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- CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Hits Trump With Awkward Side-by-Side Package of King Cha...
CNN anchor and senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins hit President Donald Trump with a side-by-side package of “subtle rebuttals” by King Charles III and the relevant past statements from Trump. Trump hosted King Charles and Queen Camilla for a state visit to kick off the week, which included a speech before Congress and a State Dinner toast that at times seemed more like a roast. On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins introduced clips of the King’s speech paired with Trump quotes, and noted that “the King’s speech felt like a carefully crafted commentary on this administration”: KAITLAN COLLINS: The speech was warm and humorous at times, he got multiple rounds of applause. But it also had some polite yet pointed remarks. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KING CHARLES III: America’s words carry weight and meaning, as they have since Independence. The actions of this great nation matter even more. (END VIDEO CLIP) COLLINS: Now, as a head of state, not the head of government, the King is bound to remain politically neutral. But if you were listening closely, as he spoke today, there were some subtle rebuttals of comments made by this President. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KING CHARLES III: The commitment and expertise of the United States Armed Forces and its allies lie at the heart of NATO, pledged to each other’s defense, protecting our citizens and interests, keeping North Americans and Europeans safe from our common adversaries. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake. And I have long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us. So this is a — this was a great test, because we don’t need them. KING CHARLES III: Today, Mr. Speaker, that same, unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people. (APPLAUSE) KING CHARLES III: It is needed in order to secure a truly just and lasting peace. TRUMP: You got to be more thankful, because let me tell you, you don’t have the cards. With us, you have the cards. But without us, you don’t have any cards. KING CHARLES III: So as we look toward the next 250 years, we must also reflect on our shared responsibility to safeguard Nature, our most precious and irreplaceable asset. TRUMP: Climate change. It’s the greatest con job ever… [TheTopNews] Read More.57 mins ago - Trump Ally Stuns CNN’s Abby Phillip to Laughter Over Comey Case: ‘THAT’S t...Trump ally Joe Borelli drew a stunned laugh from CNN anchor Abby Phillip and her panel with his take on the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for posting a photograph of seashells forming the numerical phrase “86 47.” After the failures of revenge cases against Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James last year, news broke on Tuesday that a grand jury in North Carolina returned an indictment against Comey over an Instagram post that the Trump DOJ is claiming constituted a threat on President Donald Trump’s life. Legal experts from across the gamut deride the case as “weak” or even “fatally flawed.” On Tuesday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip hosted a panel that included Borelli, Chuck Rocha, Lydia Moynihan, Kmele Foster, and Elie Honig. Borelli elicited guffaws when he told Phillip the thing that he was “most sick” about regarding the case: ABBY PHILLIP: And to your point, back in 2021, Jack Posobiec, who recently even traveled with cabinet officials to Ukraine, he met with Zelenskyy as part of the U.S. delegation, he tweeted, 86, 46. That would be referring to Joe Biden. And there’s also another example of 86, 46 being used in the context of saying Kevin McCarthy doesn’t have a job. Ronna McDaniel doesn’t have a job. Mitch McConnell doesn’t have a job. Why are they doing this? And how is it not a waste of taxpayer energy and funds to be pursuing this kind of case against James Comey? JOE BORELLI: Well, let’s start with two things. The original case against him wasn’t dismissed on any merits. It was dismissed because the prosecutor was appointed improperly. So, we didn’t hear any evidence in that case beyond what that indictment said. There wasn’t an opportunity for discovery. There wasn’t evidence presented at trial. There wasn’t a jury verdict. All we had in that case was an indictment. Everything Elie said is true. The fact remains though that a jury of bona fide Americans, you know, formed and issued a true bill against Jim Comey for violating a specific statute, okay? I wasn’t there. I mean, you have the indictment. I don’t think you were at the trial. I don’t think you were part of James Comey’s questioning. I don’t think you were part of any evidence they gathered, so we don’t know what else they might have that might corroborate the intent, the willful intent… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ABC’s Jon Karl Reports Trump’s Allies Are Privately Trashing ‘Embarrassing...ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports that even allies of President Donald Trump consider the new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey to be “embarrassing.” Appearing on Good Morning America on Wednesday, Karl disputed the notion — which acting Attorney General Todd Blanche himself claimed in an interview that aired on CBS Wednesday morning — that Trump did not push for Comey to be indicted. “There is no doubt that this indictment was driven by the president himself,” Karl said. “Look, Donald Trump has made it clear for years that he wants to indict Jim Comey. As recently as three days ago, he suggested that Comey needed to be prosecuted — although he offered an entirely different reason. And Trump has put enormous pressure on the people who work for him to go after not just Comey, but a long list of his perceived political enemies. One of the main reasons that he fired Attorney General Pam Bondi is that he felt that she was not being aggressive enough in prosecuting those enemies, and Attorney General Todd Blanche knows that if he wants to be formally nominated as AG — right now he’s just the acting Attorney General — he needs to prove to President Trump that he will be more aggressive in prosecuting those enemies than Bondi was. And I can tell you this … shortly after that indictment was announced, Todd Blanche was at the White House meeting with senior White House officials.” GMA co-anchor George Stephanopoulos followed up by asking Karl to weigh in on where the Comey case goes from here. “The first indictment of James Comey was dismissed,” Stephanopoulos said. “Even lawyers close to the president, say that’s likely here as well.” “I’ve been talking to current and former prosecutors, federal prosecutors who are calling this the flimsiest federal indictment that they have ever seen,” Karl said. “Even Trump’s allies are privately calling it ’embarrassing,’ or as one very prominent former Trump DOJ official told me last night, ‘depressing.'” Karl added, “I have spoken to no serious lawyers who think these charges will result in a conviction. The near-universal view is that it will be thrown out before it gets to trial.” Watch above, via ABC.The post ABC’s Jon Karl Reports Trump’s Allies Are Privately Trashing ‘Embarrassing’ Comey Indictment first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘This is Not an Audition!’ Todd Blanche Bristles When Asked If He’s Prosec...Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche bristled as CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett pressed him on whether his new indictment brought against former FBI director James Comey was an “audition” to land the role permanently. At a presser on Tuesday, Blanche, alongside current FBI director Kash Patel, announced they’d be charging Comey with threatening the life of President Donald Trump over a social media post in which seashells were arranged to form the numbers “86 47.” The combination, prosecutors argue, is a coded threat to kill (“86”) the 47th president, Trump. The number “86” is commonly used in restaurant kitchens to mean discard or dispose of. Blanche appeared on CBS Mornings on Wednesday for a thorough grilling on the indictment by Garrett, who questioned the timing for and motivation behind the charges, including a dig at the temporary role Blanche is in and whether he was trying to win favor from the president in raising a case against Comey, who Trump has frequently criticized. “Critics of you and this administration, Mr. Blanche, have suggested this is an audition to become the nominee to be attorney general. Is it?” Garrett asked. “I don’t even know what that means,” Blanche hit back. He continued: We work hard every single day. The Department of Justice returns over 100 indictments across this country every single day, making this country safe. And so this narrative, this idea out there that somehow I’m auditioning?” “I’ve worked with President Trump for many, many years. I don’t audition for this job. I’ve been the deputy attorney general for over a year. OK?” he concluded. “This is not an audition.” Watch above via CBS.The post ‘This is Not an Audition!’ Todd Blanche Bristles When Asked If He’s Prosecuting Comey at Trump’s Direction and to Get Permanent AG Job first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- AG Blanche Snipes When Asked If Comey Case Is Being ‘Warped to Carry Out a Pol...Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked on CBS Mornings on Wednesday if the indictment against former FBI Director James Comey was genuinely “a serious case” or an unserious case “being warped to carry out a political agenda.” During an interview with Blanche about the Department of Justice’s indictment of Comey for allegedly threatening President Donald Trump on Instagram, CBS News’s chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett questioned: Mr. Blanche, you lived this history much more than I did, but I’m gonna paraphrase what you said about the hush money case that was brought in New York. You said at the time supposedly serious people were bringing unserious charges and warping the language and the facts and the law because there was a political imperative beyond that. Are you telling the American people this morning that this is a serious case and this is a serious set of charges and that laws and facts are not being warped to carry out a political agenda? Blanche shot back, “Look at the indictment! That’s not for me to decide, that’s for the American people to decide, and if you think– if anybody in this country thinks, especially given what happened over the past couple years with respect to President Trump, that it is okay for anybody to threaten the president of the United States, that it is okay to threaten the president of the United States and then have the media or others say, ‘Well, that’s not serious,’ then we have a bigger problem than I even imagined in this country.” “Of course it’s serious when you threaten the president of the United States, and anybody that tries to put forward some narrative that this is just about seashells or something to the contrary is missing the point,” the attorney general concluded. “You cannot threaten the president of the United States. That’s not my decision, that’s Congress’ decision in a law that they passed, and so yes, of course this is a serious case.” Comey was charged with threatening the life of the president this week over an Instagram photo he posted nearly one year ago. In the May 2025 Instagram post, Comey showed off a collection of seashells on a beach arranged to read, “86 47.” According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “86” is slang for “to throw out,” “to get rid of,” or “to refuse service to.” However, the… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- CBS’s Major Garrett Grills AG Blanche On Whether DOJ Will Charge MAGA Influenc...CBS’s chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett kicked off an interview with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday by asking him whether MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec could be prosecuted for the same threat that former FBI Director James Comey is currently being indicted for. Speaking to Blanche Wenesday on CBS Mornings, the day after Comey was charged over his “86 47” seashell Instagram post in 2025, Garrett began by asking Blanche about a similar post by Posobiec, which said “86 46.” The number 86 is commonly used in restaurant kitchens to mean discard or get rid of. In the Comey case, it has been interpreted by prosecutors as a threat against Donald Trump, the 47th president. “Let’s do a compare and contrast, Mr. Blanche,” Garrett told the AG. “In 2022, someone well known in right-wing circles, Jack Posobiec, posted on X, ‘8646.’ He did not take it down. Mr. Comey has done both of those things. The Biden Justice Department never prosecuted him. By the standard of that grand jury, Jack Posobiec should face charges as well. Will the Justice Department pursue that case, because they sound very similar?” “That’s just completely not true,” Blanche fired back. “That’s not how a grand jury does its work. They don’t just look at a single image and then say, ‘OK, yes, we’ll indict,’ or ‘OK, no, we won’t indict.’ They do an investigation. This conduct took place in May of last year, May 15. It has been almost a year. I assure you, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the U.S. Attorney’s office have not been sitting around doing nothing. They have been investigating. I have no idea whether there was an investigation into the other times that that post has been made and whether that investigation yielded different results. Blanche added: “This investigation that we undertook resulted in a two-count indictment. So you cannot compare, ‘Well, what happened last time?’ What happened this time, every investigation is different. You know that. The American people know that. A lot of factors going into whether someone should or should not be charged. The mere fact there’s a similar photo posted or similar statement made. That’s true every day. There’s comments made about President Trump, threats made against President Trump. Every one of those are not indicted. It depends on the facts of every case.” Shortly after the charges were filed on Tuesday,… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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