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- Fox Host Accuses Trump of ‘Fantastical Thinking’ on Iran
AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool Fox Business host Gerard Baker had pointed words for President Donald Trump after the president struck a hopeful note about the situation in the Middle East. Trump spent some of Wednesday taking a victory lap after coming to terms with Iran on a two-week ceasefire, though the U.S. and Iran are publicly at odds on some key points. Most notably, Iran said the ceasefire includes the cessation of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, though the U.S. disputes this. In response, Iran is continuing to restrict traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. On Wednesday morning, the president posted on Truth Social that the U.S. “will work closely with Iran”: The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP Baker, who has supported the war from the beginning, expressed discontent at Trump’s remarks, tweeting: This sort of fantastical thinking probably offers the clearest answer to the question: “Who won?” If you have to pretend that the US and a new Iran are now partners for peace and prosperity, you can’t think the actual outcome is a satisfactory one. Hours before Trump’s ceasefire announcement on Tuesday, the president fired off an unhinged post threatening the Iranians with destruction. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”The post Fox Host Accuses Trump of ‘Fantastical Thinking’ on Iran first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Elie Honig Shreds Trump DOJ’s ‘Bogus Argument’ That Pam Bondi Can’t Comp...
CNN’s Elie Honig shredded President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice for claiming that former Attorney General Pam Bondi does not need to comply with a subpoena to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein files. Honig joined guest host John King on Wednesday’s edition of The Source to discuss Bondi’s potential appearance before the House Oversight Committee in compliance with a March subpoena the committee issued, forcing Bondi to submit to scrutiny of her handling of the Epstein files. But after her firing last week over issues many believed stemmed from her conduct surrounding the files, a spokesman for the committee told MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane that the Department of Justice claimed the former attorney general would not be appearing for her April 14 deposition. “The Department of Justice has stated Pam Bondi will not appear on April 14 for a deposition since she is no longer Attorney General and was subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General,” the spokesman told MacFarlane on Wednesday. “The Committee will contact Pam Bondi’s personal counsel to discuss next steps regarding scheduling her deposition.” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) vowed that Bondi would still be compelled to testify, writing on social media that Bondi “cannot escape accountability simply because she no longer holds the office of Attorney General.” Honig echoed this view when discussing the situation with King, claiming that there was no legal basis for Bondi shirking her subpoena despite the DOJ’s claims that Bondi no longer needed to comply with the order after being removed from her post. Honig said: No, that’s a bogus argument, John. So here’s why: a subpoena is simply a command to a witness to provide relevant information, if they have any. As we sit here right now, former attorney general Pam Bondi has the exact same information that she had a week ago when she was still the sitting AG. Now, DOJ has come up with this distinction of, well, she’s not the AG anymore. Therefore, the subpoenas invalid. First of all, the subpoena is to Pam Bondi. It’s not to current occupant of the office. Second of all, if that subpoena meant whoever the current AG is, DOJ would be offering up Todd Blanche, which they’re not doing. And third of all, John, this committee has already subpoenaed several prior AGs, including Eric Holder, including Bill Barr, and including Merrick Garland. So, this remains valid. Watch above via CNN.The post Elie Honig Shreds Trump DOJ’s… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Senator Says GOP Silence on Trump’s ‘Genocide’ Post Shows ‘Just How Bank...Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) ripped his Republican colleagues on Wednesday night, noting their silence in response to a social media post by President Donald Trump. On Tuesday morning, the president threatened Iran on Truth Social, writing, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Hours later, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire, the details of which the parties do not agree on. Van Hollen, a staunch opponent of the war since it began on Feb. 28, appeared on MS NOW on Wednesday, where he slammed the GOP’s muted response to the post. “It says something about just how bankrupt the Republican Party has become under Donald Trump, that none of them said a peep,” the senator said. “And so the reality is, the only thing and the only thing they care about is not the fact that the president of the United States threatened massive war crimes and genocide. The only thing they care about is their own elections.” There was one Republican senator who spoke out publicly against Trump. “The President’s threat that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ cannot be excused away as an attempt to gain leverage in negotiations with Iran,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) tweeted. Van Hollen added that congressional Republicans must fear their constituents more than they fear the president. “But they have to understand and be more afraid of their constituents than they are of Donald Trump,” he said. “This has been an issue all along. You would think when it came to the president threatening to commit genocide that they would wake up and at least say, ‘This is outrageous.’ But again, the only thing that drives these guys is polls and the American people’s sentiment and whether they think they’re gonna win.” Watch above via MS NOW.The post Senator Says GOP Silence on Trump’s ‘Genocide’ Post Shows ‘Just How Bankrupt the Republican Party Has Become’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- ‘It’s My Show, Pal!’ Chris Cuomo Gives Bill O’Reilly an Earful for Telli...NewsNation host Chris Cuomo had strong words for Bill O’Reilly on Wednesday as the two traded blows over the extent of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. O’Reilly joined Cuomo to discuss President Donald Trump’s Tuesday announcement that he had agreed to a two-week pause of hostilities with Iran and how negotiations between the two countries might play out. The host asked O’Reilly about comments made by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a press conference on Wednesday, where the secretary claimed the U.S. knew the full extent of Iran’s uranium enrichment, leading to a heated exchange between the two as Cuomo argued that both Hegseth and O’Reilly had overestimated U.S. knowledge of the program. Read their exchange below: CUOMO: Hegseth saying we know exactly what they have. Israel doesn’t say they know exactly what they have. Obviously, there was a miscalculation during the initial campaign last summer, and the assessments were grossly exaggerated, if not outright deceptive, but they haven’t had any real monitoring in 5 years. O’RIELLY: No, but the director, Rafael Grossi, on March 22nd of this year, made it very clear that he believes the enriched uranium in Iran stands at 60%. So, why would you say that? He would say it be– CUOMO: Well, that’s not exactly what he said. He said they have 60– O’RIELLY: You want me, alright, I’ve got the quote right here. CUOMO: Yeah, me too. Yeah, me too. What’d you think? I’m just going to let you take it out of context? like you did on your show last night? Not here. Here we’re going to give you the context. The context is– O’RIELLY: No, I didn’t take it out of context on my show. CUOMO: Yeah, you did. O’RIELLY: No, you said– CUOMO: Yeah, you did. O’RIELLY: You said, quote, we don’t know what nuclear capabilities were. Grossi knows. Grossi knows. CUOMO: No, he doesn’t. O’RIELLY: So, who’s we? CUOMO: No, he doesn’t. No, he doesn’t. O’RIELLY: Oh, he doesn’t. CUOMO: Here’s what he said. He said that they have 60% enriched uranium. Why? Because Iran said they were going to do it after what they said was Irael hittign on of their enrichment facilities. They were never able to go in and verify it. “The weeks away idea, says Grossi, was a hypothetical that could be enriched further. However, he says, that is only one step in building a usable nuclear weapon that could take additional complex steps that… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- ‘I Can’t Believe You’re Saying These Words’: MS NOW Host Shocked When Gu...MS NOW’s Ali Velshi was shocked on Wednesday when former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes claimed President Donald Trump had “already committed a war crime.” Rhodes joined All In to discuss the U.S. war with Iran and the president’s Tuesday announcement of a two-week pause to hostilities. Velshi asked Rhodes if the ceasefire, which has already caused widespread confusion, was a genuine deal and what he thought of the President’s rhetoric during the conflict. “There’s nothing in modern American history anywhere near this,” said Rhodes. “He threatened to commit genocide. He threatened to wipe out a thousand-year-old civilization. He threatened to bomb civilian targets that have nothing to do with any military objectives. He threatened mass murder on an epic scale.” The president had previously threatened to bomb civilian targets in Iran, claiming that “a whole civilization will die,” if a deal with Iran was not reached by 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Rhodes claimed that, though the president did not follow through on his threat, which many saw as a potential war crime, the president had already overstepped the laws of war. “And what? Whether he ends up doing it or not, he’s already committed a war crime. And this will color the opinion of the United States for generations around the world,” said Rhodes. “There is no moral high ground anymore. He effectively cast the United States as acting like a rogue nation, led by an autocrat who doesn’t value any human life whatsoever. And those are pretty serious words. But that’s what he said. I mean, we all read the post. It wasn’t the first time. ” Velshi said he was surprised at Rhodes’ characterization of Trump and his rule over the country, claiming it was markedly different from his previous criticism of world leaders. “I can’t believe you’re saying these words,” said Vleshi. “I mean, we’ve all been critical of presidents and different leaders. This is different. This is not critical of. This is completely in a different space. Whether or not you believe that the United States should be the world’s policeman or be at the forefront of these discussions is entirely different from what we have now become.” Watch above via MS NOW.The post ‘I Can’t Believe You’re Saying These Words’: MS NOW Host Shocked When Guest Says Trump Has ‘Already Committed a War Crime’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- Fox’s Laura Ingraham Brawls With Republican Congressman: ‘Why Do You Come on...Fox’s Laura Ingraham brawled with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Wednesday in a lengthy, heated exchange over the congressman’s push to grant legal status to some undocumented immigrants. Lawler joined The Ingraham Angle to discuss the Dignity Act, his proposed legislation to allow undocumented immigrants who have resided in the U.S. for extended periods of time to live and work legally. Ingraham hammered the congressman repeatedly on the details of the bill, calling out Lawler’s comment that undocumented immigrants needed to be pulled “out of the shadows,” as the congressman tried to speak. She said: Congressman, I’m sorry to interrupt you, but you’ve got to stop using the cliches. This “in the shadows” line, I have been dealing with this for 25 years. I don’t know what shadows you are looking at, but they are not in the shadows. They’re working in restaurants, some are. Others are engaged in widespread fraud in California. But this idea that they’re already given amnesty. They’re not already given amnesty. Why do you come on television and say that? The two continued to speak over each other as the host pressed the congressman, asking if he’d read his own legislation. Ingraham then pressed Lawler on how the bill determined if an immigrant had been in the country long enough to qualify for the legislation, asking the congressman to “answer a simple question” for her viewers: LAWLER: I don’t want anyone getting a free pass here. INGRAHAM: It’s in the legislation. Have you read the legislation? LAWLER: If you have committed a crime– yes, I have, Laura. If you have committed a crime, you should be removed from the country, period. Number two, what we are trying to do is say if you have been in the country for more than five years, in other words, if you came here during Joe Biden’s administration, you don’t qualify. INGRAHAM: How do you determine that? LAWLER: You don’t qualify under this legislation. INGRAHAM: Congressman, all of this sounds great. Answer a simple question. LAWLER: It’s very clear. You have to be in the country before 2020. INGRAHAM: I’m a simple person. LAWLER: Yeah, you have to be in the country before 2020 so– INGRAHAM: How– alright. I’m a simple person. Please– all right. Please tell my audience because they are very smart, how does an immigration officer determine– millions and millions– determine continuous presence and tell me the considerations… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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