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August 13th, 2026: Nick Reiner's Indictment, Karoline Leavitt Is Really Leaving Now And Peeing · The Daily Sarcast

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  insert theme song here this is the daily star cast i give you the news and maybe
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  a laugh i'm lindsey vernick and today is august 13 20 20 20 20 26
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  do as soon as possible so you can get the date you want.
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  And if you're even considering it at all, just do it. Why not? It's all just for fun.
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  In real news, Nick Reiner, the son of director Rob Reiner, and his wife Michelle,
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  has officially been indicted in the deaths of his parents.
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  The indictment was actually handed down July 20th, but it was unsealed yesterday.
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  So we're now just getting more details about what the prosecutors are saying.
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  Reiner is charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
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  But here's like the really scary part. The prosecutors are saying that he was
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  lying in wait before he murdered his parents.
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  That means that this was deliberate and not just like a family argument that
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  got super out of control.
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  The indictment also says that a knife was used. Reiner said he was not guilty
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  and remains in custody without bail.
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  Prosecutors have not decided yet whether they will seek the death penalty.
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  And there's still a huge unanswered question. the motive.
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  Authorities haven't publicly laid out what they believe led to the killings,
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  although there have been reports about an argument between Nick and his father
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  Rob at a Christmas party the night before.
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  The next hearing is scheduled for September 15th. So unfortunately,
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  this is not a Hollywood plot twist, a dark comedy, or an extremely aggressive episode of Family Feud.
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  This is a real, real criminal case, and now it's officially moving towards a trial.
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  Okay, so Caroline Levitt is leaving the White House. Yes, again, this is non-adrealt.
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  The 28-year-old press secretary is stepping down at the end of August,
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  and Trump announced it yesterday on Truth Social.
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  The timing is crazy.
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  Caroline literally just came back from maternity leave.
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  She just had her second baby and then took a few months off and returned to
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  the briefing room in July, had one press briefing, and like literally five minutes
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  later, she's like, actually, I'm good. I think I just want to go home now.
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  She says that she wants to spend more time with her family and her young babies.
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  Trump says she's going to remain one of his top outside advisors because he
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  literally doesn't have that many more friends left, so he has to cling on to
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  her even though she's leaving.
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  Caroline Levitt became the youngest White House press secretary in history when
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  she took the job at 27, and she's been one of Trump's most biggest fans.
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  But here's where it gets interesting. Trump has not announced yet who's going to replace her,
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  which means right now at the White House, there's about like 47 people updating
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  their resumes and pretending they totally want to answer questions about tariffs at 9 a.m.
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  Let's see who gets the big promotion. Okay, sorry. And then like one more Trump
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  White House story for today.
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  So our amazing president appeared to be falling asleep during an Oval Office event this week.
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  And naturally, the internet responded like a group of people who should not be on the internet.
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  So standing behind Trump was a former White House staffer named Jamie Lee Franklin.
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  And people noticed that she kept touching her stomach while Trump's eyes were closing.
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  So, they obviously assumed that she was controlling him with a remote.
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  Yeah, okay. This conspiracy theory started circulating that Franklin had a button
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  hidden under her stomach that she could press whenever Trump started falling asleep.
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  They even gave her a name, The Zapper.
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  Also, I would also like to point out that nobody stopped and was like,
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  wait, she's probably just like touching her stomach.
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  Everyone just went straight to human remote control. Franklin and then got on
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  to respond to the theory on X and said, I'm just pregnant, you weirdos.
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  That's literally the perfect response, though, because she is in fact pregnant.
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  So yet again, the internet solved another mystery that did not exist.
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  And for the record, the White House has obviously repeatedly denied that Trump
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  is falling asleep in public events. Like, duh, he would never. Oh my god.
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  Trump himself has previously said that sometimes people just catch him blinking.
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  Like, everyone just needs to chill, right? in Lindsay Life.
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  I'm currently in the middle of the AA battery project of 2026.
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  I've had like a bunch of things that need batteries and I just never went around,
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  got around to buying batteries for it, even though I live in the middle of New
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  York City and there's AAA batteries, AA batteries literally everywhere, but I never bought them.
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  So I'm finally getting batteries into my Roku remote, my fly zapper,
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  and my portable speaker.
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  All of the places that I've peed on top of a closed toilet seat by accident,
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  and I always say, oh no, not again.
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  A hotel room I was only in for like 11 minutes, a friend's wedding,
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  a house I was about to film an HDTV show in, a restaurant in Brooklyn,
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  and Alec Baldwin's house.
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  Cooking tip of the day. While you're sauteing kale, throw a little garlic in there.
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