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Welcome to Screencaps, “America’s Best Daily Column,” as named by the readers. Screencaps, which publishes seven-days-a-week, is a mix of sports, pop culture, and emails from sane readers from around the world. This column isn’t for the coastal elites. Give us a week to steal your heart. Our track record is pretty good. Let’s have some fun.It’s like shooting fish in a barrel right now for this column. I was telling Mrs. Screencaps this week that there are days of the year I don’t like to take off work because the content is just so good. Those days include the holidays and Halloween.Why wouldn’t I take off the holidays? 1. It’s my column. I don’t feel like it’s fair to SeanJo to tell him to work the holidays when I started this column. 2. The content is always great. July 4? Are you kidding me? The content is off the charts. Christmas? Instagram models dump out all sorts of content. New Years? Having to work in the morning tends to prevent me from going to nuts the night before. Thanksgiving morning is one of the easiest editions of Screencaps to produce. People are in a good mood. They want to show me what they’re cooking.CARMEN ELECTRA OFFICIALLY KICKS OFF HALLOWEEN SEASON AT A GAS STATION, POSTGAME POLICE CHASE & BALL-SACAnd they’re dialed into the content because they’re not at work.As for Halloween, I literally get paid to report on Halloween costumes. After being told this week by some idiot emailer that I should retire, my resolve is stronger than ever. No, I won’t retire. I built this column into the greatest job on the Internet. You’d have to yank it out of my cold dead hands.Thank you to retired tennis star Genie Bouchard for kicking off the weekend with a Brit Brit tribute. Well done.📩 Email: joe.kinsey@outkick.comSend photos, stories, tips, rants—whatever you’ve got.📰 Screencaps Page:👉 Read the latest Screencaps– Jayson asks: A buddy of mine writes a mailbag column for a website. He said that occasionally, he will get emails from “psychos” who flip on him for not reading their questions. Have you ever received that kind of junk since starting Screencaps? If you do, do you answer them back, or simply ignore them?Kinsey: I’ve never had emailers turn heel because I wouldn’t publish their emails, but I’ve had guys who claimed to be fans and loyal readers who turned out to be total scumbags, especially after I left Busted Coverage and joined Clay Travis here at OutKick. There have been guys who felt like I should’ve given them freebies that brands used to send to me.As for a–hole emailers, I like when people write and snap on me. It’s great content. Typically, when I reply to their emails, the people disappear.WARREN SAPP GETS INTO CONFRONTATION WITH FLORIDA STATE FAN DURING TAILGATE, TIM MCGRAW’S BRONZER & DALE ARTA quick Google search reveals that Elizabethtown College was having revenue trouble in 2024 when the school cut 13 faculty members. You know what they didn’t cut? Women’s golf where members of the team are really killing it out on the links.• Legacy reader Jess in Alabama, who has been emailing longer than pretty much any other OutKick reader, says it’s just convenient: The guy who wrote in that only the elderly or disabled should get delivery groceries is forgetting the time in his life with babies. I can get off my lazy ass, but y’all don’t want to see that diaper blowout spill on the aisle next to your shoe or hear the tantrum that happens 1 out of 4 trips. I’ll let the grocery guy pick out a bag of potatoes or mustard or random stuff I grab off the shelf. Then I’ll find time to stock my own meat and fruit when I get a chance. And I am not complaining about my life. I’m very grateful. And very grateful not to ruin your pleasant experience at the grocery store.SUPERMARKET VOTED BEST GROCERY STORE IN AMERICA AS CUSTOMERS PRAISE MEAL KITS, VARIETY OF OFFERINGS• Louie in Savannah pushes back on Chris A.’s email: I have been following along with the grocery pick up debate the last few days and have to weigh in, especially after the comment about those that do it are lazy and park in the fire lane.We use it every week. We are quite able bodied, just busy as hell.BABY BOOMERS HATE 10 THINGS ABOUT TODAY’S GROCERY STORESMy wife is the “Food and Beverage Coordinator” in our home and we have been using the Kroger “Click list” just