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- NY Times Dishes Details on Trump, Ellison Dinner Attended By Top CBS Journos
Associated Press/Sipa USA via AP The New York Times gave an inside look on Friday at the controversial private dinner hosted by billionaire David Ellison in honor of President Donald Trump that was attended by top CBS journalists. The dinner Thursday evening at the U.S. Institute of Peace was heavily criticized for its timing since Ellison is awaiting federal approval for his company, Paramount Skydance, to complete a $111 billion deal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery. The Times reported that Bari Weiss, CBS News’s editor in chief, joined Ellison at Trump’s table. Senior news correspondent Norah O’Donnell also attended, as did Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and top Trump aide Stephen Miller, as well as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, “according to two people briefed on details of the closed-door event.” The paper noted that Blanche currently oversees the Justice Department, and that the DOJ’s antitrust division will review the Warner Bros. acquisition that would put outlets like CNN and HBO “under Mr. Ellison’s control.” “[I]t is rare for a national media organization to sponsor an event intended to fete the powerful politicians who are covered by its news division, and rarer still when it has a major transaction pending before the federal government,” the report said. “Invitations to the event, which were distributed by Paramount and listed Mr. Ellison as the host, described the evening as ‘honoring the Trump White House.'” The report said that some CBS News journalists were “taken aback” by the dinner due to “the event’s potential to create a perception of coziness between the news division and the Trump administration.” However, the following journalists were reported to have been in attendance: Nellie Bowles, a journalist who is married to Weiss; Tom Cibrowski, CBS News president; Jan Crawford, chief legal correspondent; Nancy Cordes, chief White House correspondent; and Weijia Jiang, White House correspondent and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Weiss was an op-ed staff editor at The New York Times from 2017 to 2020, and went on to co-found The Free Press, which was acquired by Ellison’s company for approximately $150 million last October. Although she has been criticized for steering CBS news coverage to the right, News magazine 60 Minutes “has aired some tough pieces about the Trump administration in recent weeks,” the report said. Both Weiss and Ellison have said they are against promoting any sort of bias at CBS News. Both… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Trump Aide Called GOP Candidates ‘Fat Jewish Zionist F*cks’ in Leaked Group ...
Paul Ingrassia in June, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Paul Ingrassia, an aide to President Donald Trump, is under fresh scrutiny after a Friday report from the Daily Mail alleged he sent a string of inflammatory messages targeting fellow Republicans and Jewish politicians, calling them “fat Jewish Zionish f*cks.” According to the outlet, Ingrassia — who previously served as a White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security — appeared in a group chat with other Trump aides titled “Team DOJ/DHS/WH,” where frustrations over Wisconsin’s 2025 Supreme Court election quickly escalated. One Justice Department employee wrote, “How the f*ck are we losing Wisconsin,” adding, “Republicans are so stupid and lazy.” Ingrassia allegedly responded with an anti-Semitic remark aimed at Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), writing, “It’s because our candidates are fat Jewish Zionist f*cks,” while sharing what the report described as an altered image of Fine. The Daily Mail said the photo had been digitally manipulated “to make him appear significantly larger.” Fine reacted to the report in a statement to the publication, saying, “I hope these text messages are fake. But if they are not, I know President Trump has a zero tolerance for anti-Semitism and will fire those involved immediately.” Ingrassia’s attorney, Edward Andrew Paltzik, denied the allegations, telling the outlet, “These accusations against Mr. Ingrassia are false and fabricated. No such group chat called ‘Team DOJ/DHS/WH’ exists on his phone.” The report adds to a pattern of past controversies surrounding Ingrassia. Last October, Politico detailed messages in which he allegedly said the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and wrote, “I do have a Nazi stream in me from time to time, I will admit it.” Paltzik previously disputed those messages as well, suggesting they were fabricated or “satirical.” Despite this prior backlash — which forced him to withdraw from consideration to lead the Office of Special Counsel — Ingrassia is currently serving as Acting General Counsel for the General Services Administration.The post Trump Aide Called GOP Candidates ‘Fat Jewish Zionist F*cks’ in Leaked Group Chat: Report first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - DeSantis Tells Hakeem Jeffries to ‘Make My Day’ Over Gerrymandering Retaliat...