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- Trump Threatens Iran: You Have 48 Hours to ‘FULLY OPEN’ Strait of Hormuz —...
President Donald Trump threatened Iran it must “FULLY OPEN” the Strait of Hormuz within the next 48 hours or else the United States military will “obliterate” the country’s power plants one-by-one. Trump warned Iran in a Truth Social post at 7:44 p.m. ET on Saturday. The president said: If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP His threat comes three weeks after joint U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Operation Epic Fury — as the war against Iran has been dubbed — has eliminated dozens of other leaders from Iran’s theocratic regime since then. The war has led to a huge drop in maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, with the BBC reporting traffic has plunged 95% in March. The pathway connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea typically has 138 ships passing through it each day, but that has dropped to about 100 ships since the war began. Oil prices have surged as a result in recent weeks. The price for a barrel of oil cost $98.09 when trading ended on Friday — up 47% since the day before the war started. Trump has suggested the war will be wrapping up soon, and Operation Epic Fury was clearly on his mind on Saturday, with the president skewering The New York Times reporter David Sanger for writing many of the war goals “remain unaccomplished.” “The United States has blown Iran off of the map, and yet their lightweight analyst, David Sanger, says that I haven’t met my own goals. Yes I have, and weeks ahead of schedule!” Trump posted on Truth Social. Watch The Big Weekend Show on Fox News discuss above.The post Trump Threatens Iran: You Have 48 Hours to ‘FULLY OPEN’ Strait of Hormuz — Or Else first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Ex-Republican Lawmaker Slams ‘Terrible’ GOP and Dem Questions at Markwayne M...Fox News contributor and former Republican lawmaker Jason Chaffetz ripped both Democrats and Republicans on Saturday for their uninspiring questions during Homeland Security secretary nominee Markwayne Mullin’s Senate confirmation hearing last week. “I gotta tell ya, I think it was an embarrassment for both the Democrats and Republicans,” Chaffetz vented while co-hosting The Big Weekend Show. “A terrible embarrassment.” Chaffetz said he hopes Mullin — who is currently serving as one of Oklahoma’s two Republican senators — replaces Kristi Noem as the next DHS secretary. But he said he was disappointed by the softball questions and comments made by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IO) and other lawmakers during Mullin’s hearing. “They didn’t ask him hard questions… It’s not this good old boys club!” Chaffetz said. The former Republican representative from Utah continued: The president of the United States was shot and there isn’t one person in the Secret Service demoted or fired. Are you kidding me? I would have [went] out there said ‘You’re going to be the next secretary — tell me how the president of the United States was shot and nobody got fired? In fact, the lead became the director of the Secret Service. The number one job of homeland security — protect the president of the United States. What are you going to do to protect the president of the United States?’ Didn’t ask him that question. His co-host Joey Jones agreed that the questioning was too soft. There were some noteworthy moments during the hearing, though, like when Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) pressed Mullin on who won the 2020 presidential election. And Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) got into it with Mullin at one point, saying he was not sure it was wise to have someone with “anger issues” running DHS. Paul was livid at Mullin for saying last month that he “completely” understood why Paul’s neighbor attacked him in 2017; Paul challenged Mullin to “tell it to my face, if that’s what you believe” on Wednesday. Chaffetz said it was clear the beef between the two men was “very personal.” Mullin could be confirmed next week as the next DHS secretary, after a Senate committee advanced his nomination on Thursday. Watch above via Fox News.The post Ex-Republican Lawmaker Slams ‘Terrible’ GOP and Dem Questions at Markwayne Mullin Hearing: ‘Are You Kidding Me?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Netanyahu Offers Prayers For The Injured After Iron Dome Fails And Ballistic Mis...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered prayers for the victims of Iranian missile strikes that got through the country’s Iron Dome security system and injured dozens of people on Saturday. Netanyahu posted to X in Hebrew, which was translated into English by Grok: “This is a very difficult evening in the campaign for our future. Just a short while ago, I spoke with the Mayor of Arad, Yair Maayan, and asked him to convey, on behalf of all Israeli citizens, our prayers for the peace of the injured,” Netanyahu wrote. “I have instructed the Director General of my office to provide all the necessary assistance together with all government ministries,” he wrote. “I strengthen the emergency and rescue forces operating in the field right now, and I call on everyone to heed the instructions of the Home Front Command.” Netanyahu added, “We are determined to continue to strike our enemies on all fronts.” זהו ערב קשה מאוד במערכה על עתידנו. לפני זמן קצר שוחחתי עם ראש עיריית ערד, יאיר מעיין, וביקשתי למסור בשם כל אזרחי ישראל את תפילותינו לשלום הפצועים. הנחתי את מנכ"לית משרדי להגיש את מלוא הסיוע הנדרש יחד עם כל משרדי הממשלה. אני מחזק את כוחות החירום וההצלה שפועלים כעת בשטח ואני קורא… — Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) March 21, 2026 Fox News’s Mike Tobin reported from Tel Aviv on the aftermath of the Iranian strikes. “Search and rescue is underway in Israel after a couple of large Iranian ballistic missiles got through air defenses and struck in populated areas,” Tobin said. “Two Iranian ballistic missiles with 1000-pound warheads each struck in the southern Israeli towns of Dimona and Arad. Both of them near the Dead Sea. Both of them near the Negev nuclear research facility.” Tobin continued: The International Atomic Energy Agency says they see no indication damage was done to the nuclear facility. There is significant damage to residential structures, at least 20 buildings in Dimona, upwards of 40 people injured. That includes a little boy with shrapnel wounds. In Arad, more than 60 are injured, including a 5-year-old girl. Arad is where they’re searching through the rubble for survivors who may be trapped. Now, proximity to the Negev nuclear research facility is relevant because, Iranian media claims, the missile strikes are retaliation for the U.S. hitting Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility. Natanz is Iran’s primary enrichment facility, it’s… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Rachel Maddow Parses The Facts of The Mueller Report: It ‘Should Have Been a P...MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow parsed out the facts of the 2019 Mueller report