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- The ‘Easy Way’ to Crush the Mainstream Media
The scandal that briefly made Brendan Carr a household name this fall was an outlier several times over. For one thing, FCC chairmen rarely make news. More than that, Carr usually knows better than to draw too much attention to himself. A seasoned bureaucrat, he has a knack for pulling the strings of power in ways that escape public scrutiny. But when he issued a mob-style threat over a Jimmy Kimmel monologue that Republicans didn’t like—“We can do this the easy way or the hard way”—he made the Trump administration’s appetite for censorship unignorable.Most of the administration’s efforts to manipulate the media up to that point had retained at least a patina of deniability. Here, by contrast, was an uncomplicated threat of government interference—one that prompted Disney, ABC’s parent company, to fall in line by suspending Kimmel’s show. This was too much even for some of the Trump administration’s biggest… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - Trump’s Don’t-Call-it-a-‘Day-After’ Plan for Venezuela
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his closest aides should consider reading up on Turkey. Some Trump administration officials are talking about exiling them there. Unless they agree to go to Russia. Or Azerbaijan. Or maybe Cuba. Giving Maduro and his confidants safe passage to another country is one idea aides to President Donald Trump are mulling as they consider what to do with Venezuela if they succeed in toppling the strongman, according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the discussions. Others are suggesting placing Maduro under arrest and putting him on trial in the U.S., a third person familiar with the talks told me. After all, the ongoing Trump military operation in the Caribbean isn’t officially about regime change in Venezuela. The administration says it’s fighting terrorist drug cartels in the region, and Maduro is already under U.S. indictment on drug charges (allegations he denies). Some… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - Admit It. Gavin Newsom Is the 2028 Front-runner.SAN FRANCISCO — No Democrat has had a better two years than Gavin Newsom and because of it, the California governor — a national figure since he was a 36-year-old boy mayor — has claimed a new title: front-runner. It’s easy to find Newsom naysayers. In fact, there may not be a modern political figure who was simultaneously so well-positioned to be his party’s nominee and so doubted by the smart set since, well, Joe Biden in 2020. So let’s not make the mistake of ignoring what’s in plain view and give the governor his due. By the old rules of Democratic nominations, Newsom fits neatly in the tradition of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama: younger, outsider candidates who could credibly run fresh campaigns against the Washington status quo of both parties while claiming enough insider credentials to reassure party mandarins who care about such things. The San… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- Four Simple Questions for Marjorie Taylor GreeneMarjorie Taylor Greene’s critics are starting to think they got her all wrong. “You are a very different person than I thought you were,” The View’s Sunny Hostin marveled last week, when the Georgia representative joined the show for a largely genial discussion. Recently, Greene has criticized the GOP’s shutdown strategy, lack of a plan to address health-care costs, and refusal to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. This turnabout has excited some liberals and media outlets, sometimes to the point of credulity.Greene sits on the potent House Oversight and Homeland Security Committees. She has openly entertained runs for higher office, including for governor and Senate, and was recently reported to be pursuing the presidency. (She denied it.) Yet watching the softball sit-downs with her on TV, one gets the sense that Greene is being treated as a curiosity rather than as one of the most powerful people in the country,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream
TAKOMA PARK, Maryland — In retrospect, it might have been unwise for Pete Buttigieg to put a speedometer on former President Joe Biden’s $5 billion plan to build electric vehicle charging stations. “You’re going to see them sprouting up very quickly around the country,” the then-Transportation secretary said four years ago in a Washington, D.C., suburb. They did not sprout up quickly. And Donald Trump made sure everyone knew it. He gleefully seized on the plodding pace of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program during the 2024 presidential campaign. In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he called the federal effort a “crazy electric Band-Aid” and a prime exhibit of Biden overreach and incompetence. “They spent $9 billion on eight chargers,” he said, “three of which didn’t work.” The numbers were typical Trump exaggerations — in fact, at the time it was more like 15 stations. But he… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - Epstein Returns at the Worst Time for TrumpSince his return to office, President Donald Trump has missed few chances to flex the power he wields over the nation’s most formidable institutions and its wealthiest people. So when the White House announced that Trump would host the latest in a series of dinners with top business executives, this time including JPMorgan Chase head Jamie Dimon and the chief executive of Nasdaq, reporters in the White House press pool prepared to watch Trump show off.Nope. Last night’s dinner was closed to the press. No reporter was even given a glance. And later, when the White House held a signing ceremony for the president to officially end the longest federal-government shutdown in history, the reporters present were quickly whisked out of the Oval Office. Today, too, he didn’t talk to the press after signing an executive order alongside the first lady in the East Room. The president, to be clear,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
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