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- American Soldiers Claim Pete Hegseth Downplayed Severity of Iran War Wounds
AP Photo/Omar Havana On Wednesday, CBS News reported that two American soldiers wounded in the Iran war say the Pentagon minimized the severity of their injuries, despite suffering shrapnel wounds, traumatic brain injuries, hearing and vision loss, and requiring months of recovery. As noted in the report, in March, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that “almost 90%” of the roughly 400 American service members wounded during the conflict with Iran suffered only minor injuries and had already returned to duty. Two of those soldiers and their families are now disputing that characterization, telling CBS News their injuries were far more severe than the military’s public descriptions suggested. Among them is Chief Warrant Officer Rodney Bearman, who was wounded on March 1 when an Iranian drone struck his workstation at Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait. According to CBS News, medical records show Bearman suffered shrapnel wounds, a concussion, hearing and vision loss, and lung damage. Despite those injuries, the Army classified him as “not seriously injured.” “That assessment is unacceptable,” his wife, Amy Bearman, told the outlet. Another survivor of the same attack, Sergeant First Class Cory Hicks, told CBS News that Army officials similarly minimized his condition after he suffered extensive shrapnel wounds requiring multiple emergency surgeries. “They said your husband was injured, he has a minor jaw injury, and he’s going to be returned to duty,” Hicks said his wife was told. Asked whether he believed military leaders attempted to soften the reality of the attack, Hicks responded, “Absolutely.” The Army rejected those allegations in a statement to CBS News. “The care and well-being of our Soldiers is of the highest priority,” an Army spokesperson said. “Any assertion that the Army seeks to downplay a soldier’s injuries is simply not true.” CBS noted that Hicks remains at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center nearly four months after the attack, where he is recovering from what he described as a “pretty severe” traumatic brain injury. Bearman, meanwhile, was later assigned to a soldier recovery unit closer to his family, where he continues to receive treatment.The post American Soldiers Claim Pete Hegseth Downplayed Severity of Iran War Wounds first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Maggie Haberman Says Trump Appears To Have Checked Out: ‘He’s Not Behaving L...
New York Times reporter and CNN commentator Maggie Haberman said President Donald Trump does not seem to care if Republicans retain control of Congress. Haberman and her Times colleague Jonathan Swan joined Wednesday’s edition of The Source on CNN, where they discussed their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. Host Kaitlan Collins pointed to one passage in the book in which the authors wrote, “To the extent that he still cared about polling at all, he is seeing far fewer polls than during his first term. His advisors knew he was not receptive to being briefed on harsh realities in his second term, unlike his first, he was willing to take breathtaking risks, risks that could throw not only his presidency but the Republican Party and the entire world into chaos and carnage. More than ever before as president, he was operating on pure gut instinct.” Collins asked Haberman, “Do you think that’s what he’s doing now. And do you think it matters if that gut instinct hurts Republicans who are on the ballot? “Yes, I do think that what we are seeing right now is very in line,” Haberman replied. “On the one hand, yes, it’s similar to what we saw in term one, just in terms of sort of a sense for his party and some of his own staff of being erratic, but is definitely consistent with trusting his gut more than ever.” Haberman went on to refer to a bipartisan housing bill Trump is refusing. On Wednesday, the president canceled a signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which aims to lower housing costs and increase the supply of homes. The president said his signing the legislation is contingent on the Senate passing the SAVE Act, a voter registration law. She said: We got our hands on some polling memos, some confidential polling memos inside the Trump team. And one was from December when his own pollster circulated a memo. And it was after Trump had done an affordability speech or what was supposed to be an affordability speech, where instead he called affordability a “con job” and started suggesting, again, Democrats were responsible for coming up with this term and that this was not fair to him, that it used the term, and I’m paraphrasing here, but it was that the White House and the… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Life Celebration for Peabo Bryson (pics and videow)
Family, friends, fellow artists, civic leaders and admirers gathered in Atlanta to celebrate Mr. Bryson’s extraordinary life, enduring legacy and the immeasurable impact his music has had on generations around the world. The service featured moving musical tributes from Grammy Award-winning singer Regina Belle, Grammy Award-winning gospel artist BeBe Winans, [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Sean Duffy Says Career-Focused Young People Are Following ‘Dumbest Advice That...During a Wednesday rally in Washington, D.C., to kick off President Donald Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair,’ Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that education and career-focused young people are following the “dumbest advice that they could ever get.” The ‘Great American State Fair’ will run for 16 days on the National Mall in D.C., meant to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. Wednesday’s rally will also feature an appearance from the president. Speaking to the crowd, Duffy said, “Modern culture has told our young people that they shouldn’t look for love. They shouldn’t have a family, they shouldn’t have kids. Instead, focus on their education, focus on their careers, focus on their bank accounts.” He continued: Have a free Saturday morning and go get a Venti latte with your friends at Starbucks. That will give them joy, is what culture has told them. This is the dumbest advice that they could ever get! What fills the human heart, what gives us purpose, we should look for love. Get married and have lots of kids. Right? It’s a lot of fun. Right? Best decision I made, I met Rachel [Campos-Duffy] on a reality TV show, like, 29 years ago. We’ve been married for 27 years. We’re good Catholics. We’re open to life. We have nine kids. Couldn’t have made a better decision in my life. Well, actually, she said yes to me, so she made a great decision for me in our life, which I’m very grateful for. But, the strength of our country is rooted in the strength of our families. So, to celebrate America 250, we should celebrate our American family. Also in his speech, Duffy celebrated the performances from “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” and Armed Forces choirs, calling them “way better than those libtards that canceled on us.” Watch the full clip above via C-SPAN.The post Sean Duffy Says Career-Focused Young People Are Following ‘Dumbest Advice That They Could Ever Get’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Trump Claims He’s ‘Doing a Big Investigation’ Into Oil Companies Over Gas ...While taking questions in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Donald Trump claimed he’s “doing a big investigation” into oil companies over high gas prices. Appearing alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Trump was asked by an unnamed reporter about his recent calls for a Department of Justice investigation into these high prices across the U.S., which many experts attribute to the president’s war with Iran. “It’s ExxonMobil, it’s Chevron, it’s, uh, Shell, it’s, uh, BP, it’s a lot of ’em,” the president said from the White House on Wednesday. “The gasoline, or the oil prices, have come down so much, and we are not seeing anything at the pump by comparison to what it should be. We should be, in my opinion, at $2.25 right now at the pump. And we’re higher than that, and we are doing a big investigation on it, yeah. They’re not reducing the prices commensurate with, uh, what’s happening.” On Tuesday evening, Trump posted to Truth Social to slam “the big oil companies.” “The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil,” he wrote. “Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being “gouged.” I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing! President DJT.” According to the American Automobile Association, the national average fell to $3.93 per gallon on Wednesday. Just one month ago, it was $4.51. Right before the start of the Iran war, it was $2.98. Michael Noel, a professor of economics at Texas Tech University, told TIME of Trump’s negotiations timeline, despite the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Iran, “Until the markets are certain that this is really over, then we should not expect to see crude prices go back to where they were, because they’re always going to price in a probability that this is all just talk and we go straight back to war again.” Watch the clip above via Fox News.The post Trump Claims He’s ‘Doing a Big Investigation’ Into Oil Companies Over Gas Prices first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Ashley and Brad Add Texas, North Dakota Affiliates
The Ashley andamp; Brad Show has expanded its affiliate roster with the addition of two new stations, KKHA-FM in Markham, TX, and KQYZ-FM (Q98) in Grand Forks, ND. The syndicated program continues to grow across North America, offering stations a flexible format that allows programmers to [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
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