Saturday after The Weekend Primetime co-host Antonia Hylton claimed the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign has been “whitewashed” over the years. Maddow made a special appearance on the show to remember former special counsel Robert Mueller, who died Saturday at the age of 81. “Yeah, the findings are pretty simple, actually,” Maddow began. “And I think that part of the sort of political game that Mueller lost around the release of his findings was making it seem like it was complex or too too difficult to explain to somebody on the back of an envelope. But it was pretty simple.” Maddow continued: They found definite, absolutely conclusive evidence that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump become president, that the Trump campaign was aware of it and expected to benefit from it, and that they took steps to obstruct the investigation into it. There were more than two dozen people who were charged with felonies. They charged the Russians, they charged the Internet Research Agency. They charged multiple figures from the Russian government and intelligence services. They charged Trump’s campaign chairman, they charged Trump’s deputy campaign chairman. They charged Trump’s national security advisor. They charged a number of people who were associated with the campaign. And those findings that Russia helped, that Trump knew Russia was helping him, and that Trump tried to make sure that the investigation into it didn’t proceed unimpeded. “That should have been enough. And and it really wasn’t,” Maddow added. “And there was an important element of the way that Mueller drew his conclusions, which is that he basically said, ‘You know, under DOJ rules, we don’t charge sitting presidents. And if we can’t charge him, then I can’t really lay out the evidence against him either, because that would amount to an accusation that’s unfair to make because he’s not able to rebut it in court because we’re not going to bring him into court.’ But I think there were other ways to approach that that would have made it more clear to the American public.” Maddow added, “Robert Mueller got outplayed by Bill Barr, and that was the end of what should have been a showstopping, certainly presidency-stopping investigation with damning conclusions.” Watch the clip above via MS NOW.The post Rachel… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Trump Shreds ‘Lightweight’ New York Times Writer Who Questioned Operation Ep...
(Photo by Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto via AP) President Donald Trump went off on The New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger on Saturday evening, hours after Sanger wrote many of the goals tied to Operation Epic Fury “remain unaccomplished.” Trump responded by branding Sanger a “lightweight” and saying he was dead wrong about the U.S. war against Iran. “The United States has blown Iran off of the map, and yet their lightweight analyst, David Sanger, says that I haven’t met my own goals. Yes I have, and weeks ahead of schedule!” Trump posted on Truth Social. He continued, “Their leadership is gone, their navy and air force are dead, they have absolutely no defense, and they want to make a deal. I don’t! We are weeks ahead of schedule. Just like their incompetent Election coverage of me, The Failing New York Times always gets it wrong!” Trump’s shot at Sanger came shortly after the writer questioned the president’s remarks on the war winding down. Sanger wrote in The Times that Trump’s “messaging is inconsistent” on the war, and that “many of his war goals remain unaccomplished.” He called out a social media post from Trump on Friday where the president said “we are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East.” Sanger replied to that by writing: But his latest list of those objectives left out a few of his previous goals and watered down others. He made no mention of defeating the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which appears to remain in power, along with Mojtaba Khamenei, who has succeeded his father as supreme leader, though he has yet to be seen or heard in public. Mr. Trump also omitted any message to the Iranian people, whom he told only three weeks ago: “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. His article — and Trump’s response — comes three weeks after joint U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. U.S. and Israeli strikes have eliminated dozens of other Iranian leaders in the few weeks since then.The post Trump Shreds ‘Lightweight’ New York Times Writer Who Questioned Operation Epic Fury: US Has ‘Blown Iran Off of the Map!’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Rachel Maddow Declares Robert Mueller’s Death ‘The End of An Era’MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow eulogized former special counsel Robert Muller Saturday for his “propriety” and “nonpartisan competence” in the wake of his death at the age of 81. “There aren’t very many people for whom I would say this, but it is the end of an era,” Maddow said on The Weekend Primetime. “I mean, Robert Mueller is the last in a line of people that I don’t think we’ll ever see the likes of again. I mean, simply just the fact that we had an FBI director for 10 years — and and in his case, 12 years — the longest-serving FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover, after he was appointed during the George W. Bush administration, then extended by the Democratic president, who came after George W bush, who couldn’t have been more different than George W. Bush, Barack Obama.” Mueller is widely known as the special prosecutor who oversaw the investigation into accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and accusations of ties between Russia and Trump’s campaign. Prior to that, he served as the director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013. Maddow continued: There just aren’t very many figures like that in American public life anymore. There aren’t very many. And I don’t mean this in a sort of personal or mean way. But there aren’t many, like, lifelong, rock-ribbed Republican public officials who are most known for their propriety and their nonpartisan competence and willingness to rise above party and above, I think, personal intention. And so he he feels like he’s from an older time in our history. “There’s a reason on a day like this, we need to remind people what was in Mueller’s report, what were the results of his investigation,” Maddow added. “And that’s because of a failure on his part,” she continued. “That is because once his investigation and his report were concluded, he was just wildly outmaneuvered by a really serpentine attorney general named Bill Barr, who played really dirty pool when it came to the handling and release of the information from Mueller’s investigation. Mueller — I don’t know if he was blindsided by it or if he thought Barr was a good guy and would be a straight shooter on this — but Barr absolutely buried him in terms of in terms of the impact of of that report.” Watch the… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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