about every week since it became an option years ago. I imagine every store in different parts of the country have varying experiences but there are so many benefits for us to ordering online and picking it up. My wife just submitted ours and I’m picking it up on the way home from work tomorrow. I’ll be in the parking lot for no more that 15 minutes total. It’s very convenient and actually saves money. There is no impulse buying when you pick it up, only what you ordered. We also aren’t bringing our teen and pre-teen sons into the store who are suddenly starving (as always) and now want to throw everything they see into the cart and grab a sushi roll to devour while walking around. As an added bonus, once every two months or so, the store accidentally loads someone else’s partial order into the car and there is no way to tell until you get home. It is like a bonus mystery box. We always call to let them know but they always say to keep the items.Sure, there are issues with produce or other things sometimes but the customer service personnel are always nice and they will throw a $20 coupon into the next order for the inconvenience. Also, beer and wine purchases are allowed as well so that is one fewer stop while running errands.With as busy as we are in my house with jobs, school and sports, grocery pick up saves a ton of time!Everywhere is different I am sure but it’s a huge benefit for our house.• Voiceover Mike writes: To be honest, my wife will put in a weekly Target order, something of a holdover from Covid days, and I’m usually the one on pick-up duty. Do I feel a little emasculated, sitting next to soccer moms in their SUVs and Teslas waiting for their orders? Maybe a little. Will I let the Target order picker select produce for me? Nope. I hit the grocery store for that.If it were my choice, I’d wander the aisles, list in hand, and pick everything myself, but I’ve been relegated to pick-up duty. Keep up the great work, and never underestimate the importance of what you do for us.• Tom T. is fired up: Nice fall weather hare in VA. It’s a good day to shake my old man fist at the clouds.Chris A. really nailed it! Get off your lazy butt and go get your own damn groceries! Also, if you are under 40 and would like to one day own a home, get off your lazy butt and go get your own damn groceries, and then COOK your own damn food. I just do not get the allure of Door Dash, unless you have been drinking beer all day, because nobody should be drinking and driving in this day and age. Also, make your own damn coffee in the morning.I also LOVE the entitled losers who park in the fire lane while their spouse “runs” into the grocery store “for one thing”. I always give ‘em the hairy eyeball as I walk into the grocery store.• Bob in Cincy says: Our strategy for groceries is to leverage the Kroger pickup for staples such as canned good, frozen items and the like.  No veggies or fruits.  For those we go to Dorthy Lane or Fresh Thyme which are more expensive in general.  The online shopping is convenient I’ll admit, and less expensive than DL or FT.  It works well for us.• Joe in E. Tennessee checks in: What am I going to do with the twenty or so chip clips that are currently keeping my cereal fresh!?!? I’ll run out of room on my refrigerator!!!Kinsey: The Big Chip Clip lobbyists will not stand for these resealable bags. Just wait. Congress will intervene.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!• Darren in NE ATL shares: Had almost forgotten a fall golf memory. Late fall in the 90’s, with my dad, north of Dover, DE. Probably low 40’s. Pushed a drive near a lake into clumped grass. Got there and a slow moving, big ass snake was right at my ball. Seeing as my one true phobia is snakes, I took a stroke penalty for a lost ball, and ran the he’ll away.################SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTERThat is it this morning. What a morning it has been. Mrs. Screencaps, whose birthday is Sunday, has been sick on and off all week and she’s dealing with a sore back. It takes a village around here, that’s for sure. But, we made it through another week of life.Let’s go have a great Halloween, if you celebrate. I have one more morning to go. Tomorrow morning will be 13 straight editions of Screencaps before I get to turn off the alarm Sunday morning. Let’s finish strong.

