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Teamsters President Sean O’Brien told Tucker Carlson in a Monday interview that Vice President Kamala Harris was arrogant and took support from organized labor for granted before her November election loss. O’Brien, who addressed the Republican National Convention in August, told Carlson on his X (formerly Twitter) show that Harris told his union to “get on board” and expressed to the former Fox News host, “Who does this fucking lady think she is?” First, O’Brien recalled to Carlson that before President Joe Biden and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped their presidential bids, his union asked both candidates and President-elect Donald Trump to answer questions Teamsters members were concerned about. Trump and Kennedy answered all 16 questions, while Biden replied to five of them, O’Brien said. After Harris was nominated as her party’s candidate, O’Brien shared an anecdote about the VP. The Teamsters boss said he sent one of… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Screenshot/CNN A Democratic Party strategist told The New York Times on Monday that her party’s brand was “in the toilet” with voters and that elected officials who were successful won their elections by charting their own paths. Times opinion contributing writer Frank Bruni hosted what the paper called a written online conversation. He was joined by podcaster Anat Shenker-Osorio, former Democratic congressman Tim Ryan, and Lis Smith – who was Pete Buttigeig’s 2020 senior campaign adviser. The quartet spoke in-depth about where Democrats go after an election in which they lost the White House and the Senate, and Republicans kept their slim House majority. Addressing Shenker-Osorio, Ryan, and Smith, Bruni noted President-elect Donald Trump was four weeks from being inaugurated for a second term and commented Democrats were attempting to find their footing. He asked, “In your opinion, what’s the one biggest reason behind — the key factor explaining —… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File The Wall Street Journal praised Republican senators who helped to tank President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for attorney general. The Journal published a Monday editorial, following the damning release of a House Ethics committee report on Gaetz, and argued that “by blocking him as AG, Senators helped the country—and Trump.” “Whether Donald Trump realizes it or not, Republicans did him a favor by making clear that former Rep. Matt Gaetz was unconfirmable as U.S. Attorney General. On Monday the House Ethics Committee released a 37-page report from its misconduct inquiry into Mr. Gaetz, which found “substantial evidence” of drug use, prostitution, and statutory rape,” wrote the Journal’s editorial board. The Murdoch-owned paper has also been critical of controversial Trump nominees Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, who are both seen as having a rocky road ahead in the confirmation process — despite… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa US via AP Images Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) does not believe that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will remain in his job by the time “DC gets warm again.” Paul made his bold prediction in his annual list of grievances he puts out every Festivus. “It’s that time of year again. Happy Festivus! I’ve got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you’re gonna hear about it,” wrote Paul on X, beginning his lengthy thread. Paul also published his annual report on government waste, “The Festivus Report 2024,” and highlighted what he sees as ridiculous spending. Jack Hunter at The American Conservative dug through the lengthy document and wrote: Paul’s 41-page list of stupid spending includes items like the Department of the Interior spending $12 million on a Las Vegas pickleball complex and the State Department giving away $4,840,082 to Ukrainian influencers. Or take this… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Far-right provocateur Candace Owens melted down on Monday and attacked the right-of-center, satirical website The Babylon Bee for an article aimed at her. Owens fuming at the website’s joke, led to its editor in chief doubling down and roasting critics online. The Bee published a piece on Sunday titled, “Candace Owens Horrified To Learn Christmas Was Started By Birth Of A Jew.” Owens exited the Daily Wire after feuding with Ben Shapiro over Israel and antisemitism and has made headlines throughout 2024 for her attacks on Jews, including claiming that a “small ring” of Jewish people in Hollywood and DC are involved in a “sinister” plot. She ended the year being labeled the “Antisemite of the Year” by a right-leaning watchdog group, which warned “There is no psychotic rabbit hole too extreme for this poisonous hater.” The Babylon Bee’s editor in chief Kyle Mann defended the article on X,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.