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday dared House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to come to Florida and challenge his redistricting efforts. On Tuesday, Jeffries praised the state of Virginia after its voters approved a new congressional map that would give the Democratic Party more seats in the House of Representatives. Virginia was just the latest in a growing list of states that have become targets of rare mid-decade redistricting efforts by both parties ahead of the midterms. In his praise of Virginia, Jeffries also issued a threat to Florida as its lawmakers push to redraw the map in favor of Republicans. As noted in a report from The Hill, Jeffries said Democrats would “aggressively target” eight Florida seats and even called out the representatives by name. Speaking at an event Friday afternoon, DeSantis claimed he was up to the challenge, saying: We got this guy Hakeem Jeffries. Have you guys heard of him? I don’t know that he’d do very well in Chipley if he ran for office, but he’s threatening Florida. “Oh, you can’t do– you do the redistrict, we’re gonna come down, we’re gonna get you guys.” All this stuff. Go ahead. Make my day. Bring it on. I would like nothing better than to have him campaigning all across Florida. I don’t know that he would do well here, I don’t know that he would do well almost anywhere in Florida, and I don’t think that’s something that Floridians would want to see; but we are not gonna be cowed by threats from some machine politician from Brooklyn. It doesn’t work that way down here. That’s not how we roll, so I know the legislature’s ready to go. They’re gonna get the job done. Republicans haven’t given up on Virginia yet. Shortly after voters approved the Democrat-backed map, a judge blocked the state from certifying the results. A legal battle between the parties will likely follow. Watch above via C-SPANThe post DeSantis Tells Hakeem Jeffries to ‘Make My Day’ Over Gerrymandering Retaliation Threat first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Media Super Agent Jay Sures Blasts UCLA Student Government Over ‘Dangerous’ ...
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Jay Sures, the news industry super agent and University of California Board of Regents member, forcefully condemned UCLA student leaders on Friday after backlash over a campus event featuring a former Israeli hostage. Sures said he was “disgusted and appalled” by a statement from UCLA’s undergraduate student government criticizing a Holocaust remembrance event that included remarks from Omer Shem Tov, who was taken hostage during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack and later released in a prisoner exchange. Sures, the vice chairman of UTA, represents news industry stars including David Muir, Jake Tapper, Margaret Brennan, Kara Swisher, Jen Psaki, and Norah O’Donnell. The student statement, published around the April 14 event, called out UCLA’s Hillel for hosting the speaker, arguing that the speaker choice represented “selective platforming” and would “legitimize and normalize” Israel’s military actions. In his sharply worded letter, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Sures accused student officials of hypocrisy, writing: “You claim you want balance in programming and more than ‘a single narrative’ from speakers at UCLA. Balance, by definition, inherently involves equal consideration of more than one point of view.” But by opposing the event, he argued, “your words and actions make clear you have no interest in balance at all,” calling it “the biggest double standard of all.” While acknowledging that criticism of campus events is protected expression, Sures said “it is not the condemnation itself that is concerning,” but rather “the rush to do so without even considering others’ perspectives that is so disheartening.” He went on to emphasize that he speaks as an “individual regent” and not “for the board as a whole.” The university also distanced itself from the student government’s statement against Tov as a speaker, saying the condemnation of a “peaceful event to share a story of resilience in the face of extreme suffering is antithetical to the values of our Bruin community.” Undergraduate student body president Diego Bollo told the Los Angeles Times that the statement was issued without his involvement and described it as “a lapse in oversight,” adding, “Free speech is a principle I do not compromise on — regardless of the nature or subject of any given event.” UCLA School of Law Dean Michael Waterstone issued his own statement, writing: “Legal education and the practice of law require a willingness to question assumptions