A Trump-appointed judge was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination as part of an ongoing judicial misconduct investigation after she called a Latino attorney a “white savior” who was intimidated by “Black excellence” due to his “White mediocrity” during a hearing.U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas, who is Black and Native American, was temporarily removed from her docket by the Fifth Circuit Judicial Council earlier this month, following a May judicial-conduct complaint filed by attorney Ezra Young, whose permission to practice before Brown had previously been revoked.The complaint centered on Brown’s rhetoric toward Young during his appearance for a show-case hearing, in which he was facing sanctions over allegations from Brown that he shared sealed court filings online. Young represented a Black law professor who sued Southern Methodist University, alleging she was denied tenure because of discrimination. He joined the case in 2022 and appeared before Brown before the judge barred him from practicing in her courtroom.OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGE TORCHES TRUMP ADMIN IN LATEST COURTROOM SHOWDOWN, REFERS ATTORNEY FOR BAR REVIEWDuring the April hearing, Brown railed against Young, accusing him of “bullying” the black attorneys on the case.”You’re the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York,” Brown later said, according to the transcript obtained by Bloomberg.Brown repeatedly brought attention to Young’s skin color, calling him “white presenting” and “fair skinned” after Brown told her that he was a Latino.”I think what’s happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?,” Brown said. “You should write that down. I mean, you — I’m — you look like a White man, right?”She also called Young a “Chad” which she said is the male version of “Karen.””It’s someone who calls the manager when they don’t get their way. They stomp their foot when the rules are supposed to apply to them, right?” Brown said.OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGE WITH TIES TO ANTI-TRUMP CONSPIRACY THEORY HIT WITH MISCONDUCT COMPLAINTBrown also accused Young of sensationalizing the case after reading a news article that quoted his brief and referenced another law professor’s comparison of the Black professor’s treatment in the tenure dispute to a “lynching.””And so when I read a headline — a sensationalized, very racialized headline that says, ‘it’s like I’ve been lynched,’ and it’s literally got no connection to this case, I have to ask you, Mr. Social Media, Main Character Chad, White Hero, Savior, Loves to Help Black People Be An Ally, where the lynching in this case came from?” Brown said.The release of the April court hearing transcripts come as Brown shared with lawyers, judges and several media outlets via email of Young’s complaint and her response.Meanwhile, in a July 28 filing responding to Young’s complaint, Brown stood by her conduct.”I do not believe my demeanor was inappropriate at any time, especially during the candid conversations about race,” Brown wrote.”I take to heart the lessons I have learned from this experience and I ask the Chief Judge to weigh this candor, as well as my commitment to being mentored by senior judges with more experience in such situations when determining an appropriate disposition,” Brown wrote. “I realize the importance of public confidence in the judiciary and take to heart my role in fostering the public’s faith in it.”President Donald Trump appointed Brown to the federal court in Texas in March 2019. She is the first Black woman to serve in that court.

95-Year-Old Wall Street Law Firm Weil Gotshal Suddenly Lurches Towards Shutdown

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times,Weil, Gotshal & Manges is poised to close after a wave of senior partner departures and failed merger talks, bringing a potential end to a Wall Street law firm known for handling some of America’s highest-profile bankruptcies.”Following a careful review of strategic alternatives, the firm’s management committee has recommended to the partnership that the firm pursue an orderly wind-down,” a Weil spokesperson said in a statement to the Epoch Times on Thursday.”During the wind-down process over the coming months, the firm will continue serving clients with the dedication and excellence that have defined it since its founding and will remain committed to supporting its colleagues.”Partners are expected to vote on the recommendation in the coming days, the spokesperson said.A shutdown would represent a striking reversal for the 95-year-old firm.Weil represented Enron in its 2001 bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. history at the time.It served as chief debtors’ counsel in Lehman’s 2008 bankruptcy, which remains the largest Chapter 11 filing in U.S. history, involving approximately $630 billion in assets.The following year, Weil helped steer General Motors through a government-backed restructuring and sale of the automaker’s viable assets.As of 2025, Weil ranked 29th in The American Lawyer’s revenue rankings with approximately $2.1 billion in revenue. Its website lists approximately 1,200 lawyers in offices across the world.Those figures, however, did not protect it from the departure of prominent partners and their business relationships.Among the biggest losses Weil suffered over recent months was corporate department chair Michael Aiello, who left for Cravath, Swaine & Moore with five partners.Private equity partner Christopher Machera joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. David Avery-Gee, formerly a London co-managing partner at Weil, moved to Sullivan & Cromwell, where he now co-heads its European mergers and acquisitions practice.The failed merger talks with rival Willkie Farr & Gallagher dealt another blow. The combination would have created a firm generating more than $4 billion in annual revenue.The upheaval comes amid fierce competition for experienced lawyers in the market. BCG Attorney Search’s 2026 Legal Talent Movement Report recorded 3,009 lateral partner hires in 2025, the highest total in five years. Overall lateral hiring – recruiting lawyers from other employers – rose 15 percent, according to the report.Yet Weil’s troubles are unfolding against a broadly healthy market for legal services. Thomson Reuters Institute’s second-quarter report said demand remained strong enough to put 2026 on course for the strongest annual growth since 2021.Billing rates continued rising sharply, while productivity improved among the country’s 200 largest firms and contracted among midsize firms, according to Reuters.Consolidation in the legal market remains active. Consultancy Fairfax Associates tracked 58 completed law firm mergers through September, slightly down from 61 during the same period in 2025.The deals nevertheless include major combinations. Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft joined forces on July 1, bringing together firms with approximately 2,700 and 430 lawyers, respectively.Fairfax expects continued merger activity as firms seek greater scale, broader geographic reach, and stronger practices in an increasingly competitive market.
