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- Trump Booster Miranda Devine Warns President His Wartime Poll Numbers Are ‘Loo...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, noted on social media Thursday that the president’s poll numbers are cratering to the same kind of lows Joe Biden saw after his disastrous Afghanistan pullout. Trump has long attacked Biden over the Afghanistan pullout, and Devine’s comment is certain to hit the very poll-conscious Trump where it hurts. “Donald Trump’s polls since launching the Iran war are looking a lot like Joe Biden’s after his botched Afghanistan withdrawal,” wrote Devine on social media while posting two RealClearPolitics graphs. The first graph showed President Biden’s overall average approval rating and highlighted the August 2021 flip, where Biden’s numbers went from a net approval to a net disapproval – ending with a 57% to 39% disapproval rating as he left office. Screenshot The second graph showed President Trump’s overall average approval rating, which showed Trump going underwater early in his first term and currently at a 56% to 41% disapproval rating. Screenshot Devine, pointing out Trump’s worsening numbers, may be offering a kind of warning to the president, who has been a recent guest on her friendly podcast. Time Magazine reported on Thursday that Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is “concerned aides were giving the President a rose-colored view of how the war was being perceived domestically, telling Trump what he wanted to hear instead of what he needed to hear. She had urged colleagues, the officials say, to be ‘more forthright with the boss’ about the political and economic risks.”The post Trump Booster Miranda Devine Warns President His Wartime Poll Numbers Are ‘Looking a Lot Like’ Biden’s first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.18 mins ago - Leak-Wary Trump Pretended to Call Off Iran Attack in Front of White House Staffe...
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein President Donald Trump was reportedly so worried about leaks that he lied to staffers about calling off the operation in Iran. U.S. forces launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran on Feb. 28, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of other members of the country’s leadership. According to a Thursday report from Time, the president has privately been seeking an off-ramp from the conflict as his closest aides warn him of the mounting political fallout. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, for example, was concerned aides were “telling Trump what he wanted to hear instead of what he needed to hear” about how the American public felt about the war. She urged them, the report continued, to be “more forthright with the boss.” In the weeks before the attacks were carried, the president also became increasingly wear of leaks. Trump reportedly “exploded” at aides and fired off “a string of profanities” in response to a Feb. 17 report from The New York Times revealing the U.S. was preparing for military action in Iran. This led to him carrying out a number of precautionary headfakes The Time report continued: The President then told reporters he would decide on strikes within “10, 15 days,” although he knew the U.S. was planning to attack much sooner. “He was intentionally engaged in public misdirection to protect the mission,” a White House official says. Trump became wary enough of leaks that some of his own aides were the target of subterfuge. On Feb. 27, he traveled to Mar-a-Lago. Aides assembled in a makeshift Situation Room. Trump bristled at the number of people present. “He thought the group was too big,” one official recalls; it included people Trump didn’t recognize or didn’t feel he knew well enough. At one point, the President snapped that the operation was off. He said he would keep deliberating. This was another head fake: Trump had already made up his mind to attack that very night. Once the room cleared, he called back a smaller, trusted circle—those he wanted beside him as the first bombs fell. The report came a day after Trump gave an address to the nation stating that the U.S.’s military objectives were nearly complete. He vowed to continue attacking Iran for at least another two weeks and boasted that the country would be sent back to the “stone age.”The post Leak-Wary Trump Pretended… [TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago - Fox Hosts Crush Pam Bondi on Her Way Out the Door: She ‘Royally Fouled Up’ o...
Fox Business Network host Dagen McDowell delivered a punishing postscript on the tenure of former Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday In a pointed commentary on The Big Money Show, McDowell blasted Bondi — who was ousted from her post on Thursday — over her handling of the DOJ files on Jeffrey Epstein. “She, from the get-go, royally fouled up the release of the Jeffrey Epstein documents,” McDowell said. “And it was just such a rolling disaster all year, and was handled so poorly, that that was one of the biggest problems despite her obvious loyalty [to President Donald Trump] and her background.” McDowell’s colleague, Brian Brenberg, was critical in his assessment as well. “My sense watching that throughout was there were these big promises… of information,” Brenberg said. “And then it always seemed like it was a thud, a dud. Nothing happened. And people were like, ‘wait a second, we thought we were going to get transparency. It feels like we’re just getting obfuscation.'” Indeed, as Brenberg alluded to, figures across the political spectrum celebrated the attorney general’s dismissal. “Bondi handled the Epstein Files in a terrible manner and made this situation far worse than it had to be for President Trump,” said Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) in a post on X. “I look forward to a new Attorney General committed to getting justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.” Watch above, via Fox Business.The post Fox Hosts Crush Pam Bondi on Her Way Out the Door: She ‘Royally Fouled Up’ on Epstein From the ‘Get-Go’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.54 mins ago - Chip Roy Tells Fox News Pam Bondi’s Successor Must Be More ‘Aggressive’Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, reacted to the ouster of Pam Bondi as attorney general Thursday, telling Fox News Republicans want her successor to be more “aggressive.” President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Bondi would be leaving her post, with Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche stepping in as interim AG. Fox News’ Peter Doocy reported that he had spoken with the president and he had said he still liked Bondi and other White House sources emphasized there was “no bad blood;” in Trump’s post he referred to her as “a loyal friend.” Roy, who is currently in a runoff in the GOP primary for Texas Attorney General, appeared on Thursday’s episode of America Reports to discuss the latest news. Anchor Sandra Smith asked Roy for his reaction to the news, and he replied that the DOJ was “an agency that is near and dear to my heart, as a former United States attorney,” and he believed it was “critical that we have a great leader at the top of the Department of Justice.” Roy said that Bondi should be thanked for her service to the Trump administration, but “the next person who’s heading the Department of Justice has got to be aggressive,” adding that Republicans have “a limited period” with Trump in the White House and Republican majorities in the House and Senate, so they need “to be on offense for justice and accountability.” The congressman described his constituents as including “J-6ers, people that are looking at what are we doing about Antifa, and what they’re doing radically across this country to endanger us, open borders, the radical marxist networks,” and said there were “so many things we need to be doing and pursuing,” including the Arctic Frost investigation. “How many things do we have to see, before we see some heads roll, and we see some accountability?” Roy continued. “Everybody I talked to at home in Texas wants to see action — on the Epstein files, they want to see action, they want to see prosecutions, and that is, I think, the most important thing for that new head of the Department of Justice is we want to see action and accountability.” Anchor Benjamin Hall asked Roy if he thought Blanche or EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin — whose name has also been floated as a possible replacement for Bondi — would be able to… [TheTopNews] Read More.59 mins ago
- The 5 Most Insane Moments From Pam Bondi’s Whirlwind Tenure as Trump’s Attor...
