more electoral votes than the 54 that current population leader California has. Like all states, regardless of size, an American integrated Canada would get two Senators, who would almost certainly be Democrats based on Canadian voting patterns, and a massive Congressional delegation of around 55 members, most of whom would likely be Democrats too. We should know the results of the Canadian election by the time polls close tonight at 7 pm PT in British Columbia. As voting hours are staggered across the second largest country in the world, the real indication could be clear much earlier as Ontario and Quebec vote. The two provinces have the overwhelming number of seats in Canada's national parliament. In a much larger turnout than past recent elections, with many expats in Canadian-heavy L.A. exercising their democratic rights, Elections Canada say over 7 million Canadians cast their ballots during an early voting period. Best of Deadline Streamer Subscription Prices And Tiers – Everything To Know As Prices Increase And Ads Abound 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Turns Canadian Election Into Weird Plea for Control
On Canada's Election Day, the leader of the United States urged the nation's neighbors to vote for an especially odd third option: choosing Donald J. Trump as their leader. 'Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st State of the United States of America,' Trump posted on Truth Social Monday. 'No more artificially drawn line from many years ago,' he continued, apparently referring to borders—an issue that he used in three elections to divide Americans while scapegoating immigration as the root cause of America's social disorder. 'Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!' 'America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!' he added. Trump has repeatedly claimed that Mexico's and Canada's trade deficits with the United States are 'subsidies,' rather than indicators that America's neighbors are purchasing more of its goods than they were selling in return. In 2023, that differential—or deficit—was nearly $41 billion with Canada and $162 billion with Mexico, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The president has also vastly overinflated the reality of the deficits, wrongly asserting that the U.S. is 'subsidizing' its neighbors to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars each. The obvious solution to that problem, per Trump, is to take Canada and its independence, folding it into his increasingly centralized government. But if Canada did enter the United States (hypothetically), it likely would not bode well for Trump's ongoing quest for power. An analysis by legal experts who spoke with The Washington Post found that the introduction of Canada into the U.S. government would be a 'nightmare' for Trump, adding an additional 53 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives—the vast majority of which would identify as Democrats. But the likelihood that Canada would allow itself to be annexed as an afterthought to U.S. dominance is practically zilch. Earlier this month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that his country's cozy relationship with the U.S. had come to an end, and that they would wean themselves off American products and services 'at speeds we haven't seen in generations.' 'Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over,' Carney said, shortly after replacing former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Canada's leader. 'The 80-year period when the United States embraced the mantle of global economic leadership, when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange of goods and services, is over.' Carney is facing off against conservative lawmaker Pierre Poilievre, who appears to have modeled himself on Trump, for the prime minister's office.