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The race for artificial intelligence (AI), or superintelligence, will be won not just by technology companies, but by the nation that can deliver reliable, affordable and secure electricity. America is in a high-stakes sprint to lead the world in AI. This technology will reshape our economy, strengthen national defense, transform manufacturing and determine which nations lead the next generation of innovation.But Washington and Silicon Valley cannot afford to ignore a glaring bottleneck: AI runs on electricity. America must dramatically expand its power generation and delivery infrastructure if it hopes to remain the global technology leader.Data centers are the backbone of this revolution. They require enormous amounts of electricity, reliable grid connections and specialized infrastructure. Without sufficient power, advanced AI systems are little more than expensive hardware waiting for a connection. This creates an immense opportunity for America’s electric utilities. For too long, utilities have been viewed simply as service providers. Today, they are strategic partners in America’s economic competitiveness and national security.THE AI REVOLUTION WILL GO WHEREVER THERE’S ELECTRICITY — AND CHINA KNOWS ITTo win the AI race, America must unleash domestic energy production, accelerate infrastructure development, defend against cyber threats and ensure that the private sector — not residential ratepayers — finances this expansion. This is a crucial opportunity for the administration, Congress, state governments and the private sector to coordinate an energy strategy that prioritizes American competitiveness.Electric utilities possess the engineering expertise and operational experience necessary to support data center expansion. They understand regional demand, transmission constraints and the complex mechanics of grid reliability. However, building the necessary infrastructure takes time; new generation facilities, transmission lines and substations often require years of planning, permitting and construction.FIRST DATA CENTER BILL CLEARS HOUSE AS BOTH PARTIES SCRAMBLE FOR ANSWERS ON AFFORDABILITYData center developers, meanwhile, want to move quickly to capitalize on the AI boom. To bridge this gap, utilities and developers must collaborate much earlier in the process, aligning construction schedules, forecasting demand and identifying necessary upfront investments. Washington can support this by streamlining permitting and reducing regulatory delays to provide long-term investment certainty.Crucially, data center developers must bear their fair share of the infrastructure costs driven by their massive electricity demands. Residential customers and small businesses should not subsidize infrastructure built primarily to serve trillion-dollar technology companies. Long-term power purchase agreements, dedicated infrastructure investments and minimum billing commitments can ensure large customers contribute appropriately. This is an argument for responsible, pro-business growth where financial risks are not shifted onto ordinary Americans.The White House’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge reinforces the principle that America can accelerate AI innovation without forcing ordinary Americans to subsidize Big Tech’s infrastructure demands. Electric utilities can benefit from increased electricity sales, long-term power contracts and investments in generation and grid infrastructure, provided data center developers pay their fair share of the costs.DATA CENTERS COULD BE THE SLEEPER ISSUE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONSTo protect consumers, we must require transparent cost allocation, enforceable commitments from large data center customers and safeguards preventing residential ratepayers from being left with stranded infrastructure costs if projects are delayed, scaled back or abandoned.America cannot achieve energy dominance if it cannot generate enough electricity to power its expanding economy. Meeting this challenge requires an “all-of-the-above” strategy that evaluates energy resources strictly based on reliability, affordability and availability.TRUMP ENERGY DEPARTMENT ISSUES EMERGENCY ORDER TO PREVENT BLACKOUTS ACROSS 13 STATES AMID UNUSUAL OCTOBER HEATNatural gas provides essential dispatchable generation, while nuclear energy offers dependable baseline power with low operational emissions. Hydroelectric power, wind, solar and battery storage all contribute where they make economic sense. Existing coal facilities also remain part of the equation where continued operation is economic and legally compliant.No single technology can solve every regional power challenge. Utilities need the flexibility to select the optimal resource mix for their customers. The objective is straightforward: build enough reliable generation and transmission capacity to meet rising demand without spiking energy prices. This is vital as data centers increasingly compete for power with