and engage opposing arguments seriously. This should involve approaching… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Is ‘Heading for a Political Hell’: Axios Founder Paints Devastating Pi...Jim VandeHei, the co-founder and CEO of Axios, joined MS NOW’s Morning Joe on Friday and offered his take on President Donald Trump’s sinking poll numbers. “And you need to put the polls in some context. It’s almost impossible in modern polling, given the ideological impulses of base voters, to get much lower than he is in terms of his unfavorable ratings, but also how unpopular he is when it comes to the economy, when it comes to inflation, even when it comes to, you know, the non-border enforcement part of immigration. Like, he is very, very low,” VandeHei began, adding: He still has most Republicans with him, but that’s even sinking. And I think the biggest alarm for him and for Republicans is they look at the House map and it looks almost impossible for them to keep control of the House. They look at the Senate and they start to look at states like Iowa, Ohio, Alaska, Texas, Maine, all of which should be very, very winnable — maybe not even competitive — and they all look suddenly in danger. To me, the most interesting thing is talking to people around the president. Their language and body language has changed markedly in the last two months. They know they’re in a huge hole and it’s going to be really, really hard to get out of it. They don’t even really defend it anymore. They understand that we’re here by a series of choices that the president made by himself. How to prosecute this war was his choice. To do tariffs the way he did was his choice. To unleash ICE into neighborhoods before ICE was properly trained to do it was his choice. To then promote that in a very chest-thumping type of way was his choice. And now Republicans are having to pay for that. And I don’t think you’re going to see Republicans in Congress necessarily turn on him in force, but I can tell you right now, there’s a tremendous amount of pressure on the people around the president to change this cabinet, to get some more people in here — some fresh blood, some clear thinking — or they worry they’re just going to get wiped out. And as we’re reporting this morning, day one, Democrats will impeach him. I don’t think he cares that much. He’s been impeached before. He’ll survive… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Trump Rails Against Supreme Court Over Absence Of ‘One Little Half Sentence’...
(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) President Donald Trump railed against the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday over what he claimed was “one little half sentence” that would have saved the U.S. “$159 billion” in tariff refunds. The Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump’s “Liberation Day” emergency tariffs imposed on nearly every country the U.S. does business with were illegal and therefore invalid. The 6-3 ruling prompted the federal government to refund the tariff revenue it has collected so far on those illegal duties. The president wrote Friday, “People and Companies that have taken advantage of our Country for decades, because of the horrible and ridiculous United States Supreme Court decision on Tariffs, are now supposed to be given back 159 Billion Dollars.” “All they had to do was one little half sentence, ‘that the United States does not have to pay back monies that were already paid’ — and our Country would be 159 Billion Dollars richer,” Trump continued. “That’s more than most Countries are worth! Think of it — Just one half sentence, and we would have saved 159 Billion Dollars. Couldn’t they have done that for our Nation?” On CNBC’s Squawk Box on Wednesday, Trump called the Supreme Court’s decision “a little setback,” continuing: They said I can charge tariffs, but I have to do it a different way. And because of what they did, we have to pay back $160 billion. All they had to do is add one sentence, just one sentence. And that’s — you don’t have to pay anything taken in thus far back. But because they didn’t add — and by the way, it was a close call too. There were justices that were powerful that I was right on the tariffs. But because we lost by just two votes, you know, just little vote, two votes, we have to pay back $165 billion. They could have, with a little one sentence — you don’t have to paid back tariffs that have already been received, you start from this point, and you do it a different way. So we’re doing it a different, we’re going to end up with the same. Trump’s statement was riddled with errors — it was not a “close call.” Trump lost by three votes, not two, and the justices did not say he had the power to charge tariffs without congressional approval. The U.S. Constitution explicitly gives sole power… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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