AP Photo/Ben Curtis President Donald Trump‘s announcement regarding the ouster of his “loyal friend,” former attorney general Pam Bondi, has been met with overwhelmingly positive reactions among Republicans and Democrats alike. Bondi’s tenure was one filled with scrutiny and displeasure on all ends of the political spectrum, and rumors of Trump’s frustration with Bondi’s work have swirled for weeks, particularly related to her handling of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has insisted that Bondi must still testify before Congress, despite losing her AG position, declaring she “must answer for her mishandling” of the Epstein files. Here are the five most inane moments from Bondi’s 13-month tenure: 1. Bondi Tells Fox the Epstein Client List Is ‘Sitting On My Desk’ In February of 2025, Bondi told Fox News that Jeffrey Epstein’s client list was sitting on her desk and actively being reviewed. By July, Trump’s Department of Justice and FBI concluded Epstein did not have a “client list” and that there was no evidence he was blackmailing “prominent individuals,” directly contradicting Bondi’s claim that the information had been on her desk. “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” Bondi told Fox News. “That’s been a directive by President Trump. I’m reviewing that. I’m reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That’s all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies.” 2. Bondi Gives MAGA Influencers ‘Epstein Files Pt. 1’ Binders Bondi reportedly acted on her own without the White House’s knowledge when she gave a handful of MAGA influences a binder of documents from the Epstein files. According to a report, the influencers were invited to the White House so that the Trump administration could “engage influential pro-Trump voices who the president credits with aiding his 2024 campaign,” not to give them the documents. An ABC News report revealed: “Ahead of the Justice Department’s public release, Bondi directed her staff to compile binders of the materials to distribute to the influencers at the event, sources said. She also instructed her team not to inform White House officials of the plan, according to multiple sources, apparently thinking the surprise would be well received inside the West Wing.” 3. Bondi Angrily Tries to Shut Down Epstein Probe in Wild Cabinet Meeting During a July 8, 2025, Cabinet meeting, Bondi shut down… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Donald Trump’s Vendetta Factory’: Top Dem Torches Pam Bondi for Using DOJ...Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN’s Boris Sanchez Thursday that former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s tenure was “plainly a disaster.” “You know, people have been calling me saying, ‘You must feel great because she called you a washed-up loser lawyer during the hearing,'” Raskin said of their sparring during Bondi’s testimony before Congress last month. “I have no personal animus towards Pam Bondi,” Raskin continued. “And I understand she was a pretty good prosecutor in Florida, and I hope she can restore her reputation. But going all the way down the road with the corruption in the administration, I think is a career killer for a lot of people.” Sanchez asked Raskin what he made of the timing of Bondi’s departure, “in part because it was only yesterday that Bondi had summoned the head prosecutor overseeing an investigation into whether former CIA director John Brennan made false statements to Congress about a year’s old Intel assessment of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.” Sanchez continued, “Our reporting indicates that Bondi was trying to communicate to that prosecutor that she believed that he was slow walking that investigation and that she wanted to see some development in the case. Do you think that the fact that she’s been fired makes it more likely that we’ll see similar prosecutions in the near future?” “Well, that’s what I’m afraid of,” Raskin answered. “You know, she turned the Department of Justice into Donald Trump’s vendetta factory.” Raskin said it didn’t give him “a lot of comfort” that Trump has appointed Deputy AG Todd Blanche to take Bondi’s place. “This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas and has arranged for a very sweet landing for her there,” he said. Sanchez asked Raskin if he still expected Bondi to testify during a deposition on the Epstein files before the House Oversight Committee as scheduled on April 14, after Chairman James Comer (R-KY) that he would “counsel with other Republicans on the panel to determine next steps.” “Well a legal subpoena is still a legal subpoena, and she has the responsibility and the duty to appear,” Raskin said. “It may be that the Chairman Comer, in his utterly invertebrate subservience to Donald Trump’s administration, will see if he can get enough Republicans to vote to… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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