manufacturers, hospitals, military bases and households. Energy abundance is a national security imperative.There is another critical threat that deserves far more attention: cybersecurity. The electric grid and digital infrastructure are deeply interconnected. Power disruptions halt essential computing services, while software incidents at technology providers can ripple back to affect critical infrastructure. Foreign adversaries and sophisticated cybercriminals understand these critical dependencies.Electric utilities operate vital infrastructure that must withstand attacks against corporate networks, industrial control systems and substations. Concurrently, data centers face distinct risks involving cloud platforms, software supply chains and third-party vendor access. These are interconnected risks that could have significant national security consequences.AN AI CYBERATTACK COULD TURN OFF AMERICA’S LIGHTS BEFORE WASHINGTON EVEN UNDERSTANDS WHYUtilities and data center operators must establish joint incident response plans, conduct realistic multisector exercises and develop secure mechanisms for sharing threat intelligence. Organizations should strengthen network segmentation, multi-factor authentication and vulnerability management. In particular, utilities must ensure that a compromise of ordinary corporate IT does not provide a path into operational technology controlling the grid. A stolen password should never become a gateway to disabling the power supply.Supply-chain security deserves equal focus. Hardware, software and remote maintenance arrangements can introduce vulnerabilities into both utility operations and data center environments. Companies must rigorously assess critical vendors and establish clear protocols for addressing compromised components.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWhile the federal government has an important role in providing actionable threat intelligence, cybersecurity must not become an excuse for expensive, rigid mandates. Security frameworks should remain risk-based, practical and focused on resilience.The relationship between utilities and data centers should not be one-way. With the right investments, large computing facilities can help improve grid flexibility. Some AI training workloads can be shifted to off-peak hours, allowing operators to reduce consumption during periods of high demand.Furthermore, battery storage and appropriately designed on-site generation can provide grid stability during emergencies, turning data centers into strategic assets that strengthen, rather than strain, America’s energy future.

For years, Democrats — especially “mainstream” (left-wing) reporters — have pretended President Trump persecutes the press. Their current silence is deafening after Democratic Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty just brought bogus and stunning felony charges against two conservative journalists, Cam Higby and James O’Keefe, for having the audacity to expose Minnesota’s woefully lax voter security protocols. In other words, Moriarty illegally charged two reporters for doing their jobs.Moriarty’s illegal felony charges against disfavored reporters for non-crimes crossed a glaring red line, and the Trump Justice Department must immediately and publicly open a civil rights criminal case against Moriarty and others for conspiring to violate and violating Higby and O’Keefe’s First Amendment constitutional rights, under 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242. If the evidence is there, which it seems obvious, Moriarty must face federal charges immediately. Anything short of this turns a blind eye to an extraordinarily dangerous open season on America’s free press.Every illegal vote, as a matter of basic arithmetic, disenfranchises a legal voter. Election integrity requires public confidence in the system’s security. Tina Peters faced nearly a decade in prison for revealing serious election flaws in Colorado until Democratic Gov. Jared Polis courageously commuted her sentence. Following Peters’ lead, Higby and O’Keefe set out to test Minnesota’s voting system for weaknesses. Higby wore a burqa and posed as a registered voter. He also vouched for a companion he said was registered as well. He filmed the exchange with poll workers to show his online audience just how vulnerable the system really is.COLORADO GOVERNOR COMMUTES TINA PETERS’ SENTENCE AS TRUMP POSTS ‘FREE TINA!’The video shows that Higby never had to present photo identification. His word alone cleared his companion, who also produced no ID. To be clear, neither cast a ballot. The exercise simply aimed to demonstrate, as Higby certainly did, how easily someone can manipulate Minnesota’s elections.The state’s U.S. Senate race between Republican Michele Tafoya and far-left Democrat Peggy Flanagan is tightening. The stakes are high: The race could decide control of the Senate chamber. Only lawful voters should cast ballots, and the law limits federal elections to American citizens.SLEEPER GOP CANDIDATE PUTS BLUE-LEANING STATE IN PLAY AS FRAUD SCANDAL SHADOWS DEMSWhat Higby and O’Keefe did was vintage investigative journalism, not voter fraud. The First Amendment guarantees a free press to protect this precise kind of work. If prosecutors can punish undercover journalism with felony charges, oversight by the Fourth Estate will dramatically diminish. Fear of prosecution and prison will chill would-be investigators whenever the powers-that-be dislike a story, such as one revealing insecure ballot safeguards.But Moriarty, a Democrat lawfare crusader, does not care about any of this. She only cares about getting plaudits from top Democrat brass — and power — at any and all costs, including imprisoning reporters.JONATHAN TURLEY: SUPREME COURT MUST TAKE HERRIDGE CASE AND PROTECT REPORTERS’ SOURCESMoriarty applies the law selectively. The case of Turning Point USA activist Savannah Hernandez proves it. Three agitators assaulted Hernandez in front of numerous witnesses and cameras captured the attack. Moriarty pursued only misdemeanor charges — a slap on the hand. Fortunately, federal prosecutors stepped in and filed felony charges against the three alleged attackers. Yet Moriarty now seeks to convict Higby and O’Keefe of serious crimes, though they attacked no one and neither voted illegally nor actually attempted to vote in the first place.Moriarty’s lawfare demands a federal response. Federal law, specifically 18 U.S.C. § 242, makes it a crime to willfully deprive anyone of constitutional rights under color of law. And 18 U.S.C. § 241 makes it a crime to conspire with others to do the same. Moriarty should go after fraudsters at the ballot box and those behind billions in bogus claims against Medicaid. Instead, she is hounding two journalists for doing their jobs: showing the public how dismal Minnesota’s election protections are.SOROS NETWORK REBUILDS PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTOR PUSH AFTER STRING OF ELECTION LOSSESHigby and O’Keefe should not face criminal charges. But Moriarty and her co-conspirators must. Indicting them would send a resounding message to Soros-backed and other leftist district attorneys across the nation: Lawfare will carry dire legal consequences. Prosecutors must meet the highest standards. After all, as the left intoned during the anti-Trump lawfare years, no one is above the law.CLICK FOR MORE FROM MIKE DAVIS

Kim Kardashian’s life is explored in a new book chronicling her meteoric rise to fame.In the new book, “Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future,” writer Jonathan Van Meter dove deep into the lives of the Kardashians, particularly Kim, and how she built her empire outside of reality TV.Through a series of interviews with members of the Kardashian family, including Kim, Khloe and Kourtney, as well as those close to the famous family, Van Meter discusses the biggest moments in her life, including her relationship with Kanye, the terrifying Paris robbery, her mother’s affair and her prison reform and advocacy work.Here are some of the biggest headlines from the book.In October 2017, Kim saw a video of Alice Marie Johnson in prison, in which she was pleading for clemency.She opened up in the book about how the video “changed my life,” saying she immediately reached out to Shawn Holley, who was a lawyer on O.J. Simpson’s defense team, asking “What can we do?”After learning the only way to get Johnson out of prison was a presidential pardon, Kim reached out to Ivanka Trump, who put her in touch with Jared Kushner. Kushner helped set up a meeting between Kardashian and President Trump, a move that raised concerns on both sides about the “optics,” according to the book.”Everyone was telling me, ‘Don’t go, your career will be over; you can’t step foot in there.’ And I was like, ‘It’s my reputation over someone’s life?’ Weigh that out,” Kim said in the book. “People talk s–t about me all day long. It will just be another story about me versus someone getting their life back.”A week after the meeting with President Trump, Kim was able to call Johnson and personally deliver the news that she had been granted clemency.”She started screaming on the phone. I was on the set of a Steven Klein shoot, practically nude, so I had to cover with a robe and make this call and tell her,” Kim said. “She packed her stuff—whatever she checked in with twenty two years prior—and was released immediately.”Kim’s experience advocating on behalf of Johnson was her first step on the path towards becoming a lawyer and furthering her advocacy work.She met with President Trump again, this time on behalf of a man who received a life sentence for a nonviolent crime. This time, she was accompanied by attorney Van Jones, who said he will “never forget walking into the West Wing with her.”While Jones felt as if “Every sentence I said made it worse,” he recalled Kim and the president discussing the case, including Kardashian’s response after Trump said, “This guy . . . let’s just be honest now. This is a tough guy.””Kim had memorized the case,” Jones said in the book. “She knew everything about the person. She told the president, ‘You can be the big guy; you can help a sick man.’ It was like watching a ballerina hypnotize a grizzly bear . . . her syllable-to-impact ratio is off the charts. What she can get done in a simple sentence!”Jones argued in the book that while some may resent Kim because “she represents somebody who already has it all” and is now trying to also “be successful in my field,” he says, “if you’re in jail, and you’re trying to get out, you’re not mad at Kim Kardashian.”KIM KARDASHIAN WOWS IN STRING BIKINI DURING PDA-FILLED BEACH TRIP WITH LEWIS HAMILTON”You have literally hundreds of thousands of people for whom the system is so broken that only when a Kim Kardashian steps in does she change the odds in their favor, even a little bit,” he said. “So you can be mad at Kim or you can be mad at the system that is so broken that it needs Kim.”Kim married rapper Kanye West in May 2014 and welcomed four children together, before filing for divorce in February 2021.Towards the end of their marriage, West began acting increasingly erratic as he dealt with ongoing mental health issues, and began speaking negatively about Kim and her family members. Kim expressed in the past that this led her to not feel safe around him, emotionally and physically.GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HEREDespite this, Kim told Van Meter she continues to “worry about him all day.””All the time. That’s the father of my kids, I’ll never not worry about him. And that’s a big burden of having kids with someone who you don’t necessarily get along with. My kids would never know that. I do everything in my power to forget about all the negative things that happened,” she said. “I have to be realistic, and my therapist definitely tells me, ‘Your boundaries have to go up,’ but we manage to coparent without too much conflict. It’s been pretty smooth for while. I guess because we don’t talk that much. But when we see each other, we give each other a hug.”She added that she not only encourages her children to have a relationship with their father, but also with his family, noting that whenever his family members are in town, she will invite them over for dinner and to spend time with her kids.Although he was acting erratic in public, Kim noted their children never saw him that way, adding, “that was such a blessing.””He would have a full episode, and the kids would never know because they would be almost a calming presence for him. So it was a fine balance of, like, how do we keep them around? Or: Is it go-time?” she said. “My whole household knows what a ‘lockdown’ means if I text it. Like, ‘We’re on lockdown.’ No TVs, just movies. No just plug in a phone for music in the car. Not even, like, XM, because they talk about current events in real time. like, they don’t have to be a party to this.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSKris Jenner’s marriage to Robert Kardashian ended in 1990 when she was caught having an affair with 23-year-old soccer player, Todd Waterman.In her own memoir, Jenner opened up about the affair, calling it “out of control, crazy, dangerous.” Van Meter writes that as time went on she got “reckless” and would openly host friends at her home along with Waterman, and even took six-year-old Khloe with her when she went on dates with him.PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE”We knew my mom was dating, because we would see it,” Kim said. “She introduced us to her boyfriend. He was ten years younger. He was kind of like a playboy.”Robert eventually confronted Jenner, and they came together to tell their children they were getting a divorce in January 1990.When reflecting on that day, Kim shared that “Kourtney had a hard time with it” and that “I didn’t really care.” Kourtney confirmed this saying, “I don’t think it affected her,” when asked about Kim’s reaction.”It was traumatic for me,” Kourtney told Van Meter. “I feel like the oldest child takes things the hardest. I see that with my own kids and my nieces and nephews.”When “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” aired its first episode in October 2007, audiences gained access to the Kardashian/Jenner clan in a way they previously never had.Prior to the release of the show, Kim appeared on “The Tyra Banks Show” in September, and after seeing her on the show, O.J. Simpson wasn’t too hopeful the show would be a success.While in Las Vegas getting ready to commit armed robbery to allegedly steal sports memorabilia he believed to be his, memorabilia dealer, Tom Riccio, who was in the room with him, recalled the former football star saying, “That’s my goddaughter! Her name is Kim!” and then added, “That show ain’t gonna last two weeks!”Of course the show ultimately went on to air on E! for over fourteen years and spawned eight spin-off shows. Their reality TV prowess continues on Hulu, as their new show, “The Kardashians” recently started its eighth season on the streamer.